Dean's Letter
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BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT The number of Biology majors increased from 133 in Spring 2006 to 146 in Spring 2007. There was also 1 Medical Technology major. Three students are minoring in Biology. There were 44 Biology and Medical Technology graduates this year, up from 35 last year. The continuing trend toward biology as a major may be enhanced by the extensive departmental offerings for non-science majors. For example, for the first time this year, Dr. William Saidel offered a new honors course on the nature of scientific investigation entitled “Weird Biology”. The faculty of the Biology Department continues to engage in significant scholarly activity as reflected in peer-reviewed publications, presentations to national and international conferences, and receipt of continuing and new external funding. Details are provided in the following pages, but a few highlights are noted here. With financial support ($419,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Heike Bücking’s group engaged in a project to model the transfer of nitrogen in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Dr. Daniel Shain was Principle Investigator (PI) on continuing projects funded by NSF, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). Dr. Joseph Martin’s new NSF project (with co-PI Alex Roche) was recently recommended for funding at $416,000. Dr. Robert Evans will serve as the Rutgers-Camden member of the Steering Committee for a $4.5 million NIH project that was recently funded to allow postdoctoral associates from the University of Pennsylvania's Biomedical Postdoctoral Program (BPP) to participate in mentored teaching experiences. (The other partner with BPP will be Lincoln University.) For many years, the department has stressed the early and intensive involvement of student researchers in the faculty laboratories as a central component of the undergraduate education in biology. Last year, students Rushil Kalola and Jennifer Riley completed a long-term project with Dr. Saidel and together won the undergraduate research prize at the annual meeting of the New Jersey Academy of Science. Their project was also profiled on NJN, the Public Television Channel of New Jersey. An anonymous donor gave $20,000 to create an Undergraduate Research Scholarship in the Sciences for the coming year. Although proud of earlier accomplishments, the department is even more excited about the prospects for the future. Most of the members of the Biology Department are associates in the recently formed interdisciplinary Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB) and plan to become participants in the planned doctoral program in Computational and Integrative Biology. Furthermore, $50 million in state funding has been approved for a new biomedical research building in Camden, to be owned by Rutgers University and operated by a consortium of Rutgers-Camden, the Coriell Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, South Jersey. It is expected that the CCIB will represent the Rutgers-Camden contribution to the inter-institutional facility.
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS September 2003-August 2006: Alzheimer’s Association. “Intracellular Abeta Accumulation and Neuronal Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease” with R.G. Nagele. EDITORSHIP OF JOURNALS July 2002-ongoing: Associate Editor, The Bulletin of New Jersey Academy of Science. SERVICE 2006-2007: Reviewer, referred scientific articles. JOHN DIGHTON, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS Mycological Research. PUBLICATIONS Jonsson, L. M., Dighton, J., Lussenhop, J. & Koide, R. T. (2006)
The effects of leaf litters on the development of pitch pine ectomycorrhizal
and soil arthropod communities in natural soil microcosm systems.
Soil Biol. Biochem. 38: 134-144. Board of Trustees and Executive Board of the New Jersey Academy
of Aquatic Sciences.
JOSEPH MARTIN, Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2007: Rutgers University Faculty Academic Service Increment Award for Teaching, Research, and Service. 2006-ongoing: National Science Foundation. “Acquisition of a High Performance Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (HPLC-MS) System,” co-Principal Investigator with A. Roche. 10% effort. 2004-ongoing: National Science Foundation. “Acquisition of Instruments for Biosample Analyses in Research and Teaching,” with J. Dighton, P.K. Sarkar, and D.H.Shain. 2004-ongoing: DHHS/PHS – National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse Science Education Partnership Award. “SPARC 2000+: Science Fair Drug Abuse Science Literacy.” (Principal Investigator J.W. Whitlow, Jr.) 2004-ongoing: Rutgers University Academic Excellence Fund. “Center for Computational and Integrative Biology.” EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT March 2006-ongoing: Participation in “Planning Facilities for Undergraduate Science & Mathematics,” Project Kaleidoscope, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. 2005-ongoing: Chair of Working Group to create Program Announcement for Doctoral Program in Computational and Integrative Biology. October 2005-ongoing: Participation in “Building Research-Rich Learning Environments,” Project Kaleidoscope, University of Maryland-Baltimore County. October 2005-ongoing: Participation in “Translating How People Learn into a Roadmap for Institutional Transformation,” Project Kaleidoscope, Kansas City. October 2003-ongoing: Participation in “Ensuring the Success of Under-represented Groups in STEM Learning Environments,” Project Kaleidoscope, Rowan University. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS June 1999-ongoing: Member, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.
PUBLICATIONS Hong, D., W.M. Saidel, S. Man, and J.V. Martin. “Extracellular Noise-Induced Stochastic Synchronization in Heterogeneous Quorum Sensing Network.” Journal of Theoretical Biology. Volume 245, 726-736. 2007. SERVICE November 2000-ongoing: Reviewer, Sleep. UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2007-ongoing: Convener, Committee for Mathematics and Science Curriculum.
MARK MORGAN, Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2002-ongoing: Member of organizing group for Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. Initiative for Camden campus. SERVICE April 1996-ongoing: Peer Review Panel Member, Global Change Research
Program. Environmental Protection Agency. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 1998-ongoing: Appointments and Promotions Committee, Natural Sciences. ROBERT EVANS, Associate Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2007-2012: Rutgers-Camden Steering Committee Member, NIH grant: University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral opportunities in research and training. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2004-ongoing: Revision of the General Biology I & II laboratories. SERVICE September 1982-ongoing: Review, Mycologia. UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2004-ongoing: Member, Summer/Winterim Session Committee.
PATRICK McILROY, Associate Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT July 1996-ongoing: Initiation of Cardiovascular Pesfusion Track
within Biomedical Technology Program with Cooper Hospital. SERVICE January 1994-ongoing: Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Endo and Metabolism. UNIVERSITY SERVICE April 1998-ongoing: Member, Biosafety Committee.
