Step Up to the Challenge to Keep Your Heath, Fitness Resolutions Before you know it the holidays will be behind you, and it’ll be time to make your new year’s resolution. The Rider Recreation Programs and the Student Recreation Center staff know how hard it can be to keep resolutions, especially when it comes to health and fitness.
Friendship is a Two-Way Street in Rider Program Dr. Diane Casale-Giannola says that while her students have much to offer their visitors in the Rider Friendships program, their guests do not arrive for their monthly visits in Memorial Hall with nothing in return. Giannola, an associate professor of Teacher Education, launched the program in October to allow young area adults with varied developmental disabilities to interact in a social experience with their typical functioning peers – in this case, special education students from Rider’s Teacher Education program.
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST Stasolla, Peters Earn Fall 2008 Mazzotti Awards Debbie Stasolla, associate vice president for Planning, and Dr. Pearlie-Mae Peters, professor of English, have been named the recipients of the Fall 2008 Mazzotti Awards. The Mazzotti Awards offer opportunities for women faculty and staff members to attend leadership development programs that will benefit the Rider community and assist recipients in their professional advancement.
To Jacobson, Dolls Are Not Merely Child’s Play Dr. Tamar Jacobson, chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Director of the Early Childhood Program, keeps a collection of dolls in her Memorial Hall office. One has a pouting face, another has a toothy grin. No one doll is the same, but all the dolls are part of a family and serve the same purpose. Last month, Jacobson presented the concept “Dolls as a Window to the Curriculum” at the Early Childhood Education Summit at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, Pa.
Rider’s EOP Turns 40 Commemorating a landmark year for access to learning, Rider University’s Educational Opportunity Program held a special EOP 40th Anniversary and Holiday Celebration in the Princeton Room of the newly renovated Daly’s Dining Hall on Wednesday, December 10. About 30 people, including EOP staff, students and advisory board members, were on hand to honor the state-sponsored program that enables low-income New Jersey residents to attend college.
Breakthrough Moment Many moviegoers recall the poignancy of seeing Annie Sullivan make a startling intellectual connection with the blind and deaf Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. Dr. Michele Wilson Kamens recalls the scene not only for its emotional drama, but as a breakthrough moment in her own life. Kamens, a professor of Special Education at Rider University, knew at that instant that her own professional course was set.
Rider Checks Into Literacy with Verizon Grant Rider University’s Center for Reading and Writing got a boost recently when it was awarded a $10,000 grant funded by Verizon’s Check Into Literacy program. The Center for Reading and Writing is an innovative program designed to provide practical experience to graduate students studying to become reading specialists. It was established in 1980 by Dr. Susan Mandel Glazer, professor and coordinator of Reading/Language Arts and still the current director of the Center.
Rider University Choirs, Bands to Celebrate Sounds of the Season The Rider University Band will perform its winter concert on Monday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m. in The Yvonne Theater, located inside the Fine Arts Building. The Rider University Choir and the new Rider Chapel Choir will present their winter concert Joy & Peace! on Sunday, December 7, at 3 p.m. in the Gill Chapel. Both concerts on the Lawrenceville campus are open to the public and are free.
Rider University Holiday Reception Please join us for the annual faculty and staff Holiday Reception on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 3-5 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center, Cavalla Room on the Lawrenceville campus.
Making a Point: Weber's Founder's Day Speech Sticks In his popular 2002 book The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell argues that popular movements – whether they are trends, attitudes, or even the rise of particular products – spread in a viral fashion, not unlike health epidemics. As their popularity advances, Gladwell says, they eventually rise to a “moment of critical mass, a threshold, or a boiling point” – or, as he calls it, the tipping point.
Sullivan Sheds Light on CBS ‘Master of Suspense’ Segment “Get ready for your close up.” That was the subject line of an e-mail Dr. Jack Sullivan received from a Wall Street Journal editor last spring. With those words, the Hitchcock expert’s summer was about to change course, and it was just a matter time before his Summer Session I class AMS 215: Alfred Hitchcock in America would be pushed into the spotlight.
