BUFFALO, N.Y. - Bridget Niland, director of athletics at Daemen College, was named today as recipient of the 2016 Athena Young Professional Leadership Award at the 26th annual Athena Awards Luncheon presented by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.

AMHERST, N.Y. -- Dale Demyanick, chairman of the Daemen College Board of Trustees, announced at the board’s March meeting that Daemen President Gary A. Olson has just signed a five-year contract to serve as president of the college until 2021.

AMHERST, N.Y. – Several Daemen College students have received top honors for their artwork on display in Daemen College’s annual Visual and Performing Arts Undergraduate Exhibition, which runs through April 14 in the Tower Gallery in the Haberman Gacioch Art Center.       

AMHERST, N.Y. – Daemen College staff members Rebecca Bley and Karen Moronski-Chapman, members of the college’s Rhetorical Roar Toastmasters Club, have won a Toastmasters International Speech and Table Topics Contest hosted Feb. 26 on Daemen’s campus.

AMHERST, N.Y. – As the heroin epidemic worsens in the Buffalo Niagara region, a panel of local experts, including a former addict, will talk about the severity and fight against this issue at a discussion scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 19 in Daemen College’s Schenck Hall Room 202.