WILLIAM SAIDEL, Associate Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS January 7, 2007: Undergraduate biology students from Rutgers-Camden win award. Notice about research in lab. The Philadelphia Inquirer pg. Q27. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS May 1998-ongoing: Member, Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology. PUBLICATIONS Hong, D., W.M. Saidel, S. Man, and J.V. Martin. “Extracellular Noise-Induced Stochastic Synchronization in Heterogeneous Quorum Sensing Network.” Journal of Theoretical Biology. Volume 245, 726-736. 2007. Saidel, W., D. Hong, and J.V. Martin. “How Stochastic Resonance Enhances Human Auditory Information Processing.” Theoretical Biology and Medical Modeling. 3, 39-49; http://www.tbiomed.com/content/pdf/1742-4682-3-39.pdf. SERVICE March 1997-ongoing: Panel Member, Special Emphasis Program, National Institute for Deafness and Other Communicative Diseases. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2006-May 2007: FASIP Award Committee.
DANIEL SHAIN, Associate Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2006-2007: National Geographic Society, Exploration Council. “Ice
Worm Populations in Denali National Park, Alaska.” Principal
Investigator. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES Keynote speaker, “Glacier Ice Worms – Some Like it Cold.” Science Scholars’ Program Symposium, Fairleigh Dickinson University. 2007. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS July 2001-ongoing: Membership, Society for Developmental Biology. PUBLICATIONS Coleman, J., Sayers, C.W., Marotta, R., and Shain, D.H. “Clitellate Cocoons and Their Secretion.” Annelids as Model Systems in the Biological Sciences. Ed. Daniel Shain. Research Signpost, Kerala, India. Hartzell, P. and Shain, D.H. “Glacier Ice Worms.” Annelids
as Model Systems in the Biological Sciences. Ed. Daniel Shain. Research
Signpost, Kerala, India. Coleman, J., R. Marotta, and D.H. Shain. “Surface Topology and Structural Integrity of the Theromyzon tessulatam (Annelida: Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae) Cocoon.” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. Submitted. Shain, D.H., M.I. Aldea Guevara, A. Lopez Coral, W.G.R. Crampton, and J.S. Albert. “A Survey of Freshwater Annelids in the Peruvian Amazon.” ACTA Hydrobiologica Sinica. Submitted. Marotta, R. and D.H. Shain. “Irregular Helicoids in Leech Cocoon Membranes.” Journal of Structural Biology. (In press, 2007). SERVICE 2006-2007: Internship mentor, Camden County College’s Biotechnology
Program.
HEIKE BÜCKING, Assistant Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT September 2005-ongoing: Application of SAKAI as Course Management Program in the microbiological courses (General Microbiology and Microbiology and its Application). PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2005-ongoing: Member, American Society for Plant Biologists. SERVICE 2006-ongoing: Evaluation of proposals submitted to the National
Science Foundation. UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2006-ongoing: Revision of the departmental web pages. CHARLENE SAYERS, Assistant Instructor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES Coleman, Jon’elle, Charlene Sayers, and Daniel H. Shain. “Morphological Analysis of Cocoons Secreted by the Leech, Theromyzon Tessulatum.” New Jersey Academy of Science. 2006. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AAAS Program for Excellence in Science, Applied Biosystems, AstraZeneca, and Merck & Co., Inc.
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT Luke Burke, Chair The number of majors in the department has held steady at 25 since last year, while the number of students in the pre-pharmacy program, which the department administers, remains at several dozen. Nine undergraduates and five graduate students received their degrees in Chemistry during the academic year. The total enrollment in all of our classes and labs continues at its high rate for the last five years. Our first and second year lab facilities were worked to capacity again this year. All our faculty members continue to publish in refereed journals or scientific books and all presented their results in international, national, or regional meetings. Many of the refereed articles and symposium presentations contain our undergraduates as co-authors. Interdepartmental cooperation continues with a National Science Foundation grant for Research in Undergraduate Institutions, entitled "Thyroid Hormone Physiology in Adult Rat Brain." The investigators on the $415,369 grant are Dr. Alex Roche and Dr. Joseph Martin of the Biology Department. Dr. Roche is the principle investigator for a successful grant from the National Science Foundation, "Acquisition of a High Performance Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (HPLC - MS) System" $228,703 for a period of 2/06 - 1/09, along with Drs. Georgia Arbuckle-Keil and Peter Palenchar as co-investigators. This was the fifth NSF grant for infrastructure or major instrumentation that members of our department received in twelve years. We are the only chemistry department in New Jersey, south of Trenton, to have won all of our major instrumentation through highly competitive Federal funding (MS, 2D-IR, NMR, large scale UNIX-computer…). The department remains committed to providing a strong environment for chemical and biochemical education through the direct involvement of our students. A new option that we expect to offer our undergraduates next year is in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. We will be one of only two institutions in the Delaware Valley to offer the pharmaceutical chemistry option within the chemistry major, and will be the only one to concentrate on molecular modeling and drug design. GEORGIA ARBUCKLE-KEIL, Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS February 2006-January 2009: National Science Foundation, “Acquisition of a High Performance Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (HPLC – M: System).” EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT July 2006-June 2007: Undergraduate research supervisor for a Dean’s
Fellowship student, who presented her work at the Celebration of
Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (CURCA) in April 2007. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES “Infrared Analysis of Natural and Thermal Decomposition of Leaf Litter from the New Jersey Pinelands” with K. Lammers and J. Dighton. 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, March 25-29, 2007. “Elucidating the Emission of Chemical Compounds from Terrestrial Fungal-fungal Interactions through Chromatographic Techniques” with A. Chin, J. Dighton, and C. Rodrigues-Saona. 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, March 25-29, 2007. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS January 2005-December 2007: Member, Admissions Committee (National
Level) of the American Chemical Society. PUBLICATIONS Arbuckle-Keil, Georgia. “Dynamic Infrared Linear Dichroism of Polymers.” Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polymers: Principles and Practice. Eds. Neil J. Everall, John M. Chalmers, and Peter R. Griffiths. John Wiley & Sons, Limited, 2007. 349-377. SERVICE March 2007-May 2007: Co-chair, “Alan G. MacDiarmid Memorial Symposium,” 39th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting. Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, May 16-18, 2007. September 2006-May 2007: Chair, “General Inorganic Chemistry,” 39th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting. Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, May 16-18, 2007. March 1992-ongoing: Visits to local high schools to encourage students to pursue careers in science. May 1990-ongoing: Member, Academic Alliance, Southern New Jersey. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2005-ongoing: Member, Summer School Planning Committee.
