• 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.”