• Kendall Andersen Friedman, director, Student Success Center and Barbara Ricci, director, Math Skills Lab, presented a workshop entitled "Involve Me and I Understand: Interactive Approaches to Tutor Training" at the National Tutoring Associations' annual conference in Denver, Colorado on April 16th.
• Dr. Katherine Maynard, professor of English, has had three of her articles selected for publication: “The Geography of Disaster: Scientific and Fictional Narratives of Collapse,” in the “Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability,” 2007; “No Safe Haven: American Housing and Its Pathologies in John Cheever’s Fictions,” published in conference proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 2007; and “A Review of Moises Kaufman’s ‘Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde’” in “OScholars,” 2007.
• Dr. Lan Ma Nygren, assistant professor of management sciences, published an article entitled “Bright Lights, Big Dreams – A Case Study of Factors Relating to the Success of Broadway Shows,” in the inaugural issue of the peer-reviewed journal “Case Studies in Business, Industry, and Government Statistics” in April 2007. Jeffrey Simonoff, professor of statistics at New York University, is a co-author of the article.
• Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, and Dr. Christine Lentz, associate professor of management and organizational behavior, and Dr. Gulser Meric, a professor of finance at Rowan University, have written a paper entitled “A Comparison of the Financial Characteristics of EU Electronics Firms,” which was accepted for publication in the "European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences.” Meric and Meric have co-authored a second paper with Dr. Herbert E. Gishlick, professor of economics, and Leonore S. Taga, associate professor of economics, entitled “Time-Series MANOVA Tests of EU Economic and Financial Integration" that was accepted for publication in the “Global Economy and Finance Journal.” Dr. Gulser Meric, professor of finance at Rowan University, is a co-author of both papers.
• Dr. Pearlie Peters, professor of English, presented a respondent’s paper at a colloquium entitled, “Roots and Route: Reflections on the Life of Olaudah Equiano/Gustavus Vassa.” Held at Towson University in Towson, MD, the colloquium celebrated the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain and brought together several recognized academic scholars to discuss Professor Vincent Carretta’s new research theories that challenge the authenticity of the life and autobiography of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, one of the wealthiest black men in 18th-century England.

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