Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Annual Report 2002-2003
Dean's Letter
Camden College of Arts and Sciences
Research Centers and Initiatives
Academic Departments
Undergraduate Programs
The Graduate School
Student Services
Appendices
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Academic Departments
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT Over the past year, the Biology Department has undergone multiple
changes. The curriculum has been revised to give the students
more guidance in their selection of specialization and of electives.
A new chair, Dr. Mark D. Morgan, assumed his duties at the beginning
of the year and Dr. Joseph V. Martin continued as Graduate Program
Director. Two department members availed themselves of the opportunity
to take a sabbatical leave of absence, Dr. Shain in the fall
and Dr. Martin in the spring. During Dr. Martin’s absence, Dr.
McIlroy filled his role as Graduate Program Director. New courses have been developed or reactivated, and other courses have been modified. Dr. McIlroy reactivated Animal Histology, which has not been offered since Dr. Bacca retired several years ago. Dr. McIlroy and Dr. Saidel have incorporated their Special Topics course, Computers in Biology, into the regular departmental offerings; Dr. Joslyn has done the same with Human Genetics; and Dr Dighton has added a laboratory to his Special Topics course, Ecology of Soil Organisms, and also added it to the regular departmental offerings to provide the students with another choice in the field of Ecology. Dr. Evans is currently working on a new non-majors, on-line course, Basic Botany, to provide non-science majors with a greater selection of subject matter from which to choose. Most of the course modifications revolve around the use of the Internet. Various faculty members routinely use the internet to review and present new course information for their classes, while others have made use of the Rutgers WebCT facility for the dissemination of information to their students. Several faculty members have made use of new laptop computers provided by the College to present their course material utilizing presentation software such as Power Point. The Biology Program faculty members continue to persevere in their efforts to seek external funding for their research. This persistence has led to success in the face of strong competition. Dr. Martin was awarded a continuation of his grant on the action of thyroid hormone on the benzodiazepine receptor from NSF, and Dr. Shain participated in a NSF funded grant to examine biotic diversity in the Amazon basin "Aquatic faunal survey of Peruvian Amazon floodplain". Dr. Dighton receives funding from the State of New Jersey and NSF for research concerning nitrogen fixation and fungal physiology. Dr. Lee continues to receive funding for his outreach program, entitled “Bridges to Baccalaureate Degree in Biology,”from the NIH. Service to the community is provided on multiple fronts. Dr. Lee’s funded Bridges grant provides opportunities to minority junior college students, and the department provides support to the GEMS program on campus. Multiple faculty members participate in a variety of programs associated with South Jersey school districts. The number of biology majors as of Fall 2002 was eighty-three.
There were thirty-five graduates from the two majors (Biology
and Biomedical Technology) this year. Numerous students are
involved research projects with various faculty members and
a number of them presented their findings at the Annual Meeting
of the New Jersey Academy of Sciences and at the campus’ Undergraduate
Research Symposium. The departmental prizes this year went to
Tina DiGiovanni, Weissman Prize, and Meridith Corson, Rahman
Prize.
HSIN-YI LEE, Professor II PUBLICATIONS ‘Astrocytes accumulate aberta-42 and give rise to astrocytic amyloid plaques in Alzheimer disease brains’, Brain Research, 971, 2003, 197-209, with R.G. Nagele, M.R. D’Andrea, V. Venkataraman, and H. Wang. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Associate Editor, The Bulletin of New Jersey Academy of Science. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - National Institutes of Health, Bridges to Baccalaureate Degree, with J.L. Gagliardi.
DENNIS J JOSLYN, Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Science in the News," Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, Cherry Hill, NJ, 6 Lectures, July-August 2002. "Science in the News-II," Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, Cherry Hill, NJ, 6 Lectures, October-November 2002. "Science in the News-III," Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, Cherry Hill, NJ, 6 Lectures, January-February 2003. "Science in the News-IV," Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, Cherry Hill, NJ, 6 Lectures, March-April 2003. "Frontiers in Science," Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, Cherry Hill, NJ, 6 Lectures, May-June 2003. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, American Genetics Association.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Research Mentor for “Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree,”
with H. Lee, P. Ji, L.J. Gagliani, and L. Ritt, Co-P.I.’s.
MARK D MORGAN, Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Ad-hoc task force on Environmental Justice and Environmental Studies Initiative. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Water Resources Research Council. SERVICE - Member, Water Resources Research Council. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Environmental Science and Engineering Coordination
Council.
ROBERT C EVANS, Associate Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Editor, The Bulletin, New Jersey Academy of Science. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Reviewer, Mycologia. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Committee on Student Conduct.
JOSEPH V MARTIN, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS ‘Diet and Alcohol Interaction on Liver Fat and Blood Ethanol in the Rat,’ Journal of Nutrition, in press, with H. Fisher, A. Halladay, N. Ramasubramaniam, J.M. Petrucci, D. Dagounis, A. Sekowski, and G.C Wagner. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, New York Academy of Sciences. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Rutgers University Strategic Resource and Opportunity Analysis
Program, Information Processing in Complex Biological Systems,
with J.W. Whitlow, Jr. SERVICE - Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Review Committee for Rutgers Award for Programmatic
Excellence in Undergraduate Education.
PATRICK J MC ILROY, Associate Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Reorganization of Medical Technology Program with Cooper
Hospital. SERVICE - Reviewer, Endocrinology. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Summer Sessions Committee.
WILLIAM M SAIDEL, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Clustered phylogenetic distribution of nucleus rostrolateralis among ray-finned fishes. In Press, Brain, Behavior and Evolution, co-authored with A.B. Butler Krasnow Institute of George Mason University. A pallial visual area in the telencephalon of the bony fish Polypterus. (In Press, Brain, Behavior and Evolution), with Northcutt, R.G., Plassman, W., Holmes, R.H., and Saidel, W.M. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES Higglety Piggelty Pop: Filtered Properties and Behavior: Is that all Neuroethology is? (with apologies to Maurice Sendak), JBJohnson Club, Satellite meeting of the annual meeting of the Society for Neurosciences, Nov., 2002. Dysfunction of thyroid gland due to pollutants and its effects on auditory physiology of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). 88th Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Highland Height, Northern Kentucky University. Nov. 8, 2002. with K. Kohler, A. Scholik, and H. Y. Yan. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, International Brain Research Organization. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Visiting Professorship to Hebrew University and The Interuniversity Inst. Of Eilat, Spring, 2004, awarded by the Lady Davis Fellowship program. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, University Faculty Senate.
