School of Arts & Science Faculty & Student Achievements 2013–14 by Iona College

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75 Years Founded 1940

TABLE OF CONTENTS Biology 5 Chemistry 9 Computer Science 14 Criminal Justice 16 Education 18 English 20 Fine and Performing Arts 23 Music Studies 24 Visual Arts Studies 25 Foreign Language 37 History 39 Mass Communication 40 Mathematics 43 Physics 44 Political Science 45 Psychology 49 Religious Studies 54 Social Work 65 Sociology 68 Speech Communications Studies 69

Biology Publications (*indicates undergraduate student co-authors): Teresa G. D’Aversa, Ph.D. •

Jessica Jacabacci*, Michael Guzzardi* and Teresa G. D’Aversa. Exogenous Folic Acid is not able to Inhibit the Effects of Methotrexate on the Folate Pathway. Under review.

Peter Letourneau, Ph.D. •

Letourneau, P.M., Great Spaces of Rock: The Environmental Geography of the Connecticut Valley. Wesleyan University Press, Anticipated date of publication: Fall 2015.

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Letourneau, P.M., Huber, P.* and Olsen, P.E.*, Tectono-stratigraphic Evolution of the Richmond Rift, Virginia, USA: Sedimentation and Structural Development of a Triassic Age Coal Basin.

Invited Seminars: Teresa G. D’Aversa, Ph.D. •

Guest Lecturer for Advanced Concepts in Neuroimmunology, Rutgers University, May 12, 2014 Title: Myelin Basic Protein as a Key Neuroimmune Modulator in CNS Damage

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Speaker for New Rochelle High School Science Research Symposium, May 20, 2014 Title: Investigating the Effects of Brain Cell Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis

Peter Letourneau, Ph.D. •

Invited Lecture, Portland Library. Title: Boldest and Most Beautiful: The Traprock Landscapes of the Connecticut Valley

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Keynote Lecture, Central Connecticut Adult Learning Center (Middlesex Community College) Title: Great Spaces of Rock: The Environmental Geography of the Connecticut Valley

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Invited Keynote Address, Hagen Iona-UConn Summer Symposium Title: Under Changing Skies: The Economic Impacts of Variable Climate on Complex Societies

Joseph Stabile, Ph.D. •

Panel Discussant, New York City Network of Health Professions Advisors held at the SUNY State College of Optometry. Title: Preparing Students for MCAT 2015: Course Suggestions and Curriculum Changes.

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Guest Lecturer for Graduate Program in Toxicology, New York University at the Langone Medical Center Title: The Fate of Allelic Variation in Human Populationsto students in

Poster/Platform Presentations (*indicates undergraduate student coauthors): Teresa G. D’Aversa, Ph.D. •

Courtney Veilleux* and Teresa G. D’Aversa. Dopamine and Proline Induced Abnormalities in Zebrafish and Human Neuroblastoma Cells: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia. NCUR 2014, University of Kentucky, April 3-5, 2014.

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Melvin Hydleburg*, Courtney Veilleux* and Teresa G. D’Aversa. The Effects of Interferon-beta on Oxidative Stress in Neurons. 22nd Annual CSTEP Statewide Student Conference, Lake George, New York, April 11-13, 2014.

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Melvin Hydleburg*, Courtney Veilleux*, and Teresa G. D’Aversa. The Effects of Interferon-beta on Oxidative Stress in Neurons. 5th Annual Iona Scholars Day, April 8, 2014.

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Jessica Jacabacci*, Michael Guzzardi*, and Teresa G. D’Aversa. Exogenous Folic Acid is not able to Inhibit the Effects of Methotrexate on the Folate Pathway. 5th Annual Iona Scholars Day, April 8, 2014.

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David Blessington* and Teresa G. D’Aversa. An Analysis of the Effect of Weather Related Events on Nitrites in the Water Treatment Process. 5th Annual Iona Scholars Day, April 8, 2014.

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Courtney Veilleux* and Teresa G. D’Aversa. Dopamine and Proline Induced Abnormalities in Zebrafish and Human Neuroblastoma Cells: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia. Oral Presentation Beta Beta Beta NE-1 District Convention, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, NY. April 26, 2014.

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Melvin Hydleburg*, Courtney Veilleux*, and Teresa G. D’Aversa. The Effects of Interferon-beta on Oxidative Stress in Neurons. Beta Beta Beta NE-1 District Convention, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, NY. April 26, 2014.

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David Blessington* and Teresa G. D’Aversa. An Analysis of the Effect of Weather Related Events on Nitrites in the Water Treatment Process. Beta Beta Beta NE-1 District Convention, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, NY. April 26, 2014.

Peter Letourneau, Ph.D. •

Nuanah, P.* and Letourneau, P.M. Natural Resource Management in Equatorial Africa: Economic Implications of Water Supply and Disposal in Ghana., Hagen Iona-UConn Summer Symposium, 2014.

Yourha Kang, Ph.D. •

Vincent Cefola*, Constance Maurer*, and Yourha Kang. Analysis of Hypervariable DNA for the Identification of Polymorphisms Among Populations of Asclepias Tuberosa in the United States. Beta Beta Beta NE-1 District Convention, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, NY. April 26, 2014.

Grants/Funding: Teresa G. D’Aversa, Ph.D.

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Agency: Patrick J. Martin Foundation Title: “Effects of Exogenous Lithium, Dopamine, and Nicotine on Zebrafish Development and Dopamine Receptors in Neuroblastoma Cells” Status: Awarded $5,000 for a 10-week summer stipend for Courtney Veilleux

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Agency: Multiple Sclerosis Society Pilot Project Title: “Determining the Role of the Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor Related Protein (LRP)-1 in Multiple Sclerosis” Status: Requested $40,000; not awarded

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Agency: Agricen Title: “Isolation of ACC Deaminase-Positive Aerobic, Endospore-Forming Bacteria” Status: Awarded $5,000

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Agency: National Institutes of Health - R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award Title: “The Role of SDF-1alpha (CXCL12) and Myelin Basic Protein in the Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis” Status: (Requested $250,000); Awaiting Review

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Other Scholarly Activities: Teresa G. D’Aversa, Ph.D. •

Dr. D’Aversa is currently in the process of establishing a BS in Forensic Science major on campus. Dr. D’Aversa has been in contact with both the Dean of the Graduate School and the Director of the MS Forensic Science Program at John Jay College to establish an articulation between our two schools for Iona students that graduate with a BS in Forensic Science to enter the John Jay MS program.

Peter Letourneau, Ph.D. •

Dr. Letourneau is working with the Sheldrake Nature Center to establish a relationship so that Iona students will be able to participate in internships and volunteering. He has coordinated, with the Science Learning Floor, a clean-up trip to the lake.

Joseph Stabile, Ph.D. •

Dr. Joseph Stabile organized a one-day conference on the Iona campus with Tour for Diversity in Medicine. The goal of the conference was to encourage underrepresented minorities to pursue careers in medicine and educate students about all the health professions. Students from many colleges and universities in the tri-state area participated in the conference, and over 15 medical and professional schools were present.

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Consultant for Beechmont and Glenwood Lake Homeowners Association. He was responsible for advising the association on the number of fountain/aerators and the type that would be best for Beechmont Lake. He and his students measured the depth of the lake at various points finding the most suitable places for the fountains. They will also be monitoring the oxygen levels in the lake to determine how long the fountains should run each day.

General Departmental Achievements •

The Biology Department has developed three new courses, BIO230 (Pathophysiology), BIO419 (Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism) and BIO490 (Special Topics in Modern Biology).

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The Biology Department has reworked the pre-professional concentration to be more competitive and inclusive for students not only interested in pre-medicine, pre-veterinary, and pre-dental, but also those interested in graduate school. It is now called the Cell and Molecular Biology Concentration. There are also course changes that accompanied the name change.

Student Achievements Honors Won at Conferences: •

Courtney Veilluex won the Frank G. Brooks award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research presented in an oral session for her platform presentation titled “Dopamine and Proline Induced Abnormalities in Zebrafish and Human Neuroblastoma Cells: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia” at the Beta Beta Beta NE-1 District Convention at College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY, April 26, 2014.

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Melvin Hydleburg won First Place Biology I Division for his poster titled “The Effects of Interferon-beta on Oxidative Stress in Neurons” at the 22nd Annual CSTEP Statewide Student Conference, Lake George, New York, April 11-13, 2014.

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David Blessington ’14 “An Analysis of the Effect of Weather-Related Events on Nitrites in the Water Treatment Process” (Advisor: Teresa G. D’Aversa)

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Brianna Hines ’14 “Toxicity of Copper to the Development of Danio rerio” (Advisor: Joseph Stabile)

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Courtney Veilleux ’14 “Dopamine and Proline Induced Abnormalities in Zebrafish and Human Neuroblastoma Cells: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia” (Advisor: Teresa G. D’Aversa)

Graduate School Placements: Student name

Program, School

Ammirato, Valerie ’13

DVM, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine

Curtis, Justin ’13

DPM, Arizona School of Podiatric Medicine at Midwestern University

Jackson, Laura ’13

MS Biology, University of Idaho

Zorn, Julia ’13

DO, Pennsylvania School of Osteopathic Medicine

Guzzardi, Michael ’14

MS Physician Assistant, NYIT School of Health Professions

Jacabacci, Jessica ’14

MS Physician Assistant, Touro College School of Health Sciences

Skeivys, Maria ’14

DPT, SUNY Stony Brook

Veilleux, Courtney ’14

Ph.D. Program, Rutgers University School of Biomedical Science

The National Biological Honor Society (BBB) Induction Ceremony took place on May 2, 2014. Nine students were inducted. These included: Holly Adinolfi ’14 (Biology) Peter Basilios ’15 (Biology) Ashley Bresnahan ’15 (Biology) Andrew Cassar ’15 (Biology) Brittany Perfetto ’14 (Biology) Brandon Rooney ’14 (Biology) Natalie Ziskin ’16 (Biology) Rosario Giacomini ’15 (Associate Member, Biochemistry) Constance Maurer ’15) (Associate Member, Biochemistry Omoakhe Tisor ’15 (Associate Member, Biochemistry)

Three Biology students were accepted into Delta Epsilon Sigma. These were: Michael Foti ’14 Micahel Guzzardi ’14 Maria Skeivys ’14

Chemistry Chemistry Department Submitted by Sunghee Lee On August 18, 2014

Honors and Awards Sunghee Lee, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, named as Iona College Board of Trustees Endowed Professor in Science

Publications (undergraduate student co-authors underlined) Terrence Gavin, Ph.D. Lihai Zhang, Terrence Gavin, Brian C. Geohagen, Qiang Liu, Katherine J. Downey, and Richard M. LoPachin, “Protective Properties of 2-Acetylcyclopentanone in a Mouse Model of Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity” Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2013, 346:259–269. LoPachin, Richard; Gavin, Terrence, “Molecular Mechanisms of Aldehyde Toxicity: A Chemical Perspective” Chemical Research in Toxicology 2014. Accepted (in press) Lihai Zhang, Terrence Gavin, Brian C. Geohagen, and Richard M. LoPachin “Thiol and enolate-forming compounds as hepatoprotectants in a Mouse Model of Acetaminophen overdose” J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2014. Submitted (under review)

Sunghee Lee, Ph.D. Z. Michalak, M. Muzzio, P.J. Milianta, R. Giacomini, S. Lee, “Effect of Monoglyceride Structure and Cholesterol Content on Water Permeability of the Droplet Bilayer”, Langmuir, 29 (51), 15919–15925, 2013. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la4040535

Conference Presentations (undergraduate student co-authors underlined) Sunghee Lee, Ph.D. •

Sunghee Lee, “From Biological Membranes to Crystallization: One Droplet at a Time”, 2014 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, November 30 - December 5, 2014, Boston, MA (Submitted).

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Sunghee Lee, “A Recipe for Successful Undergraduate Research”, 2014 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, November 30 - December 5, 2014, Boston, MA (Submitted).

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Sunghee Lee, “Engineering of Monolayers and Bilayers at an Aqueous Microdroplet”, The 248th ACS Fall National Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 10-14, 2014.

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Michelle Muzzio, Peter Milianta, Rosario Giacomini, Zuzanna Michalak, and Sunghee Lee, “Water Permeability Studies Using a Droplet Interface Bilayer: Effect of Monoglyceride Structure and Cholesterol Content”, The 248th ACS Fall National Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 10-14, 2014.

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Omoakhe Tisor, Michelle Muzzio, David Lopez*, and Sunghee Lee, “Adaptability of Monoglyceride-Templated Crystallization at the Liquid-Liquid Interface”, The 248th ACS Fall National Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 10-14, 2014. [*New Rochelle High School]

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Sunghee Lee, “From Biological Membranes to Crystallization: One Droplet at a Time”, Gordon Research Conference, Biointerface Science: Engineered Biomolecular Interfaces, Lucca (Barga), Italy, June 15-20, 2014.

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Sunghee Lee, “A Tale of Soft Surface Engineering: The Aqueous Microdroplet”, The 88th ACS Colloids and Surface Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 22-25, 2014.

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Michelle Muzzio, Peter Milianta, Rosario Giacomini, Sunghee Lee, Effect of Monoglyceride Structure and Cholesterol Content on Water Permeability of the Droplet Bilayer, NY ACS 62nd URS, St. John’s University, NY, May 3, 2014.

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Michelle Muzzio, Omoakhe Tisor, David Lopez, Sunghee Lee, Adaptability of Monoglyceride-Templated Crystallization, NY ACS 62nd URS, St. John’s University, NY, May 3, 2014.

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Omoakhe Tisor, Michelle Muzzio, David Lopez, and Sunghee Lee, “Adaptability of Monoglyceride-Templated Crystallization”, The 5th Annual Iona Scholars Day, Iona College. April 8, 2014.

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Peter Milianta, Michelle Muzzio, Rosario Giacomini, Zuzanna Michalak, and Sunghee Lee “Effect of Monoglyceride Structure and Cholesterol Content on Water Permeability of the Droplet Bilayer”, The 5th Annual Iona Scholars Day, Iona College. April 8, 2014.

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Peter Vitale, and Sunghee Lee, “A Novel Crystallization Technique for Glycine”, The 5th Annual Iona Scholars Day, Iona College. April 8, 2014.

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Peter Vitale, Sunghee Lee, A Novel Crystallization Technique for Glycine: Droplet Dehydration via Hydrogel, The National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Lexington, KY, April 3-5, 2014.

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Rosario Giacomini, Michelle Muzzio, Peter Milianta, Sunghee Lee, Development of Artificial Membrane as Model for Human Diseases of Impaired Water Transport, NCUR, Lexington, KY, April 3-5, 2014.

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Michelle Muzzio, Omoakhe Tisor, David Lopez, Sunghee Lee, Adaptability of Monoglyceride-Templated Crystallization: Effect of Specific Anion and Chain Splay, NCUR, Lexington, KY, April 3-5, 2014.

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Rosario Giacomini, Michelle Muzzio, Peter Milianta, Zuzanna Michalak, Sunghee Lee, Water Permeability Studies with Droplet Interface Bilayers, 2013 ACS Northeast Regional Meeting, New Haven, CT, Oct. 23-26, 2013.

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Sean Campbell, Geoffrey Cawley, Smiljana Petrovic, Sunghee Lee, Determining the Concentration of Caffeine in CH2Cl2 by Analyzing Near Infrared Spectra Using Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines, 2013 ACS Northeast Regional Meeting, New Haven, CT, Oct. 23-26, 2013.

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Jaclyn Robustelli, Safiat Ayinde, Emil W. Ciurczak, Cynthia Kradjel, Sunghee Lee, Development of a Hybrid Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)-Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) for OTC Pharmaceuticals, 2013 ACS Northeast Regional Meeting, New Haven, CT, Oct. 23-26, 2013.

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Michelle Muzzio, Omoakhe Tisor, David Lopez, Sunghee Lee, Anion Sensitivity of Monoglycerides at the Liquid-Liquid Interface, 2013 ACS Northeast Regional Meeting, New Haven, CT, Oct. 23-26, 2013.

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Peter Vitale, Zuzanna Michalak, Darius Fartash, Nousin Haque, Sunghee Lee, Inorganic Crystallization at a Nanomembrane, 2013 ACS Northeast Regional Meeting, New Haven, CT, Oct. 23-26, 2013.

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Michelle Muzzio, Peter Milianta, Rosario Giacomini, Zuzanna Michalak, Sunghee Lee, Development of Droplet Interface Bilayer for Water Permeability Studies, CHED-246:180, The 246th ACS Fall National Meeting 2013, Indianapolis, IN, Sept. 8-12, 2013.

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Peter Vitale, Zuzanna Michalak, Darius Fartash, Nousin Haque, Sunghee Lee, Inorganic Crystallization at a Nanomembrane, CHED-246:249, The 246th ACS Fall National Meeting 2013, Indianapolis, IN, Sept. 8-12, 2013.

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Michelle Muzzio, Omoakhe Tisor, David Lopez, Sunghee Lee, Anion Sensitivity of Monoglycerides at the Liquid-Liquid Interface, CHED-246:294, The 246th ACS Fall National Meeting 2013, Indianapolis, IN, Sept. 8-12, 2013.

Kathleen Kristian, Ph.D. •

“Teaching collaboration skills through a wiki-based inorganic chemistry group project”. Oral presentation for the 248th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2014, paper CHED-507.

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Friedbauer, S.; Kabashi, D.; O’Brien, K.; Kristian, K. E. “A Protocol for the Analysis of the Mercury Content of Commercial Fish Samples by CVAAS in Undergraduate Labs”. Poster presentation at the 2013 Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NERM), New Haven, CT, October 2013, paper NERM-1186.

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Barajas, J.; Ferencz, K.; Kabashi, D.; Friedbauer, S.; O’Brien, K.; Gomez, J.; Kristian, K. E. “Determination of the Mercury Content of Commercial Fish Samples by Cold Vapor AAS”. Poster presentation at the 2013 Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NERM), October 2013, New Haven, CT, paper NERM-1236.

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Ferencz, K.; Barajas, J.; Kristian, K. E. “Evaluation of a Nonionic Surfactant to Eliminate Interference in the Determination of Calcium by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy”, Poster presentation at Iona Scholars Day, April 2014.

Presentations - Others Terrence Gavin, Ph.D. •

“Using Hard Soft Acid Base Parameters to Describe the Toxicity of Chemicals” United States Environmental Protection Agency, September, 2013 (Webinar).

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“Predictive Toxicology” CSI, Iona College, November 2013.

Sunghee Lee, Ph.D. •

(Invited) Sunghee Lee, Good to the Last Drop: From Membranes to Crystallization, Sarah Lawrence College, Science Science Seminar Series, Sept. 24, 2013.

External Grants (Awarded or Pending) •

T. Gavin (PI), “SYNTHESIS of 2-ACP ANALOGUES and DERIVATIVES,” Montefiore Medical Center. ($22,000)

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T. Gavin (Co-PI), “Nerve Terminal as a Site of Action for Type-2 Alkenes,” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (RO1-ES03830), Richard M. LoPachin (Montefiore Medical Center) PI ($346,000).

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Kathleen Kristian (PI), “Synthesis of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Copper for C–H Bond Activation,” American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) Undergraduate New Investigator (UNI) Award, 2014

Amount Requested: $55,000 (funding decision pending) •

Sunghee Lee (PI), Terrence Gavin (Co-PI), Kathleen Kristian (Co-PI), Joseph Ryan (Co-PI), National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Award Program, 2014

“Acquisition of Confocal Raman Microscope for the Enhancement of Research and Education at Iona College,” Awarded ($184,153) •

Sunghee Lee (PI), National Meeting Travel Grant, American Chemical Society Student Affiliates Program, Awarded ($300)

Iona Grants (Awarded) •

Kathleen Kristian, Faculty Development and Travel Award toward travel to the 2014 ACS Fall National Meeting, August 10-14, 2012, San Francisco, CA, to present a paper. (Awarded ($1,200))

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Joseph Ryan, “From Desktop to Device: Bridging the Digital Divide with Real-Time Data Collection and Analysis and Distributed Data in Networks in Environmental Science and Chemistry” (with Dr. Peter Letourneau), Awarded ($5,000)

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Joseph Ryan, “Hybrid/Blended Biochemistry I” (with Dr. Thomas Castonguay), Awarded ($5,000)

Other Scholarly Activities Kathleen Kristian, Ph.D.: Organizer of the “Frontiers of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry” Lecture Symposium, an event of the Inorganic and Organometallic Topical Group of the New York ACS Local Section that featured seminars from four prominent inorganic chemists in the NY region and a keynote address from Professor Patrick Holland of Yale University. Served as chair of the symposium session, which was attended by over 70 chemists and students from the NY region. Joseph Ryan, Ph.D.: Participated in (1) the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities Grants Workshop, August 22, 2014 at the New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY; (2) Participated in the “Introduction to Teaching Science Online” Workshop, February, 2014 at the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY.

