Update

Robert Greenfield

Robert Greenfield, economics/finance and assistant provost (Metro), has assumed duties as interim dean of Silberman College of Business. “Greenfield filled this role prior to the arrival of the former dean Bill Schwartz and will continue the agenda of the college,” said Willard Gingerich, University provost and senior vice president for academic affairs (Metro/Flor), in his announcement to the University community. A search for the permanent dean will be undertaken in the near future.

John (Jack) Becker, emeritus, English (Flor), and Walter Cummins, emeritus, English (Flor), are co-editing Exploring Globalization: An Online Journal, one of the newest features of the Global Issues Gateway (GIG) Web site (http://www.gig.org) . Exploring Globalization is a scholarly journal containing vetted essays and articles, reviews, reports from around the world and video segments. The journal has an internal editorial board, which includes Odysseus Makridis, philosophy (Flor), and Peter Woolley, political science and director, PublicMind (Flor). For this project, Becker and Cummins are also inviting a group of non-FDU advisory editors from the United States and other countries.

On October 7, FDU’s Alumni Association honored Kenneth Vehrkens, dean, Petrocelli College (Metro/Flor), and BA’69, MAT’70, MA’74 (Metro), with the Elia G. Stratis CASTLE Award, the highest award the Alumni Association presents. The acronym CASTLE represents Commitment, Allegiance, Support, Teamwork, Leadership and Enthusiasm. This award is given to an individual who must have made significant contributions to the University or have served with distinction in University organizations, go to http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/vehrkenscastle.html . To see a photo go to Family Weekend and Homecoming in this issue http://inside.fdu.edu/otw/0610/weekend2.html .

Michael Goodman, communication (Metro) and director, Corporate Communication Institute (CCI) (Flor), was a visiting professor at the Aarhus School of Business, Centre for Business Communications, in Denmark for two weeks this fall. While in Denmark, Goodman was involved in seminars for the school’s MA candidates in corporate communication, lectures to undergraduate and graduate students as well as to members of the business and professional community and a research seminar for students working on their graduate theses. The visit allowed Goodman and Aarhus faculty to outline a cooperative venture to conduct CCI’s Practices and Trends Study in the European Union. From September 21 to 22, Goodman attended the 10th Conference on Corporate Communication at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

Roger Koppl, economics/finance (Flor), received a one-year grant of $124,717 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study alternative network structures for laboratory-based social processes. The project, “Democratic Epistemics in Lab-based Processes,” will examine how error rates in forensic science may be reduced by modifying the network structures that relate labs to each other. Koppl is working with Lawrence Kobilinksy, biology/immunology and associate provost, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, N.Y.C., and Robert Kurzban, psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

President J. Michael Adams and Angelo Carfagna, director, communications (Metro), delivered the keynote address “Beyond Bows and Arrows: The Imperative of Interactive Technology for the Global University” at the IVIE (Interactive Video for International Education) 2006 Conference, hosted by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The address was delivered via videoconference from Fairleigh Dickinson University on October 5.

Mihaela Leonida, chemistry (Metro), is the author of a paper titled “Old Copper-based Pigment,” which was published in The Bulletin of the New Jersey Academy of Science. She is the co-author of a chapter in Between East and West, published by the Cultural Romanian Institute. In July, Leonida presented a paper on “Drug Release Profiles from Chitosan — Carboxymethyl-Starch Matrices Stabilized by Ionic Interactions” at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Control Release Society in Vienna, Austria.

Gary Darden, history (Flor), served as consulting historian for the 80th-anniversary documentary of McKinsey & Co., a global consulting firm with offices in more than 45 countries. He worked on scripts and located iconic historic images for the filmmakers.

David Miles, director, public safety (Metro), was appointed to the advisory board of the Campus Security Report, a monthly publication dedicated to public safety at colleges and universities. He also was appointed to the editorial board of Campus Safety and Security, Forms, Checklists and Guidelines, a yearly publication for campus public safety professionals.

Harry Keyishian, English and director, editorial committee, FDU Press (Flor), presented a paper titled “Film as Performance: Cinematized Shakespeare and the Histories” in the seminar “‘A Kingdom for a Stage’: Shakespeare on Screen” at the 2006 semiannual conference of the International Shakespeare Association. The conference was held at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, in August.

Elizabeth Parietti, nursing and associate director, graduate nursing programs (Metro), applied for and received a $32,332 grant to support students in the MS in nursing program for 2006–2007. The grant provides scholarships to financially needy students who complete the program within 12 months of the beginning of the grant. MSN students receive instruction in didactic classes, seminars and supervised clinical practice.

Walter Cummins, center, emeritus, English (Flor), and George Gordon, left, partner of Hay Management Consultants, discuss their book, Our Lives: Television and American Identity, during an interview with Bob Mann, host of the XM Public Radio show, “Blame the Media.”

Walter Cummins, emeritus, English (Flor), and George Gordon, partner of Hay Management Consultants, co-wrote Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity. Published last June by Praeger Publishers, the book offers an informed walk through the changes that television has brought on and those likely to come. Cummins and Gordon shared the results of their research on September 26 at the College at Florham and on the XM Public Radio show, “Blame the Media,” which aired on September 23. The program is produced at WFDU (FM) on the Metropolitan Campus.

