April - June 2005
- Patrick Schmidt, assistant professor of music education, presented a paper, titled "Critical Pedagogy for Music Education: Teaching through a pedagogy of Empowerment," at the Mountain Lake Colloquium in Virginia on May 23.
- Dr. Stefan Dombrowski, assistant professor of graduate education (school psychology). He presented his paper, "Prenatal associations in psychological/behavioral pathology: A primer for school psychologists," coauthored with Dr. Roy P. Martin of the University of Georgia, and Dr. Matti Huttunen of the University of Helsinki, at the National Association of School Psychologists Annual Conference review in Atlanta, GA, on April 1. At that conference, he, along with Karen Gischlar '03, presented their paper, "Mandated reporting in a multicultural environment: Considerations for school psychologists." Also, that month in Atlanta he presented a poster paper, "Maternal distress during pregnancy: Association with temperamental and behavioral outcomes in offspring," along with his colleagues at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) annual conference on April 4. In addition, this year he has published numerous articles and served on the editorial board of the National Association of School Psychologist's Communiqué and as an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
- Dr. Robin Leaver, professor, sacred music, served as a visiting professor at the Department of Music, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand in March where he contributed to a conference on eighteenth-century music held at Wellington Town Hall, and gave the pre-concert lecture before a performance of Bach's St. John Passion, Wellington Cathedral of St. Peter - the first performance of a Bach Passion in New Zealand using period instruments. Dr. Leaver was also advisor for a successfully defended doctoral dissertation at Drew University for Shelley P. Sanders Zuckerman, "Spiritual Formation through Singing the Psalms: A Study of John Brown of Haddington's The Psalms of David in Metre with Notes (1775)" (PhD., 2005). Dr. Leaver's article "Johann Spangenberg and Luther's Legacy of Liturgical Chant" appeared in the Spring issue of Lutheran Quarterly.
- Dr. Jean C. Darian, chairperson of the marketing department; Dr. Alan R. Wiman, associate professor of marketing; and Dr. Louis Tucci, associate professor of marketing at The College of New Jersey, published their article, "Retail Patronage Intentions: the Relative Importance of Perceived Prices and Salesperson Service Attributes" in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 12 (2005) 15-23.
- Dr. Zhihong Gao, and Dr. Cynthia M. Newman, assistant professors of marketing, published their article, "Exploring the Media Strategy for International Marketers with Small Budgets: A Cross-Country Consumer Perspective," in the February 2005 issue of International Business and Economics Research Journal, 4 (2): 11-25.
- Dr. Cynthia M. Newman and Dr. Sigfredo Hernandez, associate professors of marketing, presented a paper entitled "Minding Our Business: A Model of Services-Learning in Entrepreneurship Education" on April 22nd at the Academy of Business Education meeting in Orlando.
- Dr. Gary Brosvic, professor of psychology, presented the paper, "Effects of exposure to lead on neurological and intellectual function and adaptive behavior" at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the New England Psychological Association on October 14, 2004. Also, at that meeting Dr. Brosvic and Ann Christiansen '04, presented the paper, "Increasing mean length of utterance as a precursor to developing language."
- Dr. Barbara Blandford, director of Services for Students with Disabilities and associate director of the Education Enhancement Program, gave a presentation on "What you need to know when your student says 'I have a learning disability,'" at the 25th Annual Professional Conference of the New Jersey Educational Opportunity Fund Professional Association on March 8 at the Sheraton Meadowlands Conference Center in East Rutherford. The presentation reviewed possible characteristics of college students with learning disabilities, the legal aspects of working with students with learning disabilities and the accommodation process.
- Dr. Ron Cook, professor of management and human resources and Rider’s Small Business Institute director, has been elected to the editorial board of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development.
- Dr. Jacqueline Simon, director of the Education Enhancement Program, gave a presentation on “Students on Academic Probation: A Compact Model and Its Impact on GPA” at the College Reading and Learning Association’s Regional Conference on April 2 in Charlottesville, VA. The presentation reviewed the Turning Point Program for students on academic standing (below 2.0) and its impact on students’ GPAs.
