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The ribbon-cutting for the opening of the new Fitness Center at the Metropolitan Campus was celebrated on December 19. Held just before the University’s holiday party for the campus’s faculty and staff, this was the first event conducted in the building. The 19,500-square-foot facility is a renovation and expansion of the campus’s original gymnasium.
The original brick facade of the old building has been retained. Inside is a large central court for pick-up basketball and volleyball games. For fitness and health, there are a series of rooms with specialized equipment, including a free-weight room, a selectorized weight room, an area devoted to cardiovascular exercise equipment and an aerobics and dance studio.
Adjacent to the North Parking Lot campus entrance, the center is ideal for use by the commuter population and a spacious Commuter Lounge occupies one end of the building.
The architects for the project were Perkins Eastman Architects, New York City. The contractor was Barr & Barr, Franklin Lakes, N.J.
Through focus and user groups, a Fitness Center emerged as a high priority for the Metropolitan Campus, and an upgraded Commuter Lounge also was a key element on the wish list. To ensure the facility will meet the needs of students, Scott Fisher has been named as director of the center. He is a sports physiologist and nutritionist with experience in building award-winning wellness/fitness programs. For additional information about Fisher go to http://fduknights.ocsn.com/genrel/012803aak.html.
A press conference was held at the center in January to introduce the outside media to David Langford, newly named director of athletics and of the Rothman Center, and to show them the center. “We are delighted to have someone of David’s reputation and capabilities to lead FDU athletics to the next level,” Richard Bronson, interim provost (Metro), stated. “David impressed all of us during the recruitment process. We were fortunate to have an exceptionally strong group of candidates — over 60 highly qualified people from around the country. We also were fortunate to have a superb associate director of athletics, Ann Gulino, who provided important leadership and vision during the search process. We now have the best of both worlds, with David and Ann working together.”
“I look forward to working closely with the student-athletes, coaches and staff in the Fairleigh Dickinson athletic department,” said Langford, a 20-year veteran college athletics administrator, coach and educator. “The University community is very proud of the scholastic and athletic accomplishments of this department, and I hope that I can contribute to its continued growth.”
Langford takes over after spending the last 14 years as a member of the athletic administrative staff at fellow Northeast Conference (NEC) school, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, which has won four NEC Commissioner’s Cups and achieved a top-120 ranking in the 2002 national Sears Cup standings. He served since 1996 as UMBC’s associate athletic director and, from 1988 to 1996, as assistant athletic director. For additional information about Langford go to http://fduknights.ocsn.com/genrel/012303aaa.html.
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The entrance to the new Fitness Center at the Metropolitan Campus faces Robison Hall. For additional photos go to http://inside.fdu.edu/pt2/otw0302/photo2.html
President J. Michael Adams, third from right, cut the ribbon opening the center. Pictured from left are Richard Riccio, vice president for administration; Sheldon Drucker, senior vice president for finance/treasurer; Carl Viola, executive vice president; William “Pat” Schuber, then Bergen County executive and administrative science (Metro); Jacqueline Kate, mayor of Teaneck; Adams; Uron Hawkins, student (Metro); and Richard Bronson, interim provost (Metro).
Left photo: David Langford, director of athletics and Rothman Center (Metro), was introduced at a media day for the center.
Right photo: David Langford, center, is interviewed by Colin Stephenson of The Star-Ledger, left, and Greg Mattura of The Record.
Students and faculty recently have spread their wings outside these shores, studying and researching abroad while forming new relationships with people far and wide.
From faculty research in Spain and new links with Chinese institutions to cultural immersion/global experiences and courses held in Europe and Africa, members of Fairleigh Dickinson continue to reach out to the international community.
Global Scholars and other students from the Metropolitan Campus traveled to South Africa during the winter break for a two-week immersion into the culture, life and society of this rapidly developing nation. The one-credit, experiential-learning course is an optional component of the Global Scholars program, which features a diverse group of students who live and study together. The program is run jointly by Jonell Sanchez, associate dean of students (Metro), and Rick Isquith, executive director for global partnerships (Metro/Flor).
Sanchez, who had visited South Africa five times previously, led the trip along with faculty member Judy Manton, Core (Metro). Sanchez said the students enjoyed a great learning experience. “They were able to see the world is bigger than the United States,” he said. “They saw that people share similar feelings about life. Ultimately, such experiences give them a better appreciation of the interconnectedness of the world.” He added that the major goal of the trip was to study the impact of Apartheid and its implications on civil society.
Among the highlights of the trip were visits to the University of Stellenbosch (north of Cape Town) and Vista University in Port Elizabeth, where students heard a lecture on civil society, politics and education in South Africa. Students also went on a tour of Cape Town, visited the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve and the Addo Elephant National Game Reserve, and spent an afternoon on Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was kept prisoner).
Sanchez said that students saw the diversity of the country, traveling to distinctive ethnic communities. In the same day they visited the wealthy Cape Peninsula and journeyed to less affluent townships. Students were assigned daily readings in South African newspapers and were also required to read the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
This spring semester, two courses, SPAN2011 Spanish Civilization and SPAN3410 Contemporary Spain, survey Spanish culture through readings and assignments and include a cultural excursion to Spain. Students traveled to Madrid, Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Barcelona for two weeks in January and are now completing classroom work. Teaching the courses are Laureano Corces, modern languages (Flor), who has taken students to Mexico and Spain for the past four years, and Monica Cantero, modern languages (Flor).
Eighteen students traveled with Corces and Cantero to Spain and visited major museums and historical sites including the Prado Museum and the Palacio Real (both in Madrid), the Alhambra (in Granada) and the Gothic Quarter and Picasso Museum (in Barcelona). The cultural excursion introduced students to Spanish life through extensive walking tours of the cities and meals at local restaurants. Students also attended performances of flamenco dancing and went to see a contemporary Spanish film.
