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faculty Kudos Scott H. Bennett, Ph.D., associate professor of history, organized a Georgian Court Lincoln Symposium in February to mark the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. The event, which was co-sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta (the History Honor Society) and the Clionaes History Club, featured a lecture by Claribel Young, Ph.D., ’75, professor of history, on Lincoln’s Connection to New Jersey, and a discussion led by Drs. Bennett and Young of several of Lincoln’s important speeches. Dr. Bennett reviewed Lawrence S. Wittner’s 2009 book Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Disarmament Movement in the online history magazine History News Network in July. He evaluated a book manuscript for Syracuse University Press. He has become a Research Associate for the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, at Otago University, in Dunedin, New Zealand. Dr. Bennett also joined the Nonkilling History Research Committee at the Center for Global Nonkilling. Theresa J. Brown, Ph.D., professor of psychology, had her book review "Work, Family, Life, and Balance: A Timely and Necessary Review" published in the Spring 2009 issue of PsycCritiques. Brunella Bowditch, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of biology, had her paper “Phylogeny and Systematic Position of Zosterodasys (Ciliophora, Synhymeniida): A Combined Analysis of Ciliate Relationships Using Morphological and Molecular Data” accepted for publication in December 2008 by the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. The piece was co-written by K. Lindholm Kivimaki, Gavin P. Riordan, and Diana L. Lipscomb. Mary Phyllis Breimayer, RSM, Ph.D., ’63, associate professor of art, exhibited watercolor paintings at three exhibits. She showed Spring Blossoms at the Pleiades Gallery in New York City for the annual juried exhibit sponsored by the University Council for Art Education from June 9 to July 3. She exhibited Violet Arrangement 27 at the Institute Leadership Office of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas in Silver Spring, Maryland, from September to November. She showed Spring Blossoms again at OSTEOTECH Inc.’s Cooperative Art Program with Georgian Court University in Eatontown, also from September to November. Paul R. Cappucci, Ph.D., associate professor of English, recently published entries on Bill Berkson and Edwin Denby for the Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, edited by Terrence Diggory and published by Facts on File. Silvana Cardell, director of dance, premiered her piece “Vertex” in the Buy Local Performance Series, curated by Madison Cario, on October 16 at the Annenberg Center for the Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She also launched her dance company, Cardell Dance Theater, in which William Robinson, lecturer in dance, will also perform. F. Thomas Crawley Jr., Ed.D., assistant professor of education, was honored in June when the recently refurbished auditorium at the G. Harold Antrim School in Point Pleasant was officially dedicated to him as the former superintendent of the district. Christine Davis, Ed.D., assistant professor of education, presented “Using Multimedia for Modeling Reading Instruction in Teacher Education,” co-authored with Kathleen Froriep, Ph.D., assistant professor of education, at the 25 th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in August. The paper was published in the conference proceedings. Dr. Davis and Carol Scelza, Ed.D., associate professor of education and program director of the Community Learning Center, published their article “Planning for Academic Excellence through Service Learning in Teacher Preparation Programs” in the MAST Journal, the journal of the Mercy Association in Scripture and Theology. Dr. Davis presented “Creating Inclusive Leaders in Literacy” at the New Jersey 25 28 29 30 Coalition for Inclusive Education’s Seventh Annual Inclusion Conference at The College of New Jersey in Ewing. She also presented “Instructional Design for Effective Teaching at a Distance” at GCU Staff Development Training in August. At Georgian Court in October, Dr. Davis presented “‘In Tune’ with Technology: Media to Teach Reading” at the New Jersey Association for Educational Technology’s 22 nd Annual Conference and “Reading Assessments for Classroom Teachers” at the Ocean County Reading Council’s 31 st Annual Fall Conference. Kathleen Froriep, Ph.D., assistant professor of education, collaborated with Ocean County Caregivers on a senior sensitivity training initiative for local businesses. She provided training to teens in four branches of the Ocean County Library System for their annual summer Reading Buddy Program. Dr. Froriep also participated in Ocean County Reading Council Executive Board meetings to plan and promote events for 2009–2010. The council’s annual fall conference was held at GCU on October 20. In July, she attended the Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) Society International Northeast Regional Conference: Activate Your Vision, in Burlington, Vermont, where she accepted a position as the 2009–2010 DKG New Jersey Alpha Zeta State Archivist. She presented the interactive workshop “Using Wordless Picture Books in Inclusive Classrooms” at the New Jersey Coalition for Inclusive Education’s Seventh Summer Inclusion Conference: Reflection, Instruction, Inclusion, also in July. Dr. Froriep published her paper “Looking at Children’s Literature through MIs: Incorporating Multiple Intelligence Theory in Picture Book Selections for Young Readers” in that conference’s compendium. Claire Gallagher, Ed.D., professor of education, wrote and directed two teachers’ residencies at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, in Bear Run, Pennsylvania. She also wrote interdisciplinary, arts-integrated curricula and teacher training materials at the Cleveland Museum of Art for a collaborative project with the American 14 | FALL 2009
