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FACULTY AND COLLEGE NEWS
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Professors Donna Connolly, Edward Joffe,
Andy Euleau, Allen Farnham, Tim Horner, Jeanne Wilson and Katherine Fink, Music Dance and Theatre Department, will be clinic presenters at the New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference, to be held on 18-20 February at the Hilton East in New Brunswick. Professor Connolly's clinic, "Adolescent and High School Voice Care" will address the observation of those factors affecting a decision to seek voice care and recommendations for prevention. Professors Andy Eulau, Allen Farnham, and Tim Horner will present a clinic on "How to Build a Successful Rhythm Section"; Professors Jeanne Wilson and Katherine Fink will present one entitled "From Stress to Success: How to Succeed in College Auditions"), and Professor Ed Joffe will present on "Developing the Total Saxophone Schedule." |
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Professor Catherine Raissiguier, Women's and Gender Studies Department, presented a paper entitled "Blood Matters: Sarkozy's Immigration Policies and Their Gendered Impact" at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, on 12-15 November in Long Beach, California
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Professor Anthony Laciura, Music Dance and Theatre Department, will be featured in HBO's new series, "Boardwalk Empire." The show, set in 1920s-era Atlantic City, is produced by Martin Scorcese and co-stars Michael Pitt, Shea Whigham, Dabney Coleman, and Stephen Graham. |
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Professor Bruce Chadwick, English Department, has just published
Lincoln for President, his third book this year (Sourcebooks, 2009). |
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| Professor Chadwick also appeared in the documentary film,
Moving Midway, the story of the relocation of a southern planation house and an exploration of slavery. Trailer available here. |
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Professor Dennis Raverty, Art Department, delivered two lectures on the history of religious icons in Eastern Orthodox Christianity at St. Mary the Virgin Church in Times Square on Sunday 25 October and Sunday 8 November.
Session 1 (October 25): Origin of the Icons -- An examination of the early development of the icon within the context of late antiquity, early Christian art, and the veneration of relics and martyrs.
Session 2 (November 8): Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Tradition -- Iconocalsts ("image smashers") during the eighth and ninth centurie threatened the very existence of icons, and in response to this crisis an orthodox theology was formulated. A later stylistic crisis resulted in the decline of the tradition in the seventeenth century, but the second half of the twentieth century witnessed a veritable renaissance of the tradition.
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Robert Thurston, Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction for the Opportunity Scholarship Program had a short story published in
Classic Battletech: 25 Years of Art and Fiction (Catalyst Game Labs, 2009). The challenge of the book was to write a short story appropriate to an illustration assigned by the editors. |
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| Another story, "Zeroing In," which was originally published on the Battlecorps website, has been included in an anthology,
The Corps (InMediaRes Pubishing, 2008). |
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Professor Bruce Chadwick, English Department, has published
Triumvirate, the story behind the story of the ratification of the US Constitution (Sourcebooks) and
I am Murdered, a true murder mystery (Wiley and Sons). His
Abraham Lincoln for President will be available in December 2009. |
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| Professor Chadwick also appeared as a guest scholar on the National Geographic Channel's "The Real George Washington" and was guest on C-Span's "Q & A." |
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NJCU has officially become one of three statewide language proficiency centers approved by ACTFL, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This allows us to facilitate the Oral Proficiency Exam (OPI) and the Written Proficiency Test (WPT) in English, Spanish, and other languages for students in the northern part of New Jersey. Both exams are required by the state for teacher certification.
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In May 2009, Professor Joffe was the saxophone soloist in the New York City Ballet's performance of Prokofiev's
Romeo and Juliet broadcast on PBS's "Live from Lincoln Center." |
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Professor Ann Wallace, English Department, is a school Founder, as well as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the recently chartered Ethical Community Charter School of Jersey City. The school officially opened on September 1 with 120 students (60 kindergarteners and 60 first graders) and will add a grade each year, keeping pace with its oldest children. |
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Professor Yvette Louis, English Department, was selected to participate in the first
Ms. Magazine Writers Workshop for Feminist Scholars. As an initiative of the
Ms. Academic Project, the workshop brought together fourteen feminist scholars from across the country to learn the nuts-and-bolts of activist magazine writing and publishing. The objective of the workshop was to develop a cadre of feminist scholars capable of translating scholarly research into articles written for the general public. The workshop consisted of five webinars spanning January through March of 2009 and culminating in a workshop held in Washington, DC in April 2009.
Professor John Grew, Biology Department,
Professor Ken Yamaguchi, Chemistry Department,
Professor Bill Montgomery, Geoscience and Geography Department, and
Professor Alberto Pinkás, Physics Department, received a 2 year CCRAA Individual Grant for Hispanic Serving Institutions from the US Department of Education. A CCRAA Cooperative Grant, written in the University's Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs, was also funded. These two grants will allow for the renovation of three teaching laboratories in the Science Building and equipment purchases.
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Professor Louise Stanton, Political Science Department, published her first book,
The Civilian-Military Divide: Obstacles to the Integration of Intelligence in the United States (Praeger Security International). |
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Professor Ana Maria Rosado, Music Dance and Theatre Department, had two articles published this spring in major international guitar magazines. "Latin American Rhythms and Modern Guitar Music: An Historical View" appeared in
Soundboard (vol. XXXV, no. 2), the quarterly of the Guitar Foundation of America, and an interview with French composer and guitarist Roland Dyens was printed in June in
Classical Guitar, a monthly review published in the United Kingdom. |
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Professors Annette LeSiege (music), Music, Dance and Theatre Department, and
John Debrizzi (poems), Sociology Department, published
Fleeting Moments. The first public performance of the piece was April 2009 as part of the University's "Concert of Music by Women Composers" program.
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World Premiere - MoMA, NYC, 25 February 2009
Latin American Premiere - El Parqueadero, Bogota 30 May 2009
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Professor Thomas Liu,
Computer Science Department, was selected to serve as a Computer Science AP reader and participate in the annual Reading and Scoring of the College Board's AP Examinations. Dr. Liu was also one of the NSF-sponsored attendees to attend the TeachScheme Workshop in August at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, Utah.
Professor Hugo Bastidas, Art Department, was recently elected a member of the National Academy, one of the highest honors in American Arts and Letters. This year nine American artists and architects were honored with membership.
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Prof. Bastidas and Prof. Sara Gil-Ramos |
| Professor Bastidas has representative work on view at the National Academy's Museum, located on Fifth Avenue in NYC and home to one of the largest and most prestigious collections of American art in the world. |
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