During the trip, each student prepared a file with information regarding specific cultural topics. They also were asked to take pictures and notes for their topic files. Corces said, “Hence, Spain became an endless classroom in which readings in the text came to life as students discovered its cultural legacy.”
Raymond Baylouny, chemistry (Flor), spent a semester last year at the University of Barcelona in Spain working with Jaume Vilarrasa, professor of organic chemistry, head of five professors and 31 research students. His work involved the molecular modeling of antibiotics plus a review of the Staudinger reaction as it applies to the formation of peptide bonds. During this winter session, Baylouny returned to Spain to work with Vilarrasa and prepare their research findings for publication.
In late fall, New College of General and Continuing Studies’ Public Administration Institute held a nine-day international program at FDU’s Wroxton College and the Center for Superior Studies in Barcelona, Spain. The graduate study course, titled “Global Preparedness for Catastrophic Emergencies,” was attended by 24 community leaders from the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area who studied numerous subjects including emergency management, hazardous risk analysis, social dimensions of disasters, disaster recovery and organizational continuity, the psychology of terrorism, counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction, bio-defense mobilization and cyber security and forensics.
New College Executive Associate Dean for Off-campus Programs Ronald Calissi (Metro/Flor) facilitated the program, which began with an introductory session in Dickinson Hall on the Metropolitan Campus with guest lecturer Ron Lachan, an Israeli counterterrorist expert, and ended with a networking/student project presentation session.
New College Dean Kenneth Vehrkens (Metro/Flor) said, “The combined Britain and Spain experience, with leading authorities presenting their perspectives on the subjects covered, made for a complete immersion of knowledge and strategies to compare with the United States’ position on these critical issues.”
Additional courses of this nature will be regularly scheduled with Wroxton College and other European cities, added Vehrkens.
The Samuel J. Silberman College of Business Administration has signed agreements with Northeastern University (NEU) and Shenyang University (SYU) in Shenyang, China. These agreements are general and delineate preliminary objectives that FDU, in conjunction with NEU and SYU, will work toward. Ronald Heim, associate dean, Silberman College (Flor), traveled to China in January to help establish the programs.
The agreement with Shenyang University involves developing a dual-degree undergraduate program. Students from SYU may spend one or two years at FDU and receive a degree from both universities.
At NEU, the goal is to establish an MBA program that will be taught by FDU faculty over a cable network linking seven cities in China. The feasibility of the instruction originating at FDU and being broadcast interactively over NEU’s cable network currently is being explored.
Eamon Doherty, computer science (Metro), has worked with Cheshire Home, a long-term care facility with locations in Florham Park, N.J., and China, in developing brain-computer interfaces and communication/robotics programs to help the disabled since 1997. In 2002 Doherty and graduate student Tam Wai Wah created a prototype telephone and robotic monitoring system that allows paralyzed people to drive a robot around their house to check on a potential problem. If there is a problem, the person can dial the telephone with a facial/thought-activated computer interface to contact emergency response personnel. In December, Wah delivered a three-page paper, co-written with Doherty in Chinese, to 50 doctors and nurses at the Cheshire Home in Shatin, China. He demonstrated the robot, video camera, dialing program and the bio-controller (interface).
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Jonell Sanchez, fourth from left, associate dean of students (Metro), and Judy Manton, right, Core (Metro), traveled with students to the Cape of Good Hope, the south-western point of Africa. From left are, Christina Torres, Ken Malagiere, Mike Richtmyer, Sanchez, Dora Argueta, Kimberly Veras, Yalissa Alfaro, Jennifer Torres, Brian Maloney and Manton.
Left photo: Laureano Corces, left, modern languages (Flor), explained a painting to College at Florham students Kathryn Tirrell, center, and Kimberly Edmond, right, in the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Right photo: Raymond Baylouny, left, chemistry (Flor), and Jaume Vilarrasa, organic chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain, discussed their research during winter sesssion in Spain.
In January, Ronald Heim, second from left, associate dean, Silberman College (Flor), was in China to sign agreements with two Chinese universities. From left are Li Kai, professor, PhD supervisor and dean, School of Business Administration, Northeastern University; Heim; Cai Qingkui, professor, PhD adviser and president, Shenyang University; and Yingxue Gao, secretary of C.P/ Branch Committee, College of Network Education, Northeastern University.
This semester, the United Nations Pathway Lecture Series, presented by The Ambassador’s Club of the United Nations in conjunction with Fairleigh Dickinson University, is offering a broad range of speakers and topics.
The next United Nations ambassador scheduled to visit is Mohammad Abdulla Abulhasan, permanent representative of the state of Kuwait to the United Nations, who will speak on “The Middle East in Transition” in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, College at Florham, on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m.
Abulhasan has served as permanent representative since 1981. He concurrently serves as the nonresident ambassador of Kuwait to Cuba, Argentina and Mexico. In 1989, he served as vice president of the 44th session of the U.N. General Assembly. Abulhasan joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1965. He has been an ambassador to Yugoslavia and the Peoples’ Republic of China and has held various U.N. posts. His other foreign service-assignments have taken him to Iran, Hungary and the German Democratic Republic. It is recommended that this event be confirmed at 973-443-8954.
Two video conferences with Rider University involving U.N. ambassadors are scheduled for Thursday, March 13, and Thursday, April 10, and can be viewed in the ITV Rooms, Room 1132, Dickinson Hall, Metropolitan Campus, and Room 214, Dreyfuss Building, College at Florham.
