Montclair State University

Jan. 19
2004

In this issue:	- Don't miss the TheaterFest Alumni Dance Festival. See What's Happening.	- Win a meal at the Red Hawk Diner. Can you answer this week's trivia question?
In this issue:	- Deadline this week for submissions to photo exhibition. See Announcements.	- Health and Wellness Center closed due to flooding. See this and more in News.

Students came up with an ingenious way to provide food to the needy during the holidays by donating their meal card "swipes," each worth $3.80. Rather than using their swipes for meals, students donated their swipes to charity. Organizers of the program set a goal of 1,000 swipes, but surpassed their goal and raised $10,000, enough to purchase 50 trays of baked ziti, 50 trays of salad, as well as cookies and other desserts that were donated to the Human Needs Food Pantry in Montclair. "We can't wait to do it again," said organizer freshman Angelo Lilla. "People aren't hungry just during the holidays." Pictured unloading the food are, from left, freshmen Anthony Guttilla, Lilla, Jamie Dresher, sophomore Shawana Morris and senior Scarlett Morris.

Two EAES faculty work on NASA projects
NASA has recognized the expertise of two professors in Earth and Environmental Studies (EAES) by choosing them as principal investigators on two major environmental projects. Mark Chopping is working on NASA's Earth Science Enterprise program, which will use data from NASA's Earth Observation System satellites to map carbon pools in the southwestern United States, while Yuan Gao will investigate natural iron fertilization in the ocean and its impacts on ocean nitrogen fixation and carbon cycles. (Full Story)

Diversity training fosters understanding and respect
With 779 international students and close to 100 visiting scholars from all over the world, the campus has embraced a population that grows more diverse each year. An environment as diverse as Montclair State's fosters the University's goal of becoming a center of global study and understanding. But what does it mean to be "all together different?" The Office of Student Leadership Programs and the Office of Diversity and Equity Programs/Women's Center attempts to answer this question at its Diversity Training Initiative for faculty and staff. (Full Story and Photo)

Students talk to professors as they
explore Panama's rainforest
Hundreds of school children from New Jersey, New York, Tennessee and Texas are exploring Panama's rainforest with Jacalyn Willis and her husband Greg this week. But those students didn't need passports or plane tickets. The rainforest is coming to them via live videoconferencing from a tropical forest research facility. (Full Story and Photos)

CSAM sponsors first regional Science Olympiad
More than 500 students from 15 middle schools and 13 high schools from across the state were on campus last week to participate in the first Northern Regional Science Olympiad. Sponsored by the College of Science and Mathematics (CSAM) in partnership with the Research and Development Council of New Jersey, the Olympiad is one of several events sponsored by CSAM each year that exposes students of all ages to science and math programs. (Full Story)

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