LUKE BURKE, Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2007: Jean Stas Prize, Belgian Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT July 1991-ongoing: Chairing committee for the acquisition of equipment
for undergraduate laboratories in the Department of Chemistry, Camden
campus. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS July 1990-ongoing: Lifetime member, World Association of Theoretical
Organic Chemists. SERVICE December 2002-ongoing: Reviewer, Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. UNIVERSITY SERVICE March 1992-ongoing: Member, Budget Committee.
SIDNEY KATZ, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS Editorial Advisory Board, Food Safety. SERVICE Pridruzeni Profesor Fakulteta za Znanostui o Okoliju Politehnika
Nova Gorica. Department of Health Methods Task Force. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Faculty Committee, Admissions and Retention.
PAUL MASLEN, Associate Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS NIH SBIR Phase II. UNIVERSITY SERVICE June 2001-ongoing: Executive Director of the Graduate Program.
ALEX ROCHE, Associate Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS February 2006-ongoing: National Science Foundation CRIF:MU. “Acquisition of a High Performance Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (HPLC – MS) System.” January 2006-ongoing: Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award. “Chrial Discrimination of OFP Derivatives.” September 2005-ongoing: Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award. “CF3-PPV.” July 2002-ongoing: Rutgers Research Council. “Novel cis Linked Conjugated Fluorinated Polymers.” July 2002-ongoing: Rutgers Undergraduate Fellowship Program. “Novel Display Technologies.” September 2001-ongoing: National Science Foundation MRI. “Acquisition of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System.” July 2000-ongoing: Rutgers Research Council. “NMR Characterization of Novel Fluorinated Cyclophanes.” PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 1999-ongoing: Member, American Chemical Society. SERVICE Reviewer, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2000-ongoing: Secretary, Chemistry Department Faculty Meetings.
CHILDHOOD STUDIES DEPARTMENT Childhood Studies took form in 2006-2007. Discussed on campus as an academic initiative for nearly a decade by Myra Bluebond-Langner, Margaret Marsh, Carol Singley, Sheila Cosminsky, and many, many others, and proposed in a document authored by Naomi Marmorstein and John Wall in 2004, the department was transformed from an idea to a reality through the addition of its first full-time faculty members, Lynne Vallone and Daniel Cook. Dr. Lynne Vallone, who comes from Texas A&M University in College Station, is author of Disciplines of Virtue and Becoming Victoria, and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature, Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment, and The Girl's Own, Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915. Dr. Daniel Cook, who joins us from the University of Illinois, is the author of The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer and Children's Consumer Culture (forthcoming), editor of Symbolic Childhood and The Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (forthcoming), and a number of articles and chapters on children in American culture. A new search will be launched in the fall of 2007 to find an additional scholar to add to the department. In addition to hiring new faculty, the inaugural class of M.A. and Ph.D. students was chosen during the 2006-2007 academic year. Out of sixty-seven applicants, twenty-two were selected to begin graduate studies in Fall 2007 at the part-time and full-time level. Both the master’s and Ph.D. level students come with a range of professional and educational experiences that cut across several academic disciplines. With a focus on an interdisciplinary approach to children and childhood, students will take courses offered by the Department of Childhood Studies, but will also take courses offered in English, history, sociology, anthropology, criminal justice, religion, psychology, and public policy. For the 2007-2008 academic year the department will host a research seminar series, which will bring together faculty with interests in childhood studies from across the campus. The purpose of the series is to foster research and dialogue among scholars in the field and to allow graduate students to learn about faculty and their specific projects and begin to think about their own research interests. DANIEL HART, Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2007: Anna M. Sample Advocacy Award, Community Planning and Advocacy Council. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS January 2001-ongoing: Member, Editorial Board, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Society for Research in Child Development. SERVICE January 2006-ongoing: Member, At Risk Youth Council, Camden County
United Way.
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The Computer Science Department had 62 declared majors in Fall 2006 and 57 majors in Spring 2007. During the academic year, the department graduated 17 students, including one with departmental honors. In addition, five students successfully completed internships at various local companies during the academic year. While the number of majors represents a slight drop from last year’s data, there now appears to be some indications that the steep decline in enrollment that had affected Computer Science departments nationwide in the last four to five years may soon reverse course. There is still a huge demand for computing professionals despite outsourcing fears and the overall outlook for the next 10 years remains quite strong according to U.S. labor department statistics. Perhaps the most significant new development for the department is the official final approval of the graduate Master of Science (MS) program in Computer Science. The last stages of the process were completed in June 2006 and the program is poised to begin in Fall 2007. Dr. Jean-Camille Birget will serve as the department's graduate program director when the program commences. In other faculty news this year, Dr. Dawei Hong was granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in recognition of his scholarship, teaching, and service. He will be among several faculty in the department affiliated with the newly formed Center for Computational and Integrative Biology on campus. Dr. Michael Palis completed his second year as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and will serve during the next year as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School. The department had another stellar year with regard to faculty scholarship. Collectively, the eight faculty members in the department had about 20 journal papers and almost 10 conference papers that were either published or accepted for publication in a variety of highly prestigious journals and conference proceedings during the academic year. For instance, Dr. Hong co-authored two extremely innovative papers involving mathematical