DANIEL H. SHAIN, Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS Duchovnay B. and Shain DH (2002) Worms on Ice. The Science Teacher 69, 20-25. Hohenstein KA, Canturk B and Shain DH. Genetic control of early development and stem cell formation in leech. Research Signpost (in press). PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Membership, Society for Developmental Biology. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - National Science Foundation, "Aquisition of a scanning
electron microscope for the Rutgers, Camden campus" Co-PI. PRADIP K. SARKAR, Visiting Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS McDonald GA, Sarkar PK, Rennke H, Unemori E, Kalluri R, Sukhatme VP (March 11, 2003): Relaxin increases ubiquitin dependent degradation of fibronectin in vitro and ameliorates renal fibrosis in vivo. American Journal of Physiology (accepted). Sarkar PK (2002): A quick essay for Na+-K+-ATPase specific activity. Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung, 57c (5/6): 562-564. Sarkar PK (2002): In quest of thyroid hormone function in mature mammalian brain. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 40: 865-873. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES Sarkar PK, Yuen J (student), Mitchel CL (student), Martin JV (2002): Alteration of 3H-muscimol binding at GABAA receptor by L-triiodothyronine and its analogs in adult rat brain membranes. The Bulletin New Jersey Academy of Science, Section: Neorobiology, Volume 47(1): 16, Kean University, New Jersey, USA. Sarkar PK, Martin JV (2003): Effects of L-triiodothyronine on phosphorylation of tyrosyl residues in a cell-free preparation. The Bulletin New Jersey Academy of Science, Section: Neorobiology. 99 PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Nongenomic Metabotropic Effects of Thyroid Hormones in Adult
Rat Brain. National Science Foundation, USA. Co-PI. PI: JV Martin. SERVICE TO N.J. STATE - State Certified Instructor, Emergency Medical Technician
– Basic (Instructor), NJ State Department of Health & Senior
Services.
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
This year has seen some growth in the undergraduate program. As of Fall 2002 there were sixteen students majoring in chemistry, two in biochemistry, and one minor. Five students are graduating this year. It is especially encouraging that there are seven chemistry majors in the introductory course, Chemical Principles. Dr. Arbuckle-Keil has taught the course this year using PowerPoint presentations in the lectures and WebCt to give weekly homework assignments. We have upgraded many of the chemical balances in the labs this spring, including the addition of power supplies and meters. We anticipate smoother and better instruction in the labs starting immediately with the summer term. All of the upper year students have the opportunity to carry out research projects with the faculty. This year, three students worked with Dr. Arbuckle-Keil, one with Dr. Burke, and two, both of them Rutgers Undergraduate Fellows, with Dr. Roche. The 300 MHz NMR equipment that the department purchased last year is now finding use in several of the undergraduate lab courses, as well as being heavily used in the research program. One of our students, Anne Loyle, was the 2002, Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award winner, and was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. A highlight of faculty achievement in research was the publication
of Dr. Katz’ book “Alternate Toxicological Methods,” jointly
edited by Dr. H. Salem, and published by CRC Press.
GEORGIA A ARBUCKLE-KEIL, Professor PUBLICATIONS In Situ Analysis of the Thermal Elimination Reaction in the Synthesis of Poly (p-phenylene vinyline)(PPV) and PPV Derivatives, in In Situ Spectroscopy of Monomer and Polymer Synthesis, April 2001 ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, edited by J.E. Puskas, T.E. Long and R.F. Storey, New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 2003, Pp. 173-186, with Y. Liszewski, J. Wilking and B. Hsieh. The Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Electrochemistry, in Characterization of Materials, edited by Elton Kaufmann, New York: Wiley Interscience, Inc., 2003, pp. 653-662. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES The Characterization of a Luminescent PPV Derivative by Various Spectroscopic Methods, 201st Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Philadelphia, PA, May 12-17, 2002 with James Wilking and Bing Hsieh. Infrared Spectral Evaluation of a New Polymer: Poly (phenoxy phenylene vinylene) by Dynamic Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy, 20th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Societies, Providence, RI, October 13-17, 2002 with Bing Hsieh and James Wilking. A Synthesis of Poly(2,3 diphenyl-1,4-naphthalene vinylene)(DP-PNV), a New Derivative of Poly(p-phenylene vinylene)(PPV), Third Annual Graduate Students Poster Session, Philadelphia Section American Chemical Society, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, January 16, 2003 with Yogesh Patel. Thermal Analysis of Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) Derivatives, Thermal Analysis Symposium and ASTM E37 Workshop, ASTM Headquarters, W. Conshohocken, PA, March 18, 2003. IR, NMR and Thermal Study of Chlorine Precursor Polymer of Poly(2,3-diphenyl-1,4-naphthalene vinylene)(DP-PNV), a New Derivative of Poly(p-phenylene vinylene)(PPV), 14th Annual Sigma Xi Research Symposium, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, April 11, 2003 with Yogesh Patel. Synthesis and Basic Characterization of Xanthate Precursor Polymer of Poly(2,3-diphenyl-1,4-naphthalene vinylene)(DP-PNV), a New Derivative of Poly(p-phenylene vinylene)(PPV), 36th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) American Chemical Society, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, June 8-11, 2003 with Yogesh Patel and Bing Hsieh. Analysis of the Thermal Elimination Reaction in the Synthesis of Poly(2,3-diphenyl-1,4-naphthalene vinylene)(DP-PNV), a New Derivative of PPV, 5th National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, June 22-25, 2003 with Yogesh Patel and Bing Hsieh. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Introduced the use of WebCT quizzes and PowerPoint lectures
to Chemical Principles (160:115 and 116). PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Admissions committee of the National American Chemical Society. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - National Science Foundation, "Girls in Engineering,
Mathematics and Science (GEMS)" with J. Li and C. Singley.
- National Science Foundation, "MRI: Scanning Electron
Microscope for Collaborative Use at Rutgers-Camden," with
J. Martin, W. Saidel, D. Shain and J. Whitlow. SERVICE - National Chemistry Week Committee, “Meet the Scientist Table,”
Cherry Hill Mall, November 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, Moorestown
Mall, 1999, Echelon Mall, 2000. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Task Force on Chair Compensation.
LUKE A BURKE, Professor PUBLICATIONS “First generation of pentazole (HN5, pentazolic acid), the
final azole, and a zinc pentazolate salt in solution: A new
N-dearylation of 1-(p-methoxyphenyl) pyrazoles, a 2-(p-methoxphenyl)
“Kinetic and synthetic influences of water and solvent-free conditions on 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions: the phthalazinium and pyridazinium dicyanomethanide 1,3-dipoles: surprisingly successful synthetic methods.” Journal of the Chemical Society-Perkin Transactions 2; (11): 1807-1815, 2002; with Butler RN, Coyne AG, Cunningham WJ. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Reorganization of the Introductory Chemistry Laboratories,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Camden. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Reviewer, Journal of Molecular Catalysis.