Instructional Projects New Course Design: CHM 321 Biochemistry I by Dr. J. Ryan Course Revision: BIO 420/CHM 420 Biochemistry Laboratory by Dr. J. Ryan with Dr. Y. Kang Course Revision: CHM 320 Chemical Synthesis by Dr. J. Ryan Course Revision: CHM 109/110 Lab Manual by Dr. K. Kristian

Students Achievements Published Student Research Z. Michalak, M. Muzzio, P.J. Milianta, R. Giacomini, S. Lee, “Effect of Monoglyceride Structure and Cholesterol Content on Water Permeability of the Droplet Bilayer”, Langmuir, 29 (51), 15919–15925, 2013. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ la4040535

Conference Presentations by Students: Total 29 conference presentations involving 58 students - local, regional, national level conferences •

The 5th Iona Scholars Day at Iona College: 12 posters presented by 15 students

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The 62nd NY ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium, St. John’s University, Queens, NY: Two oral presentations by 5 students

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The 246th National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN: Four posters presented by 12 students

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The National Council for Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY: Three oral presentations by 7 students

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The Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Haven, CT: Eight posters presented by 19 students

External Awards •

ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award: Safiat Ayinde (Biochemistry ’15)

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CRC Press LLC Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award: Kalen Sullivan (Biochemistry ’17)

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Westchester Chemical Society Student Award: Sue Ellen Evangelista (Biochemistry ’17)

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ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award: for 2013, Mona Jasmine Ahonen (Chemistry ’14), for 2014, Daniel Lutolf Carroll (Chemistry ’14)

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ACS Certified Degree Recipients 2012: Willmor Javier Pena , Mona Jasmine Ahonen, Jennifer Barajas, Kristen Ferencz

Seven Students Inducted to National Chemistry Honor Society (GSE) Iona College’s National Chemistry Honor Society Chapter inducted seven chemistry and biochemistry majors at a ceremony that took place at the College on April 25, 2014. The inductees for 2014 were: •

Willmor Javier Pena

(Chemistry ’14)

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Anthony F. Ascione

(Biology, minor in Chemistry ’14)

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Rosario Anthony Giacomini

(Biochemistry ’15)

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Samantha M. Leggio

(Biochemistry ’16)

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Mary Ellen Mangione

(Chemistry ’16)

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Ricardo Andre Oliveira

(Chemistry ’16)

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Peter John Milianta

(Biochemistry ’16)

Honors Thesis •

Peter Vitale: Generation and Analysis of Glycine Polymorphs

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Jaclyn Robustelli: Development of a Hybrid Analytical Technique Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Thin Layer Chromatography

Graduate School Placements •

Jaclyn Robustelli ’14, Ph.D. Chemistry Program at University of Pennsylvania, PA

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Peter Vitale ’14, OD Program at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Mona Jasmine Ahonen ’14, Ph.D. Chemistry Program at UNC, Chapel Hill, NC

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Kristen Ferencz, ’14, MS Food Science Program at UMass, Amerst, MA

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Steven Glinias, ’14, MST Adolescent Education, Iona College, NY

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Nancy Ibrahim, ’14, MS Experimental Psychology, Iona College, NY

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Wilmor Pena, ’14, MS Computer Science, Iona College, NY

All Notable Departmental Activities Career Event for Existing Majors: CSI Events for 2013-2014 Launched in the Fall of 2004 and moderated by Sunghee Lee, the Careers in Science at Iona Program (CSI) is an ongoing effort to familiarize undergraduates with the nature of careers in science, and demonstrate the breadth of career opportunities in scientific fields. Speakers from industry, government, and academia are invited to make presentations and share lunch with current students and faculty. During academic year of 2013-2014, 17 CSI events have been organized as below. CSI Guest Speakers (AY 13-14) Amy Dorsey, MS, Criminalist at New York City Police Department New York College of Podiatric Medicine Shouheng Sun, Ph.D., Brown University John Miecznikowski, Ph.D., Fairfield University Jon Friedrich, Ph.D., Fordham University Brian Gibney, Ph.D., Brooklyn, CUNY Terrence Gavin, Ph.D., Iona College Tour for Diversity in Medicine Info Session on Research Associates (RA) Program at St. Vincent’s Medical Center Marlin Thomas, Rudin Center, Iona College Eban Goodstein, Ph.D., Director, Bard MBA in Sustainability; Director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy Stephanie Lamassa, Ph.D., Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics “The Medical and Dental School Application Process” - Joseph Stabile, Ph.D., Iona College Graduate Program in Human Genetics - Sarah Lawrence College “I Don’t Want to go to Medical School - What else can I do in the Health Professions?” - Joseph Stabile, Ph.D., Iona College Debra Hanna, Ph.D., RN - Graduate Nursing Programs, Molloy College Careers in K-12 Education (Elena Savrides, New Rochelle High School)

Computer Science The Computer Science Department has continued to raise the expectations for faculty research, and, wherever possible, for collaborative, interdisciplinary research. The department is particularly interested in having graduate and undergraduate students participate in research projects. These research opportunities enrich the students’ educational experiences. This effort continued in the 2013 – 2014 academic year. The notes below describe some of results of these activities.

Paolina Centonze, Ph.D. Conducted important research in the area of cyber-security. Some highlight of her work are: •

William May and Paolina Centonze. “Dynamic Analysis for Android Applications.” The 24’th International Information Management Association Conference (IIMA), Iona College, New York, October 2013.

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Paolina Centonze, Marco Pistoia, Omer Trip. “SARA: Access-rights Analysis in the Presence of Subjects.” 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2014), New Orleans, Louisiana. December 2014.

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Ryan Berg, Paolina Centonze, Marco Pistoia, and Omer Tripp. Static Analysis for Verification of Software Program Access to Secure Resources for Computer Systems. Granted as Patent No. 8,683,599 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, March 2014.

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Mondher Ben-Hamida, Chad Boucher, Paolina Centonze, Mary E. Helander, Kaan K. Katircioglu, and Karthik Sourirajan. Carbon management for sourcing and logistics. Granted as Patent No. 8,606,621 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, December 2013.

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Paolina Centonze, Yinnon Avraham Haviv, Roee Hay, Marco Pistoia, Adi Sharabani, and Omer Tripp. System, method and apparatus for simultaneous definition and enforcement of access-control and integrity policies. Granted as Patent No. 8,572,727 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, October 2013.

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Paolina Centonze, Yinnon Avraham Haviv, Roee Hay, Marco Pistoia, Adi Sharabani, and Omer Tripp. System, Method, and Apparatus for Simultaneous Definition and Enforcement of Access-Control and Integrity Policies. Granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Number to be assigned), September 2013.

Lubomir Ivanov, Ph.D. Conducted research and mentored MS theses that focused on the use of parallel processing to address computationally intensive problems. In addition he made important contributions to the Thomas Paine authorship attribution project. This interdisciplinary project led by Smiljana Petrovic, Ph.D., applies techniques from the areas of data mining and machine learning to the investigation of the authorship of documents from the period of the American Revolution. Among Dr. Ivanov’s contributions are: •

MS Thesis: “Real-Time Magnification of Imperceptible Motion in High-Definition Video Using a GPU” Student: Derek Lomibao, Computer Science Depatment.

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Research Advisor (Fall’13-Spring’14): Topic: “CUDA C Simulations of Atomic Systems and Processes” Student: Nizar Cherkaoui, Computer Science Department.

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Thesis co-advisor (with Dr. T. Castonguay , Chemistry Department) “Hyperchem Scripting for Education”, Chelsea Frengs, Computer Science Department.

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L. Ivanove, “Collaborative Software Development: The Thomas Paine Encyclopedia”, FECS’14, Las Vegas, NV, July 12-24, 2014.

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S. Petrovic, G. Berton, R. Schiaffino, L. Ivanov, “Authorship Attribution of Thomas Paine Works”, DMIN’14, Las Vegas, NV, July 12-24, 2014.

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D. Lomibao, L. Ivanov, “Real-Time Magnification of Imperceptible Motion in High-Definition Video Using a GPU”, CCSC Mid-South Conference, Memphis, TN, April 2014.

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N. Cherkaoui, L. Ivanov, “A CUDA C Implementation of the Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithm for Atomic Simulations”, CCSC Mid-South Conference, Memphis, TN, April 2014.

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S. Petrovic, P. Benjamin, L. Ivanov, A. Kershenbaum, R. Yeager, Panel: Data Mining, 24th International Information Management Association Conference, Iona College, NY, Oct.14-17, 2013.

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S. Petrovic, L. Ivanov, G. Berton, R. Schiaffino, “Authorship Attribution of Thomas Paine Works”, presentation, 8th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 30-Aug. 1, 2014.

Smiljana Petrovic, Ph.D. Was honored as the recipient of the Br. William B. Cornelia Distinguished Faculty Award. As noted above, Dr. Petrovic led the very productive Thomas Paine authorship attribution project and continued her research efforts in the areas of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Among her achievements are: •

S. Petrovic, G. Berton, R. Schiaffino, L. Ivanov, “Authorship Attribution of Thomas Paine Works”, DMIN’14, Las Vegas, NV, July 12-24, 2014

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S. Petrovic (Modorator), P. Benjamin, L. Ivanov, A. Kershenbaum, R. Yeager, Panel: Data Mining, 24th International Information Management Association Conference, Iona College, NY, Oct.14-17, 2013

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S.Petrovic, L. Ivanov, G. Berton, R. Schiaggino, “Authorship Attribution of Thomas Paine Works”, presentation, 8th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 30-Aug.1, 2014

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Jay Velasco: Enhancing Bagging and Boosting Machine Learning Methods with a Domain Specific Data (Advisor: Smiljana Petrovic). Presented at the Fifth Annual Iona Scholars Day.

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Sean Campbell: Support Vector Machines and Artificial Neural Networks for Author Attribution of Thomas Paine Work (Advisors: Smiljana Petrovic and Gary Berton). Presented at the 3rd Annual Westchester Undergraduate Research Conference, Dobbs Ferry, NY, and at the Fifth Annual Iona Scholars Day.

Chia-Ling Tsai, Ph.D. Continued her research in the area of medical imaging. In this interdisciplinary work she collaborated with students from the Computer Science Department as well as the Biology, Physics, and Speech Pathology Departments. Among her achievements are: •

Chia-Ling Tsai, Xin-Chang Wu, Shih-Jen Chen, Wei-Yang Lin, Hung-Chuan Hsu, “Accurate Joint-Alignment of Indocyanine Green and Fluorescein Angiograph Sequences for Treatment of Subretinal Lesions”, substantially revised and submitted to IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, under review.

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Chen B-R, Chou S-F, Lin W-Y, Tsai, C.-L., “A Computer-aided System for Clinical Diagnosis of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy”. International Congress on Natural Sciences and Engineering. 2014.

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Nizar Cherkaoui, Chia-Ling Tsai (advisor) “Fluorescent cell segmentation and classification”, 2014 Master’s Level Graduate Research Conference, the College at Brockport.

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Students: Stephen Rodriguez, Eleni Catechis, Evan Johnson, Taylor Makinen, Matthew Stelnicki, Rina Rexha, MaryKate Ryan, Alexis Perez. Mentors: Chia-Ling Tsai, Jennifer Gerometta. “An Adaptive Online System for Calculating Lexical and Sublexical Components of Children’s Literature”, 2014 NCUR.

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E. Muller, S. Baldissard, N. Cherkaoui, C. Tsai. “Phenotypic characterization of a novel protein involved in calcium influx during the mating response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” April 21, 2014. Farleigh Dickinson University. Invited Seminar.

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“A Quantitative Tool for the Analysis of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy” with Greg Badura.

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Abstract: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness among older people. Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is a common type of AMD. Due to the considerably high incidence of PCV in the Asian population, the goal of this research work is to develop computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for PCV using the temporal information of ICG.

Criminal Justice Student Accomplishments Iona Scholar’s Day – 2014 Criminal Justice Undergraduate presenters: •

Katherine Brayan - Effects of Treatment on Probationer Recidivism at a Large U.S. Probation Agency

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Elizabeth Belmont Issues with Right to Counsel

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Amanda Geitz, Shayna Nigro - Gun control legislation: Who is really being punished?

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Timothy Bannen, Rob Americo, John Catalanotto - The Underground Nexus of Violence and Bondage: Establishing a Connection between Terrorism and Human Trafficking

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Angelique Blake - Intimate Partner Violence and Pregnancy: Factors, Prevalence, and Consequences

Recent Student Career Placement: •

Timothy Bannen – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

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Philip Bellantoni -– NY/NJ Port Authority Police

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Michael Cominsky – Crime Analyst, HIDTA, Dutchess County

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Diane DeBenedetto – Hoffman, Wachtell & Rao, LLP

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Derek Krautkremer – Candidate, Baltimore Police Department

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Rebecca Lawrence – Intralogic Solutions, Inc.

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Anthony Mannarino – NY/NJ Port Authority Police

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Florence Maroney –Coordinator of Criminal Justice Services, Realization Center

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Shayna Nigro – Crime Intelligence Analyst, Yonkers Police Department

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Ben Saks – Candidate, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington DC

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Danielle Venuto – New York Police Department

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Robert Warkenthein – New York Police Department

Faculty Accomplishments and Scholarly Activities: Dr. Joshua Klein •

Manager of Iona Criminal Justice Department’s evaluation research and data analysis for the Westchester County Department of Probation.

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Klein, Josh R., Cathryn Lavery, and David T. Mulcahy. “Probations and Probationers at a Large Twenty-First Suburban Probation Agency.” Paper presented at the 2014 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Mentored student Matthew Guiliano in successfully presenting Westchester County probation study findings at Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences February 2014 annual meeting.

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Mentored students Katherine Brayan and William Borrelli in successfully presenting their research at National Conferences on Undergraduate Research April 2014 annual meeting, held at the University of Kentucky.

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Presented during Women’s History Month:” Violence against Women Inmates: Bad Apples or Bad Barrel?,” March 11, 2014.

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Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Critical Criminal Justice Section newsletter editor.

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American Sociological Association Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict newsletter editor.

Dr. Cathryn Lavery, Chair & Graduate Coordinator •

The Guards of Our Ivory Towers: Creating a Successful Sexual Assault Training Module for Faculty on College Campuses was published in the Journal, Sexual Assaults Reports published by the Civic Research Institute in March 2014.

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Submitted an NIJ/OJJDP grant on High-risk Youth Mentoring in collaboration with the State of New York Police Juvenile Officers Association, May 2014.

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Submitted DOJ/NIJ grant on Information Sharing and Increasing Community Awareness with Sex Offender Monitoring: Identifying Factors for Compliance through Cooperation, Collaboration and Training in collaboration with United States Federal Probation and the State of New York Police Juvenile Officers Association. June 2014.

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Elected as Executive Counselor & the Curriculum Committee of the Victimology Section.

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Invited guest speaker, the New York City Parks Department to present a paper on Gang Activity in the Bronx and the impact on park renovations. May, 2014.

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Mentored students John Paul Catalanatto, Robert Americo, Timothy Bannnen for Iona Scholars Day 2014 and had the students represented at the National Undergraduate Research Conference in Lexington KY, April 2014.

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Moderator, The Criminal Justice Club.

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Moderator, The American Criminal Justice Association Chi Rho Chapter at Iona.

Dr. Paul O’Connell •

Certified in the administration and analysis of cultural values assessment (CVA) diagnostic tools to assess espoused andactual personal and organizational culture values, current culture entropy, and leadership values assessment (2014). Barrett Values Centre, Summerseat, Bury, Lancs, U.K.

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Invited June 2014 to present with the Police Chiefs of Philadelphia and Boca Raton, FL. at the annual forum sponsored by the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.

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Moderator of the Criminal Justice National Honors Society

Education Student Accomplishments •

UG Research Day: Adrianna Cioffi, Christine Colangelo, Marieann DiMeglio, Stephanie Engstrom,Samantha Pecoraro and Thomas Simon will present their research project from EDU 380 at the UG Research Day.

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Graduate Research Day: In spring 2013, approximately twelve students will present their findings.

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Pi Lambda Theta: In spring 2013, ten students were inducted in the national Pi Lambda Theta honor society with an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher.

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Team Simon: The Iona chapter of Pi Lambda Theta led a fundraiser for a Dodson student with bone cancer. Their efforts raised over $1000.

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Bacon, Jennifer: Book Proposal accepted for publication Spring, 2013 Sisters in the Dissertation House: A Social NarrativeExcavating the Lived Experience of African American Adolescent Girl Poets

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Beaudin, Paul:

Director of Graduate Programs with over 100 advisees •

Ciardiello, Angelo: Article in Reading Today (IRA Publication), Dec/Jan 2012-2013, Did you ask a good Common Core question today?: The cognitive and metacognitive dimensions of enhanced inquiry skills. Vol 30, 14-16.

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Goldberg, Gravity: Co-author, The Teaching Professor article entitled, The Power of We. May 2013.

Staff Developer in over ten NY/NJ school districts. •

Leipold, Malissa: Journal Article Review

(2013, April 7). Contemplative leadership practice: The influences of character on Catholic school leadership. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice.

Federal and Foundation Reviews

Kappa Delta Pi, Educational Foundation. (April-May 2013). Scholarship reviewer.

Investing in Innovation (i3). (2013). Washington, DC: United States

Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement. Peer reviewer.

Service to the College – Committee

Taskstream Coordinator •

Masi-Cunzio, Margaret:

NSTA coordinator

Student Teaching Coordinator •

O’Callaghan, Catherine: Presented at the London Education Research Symposium, Fall 2012: Journeying Towards the New Literacies

Co-Presented at the New York State Special Education Administrators, Bridging the Academic Divide, July 2012.

Technical Reports

Chaired two NCATE accreditation teams to Arkansas and Massachusetts

Program Review Leader for four IRA literacy program reports.

Co-trained graduate students to conduct post assessments and prepare written reports for preschool students at the Harlem Children’s Zone.

Spring 2013 Coordinator of student interviews for admittance to the Education Dept.

Spring 2013: Co-created the TPA mentor program developing a learning community which includes both our graduate and undergraduate students. Spring 2013: Co-presented along with Dr. Beaudin to Iona graduate Psychology majors on the collaborative role of psychologists in special education.

Spring 2013: Freshman Advisor

Spring 2013: Honors thesis advisor

Spring 2013: Assisted with the Education Department Honor Society to recruit students and conduct ceremony. •

Smith, Margaret: Student Teaching observer for Adolescent Math students

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Wexler-Robock, Stephanie:

of scalable, sustainable models of nutrition and wellness literacy professional development for early childcare staff and families.) Wexler-Robock, S. Year Four Evaluation of Mosholu-Montefiore 21st Century Community Learning Grant. Prepared for New York State Department of Education, US Department of Education, August, 2012. Presentations: •

Wolfson, Eugene: Co-created edTPA Student Workshops to focus on Tasks 1, 2, and 3. Chaired the Student Academic Review Committee and refined policies and procedures.

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Zakierski, Marlene: Director of GAELS Rice and coordinator with agencies and New Rochelle CSD.

