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Kappa Delta Pi To Honor Ying-Wan Cheng, Ph.D., Prof. Emerita of History, Dowling College
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| Kappa Delta Pi, Dowling College's nationally recognized Education Honor Society, will honor Dr. Ying-Wan Cheng, Professor Emerita of History, at its 27th Annual Induction Ceremony.
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Kappa Delta Pi, Dowling College's nationally recognized Education Honor Society, will honor Dr. Ying-Wan Cheng, Professor Emerita of History, at its 27th Annual Induction Ceremony on April 21, 2006 from 7 - 9 p.m. East Islip Terrace Middle School, 100 Redman Ave, Islip Terrace, NY. Also at the ceremony, two scholarships, the William Condon Award and the Honsberger Award, will be presented to two members of Kappa Delta Pi.
Dr. Cheng, the London-born daughter of a Chinese jurist and diplomat, grew up in Peking, China, and also lived in Shanghai and Nanjing. She attended missionary schools and college in China and developed an early familiarity with Christianity and Western civilization before going to Europe and then later to American. She not only studied but also lived as an ordinary citizen in the Netherlands, England and Switzerland. She earned her B.A. at Smith College and M.A., Ph.D., Radcliffe College in 1960.
Dr. Cheng was one of eight full-time faculty members who joined Adelphi College - Suffolk Division in Sayville in the fall of 1960. Through her 23-year career, as she progressed from Assistant Professor of History to Professor, she taught European, English and Asian histories and served on all the faculty committees.
Dr. Cheng's professional activities included long-term membership in the American Historical Association. She still maintains her membership in the Association for Asian Studies and the Berkshire Conference for Women Historians. For the Berkshire Conference she served on the Book Award Committee. Dr. Cheng also served on the National Endowment for the Humanities committee for evaluation of grant proposals relating to Asian projects.
Dr. Cheng, the only one of the eight founding-faculty members to spend her entire career at Dowling College, retired from the faculty in 1983. She maintains her ties to the College through a network of friends among the faculty and attendance at College cultural events and functions. She takes a particular interest in the increasing number of international students at Dowling and attends the special events sponsored by the International Students Club.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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