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Author: Elyse Carter

Elyse Carter was the Art Director at Seton Hall University for more than 16 years. She is now the Director of Creative Services at Iona College. You can see some of her work at www.elysecarter.com

A Model Student

While working at an Abercrombie & Fitch store on Long Island during high school, Mark Perini ’09 was chosen to represent the retail clothing shop as a model in a New York City casting call. At first he didn’t want to go, thinking he would be out of place. He couldn’t have been more wrong.…

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Why Seton Hall Feels Like Home for Tony Bozzella

Tony Bozzella ’89 uses his credentials and location when he sells the Seton Hall women’s basketball program to recruits. He talks about his up-tempo offense and his reputation as a players’ coach. He points to his record of turning struggling programs into winning ones. And he promotes Seton Hall itself — the academic and athletic…

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Biggio’s Big Moment

After 20 years with the Houston Astros and a storied career in baseball, former Seton Hall catcher Craig Biggio is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

On a sunny summer afternoon in Cooperstown, N.Y., the place all baseball players dream of, delivering a speech from a stage on a lush green lawn, Craig Biggio looked out onto a crowd of fans displaying the orange of the Houston Astros, the team he spent his entire career with.

But he also saw a splash of something else. “Pirate blue,” he said later.

“It didn’t go unappreciated.”

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The Ripple Effect

A series of scholarships established in the name of Army Capt. Gregory T. Dalessio ’00/M.A. ’04, who died while on duty in Iraq, allow his spirit of generosity to live on.

Had Army Capt. Gregory T. Dalessio ’00/M.A. ’04 returned from the war in Iraq, would he have pursued a career in diplomacy? Or would he have become a social worker or a teacher — or even a priest? He had considered all these possibilities.

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On The Path To Peace

Faculty at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations do more than teach about conflict resolution and reconstruction in the classroom. They actively engage in the process of fostering and maintaining peace abroad.

But it was his first participation in the peace process in Mozambique that left an indelible mark. The journey that would take Bartoli to the southeast African nation numerous times began in Italy in the 1970s.

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Redefining the History of Man

Professor Rhonda Quinn played a key role on a team of scientists who discovered the world’s oldest stone tools in Kenya. Their research could upend our ideas about human evolution.

Rhonda Quinn doesn’t mind being wrong. In fact, she welcomes the sudden quake of a discovery that challenges what she knows and has been teaching her Seton Hall students.

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In the Big Leagues

Stillman students in Larry McCarthy’s sport marketing class collaborate with FOX Sports to define “The Seton Hall Way” in a new marketing campaign for the BIG EAST.

Larry McCarthy — an associate professor who teaches in the sport management program and whose students routinely work in marketing internships at such area teams as the Yankees, Mets, Nets, Knicks and Devils — divided his class into six groups of five to develop proposals for “the BIG EAST Way,” a campaign spotlighting the attributes of member schools.

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Through Divine Mercy

In the face of heartbreak and tragedy, Barbara La Porte, M.A. ’13 relied on a steadfast faith in God. Her journey toward healing offers a remarkable lesson in the power of forgiveness.

When Barbara La Porte tells her story, she raises some of the hardest questions most of us will ever face: How do we make sense of tragedy? When another’s actions cause us suffering, how do we respond? When the unimaginable happens, where do we turn?

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Developing the Artists and Communicators of Tomorrow

Prior to 2015, the last two major academic units established at Seton Hall were the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences created in 1987 and the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, with its inaugural class in 1998. In the past 10 months, we have been blessed to announce two major additions to our colleges and schools. After revealing plans for a new school of medicine in January — a project that continues to move forward — Seton Hall proudly launched a College of Communication and the Arts this past summer.

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