2013 SEPTA Bridges Award Recipient. The Bridges Award is given to individuals in broader community, beyond our public schools, that have gone above and beyond to foster an environment of inclusiveness for our special needs students.

2012-13 Member, Iona College Middle States Revision Team

Computer Software-DVD-Professional Development Service

Freshman Advisor

Advisory Committee on Assessment

SPA Coordinator

Harlem Children’s Zone Co- Coordinator

Technical Reports

GAELS RICE Proposal

CTP --Application for Approval to Participate in the Title IV Federal Student Aid Program •

Zimmerman, William: Site Coordinator for Dodson Residency program Chair of Digital Curriculum Library Committee

English Miles Beckwith •

“[Review of ] Robert Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek” Classical World 105.4 (2012) 558-560.

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“Laryngeal Changes [in Greek]” in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) at http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopedia-of-ancient-greek-language-and-linguistics.

Scott Cleary Publications: •

“Thomas Paine and Poetic Liberty” in Lumières Internationales, published by Honoré Champion Éditeur (Paris).

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“’Smells of 1776’: Thomas Paine, Captain America, Iron Man, and the Search for Common Sense.” Marvel Comics’ Civil War in a Post 9/11 World. McFarland Press, 2015.

Conferences: •

“The System of Government in the Old Construction”: Thomas Paine on War and Peace

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Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference

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“Go, Man of Blood!”: Thomas Paine’s Crisis Papers and the Elegiac Inhumane.

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Humanities Research and Education Association Annual Conference

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“Engraved With The Deeds He Had Done”: Thomas Paine, Poetry, and the Genealogy of a Neglected Founding Father

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College English Association Annual Conference

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“Common Sense for the Common Core: Paine and Common Core Standards”

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Westchester Lower Hudson Council for Social Sciences Annual Conference

Dean DeFino Publications: •

Books: The HBO Effect (Bloomsbury) Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Wallflower/Columbia UP)

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Articles: “From Trailer Trash to Trailer Park Boys”: reprinted in The Television Reader, eds. Mirrlees and Kispal-Kovacs (Oxford UP)

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Helped to secure and establish the Thanhouser Film and Print Archive at Iona College

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Promoted to Full Professor

Thomas Moretti •

Paper titled “Via Media Theatricality and the Fantasy of Religious Mediation in The Virgin Martyr” accepted and forthcoming in the journal Renaissance Drama.

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Paper titled “Tragic Mediation in John Webster’s The White Devil” accepted by editors Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann for a collection of essays entitled Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England (under contract with Manchester University Press).

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Paper titled “Hospitable Times with Shakespeare: A Reading of King Lear,” accepted by editors David B. Goldstein and Julia Reinhard Lupton for a collection of essays entitled Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange, (under contract with Routledge).

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Paper titled “Poetic Control over the Spectacles of Gender in As You Like It,” presented for the “Shakespeare and Theories of Spectatorship” seminar, led by Dr. Meg Pearson (West Georgia U.) and Dr. Amy Rodgers (Mt. Holyoke College) at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 10, 2014.

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Invited to submit proposal to edit Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare for Broadview Press and for Internet Shakespeare Editions, an open-access collection of academic editions of each of Shakespeare’s plays for professors, teachers, students, directors, and performers (http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca). (Invited by coordinating editor James Mardock [U. of Nevada, Reno] to submit proposal.)

Aaron Rosenfeld •

Submitted essay, “Wine, Poems, and Song: Lateral Reading and the Pedagogy of Appreciation” to Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture (Duke University Press)

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Presented paper, “Lateral Reading and the Teaching of Poetry Appreciation” at College English Association (CEA) 45th Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 24-27, 2014.

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Continued to update and add to writing program in role as Director of Writing, including expanding Core Writing Extension pilot program begun in 2012, developing the new English 110 sequence, and developing new essay models and curricular materials.

Laura Shea •

Manuscript (novel) titled Murder in a Public Place requested for submission at BookEnds, Inc.

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Conference Participant, International Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Society, Connecticut College, New London, CT.

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Chair, Department of English, and Chair, Hiring Committees for two successful tenure-track searches (19th-century British Novel, Non-Western Literature) with over 125 applications per search.

Hugh Short Chair, Faculty Senate

Ivy Linton Stabell Articles Published: •

“Model Patriots: The First Children’s Biographies of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin” Children’s Literature. Vol 41 (2013): 91-114.

Articles Submitted: •

“Black Childhood Innocence in Susan Paul and Ann Plato’s Antebellum Children’s Biographies,” submitted and accepted for inclusion in Invisible Publics (edited collection on early African American children’s literature). Eds. Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane.

Book Reviews Published: •

“Bloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children’s Literature by Michelle Ann Abate.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Vol 39, Issue 2 (Summer 2014): 295-97.

Conference Papers Presented: •

“Objective Facts and Personal Truths: Authentic Narration in Young Adult Nonfiction.” Presented June 14, 2013, at the Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference, Biloxi, MS.

Grants Received: •

Iona College Faculty Travel Grant Award: $1,000 requested and awarded for travel to 2014 Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference in Columbia, SC. Paper title: “An Example to All Children and Youth: African American Models of Virtue in Abolitionist Biographies for Children.”

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Institute for Thomas Paine Studies Curricular Development Award: $1,000 requested, $3,500 awarded for development of archive use and digital curating project in ENG 369: Special Topics in American Literature: Early American Literature course, Fall 2014.

Amy Stackhouse Published Reviews Submitted: Review of The Golden Cord: A Short Book on the Sacred and Secular, forthcoming Augustinian Studies. Other Published: Three issues of The Shakespeare Newsletter edited and published. Creative Works in Juried Media: Submitted six poems to The New Yorker. Published Reviews of Creative Works: “Bloody, Bold, and Resolute: A Review of Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory,” The Shakespeare Newsletter, Spring 2014. Other: Editor, Shakespeare Newsletter Awards/Honors (Elsewhere): Jerry G. Gaff Faculty Award for Faculty Excellence in General and Liberal Education, Awarded by The Association for General and Liberal Studies.

Students Michelle Muzzio, double major in English and Chemistry, presented papers at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), April 3-5, 2014, at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and made three presentations at Iona Scholars Day, April 8, 2014. Caitlyn M. O’Toole was awarded the Rice Memorial Medal for Excellence at Commencement 2014. Vittoria Rubino (MA 2014) received a fellowship, including full tuition,to pursue the Doctor of Arts in English program at St. John’s University.

Fine and Performing Arts Submitted by Thomas Donnarumma, Chairperson On August 5, 2014

Student Achievements Dance Studies Program Undergraduate Research Day Project Kimberleigh R. Costanzo April 8, 2014 No Name #3, Mentored by Professor Catherine Mapp Research and development of choreographic work that completed the “Triptych” series of dance compositions

Choreographic Works The Iona College Dance Ensemble Kayla Abbate, Dance Minor 2014

Choreography “Figee dans le temps” Solo work (ballet) performed April 10 and 11, 2014 “The Choreography Project” Faculty Advisor: Professor Catherine Tharin

Kimberleigh R. Costanzo, Dance Minor 2014 Choreography “Work-Lust” Three-part solo composition performed April 10 and 11, 2014 “The Choreography Project” Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium Faculty Advisor: Professor Catherine Mapp

Alisa Tarsa, Dance Minor, 2014 Choreography Obstacles of the Limited Mind (2014) Faculty Advisor: Professor Catherine Mapp Gentile Dominance (2013) Faculty Advisor: Professor Catherine Tharin Solo works performed April 10 and 11 2014 “The Choreography Project”

Outstanding Performances Solo and Group Work The Iona College Dance Ensemble: Kayla Abbate, Stephanie Bomba, Kimberleigh R. Costanzo, Elizabeth Sangalli, Alisa Tarsa

Music Studies Program Iona Scholars’ Day 2014 Pasquale Malpeso, Music Minor, 2014 Presentation to Panel Paper: “The Instructors that Shaped Ludwig van Beethoven: Neefe, Haydn, Albrechtsburger, and Salieri” Research mentored by Carol Shansky, Ph.D. Iona College Instrumental Ensemble Spring, 2014 concert Student solo performers: Victoria Cousino Sonata in C Major: Allegro by Jean-Baptiste Breval Coached by Carol Shansky, Ph.D.

Jacqueline Shearer Berceuse, Op. 16 by Gabriel Fauré Accompanied and coached by Carol Shansky, Ph.D.

Malaya Lambert and Thomas McClellan You Know I’m No Good/Hallelujah by Winehouse/Cohen Coached by Carol Shansky, Ph.D.

Rebecca Bone Etude on I Got Rhythm by Paul Hardy Coached by Carol Shansky, Ph.D.

Theatre Studies Program •

Performance

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The Iona College Theatre Ensemble

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Steven Pearce in True West and The Mandrake

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Pieter Maddens in True West and The Mandrake

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Thomas Worden in True West and The Mandrake

Visual Arts Studies Program Accumulation Student Exhibition, Iona College May 2014

Painting 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Fred Carter Lauren Christino Mauricio Cruz Julie Donato Laura Furlipa Susan Girardi Amy Olsen Andrea Ruggiero Kali Severson

Painting Susan Girardi’s work was selected by the Administration to be hung in the Charter House, Iona College July 2014 FPA 211 Intro to Sculpture - Spring 2014 Kaitlynn O’Reilly

FPA 311 Intermediate Sculpture - Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 Kimberleigh Costanzo

Faculty Achievements Thomas Donnarumma, Associate Professor, Theatre Program Director, Chairperson of The Fine and Performing Arts Department Scholarship Conference Leader and Organizer. The Association for Theatre in Higher Learning. August, 2013

The Challenges and Rewards of Single Person Theatre Departments. Play: Performance, Pleasure, and Pedagogy Orlando, Florida

Director and Producer. True West by Sam Shepard. The Fine and Performing Arts Department. Iona College, November 21-24, 2013. This production featured The Iona College Theatre Ensemble, the students of Iona College: Steven Pearce, Pieter Maddens, Thomas Worden, Alicia Steverson, Peter Consadori, Darya Khritankova, Victoria Zito, Eva Renski and Gisela Barreiro. The production included moderation of a post production discussion with Hugh Short, Ph.D., in the English Department and Teresa Delgado, Ph.D., in the Religious Studies Department. This production was in collaboration with the English Department at Iona College

Director and Producer. The Mandrake by Niccolo Machiavelli. The Fine and Performing Arts Department. Iona College, April 24-27, 2014. This production featured The Iona College Theater Ensemble, the students of Iona College: Steven Pearce, Pieter Maddens, Thomas Worden, Alicia Steverson, Peter Consadori, Darya Khritankova, Victoria Zito, Gisela Barreiro, Bryan Walsh, Jordan Bryant Smith, Cassondra Richards, Penelope Golden, Amanda Moneta, Emily Nevins, Amy Wert, Paige Murray, Laura Furlipa. The production included moderation and post production discussion with Thomas Mussio, Ph.D., of the Italian Program, the Foreign Language Department and Teresa Delgado, Ph.D., of the Religious Studies Department. This production was in collaboration with the Italian Program at Iona College

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Study Abroad Instructor. FPA 490 LO: The Restoration Theatre in England. Iona College. London, England. June 23-July 9, 2013.

Service Moderator: The Iona College Players Club Faculty Advisory Board: LIRIC, Learning in Retirement at Iona College Faculty Advisory Board: The Security Department Committee Member: The Iona College Council on the Arts Committee Member: The Harassment and Discrimination Committee Committee Member: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition Committee Committee Member: The Undergraduate Council Committee Advisor: The Theatre Studies Minor Program Committee Member: The Faculty Senate

Memberships The Association of Theatre in Higher Education The American Theatre and Drama Society The American Alliance for Theatre and Education The Theatre Communications Group The New York State Theatre Education Association TCG, Theatre Communications Group

Course Design and Implementation FPA 207 Shakespeare in Performance

Stanley J. Lapa, Associate Professor, Visual Arts Program Director Exhibitions: October 2013, New Rochelle Art Association 98th Juried Exhibition October 2013, Mamaroneck Artists Guild Active Members Show, “Image into Reality” Award: October 2013, New Rochelle Art Association 98th Juried Exhibition: 3rd Place Award in Pastel for “Still-Life with Peach” Professional Memberships: Mamaroneck Artists Guild New Rochelle Art Association Instructional Projects Continued development of online distance/learning digital photography course. Exhibition Curator and Installation Design Iona College, Br. Kenneth Chapman Gallery Co-curator, ACCUMULATION 2014, Iona College Student Exhibition

Catherine Mapp, Associate Professor, Dance Program Director

Award Senior Faculty of the Year Award 2013

Creative Works Director/Curator/Producer Spring 2014 The Choreography Project

The Iona College Dance Ensemble performance of selected works choreographed by Catherine Mapp and Catherine Tharin as well as student choreography. April 10-11, 2014 Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium Guest Artists Esme Boyce “Still Center” Solo by Catherine Tharin Belina McGuire “Cello Counterpoint” choreographed and performed by Belinda McGuire Choreography “Untitled Trio” April 10-11, 2014 “The Choreography Project” Christopher Murphy Auditorium “Prisms” April 10-11, 2014 “The Choreography Project” Christopher Murphy Auditorium Professional Memberships Congress on Research in Dance Society Dance History Scholars International Baccalaureate Organization National Organization of Schools of Dance Dance Critics Association

Carol Shansky, Assistant Professor, Music Program Director Presentation “Community Music and Its Impact on the Private Studio” New Jersey Flute Society NJFS Flute Pedagogy Day January 12, 2014 Panel Participant in addition

Session Chair “Revitalizing and Expanding Repertories” College Music Society Northeast Regional Conference April 4, 2014 Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam. Presentations (selection by blind peer-review)

Paper, “The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City: Community, Culture and Opportunity” St. Augustine Symposium on the History of Music Education May 29, 2014 Flagler College St. Augustine, FL

Paper, “The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City: Community, Culture and Opportunity” College Music Society, Northeast Region Meeting April 5, 2014 Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam.

Publications Paper, “Patriotism and the Skirl of thePipes: The Scottish Highland Bagpipe Band and World War I British Recruiting in New York, 1916-18” Journal of Musicological Research 33 Vol 1-3, (March 2014). Textbook: Musical tapestries: A thematic approach to music appreciation Published in its 2nd edition July 2014 Kendall-Hunt publishers, Dubuque, IA.

Performances Guest Conductor Region I Flute Ensemble New Jersey School Music Association February, 2014

Concerto soloist Concerto in D major for Flute and Orchestra by Karl Reinecke Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (NJ) May 17, 2014 This was a performance of a rarely heard work Chamber Music Re-Imagined

Bergen Chamber Artists (Flutist and Pianist) Lunchtime Learning Series Wayne Public Library (NJ) May 28, 2014. Dr. Shansky is both performer and music director of Bergen Chamber Artists. This concert included an interpretive lecture for the audience by Dr. Shansky

“Adonai s’fatai” and “Misheberach” Original compositions Selected and performed at Temple Emeth (Teaneck, NJ) March 21, 2014 Guest Lecturer

LIRIC (Learning in Retirement at Iona College) Three lectures: Music of Ireland (October 25, 2013), “Politics and Personalities in Mozart’s Don Giovanni” (March 11, 2014), and “The Opera Isn’t Over Until the Fat Lady Sings: Have You Met Carmen?” (April 1, 2014)

English Composition classes “Hi-brow/Low-brow themes in James Joyce’s The Dead: Musical References and Symbols” September 24, 2012 February 25, 2014

Guest Artist Joseph D’Auguste, clarinet and lecturer Klezmer music in America Music in World Cultures Class Lecture and performance of Klezmer clarinet style Dr. Shansky accompanied on piano

Choreography classes Lectures on the music for the ballets: “The Prodigal Son” by Sergei Prokofiev Fall Semester, 2013 Balanchine’s, “Concerto Barocco,” “Kammermusik No. 2,” and “I’ve Got Rhythm” Spring Semester, 2014 “West Side Story” Spring Semester, 2014

Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Iona College Heritage Week 2014 Paper, “Patriotism and the Skirl of the Pipes: The Use of Bagpipes as a Recruitment Tool by the British in New York City, 1916-1918.”

Creative works and performance: Iona College Instrumental Ensemble and World Music Drumming Ensemble Winter Concert December 5, 2013 Doorley Auditorium This concert represented intense work conducted in classes and featured a drum jam at the end that included audience members. All musical arrangements were composed by Dr. Shansky.

Iona College Instrumental Ensemble Iona Scholar’s Day April 8, 2014 Special concert presentation in Ryan Library Preview of works for the Spring Concert

Iona College Instrumental Ensemble Spring Concert April 29, 2014 Romita Auditorium of the Ryan Library All musical arrangements were composed by Dr. Shansky.

Flutist Performer

The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies Opening Ceremony Ryan Library September 9, 2013 Late Eighteenth-Century Musical Selections for Flute

Driscoll Lecture on Jewish-Catholic Dialogue Kristallnacht Memorial Lecture Ryan Library November 10, 2013

Professional Memberships College Music Society National Association for Music Education American Musicological Society Society for American Music National Flute Association

Adjunct Faculty Achievements David Carlyon, PhD., Adjunct Professor, Theatre Program Invited Academic Presentations Panel, “Interrogating Shared Histories: Publicity, Movement, and Spectacle in NYC Circus and Graffiti,” part of Urban Acrobatics conference, NoMAA Gallery (Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance), New York, NY, Sep. 4, 2013. Keynote speech, “19th-Century Circus: Sex, Violence & Politics,” co-sponsored, New York State Historical Association and New York Teachers’ Conference, under the auspices of the New York Council for the Humanities, Cooperstown, NY, Oct. 18, 2013.

Article “Twain’s ‘Stretcher’: The Circus Shapes Huckleberry Finn,” Bandwagon, 57 (Sep.-Dec. 2013), 6-27, reprinted from South Atlantic Review, 72.4 (Fall 2007): 1-36. Public Talks New York Council for the Humanities, Speakers in the Humanities Program, 2009-2015 • “19th-Century Circus: Sex, Violence & Politics” Bundy Museum of History and Art, Binghamton, NY, Apr. 12, 2014 Molloy College, Rockville Centre, May 7, 2014 Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton, NY, May 10, 2014 • “The Gettysburg Address: Unnoticed Influence / New Perspective” Harrison Public Library, Harrison, Nov. 3, 3013 Poppenhusen Institute, College Point (Queens), Feb. 22, 2014 Sherwood House, Yonkers Historical Society, June 8, 2014 Other Public Expression “Welcome to New York, Soldier,” “Metropolitan Diary,” New York Times, July 1, 2013, A19; online, titled “Welcome to New York, Soldier”: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/welcome-to-new-york-soldier/?_r=0, posted June 26, 2013. Source, Anne Curzan, “Chiming In on ‘Chiming With’,” Lingua Franca blog, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 2014. http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/03/19/chiming-in-on-chiming-with/ Shakespeare Sonnet Slam, Central Park, performing Sonnet 109, April 25, 2014.

Ryan Seslow, Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts Program Selected Group Exhibitions: June 2014 – Platforms, group exhibition at the NYC Transit Museum,Brooklyn, NY. June 2014 – Welling Court Mural Festival of Street Art & Graffiti/ 1 year exhibition. 12th Street, Astoria, NY. June 2014 – “Encrypted Fills” an Online exhibition of Video Art, GIFs, and New Media Art for artists with roots in Graffiti & Street Art. Encryptedfills.com April 2014 – “Game On” Group exhibition focused on Video Game Art at Side Street Studio Gallery, Chicago, IL. April 2014 – “Animate” AIGA group GIF & Flash animation exhibition at Space Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. February 2014 – May 2014 - Group Street Art & Graffiti Exhibition @ The Inspire Collective, Jerusalem, Israel. February 2014 – “VIDEO>transcends” CUNY, Queensborough Community College, QCC Art Gallery, Bayside, NY. February 2014- May 2014. December 2013 – Potatoville @ The Glenwood Arts Center. Glenhead, NY. December 2013 – Two New Video art works have been contributed to The Streaming Festival’s 8th Edition, International Audio/ Video Art Festival, Screenings took place at Het Nutshuis Gallery, Den Haag, The Netherlands, as well as the Boonika Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia. November 2013 – My work is included in the Red Bull sponsored BC One event in Seoul, Korea. The BC One is a festival and world competition for the art of b-Boying, Break Dancing and Graffiti. Jamsil Arena Gallery, Seoul, Korea. November 2013 – LIU Post Art Dept. Faculty Exhibition at The Steinberg Museum of Art, Brookville, NY. September 2013 – L.I. Connection, Group Exhibition, BCS Gallery, Long Island City, NY. June 2013 – Welling Court Mural project / 1 year exhibition. 12th Street, Astoria, NY. April 2013 – “VIDEO>transcends” Group Video Art Exhibition. The Streaming Festival’s Special Program Archive, Den Haag, The Netherlands. January 2013 – #Twitterartexhibit, Group Exhibition, Exhale Unlimited Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curatorial: Curator – “Concrete to Data” a survey of NYC Graffiti and Street Art as it transcends through various art mediums leading to digital technologies. Steinberg Museum of Art, Brookville, NY, 2014.