modeling in systems biology with Camden faculty in the Biology Department; one of these papers will appear in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modeling, a top inter-disciplinary journal in the area. Dr. Guy Kortsarz and Dr. Rajiv Gandhi’s work in approximation algorithms for various computationally hard problems has garnered significant recognition in the field, and was published in premier journals such as the ACM Transactions on Algorithms. Dr. Patricia Johann’s recent work on semantics of typed programming languages has been published in the Journal of Functional Programming, the best journal in that field. Overall, the research output of the faculty remains exceptional and will continue to enhance the department's reputation for research excellence. Faculty members also have substantial external service contributions to the Computer Science discipline, including membership of technical program committees at national and international conferences, and extensive reviewing responsibilities for both conference and journal papers. Efforts to secure funding – both internal and external – continued apace this year. In the extremely competitive and difficult environment for funding in Computer Science, Dr. Johann obtained a new National Science Foundation research grant worth almost $140,000 over a three-year period beginning August 2007. The grant was awarded for Dr. Johann’s ongoing research work on principled tools for structured programming. As regards to service to the College and the campus, Dr. Palis shouldered a huge amount of responsibility as Associate Dean of the College. Among several other functions, he coordinated the work of the task force appointed by the Dean to articulate a strategic vision for the College. He is also currently spearheading some campus-related aspects of next year’s Middle States accreditation process for Rutgers University. The department was also represented in several college committees. For instance, Dr. Sunil Shende was a member of the Dean’s committee on undergraduate student research, and also served on the ad-hoc committee on undergraduate advising and on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Admissions and Retention Committee. Dr. Suneeta Ramaswami served on the Academic Policy and Course Study Committee. As we look to the future, the department expects to continue its
efforts to try to attract more students to Computer Science. With
the graduate program poised to commence in Fall 2007, the department
has created a strong graduate course curriculum, which will be no
doubt refine and enhance as the program matures. The department
will also begin using the programming language Python for its introductory
programming sequence in the undergraduate curriculum, replacing
the currently used C++ programming language. The Python programming
language is highly regarded as a functionally expressive and powerful
language that has a very easy learning curve for new users. Moreover,
we expect to use the language as a focal part of a planned outreach
program that is aimed at creating a comprehensive Computer Science
curriculum for local middle and high schools. JEAN-CAMILLE BIRGET, Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS August 2003-July 2006: National Science Foundation Program Trusted Computing, “Collaborative Research: Graphical Passwords – Design. Analysis, and Human Factors.” PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES November 10, 2006: Invited talk at the conference “Various Faces of Cryptography,” School of Engineering of City College of NY. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 1987-ongoing: Member, EATCS. PUBLICATIONS Birget, J.C., D. Hong, and N. Memon. “Graphical passwords based on robust discretization,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 3. 395-399. September 2006. Birget, J.C., S. Magliveras, and M. Sramka. “On public-key cryptosystems based on combinatorial group theory,” Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications, 33. 137-148. Fall 2006. SERVICE 1985-ongoing: Refereeing for journals, conferences, granting agencies (NSF, NSERC). UNIVERSITY SERVICE July 2005-June 2007: Member, Appointments and Promotions Committee, FAS, Camden.
GUY KORTSARZ, Associate Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES “Comparing Min-Cost and Min-Power Connectivity Problems.” Conference on Operations Research, Euro 2006. Iceland, July 2006. “Comparing Min-Cost and Min-Power Connectivity Problems.” In INFORMS. Pittsburgh, November 2006. GUY KORTSARZ, continued Kortsarz, G., C. Chekuri, M. Hajiaghavyi, and M. Salavatipour. “Approximating Non-uniform Buy at Bulk with Node Costs.” Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 2007. PUBLICATIONS Kortsarz, Guy and Zeev Nutov. “Tight bounds for connectivity augmentation problems.” Journal of Computing and System Sciences. Accepted for publication. Gandhi, R., M. Halld’orsson, G. Kortsarz, and H. Shachnai. “Improved Bounds for the Weighted Sum of Completion Times of Dependent Jobs.” Transaction on Algorithms. Accepted for publication. Di Gaspero, L., J. Gärtner, G. Kortsarz, N. Musliu, A. Schaerf, and Wolfgang Slany. “Theory and Practice of Shift Scheduling.” Annals on Operations Research (special volume on “Personnel Scheduling and Planning”). Accepted for publication. Halld’orsson, M., G. Kortsarz, J. Radhakrishnan, and S. Sivasubramanian. “Complete Partitions of Graphs.” Combinatorica. Accepted for publication. Kortsarz, G. and Z. Nutov. “A Note on Two Problems in Source Location.” J on Discrete Algorithms. Accepted for publication. Hajiaghayi, M., G. Kortsarz, and M. Salavatipour. “Approximating Buy at Bulk and Shallow Light k-Steiner trees.” Algorithmica. Accepted for publication. Elkin, M. and G. Kortsarz. Improved Schedule for Radio Broadcast.” Transaction on Algorithms. Volume 3, Number 1. 2007. Halperin, E., G. Kortsarz, R. Krauthgamer, A. Srinivasan, and N. Wang. “Integrality Ratio for Group Steiner Trees and Directed Steiner Trees.” SIAM Journal on Computing. 1494-1511. 2007. Kortsarz, G. “A Lower Bound for Approximating Grundy Numbering.” Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Volume 9, Number 1, 7-22. Elkin, M. and G. Kortsarz. “An Approximation Algorithm for Directed Telephone Multicast.” Algorithmica. Volume 45, Number 4, 569-583. 2006. Elkin, M. and G. Kortsarz. “Polylogarithmic Inapproximability
for Radio Broadcast.” SIAM Journal on Discrete Math. Volume
19, Number 4, 881-899. Khuller, S., G. Kortsarz, and Kurt R. Rohloff. “Approximating
the Minimal Sensor Selection for Supervisory Control.” Journal
of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory Kortsarz, G. and S. Shende. “Approximating the Achromatic Number Problem on Bipartite Graphs.” SIAM Journal on Discrete Math. 361-373. Kortsarz, G. and Z. Nutov. “Approximating Minimum-Cost Connectivity Problems.” Editor Teofilo. Kortsarz, G. “Chapter 58.” “Handbook on Approximation Algorithms and Metahueristics.” Ed. F. Gonzales. Chapman and Hall, CRC, Taylor and Francis. SERVICE RANDOM-APPROX, Princeton. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Member, Faset Committee.