SIDNEY A KATZ, Professor PUBLICATIONS Alternative Toxicological Methods, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, March, 2003, Harry Salem, co-editor. Comparison of ISEP and AAS for Monitoring Copper Leaching from Sediments, American Laboratory, October, 2002, co-authored by Agnes Somen, Lois Dutra and Jennifer McCulley.
NANCY HOPKINS, Assistant Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Establishment of faculty research mini-seminars for undergraduate students, service to the Department of Chemistry, Camden Campus.
PAUL E. MASLEN, Assistant Professor PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Research Corp: Cottrel Service to the College Science Award.
"Ab initio prediction of thermochemical properties to chemical
accuracy"
ALEX J. ROCHE, Assistant Professor PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Process for the Preparation of Derivatives of OctaFluoro[2.2]Paracyclophane, USP 6,392,097, 2002, with J.X Duan and W.R. Dolbier Jr..
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The Computer Science Department is happy to welcome a new faculty member, Dr. Rajiv Gandhi, who will join us as an assistant professor in September 2003. He is receiving his PhD this spring from the University of Maryland at College Park. His area of research is algorithms for optimization problems, and applications to networks. He also has software engineering experience from industry. The seven computer science faculty members vigorously continue to advance their research in the areas of approximation algorithms, algorithms for optimization problems, applications to computer and communication networks, complexity of algebraic problems, job scheduling, signal processing, password systems, functional programming, computational geometry, and applications to medical imaging. In the academic year 2002-03 they published in total fifteen journal articles and eleven refereed conference papers (appeared or to appear). Some of these include highly competitive conferences, e.g., SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) (Kortsarz), and International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) (Kortsarz), as well as prestigious journals, e.g., Algorithmica (Kortsarz, Ramaswami), Annals of Mathematics (Birget), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Hong), Statistics and Computing (Ramaswami), Discrete and Computational Geometry (Ramaswami), Journal of Functional Programming (Johann). Faculty members served on conference program committees, e.g., 9th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Bangalore, Dec. 2002 (Palis); 14th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002 (Palis); International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, Vancouver, Canada, November 2002 (Shende). Dr. Palis also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Faculty members also conducted research projects with undergraduate students: Dr. Hong worked with Sandra Selzer on software reusability and with Drew Hill and Mathew Kulangara on graphical passwords. A paper on graphical passwords by Dr. Birget and undergraduate student Leonardo Sobrado appeared in the Rutgers Scholar. Dr. Ramaswami conducted a project with Jake Warren on a three-dimensional game animation. Dr. Ramaswami obtained an NSF grant for 2002-05, as well as a Lindback award. Dr. Johann received an ISATC Rutgers pilot project grant. The department will graduate 36 students in the academic year 2002-03. In Fall 2002 there were 151 declared majors and ten minors (based on course registration, we estimate that there are also around 30 undeclared majors). We created a new course in cryptography and computer security (Dr. Hong), and a course on advanced algorithms (Dr. Kortsarz). The internship program continues to grow, with 13 students in Spring ‘03 and 11 in Fall ‘02. The feedback from the supervisors in the companies is very good. The Crimson Scholarship program gave thirteen awards this year. The department has grown a lot in the last few years, both
in students and in faculty. It has developed particular strength
in the area of algorithms and theoretical computer science and
is starting to get noticed nationally (as evidenced, e.g., by
the high quality of the applicants in our recent faculty search).
MICHAEL A PALIS, Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Online Real-Time Job Scheduling with Rate of Progress Guarantees," Computer Science: From Theory to Practice, Pre-COCOON Workshop, Singapore, August 2002. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Subject Area Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Academic Press. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Program Committee, 2002 International Conference
on High-Performance Computing (HiPC 2002), Bangalore, India,
Dec. 18-21, 2002. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Director, Crimson Scholars Program.
JEAN-CAMILLE BIRGET, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS J.C. Birget, A. Ol’shanskii, E. Rips, M.V. Sapir, “Isoperimetric functions of groups and computational complexity of the word problem,” Annals of Mathematics, 156.2 (Sept. 2002) 467-518. M.V. Sapir, J.C. Birget, E. Rips, “Isopermetric and isodiametric functions of groups,” Annals of Mathematics, 156.2 (Sept. 2002) 345-466. J.C. Birget, S. Margolis, “A complete rewrite system and normal forms for S_reg”, Semigroup Forum, 65 (Sept. 2002) 348-373. J.C. Birget, “The groups of Richard Thompson and complexity,” International J. of Algebra and Computation, to appear. J.C. Birget, “Functions on groups and computational complexity,” International J. of Algebra and Computation, to appear. Dawei Hong, J.C. Birget, “Deviation bounds for wavelet shrinkage,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear. Leonardo Sobrado, Jean-Camille Birget, “Graphical passwords,” The Rutgers Scholar, vol. 4 (Sept. 2002); http://RutgersScholar.rutgers.edu/volume04. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Online Real-Time Job Scheduling with Rate of Progress Guarantees," Computer Science: From Theory to Practice, Pre-COCOON Workshop, Singapore, August 2002. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Faculty Senate.
SUNIL M SHENDE, Associate Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Tracking Users in Cellular Networks using Timing Information,"10th. International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2003), Umea, Sweden, June 2003, with E. Kranakis and D. Krizanc. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - National Science Foundation, Adaptive Protocols for Cellular
Networks: Modeling & Implementation.
- National Science Foundation, Adaptive Protocols for Cellular Networks: Modeling & Implementation. SERVICE - Technical program committee member, 13th. Annual International
Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2002), Vancouver,
Canada, November 2002. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Senator, CCAS Senate.
