Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences

In April, the visual and performing arts department will present an Invitational Student Art Exhibition and its Annual Images Student Arts Festival at the Rothman Institute, College at Florham.

The Art Exhibition will be held from Tuesday, April 1, through Monday, April 14, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The opening reception will be April 1 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. A select group of recent student works, including sculpture, ceramics, drawings and paintings in a wide range of materials will be featured. Artists will include senior studio art majors Jessica Fiore and Molly Gibbons and others.

The Fifth Annual Images Student Arts Festival (multimedia, 3-D animation, video, sculpture, ceramics, drawing and painting) will feature some special events on Tuesday, April 29. The Art Gallery will open at 7:30 p.m., and outdoor video screenings will be conducted from 8:15 to 9:45 p.m. (rain location for screenings will be Dreyfuss Theater, Dreyfuss Building). Music by Allen Cohen, music (Flor), will be performed by members of the FDU community. Refreshments will be served. The festival’s exhibit will run from Wednesday, April 22, through Tuesday, May 6.

Two College at Florham alumni will return to campus to discuss “Reconnecting People and Work: Plugging Into the Power of People to Achieve Peak Performance” on Wednesday, March 19, in Hartman Lounge, the Mansion, College at Florham, from 6 to 8 p.m.

John Crawford, MBA’88 (R), MA’00 (Flor), is founder and chief idea officer, The Timely Ideas Corporation, an independent consultancy that brings people, technology and ideas together to create breakthrough business solutions for fast-moving companies, and Rita Neer, MA’00 (Flor), is managing consultant with the same firm.

This briefing will look at the dynamics of “connecting” in the workplace and will identify factors that contribute to effective collaboration. It provides a fresh view of both individual and group interplay, backed by proprietary research findings and relevant real-world examples.

The event is co-sponsored by the Corporate Communication Institute (CCI) and the Center for Human Resource Management Studies. Cost of the event is CCI members: free, nonmembers: $35, CCI participating organizations: $25, and FDU faculty and undergraduates: free. To register call 973-443-8709.

The visual and performing arts department will present “Leave Him to Heaven,” a rock ‘n’ roll musical by Ken Lee, in Dreyfuss Theater, Dreyfuss Building, College at Florham, from Thursday, April 10, through Sunday, April 13, all at 8 p.m.

“Leave Him to Heaven” chronicles the discovery and evolution of a teenage pop star caught up in the complex machinery of the entertainment world during the ’50s and ’60s. This fast-paced, all-singing, all-dancing musical is spiced with many of the great classic songs of that golden era — Chantilly Lace, Blue Moon, At the Hop and Rock Around the Clock, among others — and is a celebration of the days of Ike, poodle skirts and cherry Coke.

The musical is directed by Stephen Hollis, visual/performing arts and director, theater arts (Flor), with sets by Richard Turick, theater (Flor), musical direction by Dimitri Nakhamkin and choreography by Cindy Thole. “‘Leave Him to Heaven’ promises to be an irresistible and spectacular event employing the talents of many of the campus’s new theater majors: Thom Flannery, Jackie Sneyers, Hope Kaufman, Alex Morse and Perry Herman and welcoming back some of regular star performers: Matt LaCroix, Edwin Estevez, Jillian Villafane and Ed Rempfner,” said Hollis.

Ticket prices are $5 for students and the FDU community and $10 for the general public. They can be purchased at the door or in advance by calling 973-443-8644, ext. 4.

Corporate Citizenship

Understanding the practice of corporate citizenship and its relationship to corporate reputation and identity is the goal of a symposium, “Reputation Equity: Corporate Citizenship and the Bottom Line,” on Friday, March 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, College at Florham.

Presenters include Michele Galen, vice president, corporate communication, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation on the topic, “Novartis — A Model of Global Corporate Citizenship”; Jay Falk, president, SRI World Group, on “Social Investing — How Corporate Responsibility Factors Add Value”; William Russell, CEO of SKN Worldwide, and M. Bradford Randolph, an attorney specializing in business and tax matters and of counsel with McGovern & Associates on “Communicating with Stakeholders After Enron — Measures of Sustainability in the New Regulatory Environment.”