SUNEETA RAMASWAMI, Associate Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2002-2007: National Science Foundation. “Geometric Techniques for Quadrilateral and Hexahedral Mesh Generation with Applications in Medical Imaging.” PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS August 1993-ongoing: Member, Association of Computing Machinery
(ACM). UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 1998-ongoing: Enrollments Committee.
SUNIL SHENDE, Associate Professor PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS September 2001-ongoing: Member, European Association for Theoretical
Computer Science. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2002-ongoing: Director, Science Vision Center, CCAS.
PATRICIA JOHANN, Assistant Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS September 2004-August 2007: National Science Foundation. “Provable Safety for Performance-Improving Free Theorems-Based Program Transformations.” EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS 2004-ongoing: Associate editor, Higher-order and Symbolic Computation. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Involved in the redesign of Rutgers’ undergraduate Computer
Science curriculum. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES Johann, Patricia and Neil Ghani. “Initial Algebra Semantics is Enough!” In Proceedings, Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications. April 2007: “Initial Algebra Packages for Principled Programming with Nested Types.” Toyota Technical Institute. March 2007: “Initial Algebra Packages for Principled Programming with Nested Types.” University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland. . January 2007: “A Category-theoretic Approach to Principled Programming with Nested Types.” Rutgers Computer Science and Math Seminar. PUBLICATIONS Johann, Patricia and Neil Ghani. “Monadic augment and generalized sort cut fusion.” Journal of Functional Programming. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2007: Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Practical
Aspects of Declarative Programming. SERVICE 2007: Application Reviewer, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing, Bridge Day, and Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity
in Computing scholarships. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2006-ongoing: Organizer, Rutgers’ departmental seminar series.
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT The Economics Department had 30 students receive B.A. degrees at the May 2007 commencement. The department had 86 majors and 19 minors this academic year. Twenty-one economics majors and minors were inducted into the Lambda Chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honor Society in Economics during the year. One of our O.D.E. students, Maxim Kind, won the Economics Department Award as the student who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement in this graduating class. Max also delivered the undergraduate student address at this year’s graduation ceremony. Neesha Shah (O.D.E.) will attend Rutgers Law School in the fall. Michael Zeisweiss (O.D.E.) will be pursuing his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Delaware. Mmayen Nnah is entering the M.A. program in economics at Eastern Michigan this fall. Peter Girgis (’04 O.D.E.), who this May finished both his M.B.A. and J.D. in three years, spoke at this year’s induction of our O.D.E. class of 2007. Atnreakn Alleyne (’06 O.D.E.) completed his master’s degree in public policy. He is off to pursue his Ph.D. Atnreakn is the first graduate of the Economics Department’s new joint B.A.-M.P.A. program. Our O.D.E. alumni continue to excel. Michael Kasen (’05 O.D.E.) completed his second year at Rutgers Law School-Camden. Economics minor Tim Swift (O.D.E.) passed his Ph.D. comps in management at Temple University. Dr. John Smith successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis this fall at Princeton University and he completed his first academic year at Rutgers. Dr. Smith has offered Applied Game Theory and has introduced the topic into each of his courses. Dr. Osama Hamed, a long-time colleague, completed his first academic year as a lecturer. Dr. Hamed has been teaching Micro- and Macroeconomics. Dr. Tetsuji Yamada, Professor of Economics, continued his research and publication in health economics, his specialty. He also serves on editorial and other boards. Dr. Yamada, a long-time associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, is also an associate of our Childhood Studies program. Dr. JinPeng Ma, Associate Professor of Economics, continued his game theoretic research and work on the matching problem. Dr. I-Ming Chiu, Assistant Professor of Economics, has several
new research papers under review. JOHN WORRALL, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS January 1992-ongoing: Associate Editor, Journal of Risk and Insurance. SERVICE July 1995-ongoing: Referee, Industrial and Labor Relations Review. UNIVERSITY SERVICE July 2002-ongoing: Faculty Senator, University Senate. TETSUJI YAMADA, Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2007: Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers & Educators.
6th edition (2000) – 11th edition (2007). Analysis of Welfare Changes after the Establishment of the Long-term Car Insurance System in Japan in 2000.” Co-Investigator. EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS 2007-ongoing: Member, Editorial Advisory Board in Health Care,
Scientific Journals International. PUBLICATIONS Yamada, Tetsuji. Comments on “Price-Output Flexibility: The AD-AS Linkage” and “The Liquidity Trap: Japan 1996-2001 versus U.S. 1933-1940” by Kazuo Sato. Journal of Asian Economics. 2007. Yamada, Tetsuji. “Healthcare Services Accessibility of Children in the U.S.A.” Applied Economics. 2007. Yamada, Tetsuji. Comments on “Price-Output Flexibility: The AD-AS Linkage” and “The Liquidity Trap: Japan 1996-2001 versus U.S. 1933-1940” by Kazuo Sato. Journal of Asian Economics. 2007. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES “Credibility and Reliance of Cancer Related Information on
the Internet and Colorectal Cancer Screening.” The Society
for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics. New York University,
New York, NY. 2007. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2006-ongoing: Member, iHEA Scientific Committee, International
Health Economic Association. SERVICE 2007-ongoing: Referee, Journal of Asian Economics. 2004-ongoing: Routledge Curzon, Taylor & Francis Group. UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2005-ongoing: University-wide, Appointments and Promotions Committee
for Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University,
The State University of New Jersey.
JINPENG MA, Associate Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT May 1996-ongoing: Associate Member of the Graduate Program in Economics,
New Brunswick. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS January 2005-ongoing: Member, Econometric Society. SERVICE 2006-ongoing: Referee, Journal of Economic Theory. UNIVERSITY SERVICE July 1998-ongoing: Senator.