Patricia Melloy Winters, cell biology (Flor), was appointed visiting research collaborator at Princeton University for the 2006–2007 academic year. In August, she delivered a platform talk and presented a poster at the Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology meeting. The presentations covered her work on nuclear envelope fusion and fission in budding yeast.

Sandy Gordon, head women’s basketball coach (Metro), was inducted into Ramapo (N.J.) High School’s first Hall of Fame class. She graduated in 1984 after earning 11 varsity letters in soccer, basketball and softball. Gordon also was named the school’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1984.

David Landau, electronic filmmaking (Flor), was the writer/director/cinematographer and Matt Clarke, electronic filmmaking/digital design (Flor), was the producer/editor/interactive designer of the interactive DVD “TV Psychic Party.” The DVD premiered at the University Film and Video Conference in Orange, Calif., last August and is available in Party City stores nationwide for the Halloween season. “The Remake,” another interactive production made with the help of FDU’s Corporate Video Production class, was also presented during the conference. Over the summer, Landau was part of the lighting crew of the feature film “Jumpers” when it was shot in New York City.

Rendell Mabey, director, Enhanced Freshman Experience (Metro); Christopher Devine, chemistry/philosophy (Metro); and Richard Castellana, humanities/fine arts and director, BA in individualized studies, Petrocelli College (Metro), organized a panel and presented papers at the 28th annual conference of the Association for Integrative Studies in Atlanta, Ga. The panel’s topic was “Three Courses That Integrate the Sciences and Humanities.” Mabey presented a paper titled “World Resources, Poverty and Development”; Devine talked about “The Nature of Nature”; and Castellana discussed “Humanistic and Scientific Approaches to Mind.”

Donalee Brown, psychology (Flor), and Yolanda Hawkins-Rogers, psychology (Flor), passed the licensure exams for professional practice in psychology.

George Cochrane, art (Flor), was invited to conduct a daylong life drawing workshop at the Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J., on October 14. His workshop coincided with and augmented an exhibit of bronze figurative sculptures by New Jersey artist Sassona Norton.

In June, Alice Shumate, biology (Flor), co-presented a poster titled “Identifying Patterns of Molecular Evolution in Plants: A Teaching Exercise” at the Society for the Study of Evolution. Shumate worked with Aaron Windsor, research associate, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Marcus Crede, psychology (Flor), has four articles in press with the following publications: Academy of Management: Learning and Education, The Journal of Applied Social Psychology, The Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Educational and Psychological Measurement.

An article by Nandita Ghosh, English (Flor), “Gandhi as a Floating Signifier and the Story of Development,” was published in the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.

Ann Lucas, emerita, management (Metro), had her book, Leading Academic Change: Essential Roles for Department Chairs published by Jossey-Bass, translated into Arabic.

Paul Benzing, biology (Flor), co-presented a poster titled “Dynamics of Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus Loads in Loantaka Brook” at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Memphis, Tenn., in August. Benzing, Gloria Anderle, chemistry; Michael Avaltroni, chemistry; and June Middleton, biology and chair, biological/allied health (all Flor), ran a summer science camp at FDU for high school students from Morristown Career Academy. In May, Middleton co-presented a poster titled “Detection of Expressed Virulence Factors in Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium Isolated from Canada Goose Feces” at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Orlando, Fla.

Over the summer, Joan Desilets, health/physical education (Flor), volunteered three days a week at Hope Hospice in Fort Myers, Fla. The hospice provides palliative care for the terminally ill free of charge.

Raymond Baylouny, emeritus, chemistry (Flor), with a group of volunteers from Notre Dame of Mt. Carmel Church, called “Operation Helping Hand,” spent a week in New Orleans, La., to clean up after Hurricane Katrina.

Announcing

Birth

Sean Morrison, director, athletic development and marketing (Metro), and his wife, Donna Schules Morrison, BA’93 (Metro), announce the birth of their son, Sean Patrick Morrison, on September 16.

Wedding

Lorraine Nienstedt, assistant to executive associate dean, off-campus credit programs (Metro), announces the wedding of her daughter Carrie Nienstedt, AS’00 (Metro), to Robert Shafer on September 22.

Welcome

The University welcomes new full-time and part-time employees who joined FDU as of October 2, 2006.

Welcome to Meghan Alai, research associate, institutional research/assessment (Metro); Dave Cartwright, assistant men’s soccer coach, athletics (Flor); Maria Deptula, system/technical services assistant, College at Florham Library (Flor); Catherine Gordon, assistant women’s soccer coach, athletics (Metro); Meghan Horner, data coordinator, international/graduate admissions (Metro); Cara Jennings, assistant women’s basketball coach, athletics (Flor); George Khalife, network analyst, University systems/security (Metro); Rosemary Latawiec, staff nurse, student health services (Metro); Joanne Musiolowski, assistant field hockey coach, athletics (Flor); Denise O’Shea, system library/technical support specialist, computing services (Metro); Gonzalo Perez, coordinator of recruitment/advisement/retention, computer sciences/engineering (Metro); Ryan Reilly, assistant women’s soccer coach, athletics (Flor); Michael Ressetar, officer, public safety (Flor); Nyssa Schmidt, records/graduate specialist, enrollment services (Metro); Steven Strauss, officer, public safety (Metro); Susan Torino, coordinator, financial aid (Metro); Jacalyn Urban, assistant women’s swimming coach, athletics (Flor); and Victor Virella, officer, public safety (Flor).

October 2006

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