MANCHESTER, N.H. – Professors Nicole Eyetand Jaime Orregohave been selected to serve as the Faculty Athletics Representatives for Saint Anselm College by President Joseph A. Favazza on Tuesday.
"This appointment affirms the long time support that Jaime and Nicole have given to our student athletes and coaches," said Dr. Favazza. "I am confident that through their leadership and a collaborative working relationship with Athletic Director Daron Montgomery and his team, the extraordinary academic success of our student athletes will continue."
The Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) is a member of the faculty designated by the President to represent the institution and its faculty in the College's relationships with the NCAA and its conferences. The FAR provides oversight and advice in the administration of the intercollegiate athletics program and has three primary roles—to ensure academic integrity, to facilitate institutional control of intercollegiate athletics and to enhance the student-athletic experience.
Eyet, a member of the Saint Anselm faculty since the 2009-10 academic year, is a Professor in the Chemistry department. Eyet graduated from King's (Pa.) College in 2004 with a degree in Chemistry before earning her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado in 2009.
Through her research, Eyet has studied fire properties and dynamics on a small scale with the goal of applying information learned to combat larger and less controlled fires. She has also researched the reactions of ions and molecules that occur in the atmosphere using both experimental and theoretical techniques.
Orrego enters his 14th year on the Hilltop in 2022-23, serving the community as an Associate Professor of Spanish with research on the question of violence in Colombian literature. He uses a semiotic approach that focuses on the interactions between cultural space, individual desire and the events that unfold in the narratives.
Through this approach he develops a typology of narrative demonstrating how the view of the city, countryside, class system, and modernization constantly shifted perspectives while remaining profoundly engaged with the local realities in Colombia. Orrego also writes fiction, which focuses on the Colombian reality from the last 30 years, which deeply marked his childhood and adolescence.
He is a 1999 graduate of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), receiving a degree in Industrial Engineering, and earned his master's degree in Latin American Literature from Illinois State University in 2022. Most recently, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2008, also in Latin American Literature.
Eyet and Orrego replace Dr. David Guerra, who served as the institution's FAR since 2016.