Evan Maletsky of Mathematical Sciences has received the 2002 Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America -- New Jersey section (MAA-NJ). Maletsky was expected to receive the award April 13 at the MAA-NJ spring meeting held at Monmouth University. The MAA is the largest professional society that focuses on undergraduate mathematics education. A Montclair State alumnus, '53, '54 M.A., Maletsky joined the faculty in 1957 and is the senior member of the faculty. He is the lead author or co-author of at least 30 books and has written more than 18 articles. "It is both an honor and a privilege to receive this distinguished teaching award," he said. "For me, the thrill of teaching still remains, whether it be undergraduate majors or general education courses, middle school students or their teachers, doctoral candidates or third graders. I have taught them all this semester, loved every moment and learned from each one."
Kimberly Killmer of Information and Decision Sciences co-authored an article, "Show-and-Tell in Real Time: Link a Spreadsheet to a PowerPoint Slide for Up-to-the-Minute Visuals," which appeared in the Feb. 1 Journal of Accountacy.
Greg Pope, Bill Solecki and Rolf Sternberg of Earth and
Environmental Studies were active at the recent Association of American
Geographers (AAG) 98th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Pope presented a
paper in a session spotlighting weathering geomorphology, titled "Weatherering
Indexes Applied to Chinese Loess Paloesols," co-authored with student
Takeshi Nakajuku and faculty colleagues Zhaodong Feng, Matt Gorring
and Renata Bailey. Pope also was a panelist in an AAG-sponosored
discussion session, "The Undergraduate Degree: Preparing Students
for 21st Century Careers in Geography." Solecki chaired a paper session,
"Land Use Conversion," and presented a paper in that session
titled "Globalization, Growth Coalitions and Landscape Change: Case
Studies of Shanghai and New York," co-authored with Li Huang of East
China Normal University. Sternberg presented a paper, "Environment,
Energy, and Demographic Shifts," in the Population and Environment
paper session.
Carol Westfall of Fine Arts will have her work on display in an
exhibit, "Cityscapes," at the Ben Shahn Center Galleries at
William Paterson through April 26.
Helen Matusow-Ayres of Student Development and Campus Life, and Dawn Meza-Soufleris, assistant to the vice president for Student Affairs and director of Student Conduct and Mediation Services at Rochester Institute of Technology, conducted a study of psychological issues on campus that revealed that psychological distress and related disturbances have significantly increased at colleges throughout the country. Results from the study were published in the April issue of Student Affairs Today. Click here to read more about the study.
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WORTH QUOTING...
The following excerpts are from newspaper and magazine articles.
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Public Information, College Hall, Room 313.
Michael Zey of Management and Thom Gencarelli of Broadcasting were quoted in an April 7 story in the Morris County Daily Record, "At Age 72, TV Still Makes Waves." In talking about the way television influences the way Americans view the world, Gencarelli said, "It has been blamed as a seed of cultural ills, why Johnny can't read, and it brought people together during the Kennedy assassination and on Sept. 11. During a national tragedy, everybody shares it in a direct way." Speaking about television programming, Zey said, "Everyone could become a programmer. A million of us could put on political talk shows. Most of them would be pretty banal. But a small group will start to create a whole new realm of programming. It will be the democratization of culture in the best sense."
"You can't battle something if you don't know what it is." Lora Billings of Mathematical Sciences in an article headlined, "With Math, They'll Hunt for a Pattern of Terrorism" in the March 17 Sunday Star-Ledger.