The event is cosponsored by the Corporate Communication Institute. For additional information see http://www.corporatecomm.org/.

Samuel J. Silberman College of Business Administration

In New Jersey, there are an estimated 175,000 firms owned by women. Where can these entrepreneurs go to find capital to start a new business or to grow their current business?

On Tuesday, April 8, a half-day seminar, “How to Raise Capital for Women-owned Businesses,” will be held in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, College at Florham. Entrepreneurs and established owners of companies seeking funds are encouraged to attend the seminar. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet and to speak with the panel of lending, law and business-planning experts.

Speakers, including representatives from Merrill Lynch; Schenk, Price, Smith & King; and The Videre Group, will offer insights into business planning, lending perspectives and legal perspectives. Gina Tedesco, the co-founder of Astralis, LTD, will present a session on “How I Got My Start-up Off the Ground.” The seminar concludes with a Coaching Workshop that features individual consultation with experts. Attendees are asked to bring specific questions to this session.

The Female Entrepreneur Networking Group (FENG), part of the University’s Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, is sponsoring the workshop. To register, call 973-443-8842 or visit http://www.fdu.edu/rothman for more information. The fee for the seminar is $50 for advance registrants and $60 at the door.

In March and April, the Center for Human Resource Management Studies continues a variety of breakfast sessions held from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. in Hartman Lounge, the Mansion, College at Florham. On Friday, March 21, the breakfast seminar will feature Francine Smilen and Robert Brinkerhoff, The Advantage Performance Group, N.Y.C. The cost is $35, free for faculty/staff/students/CHRMS partners. Registration is necessary, for registration and information call 973-443-8577 or visit http://www.chrms.org.

On Thursday, April 10, the center and the Employers Association of New Jersey (EANJ), Verona, N.J., will present part of a series: “Substance Abuse in the Workplace.” The cost is $75, $250 for the series of four seminars, free for faculty/staff/students/CHRMS partners. Registration is necessary, for registration and information call 973-239-8600 or 609-343-7100 or visit http://www.chrms.org.

Family Business Forum Welcomes a New Member

Amper, Politziner & Mattia, certified public accountants and consultants with offices in New Jersey and New York, has become an affiliate of the Family Business Forum. The forum, an educational/networking program for companies that are owned and run by families, is part of the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies.

Leo Rogers, institute director (Flor), said, “As an affiliate, Amper, Politziner & Mattia helps to underwrite the Family Business Forum, and is available to share its expertise and experience with member family businesses on request. It will be a valuable asset to our members and to the University.”

Amper, Politziner & Mattia succeeds PricewaterhouseCoopers as the accountant affiliate of the forum. “We have a long tradition of serving family-run businesses, so we are delighted to be affiliated with the Family Business Forum,” Alan Wink, the firm’s director, consultants to management, said. “Family businesses play such an important role in New Jersey’s economy.” Amper, Politziner & Mattia is the 29th largest accounting firm in the country and has five offices in New Jersey, in Rochelle Park, Edison, Princeton, Flemington and Wall Township.

New College of General and Continuing Studies

“Loving on the Edge: Danger in Intimate Relationships,” a daylong conference exploring the ways in which violence in our culture results in violence against women, will be held on Thursday, April 10, in Wilson Auditorium, Dickinson Hall, Metropolitan Campus.

It is sponsored by the Bergen County Alternatives to Domestic Violence and New College.

Two outstanding keynote speakers will set the tone for the conference: Jacquelyn Campbell, associate dean for faculty affairs, John Hopkins University School of Nursing and a member of the congressionally appointed U.S. Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, and Jackson Katz, founder of MVP Strategies, an organization that specializes in providing gender violence prevention education and training for men and boys.

Campbell conducts advocacy policy work and research on domestic violence. Her presentation on April 10 is “Assessment of Dangerousness in Battering Relationships.”

