December 2007

Faculty Staff Achievements

STEPHEN SCHUR (Marketing and Communications) reported that the judges in the CASE District II Accolades Awards program awarded Ramapo College a Bronze award for the news Web site.

NIZA FABRE (AIS) presented “Afro-Ecuadorian Women:  Social Struggle and Achievement” in a panel organized by the Africana Studies Convening Group for the Fourth Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), held in Barbados.

YUAN GAO (ASB) (photo left) edited “Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior,” a book that takes an interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers’ perceptions, attitude, intentions and actual behavior.

FRANCES SHAPIRO-SKROBE (SSHS) presented “Expanding Sentence Complexity and Variety in Student Writing” at the annual conference of the national College Reading Association in Salt Lake City.  She also chaired a session, “Why Would They do That to Chicanos?  Latina/o Adolescents Developing Academic Discourses and Literacies Through Engagement with Latino-Centered Literature in an ESL-Designated Middle School Language Arts Classroom,” and served as discussant at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English in Manhattan.

JILLIAN TODD WEISS (SSHS) (photo left) authored “Equal Opportunity Day” for edition 135 of the “Blawg Review,” a weekly, peer-reviewed round-up of legal blogs hosted each week at a different legal blog site.  President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed November 19 as Equal Opportunity Day. Read more at: http://transworkplace.blogspot.com/2007/11/blawg-review-135.html.

VALERIE WILSON WESLEY (CA) is an editor at “Essence” magazine.  She also is a published author.  Her newest book, “Of Blood and Sorrow,” is the latest in the Tamara Hayle Mystery series.

DANIELA BUNA (TAS) shared news about Engineering Physics majors.  NICK KUZMIK obtained a research assistantship with NASA.  Another student, ALEX MARIES, is the first Ramapo student to complete a summer undergraduate research internship as a freshman.  He participated in a summer internship at Notre Dame University this past summer and published his first research paper on a transistor he designed and built.  His work is displayed on the first floor of the G building in front of the elevator.

ELLEN KAIDEN (SSHS) (photo right) reported that DOUGLAS KALINOWKSI, KIMBERLY SYNARSKI, AUBREY LORD, LAUREN FLETCHER and KATIE MULLER were panelists during a presentation about the Student Literacy Corps at the Future Educators at Ramapo meeting.  Two of the students are tutoring at Eastside High School and three are tutoring at PS #28, both in Paterson. Panelists were very articulate and passionate, noted Kaiden.  In telling their stories they relayed that they are making a difference in the lives of Paterson students.

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