Lora Billings of Mathematics received $49,421 from the Naval Research Laboratory-SSC to fund research into dynamical behavior in the information space caused by disruptions such as those initiated as hostile actions against an information infrastructure. The project will study the dynamics of computer information distribution when attacked by viruses, worms, malicious mobile code and other interruptions to computer technology.
Thomas Devlin of Mathematical Sciences chaired the keynote session at the New Jersey American Statistical Association Summer Symposium on "International Harmonization for New Drug Applications." Earlier in the summer, he was an invited participant in the Harvard School of Public Health/Schering-Plough Research Conference on "Data Mining with Applications to Genomics, Clinical Trials and Post-Marketing Drug Risk."
Joseph Donnelly of Health Professions, Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies received $104,173 from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to continue TIGS, the Teen Institute of the Garden State, which provides abstinence education for sixth through 12th graders. The programs focus on abstinence from alcohol, drugs and early sexual activity. He also received $124,491 from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to fund the fifth year of Project CARE (Community Awareness and Relationship Education), which presents an abstinence education program to sixth, seventh and eighth graders in 12 schools in Elizabeth and Paterson.
Lois Oppenheim of French, German and Russian had an article, "France Takes Its Intellectuals to Heart, Even as They Doubt Themselves," published in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Sept. 7 The Chronicle Review.
Dierdre Glenn-Paul of Literacy and Educational Media had her book,
Life, Culture and Education on the Academic Plantation: Womanist Thought
and Perspective, published by Peter Lang Publishers.
Lorenzo Pace of the Art Galleries juried an art exhibition, “All Creatures Great & Small,” held at the Clifton Art Center this summer. The exhibit featured artwork in many media with animals as the subject.
Wayne
Positan, a member of Montclair State University’s Board
of Trustees received the Essex County Bar Association’s 2001
Professional Achievement Award. Positan is a managing partner and managing
director at the law firm of Lum, Danzis, Drasco, Positan & Kleinberg,
LLC. He serves as chair of the American Bar Association Commission on
Multijurisdictional Practice and is editor-in-chief of the New Jersey
Institute of Legal Education book, New Jersey Labor and Employment
Law.
Paul Scipione of Marketing has received $74,361 from the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to fund the publication of a reference guide to the dioxin-related medical problems of Vietnam veterans and their offspring. The guide will be distributed to primary care physicans in New Jersey.
Avram B. Segall of Legal Studies recently had an article, "Reflections on Teaching," published in the August edition of The Educator, the quarterly magazine of the American Association for Paralegal Education. Segall, who teaches "Ethical and Professional Issues in the Legal Environment" in the graduate program, and Marilyn Tayler of Legal Studies recently attended the Hofstra University School of Law 2001 Legal Ethics Conference, "Legal Ethics: What Needs Fixing?”
William Solecki of Earth and Environmental Science received $20,000 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to fund an assessment of interactions between future climate change, the urban heat island effect and potential adaptation strategies in the Camden area.
Mary Lou West of Mathematical Science recently presented “In a Galaxy Far, Far, Away…” at the West Milford Library. Her talk was part of the “Eight Enchanted Evenings” series for adults.
Carol Westfall of Fine Arts has her work, “BIHK Series IV, 1988,” a lithograph with stitching and thread included in the Boxed In: Plane, Frame and Surface exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (www-rci.rutgers.edu/~zamuseum/) at Rutgers University. The exhibit can be viewed through Dec. 2.