Jackson Katz opens the afternoon session with “Violence Against Women as a Men’s Issue.” He created the award-winning educational video, “Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity.”

In addition to the keynote speakers, conference attendees will assess risk in intimate partner relationships; look at planning strategies; identify cutting-edge strategies and guidelines for violence prevention; and gain increased awareness of our culture’s role in perpetuating violence against women.

The cost is $60 after March 15. There is a special student price of $25. For more information and a complete brochure, call the ADV conference line at 201-336-7570.

In recognition of Black History Month, a 15-piece art exhibit by Lawrence Finney of New York was displayed in the Edward Williams Gallery. Finney was the second artist to be featured this year in the gallery. As part of the cultural arts class of Diana Soorikian, New College (Metro), the students discussed Finney’s work and that of other artists displayed at the University. In an article that appeared in the February 28 edition of The Record, Soorikian said, “The ‘Campus as Museum’ experience is designed to get students to be aware of their surroundings.” Students who were interviewed by Lisa Goodnight of The Record stated that they were moved by Finney’s work and that it conveyed feelings of hope and inner peace.

On February 27, more than 85 superintendents, principals, teachers and faculty from the Middle College Program and New College faculty and staff gathered together to celebrate New College Night. The evening began with a buffet dinner and was followed by an exciting game between the FDU Knights and the Colonials of Robert Morris University. “The evening provided the perfect venue for high school administrators and faculty to interact with members of New College and proved to be a most enjoyable social event,” said Kenneth Vehrkens, dean, New College (Metro/Flor).

University College: Arts • Sciences • Professional Studies

To learn more from a NASA researcher about a rapidly changing Arctic Sea ice cover, plan to attend a free lecture by Josefino Cosimo, National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) physical scientist, on Monday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 4468, Dickinson Hall, Metropolitan Campus.

The School of Natural Sciences, along with the Hackensack Riverkeeper, Inc., is sponsoring the lecture.

Cosimo has been working as a physical scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., for more than two decades. He earned his PhD in physics at the University of California at Los Angeles. His key research interests focus on the study of polar processes and the detection of climate change in the polar regions.

A study by NASA says that perennial sea ice — the floating ice that remains year round near the Arctic Circle — is melting faster than previously thought and could disappear entirely within this century.

“Living with the Past in a Rough Present: The Aftereffects of the Holocaust on Survivors and Their Offspring” will be presented by Dan Bar-On, professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, on Friday, March 28, at 2 p.m.

The free lecture is part of the Global Scholars Lecture Series at the Metropolitan Campus and will be held in Room 105, Muscarelle Center.

Bar-On holds the David Lopatie Chair of Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies in the department of behavioral sciences at Ben-Gurion University. In 1985, after completing his PhD from the Hebrew University, he launched a pioneering field of research in Germany, studying the psychological and moral aftereffects of the Holocaust on the children of the perpetrators. His book Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich has been translated into many languages.

Since that time, Bar-On has brought together descendants of survivors and perpetrators for intensive encounters, as well as students from the third generation of both sides. He is the author of Fear and Hope: Three Generations of Holocaust Survivors’ Families and The Indescribable and the Undiscussable. Currently he directs the new Center for Dialogue Between Populations in Conflict and is the co-director of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East) with Sami Adwan, professor at of Bethlehem University. Together, they received the June 2001 Alexander Langer Prize in Bolzano, Italy, for their efforts in peace building between Palestinians and Israelis.

The lecture is presented by the School of Psychology, the School of Criminal Justice and Sociology, the University Core Program and the Office of Interdisciplinary, Distributed and Global Learning. For further information call 201-692-2300.

University College is again sponsoring a one-day trip to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, April 6. A bus seating 49 people will leave the North Parking Lot at 7:30 a.m. and return the same day at approximately 10:30 p.m.