Curator – “Animating NYC Transit” a public community based project for the NYC Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY. October 2014. Curator – “Platforms” as a part of a group exhibition at the NYC Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY. June 2014. Curator/Co-Creator of “Encrypted Fills” an online exhibition of video art, GIFs, and new media art for artists with roots in Graffiti & Street Art. http://encryptedfills.com Inaugural Launch, May 2014. Curator - “VIDEO>transcends” CUNY, Queensborough Community College, QCC Art Gallery, Bayside, NY. Januaury 2014May 2014. Curator - “VIDEO>transcends” The Streaming Festival’s Special Program Archive, Den Haag, The Netherlands, April 2013.

Artist Referenced in the following Publications: (Online and Off ) BrooklynStreetArt.com included my work and collaboration with Adam Void on 3/21/14 - h ttp://www.brooklynstreetart.com/ theblog/2014/03/21/bsa-film-friday-03-21-14/

Hyperallergic.com – Feature on the collaborative GIFiti works of Ryan Seslow & Jilly Ballisitc. 12/26/13 h ttp://hyperallergic.com/ 100388/subway-street-art-gets-on-the-gif-train/ El Mundo Newspaper, Interviewed for the Campus Magazine section. A feature on Graffiti by journalist Maria Pilar Crespo Zaragoza on November 20, 2013. Vandalog.com – Guest blog post – Bringing Street Art & Graffiti to Academia – July 30, 2013 http://blog.vandalog.com/2013/07/ teaching-graffiti-history-and-practice/ Hyperallergic.com – Interviewed and quoted on July 29, 2013 for a piece regarding street art. http://hyperallergic.com/76668/ glasgow-school-of-art-threatens-to-expel-street-artist/ Hyperallergic.com- included my work and participation in the Welling Court Mural project, Astoria Queens, NY. July 5, 2013 http://hyperallergic.com/74898/a-tale-of-two-street-mural-projects/ BrooklynStreetArt.com included my work and participation in the Welling Court Mural project, Astoria Queens, NY. June 25, 2013 - http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2013/06/25/welling-court-2013-is-a-blast-was-the-last/#.UfB91mRDqDs

Guest Lectures, Presentations, Residencies and Workshops: February-June 2014 – Guest artist residency and mural workshop instructor, Hillside Arts & Letters Academy, Jamaica High School, Jamaica, NY. December 2014 – Guest artist on the FIOS Cable TV Series: The Artist Studio, http://fios1news.com/longisland/longisland/ node/47794#.Uswkb2RDv4Q November 2013 – Guest Artist & Animation Workshop Instructor, Berkeley College, Woodland Campus, NJ. May/June 2013 – Guest artist residency and mural workshop instructor, Hillside Arts & Letters Academy, Jamaica High School, Jamaica, NY. April 1st, 2013 – Co-creator & host of the live stream for “Video Transcends,” a streaming online video exhibition presented as a special program for its opening night. http://streamingfestival.com

Robin Tedesco, Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts Program Exhibitions: Reverol & Co - Contemporary Art, New Rochelle, NY, November - December 2013 “Contradistinction” Media Loft Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, January 2014 - present

Member: New Rochelle Council on the Arts Board of Directors, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle (2013)

Award: Artist residency: The Peanut Factory, Edenton, NC (postponed participation until 2015)

Iona College: Associate Director, Study Abroad Coordinator, Rome Study Abroad program, Rome, Italy Developed and taught: The Treasures of Rome and Florence, Rome, Italy Ex Officio member: Iona College Study Abroad Committee

John Gavalcin, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Music Program Solo piano recital for Paul and Irene Bogoni Foundation (for which he is music director) for select audience in New York City. Music of Scarlatti, Schubert, Debussy, Chopin. September 20, 2013 Recital at Closter Library, Closter, NJ. All French program, piano solos and performance with guest violinist SunBoon Jeong. Works by Debussy, Ravel, Saint Saens, Franck. November 23, 2013 Concert for Paul and Irene Bogoni Foundation in Briar Cliff Manor, New York in which he was music director of the orchestra, vocal soloists, and also performed some several solo piano works. Vocal music and instrumental solos. Music by Vivaldi, Puccini, Massenet, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Gottschalk. December 20, 2014 Appointed “Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music and Music Education in the Department of Arts and Humanities” at Teachers College, Columbia University. Feb. 1, 2014 Solo piano recital in New York for Paul and Irene Bogoni Foundation. Works by Schubert, Debussy, Chopin, Rachmaninoff. March 15, 2014 Competition Judge for New York Artists International Competition 2014, New Jersey and New York City category – piano and ensemble. April 19, 2014

Catherine Tharin, Adjunct Professor, Dance Program

Creative Works Choreography “In the hornet’s nest,” The Choreography Project, April 10-11, 2014. “About You,” American Dance Guild Bare Bones Concert, June 28-29, 2014. University Settlement (Invited artist) “Royal Road” trio, WestFest Festival, April 23 and 25, 2014 (Adjudicated series) “Still Center” solo, Soaking Wet Series, Westend Theatre, October 2013 (Adjudicated series)

Performer Annie Sailer and Dancers, 92nd Street YM-YMHA, October 2013 Curator 92Y Educational Outreach, Art Collectors, January 28, 2014 Curated a dance concert of female choreographers that included eight artists representative of different aspects of the dance field for 92Y, Lincoln Center, Roundabout Theater new initiative partnership featuring female choreographers, musicians, and playwrights.

92Y Fridays At Noon, consistently recognized series by the press and dance community, 2013-14 Concerts included the following artists: Christopher Caines Dance: New Dances for New Friends, May 30, 2014 Christine Dakin: La Voz del Cuerpo/The Body Speaks, May 16, 2014 Nancy Stark Smith: Glimpse 2, Underscore, May 9, 2014 Liz Gerring, Keely Garfield, Stephen Petronio: Fresh Work and Process, May 2, 2014 James Waring, Aileen Passloff, Arthur Aviles: An Eccentric Beauty Revisited, April 25, 2014 Elizabeth Kendall, Troy Schumacher, New York City Ballet: Balanchine and the Lost Muse, April 11, 2014 Keith A Thompson, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Berry: The Articulation of Multiple Pathways, March 28, 2014 American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, February 2014 Jean-Leon Destine: Tribute to a Master, January 24, 2014 Renana Raz, Ori Flomin, Danah Katz, Zvi Gotheiner, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor: Out of Israel, January 2014 Annie Sailer Dance Company and Ana Isabel Keilson and Dancers: The Poetry Behind the Dance, December 13, 2013 Benjamin Kimitch curates: Compelling Simplicity, November 22, 2013 A Tribute to Mary Anthony: A Lifetime in Dance, November 1, 2013 Intermezzo Dance Company with Raymond Lukens, Marcelo Gomes, Gemma Bond, Adam Hendrickson, October 18, 2013 Alison Chase, Pilobolus Founder with Rebecca Stenn, Lisa Giobbi, Joseph Mills: Facets, October 4, 2013

Assessor Arts Achieve, proctor and assessor in NYC Public Schools, elementary, middle, and high school, US Department of Education grant to the NYC Board of Education, October 2013- May 2014

Patricia Cohen, Adjunct Professor, Dance Program Publications Jazz Dance: A History of its Roots and Branches, Two Chapters Guarino and Oliver 2014

Panel Discussant Creator, panelist and moderator “Teachers Reflections Following Completion of NDEO’s PTSDA Online Course” 2013 National Dance Education Organization Annual Conference in Miami, FL

Additional Teaching Developed and teaches courses in “Elements of Movement and Developmental Domains” for the National Dance Education Organization’s (NDEO) Online Professional Development Institute Instructor and facilitator for the revised “Professional Teaching Standards for Dance Arts,” in which participants developed online portfolios. NYU/Steinhardt Dance Education Program Adjunct Professor and Academic Advisor to the ABT/NYU Dance Education Masters Program with American Ballet Theatre Ballet Pedagogy.

Workshops Coordinator for NYSDEA’s weekend workshop, “Techniques for Self Preservation” in cooperation with the Dance Education Program at NYU/Steinhardt and the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries. Guest Lecturer “Irish Step Dance” LIRIC at Iona College

Professional Service Treasurer: Executive Board of Directors, for the National Dance Education Organization. Member: Editorial board NDEO’s new Dance in Education in Practice (DEiP), a peer review journal. Professor Cohen will write as well as mentor authors. Member: Board of Directors of the National Registry of Dance Educators, a peer review registry of master dance educators; and as Secretary, Executive Council, for UNITY, Inc. a not-for-profit national coalition of dance education and dance related organizations.

Sheila Kriemelman, Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts Program Professional Service Board of Directors, Juror, New York Society of Women Artists.

Select Group Exhibitions “Divine Intersections: Religious Crossroads”, Chapman Gallery, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. “ National Association of Women Artists’ 124th Annual Members Exhibition”, Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC. “I to eye”, New York Society of Women Artists, Chapman Gallery, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. “Lest We Forget: the Holocaust in Art”, GALLERY 9/ARTS WESTCHESTER, White Plains, NY.

Curatorial “Accumulation”, Student Exhibition, Chapman Gallery, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY.

Awards National Association of Women Artists’ Elsie G. Hammond Memorial Award for Drawing, NAWA 124th Annual Members Exhibition, Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC. Adjunct Faculty Award for “Outstanding Accomplishments and Dedicated Service to the College”, Fall Convocation, Murphy Auditorium, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY.

Articles Rich Monetti, “Holocaust art exhibit celebrates survival and life.”, The Rye City REVIEW, Rye, NY.

Select Collections Fairmont Kealani, Wailea, Maui, HI KaMilo 2 Hotel, Honolulu, HI

Archives Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Guggenheim Museum, NYC Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL Library of Congress, Washington, DC Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC New York Public, Library, NYC

Catalogues National Association of Women Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 124th Annual Members Exhibition Catalog at Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC. Memberships National Association of Women Artists New York Society of Women Artists New York Artists Equity The College Art Association

Representations Fine Arts Associates, Honolulu, HI

Foreign Language Refereed Articles Gómez, J. Manuel. “Historicidad y narración en las cartas de relación”. Revista Liberia Nº 1 (Spring 2013)http://revistaliberia.org/ about/1-2013/ Ketz, Victoria L. “In Between the Painting and the Mirror: Framing the Female Subject.”

Eds. María Claudia Andre and Rocío Quispe- Agnoli. “Women’s Gaze Female Visual

Narratives and Narrations of the Visual in the Luso-Hispanic World” Monographic

Volume of Letras Femeninas, Summer 2014.

Reviews Buonanno, Elda. Review of “Journal of Italian Translation” for Forum Italicum, Fall 2013 Buonanno, Elda. Review of “La lingua italiana. Il teatro delle diversità” for Annali d’Italianistica, Fall 2013. Ketz, Victoria L. Review of El lector de Julio Verne by Almudena Grandes. Letras femeninas. Invierno (2013). Ketz, Victoria L. Review of El prisionero del cielo by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Revista Liberia 2 (2014).

Conferences Buonanno, Elda presented at the Teaching Italian Culture Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC, with a paper on “Instructional Technology: Enhancing Performance in Teaching and Learning Italian Language and Culture.” (October 19, 2013) Ketz, Victoria L. Chair, “Situated Writing: Sharing of Contemporary Visions.” 67th Annual

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington: University of Kentucky, April 11-3, 2014.

Ketz, Victoria L. “Social Problems, Social Realities in Montero’s Works.” 67th Annual Kentucky

ForeignLanguage Conference. Lexington: University of Kentucky, April 11-13, 2014.

Mussio, Thomas E. “Reflections on the ‘Medieval’ Boccaccio” (Conference on Giovanni Boccaccio, UCONN. (November 14, 2013)

Invited Lectures Buonanno, Elda presented a paper at the Italian Consulate on “Engaging Learning and Teaching through Social Media and other Dynamic Strategies.” (November 9, 2013) Gómez, J. Manuel. Rutgers University, The Latin American and Latino Studies Program: “Inicios de la ciudad americana: del crucero indígena al damero colonial,” January 30, 2014. Gómez, J. Manuel. Iona College, Book Presentation at Faculty Author Reception: Viajes coloniales por América Central: continuidades y rupturas.” April 2, 2014. Ketz, Victoria L. “Rethinking Writing.” Chair’s Retreat, Iona College, June 11, 2014. Mussio, Thomas E. “Political Reform in Dante’s Providential History” (College of New Rochelle, April 22, 2014)

Workshops Buonanno, Elda organized and presented at the Third Workshop for Italian Teachers on “Multimedia and Hypertext: Interactive Technology in Teaching Italian Language and Culture,” Iona College, New Rochelle. (March 14, 2014) Buonanno, Elda ran and presented the first workshop for Italian Teachers and Instructors at the Southern Connecticut State University on “Innovative Teaching Methodologies.” (November 8,2013) Buonanno, Elda presented at the IIMA Conference in Iona College with a paper on “Learning through Social Media.” (October 15, 2013) Buonanno, Elda organized and presented at Iona College the first workshop in “Teaching and Learning Online: Perspectives and Opportunities” to enhance online learning. Her presentation’s title was “Instructional Technology: Enhancing Performance in Teaching and Learning.” (September 27, 2013)

Mussio, Thomas E. Co-organizer and Attendee of Third Annual Conference on Italian Pedagogy (Iona College, March 14, 2014).

Attendance at Conferences/Workshops Gómez, J. Manuel. “Methodological Development of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language: A Workshop for Teachers”. Columbia University, March 29, 2014. Ketz, Victoria L. “Methodological Development of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language: A Workshop for Teachers”. Columbia University, March 29, 2014.

History The History Departmentis proud of the success that its former students have attained. As in years prior, the academic year 2013/2014 has produced its share of student ‘success-stories’. Most notably, James Hurley, class of 2012 [History and Political Science Major], garnered a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Queen’s University (Belfast, Northern Ireland). Cristobal [CJ] Orrantia, class of 2013 (History Major), was recently accepted by and will attend the Law School of Notre Dame University. In the summer and fall of 2014, another graduate from the class of 2013, Jonathan Grady, obtained valuable experience toward a future career. Mr. Grady taught English (and qualifying for TEFL) in Prague and has followed up this experience with time as a paid intern at a local museum in New Jersey. The accomplishments of two more recent graduates (class of 2014), Pieter Maddens, a Belgian international student, and Andrew Jordan, also deserve mention. Mr. Maddens has been hired to teach history in Leuven, Belgium and Mr. Jordan garnered a Teach for America placement to teach in Omaha. The department faculty have continued to be active scholars in their academic fields through conference presentations, publications and membership in professional organizations. Michael Hughes, Ph.D., read and provided commentary on a manuscript book chapter for John A. Lynn titled, “Chapter 6: The Rare Resort to Revolutionary Terrorism before 1848.” Lynn is one of the leading military historians in the United States and this chapter is part of his new book project on the history of terrorism. Furthermore, Dr. Hughes served as the commentator for the conference panel, “Misfits and Misfires: the Other Wars of the French Revolution.” This panel was part of the Society for French Historical Studies annual conference, which tool place on April 26, 2014 at the University of Québec in Montréal, Canada. Yasuhiro Makimura, Ph.D., submitted his book manuscript for review. The book is titled: “Shipping Silk: Yokohama and eastern Japan’s first steps towards economic development, 1853-1883.” He has submitted the manuscript to the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Makimura also crafted a paper, “From Atlantic Triangle Trade to Asian Triangle Trade: An economic history of the world from 1500 to 1900.”, which he presented at the 43rd Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies (MAR AAS) conference which took place September 18-20, 2014. George Bournoutian, Ph.D., authored two texts. He published From Tabriz to St. Petersburg: Iran’s Mission of Apology to Russia in 1829 (Book) 335 pages. Feb. 2014. He also published Kratkaia istoriia armianskogo naroda (in Russian) which is currently in press. Moreover, Dr. Bournoutian presented lectures and participated in conferences at UC Irvine, UCLA (2), Toronto, MESA (New Orleans), and Yale University. He also applied for grants from the Zohrab Fellowship, Sevazlian fund and Nazarian Fund and, most notably, from the Fulbright Scholarship Program. Daniel Thiery, Ph.D., presented, “The Reformation of the Parishes. Creating ‘Soft Targets’?” at the Northeast Conference of British Studies (University of Connecticut, Oct. 2013) and he also crafted an article, “Henry V, Religion and the Rouen Ditch” which was published by History Today in the November 2014 issue. Brother Joseph Morgan, Ph.D., presented a conference paper “Controversy in Southern Illinois: Wesley Fishel and the Center for Vietnamese Studies” at the 62nd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Michigan State University. He was also a conference participant at Vietnam, 1963: A Conference Examining the Watershed Events of a Monumental Year. This conference was jointly sponsored by the Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, and the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Lastly, in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Brother Morgan created special topics undergraduate and graduate courses on the First and Second World Wars.

Mass Communication Mitchell T. Bard Published in refereed journal: •

Co-author, “Filmed in Front of a Live Studio Audience’: Using Laughter to Offset Aggression in Political Entertainment Programming,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 58:1, 131-150 (2014)

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Co-author, “Milwaukee Radio Public File Data, 1998-2011: An Empirical Analysis of Issue Advertising After the BCRA and Citizens United,” 24(1) University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy (2013)

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Four pieces as a featured blogger for Huffington Post. Sample: “Lesson From the House Debt Ceiling Vote: The GOP Is the Tea Party” (www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-bard/lesson-from-the-house-deb_b_4776005.html), featured in the Huffington Post daily email, on the site’s Twitter feed and app, and in the top spot on the website.

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Sole author, “The Role of Differing Host Styles in Fox News’ Prime-Time Coverage of Health Care Reform in August 2009,” winner, Guido Stempel Award as top paper in AEJMC’s Graduate Student Interest Group Research Paper Competition; presented at AEJMC national conference, Washington, D.C., August 2013.

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Sole author, “Beyond ‘Death Panels’: Fox News’ Prime-Time Coverage of Health Care Reform in August 2009,” accepted by AEJMC’s Electronic News Division and presented at AEJMC, Washington, D.C., August 2013.

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Co-author, “An Eye on McCutcheon v FEC: An Empirical Analysis of Issue Advertising in Wisconsin Judicial Races Before and After Citizens United,” presented at ICA conference, Seattle, May 2014.

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Sole author, “The New York Times and Paywalls: A Case Study,” presented at PCA/ACA conference, Chicago, April 2014.

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Presentation to Living in Retirement at Iona College, “From Newsprint to Pixels: The Internet and the Changing Landscape of Journalism,” November 12, 2013.

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Presentation on grading writing assignments at the College Media Association conference in New York, March 14, 2014.

The Ionian The Ionian won first place with special merit in the American Scholastic Press Association’s annual student newspaper contest, one of only six schools to be so honored. Mitchell T. Bard is the academic advisor for The Ionian.

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Book chapter published “Naughty Seeds of Sensationalism: Gossip and Celebrity in 19th Century Reporting,” Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals and Disasters in 19th Century Reporting, David Sachsman and David Bulla, eds., Transaction Publishers, 2013, 115-126.

