Fall 2006
December 6, 2006
Mary Ann Joyce-Walter, Professor of Music, had her composition “Spring and Fall”, performed by soprano Melanie Mitrano and pianist Judith Munro de Wette at the Alumni Theater of Caldwell College on December 3, 2006. The recital of modern American songs also featured works by other members of New York Women Composers, all of whom participated in a discussion that was held prior to the concert.
November 8, 2006
Alison Carson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, joined two of her colleagues, George Schreer and Everett Delahanty, to present a paper on the new and improved curriculum of the psychology department at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, in Baltimore, MD in March. In April, Professor Carson also took two of her seniors, conducting research with her, to the 21st Annual University of Scranton Psychology Conference, in Scranton, PA. There, Gia Daino presented their work on the role of culture and acculturation on body dissatisfaction among women; and Joanna Lowin presented research that she had conducted in the context of Professor Carson’s Qualitative Approaches to Psychology course.
November 8, 2006
Eric Slater, Associate Professor of Sociology, has published “Caffa: Early Western Expansion in the Late Medieval World, 1261-1475” in Review, Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, XXIX, 3, 2006. The article locates Genoa's Black Sea colony, the leading colonial city of early western expansion, within global currents of change to recover an alternative, extra-European path to the origin of the modern world.
November 8, 2006
Research performed by Darlene D'Alliessi Gandolfi, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department, was presented at the Microbicides 2006 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa in April 2006. The research, entitled “Drug Development as Rediscovery: The Antiretroviral Activity of the Vaginal Fungicide Ciclopirox,” is part of a collaborative effort with researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, NJ and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD to devise treatments for HIV. The goal of the Microbicides Conference is to raise public awareness of microbicides as a promising HIV prevention technology, as well as highlighting the enormity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic especially in developing countries and in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 21, 2006
A book edited by Shelley Wepner, Professor and Dean of the School of Education, and Linda Gambrell, Vice President of the International Reading Association, has been selected as the book club selection for the month of October for the International Reading Association. The book, Beating the Odds: Getting Published in the Field of Literacy (International Reading Association, Newark, Delaware), was designed to help young scholars succeed in publishing their work in refereed journals and ascertain what is needed to get books published. Some of the book’s chapters, written by leading literacy scholars, address such topics as why writing is important, how to get started publishing and barriers in professional writing. Other chapters explain how to publish works in practitioner and research journals, how to write for peer reviews in educational journals, how to deal with rejections and how to resubmit work. The book also provides information on how graduate students who work with literary professionals can publish their research and promote literary development.
September 18, 2006 -Professor Whelan Reading on Video
Irene Whelan, Professor of History and Director of Irish Studies, recently published “Religion and the Making of Irish American Identity,” in Making the Irish American, History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, edited by J. Lee and Marion Casey (N.Y.U. Press, 2006), and “The Bible Gentry: Evangelical Religion, Aristocracy, and the New Moral Order in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005, edited by Crawford Gribben and Andrew R. Holmes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). On March 13th she wrote an op-ed article for the Irish Times on “Just What It Means to be Irish These Days,” and in April she presented a paper: “Micheal MacSuibhne (1760-1820) of Ballyconree, A Lost Voice of pre-Famine Connemara,” at the annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies at the University of St. Louis-Missouri. On May 6th the Irish Times carried a review by Tom Dunne of Cork University, of her book, The Bible War in Ireland. She has received two invitations to speak about her book during the fall semester – at New York University’s Ireland House on September 28th and the Suffolk County Chapter of the Brehon Society on October 19th.
September 18, 2006
David M. Lugowski, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Communication Studies program, presented on "Writing the History of 1932 in U.S. Film," at this year's Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the conference, he also served as a respondent on the panel "Ethnicity and Nation in American Film Music." Professor Lugowski recently had five entries on filmmakers and individual films appear in the three-volume Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film edited by Ian Aitken: “Robert Siodmak;” “Jay Leyda;” “‘A Bronx Morning’ (Jay Leyda, USA, 1931-32);” “‘A Divided World’ (Arne Sucksdorff, Sweden, 1948);” and "‘The Great Adventure’ (Arne Sucksdorff, Sweden, 1953)." He also had six entries appear this year in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture edited by David Gerstner: "Dorothy Arzner," "Greta Garbo," "GMSMA," "Willian Haines," "handkerchief codes," and "James Whale."
September 7, 2006
Last May, Assistant Professor of Biology, Anna Yeung-Cheung, presented a poster titled “The significant reduction of E. coli and coliform bacteria in water and soft shelled clams (Mya arenaria) inside the Gunderboom® installed in Mamaroneck Harbor, New York,” at the American Society for Microbiology 106th Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
In June, she presented another poster, “The inhibition of S. aureus from ascorbic acid treated disposable soft contact lenses,” at the Northeast Microbiologist; Physiology, Ecology and Taxonomy Annual Meeting in Blue Mountain Lake, New York. Two Manhattanville students, Tiffany Dwileski and Maria Fetta, were involved in the projects. Professor Yeung-Cheung’s manuscript titled “The capacity of the Gunderboom® in Mamaroneck Harbor on the reduction of E. coli and coliform bacteria from water and soft-shelled clams (Mya arenaria)," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A. It is scheduled to print in Vol.A42, No. 2 (2007).
