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www.stvincent.edu | Dr. Brian Volck, a speaker, writer, poet, pediatrician, teacher and advocate for children and families in poverty, will be the next speaker in the Saint Vincent College Threshold Series. The event is being jointly presented with the Ann Kinzer Clark, M.D. Memorial Lecture Series in cooperation with Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation.
Me with the mask I wore while taking a threshold test on my bike tonight.
A threshold test proceeds as follows: You sit in a bike, breathing only through this tube, while your heart rate and oxygen levels are measured by a computer. The person giving the test slowly ramps up the resistance supplied by the trainer every minute until you can't pedal any more. Fun!!
thresh·old (thrĕsh'ōld', -hōld')
–noun
1. the sill of a doorway.
2. the entrance to a house or building.
3. any place or point of entering or beginning: the threshold of a new career.
4. Also called limen. Psychology, Physiology . the point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect: the threshold of consciousness; a low threshold of pain.
A corridor over water of the awesome Asian Art Museum in Nice, France. The building itself, designed by a Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, is a work of art.
As part of its ongoing Threshold Series, Saint Vincent College hosted a Catholic-Jewish Dialogue at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in the Performing Arts Center of the Robert S. Carey Student Center on campus.
Those who participated in the dialogue were Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington, a member of numerous Vatican congregations and commissions; Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector and professor at the Seminario Rabinico Latinamericano in Buenos Aires, and long-time dialogue friend of Pope Francis; Rabbi Walter Jacob, Rabbi Emeritus of the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh, and co-founder of the rabbinic seminary in Berlin/Potsdam; Rabbi Alvin Berkun, Rabbi Emeritus of the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, and member of the International Jewish Committee on Multi-Faith Consultation; Sister Mary Boys, Dean of Academic Affairs and professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City; and Dr. Patricia Sharbaugh, associate professor of theology at Saint Vincent College, who will teach “Catholic-Jewish Dialogue” with Rabbi Jason Edelstein in the spring semester at Saint Vincent.