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Book chapter accepted “Covering Crime Victims: A Discussion of Plaintiff Rights and Media Liability,” Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law, Sage Publications, publication, Spring, 2015.

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Book chapter accepted “False Light: the Tortured and Troubled Tort That Survives,” Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law, Sage Publications, publication, Spring, 2015.

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Book review published “Ethical Issues in a Rookie’s World,” review of Media Ethics at Work: True Stories from Young Professionals, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 28:2, 148-150, 2013.

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Conference paper presented “Two Forgotten, Frustrated Presidents Seeking Modern Press Secretaries: Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and the Editors,” Symposium on 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression,” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, November 8,2013.

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Conference paper presented “The Press and ‘Silent Cal’: A Study of Calvin Coolidge’s Press Relations,” Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference 2014, New York University, New York, NY, March 8, 2014.

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Workshop presentation: “Teaching Media Ethics Workshop: Trauma: “Trauma and Entertainment” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Annual Conference, Washington, DC, August 7, 2013.

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Featured Speaker, “Entertainment and Ethics,” Media Ethics Workshop, Kent State University, Kent, OH, September 19, 2013, live online stream.

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Speaker “Media, Privacy, Government and You: Legal and Ethical Issues,” Learning in Retirement at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, November 19, 2013.

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Panel Moderator, “Race for News: Terrorism, Journalism and the Boston Marathon Bombing,” PF&R “Hot Topics” Panel, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Annual Conference 2011, Washington, DC, August 9, 2013.

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Panel Moderator, “What News Coverage of Critical Issues Tells Us About Journalists and Journalism,” Refereed Paper Session, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, August 11, 2013.

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Panel moderator and originator, “Presidents and the Press: The Forgotten, the Frustrated, the First Ladies and Civil Religion, Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression,” University of Tennessee Chattanooga, November 8, 2013.

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Site Coordinator, Joint Meeting of American Journalism Historians Association and AEJMC History Division, New York, NY, March 8, 2014.

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Steering Committee member, Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression, University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

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Research Paper Judge, Media Ethics Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Annual Conventions.

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Research Paper Judge, Law and Policy Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Annual Conventions.

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“Communications Law in the Digital Age 2013,” seminar participation, Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, November 14-15, 2013.

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“Advanced Seminar in Trademark Law 2014,” seminar participation, Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, April 3, 2014.

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“Advanced Seminar in Copyright Law 2014,” seminar participation, Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, April 4, 2014.

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Served as coordinator/instructor, Colegio Lincoln (La Plata, Argentina) Mass Communication Camp.

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Completed eight years of weekly appearances on “Good Morning, Westchester,” WVOX, New Rochelle, NY.

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Served as coordinator or the St. Mary’s Seminary 2014 Alumni Reunion, Mercyhurst University, North East, PA.

Acomplishments from ICTV: Submitted by Nadine Cosby •

created ‘Inside Iona’ news/magazine program and partnered with Cablevision of Westchester to have episodes air regularly on public access cable.

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ICTV won the G.A.E.L. Award for Most Improved Organization.

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ICTV president Kyle Byrne interviewed Dr. Fazio and Dr. Stanionis from the Science Department about changes to the science program and Cornelia Hall, and interviewed President Nyre.

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Kyle Byrne also worked with the group of Argentine students from Colegio Lincoln during the Mass Communication media camp. He documented their trip by taking video and photos which he will later edit into a commercial to highlight the program.

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ICTV students Kyle Byrne and Anthony Carlo both worked for LMCTV this summer where they conducted interviews and produced news segments.

Advertising Club Achievements Submitted by Laura Esposito •

Hosted guest speaker, alumnus Diana Chisis, Branding & Marketing Director at AY Digital NYC

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Worked as Advertising Agency for other Iona College Clubs

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Worked with Dr. Shansky from the Fine Arts Department to promote the Holiday Concert

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Co-sponsored The Hunger Banquet with SOCA

Awards Submitted by Mike Damergis •

Ken Dashow Award for Excellence in Radio DJ: Pete Consadori

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Mike Prelee/Mike Eisgrau Award for News Coverage: Ali Mudano

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Bob Papa award for Excellence in Sports Play-by-Play: Jon Stanko

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John Kennelly Award for Excellence in Sports Radio Reporting: Joe D’Aloisio

Mathematics Student Honors The following students have been inducted to Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society: •

Kristen Aberasturi

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Meghan Aldridge

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Salimat Ayinde

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Ryan Del Monaco

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Kaitlyn Richter

Student Scholarship Presentations Nicholas Grippo presented his research findings at the third annual Westchester undergraduate research conference that took place on Friday, April 4, 2014. Dr. Krishnan was Nicholas’s research advisor. Math majors attended the American Mathematical Society (AMS) meeting that took place in Baltimore during January 2014. Professor Miller and Dr. Selitto also attended this meeting.

Faculty Scholarship Mathematics Educational Presentations by James E. Carpenter, Ph.D.: “Some Mathematics beyond the Standards,” 49th Annual AMTNYS [Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State] Summer Workshop, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, July 2013. “The Stanza on Geometry,” Ten County Mathematics Educators Association 39th Annual Spring Conference, Ossining High School, Ossining, New York, March 15, 2014. “Clarifying the CCSS-M for High School Geometry.” Fifty-fifth Annual Hudson Mohawk Valley Mathematics Conference, Bethlehem Central Middle School, Delmar, New York, March 22, 2014

Manuscript Reviews by Srilal Krishnan, Ph.D.: •

Dr. Krishnan reviewed two manuscripts submitted to the journals of NCTM and submitted the reports to the chief editor.

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MTH 123 (Mathematical Thinking) DL project by Professor R. Wainwright

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Professor Wainwright worked on developing a DL course in Mathematical thinking during Summer 2014.

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Fulbright Scholar: Dr. Lisa Evered.

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Dr. Evered was elected as Fulbright senior specialist last academic year and continues to work in this capacity.

Current scholarship agenda: Drs. Carpenter and Gratzer continue to be involved in Mathematics Education research. Drs. Gratzer, Smith, Selitto and Carpenter are currently working on an instructional project titled “An approach to MTH 134 using the TI-inspire CAS.” Dr. Krishnan is currently working on a research manuscript related to some applications of his prior research in Operator Algebras and titled “Groupoids and principal ideals in quantum mechanics and their implications.” Professor Miller is currently guiding some math majors in Algebraic Topology.

Service to College: Members of faculty continue to serve the College on important committees like the RTA, Student Faculty court, Strategic Plan Governance, Special Sessions, SAS, Tenure & Promotion Standards Work Team, and Freshmen Learning Communities.

Physics Student Accomplishments Student Presentations, Undergraduate Research Day: •

Cioffi, Frank, Mapping of Ozone in Mars’ Atmosphere

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Mott, Gregg, Diurnal HDO Variation in Mars’ Atmosphere

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Summer, 2013, Gregory Badura, Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Research, NSF sponsored, REU Program, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.

Faculty Accomplishments Publications: •

Villanueva, G. L.; Mumma, M. J.; Bonev, B. P.; Novak, R. E.; Barber, R. J.; Disanti, M. A., 2012,Water in planetary and cometary atmospheres: H2O/HDO transmittance and fluorescence models, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Volume 113, Issue 3, p. 202-220.

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Villanueva, G. L.; Mumma, M. J.; Novak, R. E.; Radeva, Y. L.; Käufl, H. U.; Smette, A.; Tokunaga, A.; Khayat, A.; Encrenaz, T.; Hartogh, P., 2013, A sensitive search for organics (CH4, CH3OH, H2CO, C2H6, C2H2, C2H4), hydroperoxyl (HO2), nitrogen compounds (N2O, NH3, HCN) and chlorine species (HCl, CH3Cl) on Mars using ground-based high-resolution infrared spectroscopy, Icarus, Volume 223, Issue 1, p. 11-27.

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Villanueva, G. L.; Mumma, M. J.; Novak, R. E., Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Ratios in the Martian Atmosphere, 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 18-22, 2013 in The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1719, p.2551, March, 2013.

Political Science Political Science Department, International Studies, and Pre Law Student and Faculty Achievements, 2013-2014

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Spring 2014 student/faculty research project, Livable Communities Collaborative of the Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Service. This project was coordinated and overseen by Mary Hagerty, Ph.D., and department students, John Bertino ’15, Joelle Cheatem ’15, Katrina Frederick ’14, Andrew Jordan ’14, Savannah Lang ’15, James Murphy ’14, Timothy O’Dwyer ’15, and Thomas Severin ’16. Students presented their findings at a conference sponsored by the Partnership in June in a paper entitled “Are You Being Taxed Out of Westchester?”

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10 Iona Scholars Day presentations

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John Paul Catalnotto, internship, Edmund Rice International, Geneva, Switzerland, summer 2014

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Ryan Bacci, defended senior Honors Thesis, “No Tears for the Dead :The Tragedy of Haiti and the Future of the Pearl of the Caribbean” (directed by Tricia Mulligan, Ph.D.)

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Chelsea Champion, defended senior Honors Thesis with distinction, “Native American Communities and Environmental Justice: Struggles, Solutions, and Future Directions” (directed by Tricia Mulligan, Ph.D.)

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Elissa Levy, internship, United Nations NGO, fall 2013

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Sabrina Lombardi, internship, NBC, legal division, fall 2013

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Joseph Sgammato, internship, Town of Ossining, NY

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Joseph Sgammato, internship, State Assemblywoman, Sandy Galef, fall 2013 and spring 2014

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Pasquale Malpeso, internship, Clinton Foundation, fall 2013

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Sean Carberry, internship, Office of New York Attorney General

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Samantha Carlo, internship, private law office

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Ashley Hubaykah, internship, Action Against Hunger, spring 2014

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Carrington Clarke, internship, UN Mission in New York, Bahamas, summer 2014

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Najee Barnes, internship, Better Business Bureau Legal office, summer 2014

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Amina Omeragic, internship, UN Mission in New York, Bosnia.

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Timothy O’Dwyer, internship, Iron Gate Security, legal research, summer 2014

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Matthew McGinnity, internship, US House of Representatives, Eliot Engle (D-NY), spring 2014

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Ryan Bacci, internship, Global Poverty Project, spring 2014

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Robb Olivieri, internship, Pi Kappa Phi, national lobbying initiative, spring 2014

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Christine Samwaroo, awarded EcoPracticum summer position, Environmental Studies minor

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Andrew Jordan, selected as Soliya Connect program international facilitator for 2013-14

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Caitlyn O’Toole, selected at Soliya Connect program international facilitator for 2013-14

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Model United Nations Team, competition, Harvard National Model UN Conference, February 14-18, 2014. Team members included: Jesse Brown, Kenny Reischman, Joelle Cheatem, CJ Funaro, Taylor Cembalisty, Michael Hodgen, Andrew Jordan, Sean Carberry, Tommy Severin, Tom McNulty, McKenzie Humann, and John Bertino

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Mock Trial Team: Anastasia Nitis (Sr. co-captain) Mary Ann Gallucci (Sr. co-captain) Amy Wert (Jr.) Joshua Myree (Jr.) Ariel May (Jr.) Stephanie Stein (So.) Kayla Kosack (Fr.) Valery Gabriel (Fr.)

The Iona College Mock Trial team had one of the most successful seasons in team history during 2013-2014. Adam Detsky, Isaac Gilwit, and Michael Gelfand served as coaches. A summary of results is below: •

First tournament of the year was the Columbia University Big Apple Invitational Tournament (CUBAIT) on October 26 and 27, 2013. Against a tough, even elite, field, Iona finished with a record of two wins, four losses, and two ties. This was the only tournament during the season in which Iona finished with a losing record.All four rounds were against teams ranked in the top 50 in the entire country, and all were very close and competitive. Senior Kimberleigh Constanzo won an individual attorney award on the defense side of the case, with 19 out of a possible 20 ranks.

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Second tournament of the year was the WONK Invitational Tournament at American University on November 16th and 17, 2013. Against another tough field, Iona finished with a record of 6-2, and won the strength of schedule tiebreaker for second place. Kimberleigh Costanzo won her second individual award for being one of the top attorneys in the competition, finishing with 19 individual points out of a possible 20. Anastasia Nitis also won an attorney award with 18 individual points.

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Iona’s regional tournament took place at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., on February 8 and 9, 2014. Iona finished in seventh place with a record of five wins, two losses, and one tie, which enabled Iona to qualify for the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) the following month. This was the sixth straight year in which Iona advanced past regionals. Three Iona students won individual awards: Anastasia Nitis won her second attorney award with 18 ranks, Mary Ann Gallucci won an attorney award with 17 ranks, and Amy Wert won a witness award with 18 ranks.

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Iona’s ORCS tournament took place at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse on March 22 and 23, 2014. Against the toughest field of teams that Iona has ever faced, Iona finished in eight place out of 24 teams with a record of four wins, three looses, and one tie. Iona barely missed qualifying for the National Championship Tournament. Notably, this was the second year in a row (and the second time in Iona’s history) that Iona finished with a winning record at ORCS.

2013-2014 rankings have not yet been released, but it is likely that Iona’s ORCS finish will raise Iona’s national ranking from 70th to 65th in the country. This means that Iona will most likely be the highest ranked mock trial program in the country that fields only one team.

Graduates/Alumni: •

Elissa Levy ’14, International Studies, was accepted to the Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) fellowship for 2014-15.

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Ryan Bacci ’14, International Studies, will be attending Kings College in London for his MA in International Relations. It is one of the 30 highest ranked universities in the world.

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James Hurley ’12, Political Science, won a Fulbright Award and will be studying in Northern Ireland for the 2014-2015 academic year.

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Milan Prodanovic ’10, will be attending Duke University Law School next fall.

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Sinead Knightly ’13, Political Science/Economics, won a Fulbright Award to teach English in Taiwan next year.

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Joseph Sgammato ’14, Political Science/Pre Law, will be attending New York Law School. He was the recipient of the 2014 New Rochelle Bar Association Award.

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Brianna Oliverio ’14, Political Science/Pre Law, will be attending Pace University Law School.

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Jesse Ouellette ’08, Political Science, USMC and American University School of Law was the White House legal intern for spring 2014.

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Andrew Jordan ’14, Political Science, will be participating in Teach for America. He will be placed in Tulsa, Okla.

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Caitlyn O’Toole ’14, Political Science, will be participating in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. She will be placed in New Orleans, La.

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Sarah Lonergan-Rothschild ’14, International Studies, will be attending Fordham University for her master’s degree in International Social Work.

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Kristen Griffin ’14, Political Science/Pre Law, will be attending Pace University Law School.

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Christine Samwaroo ’14, Environmental Studies minor, will be attending the New School of Social Research for her master’s degree in Sustainability.

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Christopher Massaro ’13, Political Science, was admitted to CUNY Graduate Center’s MA program in International Affairs.

Faculty Achievements Mary Hagerty, Ph.D. Manuscript solicitation from Palgrave Macmillan editor to submit book proposal. “Women Who Win: Case Studies of New York State Assembly Women’s First Electoral Victory” Service in state legislatures is often a gateway to candidacy for higher national office, where women in particular are underrepresented relative to their numbers in the overall electorate. Dr. Hagerty’s research explores, via interviews and a survey questionnaire, a woman’s process in deciding to be a candidate in a New York State legislative election. Current research suggests that women, in common with many underrepresented groups, need to be encouraged to run for office, that there is a “gender gap in political ambition”, and that the reason there are not more women in elective office is that not enough women have been candidates. Hagerty, Political Science, 2

Conferences And Presentations Faculty-Student Research Project Iona College is participating in a cross-disciplinary and inter-collegiate Think Tank in partnership with the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services (DSPS) and the Westchester Alliance of Academic Institutions for Aging Related Studies (http://westchesterpartnership.org/wpll). Eight Iona College undergraduate students have been recruited to participate in the inter-collegiate Think Tank. The research design combines public policy, and state and local government literature and theory review; data collection via qualitative case studies of Westchester County and selected comparable counties. Questions for research include: New York state-local fiscal relations; local school and property taxes. What are fiscal challenges facing local governments? What are the possibilities of reducing taxes by way of local government consolidation and service-sharing? What are consequences of property taxes on older adults? Younger adults? What are current demographic trends? Students presented preliminary findings at Iona Scholars’ Day, April 8, 2014; and presented at the “Successful Aging” Conference sponsored by the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services on June 27, 2014. The student research findings will be part of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging recommendations from the Westchester County DSPS.

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Spring 2014, signed book contract with Bloomsbury Academic Press for manuscript in progress tentatively titled “The Pragmatic Conservatives: Edmund Burke and His American Heirs.” The deadline for the project is August 1, 2015.

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Published chapters in edited volume, “Elihu Root: Balancing Constitutionalism and Democracy,” in forthcoming edited book titled In Defense of the Founders Republic: Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era (edited by Jerome Mileur and Lonce Bailey), New York: Bloomsbury Academic. The expected release date for the book is February 2015.

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December 2013, “‘Reverence for the Archetype’: The Pragmatic Conservatism of Peter Viereck” for web site of a scholarly journa, Anamnesis. The article was not peer-reviewed and only appears in elect, ronic form. http://anamnesisjournal. com/2013/12/reverence-archetype-pragmatic-conservatism-peter-viereck-2/

Conference Paper Presentations: Invited to give three talks for the Institute on American Politics and Political Thought at the University of Massachusetts. Funded by the State Department, the Institute brings in 20 scholars from around the world for a six-week intensive workshop in American political development and thought. •

“The Pragmatic and Progressive Foundations of American Political Thought and Practice.” Presented at the Institute on American Politics and Political Thought at the University of Massachusetts (Sponsored by the State Department).Amherst, MA, July 2013.

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“Understanding the New Deal and the Great Society.” Presented at the Institute on American Politics and Political Thought at the University of Massachusetts (Sponsored by the State Department). Amherst, MA, July 2013.

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“The Radicalism of Today’s Conservatives.” Presented at the Institute on American Politics and Political Thought at the University of Massachusetts (Sponsored by the State Department). Amherst, MA, July 2013.

Joshua Leon, Ph.D. •

Book project, The Rise of Global Health: The Evolution of Effective Collective Action, was formally accepted by SUNYPress. The single-authored book is currently in production, and is scheduled for release March 2015. This project revisits prevailing notions in international relations scholarship that see greater multilateral involvement toward an issue area as inevitably leading to bureaucratic sclerosis, arguing instead that public health can be produced widely as a public good.

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“Why Is the World Bank Financing Forced Evictions?” was published by Peace Review, June 2014. The article examines the role of global development institutions in facilitating urban growth with problematic consequences for human rights

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“Land Power in the Global City: Cooperation in the New Economic Geography” at the 2014 Western Political Science Association (WPSA) conference in Seattle. Dr. Leon presented a revised manuscript derived from this research, “The Role of Global Cities in Land Grabs.”

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primary source research for a second, related manuscript, tentatively called “Global Urban Governance: Democratic Deficit Meets Right to the City.” This research establishes a framework that explains the ways in which cities project power in the international system. If successful it may lay the groundwork for a second book project on this crucial area of global governance.

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Contributor to Dissent magazine including “Destroying the City to Save It: New York in the Shadow of Le Corbusier,” appeared summer 2013. A second feature, “Beyond the ‘World of 70’: Inequality and the 2030 Development Goals,” appeared December 2013.

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Organized Pre Law Speaker, fall 2013, Cardozo Law School’s Ekow N. Yankah, “Trayvon and Beyond: Hate Crime, Civic Equality, and Criminal Punishment.”

Tricia Mulligan, Ph.D. (Chair of Political Science Department, Director of International Studies) •

Faculty Moderator of Dominican Republic International Service Learning program (with student Ryan Bacci), spring 2014. Students included: Ryan Bacci, Chelsea Champion, Andrew Jordan, Michael Hodgen, Emerald Greene, Valery Gabriel, Sophia Hyokyvaara. Natalie Bowman, Taylor Cembalisty, JP Catalonatto, Angelique Blake, Alexandra Vinci, and Kiara Mendez.