Ron Walker Fêted as an EOF Champion For the past 17 years, Ron Walker has been a staunch advocate of the Rider University Educational Opportunity Program, and his loyal support was rewarded on Friday, November 14, when he was honored as an Educational Opportunity Fund Champion by the EOF Professional Association of New Jersey (EOFPA). Walker, the associate vice president for Academic Affairs and Institutional Analysis at Rider, received the award at the EOFPA’s 2008 Fall Conference and EOF 40th Anniversary Celebration on the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
Come See Pulitzer Prize Storyteller Junot Diaz Come hear Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz as he shares excerpts from his books during a public reading at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 19, in BLC Theater.
Drawn Out From the Shell -- Castagnera Says Terrorism has Sharpened Academic Focus on Campuses A trip to Israel got James Ottavio Castagnera thinking about the impact of terrorism at American universities, a topic he explores in his forthcoming book, Al Qaeda Goes to College, published by Greenwood Press. Castagnera, the associate provost and associate counsel for Academic Affairs at Rider University, says that events over the past decade may have actually increased the level of academic freedom and the ability of scholars to explore the issue of terror.
Reducing the Threat -- Aronson Shatters Myths at Goldstein Lecture Joshua Aronson, Ph.D., an associate professor of applied psychology at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, believes that a performance-inhibiting phenomenon – what he terms “stereotype threat” – occurs when students confront the negative expectations of the particular stereotypes assigned to their race and gender, and that this plays the biggest hand in predicting test scores among minorities and women of all races. To the standing room-only audience in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater, his evidence was compelling.
Local Districts Get CONNECT-ED to Phase II of Outreach Program More than 70 K-12 science and math teachers and district supervisors attended the CONNECT-ED Phase II Kickoff Event held at Rider University’s Lawrenceville campus to learn how professional learning communities (PLCs) can help “big-ideas thinking” in science and math take root in their classrooms and throughout their districts.
Rider Art Gallery Hosts Rita Baragona and St. Clair Sullivan: A Marriage of Two Minds Rider University will host an exhibit of recent paintings by New Jersey artists Rita Baragona and St. Clair Sullivan entitled Rita Baragona and St. Clair Sullivan: A Marriage of Two Minds from November 6 to December 7 in the Rider University Art Gallery, located on the second floor of the Bart Luedeke Center. The exhibit will open with a reception on Thursday, November 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Art Gallery, and the husband-and-wife artists will again meet patrons for a Gallery Talk on Thursday, November 13, at 7 p.m.
Center for International Business Presents "The Global Language of Business" Maria Schneider of GS1 US will talk about how global standards like the “bar code” guarantee that products and services can be uniquely identified virtually anywhere in the world among businesses of all sizes involved in international trade!
Campus Ministry Welcomes Two New Chaplains Two new faces recently joined Rider’s Campus Ministry. Rev. Dawn Adamy replaced Rev. Nancy Schluter as the new chaplain of the Protestant Campus Ministry, and Father Ian Trammell replaced Father Bruno Ugliano as the new chaplain of the Catholic Campus Ministry. Both of the new chaplains plan to expand programs and service projects on both the Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses, as well as create opportunities for the two ministries to work together.
Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style -- Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture Scott Sandage readily concedes that the revival of narrative has brought a new vitality to the discipline of history. Sandage, who presented the 17th Annual Levine Lecture at Rider University on October 16, arrived with a new twist on a story that had been often told on the old American frontier. In doing so, Sandage not only shone a new light on the social conceptions of race, but framed it in a surprisingly personal context.
Mark Your Calendars for Campus Sustainability Day on October 22, 2008 Colleges and universities across the country are pausing to celebrate National Campus Sustainability Day on Wednesday, October 22. Rider will host events on both the Lawrenceville and Princeton campus including information sessions and a Sustainability Day Lecture given by Tom Szaky, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of TerraCycle, Inc., producer of the world's first products made from, and packaged, in waste.
Westminster Family Weekend Concert Features New Ensemble on October 25 Westminster Choir College of Rider University’s 2008 Family Weekend will be marked by two firsts on Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center at Princeton High School. It will be the first performance by the freshmen studying on Rider’s Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton who make up the Westminster Chapel Choir. It will also be the debut performance by the Rider Chapel Choir, the newest ensemble at Westminster College of the Arts, which is composed of freshmen and upperclass student on Rider’s Lawrenceville campus.