JOHN SMITH, Assistant Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES “Cognitive Dissonance, Imperfect Memory, and the Preference for Increasing Payments.” Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Conference. New York, NY. March 2007. “Cognitive Dissonance, Imperfect Memory, and the Preference for Increasing Payments.” Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. March 2007.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT In May 2007, 67 English majors received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. An unofficial count (official numbers were not available from the Registrar’s Office) showed about 190 majors at that time, with about 28 students taking minors in English and American literatures, Journalism, Film, and Writing. These numbers are down slightly from 2006, perhaps a reflection of changes in the Registrar’s Office. The addition of William FitzGerald to our department this year enabled us to expand our offerings in rhetoric and media studies. These new courses will satisfy the linguistics requirement in our major, thus providing our students with more choices. Dr. FitzGerald also led workshops on rhetoric and teaching writing for the Teaching Matters series on our campus and at the 2007 Rhetoric Society of America Institute. Another important curricular initiative is the incorporation of all of the first semester composition courses into the First-Year Experience, formerly the Freshman Seminar Program, under the leadership of Joseph Barbarese, who will work with Holly Blackford on the orientation and supervision of instructors for the courses. A graduating English major, Mary Clare Chezik, won both the Faculty Award for distinguished service and the Dr. Louis Forman Humanities Award for scholarly work in the Humanities. Joseph Meredith was a winner of the Sybil Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching. Holly Blackford was recognized by the International Reading Association for the completion of a three-year project for which she received the Elva P. Knight Research Award. Jeff Boettcher completed a teaching internship at Crossway Academy under the direction of Shanyn Fiske, who also directed the undergraduate honors project of Emily McCambridge, a study of “Invalidated Models of Masculinity in Wuthering Heights and The Heir of Redclyffe.” Junior faculty in English enjoyed particular successes in scholarship and publishing. Shanyn Fiske completed work on her monograph, Heretical Hellenism: Women, Greek, and the Victorian Popular Imagination, and is in the final stages of obtaining a publisher. She also published one article in Brontë Studies and had another accepted by Victorian’s Institute Journal. Lauren Grodstein published an essay, “Notes on Camden,” in an anthology about New Jersey, Living on the Edge of the World. Holly Blackford contributed a chapter on English studies to a new textbook titled Resources for Children and Childhood Studies; a chapter in a volume on Approaches to Teaching Pinocchio, published by the Modern Language Association; an article on Little Women in the journal Children’s Literature; and an article assessing the novels of Margaret Atwood in Ameriquests. An article by William FitzGerald was included in a volume published by the International Writing Center Association. J. T. Barbarese published poems in The Sewanee Review and Southern Poetry Review, as well as a short story in Narrative. Christopher Fitter and Betsy Bowden have received invitations to present their work on Shakespeare and Bob Dylan, respectively, at impressive academic venues. Geoffrey Sill continues his work as the Defoe editor of The Scriblerian and as editor of the journals of Frances Burney. The first annual undergraduate research symposium, “Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Writing Program,” coordinated by English Department Teaching Assistants Betsy Allen and Nick Delo, under the direction of Holly Blackford, featured five panels of students from English Composition II courses who presented papers on topics ranging from Al Gore’s environmental heroism to the meaning of beat-up cars (“Rez Rocket”) in Native American communities. Five individuals from various corporate and educational environments served as guest respondents, while writing instructors David Solomon, Nadia Kotula, Candice Kaup, and Brad Windhauser were moderators. Among our various outreach efforts to the community, the department
hosted the The outlook for the study of English in Camden continues to be very bright. Almost all of the courses offered by the department are fully subscribed, some closing minutes after registration begins. Despite the loss of several key members due to retirement, the department still plays a leading role in teaching, scholarship, and service on campus. Carol Singley directs the Undergraduate Liberal Studies Program and is active in the new Childhood Studies Program, while nearing completion of her book about adoption in American literature. Timothy Martin directs the International Studies Program while chairing the department and perfecting his work on James Joyce. Lisa Zeidner, with the assistance of Lauren Grodstein and Tyler Hoffman, is ready to open the doors of the new M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. The arrival in Fall 2007 of Howard Marchitello, in replacement of Marie Cornelia, will help to sustain our central offerings in Shakespeare, which are otherwise in the capable hands of Chris Fitter. Prospects remain bright for the establishment of a Writers’ House that will unite our programs in creative and expository writing and will serve as a cultural center for the literary arts in Camden.
SERVICE May 2001-ongoing: Member, Advisory Board, Nightingale Books Imprint
of Zoo Press. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 1997-ongoing: Member, Satisfactory Academic Progress.
WILLIAM LUTZ, Professor SERVICE June 1986-ongoing: Reviewer, College Composition and Communication.
ROBERT RYAN, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS October 2000-ongoing: Member, Editorial Board, The Wordsworth Circle. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS October 2000-ongoing: Member, Board of Advisors, The Wordsworth-Coleridge
Association of America. UNIVERSITY SERVICE July 1992-ongoing: Member, Teaching Evaluation Committee.
GEOFFREY SILL, Professor AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS September 2000-ongoing: Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History. Operating grant for “The Mickle Street Review.” EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS January 2002-ongoing: Editorial Board, The Court Journals of Frances
Burney. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT January 2002-ongoing: Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Reform of General
College Curricular Requirements. PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES “The Defoe Society.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Atlanta, GA. March 2007. (Panelist.) “Men of (In)sensibility: Colonel Digby, Edgar Mandlebert, and Others.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Atlanta, GA. March 2007. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS January 1989-ongoing: Member, Manuscript Review Board, Eighteenth-Century
Fiction. PUBLICATIONS Sill, Geoffrey. Rev. of Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Paul A. Scanlon. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2005. The Scriblerian forthcoming 2007. Sill, Geoffrey. Rev. of The Life of Daniel Defoe by John Richetti. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2005. The Scriblerian forthcoming 2007. Sill, Geoffrey. Rev. of four articles on Daniel Defoe by Sharon Alker, Rebecca E. Connor, Christopher F. Loar, and M. Wade Mahon. The Scriblerian Spring 2007. SERVICE 2006-ongoing: Chair, First Annual Nick Virgilio Haiku Conference.
Rutgers Univeristy-Camden. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 8, 2006: Examiner, English Ph.D. Oral Committee, Bliss
Kern, Rutgers-New Brunswick.
LISA ZEIDNER, Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS December 1994-ongoing: Advisory Editor, Carnegie-Mellon University
Press. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS December 1994-ongoing: Member, Board of Directors, the Painted
Bride Quarterly, Philadelphia, PA. UNIVERSITY SERVICE January 2000-ongoing: Graduate Director, English Department.