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Presentation to New Rochelle Rotary club, April 2014 on Dominican Republic Service Learning experience

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Organizer of Operation: DR, advocacy even for human rights in Dominican Republic

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Recipient of Br. Richard Power Award for Integrating Service Learning in the Classroom, May 2014

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Organized “Azaka Trio”, Haitian music performance for Black History Month, February 2014

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Organized “In the Time of Butterflies” screening and discussion for Women’s History Month, March 2014

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Organized Constitution Day 2014 with Mayor Noam Bramson, New Rochelle, NY

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Campus liaison and professor for Soliya Connect program, facilitating dialogue between West and Muslim world, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.

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Co-chair of Strategic Planning Core Review and Revision team.

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Moderator, Pi Sigma Alpha, national Political Science honor society.

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Moderator, Sigma Iota Rho, national International Studies honor society.

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Faculty Senate

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Model United Nations Team moderator.

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Member of Strategic Planning, Service Learning team

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Member of Strategic Planning, Study Abroad team

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Study Abroad Committee member

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Member of Catholic Intellectual Tradition faculty steering committee

Psychology Submitted by Patricia Oswald, Chair July 28, 2014

Faculty Achievements Publications Zaromatidis, K., & Oswald P. (in press). Infusing Issues of Sexual Diversity Through the Use of Discussion Boards. ERIC Digests, ED. Rosenfeld, B., Pessin, H., Marziliano, A., Jacobson, C., Sorger, B., Abbey, J., Olden, M., Brescia, R., & Breitbart, W. (2014). Does Desire for Hastened Death Change in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients? Social Science and Medicine, 111, 35-40. Jacobson, C., & *Luik, C. C. (2014). Epidemiology and sociocultural aspects of non-suicidal self-injury and eating disorders. Chapter in L. Claes and J. Muehlenkamp (Eds.), pp. 19-34. Non-suicidal Self-injury in Eating Disorders. New York: Springer. Jacobson, C., & Batejan, K. (June, 2014). Comprehensive theoretical models of Non-suicidal Self-Injury. Chapter in M. Nock (Ed.), pp. 308-322. The Oxford Handbook of Suicide and Self-injury. New York: Oxford University Press. Oswald, P., & Zaromatidis, K. (2013). Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in the Psychology Major. ERIC Digests, ED543391. Jacobson, C., Batejan, K., Kleinman, M., & Gould, M. (2013). Reasons for attempting suicide among a community sample of adolescent suicide attempters. Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviors, 43 (6), 589-703. Kim, K. R., & Kang, J. (2013). Liberal-Conservative Self-Identification in Korea: A Cross-Cultural Explanation, Korean Social Science Journal, 40 (2), 113-120.

Book and Program Reviews Greene, P. (2014). Program Reviewer, Division 56 - Trauma Psychology, 122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Asgari, S. (2013). Review of Consciousness Chapter by M. L. Licht, M. G. Hull, M. G., & C. Ballantyne, Scientific American: Psychology.

Professional Newsletters Theodore, J. L., & Maloney, T. (2014, May). Chapter News: Westchester Chapter, NYMHCA Quarterly Newsletter. Maloney, T., & Theodore, J. L. (2014, February). Regional Chapter Reports: Westchester Chapter, NYMHCA Quarterly Newsletter. Theodore, J. L., & Maloney, T. (2013, November). Chapter News: Westchester Chapter, NYMHCA Quarterly Nesletter. Theodore, J. L., & Maloney, T. (2013, August). Chapter News: Westchester Chapter, NYMHCA Quarterly Newsletter

Published Abstracts Zaromatidis, K., & Oswald P. (2014, April). Infusing Issues of Sexual Diversity Through the Use of Discussion Boards. Abstract Published in 28th Annual TOP Conference Proceedings, 28, 5. Zaromatidis, K., & Zakierski, M. (2014, April). Use of a Collaborative Teaching Model to Foster Acceptance of Diversity. Abstract Published in the 28th Annual TOP Conference Proceedings, 28, 4. Conference Presentations Zaromatidis, K., & Oswald P. (2014, April). Infusing Issues of Sexual Diversity Through the Use of Discussion Boards. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Tarrytown, NY. Zaromatidis, K., & Zakierski, M. (2014, April). Use of a Collaborative Teaching Model to Foster Acceptance of Diversity. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Tarrytown, NY. Zakierski, M., & Zaromatidis, K. (2013, October) Teaching Side by Side: Educators and Psychologists Collaborate to Improve Teacher Pedagogy. Paper presented at the 2013 New York State Council for Exceptional Children Conference, Melville, NY.

Zakierski, M., & Zaromatidis, K. (2013, November). Using Visual Media to Enhance Teacher and School Psychology Candidates’ Dispositions. Paper presented at the 2013 Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Theodore, J.L. (2014, April). Teaching clinical treatment planning and client negotiation skills via role-play. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Tarrytown, New York, USA. Theodore, J.L. (2013, July). Helping undergraduate students understand neuropsychological test selection via role-play. Paper presented at the 4th Vancouver International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Vancouver, British Columbia: Canada. *Quintano, S., *Chandler, C., & Kim, K. (2014, February). Cross-Cultural Analysis of Mortality Salience, Education, and Agreeableness Amongst the Politically Extreme. The 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, Texas. *Carson, C., *Ziskin, N., *Luik, C., & Jacobson, C. (2014, March). Expressing Your Feelings is Good for You. Poster presentation at the 42nd Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention: New York, NY. Hill, R., Jacobson, C., Petit, J., & Miranda, R. (2013, November). Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses of The Measure of Verbally Expressed Emotions (MoVEE). Poster presentation at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy: Nashville, TN. Lane, R., Tsypes, A., Jacobson, C., & Miranda, R. (2013, June). Verbal emotional expressivity mediates the relationship between hopelessness and suicidal ideation. Poster presented at the 2013 IASR World Congress on Suicide in Montreal, Canada. Aldredge, M. D., & Asgari, S. (2014, February). Trending toward Artistic Diversity? A Case Study of Collegiate Arts Programming, 2000-2014. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Asgari, S., & *Carter, F. (2014, May). Peer Mentors Can Enhance Academic Performance of College Students. Presented at the Teaching Professor Annual Conference, Boston, MA.

Seminars & Invited Lectures Jacobson, C. (2013, June). Treatment Approaches to Non-suicidal Self-injurious Behaviors. Presentation at the Westchester Chapter of the New York Mental Health Counselors Association, New Rochelle, NY. Theodore, J.L. (2014, March). Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders. Invited speaker at the Women’s History Month event, Iona College, New Rochelle, New York.

Grants & Other Recognition K. Zaromatidis & P. Oswald: Academic Excellence Though Diversity Award - provided by the State University of New York Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) in support of research paper on Sexual Diversity presented at the 2014 TOP Conference. Seeing is Believing: Exposure to Counterstereotypic Women Leaders and its Effect on the Malleability of Automatic Gender Stereotyping, a paper by S. Asgari, was selected to be summarized and included in the Gender Action Portal (GAP); http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.

Professional Associations & Licensure Psychology faculty are members of the following professional organizations: •

American Psychological Association

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American Psychological Society

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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New York State Psychological Association

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Eastern Psychological Association

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New England Psychological Association

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Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology

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Westchester County Psychological Association

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New York Mental Health Counselors Association

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Westchester Chapter of New York Mental Health Counselors Association

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Westchester County Disaster Response Network

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WCPA Disaster Relief Committee

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Eight psychology faculty are NYS licensed psychologists

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Psychology faculty served as members of the following committees, strategic planning work groups, and programs:

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Comprehensive Program Review Work Team (co-chair)

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Undergraduate Council

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Graduate Council

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Harassment and Discrimination Hearing Pool

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IRB (chair)

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Institutional Advancement Committee

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Assessment Committee

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Core Assessment Work Group

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Speech Pathology Graduate Program Task Force

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CARE Team

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Honors Program (assistant director)

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Freshman Advising Program

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Council on the Arts

Faculty-Student Research Collaboration *Chiarelli, C., & Oswald, P. (under revision). The Effects of Leadership Style, Leader Charisma, Leader Gender, and Trust in Leadership on Employee Motivation. To be submitted to a peer reviewed journal. *Niblock, K., & Oswald, P. (under revision). The Effects of Time Frame of Hire, Type of Self-Promotion, and Immigrant Status on the Outcome of Selection. To be submitted to a peer reviewed journal. Asgari, S., & *Carter, F. M. (2014, April). The Effects of Peer Mentoring in Introductory Level College Courses. Platform talk given at Westchester Undergraduate Research Conference, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Theodore, J. with research assistants *LaSala, A. and *D’Angelo, K. (manuscript in preparation). Investigation of actual practices among HIV primary care doctors and comparing these to AIDS Institute treatment guidelines for HIV-positive patients. To be submitted to a peer reviewed journal. Jacobson, C. et al. & Grozeva, D.* (under review). The Association of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Emotional Experiences with Non-suicidal Self-injury among Young Adults. Archives of Suicide Research. *Denotes a student researcher

Student Achievements Publications and Presentations Cynthia Luik ’14 (MA in Meantal Health Counseling) published a book chapter with C. Jacobson: Epidemiology and sociocultural aspects of non-suicidal self-injury and eating disorders in Non-suicidal Self-injury in Eating Disorders (2014). Sarah Quintano and Chantal Chandler ’14 (MA in General-Experimental) presented with K. Kim: Cross-Cultural Analysis of Mortality Salience, Education, and Agreeableness Amongst the Politically Extreme at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, Texas (2014). Chelsea Carson ’14 (BA in Psychology), Natalie Ziskin ’14 (BA in Psychology), and Cynthia Luik ’14 (MA in Mental Health Counseling) presented a poster with C. Jacobson: Expressing Your Feelings is Good for You at the 42nd Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention: New York, NY (2014).

Fred Carter ’14 (BA in Psychology) presented a poster with S. Asgari titled: Peer Mentors Can Enhance Academic Performance of College Students at the Teaching Professor Annual Conference, Boston, MA (2014). Katie Niblock ’13 (BA in Psychology; MA in Industrial Organizational Psychology) presented a poster: Personality and Facebook Usage as Predictors of Student Participation in Course Blogs at the 122nd American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC (2014). Thirteen psychology graduate students, mentored by P. Oswald, presented their empirical research at the 2nd Annual Iona College Psychology Poster Session: New Rochelle, NY (2014, May). Five psychology undergraduate students, mentored by S. Asgari, presented their research at the 5th Annual Iona Scholars Day, New Rochelle, NY (2014, April). A total of 70 psychology undergraduate students, mentored by S. Asgari, R. Carlo, C. Jacobson and K. Kim, presented their research at the 2nd Annual Iona College Psychology Poster Session, New Rochelle, NY (2014, May).

Honors Thesis Anastasia Formica ’14 (BA in Psychology) defended her honors thesis research: The Effects of Popularized Stereotypes on Jury Decision-Making (2014, May). In total, 90 undergraduate and graduate students, mentored by psychology faculty, presented their research at national, regional, and local conferences.

Graduate School Placements Katie Niblock ’13 (BA in Psychology; MA in Industrial Organizational Psychology) was accepted into the Ph.D. program in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Buffalo. Jacqueline Gates ’14 (BA in Psychology) was accepted into the Applied Behavioral Analysis program at Columbia University. Approximately 15 psychology students from the class of 2014 will begin graduate study in the fall.

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New York Presbyterian Hospital

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Westchester Medical Center

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St. Vincent’s Hospital

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FEGS Health & Human Services

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Mental Health Association of Westchester

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City of Yonkers

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Westchester County Government

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Viacom

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Psychology faculty advised approximately 225 undergraduate student majors, 95 graduate students, 35 minors, and 15 certificate students, for a total of over 750 student advisement contacts for AY 2013-2014.

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Psychology Graduate Program Directors, in collaboration with the Enrollment Management team, organized and delivered a Panel Presentation for Continuing and Prospective Graduate Students.

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Faculty reviewed 93 student empirical research projects as part of the Departmental IRB approval process.

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Faculty collaborated with student leaders to coordinate extracurricular events for 50+ undergraduate and graduate students participating in Psychology Club and Iona’s Chapter of Psi Chi (national honor society for psychology).

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The Department organized the Annual Psi Chi Induction Ceremony (April 2014) and two Career/Graduate School Information Sessions (October 2013 and February 2014) for students.

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Faculty drafted and adopted a new Psychology mission statement.

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Faculty created and adopted new undergraduate goals and SLOs to align with the most recent APA Goals - Version 2.0; revised 20 syllabi to include the new goals/SLOs; and revised the departmental Assessment Map to align with new learning goals.

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Faculty hosted the annual graduate student orientation for newly admitted students who will begin study in the Fall.

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Graduate Program Directors revised the Graduate Student Handbooks, which codify policies, procedures, and policies for our four graduate degree programs.

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Graduate Program Directors developed program flyers and other recruitment materials for our graduate programs in Industrial Organizational, General-Experimental, Mental Health Counseling, and School Psychology.

Religious Studies Summary Whether submitted, in press, or published, Religious Studies faculty created four refereed articles, nine chapters in edited volumes, nine edited volumes, one study guide entry, eight book and article reviews, two web publications, one book jacket endorsement, one translation, and six creative works in AY 13-14. The Religious Studies faculty participated in 48 conferences and presentations, including nine occasions of scholarship and teaching with students. The faculty members applied for eight grants during the 20132014 academic year, and were awarded all eight. Faculty members maintained 24 professional memberships while also holding 13 offices. During the academic year, one degree/certificate was earned while more than six training workshops and programs were held. Fourteen instructional projects involving the program and its courses were also implemented. The Religious Studies faculty also provided significant service to the College including: four program director/coordinators, seven departmental committees and projects, 14 college wide committees and projects, four positions as a student club or activity moderator/advisor, as well as six additional service activities. An award/honor was awarded to two of the full-time faculty members of the Religious Studies department. Faculty appeared eight times in print and/or television media. Below are the descriptions of the achievements that occurred during the 2013-2014 academic year. Working with Students on Scholarship, Research, and Study Abroad: •

Kathleen Deignan guided Legrand Junior Beauvais and Christine Samwaroo as they applied for and received Thomas Merton Young Scholars Daggy Scholarships to participate in the 13th Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society at Sacred Heart University, June 2013. She also mentored environmentally-focused students through the Berry Student Associates, brings students to conferences, supporting their academic work in environmental studies, and training them for environmental advocacy. The Berry Forum provides sponsorship to conferences and programs such as ‘The Environmental Consortium of Colleges and Universities’ (three students attending this past academic year) and ‘The Association for Environmental Science Studies’ (one student attending).

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Teresa Delgado served as a mentor for Lauren Guerra, a doctoral student of theology at Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA). In doing so, she provided guidance with research for comprehensive exams, maintained monthly communication, and met each semester for one-on-one mentoring sessions for the Hispanic Theological Initiative (Princeton, NJ) which took place September 2013 – May 2014. She was also the advisor for Isabel Garcia-Spiegel, masters of divinity student at Union Theological Seminary (NY, NY) for whom she provided guidance for her master’s thesis project on Latina feminist theology, March 2014.

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Kim Paffenroth was the thesis adviser for Dakota Lasky for, “Films of Hayao Miyazaki,” 2014-2015. With guidance from Kim Paffenroth, one student honored with the Hunt-Doyle Writing Award (Iona College, 2014), two students presented papers at the North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy (2014), three students presented papers at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (2014), two students presented papers at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (2013), and one student presented a paper at Iona’s Undergraduate Research Day (2014).

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Elena Procario-Foley served as the advisor for Theta Alpha Kappa, The National Honor Society for Theology and Religious Studies. She led six students in the study abroad trip to Oswiecim, Poland (Auschwitz). Procario-Foley completed serving as a reader on a Ph.D. dissertation for a student from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education. Procario-Foley also introduced four students to community interreligious dialogue in action by securing their participation in the Thanksgiving Diversity Breakfast sponsored by the AJC and Manhattanville College at which they engaged in conversation with professionals and political leaders over the theme: Building the Mosaic: Examining Immigration.

Brian Edward Brown, Ph.D., JD Books & Articles: Chapters In Edited Volumes (Published): •

“The Earth Jurisprudence of Thomas Berry and the Tradition of Revolutionary Law” in The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community edited by Heather Eaton (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014) pp. 195-222.

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Memberships:

American Teilhard Association

Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Archdiocese of New York: Buddhist-Roman Catholic Dialogue

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Phi Beta Kappa Society

Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

Offices Held:

Advisory Board Member to the Center for Earth Jurisprudence at Barry University School of Law, Miami Shores, Florida, 2006 to present.

Associate Editor of Teilhard Studies , the monograph of The American Teilhard Association, 1990 to present.

Executive Board Member of The American Teilhard Association, 1995 to present.

Board member of The Thomas Berry Foundation, 2012 to present.

Co-convener and founder of The Thomas berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue at Iona, 2009 to present.

Instructional Projects:

New Course Design and Implementation:

Designed, implemented and taught the Religious Studies track for the new Environmental Studies major, ENV. 452: Colloquium in Environmental Studies, Fall Semester 2013.

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Publications: Articles in Juried Journals:

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Published:

“Ecozoic: A Meditation and an Aisling” The Ecozoic Number 3 2013

“Dreaming Together with Wisdom” International Thomas Merton Society Presidential Address , Thomas Merton Seasonal: A Quarterly Review, Vol.38, No. 3, Fall 2013, pp. 3-10.

Book Review: Thomas Merton: Collected Essays ed. Patrick O’Connell, in Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society, 41:1/June 2014 pp. 190-192.

Submitted:

“Children of the Resurrection: Thomas Merton and the Shakers,” pp 160-165. Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series, 2015.

Submitted for publication in the Merton Seasonal: “Cosmopolitan: Thomas Merton’s Urbane Spirituality”

“A Prophecy of Paradise: Thomas Merton’s Letters to a Green Liberal” In the Merton Annual

Editorships:

The Love of a Lover (Edited with Introduction) Ann Deignan Schola Press 2013 English and French editions

Proposal for Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours (Sorin 2015 expected)

Proposal for The Giuliani Homilies Project (working title) Ave Maria or Schola Ministries

Publications in Preparation:

During the Faculty Fellowship Deignan was able to undertake these writing commitments:

Invited to contribute “Apocalypse in Paradise: Merton as Guide through The Sixth Extinction” for a Merton Commemorative Volume published by associates of Heythrop College, England titled Proposed title: Imagining Futures: Thomas Merton and Contemporary Life, ed. Dr. Anthony Purvis.

Invited to present at Yale University Symposium on The Journey of the Universe: A Centennial Celebration of the Legacy of Thomas Berry: “Spirituality and the New Cosmology” to be published in Forum for Religion and Ecology.

Revision of text for publication by Schola Ministries for the Centenary of the Birth of Thomas Berry: “The Gospel of Thomas: Good News for the Great Work,” and “The Acts of the Ecozoic Apostles Looking for a publisher for “Seraphic Vision: The Angel of Bonaventure’s Itinerarium Mirrored in the Angel of Rilke’s Elegies”

Invitation to compile my varied thematic writings on Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys as an ecozoic pioneer.

Invitation to submit an article on Thomas Merton for the African publication, The Tangaza Journal of Theology and Mission

During the Faculty Fellowship Deignan was able to undertake these intellectual commitments:

Projects in Preparation for Now You Know Media Invited by Michael Bloom, the founding director of NYKM to prepare a series of six 25-minute lecture/ presentations on contemporary spirituality, accompanied by my original contemplative music, with NYKM. These programs have been in preparation this past academic year: A Retreat with Thomas Merton (taping and video August 2014) A Retreat with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (taping and video August 2014) A Retreat with Thomas Berry My Druid Is Christ: Praying and Practicing the Celtic Mysteries

Presentations at Conferences etc.:

Thomas Berry Power Point Webinar for GreenFaith Fellows, “The Great Work,” February 6, 2014.

Catholic Intellectual Tradition presentation “The Book of Creation” in the Catholic Tradition: An Historical Context for the Environmental Teaching of Pope John Paul II,” at Iona College. February 20, 2014.