Dr. David Walton to Deliver International Week Keynote Lecture Dr. David Walton of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, will speak on Medicine and Social Justice in the BLC Theater on October 21 at 6:30 p.m.
Rider to Host Second Annual Goldstein Lecture on Prejudice Reduction Rider University will host the Second Annual Marvin W. Goldstein Lecture on Prejudice Reduction on Wednesday, October 29, at 7 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. This year’s lecture will feature Joshua Aronson, Ph.D., an associate professor of applied psychology at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, who will speak on Stereotypes and the Nature and Nurture of Intelligence.
Come Together for Unity Days “Responsible Citizenship At Home and Abroad” is the theme for this year’s Unity Days, which will feature the opening of the New World Resource Center and keynote speaker Donna Brazile. The annual event, held this year on October 14 and 15, brings students, faculty and staff together, and celebrates all the diverse elements that make up the Rider community, explained Don Brown, director of Multicultural Affairs. Donna Brazile will deliver the keynote address for Rider's Unity Days celebration on Tuesday, October 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. Please note the time change of the lecture.
Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage to Deliver 17th Annual Levine Lecture Noted author and cultural historian Scott Sandage, recently named as one of America’s Top Young Historians by the History News Network, will deliver the 17th Annual Levine Lecture, presented by the Department of History at Rider University, on Thursday, October 16, at 7 p.m. in the Sweigart Auditorium.
Economic Crisis: Updated Q&A What happened to our economy? What caused this crisis, and who is to blame? Was it Wall Street or the government? Was it the lenders? Or was it us, the citizens, who just couldn’t get enough? Dr. Maury Randall, chair of the Department of Finance at Rider University, answers this and more in an informative, updated Q&A.
Digging for the Truth -- Gallagher Says Fossils Are Key to Our Future For Dr. William B. Gallagher, paleontology beats palm-reading as a way to predict our fate. The visiting assistant professor in the Department of Geological, Environmental, and Marine Sciences says that the close of the Age of Dinosaurs is identified by a mass extinction that occurred across a wide range of organisms, all at about the same time – an extinction, he says, that was brought on by a global climate crisis.
Confidential Rider EthicsLine Debuts Rider University is committed to responsible stewardship of University resources and adherence to high standards of professional conduct. For this reason, the Office of Human Resources has contracted an independent service to receive confidential reports that may involve improper conduct or violations of University policy.
Rider to Host Taste of Lawrenceville The Rider University community is invited to indulge in seasonal delicacies from local eateries and farms at the third annual Taste of Lawrenceville. This year’s event, themed “Celebrating the Harvest Moon,” will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 12, in the Bart Luedeke Center Cavalla Room.
Deborah Rosenthal’s “Paintings: Lovers/Orion” at Bowery Gallery Until October 25 Paintings: Lovers/Orion, a new exhibit from Deborah Rosenthal, professor of Fine Arts at Rider University, will debut on Thursday, October 2, at the Bowery Gallery, with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Bowery Gallery is located in the Chelsea section of Manhattan at 530 W. 25th Street, New York, NY 10001.
Donna Brazile to Deliver Keynote Address at Rider's Unity Day Celebration Donna Brazile will deliver the keynote address for Rider's Unity Days celebration on Tuesday, October 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. Please note the time change of the lecture from the Rider University Lecture Series poster and flyer. Donna Brazile will be speaking on the topic of race, gender and the 2008 Presidential election.
9/26/2008 Finance Division Welcomes Three New Hires The Finance Division of Rider University is welcoming three new employees to leadership roles in the division during the month of September.
9/26/2008 You're Hired! Rob Stoto Leads Rider's Human Resources Efforts Fifteen years of coaching youth soccer taught Rob Stoto a lot about teamwork, planning and goals, but Rider’s new associate vice president for Human Resources and Affirmative Action has more than two decades of professional leadership experience to draw upon, too.
