Government Professor Publishes Book on Race and Voter Turnout

Dr. Margaret Groarke has received national attention for a new book that examines issues underlying race and voting in the United States. Groarke, assistant professor of government and director of the peace studies program at Manhattan College, is the co-author of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters, which was published this past February. Read.

 

Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Bruce Liby, associate professor of physics and chair of the physics department, and Ryan Scholl ’09 authored the paper “Using a Michelson Interferometer to Measure Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Copper,” which appeared in the May 2009 issue of The Physics Teacher, a publication of the American Association of Physics Teachers. To read a short abstract, click Here.

Dr. Nicholas De Lillo, professor of mathematics and computer science, completed the paper “Simulations of Finite-State Automata Using Java 6.0. Part 3: Generalizations.” It was accepted for publication in the June 2009 issue of the Technical Report Series of the Graduate School of Computer Science and Information Technology, an official publication of the Ivan G. Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Services at Pace University. Part one of the paper was published in November 2008, and part two appeared in the March 2009 issue.

Dr. Anirban De, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, delivered the invited lecture Use of Geotechnical Centrifuge to Study the Effects of Surface Explosions to the Mid-Hudson Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers in Newburgh, N.Y., this past October.

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Welcome New Employees

Manhattan College welcomed three new employees in May: Jeanette Grant (education), Douglas Merino (security) and Marja Roemer (biology). For a full list of recent new employees, click Here.

 

Manhattan College Milestones

Congratulations to Vicki Cowan (human resources), Arlene Coughlin (college advancement) and Janet Loftus (physical plant), who will celebrate their 20-year anniversaries with Manhattan College this summer. For a complete list of upcoming June, July and August anniversaries, click Here.