On Wednesday, March 26, Gunter Pleuger, ambassador and permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations, will speak on “Germany and the European Expansion” in Room 105, Muscarelle Center, Metropolitan Campus, at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served at 6 p.m.
On Wednesday, April 2, Kishore Mahbubani, ambassador and permanent representative of Singapore to the United Nations, will discuss “Southeast Asia — Problems and Prospects” in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, College at Florham, at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m.
The series began this semester on February 12 when Ravan Farhadi, ambassador and permanent representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, spoke on “Afghanistan: Reconstruction and Revival” at the Metropolitan Campus.
Fairleigh Dickinson University libraries and four colleges are sponsoring a discussion series called “Books and Ideas: Facing the Age of Knowledge,” which focuses on the role of universities and academic libraries in the evolving world of information, knowledge, learning and rapid technological change.
Discussions on selected books and issues will be held at both the Metropolitan Campus and the College at Florham. The main ideas in the books as well as academic, practitioner and student perspectives will be presented followed by general questions and discussions. The University’s libraries will provide 20 copies of each of the selected works to the faculty, staff or students who sign up early and pledge to read the book, attend the discussion and participate. To reserve a copy of the book, call Suzanne Bejarano, assistant to the University librarian (Metro), at 201-692-2278.
The opening discussion will be held Thursday, February 20, at 3:30 p.m., in the Auditorium, Weiner Library, Metropolitan Campus. The Social Life of Information, by John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass., 2002), will be discussed, particularly “How are we to understand the Age of Information, and how will it change our lives?” The panel will include Howard Silver, engineering (Metro); Eamon Doherty, computer science (Metro); Richard Koffler, executive editor, Aldine de Gruyter; Rahul Gada, sophomore, computer science; and James Marcum, University librarian (Metro). The session’s co-sponsors are University College: Arts • Sciences • Professional Studies and its dean, John Snyder.
On Tuesday, March 11, at 3:30 p.m., in the Orangerie, Library, College at Florham, Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty, by Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott and Michael Gibbons (Polity Press, Malden, Mass., 2001), will be discussed. “How has the emerging ‘Mode 2 Research’ affected traditional scientific research and development?” will be considered by a panel that will include Daniel Twomey, management and executive director, Center for Human Resource Management Studies (Flor), and Bob Hoffman, executive director, human resources, U.S. research, Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Samuel J. Silberman College of Business Administration and its dean, David Steele, are co-sponsoring this discussion.
The next presentation will be Tuesday, April 15, at 3:30 p.m., in the Auditorium, Weiner Library, Metropolitan Campus. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, by Lawrence Lessig (Random House/Vintage, New York, 2002), will be discussed, addressing the question “Will traditional copyright, privacy and the ‘intellectual commons’ survive given the determination of large media corporations to protect their intellectual property?” The co-sponsors are New College of General and Continuing Studies and its dean, Kenneth Vehrkens.
The final session in the series will be on Thursday, May 8, at 3:30 p.m., in the Orangerie, Library, College at Florham, where The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida (Basic Books, New York, 2002), will be discussed focusing on “What is the ‘creative class’ and are they the new elite for the future?” Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences and its dean, Barbara Salmore, are co-sponsors.
To sign up to participate or for more information, contact James Marcum, University librarian, at marcum@fdu.edu, 201-692-2276 or 973-443-8814.
Did you know there is information on more than 2,500 courses posted on the University’s Web site? Students, prospective students, faculty and the community at large can access pertinent information (descriptions, course codes, days, times and instructors) using two Web-based search tools.
Through FDU WebAdvisor (http://webadvisor.fdu.edu), available since December 2002, current courses can be searched by their topic, course codes, titles, instructors, days and times offered and locations. For example, if one is looking for an undergraduate biology course being offered on Wednesday afternoon, that information can be searched. Those who possess user IDs and passwords (students) can also access their grades and financial status. WebAdvisor can be accessed through the University Home Page by clicking on inside.fdu.edu at the lower left-hand corner. Under Password Resources, a click at Student Webadvisor will find the WebAdvisor’s home page.
FDU Coursefinder (http://fduinfo.com/courses/coursefinder.html), the online version of the printed Graduate Studies Bulletin and Undergraduate Studies Bulletin, includes past and future courses as well as those available in the current semester. It permits searches by course code and title. The description for each course is posted at this site. Coursefinder also allows visitors to use the MyCatalog feature to create a personalized list of up to 60 courses. Approximately 1,000 students and visitors use MyCatalog each year.
Another interesting feature of Coursefinder is the ability to track how often the individual course description pages are requested on the Web. Tracking was started in October 2002 to determine which individual course codes and topics are most often requested. During the last three months of 2002 and January 2003, January was the busiest, with more than 51,000 requests. CORE1006 The Global Challenge received more than 600 requests in January.
In the lower right-hand corner of each Coursefinder course description page, one can find the number of times the specific course was requested, the number of times the average course in that topic was requested and the number of times the average course at the University was requested. For example, ACCT3390 Accounting Information Systems was searched for 23 times in November 2002. The average ACCT course was looked up 32.5 times that month, and the average FDU course was reviewed 14.3 times.
Black History Month is being celebrated at Fairleigh Dickinson University with a variety of events. The following programs are still to come at FDU’s two New Jersey campuses.
An exhibit featuring “Black-and-White Photo Portraits and Books in First Printings by African-American Authors” is on display at the College at Florham Library through February 28. For library hours and exhibit information call 973-443-8516.
Also at the College at Florham, on Tuesday, February 18, at 1 p.m. in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, Mia Bay, history, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., will present “White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925.” The author of a book by the same title, published by Oxford University Press, N.Y., Bay also is project director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis’ seminar series on “The Black Atlantic — African Diaspora.” She holds a PhD from Yale University, Cambridge, Mass. This free presentation is co-sponsored by the Diversity Council and the Women’s Study Program. For additional information call Gloria Gadsden, sociology (Flor), at 973-443-8732 or e-mail gadsden@fdu.edu.