Institute of Architects, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Public Schools to support instruction at the John Hay High School for Architecture and Design. Louise Wootton, Ph.D., professor of biology, and Dr. Gallagher also worked with students to develop a new Environmental Protection Agencyfunded integrated curriculum unit for middle school students on Phragmites australis, a very widespread invasive species in the United States. All lesson plans, along with associated work sheets, PowerPoint presentations, rubrics, etc. are available at gcuonline.georgian.edu/phragmites.htm. One of Sister Joyce’s watercolors from ¡Viva! Mercy Joyce Jacobs, RSM, ’67, ’02, assistant professor of art, had watercolor paintings published in the March/April 2009 and May/June 2009 issues of ¡Viva! Mercy, published by the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. Jonathan Kim-Reuter, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy, and Pamela Rader, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, coordinated and co-hosted GCU’s Third Undergraduate Research Conference on October 1. Louis F. McNeil, Ph.D., associate professor of religious/theology studies, had his review of Peter Phan's 2005 book, Mission and Catechesis: Alexandre de Rhodes and Inculturation in Seventeenth- Century Vietnam, published in the Summer 2009 issue of Horizons, the journal of the College Theology Society. Karen Mulhall ’82, lecturer in music and director of the GCU Chorale, had one of her students, Beth Pardes ’12, perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in May after receiving a silver medal in the Golden Key of the United States Music Festival competition. Ms. Mulhall received a plaque for Excellence in Teaching which was presented at Carnegie Hall. One of her other students, Ashley Waid, received a bronze medal through the same competition and performed with 19 other students at Steinway Hall in New York City. Susan O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented "Computers and Collaborative Learning: A Public Forum for Revision Strategies" on the Collaborative Writing Panel at the Computers and Writing 2009: Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing @ School, @ Work, @ Play Conference held at the University of California, Davis, in June. The conference paper was published online at iTunes University under the University of California. Ms. Pilgram's oil painting, Between Earth and Sky Suzanne Pilgram, associate professor of art, exhibited her oil on canvas piece Between Earth and Sky at the Pleiades Gallery in New York City. The gallery exhibit, which ran from June 9 to July 3, was the annual juried exhibit sponsored by the University Council for Arts in Higher Education. Pamela Rader, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented “Boys to Men: Masculinities in Woman Hollering Creek” at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Snowbird, Utah, in October. She wrote a book, Multi-Ethnicity as a Resource for the Literary Imagination: The Creative Achievements of Women Artists, Poets, and Novelists, which will be published by Edwin Mellen Press in December 2009. She also wrote a foreword to the 2009 poetry collection Supplications: Immediate Poems of Loss and Love by Franco D’Alessandro. William Robinson, lecturer in dance, performed with the JUNK Dance Company at the 2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival in “Urban Scuba,” choreographed by Brian Sanders. Nancy B. Sardone, Ph.D., assistant professor of education, had her paper “Teacher Candidates’ Views of Digital Games as Learning Devices” published in the Fall 2009 issue of Issues in Teacher Education. In the exploratory study, secondary teacher education students in a variety of subject fields examined digital learning games as a way to facilitate classroom instruction. Results revealed candidates’ emergent understanding of digital games as instructional facilitators. They identified factors that contributed to their positive and negative views for using specific games for learning purposes. Mary Ann Smorra, Ed.D., professor of education, presented a workshop at the Sid Parnes Tribute Weekend, which honored Dr. Parnes as a worldwide figure in the area of creativity and as the researcher/developer of the Osborne- Parnes Creative Problem Solving Model. The tribute was held in May at Daemon College in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Smorra also spoke and sang at the opening night reception. Dr. Smorra presented the seminar “Understanding by Design—The Wiggins-McTighe Model” for the Rutgers University Center for Effective School Practices. In August, she also presented “The Gifted and Talented Student: Taking a Look at the Emotions, Brain, and Learning in the General Classroom” at the 18 th Biennial World Conference for Gifted and Talented Children held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In October, Dr. Smorra presented “The Culturally Responsive Classroom” at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Sixth Annual GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE | 15
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