PATRICIA JOHANN, Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS “A Generalization of Short Cut Fusion and Its Correctness Proof,” Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, vol. 15, 2002, pp. 273-300. “Short Cut Fusion is Correct,” Journal of Functional Programming, to appear. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Proving the Correctness of Free Theorems-Based Program Transformations," Invited talk, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany, June 2003. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Reviewer, International Conference on Principles and Practice
of Declarative Programming 2003. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Rutgers Information Sciences and Technology Council Grant, March 2003-June 2004. SUNEETA RAMASWAMI, Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS “Small Strictly Convex Quadrilateral Meshes of Point Sets,” with D. Bremner, F. Hurtado, and V. Sacristan, Algorithmica (invited paper in special issue devoted to selected papers from ISAAC 2001), forthcoming (2003/4). “Computing General Position Views of Data in Three Dimensions,” with F. Gomez, and G. Toussaint, and A. Turki, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 13(4), 2002, pp. 401-424. “Experimental Results on Quadrangulations of sets of fixed points,” with P. Bose, G. Toussaint, and A. Turki, Computer-Aided Geometric Design, 19(7), 2002, pp. 553-552. “Efficient Computation of Depth Contours by Methods of Computational Geometry,” with K. Miller, P. Rousseeuw, T. Sellares, D. Souvaine, I. Streinu, and A. Struyf, Statistics and Computing, 13(2), 2003, pp. 153-162. “Computing Sections of Arrangements: 2D results,” with P. Bose, F. Hurtado, H. Meijer, D. Rappaport, V. Sacristan, T. Shermer and G. Toussaint, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 1, 2002, pp. 3-16. “Flipturning Polygons,” forthcoming (2002/3), with O. Aichholzer, C. Cortes, V. Dujmovic, E. Demaine, J. Erickson, H. Meijer, M. Overmars, B. Palop, and G. Toussaint, Discrete and Computational Geometry, 28, 2002, pp. 231-253. “Implicit Convex Polygons,” with F. Gomez, F. Hurtado, V. Sacristan, and G. Toussaint, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 1, 2002, pp. 57-85. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Quadrilateral Meshes for the Registration of Human Brain Images," with M. Siqueira, T. Sundaram, J. Gallier, and J. Gee. In Abstracts of the DIMACS Workshop on Medical Applications in Computational Geometry, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2-4, 2003. "Playing with Triangulations," with O. Aichholzer, D. Bremner, E. D. Demaine, F. Hurtado, E. Kranakis, H. Krasser, S. Sethia, and J. Urrutia. in Proceedings of the Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Tokyo, Japan, December 2002. To appear as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2003. "Geometric Games on Triangulations," with O. Aichholzer, D. Bremner, E. D. Demaine, F. Hurtado, E. Kranakis, H. Krasser, S. Sethia, and J. Urrutia. In Abstracts of the 19th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Bonn, Germany, March 24-26, 2003, pp. 89-92 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Phi Beta Kappa. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Funding agency: National Science Foundation. Title: "Geometric
Techniques for Quadrilateral and Hexahedral Mesh Generation
with Applications in Medical Imaging."
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT The Department had thirty-six majors as of Fall 2002 and nine minors. Ten economics majors and minors were inducted into the Lambda Chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honor Society in Economics. Dr. John Worrall sponsored five Economic Department students’ Internships. He served on The University Senate, University Finance & Budget Committee, and University Sussman Awards Committee. He also served on the American Risk & Insurance Association (ARIA), Kulp Book of the Year Committee, the ARIA Mehr Award Committee, and the Social Security Administration’s Technical Research Committee. Dr. Worrall appeared on a number of TV shows, e.g. Bloomberg Forum, Lee Leonard Show, Lynne Doyle Show – Cost of SARS, and has been cited in many newspapers. He wrote a paper entitled “A Road to Market Stability” (American Insurance Association: Wash., DC, 2002), and a review of Entreprenuership and Innovation in Automobile Insurance by Black and Rossi (NY: Routledge, 2001) for Pennsylvania History. With Butler, he finished a study of the Federal Employers Liability Program, and is revising another study on the NJ Lottery. He also presented to the Rutgers Econometrics Workshop in N.B. Refereed for the JRI and for the Contemporary Economic Problems (WEA). Dr. Worrall’s academic citation count has passed 400. Dr. Baoline Chen has been on unpaid leave for the academic
year 2002-2003 and spent much of her time in research. Dr. JinPeng
Ma supervised students and completed three referee assignments
for Discrete Mathematics, and Games and Economic Behavior. He
also served as a senator for the college. The department envisions further increases in the number of
majors, minors, maintaining faculty scholarship, encouraging
student research and related accomplishment, and maintaining
student quality.
LESLIE N SEPLAKI, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Outside Economics Referee for Southwestern Publishing Company. SERVICE TO N.J. STATE - Member, Board of Directors, Family Counseling Service, Camden. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Student Judicial Review Board.
JOHN D WORRALL, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Associate Editor, Journal of Risk and Insurance. SERVICE - Member, Robert Witt Award Committee, American Risk and Insurance
Association (2003). UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Susman Award Committee.
BAOLINE CHEN, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS “Higher-Moments in Perturbation Solution of the Linear-Quadratic Exponential Gaussian Optimal Control Problem,” forthcoming, Computational Economics, with P. Zadrozny, 2001. “Analytic Derivatives of the Matrix Exponential for Estimation of Linear Continuous-Time Model,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming, September 2001, with P. Zadrozny. “An Anticipative Feedback Solution for Infinite Horizon Linear Quadratic Dynamic Stackelberg Games,” forthcoming, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, with P. Zadrozny, 2001. SERVICE - Referee, International Economic Review on “Learning by Doing,
Technology Gap, and Growth,” by Yih-chyi Chuang, second review
on the paper. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Faculty Senate.
JINPENG MA, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS "Stable Matchings and the Small Core in Nash Equilibrium in the Service to the College Admissions Problem," Rev. Econ. Design 7, 117-134 (2002). Walrasian Equilibrium in an Exchange Economy with Indivisibilities (joint with Fusheng Nie), Forthcoming in Mathematical Social Sciences. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Associate Member of the Graduate Program in Economics, NB. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Econometric Society. SERVICE - Referee, Games and Economic Behavior. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Faculty Senator.
