July - September 2006
- Dr. M. Elizabeth Haywood-Sullivan, assistant professor of accounting, and Dr. Dorothy A. McMullen, associate professor of accounting, had an article, "Looking for Revenue in All the Wrong Places?," published in the September 2006 issue of the Tennessee CPA Journal.
- Dr. Ronald A. Hemmel, associate professor of music theory and composition, and artistic director of the Music Computing Center, had a composition performed on September 15 at the national conference of the College Music Society in San Antonio, TX. His “Piano Sonata,” a ten minute work written using serial techniques, was performed by Sylvia Parker, a member of the faculty at the University of Vermont.
- Dr. John Hulsman, professor of English, has an article-review of Philip Rule's recent study, “Coleridge and Newman” (Fordham University Press, 2006), in the Fall 2006 issue of Newman Studies Journal.
- Dr. E. Graham McKinley, professor of communication, received a Summer Fellowship to study radio in Rwanda. While there, she conducted interviews with radio stations and listeners. She also attended the International Communication Association's annual convention, this year held in Dresden, Germany, and chaired a panel, "Manufacturing Doubt: Journalists' Roles and the Construction of Ignorance in a Scientific Community," for the Journalism Studies Interest Group. She continues to serve as Webmaster for the group, which is now the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association.
- Dr. J. Drew Procaccino, associate professor of computer information systems, and June M. Verner, principal research scientist, Empirical Software Engineering Research Program, Australia, published the paper, “Software Project Managers and Project Success: An Exploratory Study” online in August in The Journal of Systems & Software, Volume 79, Number 2 p. 1541-1551. It will be published in print in November.
- Dr. Yun Xia, assistant professor of communication and journalism, published the research article, “Cultural Values, Communication Styles, and Use of Mobile Communication in China,” in the journal, China Media Research, Volume 2, Number 1, in April. The study in the article examines Chinese negotiation and renegotiation of mobile communication technology’s use in Chinese culture. In July, Dr. Xia also presented the paper, “Second Orality in the Language of Online Communication: New Symbolization of Thought, Symbolization of New Thought, and New Symbolization of New Thought,” at the Fourth Conference of the International Communicology Institute in Skagen, Denmark. The study in the paper uses German philosopher Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms to analyze the new discourse on the Internet.
- Dr. Anthony Bahri, professor of mathematics, gave the talk, "On the stable splitting of complex coordinate subspace arrangements," at the International Toric Topology meeting in Osaka, Japan, in June. He also spoke at a conference in Manchester, England, sponsored by the London Mathematical Society, on August 15. The title of this talk was "The stable splitting of generalized moment angle complexes."
- Dr. Jonathan Mendilow, professor of political science, gave a keynote speech on the “Internet and the Frontiers of Europe,” to the conference on The Frontiers of Europe , conducted in Cluj, May 15-18. He has also led the section on Theoretical Dimensions in the Analysis of Public Party Funding, at the International Political Science Association (IPSA) conference in Fukuoka , Japan June 9-13. Mendilow received a Rider University Summer Fellowship for the summer of 2006 and conducted research on foreign policy alternative and party elections—the Case of Israel, 2006.
- Dr. Stéphane Natan, assistant professor of French, published the paper, “Les Pensées de Pascal: Au royaume des nécessités,” in the journal, “Symposium,” Volume 60, Number 6, Summer 2006, pages 93-108. "Symposium"is a quarterly journal in “Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures.”
- Dr. Obeua S. Persons, associate professor of accounting, has two recently published articles: "The Effect of Fraud and Lawsuit Revelation on U.S. Executive Turnover and Compensation" in “Journal of Business Ethics” (2006), 64, p.405-419, and "Corporate Governance and Non-Financial Reporting Fraud" in “Journal of Business and Economic Studies” (2006), 12, p.27-39.
- Dr. Jack Sullivan, professor of English and director of the American studies program at Rider, has published an article on the American Studies' New Orleans jazz trip in the September 8th “Chronicle of Higher Education” in the "Chronicle Review" section. Entitled "In New Orleans, Did the Music Die?," this article describes the Rider trip from its 1990 inception to its current post-Katrina state, including the annual performances on major New Orleans jazz stages by Westminster Choir College students and culminating with an assessment of the music scene after the hurricane. The Chronicle’s table of contents blurb reads: "Katrina didn't stop this American Studies class from its annual musical pilgrimage to New Orleans."
