Archived Achievements: September 2008
| COLLEGE RECOGNITION |
Ramapo College was awarded the APEX Grand Award in the 20th Annual Competition for Communications Professionals for the Ramapo Magazine-Annual Report Edition 2007 in the category of Annual Reports.
The College also was awarded the APEX Award of Excellence for Publication Excellence in the 20th Annual Competition for Communications Professionals for the Ramapo College Admissions Recruitment Video in the category of Marketing & Public Relations-Electronic & Video Publications.
The Web Marketing Association presented the 2008 international Webaward to Ramapo College for outstanding achievement in Web site development.
| FACULTY AND STAFF KUDOS |
"Too Lost to Find," a documentary by BONNIE BLAKE (CA) premiered at the New Jersey International Film Festival at Rutgers University in May and was selected for the Peace on Earth Film Festival in Chicago in August.
"Yellow Electras," a play written and directed by PETER A. CAMPBELL (CA) enjoyed a limited run in July at the Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church in Manhattan.
Ramapo College staff and students played an active role in the production. ANN E. LEPORE (CA) designed a video used in the production. Students ASHLIE MILLER, LAUREN OSPALA and MARJORIE POLUNAS were members of the chorus.
"Resisting Bodies: Narratives of Italian Partisan Women," edited and translated by ROSETTA D'ANGELO (AIS) and Barbara Zaczek of Clemson University, was named by the Chicago Journal/American Historical Review as a significant history book for 2008.
PAUL ELOVITZ (AIS) published 11 articles this past summer. The most recent, "A Comparative Psychohistory of McCain and Obama," will be published in the fall issue of the Journal of Psychohistory. Other articles relevant to the 2008 election, "Race in America and the 2008 Election" and "Obama’s Dreams from and of His Father," will appear this month in Clio’s Psyche. He gave three presentations and organized three panels at international conferences in Paris in July and at Fordham University in June. He served as a senior mentor to a junior scholar from Argentina at the International Society for Political Psychology in Paris in July.
BRUCE FREEMAN (ASB) co-authored "Birthing the Elephant," an action guide for women entrepreneurs. The book was published in March.
DAVID LEWIS-COLMAN (SSHS) authored "Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW," part of the Working Class in American History Series published by the University of Illinois Press in May.
Works by JUDITH PECK (CA) were on display at the Lana Santorelli Gallery in Chelsea this past summer in a "Summer Nudes" exhibition. Her work also was displayed at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack last spring. Her three-figure, life-size grouping of a family and cabin titled "Appalachia" is currently on view at the New Jersey Sculpture Garden in Leonia. The over-life-size fiberglass Holocaust memorial, "Resettlement" and a bronze, "Child with Blanket," remain at The Clifton Art Park in Clifton. Selections of Peck’s bronze sculptures are on display at The Fieldstone Gallery on Main Street in Ramsey.
CONCETTA VALERIO (Athletics) was named head field hockey coach. She is a 2006 graduate of Kean University where she earned a degree in Biology with a certification in education. Coach Valerio was a scholar athlete in 2005 and 2006. A four-year starter on the Lady Cougars field hockey team, she holds the school record for most wins in a season (15), most career shut outs (24) and most career wins (50). In 2004, Valerio helped lead the Cougars to 14 wins and a post-season appearance in the ECAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship Tournament. She also was a four-year starter for the women’s lacrosse program.
JILLIAN TODD WEISS (SSHS) was interviewed for a New York Times article, "Smoother Transitions," published September 3. The article discussed how gender transition in the workplace has changed in the last decade. The article can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/fashion/04WORK.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Channel 11 News also interviewed her on September 8 about a professor at Yeshiva University who has transitioned from male to female. The video may be viewed at http://transworkplace.blogspot.com/2008/09/religious-institution-accepts.html.
In addition, she was interviewed for XM Radio’s "Life’s Work" show discussing gender transition in the workplace. For more information refer to the following website: http://www.xmradio.com/onxm/channelpage.xmc?ch=155.
| STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS |
BARBARA KALINA e-mailed that the result of a collaborative project with PETER SCHECKNER (AIS) and MARY BOYES, a former Ramapo professor now at the University of Richmond, has resulted in a book, "The Way We Work, Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace." You may read about it at http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4152.
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