TETSUJI YAMADA, Professor PUBLICATIONS “Equity in the Distribution of Health Care Utilization: Evidence from China ealth Care Reform Experiment,” Social Science & Medicine, Forthcoming 2002. “Drug Utilization on Hospital Efficiency in Japan,” Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, Forthcoming 2002. “Medical Services and Imperfect Information in Japan,” International Political Economy, Forthcoming 2001. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Periodical Speech to "the Asian-Pacific Student Organization: APSA," Camden Campus. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Faculty Associate, The Walter Rand Institute for Public Policy. SERVICE - The Research Board of Advisors, The American Biographical
Institute, 2001-present. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Committee on Review, Camden College of Arts and Sciences,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2001-present.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT After losing three faculty members to retirement last year, the English Department
began the rebuilding process by hiring Dr. Robert O. Lopez,
who received his Ph.D. in 2002 from SUNY-Buffalo. Dr. Lopez
is a specialist in early American literature, with additional
expertise in African-American literature, classics, and religious
studies. His interest in Walt Whitman fits well with the special
opportunities for the study of English created by the presence
of the Walt Whitman House in Camden. We are hoping to add two
more full-time faculty in the next two years to bring us back
to full strength. This year we revised the English major by inaugurating our new foundation course, Introduction to Literary Study, and introducing three new survey courses, Literatures in English I, II, and III, which will allow a global approach to the study of literatures written in English. Our Writing Director, Dr. Holly Blackford, has developed a multicultural focus for our Composition I and II courses, which now provide a foundation for the college’s Diversity and Global Studies requirement as well as preparation in critical reading and writing. We continue to offer advanced writing courses that satisfy the college’s new Writing Intensive requirement, and we have re-tooled World Masterpieces for use as the college’s only required general humanities course. We help to support the graduate Liberal Studies program, directed by Professor Robert Ryan, by cross-listing many of our graduate English courses, thus enriching both programs. Professor Tyler Hoffman’s book, Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry, was selected this year for the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book Award, given to the best scholarly book published in English during 2001. Professor Hoffman also received a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. Carol Plum-Ucci’s second novel, What Happened to Lani Garver, was named to the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults list in 2003. Two students, Tanisha Bezue and Tracy Moral, were elected to Phi Beta Kappa; Ms. Bezue, who completed an honors thesis under the direction of Professor Carol Singley, was selected as the only student to speak at the inauguration of President Richard McCormick. Professor Singley published A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton (Oxford University Press, 2003), as well as several articles and reviews, and J. T. Barbarese published ten poems and one story in a wide range of literary journals. One of his students, Theresa Banford, also published her first poems with his assistance. The Spring Writers Conference, under the direction of Professor Lisa Zeidner, drew more than 150 people to its workshops and readings, which featured such writers as poet Molly Peacock, novelist Victor LaValle, and memoirist Lorene Cary. Over the coming year we expect to continue to develop our initiatives,
such as the Camden On-line Poetry Project, the Writers House,
and WIRE (Writing in Rutgers Education), the latter a writing-across-the-curriculum
program developed by Dr. Holly Blackford. At the same time,
we must continue the process of rebuilding our faculty in order
to carry out our core mission of providing undergraduate and
graduate instruction in British and American literature.
BETSY BOWDEN, Professor PUBLICATIONS A New Life of Dante, by Stephen Bemrose, Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch, in press. “Reply: John H. Mortimer (xxxii [1880], 325-6),” Notes and Queries 248 (2003:76) “Latin Pedagogical Plays and the Rape Scene in The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” English Language Notes 41 (2003): in press. “Ubiquitous Format? What Ubiquitous Format? Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee as a Proverb Collection,” Oral Tradition, 17 (2002): in press. “Chaucer, Geoffrey,” and “Horseback Riding” and “Pilgramage, Christian,” in The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, Jennifer Speake, ed., London: Fitzroy Dearborn, in press. “Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713)” and “Ogle, George (1704-1746),” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, H.G.G. Matthew, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press. “Tales Told and Teller of Tales in the Course of the Eighteenth Century,” in Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of The Canterbury Tales in Pictures, edited by William Finley and Joseph Rosenlum, London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, in press. Chaucer’s England, by Diana Childress, Speculum, 77 (2002): 895-96. Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues, by Charles Keil and Steven Feld, Ars Lyrica, in press. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "The Leaders of the Pack: Stothard's Miller, Blake's Squire, and Their Respective Followers," New Chaucer Society, Boulder, July 2002. "Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Latin Proverbs concerning the Dental Condition of Gift Horses," International Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, Villanova, September 2002. "The Wife of Bath Backstage at the First and Greatest Ballad Opera (1728)," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2003. SERVICE - Project Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Satisfactory Academic Progress.
WILLIAM D LUTZ, Professor PUBLICATIONS Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History. Henry Holt & Company, Inc., First Edition, August 2, 2002. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Reviewer, Service to the College Composition and Communication.
ROBERT M RYAN, Professor PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Board of Directors, Keats-Shelley Association of
America. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Director, Graduate Liberal Studies Program.
GEOFFREY M SILL, Professor PUBLICATIONS Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings. Vol. 3, edited with introduction and notes by Geoffrey Sill. The Works of Daniel Defoe. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "The Consolidator: Defoe's Least Successful Performance." East Central ASECS, Philadelphia PA, October 2002. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Defoe Editor, The Scriblerian. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Development of Camden On-line Poetry Project, Service to
the Department of English, FAS, Camden. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Manuscript Review Board, Eighteenth-Century Fiction. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, The Mickle Street Review, operating grant. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Appointments and Promotions Committee, Humanities.
LISA ALISON ZEIDNER, Professor PUBLICATIONS “Herzog Goes Hollywood?” New York Times, September 22, 2002. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, New York Times Book Review, January 19, 2003. Eleven Karens by Peter Lefcourt, Washington Post, January 2, 2003. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Washington Post, September 15, 2002. Deep Purple by Mayra Montero, New York Times Book Review, June 1, 2003. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Beyond the Sopranos: Literary New Jersey," Associated
Writing Programs, Baltimore, MD, February 2003. ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES Reading, Associated Writing Programs Convention, Baltimore, MD, February 2003. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Board of Directors, the Painted Bride Quarterly,
Philadelphia, PA. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Spring Writers' Conference.
CHRISTOPHER J FITTER, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS “Henry VI Part Two and the Politics of Human Commonality” in Renaissance Texts and Contexts, ed. Amlan das Gupta, MacMillan India, in press. ‘Shakespeare and the Hunt,’ by Edward Berry, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, in press. “La Nuit dans Les Tenebres de la Guerre Civile: Le Nocturne comme Resistance chey Henry Vaughan,” Penser La Nuit, Jean Piroron, ed., in press. ‘Henry VI and the Politics of Human Commonality’ in ‘Renaissance Texts and Contexts’, ed. Amlan das Gupta, Macmillan India, in press. ‘Jack Cade, the Hacket Rising, and Shakespeare’s Vision of Popular Rebellion’ in ‘Shakespeare Studies,’ forthcoming 2004. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - New Undergraduate course: 'The Idea of Kingship in English Renaissance Culture.'
M A RAFEY HABIB, Associate Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Urdu Poetry: The Challenges of Teaching and Translating," MLA Convention, New York, December 27, 2002. "Islam and Charity." Talk broadcast on Lifenet Radio, June 2, 2003. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers University,
Spring, 2003.