- J. Drew Procaccino, assistant professor of computer information systems; June M. Verner, principal research scientist, Empirical Software Engineering Research Program, Australia; and Dr. Steven J. Lorenzet, associate dean of undergraduate programs, College of Business Administration at Rider, published the paper, “Contributing To and Defining Software Development Success,” in the journal, “Communications of The ACM,” Volume 49, Number 8, August 2006, pages, 79-83.
- John Buschman, professor-librarian at Rider University and department chair at Rider University Libraries; and Richard A. Brosio, professor emeritus, Ball State University and lecturer in educational policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, published the paper, "A Critical Primer on Postmodernism: Lessons from Educational Scholarship for Librarianship" in "The Journal of Academic Librarianship," Volume 32, Issue 4, July 2006, Pages 408-418.
- Robert Lackie, associate professor-librarian, has published the paper, “The Changing Face of the Scholarly Web: Finding Free, Quality, Full-Text Articles, Books, and More!” as the featured cover story in the July/August 2006 issue (vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 8-12) of "MultiMedia & Internet@Schools: The Media and Technology Specialists’ Guide to Electronic Tools and Resources for K-12." Robert also published a book chapter entitled “Google’s Print and Scholar Initiatives: The Value of and Impact on Libraries and Information Services” in “Libraries and Google,” edited by William Miller and Rita M. Pellen, published in July 2006. This chapter was also co-published simultaneously in “Internet Reference Services Quarterly” (vol. 10, nos. 3/4, pp. 57-70) in 2006.
- Dr. Daria Cohen, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, delivered the paper, “El juego metateatral en /Hermanas de sangre/ de Cristina Fernández Cubas,” at the Fourth International Congress of the Hispanic Association for the Humanities in Madrid, Spain on June 26. Dr. Cohen attended the Annual Conference of the Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in Salamanca, Spain from June 28 to July 1 where she participated in workshops on Spanish pedagogy. Dr. Cohen also presented a paper titled “Changing Women’s Voices/ Women’s Voices of Change in Contemporary Spanish Theater” at the New Europe at the Crossroads Conference in Berlin, Germany on July 3.
- Dr. Mitchell Ratner, associate professor of finance, Dr. Christine Lentz, associate professor of management, and Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, have a paper accepted for publication in the “Journal of Emerging Markets,” titled "Global Portfolio Diversification Implications of the Co-movements of the Latin American Stock Markets with the World's Other Stock Markets." Ratner and Meric have two more papers accepted for publication in the “Global Business and Finance Review,” titled "Do Sector Returns Lead the Stock Market? International Evidence," and the “Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Economics," titled "Co-movements of the DJIA, S&P 500, and NASDAQ Composite Index Returns in Bull and Bear Markets." Dr. Gulser Meric of Rowan University is a co-author of all three papers.
- Dr. Dominick Louis Finello, professor of foreign languages and literatures, had his essay, "The Galatea" published in Harold Bloom’s recent collection of selective, major essays on the works of Cervantes, “Bloom’s Modern Critical Views (Philadelphia, 2005). Dr. Finello's sixth book has been accepted for publication by the Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Text Center of Arizona St. University, Tempe, AZ. The title of the forthcoming book is, “The Evolution of the Pastoral Novel in Early Modern Spain.”
- Dr. John Hulsman, professor of English, participated in the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning, which was held at Sam Sharpe College, Montego Bay, Jamaica, June 22-26. He presented a paper entitled "Minority Learning and Campus Culture: The Rider University Educational Opportunity Program."
- Dr. Todd Weber, associate professor of biology, and Robert Mignone, a senior pre-med biochemstry major, are co-authors of a paper accepted for publication in the journal, Brain Research. The paper presents the preliminary findings of a research project, "Effects of Chemotherapy Agents on Neurogenesis in Adult Mouse Hippocampus," which recently received $190,737 in funding support over three years from National Institutes of Health. Mignone has assisted Weber in this project for the past three semesters.
- Dr. Ronald A. Hemmel, associate professor of music theory and composition and artistic director of the Music Computing Center at Westminster, attended the premiere performance of his composition, "St. Cecilia's Song" in May. This twenty-minute work for chorus and organ was performed by the Westminster Community Chorus under the direction of Devin Mariman and accompanied by Eric Plutz. Based on John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687," the composition was commissioned by the chorus in celebration of their ten-year anniversary. Dr. Hemmel also successfully completed the examinations to become a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, its highest-level certification, and one held by fewer than one percent of guild members world wide. He is the only member of the Westminster faculty to achieve this status since George Markey in 1957. The two-day test includes performance at the organ of prepared repertoire, sight-reading, transposition, transcription, improvisation and four-clef open score reading. The written portions include composition, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration and notation of both four-part choral and two-part contrapuntal dictation.
