Scholarly Activities

• Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, Dr. Herbert E. Gishlick, professor of economics, and Dr. Charles W. McCall, associate professor of economics, have an article, titled "A Comparison of the Financial Characteristics of U.S. and Canadian Manufacturing Firms," published in the Midwestern Business and Economic Review. Dr. Gulser Meric of Rowan University is a co-author of the article.
• Dr. Mitchell Ratner, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, have an article published in the spring-2004 issue of  Studies in Economics and Finance titled "The Cross-Autocorrelation of  Size-Based Portfolio Returns in Europe." Meric and Ratner have a second article published in the fall-2003 issue of Latin American Business Review titled "The Co-Movements of U.S. and Latin American Equity Markets in Bull and Bear Markets." Both articles are co-authored with Dr. Gulser Meric of Rowan University.
• Dr. Mary Morse, assistant professor of English, presented the paper, "Arts Reviewing as an English Writing Course," at the 2004 Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Antonio March 24-27. Her paper was part of a panel entitled "Pedagogical Concerns in the Teaching of Professional and Technical Writing." Dr. Morse recently received an invitation to present a new paper, "Grantwriting as a Foundation Course in Teaching Professional Writing," at the 2004 Modern Language Association convention, to be held in Philadelphia next December.
• Karen Gischlar ‘02, a graduate of the School of psychology Ed.S. program, and Dr. Kathy McQuillan, assistant professor of graduate education (school psychology), presented a paper titled, “The effectiveness of group self-monitoring with special education students” at the National Association of School Psychologists annual convention in Dallas on April 1.  This paper evaluated the effectiveness of a group self-monitoring program for students identified with special needs.
• Dr. Stefan C. Dombrowski, assistant professor of graduate education (school psychology), presented two papers at the National Association of School Psychologists annual convention in Dallas, which took place April 1 to April 3. The first was titled, “Beyond the demise of the LD discrepancy approach,” and offered guidance to psychologists on how to diagnose learning disabilities in consideration of proposed legislative changes.  The second paper was titled, “Protecting children from online threats: What school psychologists should know” and offered guidance to school psychologists on how to create a workshop within their schools and community on this important topic. 
• Dr. Susan Mandel Glazer, professor of graduate education, coordinator of the graduate program in Reading Language Arts, and director of the Center for Reading and Writing at Rider, was a featured speaker at the Rutgers Literacy Conference on March 19.  Her paper was titled, “Enticing the Hard-to-Teach to Write: Grades 4 to 8.”    
• Dr. Mary Poteau-Tralie, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, published her article, "Moving Beyond the Real: Maupassant's Aborted Flight to Mars” in the February 2004 issue of French Review.  She attended the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature  conference at the University of Vermont, April 24-25. At the conference, she presented her paper titled, "Negating the Interpretive Project: Philosophers and Theorists on Trial in Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and Voltaire's Candide."
• Dr. Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt, professor of foreign languages and literatures,  attended the NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) conference in Pittsburgh, March 3-7. Her paper was titled: "Self-formation and Education in the Latino Narrative." She chaired the session on Latin American Literature and film, in which Adjunct Instructor Raquel Alvarado presented a paper, "In the Time of the Butterflies: From Text  to Screen."
• Dr. Margaret Schleissner, chairperson of the department of foreign languages and literatures, contributed an article on abortion to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Supplement (2004).
• Rider '03 alumna Caitriona Duggan has been selected as one of the honorable mention student award winners in the New Jersey Project's Fifteenth Annual Student Achievement Awards for Excellence in Feminist/Multicultural Scholarship Competition. She will be honored for her Departmental Honors Thesis in Spanish, titled "Angels of Perdition: The Heroine in Spanish Romantic Theater." Her thesis director was Dr. Linda Materna, professor of foreign languages and literatures.
• Senior Deborah Paulsen has been accepted to the MA program in Spanish at Middlebury College. She will begin this summer and study in Madrid, Spain for a year beginning in the fall. While at Rider, she went to Spain with Rider's Study Abroad program.
• Dr. Alexander Grushow, associate professor of chemistry, participated in a conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  Held April 16-18 in Crystal City, VA, the conference highlighted recent work in undergraduate education in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines.  Grushow was brought in to help facilitate the conference and also present some of his work developed from a Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant.  He presented the paper, “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Internet Data Delivery".
• Dr. Michele Wilson Kamens, associate professor of undergraduate education, presented research at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) conference titled "Job Sampling Experiences for  Students with Developmental Disabilities:  A Collaborative University/Community Partnership."  This research was conducted with Dr. Chrystina Dolyniuk, assistant professor of psychology; Dr. Hope Corman, professor of economics, her daughter Jessica Corman Rockoff, Paulette DiNardo, an adjunct professor at Rider and high school job coach; and Justine Forsyth ’04, a Rider student who will be graduating in May, in collaboration with the West Windsor Plainsboro School District. 

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