TYLER B HOFFMAN, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS “Elizabeth Bishop,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, in press. “Representing AIDS: Thom Gunn and the Modalities of Verse,” Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form, in press. The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost, Robert Faggen, ed., The Robert Frost Review, Fall 2002. Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, in press, Advisory Editor. “Robert Frost,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, in press. Robert Frost: The People, Places, and Stories Behind His New England Poetry, Lea Newman, The Robert Frost Review, in press. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS - South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Book Award,
2002. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Associate Editor, The Robert Frost Review, Robert Frost Society.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Modern Language Association. SERVICE - Board Member, Walt Whitman Association. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Co-director, Walt Whitman Program in American Studies.
TIMOTHY P MARTIN, Associate Professor SERVICE - Evaluator of projects, Pennsylvania Humanities Council. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Honors Program Committee.
CAROL J SINGLEY, Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS “Building a Family, Building a Nation: Adoption in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature,” Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives, ed., Wayne Carp, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. “The Age of Innocence,” Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. Jay Perrini, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Preston, Clare, Edith Wharton’s Social Register. Legacy: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, forthcoming. Pifer, Ellen, Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary American Literature, 75, 2003, 215-217. “From Women’s Movement to Momentum: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been, and Do We Need Nikes to Get There?” Journal of American Culture, 25, 3/4, Fall/Winter 2002, 455-467. “Wharton, Bourdieu, and Changing Culture in The Age of Innocence,” special issue on Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Studies, 17, 3/4, 2003, 495-519. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton, Oxford University Press, 2003. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader, edited with Caroline Levander, Rutgers University Press, forthcoming. “Edith Wharton.” Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Perrini. Oxford UP, forthcoming. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Co-director of the American Studies Program, with A. Tarr
and T. Hoffman. Publicized program in effort to recruit new
minors. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, Advisory Board, Edith Wharton Review. - Member, Association for Research on Mothering. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Rutgers-Camden Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award, 2002. SERVICE - Consultant, Balanced Literacy Program, Vineland School District. SERVICE TO N.J. STATE - Member, Academic Alliance of New Jersey. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - President, Faculty Senate.
JOSEPH BARBARESE, Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS “Night Baseball: Seasonal Doggerel,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, South Jersey Commentary, Monday, May 26, 2003, B2. “Walking My Son on the Beach,” Italian-American XXI.2 (Summer 2003), 187-88. “Featured Poet: J.T. Barbarese.” “Poem Based on Two Clauses in Copleston,” “Poem in Time of Infinite Justice,” and “Outside the V.F.W. Post (After Pervert),” in Boulevard 18 (Spring 2003), 2 and 3, 47-50. “Hearing Roy Orbison on the Tape Loop at Starbucks,” The Georgia Review (Winter 2002) 894-96. “Dream Talking with general Massoud” and “Spinoza,” The Denver Quarterly 37.3 (Fall, 2002), 4-5. “Outside the V.F.W. Post (After Privert),” forthcoming in Boulevard. “Running Late,”Italian American XXI.1 (Winter 2002) 68. “Danielle,” Margie 1 (2002), 27. “Body Language (After Privert) “Bearing up under the Costs of Life,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Commentary, 13 November 2002, B2, http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/opinion/local2/region/4505200.htm. Gerald Stern, American Sonnets, The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, 28 July 2002, 17. http://query.nytimes.com/search/fullpage?res=9C0CE0DD1039F93BA15754C0A9649C8B63. Donald Hall, The Painted Bed, The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, 14 April 2002, 20. http://query.nytimes.com/search/fullpage?res=9F02E6D71E3AF937A25757C0A9649C8B63. “Our Fathers,” in The Portable Italian American, ed. Bill Tonelli (William Holt, 2003), 99. “Lessons on Race,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Commentary, Tuesday, February 04, 2003, B2, http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/opinion/local2/region/5098452.htm. “The Political Force of Poetry,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, South Jersey Commentary, 27 December 2002 http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/opinion/local1/4821037.htm. “What Shelley Meant,” The Sewanee Review CIX.4 (Fall 2001), 605-13. Stanley Moss, A History of Color: New and Collected Poems, The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, 20 April 2003, 24. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/books/review/0420br-briefs.html. “Ready – or Not,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, South Jersey Commentary, Friday 28 February, 2003, http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/opinion/local1/5282394.htm. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES Poetry Reading, on the publication of The Italian-American Reader, Borders Books, 1 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 10 April 2003. Presenter, "The Secret Garden: A Problem Text," Rutgers-Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies Associates Seminar, 3 April 2003. Panelist, "The Pedagogy of Translation," AWP 2003 in Baltimore, MD, 27 February 2003. Poetry Reading, 6 January 2003, The Philadelphia Free Library, Central Branch, Monday Night Poets. "Problematic Children's Texts," 3 December 2002,
at the Glenloch School, Gloucester Township, New Jersey. Poetry Reading, 2 December 2002, The Painted Bride Quarterly at The Khyber, 46 S. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, Pa. "Myth and Children's Literature," 22 October 2002, at the Glenloch School, Gloucester Township, New Jersey. "Remembering September 11: Poetry and Tragedy," 11 September 2002, Rutgers Cappuccino Academy at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 200 West Rt 70. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Co-Editor, The Mickle Street Review (online).
RICHARD L EPSTEIN, Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS “Grounding, Subjectivity and Definite Descriptions” in Grounding. The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference, edited by Frank Brisard, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002, 41-82. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Faculty Senate.
HOLLY BLACKFORD, Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS “Adventures in Virtualand” webcast, Technology Source, April 2003, archived at http://ts.mivu.org “Adventures in Virtualand: The Challenges of Teaching an On-line Children’s Literature Course,” Technology Source (March/April 2003), refereed journal of the Michigan Virtual University, http://ts.mivu.org “The Writing on the Wall of Redwall.” Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children. Eds. Elaine Ostry and Carrie Hintz. NY: Routledge, 2003. “The Harry Potter Phenomenon,” What’s the Word? Highly produced radio program published by the Modern Language Association, broadcast in local networks, 2003. www.mla.org Beyond Identity Politics: Why Literature Matters to Girls of the 21st Century. NY: Teachers College Press (education division of Columbia University), 2004 (in press). EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Initiative. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - Dialogues Grant for the initiation of WIRE: Writing in Rutgers Education, virtual writing center to serve Rutgers, Camden.
