January - March 2006
- Dr. C. Emmanuel Ahia, associate professor in the department of graduate education, presented a paper titled, "A Case For Professional Peace Counselors in Post-War Environments” at the 11th International Counseling Conference held December 28-31, 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Dr. Michael G. Curran, Jr, associate professor in the department of teacher education has published a new book, "Accounting Fundamentals," Edition 7e, through the Irwin Division of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. "Accounting Fundamentals" contains a single text and a student/instructor CD-ROM package containing supplemental materials including study guides, a workbook, a Power Point presentation of each chapter, and a computerized general ledger software program. The instructional package is designed to give students a practical skill development and an understanding of accounting theory, principles, and procedures used to record, classify, summarize, and analyze financial data.
- Robert J. Lackie, associate professor-librarian, presented a brief overview of ways to find information using general purpose search engines, social networks, and personal information search sites as part of a panel on “Internet Use By Teenagers:What Every Parent Needs to Know” at the Peddie School in Hightstown on February 19.
- Dr. Mitchell Ratner, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, have an article that will be published in the Spring 2006 issue of the "Journal of Investing" titled "SectorDispersion and Stock Market Predictability." Ilhan Meric and Mitchell Ratner have a second paper accepted for publication in the "International Review of Financial Analysis" titled "The Co-movements of Sector Index Returns in the World's Major Stock Markets During Bull and Bear Markets:Portfolio Diversification Implications." Both journals are refereed publications in the finance field and they are both included in the Finance Literature Index. Dr. Gulser Meric of Rowan University is a co-author of both articles.
- Dr. Ilhan Meric and Dr. Larry M. Prober, associate professor of accounting, and Dr. Edward H. Bonfield, professor of marketing, have a paper on the co-movements of the U.S. and E.U. stock markets accepted for presentation. Ilhan Meric, Dr. Ilene V. Goldberg, associate professor of business policy and environment, and Dr. Kathleen Dunne, associate professor of accounting, also have a paper on the co-movements of NAFTA stock markets accepted for presentation at the same conference. The papers will be presented at the 2006 annual conference of the Global Finance Association in April. Dr. Gulser Meric is a co-author of both papers.
- Dr. Jacqueline Simon, director of the Education Enhancement Program, presented a session entitled, “Academic Probation: A Compact Model and GPA Impact” at the 2006 National Association for Developmental Education Conference held on Feb. 15-18, 2006 in Philadelphia, PA. The presentation reviewed three years of research of the impact of a five-hour voluntary program with required tutoring that focuses on encouraging the student to figure out what went wrong through self-assessment and case studies and then how to change that behavior or problem. The one hundred students who participate yearly increase their GPA by +0.5 if they complete the program. Research was also presented about other college models that highlight mandatory intrusive advising and a required course for credit that is designed for this at risk population.
- Kendall Andersen Friedman, director of the Rider Learning Center and Tutoring Services and Barbara Ricci, director of the Math Skills Lab presented “Fostering Independent Learning Through Collaboration: Journeying Through Supplemental Instruction” at the same national conference. Sophomore Supplemental Instruction Leader, Jamie Papapetros was the co-facilitator. Papapetros engaged the audience of academic support professionals by demonstrating the collaborative learning techniques used by Tutoring Services tutors to enhance knowledge construction. Participants created graphic organizers, formed “expert groups” and played Jeopardy as a means of translating tutoring theory into practice. Tutor training materials and sources were shared, and five years of historical supplemental instruction data was presented.
- Diane K. Campbell, instructor-librarian at Moore Library, has just published her article, “The Context of the Information Behavior of Prison Inmates” in Progressive Librarian 26, (Winter 2005/06): 18-32.
- Dr. Gerald Klein, associate professor of management and human resources, coordinated programming for the Mercer County Chamber of Commerce’s Young Business Leaders Council (YBLC) meeting on February 27 at Rider’s College of Business Administration. Rider hosted YBLC’s first educational seminar which focused on team-building. President Rozanski and Michele Siekerka, Mercer County Chamber president and CEO, joined the group in the morning.
- Dr. Donald Wygal, associate professor of accounting, published his work, ”A Commentary on the Long Road to Publishing: A User-friendly Expose “in “Accounting Education: An International Journal,” Vol.14, 2005. “Accounting Education” is the official education journal of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER). Dr.Wygal serves also as a member of the journal's Editorial Advisory Board.
- Dr. Stephen Arthur Allen, assistant professor of fine arts and music, has just published his article, “Christianity and Homosexuality in the Music of Benjamin Britten” in the "International Journal of the Humanities," edited by Tom Nairn and Mary Kalantzis, Volume 2, Number 1 (Australia: Common Ground Publishing Ltd., 2004/5, ISSN 1447-9508): pp. 817-824. The paper is also published at http://www.humanities-journal.com/ (ISSN 1447-9559).
