• 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 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.