At the Metropolitan Campus, on Friday, February 21, the African-American Cinema Gallery, a traveling exhibit of African-American art, will be shown throughout the day in the Student Union Building. On Thursday, February 27, a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will speak in the Rutherford Room, Student Union Building, at 9 p.m. The presentation is sponsored by Zeta Phi Beta sorority.
A Black History Month exhibit of figurative charcoal drawings by Laurence Finney will run in the Gallery, Edward Williams Building, through February 28. In addition, a bus trip to the Museum of African Art in New York City will take place on Saturday, February 15, from 11:30 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. The cost is $5 per person.
On Wednesday, February 19, students will compete for prizes in Black History Month Jeopardy, to be held in the Lobby of the Student Union Building.
For a full listing of Black History Month events at the Metropolitan Campus, visit http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/calendarth.html. For additional information call 201-692-2231.
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Eleanor Friedl, reference librarian, Library (Flor), and communications major Ian Bouie, who has worked in the library throughout his four years at FDU, view the special exhibit in the College at Florham Library. Bouie assembled the collection of noncirculating books in first printings by African-American authors from the early years of the 20th century through the 1990s. Also on exhibit (on loan from an anonymous lender) are anonymous portraits of African-Americans produced by an anonymous African-American Philadelphia photographer from the 1920s.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press announces its recently published books. They include:
For further information on these books or others published by the FDU press, call Harry Keyishian, English (Flor) and director, Editorial Committee, FDU Press (Flor); or Louise Stahl, editorial/circulation coordinator, FDU Press (Flor), at 973-443-8564. A catalog is available.
Orders for books should be directed to: Associated University Presses, 2010 Eastpark Boulevard, Cranbury, N.J. 08512; telephone: 609-655-4770; fax: 609-655-8366; and e-mail: aup440@aol.com.
Local resident Janet Foster, an architectural historian and historic preservation consultant, will deliver an illustrated lecture, titled “When Florham Was New,” on Sunday, March 16, at 3 p.m. in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, College at Florham. The talk, part of a continuing series sponsored by the Friends of Florham, will place the storied mansion and grounds of Hamilton and Florence Vanderbilt Twombly in their historical and social context: the Gilded Age that closed the 19th century.
Foster is well-qualified to lead an audience on a tour of the architectural past of Florham. After studying in the Historic Preservation Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, N.Y.C., (of which she is now assistant director) she co-founded with Bob Guter the historic preservation consulting firm of Acroterion. She also has written several articles about various aspects of New Jersey’s historic architecture and two books — Legacy Through the Lens (Mendham Public Library, N.J., 1986) and, with Guter, Building By the Book: Pattern Book Architecture in New Jersey (Rutgers University Press, N.J., 1992). For her work on behalf of historic preservation, she has received awards from the New Jersey Historical Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office and Somerset County. Foster also has helped develop the Drew University Historic Preservation Certificate Program and served as a teacher and academic adviser in the program.
Foster’s talk will focus on the days when the Twomblys began creating “Florham” — called by Richard Guy Wilson one of the nation’s finest country houses. It will examine Florham’s place not only in architectural history but as a reflection of the imperial aspirations of the Gilded Age’s millionaires in a period that saw a rising tide of immigrants and the development and continuing problems of unemployment — all social phenomena prominently visible at the time in Morris County.
Foster’s presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period, after which refreshments will be served. Admission will be $5. Tickets may be purchased at the door. For information call 973-443-8661.
Cumberland County College (CCC) has reached an agreement with Fairleigh Dickinson University that enables CCC graduates to earn a bachelor’s degree from the University without leaving Cumberland County.
Under the agreement, students who earn a two-year associate’s degree from the county college would then complete two more years of courses at CCC taught by University faculty in classrooms at the college. Areas of study include criminal justice, business and technology, sociology and nursing.
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Fairleigh Dickinson University President J. Michael Adams, left, and Cumberland County College President Kenneth Ender signed the agreement on February 4.
Fairleigh Dickinson University won two gold, one silver, one bronze and one merit award in the 18th annual Admissions Marketing Report competition.
The new Student Viewbook and the Wroxton College T-shirt captured gold medals for student viewbooks and imprinted materials. The Metropolitan Campus and College at Florham T-shirts captured silver and bronze medals respectively for imprinted material.
The admissions overall campaign “Two Campuses, One University” also captured a merit award in the category of total recruitment packages.
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Left photo: The T-shirts.
Right photo: Student Viewbook.
Elise Salem, English and assistant dean for academic planning, Becton College (Flor), is the author of Constructing Lebanon: A Century of Literary Narratives, published by University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Her preface thanks Fairleigh Dickinson University for its leaves and grants that helped her complete the book sooner, and particularly Peter Falley, retired provost and emeritus, computer science (Flor); Martin Green, English and assistant provost for planning and assessment (Flor); Barbara Salmore, dean, Becton College (Flor); Mary Cross, emeritus, English (Flor); Geoffrey Weinman, English and chair, English/ communication/philosophy (Flor); and her other colleagues as well as her students.
Miriam Romais-Hopkins, director, instructional training/development, motorcycle safety education, continuing education (Metro), will attend the Chief Instructor School at the National Motorcycle Safety Foundation in California in March. In addition, she has been invited to speak on “Women in Motorcycling” at the National Association of State Motorcycle Safety Administrators conference, to be held in Ohio this summer.
Louis Hsu, psychology (Metro), is the author of “Diagnostic Validity Statistics and the MCMI-III,” published in Psychological Assessment.
