• Dr. Stephen Arthur Allen, assistant professor of fine arts (music), was invited as a visiting faculty member at Princeton University during fall 2006. He taught a course on the History of Pop and Rock Music (1970s through to the present) and secured a guest visit from the legendary producer and engineer, Eddie Kramer (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, etc.), whom he hopes to also bring to Rider in the near future.
• Dr. Don Ambrose, professor of graduate education, completed his first year and fourth issue as editor of the national refereed journal, “Roeper Review,” which addresses giftedness, talent development, and other aspects of high ability. In October, he ran editorial advisory board meetings in Detroit for the journal.
• Dr. Maury Randall, department chair and professor of finance, and Dr. David Suk, associate professor of finance, received a "Best Paper Award Certificate" for the paper they presented at the Association for Global Business Conference held at Newport Beach, CA, in November 2006. The paper is titled "Population Trends: The Disparate Impact on the Growth of the World's Largest Economies," and it has been published in the fall 2006 edition of “The Journal of Current Research in Global Business.”