- Dr. Ciprian Borcea, professor of mathematics, visited China and Korea and gave three lectures. He spoke on “Algebraic Geometry for Constraint Problems” at the Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics, held at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), in Seoul, Korea, on December 9, on “Pentagons and K3 Surfaces” at the KIAS on December 13, and on “Hinge Structures and Grassmannians” at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, on December 19, 2005.
- Dr. Jean Catherine Darian, chairperson of the marketing department, presented a paper, "Developing Strategies for Household Water Conservation through Social Marketing: An Investigation of Consumers' Beliefs, Motivations, and Behavior" co-authored with Laurie Darian, at the Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability, held in Hanoi and Halong Bay, Vietnam, January 9 -13, 2006.
- Dr. Andrew Markoe, professor of mathematics, had his book, “Analytic Tomography,” published by the Cambridge University Press as volume 106 in the series "Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications”. This book appeared in print in January 2006. Dr. Markoe also co-edited, with Professor E. T. Quinto of Tufts University, the book "Integral Geometry and Tomography," which will appear as volume 405 in the series Contemporary Mathematics, published by the American Mathematical Society. This volume contains articles written by the participants in a special session he co-chaired with Dr. Quinto at the meeting of the AMS held at Rider in April 2004. He also contributed an article, "k-plane Transforms and Riesz Potentials," to this volume. This book is currently in production.
- Dr. Herbert E. Gishlick, professor of economics, presented the paper, “The Effects of Economic Integration on the Financial Characteristics of EU Manufacturing Firms: 1990-2004,” co-authored by Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance (principle author), Dr. Leonore S. Taga, associate professor of economics, and Dr. Gulser Meric, professor of finance at Rowan University, and himself at the Academy of Economics and Finance in Houston, TX, February 10, 2006.
- Dr. Frank Abrahams, professor of music education and chair of the department at Westminster Choir College, presented a paper entitled: "Differentiating Instruction in the High School Band, Orchestra and Choir” with his son, Dan, at the fourth International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, January 12, 2006. Dan, a doctoral student at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA, and the band director at Bryan High School in Omaha, NE, applied the strategies in his instrumental ensembles there. Dr. Abrahams studied the applications with the Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale -- the high school honors choir he conducts at Westminster Conservatory. Colleague Dr. Stephen Allen, assistant professor of fine arts on the Lawrenceville campus, presented a paper entitled "Sexual Discharge Gone Evil? Britten's "Billy Budd" and the Displacement of the 'Mystery of Iniquity.'"
- Dr. Don Ambrose, professor of graduate education, recently published the first issue of the journal “Roeper Review” under his editorship. The issue, which was part of a trilogy on the conceptual foundations for giftedness, addressed developments in theory, ethics, and perceived paradigm shifts in gifted education. “Roeper Review” is a leading national refereed journal addressing giftedness, talent development, and other aspects of high ability.
- Dr. Linda Materna, chairperson of the foreign languages and literatures department, has published a review of a production of Jeronimo Lopez Mozo's play on domestic violence, Ella se va, staged at the Madrid Galileo Theater March-May 2004 in the journal “Estreno. Cuadernos del teatro español contemporaneo.” In July of 2005, she presented a paper entitled "Globalization and African Immigration in Spanish Film: Chus Gutierrez's Poniente" at the Europe at the New Crossroads conference in Poznan, Poland. The paper has been accepted for publication in the selected proceedings of the conference.
- Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, Dr. Larry Prober, associate professor of accounting, and Dr. Joe Kim, associate professor of marketing, have an article comparing the financial characteristics of U.S. and E.U. manufacturing firms published in the fall 2005 issue of the "Journal of International Business and Economy," a publication of the San Francisco State University. Dr. Gulser Meric of Rowan University is a co-author of the article.
- Dr. Reed A. Schwimmer, assistant professor of geological and marine sciences, and Dr. Jonathan Husch, professor of geological and marine sciences, presented a paper, “Alternate Backward-Design Strategies for Teaching Large-Section Oceanography and Environmental Geology Courses: Just Do It!,” at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City, UT, on October 17. The paper reports on different teaching methods designed to enhance the learning of Earth science concepts and to engage the students in a classroom. The presentation was part of a larger theme session focused on examining teaching strategies for large-lecture classes. The session was attended by faculty from around the nation to discuss the challenges with, and solutions for, teaching in a large classroom setting. The session also was sponsored by the National Association of Geosciences Teachers.
- Dr. Marc Wallace, assistant professor of political science, presented his paper, "The Pursuit of Congressional Pork in the 1998 Empowerment Zones Program," at the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, on November 18. The paper used congressional committee assignment and merit based factors to ascertain how the Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded empowerment zones. The results indicate that merit was more important than politics in the selection process. This should give winners like Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ, reason to celebrate because they submitted a quality application for federal funds.