Arie Galles, art (Flor), received mention for his work “Fourteen Stations/Hey Yud Dalet” in The Palm Beach Post, The Boca Raton/Delray Beach News, Martyrdom & Resistance, published by the International Society for Yad Vashem, Inc., N.Y.C.; Community Relations Currents, published by the United Jewish Communities of Metrowest New Jersey; and Art Now’s Gallery Guide for the Southeast. The work is on display at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, through April 19. Galles received a letter of thank you from the Vatican in appreciation for his sending to Pope John Paul II an inscribed copy of the exhibition catalog.
Neil Massoth, psychology and director, PhD program in clinical psychology (Metro), has been elected to the American Psychological Association Ethics Committee.
Marion McClary, biological sciences (Metro), presented “Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis as Habitat for the Ribbed Mussel Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn)” and co-presented “Low Salinity Does Not Control the Distribution of Barnacles in the Tidal Hackensack River” and “Toxicity Test of Roundup on the Fiddler Crab Uca pugnax (Smith) and the Ribbed Mussel Guekensia demissa (Dillwyn),” with students Richard Drennan and Vanessa Nieto during the 2003 meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held January 4–8 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Vladimir Zwass, distinguished computer science/management information systems (Metro), chaired the Panel on Research Directions in Electronic Commerce at the International Conference on Information Systems, held in Barcelona, Spain, in December. In June 2002, Zwass was an invited guest of the Taiwan Ministry of Research and Development, presenting on “The Structure of Electronic Commerce and Directions for Innovation.”
Robert McGrath and David Pogge, both psychology (Metro), are co-authors of “Incremental Validity of Selected MMPI-A Content Scales in an Inpatient Setting,” published in Psychological Assessment; “A Comparison of MMPI-2 High-point Coding Strategies,” published in the Journal of Personality Assessment; and “MMPI-A Structural Summary Variables: Prevalence and Correlates in an Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Sample,” published in Assessment. McGrath has been appointed to the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Academicians and Prescriptive Authority.
Teresa Montani, education (Metro), will present “Quality Versus Quantity: Small Group Instruction in Mathematics” at the Learning Disabilities Association of America’s 2003 International Conference, to be held in Chicago, Ill., on February 27. Montani also has been invited to participate in a roundtable symposium on special education at the University of Oxford, England, in March. She will present a paper on mathematical disabilities in young children. While in England, Montani also will be a visiting faculty member at FDU’s Wroxton College.
Leo Rogers, director, entrepreneurial studies (Flor), was quoted in The Star-Ledger December 23 on “Bank of Last Resort,” in an article on the risks of borrowing money from family members.
Charles Schaefer, psychology (Metro), is co-author of “Fifteen Effective Play Therapy Techniques,” published in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and Play Therapy Techniques, third edition, published by Jason Aronson, Inc., Northvale, N.J.
Kenneth Vehrkens, dean, New College (Metro/Flor), completed his 15th consecutive “Super Bowl Wrap-up” article for The Record, part of the Gridiron Geography component of the Newspaper in Education Program. Vehrkens also made a presentation on the “Degree-completion Program of the National Football League (NFL),” to the NFL Management Council in San Diego, Calif., in January. For the past 12 years, he has served the NFL as the FDU education consultant.
Paul Bologna, marine biology (Flor), received an Environmental Excellence Award in Atlantic City this November from Bradley Campbell, environmental protection commissioner of New Jersey. The award was sponsored by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology.
In October, Ronald Dumont, psychology and director PsyD and MA programs in school psychology (Metro), presented “How to Improve Your Everyday Functioning as a School Psychologist and Comply with New York’s Part 200 Revisions,” for the Auburn (N.Y.) Public School District. He also presented on “Woodcock-Johnson Training,” for the Yorktown (N.Y.) Board of Cooperative Educational Services in October. For the New Hampshire Association of Specialists in the Assessment of Intellectual Assessments, Nashua, N.H., he presented “What Do We Know About Learning Disabilities: Not Much and Why?” in October and “I’m Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Going to Take It Anymore: Identification of Serious Emotional Disturbance,” in November. Also in November, he gave a workshop on “WPPSI III: A New Test for Educational Assessments,” on FDU’s Metropolitan Campus. In December, he made two presentations in New York: “Understanding Learning Disabilities” for the Nyack Public School District and “Identification of Serious Emotional Disturbances: School’s Understanding and Responsibility” for the Clinton County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Beekmantown. Dumont is co-author of “A Test Review: Dominique Interactive,” published in Communiqué, and Guide to the Identification of Learning Disabilities, third edition, published by Copley Custom Publishing Group, Acton, Mass.
“Lamentation of 9-11,” by Jacqueline Lima, fine arts (Metro), a memorial for the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, was dedicated on February 6. Music was provided by the T. Colburn Mass Bass Choir; John Snyder, dean, University College (Metro), spoke; and poetry was read by poets Tsaurah Litzky and Steve Dalachinsky. Special thanks went to Melvin Lewis, engineering technology and coordinator, engineering technology (Metro), for designing the mechanism to animate the work; to Albert Schielke, physics and associate dean, University College (Metro), for his help in engineering; to Nadini Kotha, Web page designer, University College (Metro), and alumni JaeWon Chung, BA’97 (Metro), and Anthony Resto, AA’98 (Metro), for helping to handprint the victims’ names; Dave Hanson, art (Metro), for his video documentation of the project; Snyder, who commissioned the work; and Richard Bronson, interim provost (Metro); Irene Abt, secretary, fine arts (Metro); and Marie Roberts, fine arts (Metro).