Pax Christi Three Day Retreat “Thomas Merton and Thomas Berry in Dialogue for Creation,” March 2014.

Presentation of Workshop by The Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue at Iona Conveners: “Partners in Great Work Certification Program,” The New School, NYC, preps for AES Conference, March 29.

Presidential Address, “Thomas Merton: Dreaming with Wisdom,” International Thomas Merton Society at Sacred Heart University, June 2013.

Guild for Spiritual Guidance Teilhard Cultivator 2011-2015

Training and Formation for Spiritual Guides 2011 - 2015

Mariandale Spiritual Center, Ossining, NY

Three weekend intensives during 2013-14 to the Apprentices of the Guild for Spiritual Guidance

Program for ITMS Interfaith Chapter in Rehoboth, Delaware: “Thomas Merton: Environmental Prophet,” June 28, 2013.

International Teaching / Presentations:

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The Great Work: The Prophetic Legacy of Thomas Berry

An Croi Wisdom School, Droughada, Ireland, July 2013

“The CND Charism in the Ecological Age”Keynote Presenter for Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Chapter, Nova Scotia, July 2013

Justice and Peace Councils of the Congregation of Notre Dame: “CND Charism in the Ecozoic Age”

Workshop for the international leadership of the Congregation of Notre Dame General Conference: “ Simplicity for Mission,” June 10, 2013.

Artistic Performances of Original Song Compositions: Celtic Spirit

Celtic Concert Dominican Sisters Sparkill, NY, March 26

The Guild for Spiritual Guidance Anniversary Concert, Mariandale, NY, April 5

Columba Day Heritage Week at Iona, April 12

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Continuing Theological and Science Education

Maryknoll Mission Institute: One week residential intensive with Elia Delio on Teilhard de Chardin and The New Cosmology, June 23-28, 2013

Annual Teilhard Lecture at Columbia University, May 11, 2013

Earth Institute Conferences regularly throughout the year

92nd Street Y Lectures on Environmental Themes and Concerns, throughout the academic year

Professional Societies Officer

President of the International Thomas Merton Society, 2011-2013 (ITMS)

Chair of the Planning Committee for the June 2013 General Meeting at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Ct., June 2013

President Emerita and Chair of Planning Committee for The 14th General Meeting of the Thomas Merton Society Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, 2013-2015

Merton Centenary Committee, 2011-2015

Boards of Trustees

GreenFaith (also Committee Chair: GreenFaith Fellows)

Giuliani Foundation for Religion and the Arts

International Thomas Merton Society, President Emerita (Chair ITMS 14th General Meeting Program Committee for Merton Centennial Bellarmine University 2015)

American Teilhard Association

Founding/Continued Direction of Iona Institutes

Iona Spirituality Institute

Continued direction and program preparation, hosting, presenting for ISI – three programs per semester.

Columba Celebration for Heritage Week with Dr. John Philip Newell of The Isle of Iona, April 12, 2014

Silent Meditation Offerings of ISI - one evening throughout academic year

Beginners Meditation – one day at noon throughout the year

Founding Convener of Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue at Iona

Numerous programs offered and co-hosted by Thomas Berry Forum for Iona community and general public

Religious Models of Creation: Rabbi Larry Troster of Rabbis for Earth and Green Faith

Religion and Science: Rabbi Larry Troster

Berry Forum Offerings on Campus

St. Francis Day Festival and Planting

Reel Earth Cinema Series (eight environmental issues films annually)

Thomas Merton Contemplative Initiative

Retreat and Meditation offerings on campus 2013-2014

MCI Council

Creation and development of “The Spiritual Masters Athenaeum” – a contemplative reading room housing several donated collections of the works of Thomas Merton, Pierre de Chardin, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Berry and a wide range of other spiritual teachers. This space has been a collaboration among the Quinlan Family Benefactors, The Merton Contemplative Initiative and Ryan Library with special thanks to Mr. Rick Pallidino.

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Iona Committee Memberships: 2013-2014

Week of the PeaceMaker

Earth Month Committee

Women’s History Month

Heritage Week

Iona College Sustainable Education Working Group

During the Faculty Fellowship Deignan was able to undertake these curriculum development commitments:

Academic Initiatives:

Catholic Creation Theology: History of the Tradition

Spirituality in the Ecological Age

Design and teaching of Capstone Course for Environmental Majors: RST Strand

Awards

New Academic Major and Course Development: Integral Ecological Studies

Honorary Degree, Honoris Causa, from Sacred Heart University, May 2014

Grants Applied for and Received:

Quinlan Family Grant/ Fund for the Thomas Merton Contemplative at Iona

Verrier Grant / Restricted Fund for Iona Spirituality Institute

Icon (Cachianes Family Foundation) for Thomas Berry Forum

Klauberg Family Foundation for Thomas Berry Forum

CND Monti Ministry Fund for Thomas Berry Forum “Partners in the Great Work Certificate Program”

Teresa Delgado, Ph.D. •

Publications:

“Beyond Procreativity: Heterosexuals Queering Marriage,” in Queer Christianities. Kathleen Talvacchia, Mark Larrimore and Michael Pettinger, eds. New York: New York University Press, forthcoming 2014.

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“A Delicate Dance: Utilizing and Challenging the Sexual Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Support of LGBTIQ Persons,” in More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church, 2 vols. (vol. 1: Voices of Our Times, ed. Christine Firer Hinze and J. Patrick Hornbeck II; vol. 2: Inquiry, Thought, and Expression, ed. J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael A. Norko), Bronx, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.

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“Dead in the Water…Again,” in Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Public Intellectuals for the 21st Century. Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Mary McClintock Fulkerson and Rosemary Carbine, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Augustine and Social Justice, Kim Paffenroth and Teresa Delgado, eds. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014 forthcoming)

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“Margaret A. Farley: The Embrace of Love and Justice,” in National Catholic Reporter Online, October 2013.

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Presentations/Workshops:

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July 2013: “The Art of Mentoring,” Workshop facilitated for mentors and mentees with the Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium, Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ).

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October 6, 2013: “Reflections on violence,” Hispanic Heritage Month Opening Liturgy, Church of the Holy Family (Iona College).

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November 5, 2013: Week of the Peacemaker, in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Program “And It’s Only Tuesday” lecture, “When I Call for Help: The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Response to Domestic Violence” (Iona College).

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November 22, 2013: La Comunidad, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting: Session co-convener (with Dr. Efrain Agosto) on the life and work of Dr. Otto Maduro (Drew University Theological School) with lifetime achievement award presentation (Baltimore, MD).

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November 23, 2013: “Teaching ‘Straight’ Sexuality and Gender in Religious Studies,” Panel presentation for a collaborative session (Women and Religion Section, Gay Men and Religion Group, Lesbian Feminist Issues in Religion Group, Men/Masculinities and Religion Group, Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group, Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching and Activism Group, and the Religion and Sexuality Group), American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD).

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January 6, 2014: Presenter, “Peacemaking 101: How to Organize for Peace and Social Justice in the Internet Age,” Peer Leadership/Conflict Mediation Program, The Ursuline School (New Rochelle).

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February 11, 2014: Panel presenter for national webinar on “Sexuality, Culture and Religion,” American Medical Students Association, National Sexual Health Scholars Program, Morehouse College of Medicine (Atlanta, GA).

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April 7, 2014: Panel presenter, “Journey to Liberation: The Legacy of Womanist Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary,” Film premier: A social and spiritual look at female theologians and ethicists of African descent; Union Theological Seminary (NYC).

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June 3-7, 2014: Faculty presenter and mentor, Forum for Theological Exploration, Christian Leadership Summit at Garrett - Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston, IL).

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Grants:

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Service/Learning Mini-Grant recipient, Iona College, 2014-2015.

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Professional Associations/Memberships/Offices Held:

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President, Board of Trustees, WESPAC (Westchester Peace Action Coalition) Foundation, September 2011 – present.

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Vice President, La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars (related scholarly organization, American Academy of Religion), 2011 – present.

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Secretary, Alumni Council, Union Theological Seminary (NYC), 2010 – present.

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Co-Convener, Ethics and Sexualities Interest Group, Society of Christian Ethics, 2009 – present.

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Steering Committee, Strategic Planning Process, Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium, 2009 – present.

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Workgroup in Constructive Theology, 2006 – present.

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American Academy of Religion, 2004 – present.

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ACHTUS (Association of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the United States), 2001 – present.

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Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1988 – present.

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Colgate University Alumni Association, 1988 – present.

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Alumni Association, Leadership America, 1987-present.

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Professional Development:

May 21-23, 2014: American Council on Education (ACE) Regional Women’s Leadership Forum; Program description: This three-day leadership program is for mid-level women administrators (typically department chairs, directors, and assistant/associate deans) with high potential for advancement in higher education administration. The interactive program provides emerging women leaders with the opportunity to:

Hone leadership skills in critical areas such as fundraising, risk management, crisis response and strategic planning.

Receive practical training, including curriculum vitae/résumé critiques and mock interview.

Reflect on career next steps.

Gain a better understanding of the search process for senior-level positions through candid conversations with search firm executives.

Gain a better understanding of the inherent rewards and challenges of senior-level administrative positions, including the college or university presidency, through exposure to outstanding women leaders who share their experiences and serve as role models.

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Instructional Projects:

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RST 209 (Peace and Social Justice): Partnered with the Global Solidarity Network of Catholic Relief Services to provide course collaboration with participating colleges/universities on the topic of slave labor and global human trafficking; included online discussion forum and live webinar program with CRS staff and experts in the field; Spring 2014.

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Peace and Justice Studies Minor: Revised minor program, changing the required Economics course to one that is offered more frequently; modifying the course options in each collaborating discipline (Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Electives); adding an internship option as an elective; and reducing the number of required credits from 18 to 15; approved by Undergraduate Council, April 2014.

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Service:

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Peace and Justice Studies Program Coordinator: Advise and monitor academic progress of three students in minor program; collaborate with participating departments on curriculum development and course revision; organize extracurricular programming with various college departments and offices; serve as co-chair of annual Week of the Peacemaker.

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LIRIC, Religion in the Contemporary World Series: Organized four sessions taught by members of RST faculty, October 1, 8, 15, 22; taught two sessions: “African Traditional Religions in the Diaspora” and “Religion in the Contemporary World.”

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RST Search Committee, for tenure-track position in department; September 2013 – April 2014.

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Communication Science Disorders (CSD) Search Committee, January 2014 – May 2014.

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Strategic Plan Committee, Comprehensive Academic Program Review, Iona College, 2013 – 2014.

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Committee on Academic Affairs, September 2012 – June 2014.

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Advisor, H.O.L.A. (Hispanic Organization for Latin Awareness)

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Advisor, Students for Peace

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July 17-18, 2013: Facilitator, “Thinking as Philosophers and Engineers: A World Café Core Curriculum Session,” Chairs Retreat (Iona College)

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September – November 2013: Co-Chairperson, “Seeking Peace in a Violent World,” Week of the Peacemaker Committee (Iona College)

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March 25, 2014: Counseling Center “Love Shouldn’t Hurt” program, Featured presenter, “A Journey Toward Healing: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Triumph Over Acquaintance Rape” (Iona College)

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March 27-29, 2014: Forum for Theological Exploration, 2014 Consultation on Doctoral Education; Workshop facilitator, doctoral fellowship selection committee and consultant (Decatur, GA).

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April 2, 9, 16, 2014: Iona Preparatory School (New Rochelle), Sophomore Class Retreat, “Diversity,” facilitator.

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April 26, 2014: Fine and Performing Arts Department production of The Mandrake, moderator of post-performance discussion (Iona College).

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May 17, 2014: Name Reader, Graduation Ceremony, Undergraduate School of Arts and Science, Iona College.

Kim Paffenroth, Ph.D. Articles And Essays •

“Friendship.” In the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (forthcoming) 531-533.

Edited Volumes •

Augustine and Poetry. Co-edited with A. Stackhouse and J. Doody. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming).

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Augustine and Exegesis. Co-edited with E. Plumer and J. Doody. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming).

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Augustine and Ethics. Co-edited with R. Kennedy and J. Doody. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming).

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Augustine and the Environment. Co-edited with J. Doody. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming).

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Augustine and Social Justice. Co-edited with T. Delgado and J. Doody. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (forthcoming).

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Augustine and Apocalyptic. Co-edited with J. Doody and K. Kloos. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

Book Reviews •

Restless Mind: Curiositas and the Scope of Inquiry in St. Augustine’s Psychology, by Joseph Torchia. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2013 (forthcoming).

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Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes, by Ben Saunders. Religion and the Arts (forthcoming).

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The Gospels of the Marginalized: The Redemption of Doubting Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Judas Iscariot in Early Christian Literature, by Marvin Meyer. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 76.3 (July 2014) 565-567.

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The Gospel of Judas: On a Night with Judas Iscariot, by Marvin Meyer. CatholicBiblical Quarterly 75.4 (October 2013) 807-808.

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Eternal Consciousness, by John S. Dunne. Augustinian Studies 44.1 (2013) 134-135.

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Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter, by Margaret R. Miles. Pastoral Psychology 62.3 (June 2013) 383-385.

Translations •

Augustine’s The Agreement of the Evangelists. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2014.

Creative Work (Fiction) •

Pale Gods (novel). Permuted Press, 2013.

Papers Read •

“Christian Teaching: Jesus and/or Socrates?” Annual Meeting of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Los Angeles, CA, April 2014.

Sessions Chaired •

Gospels Section, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Newburgh, NY, March 2014.

Conference (Other) •

Organizer, Spring Humanities Lecture Series, Iona College, 2014

Grants •

Grant (Co-applicant with Dr. Eodice), Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, 2014 ($15,000)

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Grant (Co-applicant with Dr. Cleary), The Institute for Humane Studies, 2013 ($4,000)

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Books/Articles:

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Submitted: “The Blessing of Sitting Together,” in Interreligious Friendship, eds. James Fredericks and Tracy Tiemeier forthcoming from Palgrave December 2014. (Part of Palgrave’s Interreligious Studies book series edited by Aimee Light, Jennifer Peace, Or Rose, Madhuri Yadlapati, and Homayra Ziad.)

Submitted: “Teaching, Learning, and Relationships: Nostra Aetate and Education,” in A Jubilant Jubilee, ed. Glbert S. Rosenthal forthcoming from Wipf and Stock, December 2014.

Edited Volumes (Editorships):

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Chapters in Edited Volumes:

Associate Editor, Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society, 2012-present;

Volume 40:2 (December 2013)

Volume 41:1 (June 2014)

Published reviews of books or articles:

Review of In Quest of the Jewish Mary: The Mother of Jesus in History, Theology, and Spirituality in Theological Studies 75/1 (March 2014): 171-173.

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Other:

Quoted extensively as part of a roundtable discussion published as:

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“Post-Holocaust Christian Theology and Its Implications for Multireligious Conversations: A Roundtable Discussion” moderated by Victoria Barnett in The Journal of Interreligious Dialogue Issue 14 Spring 2014 at http://irdialogue.org/journal/

Conference and Presentations:

Papers presented at conferences, workshops:

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May 29-June 1, 2014: 60th Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. Proposed and was panelist for session “Publish, Not Perish! Best Practices for Potential Authors.”

Invited Community Lectures:

November 10, 2013: Fiftieth Anniversary of Vatican II Jewish-Christian Relations: Where are we in 2013? Delivered for St. Augustine’s Catholic Parish and Larchmont Temple, Larchmont, NY.

May 7, 2014: “Women’s Rights in Abrahamic Religions” delivered for Turkish Cultural Center and Westchester Jewish Council at Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester, Harrison, NY.

May 15, 2014: “Revisiting Vatican II and the Synagogue’s Importance to the Church” delivered for Community Synagogue, Our Lady of Fatima, and St. Peter’s of Port Washington, NY.

Three sets of presentations: May 19, 20, and 22, presenting the Holocaust in the context of the Auschwitz Death Camp complex to the entire eighth grade at Albert Leonard Middle School over three days and three “houses” teaching in Social Studies and Language Arts classes, five sections per day.

Other

September 18, 2014: Board Meeting of the Manhattan College Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Center at Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY

October 18-20, 2013: Iona College hosted the semi-annual meeting of the Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations.

October 20-21, 2013: Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations annual meeting; in attendance (immediate past chair); Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY.

February 26, 2014: Board Meeting of the Stimulus Foundation of Paulist Press at Paulist Press headquarters in Mahwah, NJ.

March 28-30, 2014: Attended the semi-annual meeting of the Christian Scholars Group on ChristianJewish Relations hosted by Boston College’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.

April 24, 2014: Board Meeting of the Manhattan College Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Center at Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY

June 13, 2014: Participated in the professional seminar of the New York and Fairfield Catholic Theology Workgroup conened by Dr. Fr. Roger Haight, S.J.

Member of the Planning Group for the Christian Leadership Initiative Alumni Symposium, February 2015.

Professional Associations:

Memberships

American Academy of Religion

Catholic Theological Society of America

Christian Scholars Group in Jewish-Christian Jewish Relations

College Theology Society

Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations

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Workgroup in Constructive Theology

Board of the Manhattan College Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Center

Board of the Stimulus Foundation of Paulist Press

Instructional Projects:

Program design or substantial revision

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Member of Core Revision Team, Strategic Planning Goal 2.4

Other

Vatican II 50th Anniversary Commemoration Series: Designed, invited, and advertised four programs (two persemester) bringing four distinguished lecturers to campus to educate the Iona community, its students, and the surrounding communities about contemporary Catholicism 50 years after the council.

Fall Semester 2013: worked with Dr. Michael Hughes in a freshman learning community; designed a new curriculum assessment utilizing a joint synthesis essay assignment and modeling the English Department’s writing program formats.

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Helen Wolf for the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education of Fordham University. Dr. Harold Horell is the chair of the committee. Procario-Foley continued to read drafts of chapters, make advice to Ms. Wolf, and consult with Dr. Horell about the development of the dissertation. Her work concluded on November 21, 2013, when Ms. Wolf successfully defended her dissertation.

Continued to offer, revise, and refine RST 422PO – Memory and Reconciliation: The Churches and the Holocaust which includes study abroad during spring break at Auschwitz.

Procario-Foley took an RST 101 class to attend a model interfaith Seder held at the College of New Rochelle on April 9. Students were exposed to a major Jewish religious ritual by direct participation.

Service:

Departmental Chair, Religious Studies

Driscoll Professor of Jewish-Christian Studies, scholarly, not service chair.

Departmental Committee or Project

Chaired a search committee for a specialist in Islam.

Assessment Officer for RST

School or college-wide committee or project

Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Standing Committee: June 3, 2014

Admissions Campus Open House Events: November 3, 2013; April 5, 2014

Committee on the Catholic Intellectual Committee, Office of Mission and Ministry

Freshmen Advisement Program

Other

August 2013: Training for and presenting Preventing Interpersonal Violence Workshop to two groups of freshmen advisees.

November 2013: Involved two sections of advisees in RST 101 in the Iona Thanksgiving Basket Collection.

March 2014: Submitted External Reviewer report for a candidate for tenure at Whittier College in California.

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Media:

Television

October 2, 2013: Shalom TV national network

March 13, 2014: WRNN - Richard French Live show

Radio

January 29, 2014: WVOX Interview with Claudia McDonnell for the show “Conversations with Claudia.” The work of Religious Studies and Jewish-Catholic Studies at Iona College was the basis for the hour-long show.

September 2013: Westchester Jewish Life

October 2013: Westchester Jewish Life

December 2013: Westchester Jewish Life

April 4, 2014: The Journal News

May 10, 2014: Newsday page 2 section 2; quoted in four paragraph brief “Forum on Jewish-Catholic Relations” discussing a lecture to be given in Port Washington, NY.

