• Dr. Don Ambrose, professor of graduate education, led the presentation of a collaborative paper titled “Unified-Insular-Firmly Policed or Fractured-Contested-Porous Gifted Education?” at the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) annual conference in Charlotte, NC, on November 3. This presentation by four prominent gatekeepers of the scholarship in gifted education and related fields analyzed the structure and dynamics of the field using an interpretive framework borrowed from the social sciences and humanities. Also at NAGC, he served on a panel of journal editors who provided publication guidance to scholars in the field, and served on the founding board of advisors for the “Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent.” On November 28th, he provided an invited presentation of his scholarship to faculty and researchers at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and selected Rutgers University faculty. In addition, he completed invited chapters for the “Handbook on Giftedness” (Springer Science) and “Creativity: A Handbook for Teachers” (World Scientific).
• Dr. Diane Casale-Giannola, assistant professor of teacher education, and Dr. Michele Wilson Kamens, professor of teacher education, had their article, “Inclusion at a University: Experiences of Young Women with Down Syndrome,” published in the journal, “Mental Retardation,” in October 2006.
• Dr. Michele Kamens attended the Center for Teacher Quality Annual Forum in Albuquerque, NM, in November and facilitated a session related to “Co-teaching as a Service Delivery Model.” The theme of the forum was “Building Partnerships: Collaborating Across General and Special Education.” The Forum is an initiative developed by the Center for Teacher Quality to work with states to improve the preparation, licensing and professional development of both general and special education teachers of students with disabilities. The New Jersey team is organized to serve “as the leadership for reform in the state.” The team consists of four members of the New Jersey Department of Education from both general and special education. Dr. Kamens is the representative from higher education.
• Dr. Jean Darian, department chair and professor of marketing; Dr. Zhihong Gao, assistant professor of marketing; and Dr. Joe Kim, associate professor of marketing, presented their paper, “Sustainable Water Consumption: A Comparison of Consumers in China and the United States and Implications for Marketing Strategies” at the Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability at the University of Madras in Chennai, India, January 4-7.
• Dr. Ronald A. Hemmel, associate professor of music theory and composition and artistic director of the Music Computing Center at Westminster Choir College, chaired a session on film and presented his paper, “See Lola Run: The Compositional Devices of Film Director Tom Tykwer,” at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities on January 13. The paper presented an analysis of Tykwer's subtle uses of tempo, timbre, modulation, density, variation and lyrics in the context of the action seen on screen.
• Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of finance, Dr. Benjamin H. Eichhorn, associate professor of management sciences, and Dr. Ira B. Sprotzer, associate professor and chair of the department of business policy and environment, presented a paper dealing with the MERCOSUR common market in South America at the Global Trends Conference of the Academy of Business Administration in December 2006. Dr. Meric and Dr. Charles W. McCall, associate professor of economics, also presented a paper comparing U.S. and Japanese electronics industries at the same conference. Dr. Gulser Meric from Rowan University is a co-author of both papers. The papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference, which will be published as a readings book in June.

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