• Dr. Ralph Gallay, associate professor of marketing, received a Bright Idea Award from the New Jersey Policy Research Organization Foundation for his Home Financing paper, “Mortgage Decision… Lower Payment or Faster Payoff?” The paper was published in “The Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge”, (2005), Vol. 7, No. 1, September, 208-212. For the fifth consecutive year, the foundation, the public policy research affiliate of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA); “New Jersey Business” magazine, and the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University, collaborated to make the presentations last month. The award honor scholarship and teaching ideas in all fields of business by faculty members in New Jersey. Gallay’s paper was one of eight selected from more than 100 submissions.
• Dr. Jonathan Millen, chairperson of the department of communication and journalism, served as an external program reviewer for the department of communication at Keene State College in New Hampshire this year.