Linda Reddy, psychology and director, Center for Psychological Services and Child/Adolescent ADHD Clinic (Metro), presented a workshop titled “How to Improve Your Child’s Social Skills,” for the Wayne Council of Parent-Teacher Organizations at Wayne Hills High School in December.
Benjamin Nelson, English (Metro), spoke at the sisterhood of the Jewish Community Center of Fort Lee’s Chanukah meeting in December.
William “Pat” Schuber, administrative science (Metro), has been selected to receive the 2003 Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Leadership Award from the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey.
James Barrood, associate director, entrepreneurial studies (Flor), and Steve Fulda, entrepreneurial studies (Flor), were quoted in The Star-Ledger January 15 in an article titled “Free Business Plans.” They discussed the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies’ Business Plan Development program, which links teams of MBA candidates with entrepreneurs, small businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Theresa Coll, director, financial aid (Metro), presented a program on the recent changes in financial aid for higher education at Nutley (N.J.) High School.
At Chatham High School on January 7, Vincent Varrassi, campus director, Regional Center for College Students with Learning Disabilities (Metro), addressed key issues regarding services available at colleges to students with learning disabilities during an information program sponsored by the Chatham, N.J., school district’s Special Services Department and the Chatham Association for Support in Education, a parent support group.
In December, J. Warren Blaker, physics and director, Center for Lightwave Science and Technology (Metro), was the keynote speaker at “Let There Be Light,” the Second Jerusalem Symposium of Optical Communications presented by the Jewish College of Technology Institute of Optical Communications at the college’s Machon Lev Brause Educational Center in Givat Mordechai, Jerusalem.
William Kennedy, director of Web operations (Metro), was interviewed by Beacon, a publication of the Alumni Association of New Jersey Dental School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, for an article on “The Wonders of the Web.” He mentioned FDU’s Webmaster Skills Certificate program as well as discussing what to look for when hiring a Web design consultant.
James Almeida, entrepreneurial studies (Flor), was quoted in The Daily Record January 25 in an article titled “FDU Poll Finds Jerseyans Upbeat About Economy,” which focused on the current consumer sentiment regarding the state’s business conditions.
Raymond Baylouny, chemistry (Flor), is handling the International Olympiad for the American Chemical Society, North Jersey Section. The International Chemistry Olympiad, run by the American Chemical Society, screens thousands of talented high school students throughout the United States (by administering a difficult chemistry test, his for the North Jersey Section is on March 29) and selects 20 top students who are invited to spend three weeks at the Air Force Academy in Colorado for additional chemistry training (an intense chemistry workshop). Out of the 20, four students are chosen to represent the United States and compete with students of the same age bracket. The International Chemistry Olympics will be held in Athens, Greece, in June 2003, where gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded.
In Memoriam
Edward Bressman, retired clinical periodontics/oral medicine (Metro), died December 11, at the age of 86. He taught at FDU from 1959 through 1990 and received a Distinguished Faculty Award for Service. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Lillian; a daughter, Beth Sackler; a son, Robert; a brother, Arthur; a sister, Ruth Weinrit; and three grandchildren.
Announcing
Birth
Mary Ann Meola, assistant to the Educational Opportunity Fund coordinator (Metro), is the proud grandmother of Isabella Amaris DelValle, born January 2 to Lori (Meola) DeValle, BA’97, MA’98 (Metro), and Antonio DelValle.
Welcome
The University welcomes new full-time and part-time employees who have joined FDU between December 2, 2002, and January 29, 2003.
Welcome to William Armstrong, risk manager, human resources (Metro); Joan Cann, nurse practitioner, student health services (Metro); Suchita Choksi, senior manager, educational technology (Metro); Michele Coneys, University employee administrator, human resources (Flor); Teresita de Medeiros, receptionist/security, library (Metro); Dolores Little, clerk, enrollment services (Flor); Denise Marshall, reference librarian, library (Flor); Michelle McCroy, director of judicial affairs, dean of students (Metro); Stefanie Miller, assistant manager, employee benefits, human resources (Metro); Stacey Oakley, program coordinator, student services (Metro); Eric Range, residence director, student services (Flor); Jessie Ribustello, clerk, library (Metro); and Michelle Schleibaum, assistant director, alumni relations (Metro).
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“Lamentation of 9-11,” mounted on the inside entrance wall in Robison Hall, Metropolitan Campus, was dedicated on February 6.
Public relations leaders and those in related professions encouraged corporate America to adopt new actions to restore corporate trust at a Public Relations Coalition meeting held in January at the College at Florham. The coalition will publish a position paper that will expand on the collective views expressed.
An informal group consisting of leaders of public relations and related organizations, the coalition meets periodically to discuss common interests. The 19-member coalition, of which the University’s Corporate Communications Institute is a member, has been active since early 1999. The January meeting, attended by more than 50 senior professionals, was the first with extensive representation and a single focus, “Trust: Models for Action.”
At the two-day conference, the group challenged corporate America to take more formal and highly structured approaches to regenerate trust on the part of their key constituencies. It called on corporate leaders of the United States to:
•Articulate a set of ethical principles that are closely connected to their core business processes and supported with deep management commitment and enterprise-wide discipline. These principals should balance the interests of all stakeholders, ensure investors receive full and timely information about the company and compensate all employees in accord with their contributions to the company’s success.
• Create a process for transparency and disclosure that is appropriate for their companies and industries in both current and future operations. This process should include a senior oversight committee, “culture” audits and consistent messaging.
• Make trust and ethics a board-level, corporate-governance issue and establish a formal system of measuring trust that encompasses all parts of their organizations.
For details on the summit, go to http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/corporatetrust.html.
Scholarship Benefit Dinner Scheduled
The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management is sponsoring its Annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner on Saturday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m. at Dolce Hamilton Park, Florham Park, N.J.
