• Fairleigh Dickinson University has signed Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with the following institutions of higher learning: Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia; Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Universidad ORT, Montevideo, Uruguay; Woosuk University, Samrye, Korea; and Sedaya College (SIC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Under discussion are the academic programs to be involved and student exchanges.

• The 2005 Communicator Awards print media competition honored several Fairleigh Dickinson University publications. The summer/fall 2004 edition of FDU Magazine earned a Crystal Award of Excellence, the competition’s highest honor. Of the more than 5,000 entries from throughout the United States and abroad, only 13 percent garnered that distinction. In addition, the Web version of the magazine, FDU Magazine Online, and the College at Florham Student Handbook Connecting a Community of Scholars won the Award of Distinction. The University’s 2005 Calendar, produced for the Office of University Advancement, received Honorable Mention.

• The voice of New Jersey libraries and libarians, NJLA, conferred its 2005 Best Publications Program Award to the FDU Library for its weeklong campaign launching COOLCATNJ. The campaign included a logo, promotional toothbrushes, “Brush Up on Your Research”; bags, invitations, flyers, ribbon-cutting ceremony and programs. Maria Kocylowsky, head, business library (Metro), chaired the marketing campaign.

• College at Florham student Jane Cassamassa received the New Jersey Project prize, the Student Achievement Award for Excellence in Feminist/Multicultural Scholarship, for her paper, “The Quadroon Balls of Antebellum New Orleans: The Intersection of Race, Class and Gender in the Deep South.” She was nominated by her history professors, Jasonne O’Brian and Diane Sommerville.

• The Devil’s women’s basketball team came in second place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Basketball Championship. Mike Eineker is the head coach.

• The Knights women’s bowling team placed third in the NCAA Women’s Bowling Championship. Mike LoPresti is head coach, and Alexis Lepore is assistant coach.

• College at Florham men’s basketball player Chris Hendershot was named to the All-Freedom Conference First Team. He led the conference in scoring with a 23.6 points per game average and was seventh nationally in scoring in Division III. In his two-year career at the College at Florham, Hendershot scored over 1000 points. Roger Kindel is head coach. Pete Marion and Tim McCorkle are assistant coaches.

• Twenty-seven Metropolitan Campus student-athletes earned spots on the Northeast Conference (NEC) Winter Academic Honor Roll. The student-athletes that earned recognition spanned six teams including women’s basketball, men’s basketball, men’s indoor track and field, women’s indoor track and field, women’s fencing and women’s bowling (visit http://fduknights.collegesports.com/genrel/041205aai.html).

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