- Dr. Dominick Finello, professor of Spanish, co-edited a book: A Celebration of Brooklyn Hispanism: Hispanic Literature from Don Quijote to Today. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004. He wrote two articles:"The Pastoral Novel and Spain's Literary Culture of the Seventeenth Century"(appears in the above book) and "Las dos Arcadias del Quijote" in Cervantes y su mundo,II, Editorial Reichenberger: Kassel, Germany, 2005.
- Dr. Roberta Fiske-Rusciano, adjunct assistant professor of political science, was the discussant for a conference panel entitled "Searching for Identity in the New Europe", at the Association for the Study of National Identity 2005 World Convention, Columbia University on April 14.
- Dr. Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt, professor of Spanish, attended the 36th Annual Convention of NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), held in Cambridge, Massachusetts March 31-April 3. She chaired a panel on Latin American/Latino Cinema and Literature, and she presented a paper entitled: Cinematic Adaptations of Borges's Texts.
- Dr. Linda Materna, professor of Spanish, attended the 36th Annual Convention of NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), held in Cambridge, Massachusetts March 31-April 3. She presented a paper entitled: "Globalization, Immigration and Identity in Spanish Film." She was also chairperson of a Special Session, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, of lectures by two Contemporary Spanish Playwrights: Inmaculada Alvear and Raul Hernandez Garrido.
- Dr. Mitchell Ratner, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, have a paper presented at the 2005 meeting of the Eastern Finance Association titled: "Do Sector Returns Lead the Stock Market? The International Evidence." The paper is co-authored with Professor G. Meric of Rowan University.
- Dr. Ilhan Meric has a second paper presented at the same conference with Professors C. Gadarowski, G. Meric, and C. Welch of Rowan University titled "Does Dividend Taxation Matter? Evidence Using the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut."
- Patrick Schmidt, assistant professor of music education at Westminster Choir College, presented his paper "Conformity and Resistance: Learning Paths and Road Blocks in a Middle School," on April 6 at the Fourth International Research in Music Education Conference in Exeter, England.
- Dr. Alex Grushow, chairperson of the chemistry, biochemistry & physics department, attended the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego from March 12-16. At that meeting, he presented two talks. In his presentation, "Learning to teach as I learn, not as I was taught," he discussed the difficulties and barriers he has encountered in implementing a student-centered inquiry-based mode of classroom teaching which is very different from the standard lecture method that he experienced as a student. He also presented the talk, "What does a student learn from using automated instrumentation?" in which he discussed the differences in student learning behavior when they have access to automated instrumentation for data collection as opposed to manual data collection as it relates the use of NMR instrumentation obtained in a grant from the National Science Foundation.
- Dr. Ronald Hemmel, A.A.G.O, associate professor of music theory and composition and artistic director of the Music Computing Center presented a paper, "See Lola Run," at the annual meeting of the College Music Society's Northeast Chapter in March. Dr. Hemmel's paper explored and explained director/composer Tom Tykwer's visual and musical compositional techniques in his film, "Run, Lola, Run."
- Dr. John Sheats, professor of chemistry, attended the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, March 11-15. While there, he attended the meetings of the Committee on Project SEED (Science Education for the Economically Disadvantaged) program. The program will begin its 15th year at Rider this summer. The six-week program provides grants of $2,275 per high school student to allow them to participate in summer research at college, university, governmental, or industrial laboratories. While in San Diego, Sheats also attended a banquet in honor of Alfred and Elizabeth Bader and the Project SEED Scholars. Introducing SEED Scholars were two former Rider SEED students and Rider graduates, Marc McKithen '96, a patent attorney, and Steve Furyk '99, who recently received his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M. Sheats was recognized as Marc and Steve's mentor.
- John Buschman, department chair and collection development librarian, and Dorothy Warner, library instruction and government documents librarian, co-authored the article, “Researching and Shaping Information Literacy Initiatives in Relation to the Web: Some Framework Problems and Needs” in the January issue of The Journal of Academic Leadership, Vol. 31, No. 1, pages 12-18.
- Dr. Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt, professor of Spanish, participated at the IV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispanica, held in Bayahibe, the Dominican Republic, March 2-4, with the paper entitled: "Borges en el cine: del texto literario al texto cinemático."
- Robert J. Congleton, assistant professor – librarian and archivist, published his article, “Database News: What’s There, and What’s Coming Up, in the World of K-12 Content – Part 1” in the March/April 2005 of Multimedia & Internet&Schools.