September 5, 2006
Robin L. Cautin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, recently published a chapter titled “David Shakow: Architect of Modern Clinical Psychology,” in Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology: Volume VI (the American Psychological Association and Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers). In August 2006 she gave a presentation at the Archives of the History of American Psychology, University of Akron on her David Shakow research. She collaborated with colleagues at Columbia University and the Stanford Research Institute/International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, CA) on a recently published article, “Personality factors in human deception detection: Comparing human to machine performance.” It will be presented in September at the 2006 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) in Pittsburgh. In collaboration with colleague Dr. Amy Learmonth and recent Manhanttanville graduate Adrienne Reid, Dr. Cautin presented a poster entitled, “Alexythmia and symptom-reporting within a nonclinical population,” at the March 17, 2006 Eastern Psychological Association Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
August 30, 2006
Jeff Bens, Associate Professor of English, recently published a short story, "Big Claw," in Cricket magazine and an essay in The Independent, a magazine published by the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. The essay includes an interview with Manhattanville adjunct professor and writer Jonathan Tropper, as well as Manhattanville Writers' Week professor, writer Joan Silber, among others. Professor Bens has been invited to serve as film jury chair at the 2006 Temecula Valley Film and Music Festival in California and as film jury member at the 2006 Belgian International Film Festival in Brussels.
August 29, 2006
Lisa Rafanelli, Assistant Professor of Art History, has published an article, "Seeking Truth and Bearing Witness: The 'Noli Me Tangere' and Incredulity of Thomas on Tino di Camaino's Petroni Tomb (1313-1317)" in the journal Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006, 37, 32-64. The article examines Tino di Camaino’s monument for Cardinal Riccardo Petroni (Siena Cathedral, 1313-1317), focusing on the narrative cycle of relief panels on the tomb casket. It also explores the meaning of the pendant panels of the 'Noli Me Tangere' and Incredulity of Thomas, and proposes new theories about sources of inspiration for the artist, the possible interests of the deceased in the question of bodily Resurrection, and his devotion to Saint Mary Magdalene. This article is the fruit of Professor Rafanelli’s 2004-2005 course release.
July 31, 2006
Binita Mehta, Assistant Professor and Chair of the French Department, presented a paper entitled “Fashioning Communities of Women in Postcolonial Britain and France: Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Colline Serreau’s Chaos (2001)” at a conference on Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe. The conference, held from July 6-8, 2006, was hosted by the department of Film Studies and the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes University and held at Lincoln College in Oxford, UK.
July 31, 2006
Mary Ann Joyce-Walter, Professor of Music, has received Honorable Mention in the 2006 Vanguard Premieres Choral Composition Contest for her composition "O, Only For So Short A While." There were over 190 contest entries from 12 countries and 31 states.
July 17, 2006
Shelley Wepner, Dean of the School of Education had an article published: Testing Gone Amok: Leave No Teacher Candidate Behind” in Teacher Education Quarterly, Winter 2006, 33(1), 135-149. She also published, along with Liqing Tao and Nancy Ziomek, “Broadening our view about technology integration: three literacy educators’ perspectives” in Reading Horizons, 2006, 46(3), 215-237. Last January, she presented, with Larry Krute, “Mentoring Beginning Teachers in the ‘Changing Suburbs’ at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in San Diego, California. At the same conference, she presented, with Diana Quatroche, “Developing Teachers As Leaders: New Visions for Program Development.” On April 30th she presented a keynote “Seven Principles of Highly Effective Strategies for Responding to Legislative Mandates” at the Pre-convention Institute of the International Reading Association in Chicago. This institute, titled “From the Legislative Floor to the Classroom Door: Thriving as Reading Specialists/Literacy Coaches and Administrators” was organized by Dean Wepner along with Jack Cassidy, Rita Bean, and Diana Quatroche. On April 30, 2006, she was quoted in the article, “Should They Learn Young That Their Days Are Numbered?” in The New York Times-Westchester. Last May, she served as a panelist for “The Reading Teacher: A Writer’s Peer Conference” at the International Reading Association meeting in Chicago, Illinois. She has been invited to continue to serve as reviewer for The Reading Teacher for the International Reading Association, the Journal of Teacher Education, the publication of AACTE, and for Action in Teacher Education, the publication of ATE.
July 17, 2006
Patricia Vardin Associate Professor of Education, conducted a workshop titled “Literacy and the Expressive Arts in Early Childhood Education,” in April at the Westchester Association of Early Young Children meeting, which took place at Manhattanville College. On May 6th she presented “Fostering Literacy through the Arts” at the National Association of the Education of Young Children state conference, in Saratoga Springs, Florida. Professor Vardin was nominated to Who's Who of American Women, 2006.