Leonard Grob, philosophy, University coordinator and director University Core (Metro), will lecture and lead a discussion during the bus ride. The trip is partially underwritten by a generous donation from Myron and Paulette Katz, which allows the University to offer this educational expedition for only $15 per person. Included in the package is roundtrip bus transportation, admission and a box lunch. The bus will stop for dinner at the participant’s expense on the way back to Teaneck.

To register, bring the cost of the trip to Barbara Merdler, Dean’s Office, University College, Room R33, Robison Hall. For questions or information call Merdler at 201-692-2429 or Grob at 201-692-2408.

As part of the Gene Barnett Literary Society series, John Lahr, the senior drama critic and in-depth profiler for the New Yorker magazine, will lecture on “Comedy and Revenge” on Wednesday, April 9, and award-winning author Russell Banks will speak on “Living in the Sweet Hereafter” on Tuesday, May 6. Both lectures are in Wilson Auditorium, Dickinson Hall, Metropolitan Campus.

Lahr’s talk will be a probing and humorous discussion of influential comedians including Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Woody Allen, Dame Edna Everage and others. During the question-and-answer period with the audience, he will discuss the Broadway and London theater seasons. Copies of his book, Show and Tell, will be available for signing.

A veteran of all aspects of the theater, Lahr is the son of comedy legend Bert Lahr and the author of the best-selling biography, Notes on a Cowardly Lion. A two-time winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, he is the author of 17 books on the theater. Lahr was the co-creator of the Tony Award-winning theater piece “Elaine Stritch at Liberty.” In 1992, he won the Roger Machell Prize for the best book on the performing arts, “Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization.”

Banks, a prolific writer of fiction, has written a dozen novels and short-story collections that have won him Guggenheim and NEA grants and a St. Lawrence Prize for fiction. He has made a life’s work of charting the causes and effects of the terrible things “normal” men can and will do.

Two of his novels have been made into feature films. “The Sweet Hereafter” won the Grand Prix and International Critics Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. “Affliction” starred Nick Nolte, Willem Dafoe and Sissy Spacek. Banks is the screenwriter of a film adaptation of his novel “Continental Drift.” His latest collection of stories, The Angel on the Roof, has garnered critical acclaim. Banks’ appearance also will include a question-and-answer period with the audience and book signing.

Tickets for each lecture, at $8 for the general public, will be available at 7:30 p.m. on the evening of the lecture. There is no advance sale or reserved seating. Tickets are free for FDU faculty, staff and students with valid FDU ID. For further information, call 201-692-7028. The lectures are sponsored by University College, New College of General and Continuing Studies and student affairs.

University College Gallery announces its exhibits for the remainder of the semester.

On exhibit through March 21 is color photography by Sun-Joo Shin. From March 25 though April 25, landscape paintings by Mary Salstrom will be shown. A reception is planned the opening day, from 3 to 5 p.m. From April 28 through May 22, works by art major Yusuyuki Mizutani will be on display. From May 5 through August 29 art majors’ best works will be shown.

The gallery, located in Room 11, University Hall, Metropolitan Campus, is open Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The School of Natural Sciences continues its Biology Seminar Series this spring. This free set of lectures, given by experts in their fields, is scheduled for Thursdays at 5:25 p.m. in Room 4468, Dickinson Hall, Metropolitan Campus. Gerhard Haas, biological sciences (Metro), directs the series.

Remaining lectures will be on March 13, “Interaction of Microorganisms with Metals,” Tamar Barkay, biochemistry/microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; March 27, “The World Food Prize,” Al Clausi, Institute of Food Technology, Chicago, Ill.; on April 3, “Antimicrobials in Oral Care,” Harsh Trivedi, Colgate-Palmolive Co.; on April 10, “The Effect of Botanicals on Gene Expression in HIV,” Vincent Bonagura, pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, N.Y.C.; on April 17, “Our Food: How Safe and Secure Is It?,” Helen Aceto, clinical studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia; and on April 24, “Economic Value of Bignomaceus Liunus,” Alice Benzecry, biological sciences (Metro).

March 2003

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