Karim Samji, Ph.D. •

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Memberships:

American Academy of Religion (AAR)

American Historical Association (AHA)

Degree Earned:

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Doctor of Philosophy, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

Lecture:

“Re-gendering the Modern Nation-State: Ahimsa and the Construction of Indian Nationalism,” LIRIC Lecture Series: Religion in the 21st Century, October 1, 2013

Social Work Student Achievements •

Phi Alpha National Social Work Honor Society 2014 inductees:

Skylar Burns ’14

Amanda Cioffi ’15

Emily Johnson ’15

Christina Raymond ’15

Bridget Wahmann ’14

Caryn Da’Loia, LCSW, Field Instructor (Honorary Inductee) •

Graduate School Acceptances with Advanced Standing (allowing students to complete the MSW in one year instead of two)

Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College: Wilson Aguirre ’13

Southern Connecticut State University Graduate School of Social Work: Mallory Baker ’14

Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service: Skylar Burns ’14, Rosie Garlan ’14, Haley Giampino ’14, Kiara Mendez ’14, Samantha Salvati ’14, Melissa Tully ’14, Bridget Wahmann ’14

Adelphi University School of Social Work: Genesis Avelar ’14

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Social Work Senior Presentations: 2013 Week of the Peacemaker

“Don’t Keep Shut, Speak Up!” – Child Abuse and Intervention

William Engel, Melissa Tully and Bridget Wahmann

“Taking the Bully by the Horns” – School Bullying

Stephanie Alfano, Rosie Garlan, Haley Giampino and Katie Mechman

“Neglect Behind Closed Doors” – Elder-Abuse and Neglect

Genesis Avelar, Jennifer Basciano, Colleen Ciriello and Samantha Salvati

“Power and Control in College Relationships” Domestic/Family Abuse

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Social Work Department awarded 4th Annual Gero-Ed Community Partnership Award to Rosemarie Hofstein, field instructor, Providence Rest Nursing Home at its Twelfth Annual Ronald Federico Senior Capstone Conference, May 2014.

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Haspel, I. (June 27, 2013). Go New Ro: Social Justice. Iona College Campus Ministries, Iona in Mission. New Rochelle, New York.

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Matich-Maroney, J. & Haspel, I. (September 11, 2013; January 2014). Field Instructors’ Orientation: E-Field Program and Competency-based Field Education & Introduction to the E-Field Program. Iona College Social Work Department. New Rochelle, New York.

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Co-organized two Field Education Workshops along with faculty from The College of New Rochelle and Concordia College Social Work Departments:

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*Fall 2013: The Changing Context of Social Work Practice: This is Our Moment

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*Spring 2014: Ethics, Technology, and Social Media in Social Work Practice.

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Arranged for international social worker Eliza Strode to speak in class and sell Fair Trade items in La Penta, November 21, 2013.

Jeanne Matich-Maroney •

Matich-Maroney, J. (February 2014). Longitudinal Coalition Outcomes Data Report. Prepared for RADAR Coalition submission to CADCA. Iona College Center for Social Research: New Rochelle, New York

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Aldredge, M. & Matich-Maroney, J. (June 2014). SUCCESS Center Parent Needs Assessment Report. Prepared and submitted to the Office of Mission and Ministry at Iona College. Iona College Center for Social Research: New Rochelle, New York

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Matich-Maroney, J. (July 2014). Visioning Café. Iona College School of Arts & Science Department Chair & Coordinators Retreat. Iona College: New Rochelle, New York

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Matich-Maroney, J. & Haspel, I. (September 2013; January 2014). Field Instructor Orientation: Competency-based Field Education & Introduction to the E-Field Program. Iona College Social Work Department. New Rochelle, New York

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Matich-Maroney, J., Moore, P.J. & Brown-Manning, R. (November 2013). The Changing Context of Social Work Practice: This is our Moment! (Interprofessional Practice as a Policy-Driven Paradigm Shift). Field Instruction Workshop of the Westchester BSW Consortium. College of New Rochelle. New Rochelle, New York

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Matich-Maroney, J. & Grimes, T. (April 2014). MSCHE Follow-up Report: Presentation to the President’s Cabinet. Iona College. New Rochelle, New York

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Recruited and oriented new Honors and C-STEP students as CSR Research Student Scholars; trained them in the application of the Strategic Prevention Framework and the implementation of Evaluation Research methodology.

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Serve as Honors Thesis Advisor; mentoring social work Honors student in developing her research project, Congruence between Adolescent Substance Use and Parental Perceptions about Adolescent Substance Use.

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Invited to attend White House Briefing organized by the Council on Social Work Education entitled “Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in a New Era: The Role of Social Work Education.” Washington, DC

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Mentored eight students on Senior Capstone presentations:

Penelope J. Moore •

Fletcher, S.E., Agness, C., Moore, P., O’Neal Gant, K., Ong, T., Wolf, K.A., Gallagher-Thompson, D. and Hikoyeda, N. (2014). “Outcomes from Stanford Geriatric Education Center Faculty Development Program in Ethnogeriatrics’ First Cohort: Infusing Ethnogeriatric Content into Health Professions Curricula” (MS #1011). Journal of Interprofessional Healthcare. http://www.jihonline.org/jih/vol1/iss1/11

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Moore P.J., Gratzer, W., Lieber, C., Edelson, V., O’Leary, J., Terry, S.F., Hikoyeda, N., Grudzen, M. (Submitted). “Does it Run in the Family? toolkit: The Importance of Older Adults Facilitating Communication about Family Health History.”

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Toliver, S. D., Moore, P., Redcross, N. (February 2014). “Intra-Racial Dynamics of Black Faculty and Black Students: Barriers to Success in the Academy in Predominantly White Institutions.” RAMP (Research Association of Minority Professors) Conference, New Orleans, LA

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CSWE 59th Annual Program Mentor Session. November 2, 2013. Dallas, TX. Provided individual consultation to faculty seeking ideas / strategies to infuse gerontology content in social work education.

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Moore, P.J. (May 2014). Guest Speaker: “Spirituality and Older Adulthood.” The Power of Age Conference, Rockland Community College. Suffern, NY

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Moore, P.J. (January 2014). Guest Speaker: “Community Centered Family Health History Project: Does it Run in the Family?” Beth El Seniors, New Rochelle, NY

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Matich-Maroney, J., Moore, P.J., & Brown-Manning, R. (November 2013). Guest Speakers: The Changing Context of Social Work Practice: This is Our Moment! (Interprofessional Practice as a Policy-Driven Paradigm Shift). Field Instruction Workshop of the Westchester BSW Consortium. College of New Rochelle. New Rochelle, NY

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Moore, P.J. (September 2013). Guest Speaker: “The Spiritual Imperative in Older Adulthood.” Celebrating Aging: Livable Communities Village Fair 2013.

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Mentored seven students on Senior Capstone Presentations.

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Invited to continue serving as CSWE, Gero-Ed Center Curriculum Development Mentor.

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Invited to serve as Intergenerational Communication and Family Health History consultant with Genetic Alliance community outreach effort.

Meryl Nadel •

Four Group Sessions: “Summer Camps, Past and Present,” Camp Viva, Rhinebeck, NY, August 2013.

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Grant Received: Iona College Office of Service and Experiential Learning, Intensive Service Learning Mini-Grant for “Sustainability and Community: A Social Justice Perspective,” $1,500.

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Guest lecture: “Against the Odds: Comprehending Survivors’ Resilience,” Oświęcim, Poland, March 2014.

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“Summer Camp and Group Work: a Natural Fit,” presented at the XXXVI Annual Symposium, International Association for Social Work with Groups, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 8, 2014.

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Camp Viva liaison for Iona students participating in this service-learning experience.

Sociology Faculty Achievements -Marcus Aldredge, Ph.D. signed a book contract with Ashgate Publishing. The forthcoming book coedited with Keith Kerr and B. Garrick Hardin titled, David Riesman’s Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy: The Lonely Saint, is currently scheduled to come out in the mid-to-late 2015. -William Egelman, Ph.D. completed writing two major research articles that will appear in two different edited volumes to be published within the next 12 months. They are: “The Social Demography of Italian Americans”; and, “Italian Americans: The Move to Suburbia.” -Susan D. Toliver, Ph.D. authored three scholarly writings including a book introduction (Black Coral - published), a refereed chapter (“The Feminization of Love,” - in press), and a research article with Moore and Redcross (“Intra-racial Dynamics of Black Faculty and Black Students,”-under review). She attended and presented at professional meetings. Toliver was appointed to serve as a Commissioner on the Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.

Student Achievements Megan Brigance successfully completed and defended her honors thesis “Ethical Buying Behavior of College Students.” This mixed-methodological research and thesis focused on the ethical beliefs, ideals and concerns in purchasing clothing and associated consumer practices of sampled college students. Chelsea Champion presented her research at the national undergraduate research conference. Megan Brigance and Chelsea Champion tied for the Sociology Medal each with 4.0 GPAs in Sociology. Four students were inducted into Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Society. Three students presented their senior capstone theses at Student Research Day. Other Sociology Majors were admitted to various graduate programs at competitive institutions.

Speech and Communication Studies Faculty and Student Achievements Diane Ferrero-Paluzzi, Ph.D. •

Ferrero-Paluzzi- D. (February, 2015) Clinical Communication. Jones and Bartlett

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Ferrero-Paluzzi, D. and Grunwald, J. (in press-9/14). Communicating with Technology. Kendall Hunt.

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Ferrero-Paluzzi, D. (August, 2013). Interpersonal E-Newsletter: Is love attainable: A research focus. Bedford St. Martins.

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Research on developed Nonverbal Inventory (by Ferrero-Paluzzi and Grunwald) published in Dr. Beverly Kane’s The Manual of Medicine and Horsemanship.

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Peer Reviewer for Patient Education and Counseling Journal, the International Conference of Communication and the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare (AACH) Conference.

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Exhibited photographs and watercolors as part of Iona College Arts Council exhibition, Healing and the Arts.

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Collaborated with Professor Gerometta to develop month-long event through a grant from the Iona College Arts Council titled Healing and the Arts, including art exhibit in Spellman Speech Clinic, and interactive children’s performance (for children of all abilities) by Pureflow Theatreworks titled Sugardumplings: A Water Story (performance commanded a standing-room only crowd in LaPenta End Zone) and organized and ran a storytelling workshop.

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Research Presented at the 24th Annual Conference on International Information Management Association (October, 2013),The Use of Clinical Informatics to Increase Patient Satisfaction in Clinical Settings (presented by Dr. Judith Grunwald, cowritten with Dr. Grunwald and Mr. Andrew Thornton)

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Directed poster presentation research, “Perception Ignorance Communication Theory” with junior UG Aly Luiso that was presented at Iona College Iona Scholars Day and at the 3rd Annual Westchester County Undergraduate Research Day at Mercy College on April 4, 2014. This research has also been accepted to the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare Conference in Orlando, Fla. in October 2014.

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Maria Armiento-DeMaria and Diane Ferrero-Paluzzi, Ph.D. appeared on Claudia McDonnell’s WVOX radio program, “Conversations with Claudia,” on July 30, 2014, and spoke about the Iona College Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic, and communication disorders in general.

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Dr. Ferrero-Paluzzi earned a grant from the Arnold Gold Foundation for $5000.00 for to further humanizing medicine and clinical staff training.

Deb Volberg-Pagnotta, JD •

Fresenius Kabi, Asia Pacific: prepared and delivered a three-hour workshop “Employment Discrimination and Harassment Prevention,” on March 6, 2014, in Hong Kong. Focus on use of connective diversity technology in global companies.

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United Way of Westchester and Putnam: prepared and delivered a three-hour presentation, “It’s a Match: Diversity DNA: Understanding, Managing and Leveraging Diversity in Individuals and Organizations” on June 6, 2014.

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Local 28 (Sheetmetal Workers’ Union): Prepared and delivered series of six four-hour workshops designed to train management to train apprentices, mechanics, contractors and union reps on “Diversity and Respect at the Workplace,” (a train-the-trainers series), November 2013 – January 2014.

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Six Flags Theme Park: Prepared and delivered a seven-hour workshop on “Respect at the Workplace: Communication Skills,” on October 28, 2013.

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New York Power Authority: Prepared and delivered two hour workshop, “Respect at the Workplace: 2013,” October 9, 2013.

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Culinary Institute of America: prepared and delivered two hour presentation, “Harassment at the Workplace,” July 2, 2013.

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Kentucky Bar Association’s first Summit on Diversity (April 2015): Outstanding, accepted invitation to serve as presenter on communication diversity amongst various categories of lawyers.

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Created blog page for Speech Communication majors under the auspices of Speech Communication Department; awaiting approval for Fall 2014 launch.

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Story Slams: Organized second Iona Story Slam (open to first-year students only as storytellers). We had 15 storytellers and 120 student attendees. Judges included Dean Laurie Wenchell and Professor Mary Aiello Gray. (November 2013).

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Following up the broad success of the first two slams, and deep student interest, Deb organized and ran the 2nd Annual Story Slam, with great assistance of student Chelsea Harris (and several others). With this more curated slam, we had 14 storytellers and 130 student attendees. Co-sponsored by Speech Communication Department and Office of International Student Engagement. Included three prizes awarded by the judges: Jerry Martin; student Lenny Rodriguez (winner of previous slam) and Junior LeGrand Beauvais (founder of Iona International). Also included a People’s Choice Award, determined by text voting. (May 1, 2014)

Jennifer Gerometta, MA-CCC-SLP/A •

Collaborating with Charlene Tsai, Ph.D. (Computer Science) on a paper for submission to the Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics with the working title, An Adaptive Online System for Calculating Lexical and Sublexical Components of Language.

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Collaborated with Diane Ferrero-Paluzzi, Ph.D. to develop month-long event through a grant from the Iona College Arts Council, titled Healing and the Arts, including an art exhibit in Spellman Speech Clinic, and interactive children’s performance (for children of all abilities) by Pureflow Theatreworks, titled Sugardumplings: A Water Story. Performance commanded a standing-room only crowd in LaPenta End Zone.

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An Adaptive Online System for Calculating Lexical and Sublexical Components of Children’s Literature (Presented at National Council for Undergraduate Research Conference and Iona Scholar’s Day )

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Students, Institutions, and Community Partners: A Framework for Starting, Staying, and Succeeding on the Same Page (International Association for Research on Service-Learning Conference)

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Calculating Frequency, Neighborhood Density, and Phonotactic Probability in Words in Children’s Literature (American Speech-Language Hearing Association National Conference)

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Moderated a multi-disciplinary session at the National Council for Undergraduate Research Conference in April 2014.

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Directed six students from SCS major and three students from the CS major, in collaboration with Dr. Tsai, to develop an adaptive online system to analyze lexical and sublexical components of language and literature. This system will be available not only to the Iona community for clinical and research use, but also could expand to be available online to the greater research community beyond Iona. Travelled and aided students in Kentucky to present the work at the National Council on Undergraduate Research.

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Directed two students in assessment development and data analysis for one community organization in LarchmontMamaroneck through Iona’s Center for Social Research.

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Awarded Iona College Service-Learning faculty development mini-grant for $1,500.

Dorothy Leone, Ph.D. •

Heesemann, K. L., Garcia, Y., Magalhaes, A., Marroquin, J., & Leone, D. (2013). Siblings’ impact on parent-child communication. New York State Speech Language and Hearing Association’s Annual Convention. Saratoga, NY.

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Shurman, J. & Leone, D. (2013). Standardized versus naturalized: An evaluation of child morphological and syntactic assessments. American Speech Language Hearing Annual Convention. Chicago, IL.

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Dorothy Leone was recognized by The Business Council of Westchester (TBCW) on its ‘40 under 40’ professionals of Westchester list with the 2014 Rising Star Award.

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Submitted to Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research through my dissertation research.

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Presented “Early and late Spanish bilingual adults’ perception of American English (AE) vowels” at the 2013 American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association’s annual convention.

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Presented “Vowel intelligibility in children with dysarthria” at the 2014 Motor Speech Conference.

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Presented “Supporting Individuals with Social Differences” for the New Rochelle School District and “Social Development Intervention” for the New York City Department of Education.

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Also supported other areas of speech and language therapy by presenting “Solving the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorders: Strategies for the SLP” for Westchester BOCES speech language pathologists.

SCS Student Achievements: •

Junior Aly Luiso presented at Iona College Scholars Day and at the 3rd Annual Westchester County Undergraduate Research Day at Mercy College on April 4, 2014. Her research has also been accepted to the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare Conference in Orlando, Fla., in October 2014.

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Shurman, J. & Leone, D. (2013). Standardized versus naturalized: An evaluation of child morphological and syntactic assessments. American Speech Language Hearing Annual Convention. Chicago, IL.

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Seniors: Megan Adinolfi, Greg Bonistalli, Kenia De Los Santos, Yanissa Garcia, Greta Lincoln, Alexa Magalhaes, Jacklyn Marcello, Caitlin McCaul, Cassondra Richards, Jaclyn Shurman, Lindsay Tamburello, and Victoria Troost were inducted into the Speech Langauge Pathology and Audiology Departmental Honor Society.

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Seniors: Nicole Paulucci and Grace Trozzi were inducted into the Speech Communication Departmental Honor Society.

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Professor Gerometta directed six students from SCS major and three students from the CS major, in collaboration with Dr. Tsai, to develop an adaptive online system to analyze lexical and sublexical components of language and literature. This system will be available not only to the Iona community for clinical and research use, but also could expand to be available online to the greater research community beyond Iona. Travelled and aided students to Kentucky to present work at National Council on Undergraduate Research.

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Professor Gerometta directed 2 students in assessment development and data analysis for one community organization in Larchmont-Mamaroneck through Iona’s Center for Social Research.

Appendix A. Leadership Development Program Certificate of Completion

Appendix B. Publications and Presentations

Publications

Leone, D., Hsu, S., Baigorri, M., Moya-Gale, G. & Levy, S. (2012). Children’s perception of clear-speech vowels. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 12, 060003.

Leone, D. (2013). Children’s perception of conversational and clear American-English vowels in noise. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest. 3551632.

Leone, D., Flood, J. N., Goldberg, G., Greatrex, C., & Klein, J. (2013). The power of we. The Teaching Professor, 27(5), 1-3.

Leone, D. (in press) “Interacting with Others” [Case Study] In Clinical Communication. Jones and Bartlett Publishing.

Submitted Leone, D. & Levy, E. S. (submitted). Children’s perception of conversational and clear American-English vowels in noise. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Richards, C., Leone, D., Murphy, M., Zanfardino, L., O’Halloran, E., Lincoln, G., Monigan, C., Patel, S., Petit, S., & Shurman, J. (submitted). The practice and efficacy of MLU in language sampling and clinical choices. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders.

Papers presented at conferences

Baigorri, M., Leone, D., Hsu, S., Moya-Gale, G. & Levy, E. S. (2012). Early and late Spanish bilingual adults’ perception of American English vowels. American Speech Language Hearing Convention. Atlanta, GA.

Flood, J. & Leone, D. (2013). Linking Principles of Psychology to Higher Education Pedagogy: Using Social Stories to Get Inside the Minds of Students. CIDER Conference on higher education pedagogy (CHEP). Blackstone, VA.

Levy, E. S., Seid, E., Chen, W., Leone, D., Moya-Gale, G., Hsu, S. C., & Ramig, L. (2014). Vowel intelligibility in children with dysarthria. Motor Speech Conference. Sarasota, FL. Invited Presentations

Leone, D. (5/30/2012) “Social Development Intervention” Professional development workshop for parents and professionals at PS 207 for the NYC Dept. of Education ASD Nest Program.

Leone, D. (10/9/2012) Invited speaker for Southern Westchester BOCES speech language pathology meeting: “Solving the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorders: Strategies for the SLP.”

Leone, D. (10/23/2012) Invited speaker for Southern Westchester BOCES speech language pathology meeting: “What is Autism? Understanding Social Differences.”

Leone, D. (8/28/13) “Supporting Individuals with Social Differences” Professional development workshop for teaching staff at Davis Elementary School for the New Rochelle Department of Education.

Leone, D. (1/29/2014) “Social Development Intervention” Professional development workshop for parents and professionals at PS 69 for the NYC Dept. of Education ASD Nest Program.

Leone, D. (2/7/2014) “Let’s Communicate Effectively.” Iona College Lunch & Learn.