Civil and Environmental Engineering Professors
Receive Grant from Department of Environmental Protection
Dr. Richard Carbonaro, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Dr. Robert Sharp, professor of civil and environmental engineering, have received a $145,000 research grant from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) to study manganese deposits in aquifier systems. Read. The 18-month study will support up to two graduate research assistants and one undergraduate research assistant. For more information on the NYCDEP, click Here.
Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
James Suarez, dean of the school of business, and Richard FitzPatrick, professor of management, were recently honored at the annual conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) on Oct. 2-4 in Chicago. Suarez was awarded a Lifetime Service Award in recognition of the school of business’ sustained and generous support of AEPP’s activities. FitzPatrick received the same award for 15 years of service to AEPP, for which he has served as treasurer, executive board member and conference chair. Manhattan College hosted AEPP’s conferences in 2002 and 2006 and remains one of its prime institutional sponsors.
At the same conference, FitzPatrick chaired a session on executive compensation, at which Hung (David) Chu, assistant professor of management, presented the paper “An Overview of Executive Compensation: Case Studies of Extremes.” During another session, Carolyn Predmore, professor of marketing, presented the paper “The Use of Role-Playing Games and Role-Playing Environments to Instill Business Culture in New Employees,” which she wrote along with Faraj Abdulahad, professor of economics, Alfred Manduley, assistant professor of marketing, and Ahmed Goma, associate professor of accounting.
Dr. Nicholas De Lillo, professor of mathematics and computer science, has accepted a position as reviewer of scholarly papers to be submitted for publication and possible presentation at the next annual meeting of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Northeastern Region . The meeting is scheduled for April 24-25, 2009 at SUNY Plattsburg.
Dr. Anirban De, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a research grant as a co-principal investigator from the National Science Foundation titled NEESR-II: Advanced Site Monitoring and Effective Characterization of Site Nonlinear Dynamic Properties and Model Calibration. The three-year grant is for collaborative research with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and will involve faculty and student researchers from both Manhattan College and RPI.
Dr. Thelma Baxter, assistant professor of education, presented the paper “Learn Experientially and Renew Neighborhoods” at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) national conference in Birmingham, Ala., on Oct. 2. ASALH was founded by Carter G. Woodson, who is the originator of Black History Day/Month in the United States. There were more than 1,000 people in attendance at the conference, mostly college professors and secondary teachers who are being trained to give black history lessons. Baxter is a founding member of the ASALH chapter on Martha’s Vineyard.
John Kruth, adjunct professor of music, is among the winners of the 41st annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of music. He will be honored at a special reception on Dec. 9 at The Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Kruth is the author of To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, published by Da Capo Press. His courses at Manhattan College include History of Rock ‘n’ Roll and History of Jazz.
Dr. Joseph Capitani, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, completed the New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 2 in a time of 3:45:19.
Dr. Patricia Sheridan, assistant professor of business law, published the article “Determining Domicile of Nursing Home Residents” in the fall 2008 issue of the North East Journal of Legal Studies. She also participated in the panel discussion “Surefire Techniques that Work in Teaching Business Law Topics” at the annual meeting of the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business on May 2-4 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Dr. William Merriman, professor and dean of the school of education, and Dr. Jeff Cherubini, assistant professor of physical education and performance, presented the paper “The Latino Millennial Student” at the national summit A Just Education in Underserved Communities in Philadelphia on July 10. The national summit was sponsored by the Nativity MiguelNetwork of Schools.
Dr. Robert Geraci, assistant professor of religious studies, and Dr. Stephen Kaplan, professor of religious studies, accompanied five Manhattan College students to a presentation by author Michael Novak and Heather Mac Donald, the John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute. The event, hosted at the Harvard Club by the John Templeton Foundation Book Forum, addressed the topic of religious doubt and the Christian response to the new atheist movement.
Dr. John Tomer, professor or economics, has published the book Intangible Capital: Its Contribution to Economic Growth, Well-being and Rationality. The book can be ordered at the Edward Eigar Web site Here.
Dr. Rostislav Konoplich, visiting assistant professor of physics, was co-author of the article “A New Approach for Reconstructing SUSY Particles Masses with a few fb^-1 at the LHC” in the Journal of High Energy Physics and a review “The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider” in the Journal of Instrumentation. He also recently gave the invited lecture Supersymmetry at the LHC at Moscow Technical State University in Russia.
Steve Laruccia ’67, director of principal gifts, will be listed in the 2009 edition of
Who’s Who in America.
Welcome New Employees
Manhattan College welcomed three new employees in October: Mark Feldman, security; Patricia Seraphin, admissions/financial aid; and Dionne Smith, HEOP counselor. For a full list of new employees, as well as recent promotions, click Here.
Manhattan College Milestones
Congratulations to several full-time and part-time members of the College community who have celebrated a recent service anniversary. Jose Lopez of residence life marks his 30th anniversary at Manhattan College in November. Onofre Cancio, security; Nancy Chase, O’Malley Library; and Victor Schneider, physical plant, have reached the 10-year plateau. For a complete list, click Here.
