Mark Burgess (EMBA) delivered a TEDx Talk, “The Rise of the Social Employee,” on May 10 at the TEDxNavesink in Red Bank, N.J.
Dr. Christian Carey (music composition/history/theory) is taking a look at the music of today in a new Musical America blog, “The New Classical.” Dr. Anne Carroll, former associate dean for Rider University’s College of Business Administration, has been appointed interim dean for CBA.
Dr. Heather Casey (teacher education) co-chaired the International Reading Association Adolescent Literacy Institute in New Orleans.
Assistant Professor-Librarian Heather Dalal received the Public Relations Tech Shout Out Award at the New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference on behalf of the Rider University Libraries for her project The Rider Libraries Minute (TRLM). Co-recipients were Professor Robert Lackie, Rider Libraries System Admin David Reynolds, Julia Pendagast ’14 and John Herbert ’14.
Margaret Cusack (piano and voice) has been elected to the American Academy of Teachers of Singing.
Dr. John Donovan (management) gave two presentations at Google’s campus in California. He discussed individual differences in work motivation and dishonesty among applicants when completing personality tests during the job application process.
Dr. Roberta Fiske-Rusciano (political science) was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Independent College Fund of New Jersey and Santander Bank to establish a training program for The Student Global Village, an initiative she developed with her husband, Dr. Frank Rusciano (also from political science).
Dr. Ivan Fuller’s (performing arts) play In Every Note was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwriting Competition and the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship Competition.
Dr. Sheena Howard (communication) won an Eisner Award for her first book, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation (co-edited with Ronald L. Jackson II). Howard is the first African–American woman to win the award.
Dr. Paul Jivoff (biology) received a $42,500 grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for his research on fish and crabs in Barnegat Bay.
Dr. Katherine Maynard (English) published a children’s book, Dining With Dinosaurs.
Dr. James Riggs (biology) received a $365,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research regarding erythropoietin and immunosuppression.