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20 manhattan.edu Continued from pg. 19 – Faculty and Staff Accomplishments Dr. Tedd Keating, assistant professor of physical education, has published “Effective Reinforcement Techniques in Elementary Physical Education: The Key to Behavior Management” in The Physical Educator, the scholarly journal of Phi Epsilon Kappa Honor Fraternity for the movement sciences. He co-wrote the article with Dr. J. Carl Bennett, former chair of the physical education department, and Dr. John Downing, former faculty member. Dr. Elizabeth Kosky, professor of education, has received a five-year grant from the New York State Education Department, titled Teacher Leader Quality Partnership Connections, in the amount of $975,000. The grant enables teachers to become better qualified by receiving master’s degrees at Manhattan in special education. Sr. Remegia Kushner, professor of education, has received a three-year grant from the New York City Department of Education in the amount of $750,000 through U.S. Department of Education funding to train school building leaders in non-public schools. Dr. Shawn Ladda, associate professor of physical education, Dr. Lisa Toscano, assistant professor of physical education and 10 students from the department of physical education and human performance presented “Squaring to the Rap,” a presentation on teaching square dance using rap music at the Southeastern Zone of New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance one-day conference on Nov. 8 at White Plains High School. Bernadette Lopez-Fitzsimmons, associate librarian, has recently published the article “Handling Ongoing Changes in Information Technology in Technical Services: Creating a Librarian-Staff IT Training Initiative” in TechKNOW, a quarterly review of ideas published by the technical services division of the Ohio Library Council. Lopez-Fitzsimmons also served as co-moderator of the Endeavor Webex Training Session held at Fordham University. Lopez-Fitzsimmons and Nicholas Taylor, assistant librarian, have published the article “Online Newsletters in Academic Libraries” in Catholic Library World (September 2005). Dr. Zella Moore, assistant professor of psychology, has published the co-written text “Clinical Sports Psychology,” which was released in November by Human Kinetics Publishers. She has published a co-authored article entitled “Using a Case Formulation Approach in Sport Psychology Consulting” in the peer-reviewed journal The Sport Psychologist. Dr. Mohammad Naraghi, professor of mechanical engineering, presented the paper “VBA/Excel: An Alternative Computer Programming Tool for Engineering Freshman” at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress held in Orlando, Fla., in November. He also chaired a technical session on mechanical engineering education at the same conference. Dr. Mark A. Pottinger, assistant professor of music and chair of fine arts, presented a lecture in February based on 19th century French historiography and its connection to the Parisian stage. He delivered the lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. He also has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the National Committee for Cultural Diversity of the American Musicological Society, the governing academic society for professional musicologists in the United States. Dr. Ann Marie Flynn, assistant professor of chemical engineering, was the recipient of the Joseph J. Martin Best Paper Award at the annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) held in Portland, Ore., in June 2005, for her paper “The Greening of Chemical Engineering Students.” The Joseph J. Martin Award is presented to the most outstanding chemical engineering division paper presented and published in the conference proceedings, in a chemical engineering division session at the ASEE annual conference. The award will be presented to Flynn at the chemical engineering division banquet at the 2006 ASEE annual conference in Chicago in June. The ASEE annual conference provides a forum for more than 3,500 leaders in the field, including professors, deans, instructors and students, to present their research, exchange ideas and interact with colleagues. Nearly all U.S. engineering colleges are ASEE members. Dr. Edward Proffitt, retired professor of English, has published his second volume of poems, Ecce Homo. He is currently working on an autobiography and novel. Dr. Julie Pycior, professor of history, presented The Rita Cassella Jones Lecture Series inaugural lecture on Nov. 3 at Fordham University. The lecture was titled The Gospel of Dorothy Day and The Friendship House Movement of Catherine De Hueck Doherty. Laura Redruello, assistant professor of Spanish, was a panel member for “Cuba from Within” held at Yale University. She presented her paper “New Spaces for Deviations: Culture and the Special Period in Cuba.” Dr. Robert Sharp, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Donald J. O’Connor Endowed Faculty Fellow, was a speaker at the symposium “The Hudson River: Achieving Zero Discharge” held on September 29 at Pace University Law School. Sharp presented “The Challenges of Zero Discharge: Can It Be Achieved?” He also has published a research paper titled “Visualization and Characterization of Dynamic Patterns of Flow, Growth and Activity of Vibrio Fischeri Biofilms Growing in Porous Media” in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Water Science and Technology. The paper, co-written by Margo Adgie ’04 (M.S.), describes results from her graduate research, which was funded by the Hazardous Materials Managers Institute (HMMI) and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Harry Stein, adjunct assistant professor of history, has been selected by the College Board to read American history advanced placement examination papers at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, from June 2 to June 8. Dr. Evriclea Voudouri-Maniati, associate professor of electrical engineering, presented a seminar, “Radar and Sonar Systems: Robust Signal Processing Techniques,” to a joint meeting of the Women in Engineering (WIE) Society and the Communications Society of IEEE. The seminar was held on February 15 in New York.