JOSEPH BARBARESE, Associate Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS 2003-ongoing: Associate Editor, Story Quarterly. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2005-ongoing: “The Romantic Invention of Childhood,” graduate seminar in Children’s Literature. First taught in July 2004. SERVICE October 2005-ongoing: Curricular Consultant, The Globe Institute of Technology. MARIE CORNELIA, Associate Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT September 1994-ongoing: Development of new bachelor’s program in Liberal Studies, University College-Camden. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2002-ongoing: Member, Italian Studies Committee.
RICHARD EPSTEIN, Associate Professor PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS January 1997-ongoing: Member, Modern Language Association of America. UNIVERSITY SERVICE January 2000-ongoing: Member, Graduate Committee.
CHRISTOPHER FITTER, Associate Professor UNIVERSITY SERVICE May 2007: University Research Council
M.A. HABIB, Associate Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Developed courses in Literary Criticism, Islamic Literature, Comic
Literature, Literatures in English III, Virginia Woolf and Feminism,
Freud. SERVICE March 2000-ongoing: Teaching Islamic History at the Islamic Center of South Jersey. UNIVERSITY SERVICE July 1998-ongoing: President, Camden Chapter AAUP.
TYLER HOFFMAN, Associate Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS September 2000-ongoing: Co-editor, The Mickle Street Review. English
Department, Rutgers University-Camden. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS September 1997-ongoing: Member, Northeast Modern Language Association. UNIVERSITY SERVICE January 2003-ongoing: Director, Graduate Program.
TIMOTHY MARTIN, Associate Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES February 6, 2007: “Joycean Vulgarities.” James Joyce
Society of New York. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS March 1998-ongoing: Member, American Conference on Irish Studies. SERVICE January 1991-ongoing: Evaluator of projects, Pennsylvania Humanities Council. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2006-ongoing: Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee
on Student Advisement.
CAROL SINGLEY, Associate Professor EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS May 1999-ongoing: Member, Editorial Board, Modern Language Studies. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT January 2001-ongoing: Director, Undergraduate Liberal Studies Program. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS January 2000-ongoing: Member, Association for Research on Mothering. January 1986-ongoing: Member, Advisory Board, Edith Wharton Review. SERVICE June 2001-ongoing: Consultant, Balanced Literacy Program, Vineland
School District. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2002-ongoing: Member, President’s Advisory Committee
on Restructuring.
HOLLY BLACKFORD, Assistant Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT January 2003-ongoing: Writing-Across-the Curriculum Initiative. SERVICE 2006-2008: Article Award Committee, Children’s Literature Association. UNIVERSITY SERVICE July 2002-ongoing: Reading and Writing Director.
SHANYN FISKE, Assistant Professor EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2006-ongoing: Director of the Classical Studies minor. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2000-ongoing: Member, Classical Association of the Atlantic States. SERVICE January 2006: Session Chair: Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Director, Classical Studies Minor
WILLIAM FITZGERALD, Assistant Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES 2007: Roundtable Discussion Leader, Research Network Forum, New
York City. June 22-24, 2007: Workshop Leader, "Rhetoric and Religion: Perspectives and Prospects," Rhetoric Society of America 2007 Biennial Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. August 2006: Invited participant, “”Communicating Science in 21st Century Contexts: A Science Writing Roundtable.” Beyond the Classroom: Writing That Works: A Conference of Professional Writing. College Park, MD. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS October 2005-August 2008: Member, Conference Organizing Committee for “Beyond the Classroom: Writing that Works,” a conference on professional writing. Professional Writing Program, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2007-ongoing: Member, Teaching Matters Committee.
LAUREN GRODSTEIN, Assistant Professor PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND LECTURES “Malpractice.” Reading. Rutgers Summer Writer’s Conference. Camden, NJ. June 2007. “Family Vacation.” Reading and discussion. Small Press Center, New York, NY. June 2007. “Notes on Camden.” Reading. KGB, New York, NY. May 2007. Writer-in-Residence Lecture. Gill St. Bernard’s School, Gladstone, NJ. May 2007. “Young Adult Authors at Rutgers.” Panel moderator. Rutgers-Camden. April 2007. “The Monica Metaphor.” Reading and discussion. Big Blue Marble Books, Philadelphia, PA. October 2006. “Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt.” Panel discussion. Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY. September 2006. LAUREN GRODSTEIN, continued “Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt.” Panel discussion. Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Community Center, Cherry Hill, NJ. September 2006. “Burning Down the House.” Reading. Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France. July 2006. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Involved in planning the new MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers-Camden. Involved in planning the hoped-for Writer’s House at Rutgers-Camden. PUBLICATIONS Grodstein, Lauren. “Notes on Camden.” Living on the Edge of the World. Touchstone, May 2007. “Notes on Gefilte Fish.” Alimentum: April 2007. “Are Christians More Tolerant than Jews?” Jewcy: March 2007. “Campus Crusade.” Fivechapters.com: December 2006. “Jewess Studies.” Jewcy: December 2006. Grodstein, Lauren. “The Interview.” Now Write. Penguin, September 2006. UNIVERSITY SERVICE September 2005-ongoing: Active in Childhood Studies "Meet
the Authors" series, bringing children’s and young adult
authors to campus.
FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT Academic year 2006-2007 has been a year of success and achievement for the faculty and students of the Department of Fine Arts. Faculty hired over the last three years continue to have a positive impact on the department in a number of areas. These faculty include: Margery Amdur, Associate Professor of Art with a focus in Painting; Paul Bernstein, Assistant Professor of Theater; Kenneth Hohing, Assistant Instructor in Photography; Elizabeth Demaray, Assistant Professor of Art with a focus in Sculpture; and just hired, Kenneth Elliott, our new Assistant Professor of Theater. Associate Professor Margery Amdur was reappointed with tenure, and Assistant Professor LiQin Tan was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Joseph Schiavo was promoted to Instructor. The Department continues to grow with around 175 majors and 20 minors, an increase in majors of more than 60 % since 2002-3. Although all areas are experiencing growth, the largest and fastest growing area is the Electronic Arts area of specialization in the Art program, with over 100 majors in either Graphic Design or Animation. Forty-eight students received B.A. degrees in Art, Music, and Theater in 2006-7. The Teacher Preparation Program in the arts continues to grow as well with around 20 students. 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 was greatly enhanced by a cadre of quality part-time Lecturers who include: in Art - Bruce Garrity, Jeffrey Filbert, Kristin Haskins, and Robert Whyte; in Art History - Dr. Susan Jones and Dr. Debra Miller; in Music - Kevin Cummines, Frank Staneck, and Julia Zavadsky; in Theater - Nancy Ellis, Larry Biren, James Mobley, and Edward Shockley. All the efforts of the department were ably supported by our secretary Marge Cosgrove, who retired in December 2006, after twenty years of devoted service. We welcomed Cara LaDouceur, our new Administrative Assistant, in March. After a complete review and revision in 2003, and a second revision in 2005, the Fine Arts faculty has successfully instituted the new curricula in Art, Music and Theater. During last academic year, the new theater curriculum was instituted under the direction of Professor Bernstein. Degree requirements and structure, course sequences, course content and prerequisites have been revised, and a number of courses were added or modified to serve better both Arts majors, and the general student. Students have commented favorably on the more structured and rational approach to curriculum. Students in all areas of the Fine Arts were actively involved in
creative pursuits that enhanced the life of the department, the
College, the campus, and the community. The Art Students League
mounted several exhibitions in the Campus Center. We also continued
to develop the new Student Works Gallery, which won a campus-wide
award. Art students also produced a second annual publication, “Matter,”
consisting of original work. Many students also received regional,
and even national and international recognition for the quality
of their work. Select student posters were included in a juried
exhibition sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts,
which was held in Beijing. Christina Holmes received an honorable
mention and was published in Photographer’s Forum, a national
publication featuring the best college photography. Jenny Paquette,
Amy Mauger, and Celeste Whitehead were nominated for the 2007 Outstanding
Student Achievement Award at the International Sculpture Center
in Hamilton, NJ. Emily Lash won regional, national, and international
recognition for her work in Graphic Design. Lucy Price won the Juror’s
Prize at the Perkins Center for the Arts Annual Photography Exhibition,
a national juried exhibition. The department worked with the Stedman
Gallery to produce its second annual Alumni Art Exhibition as part
of Reunion. This work was combined with the student thesis work
to produce the combined student thesis /alumni exhibition, “Generation
to Generation,” with work by thirty-three Art students and
thirty-two alumni. The Department also continued its series of interdisciplinary
fora, at which students from two different areas of the Department
present their work for faculty and student critique and discussion.
Numerous Graphic Design, Animation and Studio Art students won awards
or had work included in juried exhibitions. Several students won
Undergraduate Research Grants, including Mallory Wymer, Elizabeth
Torrice, and Sara Troxel in Art History; Larissa Juelg, Mary Price,
Eric Lee, Eric Thivierge, and Andy Zazzara in Art and Electronic
Arts; Mat Wright in Theater and French; and Justin Silverman in
Film. Sara Troxel was one of three recipients of the Dean’s
Undergraduate Research Prize. Christopher Santoianni and Justin
Burton’s group research project was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2006
in August 2006. They were both hired by the UVPhactory in N.Y.C.
immediately after they graduated from Rutgers-Camden. Eric Thivierge’s
and Andy Zazzera’s research project has been submitted to
SIGGRAPH 2007 and Arts Electronica 2007. Their artwork has been
accepted by the 5th International Digital Media and Art Show, which
associated with International Digital Media and Art Conference in
Philadelphia in 2007. More than 20 students were in our Madrigal Group under the direction of Professor Julianne Baird, and almost 50 students each semester participated in the Rutgers Choir under PTL Julia Zavadsky’s direction. The Madrigal Singers, under Professor Julianne Baird, performed in several venues, including the Concerts at Noon series, presenting Purcell’s “Fairie Queene,” with assistance from theater faculty and students. More than 50 scenes and student-generated works were presented during a two full days of performances in the Spring Theater Performance Festival. More than 15 students participated in Rutgers’ new Instrumental Ensemble, under the direction of Frank Staneck. Students also formed two new jazz ensembles, which performed for the community. In addition, students in graphic design, theater, and animation shared their expertise with a number of campus departments and community organizations through internships and special projects. Museum Studies interns worked for a number of museums throughout the region. A number of students were accepted into graduate programs. Diana Maria Cortes has been accepted into the Ph.D. program at Rutgers-New Brunswick; Mark Donohue, a former graduate who came back for a semester post-bac, has been accepted into the M.F.A. program in Painting at the University of Delaware. Shaun Jennings was accepted as a graduate student by Sheridan College in September 2006, and David Thomlison and Nick Martinelli were accepted as graduate students by Sheridan College in April 2007. Mat Wright received a fellowship for graduate study in theater at Temple University. More than 65 students were involved in theater productions. Paul Bernstein, Theater professor, produced and directed Shakespeare’s “The Madwoman of Chaillot,” a production that involved over 30 students. Larry Biren directed “The Importance of Being Ernest,” with the production involving over 30 students in acting and support roles. In January, the Department, through Professor Baird’s efforts, once again hosted the Amherst Early Music Society national meeting, an important event in the area of early music. Professor Wilbert Jerome produced another excellent series of Concerts at Noon, which serve the faculty, students, and community. The Fine Arts faculty had a productive year in research and creative activity. Martin Rosenberg, Professor of Art History, published his book Gender Matters in Art Education, Davis Publications, 2007, co-authored with Frances Thurber. Associate Professor of Art History Roberta Tarbell continued research for her role as guest curator for an international touring exhibition “Rodin and America,” being mounted by the Stanford University Art Museum. She was assisted by Mallory Wymer and Elizabeth Torrice, two art history honors students. Professor LiQin Tan had numerous solo exhibitions of his “Digital Natural Art,” including exhibitions in Toronto, Shanghai, and New York. He also involved a number of students in research related to his work. Asso |
