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On Monday, May 1, students, faculty, administrators and other members of the University community gathered to celebrate the publication of Professor Dermot Quin’s scholarly history of Seton Hall.
A SHU undergraduate History major, Pearse Gorman, participated in the 2023 Undergraduate Research Workshop at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Celebrate the release of "Seton Hall University: A History. 1856-2006" with author and historian Dermot Quinn during a book lecture and signing on Monday, May 1 at 5 p.m. in Bethany Hall.
Historian Claudio Staiti has arrived at Seton Hall from Italy as a winner in the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship competition that brings foreign researchers to the United States.
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