Homecoming to Unite Princeton, Lawrenceville Campuses Take a break from your studies, and come celebrate Rider pride during Homecoming. This year, events will be held on the Princeton and Lawrenceville campuses. It all takes place Friday, September 26, and September 27.
Visiting Rider Professor Featured on History Channel’s Terrain Dr. William B. Gallagher, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Geological, Environmental, and Marine Sciences (GEMS), will be featured on The History Channel’s program Terrain on Monday, September 22, at 9 p.m.
September 13, 2008 Mark Your Calendars: Join a Bike trip along the D&R Canal and Support Climate Ride 2008 Mark your calendars for a 10-mile bike ride on the D&R Canal starting at 8 a.m. on Sunday, September 21. Members of the Rider community will be supporting the 100 Climate Riders who are cycling their way from New York City to Washington, D.C. to raise awareness about the global climate crisis.
September 11, 2008 TIAA-CREF Open Enrollment Meeting Eligible Rider University employees will be receiving an invitation to attend the semi-annual TIAA-CREF Open Enrollment Meeting scheduled for Friday, September 19, at 10 a.m. in Sweigart Auditorium.
September 11, 2008 Vickie Weaver Plays it Safe After 23 years of distinguished service to the Army, and 22 years with the Department of Public Safety at Rider University, Vickie Weaver understands the business of community protection as well as anyone.
September 8, 2008 The 2008 - 2009 Rider University Faculty Lecture Series The Rider University Faculty Lecture Series Committee is pleased to announce the faculty lectures for the 2008–2009 academic year. All faculty are invited to attend to hear the work of your colleagues.
September 4, 2008 Adjunct Faculty Informational Session The University will be offering an Informational Meeting for all Adjunct Faculty on Tuesday, September 16, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. (dinner available starting at 4:30 p.m.).
September 8, 2008 Former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. to Speak at Constitution Day The Rider University Lecture Series is happy to announce the 2008 Constitution Day speaker - former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. Ford served Tennessee in the United States Congress for 10 years and is now chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, visiting professor of Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, and vice chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
08/26/08 Doing the Circuit at the SRC If you want a fast-paced, quick workout at convenient times, check out the new SRC Circuit Training Program.
08/14/08 Convocation Information for Opening of 2008-09 Academic Year Announced Three opening ceremonies will celebrate the start of Rider University's 2008-09 academic year. The Fall 2008 Opening Convocation will begin on Thursday, August 28, at 2 p.m. in the Cavalla Room, inside the Bart Luedeke Center on the Lawrenceville campus.
08/12/08 CONNECT-ED to Receive $157, 500 Funding CONNECT-ED (CONsortium for New Explorations in Coherent Teacher Education) will be able to expand its programming for high school teachers because of funding of $157, 500 from Central New Jersey’s Bio-1.
07/09/08 Consider Carpooling Unless you walk or bicycle to work, you have no doubt felt the pinch at the pump. In response to this problem, Rider University has formed a new rideshare group on eRideShare.com.
07/08/08 Local Teachers Get CONNECT-ED to Big Ideas For two weeks, local school teachers will have the chance to collaborate and enhance their knowledge of science, math and technology through two professional development programs held in a partnership between Rider University and Princeton University.
07/008/08 28 Years Later - Cassie Iacovelli Retires to Plant New Roots After 28 years of dedication to the Rider family, Cassie Iacovelli retired as the assistant dean for Campus Life on June 30. A farewell dinner was held in her honor on June 14, during Reunion Weekend.
07/03 Fourth of July Concert and Fireworks Display Rider University will host Lawrence Township's Independence Day celebration on Friday, July 4, with a concert and fireworks. The rain date is Saturday, July 5.
06/17/08 Princeton Brass Band Season Finale All are welcome to attend the Princeton Brass Band Summer Concert, conducted by Dr. Stephen Arthur Allen, on Sunday, June 29, at 6 p.m. in the Yvonne Theater.
07/09/08 Minding Our Business Program Piles Up Grants Minding Our Business, a community outreach project organized by the College of Business Administration at Rider University, will be able to expand its programming thanks to a handful of recent grants totaling $90,000.