A Sweet Cawing from the Old Crows For the 16th consecutive year, the Association of Old Crows (AOC) recognized a Manhattan College engineering student with a prestigious scholarship. Christopher Barsi ’06, a senior electrical engineering major, joins fellow Jaspers who have won more than $37,000 in scholarships from the AOC. Christopher, a Yonkers, N.Y., resident, competed with students from some of the finest engineering schools in the metro area to win a scholarship award for $3,000. A dinner to honor the winners took place in November in Long Island, N.Y. Author Robert Sullivan engaged the College in November in a witty, entertaining discussion about garbage, the environment and rats. Sullivan is the author of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, The Meadowlands and A Whale Hunt. Often described as a nature writer, Sullivan was quick to say that he fell into nature writing and is constantly questioning traditional perceptions of the environment and nature. In a not so straightforward lecture, sponsored by the international studies program, that answered the question: What Is the Environment Anyway?, Sullivan discussed how he tackles nature writing and what he discovered about the environment along the way. For Sullivan, writing about nature is not to just quietly observe beautiful scenery and then write about it. It is more about truly immersing oneself in any type of environment whether it is a beautiful piece of land surrounded by mountains and pretty streams, or if it is an urban area riddled with garbage and smoke stacks. “You have to look at things that are not exciting, sometimes you’ll see that there’s excitement there,” he said. A nonprofit professional group, the AOC promotes careers in the defense industry and awards scholarships to worthy computer or electrical engineering students. The Empire Chapter, which awards up to three scholarships to area students in their junior or senior years, considers students who are residents of New York City, Westchester, Nassau or Suffolk counties. For nearly four decades, the AOC has been a leading and knowledgeable organization that promotes the Making Sense of Nature and the Environment In his book The Meadowlands, Sullivan observes the “nature” and “environment” of a garbage-filled area. He actually paddled his way numerous times through the dirty waters of the Meadowlands and wrote about it, describing the area as filled with “streams” of garbage and “hills” of trash. He joked about how easy it was to use the language of a nature writer to describe what is essentially a swamp and not much to do about nature. But that was Sullivan’s main point — that the environment is so much more than hiking beautiful trails or sitting peacefully on a picturesque campsite. One could also hike the Meadowlands and gain insightful observations on nature and the environment, he said. “Instead of exploring mountains, I’d go to New Jersey and do an exploration by canoe of the Meadowlands,” said Sullivan, adding jokingly that most people thought he was nuts. He said though the area had been abused, there was still something special about it. A highlight was meeting and interviewing the people of the area who really knew the layout and the history behind the place. He used the same technique in his latest book, Rats, where he devotes one year to a lower Manhattan alley and observes the city’s most unwanted advancement of electronic defense development. It is comprised of more than 100 corporate participants with more than 14,000 members and is committed to trying to help Congress and the Department of Defense create a policy that will provide more defense for the dollar using the technologies of Electronic Warfare, a force multiplier that can do more with less. creatures. He observed the patterns and lifestyle of rats, and he also interviewed many people linked to the creatures, such as exterminators, civic activists and garbage men. His book continuously examines the environment of rats and then makes many comparisons between rats and humankind. He said that the book, though classified also as nature writing, is secretly about humans and cities and reveals that the many habits of rats mirror those of human beings. Sullivan provided a different kind of discussion on the environment, insightful and funny. It’s not just observing nature’s beauty, he said, but it could be where you live, the Meadowlands, or observing rats in the city. His career into nature writing has taken many twists and turns. He has written about the environment but in the process examines it more deeply, sometimes even looking to his own personal journey for inspiration. Sullivan, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship, is a contributing editor to Vogue and writer for The New Yorker. manhattan.edu on campus 21
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