Robert Aldridge of Music has been commissioned by the New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) to write a piece that will be performed by the
NJSO next season. He also wrote a commissioned piece, "War Stories,"
that will be performed by the Montclair State Symphonic Band in the spring.
His opera, "Elmer Gantry," will premiere in Germany, Finland
and Tulsa, Okla. in 2003-04. Aldridge, who has been at Montclair State
for two years, also wrote "The Third Person," a musical that
was given a staged reading last summer by TheatreFest, and will be given
it's fully staged world premiere this spring in London's West End.
George Antoniou of Computer Science published a paper, "A
review on the minimal state space realization for a class of n-D discrete
time lossless bounded real functions," in the Advances in Neural
Networks and Applications, World Scientific and Engineering Press,
2001.
Thomas Devlin of Mathematical Sciences was presented with a distinguished
service award by the American Statistical Association. The award, presented
at the 2001 Joint Statistical Meetings, honors Devlin for excellence in
the teaching of statistics, leadership associated with the founding of
the New Jersey Chapter of ASA and continued contributions to the Program
and Symposium committees.
Ted Fiore of Athletics, head men's basketball coach, earned his
200th career win when Montclair State beat William Paterson, 51-54, Nov.
28. He has compiled a 200-146 ledger (through Dec. 1) in his 13 seasons
as a collegiate head coach, which includes nine campaigns at St. Peter's
College and the last four years with Montclair.
Scott Kight of Biology and Molecular Biology received $88,644 from
the National Institutes of Health for "Communities of Inquiry: Bridging
the Associate, Baccalaureate and Beyond." The program promotes the
transfer of A.S. track minority students from Essex County Community College
to Montclair State to complete their baccalaureate degrees and pursue
professional careers in the biological and health careers.
Deena Linett of English had her book, Rare Earths, chosen
as a semi-finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book
was selected from thousands of poetry books. Finalists will be announced
Dec. 31 and winners announced the end of January.
Richard Taubald of the Gifted and Talented Program participated
in a screening and discussion of "No Place to be Smart: The Brightest
Kids in Public Schools." The one-hour documentary will air Dec. 13
on New Jersey Network followed by the discussion.
James Woods of the Gifted and Talented Program presented a pre-Halloween video and lecture, "Vlad the Impaler," the basis of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, at the Englewood Public Library.
WORTH QUOTING...
The following excerpts are from newspaper and magazine articles.
Copies of the complete articles are available from the Office of Public
Information, College Hall, Room 313.
"Students, after all, are our customers, and we certainly try to incorporate their thoughts in everything." --Edward Oberhofer of Physical Plant, quoted in The Herald News, Oct. 16, 2001. Headline: "MSU students 'environmental firebrands' "
"Anytime the feds reach out to give incentives so folks can participate in higher education, it's always good for society as a whole." --Bryan Terry, director of Financial Aid, quoted in The Sunday Star-Ledger, Oct. 7, 2001. Headline: "New laws foster opportunity." Terry also was quoted in the Sept. 20, 2001 Courier-Post in an article headlined "Key to financing college is to start saving when student is still a child."