• Dr. Carol Nicholson, professor of philosophy, published an article entitled "A Philosophical View of the Clash of Civilizations" in An Anthology of Philosophical Studies (ATINER, 2006). She presented a paper, Global Justice After Rawls: Kantian and Hegelian Strategies, at the Second International Philosophy Conference of the Athens Institute for Education and Research in June 2007 in Athens, Greece.
• Dr. Michele Wilson Kamens, professor of teacher education, gave a presentation as part of the New Jersey team at the Invitational Forum of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in Arlington, Va. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the forum was held by the Center for Teacher Quality, an initiative developed to work with states to improve the preparation, licensing and professional development of both general and special education teachers of students with disabilities. The state team is organized to provide leadership for reform in the state. The team, which consists of various members of the New Jersey Department of Education from both general and special education, has been participating in the CCSSO initiative for three years. Dr. Kamens is the representative from higher education.
• Lan Ma Nygren, assistant professor of management sciences, gave a presentation entitled "Approximately Optimal Continuous Stopping Boundaries in a One-sided Sequential Test," in the First International Workshop of Sequential Methodologies. Benjamin Eichhorn, associate professor of management sciences is a co-author of this work. This project is sponsored by a Davis Fellowship.

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