The dinner’s purpose is to showcase talents of the school’s students in culinary arts and service while generating needed funds for scholarships. The event will feature a silent auction and many other highlights, including a wine and food pairing related to the unique menu.
For information and the special rate for FDU faculty and staff call Richard Wisch, director, hotel/restaurant/tourism management (Metro/Flor), at 201-692-7271.
Middle College Program
In December, accounting students from Randolph (N.J.) High School who participate in the Middle College Program, visited the Metropolitan Campus for a day. Associate Provost Joseph Kiernan, economics/finance (Metro), and Assistant Provost for Campus Life Richard Panicucci, quantitative analysis (Metro), met with the students and presented an overview of the Samuel J. Silberman College of Business Administration. The students then attended an accounting class taught by Henry Fuentes, accounting, New College (Flor). They ended the day with an orientation visit to the Weiner Library, where they heard a presentation about library research by Mitchell Weiss, librarian, Weiner Library (Metro).
Global Seminar Series
In February and March, faculty teaching in New College’s Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Program are presenting a series of seminars that address aspects of globalization from both economic and social perspectives. Sixteen teachers from eight of New College’s Middle College New Jersey high schools — Bergenfield, Bound Brook, Clifton, Cresskill, Fort Lee, Leonia, Ridgefield Park and Wallington — are participating in the series. Each teacher will earn professional development credit as a result of their attendance.
Partnership with Paterson Public Schools
The School of Engineering and Engineering Technology has formed a partnership with Paterson Public Schools for a Saturday Engineering Enrichment Program to help prepare students for studying technical subjects. Last semester, high-achieving pre-engineering students from three innovative Paterson (N.J.) High School Academies — Paterson and NASA Together For High Expectations and Results (PANTHER); Metro Paterson Academy for Communicators and Technology (MPACT); and Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) — participated in this program, held on the Metropolitan Campus.
This enrichment program provides valuable exposure to and experience with pre-engineering and engineering technology activities. The students work alongside engineering faculty and staff, gaining hands-on experience with various technology-oriented projects and computer activities. Students were bussed to the campus for 12 half-day Saturday sessions. The activities included project-specific instruction and supervised assembly, with engineering and scientific principles and relevant mathematics. Students selected kits ranging from remote controlled cars, rubber-band-powered gliders, rockets, robots, bridges and other structures. Experienced instructors guided the students through reading schematics, using tools and test equipment and following kit instructions. Students were encouraged to participate in competitions and contests, perhaps using the kits that they built. The School of Engineering and Engineering Technology made its technology labs available to this Saturday program, with supervised access to all necessary shop and test equipment for construction and troubleshooting.
Edwin Duroy, state district superintendent, Paterson School System, and John Sico, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, have made the Saturday Engineering Enrichment Program possible. Duroy said, “The Paterson Public School District is proud to add Fairleigh Dickinson University to our roster of educational partners. We are delighted to be part of their excellent engineering program. The hands-on approach to engineering will enhance our students’ interest in the subject.”
Alfredo Tan, director, engineering/engineering technology (Metro), and Melvin Lewis, engineering technology and coordinator, engineering technology (Metro), helped with the program.
Career Day Planned
The Career Management Center and the School of Nursing and Allied Health will be holding a Nursing and Allied Health Career Fair on Monday, March 10, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Lobby of Dickinson Hall.
Wroxton College will host a Contemporary Legal Issues seminar, run by New College of General and Continuing Studies, from March 28 through April 4. Legal issues relevant to the workplace, including workplace violence, social and privacy issues, the troublesome employee, harassment and various hiring and termination issues, will be discussed with a comparison of United States and United Kingdom law.
Co-faciliators for the seminar are William “Pat” Schuber, administrative science (Metro) and former three-term Bergen County executive, and Steven Adler, partner and head of the employment law department of Cole, Schotz, Misel, Forman & Leonard, P.A. Adler’s area of expertise is employment law litigation.
The three-credit graduate course can also be taken for three undergraduate credits or on a noncredit audit basis. For further information contact Schuber at 201-692-7174 or schuber@fdu.edu.
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Left photo: Final preparations before outdoor testing.
Center photo: Outdoor testing.
Right photo: Saturday program coordinator, Melvin Lewis, coordinator, engineering technology (Metro), lectured on basic model airplane design.
Director, Community College Partnership,
Metropolitan Campus
How long have you been at FDU?
Six months.
What is the best advice you ever received and from whom?
“Don’t get involved” from my father. (Since I did get involved and married, I guess I didn’t adhere to it very well).
What object do you have that you treasure most?
My wedding ring.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Convincing my wife to marry me.
My hobbies are …
With two children under 7, I have none at the moment. As far as I can remember, my favorite hobby was/is sports-card collecting.
Who would be your perfect dinner guest? What would you serve?
Wilt Chamberlain. Chicken marsala, roasted red potatoes, salad (as long as I’m not expected to prepare it).
What profession other than your own would you most like to attempt, and what profession would you want nothing to do with?
I would like to try making/marketing sports cards. I would never want to be a politician.
In what other country would you most like to live for six months or a year and why that country?
Canada (specifically Nova Scotia and/or Prince Edward Island). These are the provinces where my wife and I went for our honeymoon and visited again a year later with my parents and oldest brother. Its beauty and quaint nature is the main attraction for me. Plus, it’s still relatively close to home.
Assistant Professor of Sociology,
College at Florham
How long have you been at FDU?
Two years.
What is the best advice you ever received and from whom?