FINE ARTS Academic year 2002-2003 has been a year of transition for the Fine Arts Department, a year marked by the death of Professor Joseph Walker, long-time director of the Theater program, and the announced retirement of Professor Olga Moore, professor of painting, who will join her former colleagues, Bill Hoffman and John Giannotti, as Professor Emeritus. Martin Rosenberg, who formerly headed Art departments in Missouri and Nebraska, joined the Rutgers Camden faculty as Chair of the Fine Arts Department and Professor of Art History. The Department continues to grow, with over 130 majors and 30 minors. Although all areas are experiencing growth, the largest and fastest-growing area is the Electronic Arts area of specialization in the Art program, with around seventy-five majors in either Graphic Design or Animation. Students received thirty-nine B.A. degrees in Art, Music and Theater. The Teacher Preparation program in the Arts continues to grow as well. In addition to offering degrees in art, music and theater, the Fine Arts Department includes programs in Studio Art, Electronic Arts, Art History, Museum Studies and Musical Theater. Instruction by our excellent full-time faculty is greatly enhanced by a cadre of quality part-time lecturers who include: in Art- Bruce Garrity, Jeff Filbert, Ken Hohing, Deborah Williams, Jackie Morfesis, Dan McElhatten and Joe Brenman; in Music-Rebecca Field and Kay Standifer; in Theater- Nancy Ellis, Larry Biren, Jim Mobley and Ed Shockley. All the efforts of the Department are ably supported by our Secretary Marge Cosgrove. One of the most significant collective accomplishments of the Fine Arts faculty was to complete a total review and revision of the entire curriculum in Art, Music and Theater, in preparation for the publication of a new catalog this Fall. Degree requirements and structure, course sequences, course content and prerequisites were all revised, and a large number of courses were added or modified to serve better both Arts majors and the general student. The end result is a clear, coherent and more rigorous curriculum. In addition, the Department received both a Dialogues Grant, in support of the continuing development of the Electronic Arts programs, and a Seed Grant, in support of our relatively new interdisciplinary program in Musical Theater. The Dialogues Grant provided continuing support for “Animating Art History,” a groundbreaking research project, which explores ways to use animation to illuminate difficult concepts in art history. The project team includes a group of art history and animation students under the direction of Associate Professor of Art History Roberta Tarbell and Assistant Professor of Animation LiQin Tan. For the second year in a row, this team of undergraduate students will present its research results at SIGGRAPH, the leading international meeting in Digital Arts. Three student leaders of the project, Shaun Jennings, Bruce Massey and Robert Wuilfe received the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award for their work. The Art Students League mounted a juried exhibition for President McCormick’s inauguration, and 25 students presented work in the Senior Thesis exhibitions. In addition to internal grants, several faculty members received individual awards. Assistant Professor LiQin Tan received one of four Bildner Diversity Fellowships to support a project to enhance cultural diversity at Rutgers, Camden. Assistant Instructor of Music Joseph Schiavo received the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Nancy Ellis, Lecturer in theater, received the Excellence in Teaching award for Part-Time Faculty. The faculty of Fine Arts have had a productive year in research and creative activity. Martin Rosenberg, Professor of Art History completed his book “Gender Matters in Art Education,” with Frances Thurber. The book is currently in press. Associate Professor of Art History Roberta Tarbell received research support and a sabbatical in support of the research for her book on “Sculpture at Cornell University.” The works of Art faculty were also included in a number of national and international exhibitions. Our faculty in Music and Theater had a productive year of research, creative activity and performance. Distinguished Professor of Music Julianne Baird released two new Cds: “Soprano Arias with Trumpet,” and “Rossini in Venice.” Her concert highlights included the Philadelphia and New York premieres of Handel’s newly-discovered “Gloria” and performances at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall of Handel’s “Messiah,” as well as her Kimmel Center debut in Britten’s “Illuminations.” Assistant Professor of Music Martin Dillon gave a series of concerts in Turkey. He also received research support and a sabbatical for his research on and performance of the works of 20th Century composer Robert Kahn. Professor Wilbert Jerome produced another exceptional season of Concerts at Noon and continued to conduct the Mozart Orchestra. Professor Martin Dillon continued to direct our growing Musical Theater program, producing two shows: “Broadway Bound,” and Kanter and Ebb’s “As the World Goes ‘Round.” with each production involving almost 20 students in acting and support roles. Nancy Ellis, Lecturer in Theater, directed ”Scenes from Shakespeare.” The Madrigal Festival, organized by Professor Baird, brought ensembles from area high schools for a day of instruction and performance in early music. In January, the department, through Professor Baird’s efforts, also hosted the Amherst Early Music Society national meeting, an important event in the area of early music. Fine Arts faculty also contributed substantially to the college, the University, their professional bodies, and the community through professional service. Joe Schiavo served as Vice-President of the FAS-Camden Senate, University Senator and in numerous other posts. Professor Tarbell served on the University Research Council and as Secretary of the Faculty Senate. Professor Baird served on the APC. Fine Arts faculty taught courses in the Freshman Seminar, Honors, Graduate Liberal Studies, Women’s Studies Film Studies and other campus programs. Looking toward next year, the Fine Arts Department expects to implement fully its new curriculum in all areas. The department also plans to fill as many of the vacancies in full-time positions as the budget permits. The department also expects to develop further its long-range plan and to focus on recruitment, alumni relations, and advising.