July 17, 2006
Kathy Rockwood, Associate Professor of Education, presented: “Nuts & Bolts: Time Management and Running a Meeting” at the March 30, 2006 Manhattanville College Developing Teachers Leader Conference. On April 8, she served as a judge for the National School Change Awards. She has been accepted to serve on the editorial board of Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning for the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and continues to act as secretary for the Metropolitan Council of Education Administration Professors.
July 17, 2006
Last February, Instructor of Education Christina Siry presented, with JoAnne Ferrara: “Reciprocal Learning Opportunities: A College/ Community School Partnership” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators in Atlanta, Georgia. In April, she served as a judge in the Environment category of the Manhattanville Annual Science Competition. Recently, Ms. Siry had an article published, “Teaching through trade books: Wonderful, wiggly worms” in Science and Children, 2006, 43(7), pp. 14-16. She is a contributor to Waterkeeper magazine for which she is creating a quarterly "kids page." The magazine is under the auspices of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. organization that is focused on preserving and protecting public water from polluters. She has so far published, “What is coal?” in Waterkeeper, Winter 2006, p. 61; and “Waterkeeper kids: Good food” in Spring 2006, p. 77.
July 17, 2006
Diane Lang, Assistant Professor of Education, was awarded a $2,500 Manhattanville Summer Grant to complete her research project, “Free to Play Outdoors? A Cross-Cultural Comparative Case Study of Urban School Playgrounds for Young Children in Denmark and the United States.” She has been accepted to serve on the editorial board of Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning for the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Last February she presented “Language Socialization towards a Sense of Community in an Urban Bilingual Early Childhood Center” at the 27th Annual Urban Ethnography in Education Research Forum, held at the University of Pennsylvania.
July 17, 2006
Fred Brandt Assistant Professor of Education, has been accepted to serve on the editorial board of Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning for the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
July 17, 2006
Associate Professor of Education Jane Gangi presented, with Mary Ellen Levin, “How Children’s Literature Contributes to Meeting Mandates” at the April 30, 2006 Pre-convention Institute of the International Reading Association conference in Chicago. With Mary Ann Reilly, Professor Gangi presented “Occasioning Social Justice: Harkening Women’s Authorial Voices in the Classroom” on February 25, 2006 at the New England Women’s Studies Association Conference, which was held at Norwalk Community College.
July 17, 2006
Associate Professor of Education Joan Weinreich published her poem, “Little Cemeteries” in Studio One, May 2006, 31, pp. 82-83. At the April 5, 2006 Manhattanville College Faculty Lecture, she presented: “Teacher Preparation in a Field-Based Setting” with JoAnne Ferrara, second grade teacher Heather Rinello and students Erica Silver, Theresa Stellaci, and Katie Hand. She also presented “How Parents Can Support Their High Achieving Children” at the MPALS Parents/Manhattanville College meeting last January. She served as one of the panelists at the June 1, 2006 Changing Suburbs Institute (CSI) Educational Forum held at Manhattanville.
July 17, 2006
JoAnne Ferrara, Assistant Professor of Education, has been accepted to serve on the editorial board of Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning for the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Last February Professor Ferrara presented, with Christina Siry: “Reciprocal Learning Opportunities: A College/ Community School Partnership” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators in Atlanta, Georgia. At the April 5, 2006 Manhattanville College Faculty Lecture, she presented “Teacher Preparation in a Field-Based Setting” with Joan Weinreich, second grade teacher Heather Rinello and students Erica Silver, Theresa Stellaci, and Katie Hand.
July 17, 2006
Larry Krute, Associate Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Graduate Advising, presented with Shelley Wepner: “Mentoring Beginning Teachers in the ‘Changing Suburbs” at the January 2006 meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in San Diego, California. In April, he served as a judge in the Environment category of the Manhattanville Annual Science Competition. He has been accepted to serve on the editorial board of Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning for the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
July 17, 2006
On May 5, 2006, Rhonda L. Clements, Professor of Education and Director of the MAT in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, presented, with Sharon L. Schneider: "Utilizing Physical Play Activities to Enhance Academic Learning” at the National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) State Conference in Saratoga Springs, Florida. In January Professor Clements was an invited participant at the "The Place of Play in International Development Work Seminar" of the International Play Association meeting at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
July 17, 2006
Rick Heckendorn, Assistant Professor of Education, had an article published, “A Teacher’s Attitude Always Matters!” In Transition, Winter 2006, 23(2), 23-25. He presented: “Individualize within a Classroom Community,” at a meeting of the New Jersey Middle School Association on March 27, 2006.
June 27, 2006
Tim Ross, Assistant Professor of Art, currently has a monotype in the Summer Group Show at Denise Bibro Fine Art, 520 West 20th St. NYC. The show is up until August 19. Denise Bibro Fine Art brought four of his monotypes to the AAF Art Fair, which was held June 16-18 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC. A digital print was shown in the 19th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Recently, Denise Bibro Fine Art showed his monotypes at Art-Miami.