The best advice is “Beware the ides [15th] of March,” from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Seriously, the best advice that I ever received was from my grandmother. She was a walking book of history. Born in 1892 and died in 1981, she lived under the Ottomans, the British and, after the 1948 war, under the Israelis. In her life she was an adventurous person and very feminist. She was an active member of the community and took an active role in the extended family’s decision making. In her personal life she instilled in her children and grandchildren the idea of self belief and daring. One needs to remember that during those years, life in the village was mostly divided between the spheres of adults and those of children more than between men and women. Village life was more egalitarian than in the city in terms of men’s and women’s roles. So, as a child, she used to tell me not to fear adults and to dare to do things. From her I learned the art of life, and she instilled in me the drive to explore.
What object do you have that you treasure most?
I treasure mostly my books. They contain the stories of other cultures, the philosophy on the essence of humanity, and most importantly they give me a sense of wealth that no other object can provide.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
In addition to my personal academic achievements and surviving my second year at FDU, my greatest achievement is that I was able to give my children the opportunity to experience life in different cultures and make them citizens of the world.
My hobbies are …
… travel, see other places, meet people and work in my garden. In the past, I loved photography. My favorites were taking portraits. For many reasons, I gave up on that.
Who would be your perfect dinner guest? What would you serve?
My perfect dinner guest would be the king of all fortune tellers, Jinn, and I would ask him when FDU is going to expand the parking spaces on campus, provide more office space and pay more so I do not need to teach summer classes and instead do some research. I will serve him stuffed zucchini, humous, maqloba (an Arab dish), rolled grape leaves and lamb chops cooked with white wine.
What profession other than your own would you most like to attempt, and what profession would you want nothing to do with?
I would like to attempt to be a carpenter. Carpenters can have immediate results and can enjoy the products of their labor. In my profession, it is often the case that the products of my labor go unnoticed. I would not want to do anything with business. I do not know how to make money and how to trick people.
In what other country would you most like to live for six months or a year and why that country?
Malta, because when I was a child, whenever my parents were mad at me they would say, “We will kick you as far as Malta.” Then, Malta for me was like a place on Mars. Later, I realized that it is a tiny island in the Mediterranean. People who visit it say it is a very special place. Although I have traveled 10 times as far as Malta is from my village, I feel I must visit Malta and see that “remote” place where my parents threatened to send me.
Associate Professor of Nursing,
Metropolitan Campus
How long have you been at FDU?
I’ve been here since June 1988.
What is the best advice you ever received and from whom?
“If you believe you can do, you can!” from my mother.
What object do you have that you treasure most?
The home theater organ my parents gave me when I was starting high school.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I survived in a family with three older sisters and an older brother (the “Prince”).
My hobbies are …
… listening and playing classical music, reading at the shore on the weekends during the summer.
Who would be your perfect dinner guest? What would you serve?
My algebra teacher, and I would serve her “crow.” She yelled at me in front of the class and said that I should be in a special education class because I was so dumb and that I should not be wasting her time because I would never make it to college.
What profession other than your own would you most like to attempt, and what profession would you want nothing to do with?
I cannot imagine myself doing anything else. I love nursing and teaching, so teaching nursing is a perfect profession for me. I could never be an entomologist — I hate bugs. Snakes I can handle, but never bugs!
In what other country would you most like to live for six months or a year and why that country?
I can think of no other country that I would like to live in. The “country” I would like to spend time in would be in the hills of West Virginia or Kentucky, working with the families that have very little, if any, health care. I can imagine myself staying there for six to 12 months.
Field Supervisor, Department of Public Safety,
College at Florham
How long have you been at FDU?
I started here in 1994, left in 2000 and returned in 2002.
What is the best advice you ever received and from whom?
“Follow your dreams,” from my parents.
What object do you have that you treasure most?
My Claddah ring.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Overcoming a personal obstacle.
My hobbies are …
… scuba diving, basketball, softball and attending WNBA (Womens National Basketball Association) games.
Who would be your perfect dinner guest? What would you serve?
Sue Wicks, from the New York Liberty WNBA team. We would have takeout.
What profession other than your own would you most like to attempt, and what profession would you want nothing to do with?
I would like to attempt being a search-and-rescue diver; I would not want to be a mortician.
In what other country would you most like to live for six months or a year and why that country?
Greece, for the beautiful beaches and people.
Residence Hall construction continues at the two New Jersey campuses.
College at Florham — for today’s view go to http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/florhamconstruction.html .
Metropolitan Campus — for today’s view go to http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/metroconstruction.html.
More photos of the Fitness Center, Metropolitan Campus.
The Fitness Center viewed from the Flag Circle.
Left photo: From left, Metropolitan Campus students Joe McCarron, Uron Hawkins and Danielle Deverell viewed the rendering of the Fitness Center in the center’s Commuter Lounge.
Right photo: Scott Fisher, standing, director, Fitness Center (Metro), assists Metropolitan Campus student-athlete Natallia Marchanka (basketball) as, from left, Lisa Kotuba (softball), Sharon Becker (volleyball) and Marlise Kotrosits (softball) look on.
Left photo: A pick-up game of basketball on the new court.
Center photo: President J. Michael Adams and Michelle Portnoi, programmer analyst, computing services (Metro), tried out the new equipment.
Right photo: Student-athlete Aaron Paye (soccer) works out in the weight room.
Student leaders in the Criminal Justice Club, whose adviser is James Kenny, third from left, criminal justice (Metro), joined with members of the Teaneck Police Department to look over the toys collected by the club for distribution to Bergen County social services agencies, shelters for battered women and organizations that support children with cancer. The toy drive is sponsored annually by the police department.
Pictured from left are Officer Joseph Careccio, Valerie Nordstrom, Kenny, Officer Eddy Lievano, Marissabell Alvarez, Lt. Norman Levine, Officer Jack Garland and Bryon Aguayo.
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