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April 24, 2000
Kenneth Brook of Anthropology and Marybeth Henry of Human Ecology made presentations at The New Jersey Higher Education Service-Learning Consortium's conference, "Regarding Reflection: How Meaning Matters in Service-Learning" held at Kean University. Brook presented "Reflecting on Experience: Building Your Case for Promotion, Tenure and Reappointment" and Henry presented "The Uses of Structured Reflection."
Robert Downs of Information Technology will present "Digital Library Development and Use" April 27 at the New Jersey Library Association meeting in New Brunswick. On May 18, he will present "A Project Management Approach to Digital Library Development" at the 21st annual National Online Meeting at the New York Hilton.
Alice Freed of Linguistics was an invited speaker at the New York University Linguistics Department Colloquium in February, where she presented "Language and Gender Research: Why do the Stereotypes Persist?" She also was an invited panelist at Feminist Expo 2000 in Baltimore, Md. At the panel discussion, "Saying No to Boy's World: Challenging Patriarchy," Freed discussed challenging the persistent stereotypes about women's and men's language.
Lise Greene of the President's Office has earned a Ph.D. in higher education administration from New York University. The title of her dissertation was "African-Americans at Montclair State Teachers College 1927 to 1957: An Oral History Analysis."
Angel Gutierrez of Computer Science presented "Influence of Wavelet Boundary Conditions on the Classification of Biological Signals" at the IEEE 26th annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference held at the University of Connecticut. The paper was published in the conference proceedings.
Gregory Pope of Earth and Environmental Studies coached the Middle States team that placed second at the 2000 World College Geography Bowl. Miyuki Kawada, a graduate student in Earth and Environmental Studies, was a member of the team. The World Geography Bowl is an academic competition held at the annual Association of American Geographers Meeting. The five-member Middle States team (representing New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware) competed against seven other regional teams from across the nation.
Klaus Schnitzer of Fine Arts was a juror at the sixth annual National Juried Art Exhibit at Artsbridge at Prallsville Mills. Artsbridge is a nonprofit organization of arts supporters, award-winning artists, writers and performers whose work connects the culture and commerce of the river regional surrounding New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, N.J.
Avram B. Segall of Legal Studies presented "The Pragmatic Ethicist: Reality Checks on the Teaching of Ethics" at the Northeast Regional Conference of the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE) in Princeton. Later this month the AAfPE national magazine, The Educator, will publish "The Pragmatic Ethicist."
Dajin Wang of Computer Science had his paper, "The Diagnosability of Hypercubes with Arbitrarily Missing Links," published in a recent issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture.
Michael Zey of Management recently was interviewed on the People's Radio Network (130 nationwide stations) on the Cliff Kincaid show about the impact of the economic and trade issues on the 2000 U.S. presidential election. He was interviewed by the Gannett Newspaper chain for article on the impact of rising oil prices on U.S. and international economy, and on automobile industry in particular. Zey's book, The Mentor Connection, is in its fifth printing.
Honorary degree recipients approved by Board of Trustees
Rev. William H. Gray III, Dr. Antonia Novello, and the Rev. Dr. DeForest "Buster" B. Soaries, Jr., were approved by the Board of Trustees on April 6 to receive honorary degrees at this year's commencement exercises.
Gray has been president and chief executive officer of The College Fund (formerly the United Negro College Fund) since 1991. He has served in the House of Representatives as chair of the Democratic Caucus and majority whip. He also was director of African-American Studies at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, adjunct professor at Montclair State and other educational institutions, and pastor of the Union Baptist Church in Montclair.
Novello was the first woman and the first Hispanic to be appointed surgeon general of the United States, a post she held from 1990 to 1993, during which time she was acclaimed for her campaigns to address the health problems of American women and children.
Prior to that, she served as a pediatric nephrologist, clinical professor of pediatrics, and coordinator of AIDS research and deputy director at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Following her term as surgeon general she served as a special representative for health and nutrition with UNICEF and is the commissioner of health for the New York State Department of Health. She is nationally recognized for her focus on women with AIDS and neonatal transmission of HIV as well as her work in providing new opportunities for Hispanic involvement in health issues.
Soaries is New Jersey's 13th secretary of state, having been appointed in January 1999. He has had a lifelong interest in at-risk youth that has been expressed through service with the Urban League in Newark, Operation PUSH in Chicago, teaching at several institutions of higher education, meetings with four presidents of the United States, speaking at the President's Summit for America's Future and leadership of the First Baptist Church in Somerset.
Dance students perform at national festival
Fourteen dance majors performed at the Northeast Regional American College Dance Festival at SUNY-Brockport last month. In addition to taking master classes, and attending lectures and performances, the students presented two choreographic works for adjudication by a panel of dance professionals‹ "When InterruptedŠ," choreographed by juniors Christina Decker and Diana DeCanto, and "To Seldom Spire," choreographed by guest artist Sara Hook. The latter was selected for the prestigious closing night gala performance and was one of four pieces chosen to represent the Northeast Region at the ninth National American College Dance Festival at the University of Maryland in May. This is the fourth national festival at which MSU has been invited to perform.
The MSU students also participated in a non-adjudicated concert and presented alumna Maureen Glennon's "Thou Shalt Not" to an enthusiastic audience.
All the works will appear in "Danceworks 2000" April 27-30 in Memorial Auditorium. (See What's Happening on page 4 for times.)
Two win Outstanding Dietetics Student Awards
Each year, the American Dietetic Association (ADA) awards Outstanding Dietetics Awards to students in dietetics education programs in every state. This year two students from Montclair State have received the award‹Christine Granz and Ana Marie Quispe.
Granz received the award in the Didactic Program in Dietetics, and Quispe received the award in the Approved Preprofessional Practice Program (AP4). Both are ADA-accredited and approved programs in Human Ecology.
"The purpose of the Outstanding Dietetic Student Award program is to recognize the emerging leadership and achievement of students in the ADA-accredited and approved dietetics education programs," said Shahla Wunderlich, coordinator of the food and nutrition program and director of the AP4 program. "We are very happy that this year both awards for the state of New Jersey were given to Montclair State students."
Granz and Quispe will receive the awards at the New Jersey Dietetic Association annual meeting June 1, and their names will appear in a list of all awardees in the fall issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
President Susan A. Cole's spring meeting with the campus community originally scheduled for Wednesday, April 26, at 4 p.m. has been canceled.
The next meeting of the Board of Trustees will be Thursday, April 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Student Center, Room 419.
Head football coach Rick Giancola will be honored by the Rotary Club of Cedar Grove on May 10 at the Friar Tuck Inn. Giancola, the all-time winningest coach in MSU history, guided the Red Hawks to a 9-2 mark this past season and the 1999 New Jersey Athletic Conference championship. Tickets to the event, which begins at 6:30 p.m., are $25 per person. For more information, call Robert Pityo at 973-239-0380 or e-mail Bbpityo@aol.com.
The annual reception for inductees to the International Sociology Honors Society, Alpha Kappa Delta, was held April 14. The inductees included Benvenuto DeGrande, Jr., Jocelyn Demers, Beata Gacka, Anthony Intemann, Susan Komosinski, Danielle Lundy, Jenny Olacio and Carmen Perez-Canas.