JULIANNE BAIRD, Professor II ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES Concert Appearance, "Crazy for Love and Music," Karen Flint, Gordon Theater, Rutgers-Camden, November 13, 2002. Concert Appearance, Vigaun Kurzentrum, Salzburg Province, Mozart Vespers, April 22, 2003. Concert Appearance, Mozart Vespers, St. Polten, Austria, April 24, 2003. Concert Appearance, Recital of Baird and Friends, students, Rutgers-Camden, May 3, 2003. Concert Appearance, Britten Les Illuminations Orchestra 2001, Perelman, Julianne Baird's Premiere in Kimmel, April 5, 2003. Concert Appearance, Les Illuminations, Lang Hall, Swarthmore Service to the College, April 6, 2003. Concert Appearance, Evangelische Luth. Erloskirche, Grainau, Bavaria, Mozart Vespers, April 20, 2003. Concert Appearance, Chiaroscuro, Brandywine Baroque, Christ Church, Wilmington, DE, February 28, 2003. Concert Appearance, Chiaroscuro, Brandywine Baroque, Old St. Joseph's, Philadelphia, March 1, 2003. Concert Appearance, Musica Dolce," Karen Flint, Rutgers Mallery Music Room, Fine Arts Building, March 3, 2003. Concert Appearance, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, NY, December 15, 2002. Concert Appearance, "Musica Dolce," Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, January 27, 2003. Concert Appearance, Premiere of Handel "Gloria," Queen's Chamber Band, New York City, NY, February 12, 2003. Concert Appearance, "A Baroque Christmas," Kahilu Theater, Island of Hawaii, December 5, 2002. Concert Appearance, "A Baroque Christmas," University of Hawaii/Manoa, Honolulu, HI, December 6, 2002. Concert Appearance, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY, December 10, 2002. Concert Appearance, Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA, November 22, 2002. Concert Appearance, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, PA, November 24, 2002. Concert Appearance, Beall Hall, University of Oregon, December 1, 2002. Concert Appearance, "The Jane Austen Songbooks," Rutgers Mallery Room, October 29, 2002. Concert Appearance, "Jane Austen Songbooks," Marietta Service to the College, OH, November 4, 2002. Concert Appearance, Premiere of Handel Gloria, Philomel Ensemble, Doylestown, PA, November 22, 2002. Concert Appearance, "If Music Be the Food of Love," Setnor Auditorium, Syracuse University, September 17, 2002. Concert Appearance, Schubert's Die Winterreise, with Andrew Willis, Rutgers-Camden Mallery Room, October 16, 2002. Concert Appearance, Die Winterreise, Ruth Taylor Hall, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, October 20, 2002. Concert Appearance, "Splendid Varietie: Three Centuries of Lute Music, Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, July 10, 2002. Concert Appearance, Baroque Academy Italian Music, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, August 8, 2002. Concert Appearance, "Crazy for Love, songs by Purcell, Solair Summer Music Festival, August 11, 2002. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "The Jane Austen Songbooks," Lecture Recital, Rutgers University, October 29, 2002. Master Class, Marietta Service to the College, Marietta, OH, November 4, 2002. "Schubert and the Art Song: 175 Years of Winterreise," "Traditions of Women's Performances of Schubert's Winterreise," Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, Trinity University, San Antonio, October 19, 2002. "Performance Practice in Schbert Lieder," Master Class, Trinity University, San Antonio, October 20, 2002. Public Lecture, "Traditions of Women's Performances of Schubert's Die Winterreise, October 16, 2002. Schubert Lieder Conference, Trinity Service to the College, San Antonio, TX, October 19-20, 2002. Winter Weekend Conference of Amherst Early Music, hosted by Dr. Baird at Rutgers-Camden, January 17-20, 2003. Master Class, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, March 14, 2003. Seminar, Lute Society of America, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, July 7-13, 2002. Music of Italy, Amherst Baroque Academy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, August 4-11, 2002. Master Class, Bel Canto of 17-18 Centuries, Old Dominion University, January 28, 2003. "Barbara Strozzi," "La Virtuotissima Canatrice," "Barbara Strozzi and the Cantatrie of Seventeenth Century Venice," February 28, 2003 and March 1, 2003. “Musica Dolce," Rutgers Mallery Music Lecture-Recital, March 3, 2003. Master Class of Cavalli's Calisto, Princeton University, November 8, 2002 Master Class, University of Oregon Voice Students, Beall Concert Hall, December 2, 2002. Pre-Concert Lecture, University of Hawaii, Mano'a, December 6, 2002. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Creation of new course, Women in Music, http://juliannebaird.camden.rutgers.edu/WomenInMusic.htm,
as offshoot of "The Jane PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Board Member, Miami Bach Society. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION - University of California, Regents Lecturer for masters classes lectures and performance, University of California at Santa Cruz. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Recruitment of New Students to Rutgers Camden: Lecture to Camden County High School Musicians and Area High School Faculty participating in Teen Arts on March 17, 1999.
WILBERT D JEROME, Professor ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES Conductor, The Mozart Orchestra, "Philadelphia Mozart Overture I1 Seraglio," Haydn Symphony 88," "Mozart Concerto for Horn," David Wetherill Waldhorn, soloist, February 2003. Conductor, The Mozart Orchestra, "Mozart Symphony 1," "Mozart Symphony 41," "Mozart Concerto for Flute," Adeline Tomasone, soloist, Philadelphia, April 2003. Conductor, The Mozart Orchestra of Philadelphia, "Mozart Symphony 17," "Haydn Symphony 102," "Van Hall Concerto for Two Bassoons," Holly Blake and Mark Gigliotti, soloists, September 2002. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "The Brain, the Mind, and the Surgeon," Seminar on Music and the Brain, Brown University, Providence, RI, July 2002. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Member, Research Grant Review Committee, American Philosophical
Society. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Eight Public Concerts in an Academic Setting: Music Faculty
and Outstanding Guest Artists, Mallery Music Room, CCAS, Camden. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, American Federation of Musicians. SERVICE - Chief Consultant for Building design, program and administrative search, The Harid Conservatory of Music, Boca Raton, Florida. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Chair, Appointments and Promotions Committee, Humanities.
ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES Conductor, The Mozart Orchestra, "Philadelphia Mozart Overture I1 Seraglio," Haydn Symphony 88," "Mozart Concerto for Horn," David Wetherill Waldhorn, soloist, February 2003. Conductor, The Mozart Orchestra, "Mozart Symphony 1," "Mozart Symphony 41," "Mozart Concerto for Flute," Adeline Tomasone, soloist, Philadelphia, April 2003. Conductor, The Mozart Orchestra of Philadelphia, "Mozart Symphony 17," "Haydn Symphony 102," "Van Hall Concerto for Two Bassoons," Holly Blake and Mark Gigliotti, soloists, September 2002. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "The Brain, the Mind, and the Surgeon," Seminar on Music and the Brain, Brown University, Providence, RI, July 2002. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Member, Research Grant Review Committee, American Philosophical
Society. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Eight Public Concerts in an Academic Setting: Music Faculty
and Outstanding Guest Artists, Mallery Music Room, CCAS, Camden. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, American Federation of Musicians. SERVICE - Chief Consultant for Building design, program and administrative search, The Harid Conservatory of Music, Boca Raton, Florida. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Chair, Appointments and Promotions Committee, Humanities.
OLGA MOORE, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS - Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Collegiate Press, Altaloma, California. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Intiated new course for Fine Arts called "Hybrids," a drawing/painting course alternating between traditional media and electronic media - the computer. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - Member, New York City Chapter, Fulbright Association. SERVICE - Outreach Program Volunteer, Christ Church in Philadelphia. UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Member, Stedman Art Gallery Advisory Committee.
MARTIN I. ROSENBERG, Professor PUBLICATIONS Gender Matters in Art Education, Worcester, MA.: Davis Publications, (in press), with Frances Thurber.
PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES "Gender, Art and Visual Culture: Implications for Art Education," National Art Education Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, April, 2003, with F. Thurber. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Guided complete revision of degree requirements and curriculum for B.A. degrees and minors in art, music and theater, Faculty of Arts | ||||||||||||||||||
