Environmental Engineering Professor Receives $240,000 Grant

Dr. Robert Sharp, the D.J. O’Connor Endowed Chair of Environmental Engineering, has received a $240,000 research grant for the Hazen and Sawyer and CH2M-Hill joint venture to carry out research in support of New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s Applied Research Program. The work will focus on optimization and implementation of biological nutrient removal at wastewater treatment plants. The funding will support two graduate research assistants and two undergraduate research assistants for a two-year period. For more faculty and staff accomplishments, click Here.

 

Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Thom Gencarelli, associate professor and chair of the communication department, was invited to serve as the external reviewer for a dissertation Pragmatism not Idealism: Radiohead, Technopoly, and the Global Movement for Change by doctoral candidate Phillip Anthony Rose at York University in Toronto on Nov. 3. He was also invited by the New York Society of General Semantics to offer a solo guest lecture on Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development on Dec. 3 as part of the society’s Expanded Seminars series.

Dr. Jeffrey Cherubini, assistant professor of physical education and human performance, published the article “Coaches’ Perspectives on Eighth-Grade Athletes Playing High School Varsity Sports,” which appeared in the fall 2009 issue of The Physical Educator. The paper was co-authored by Tiffany Bentley ’07, who is a physical education teacher in the Irvington, N.Y., school district.

Dr. Shawn Ladda, professor of physical education and human performance, delivered the presentation The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport of the United States: Continued Advocacy Toward Equity for All at the 2009 Congress of the International Association for Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women in Stellenbosch, South Africa, this past July.

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Welcome New Employees

Manhattan College welcomed two new employees in October: Kevin Logan (security) and Jeffrey O’Neal (security). For a full list of recent new employees, click Here.

 

Manhattan College Milestones

Congratulations to Jose Polanco (residence life) and Xiang Wang (computer center), who celebrate their 20-year service anniversaries with Manhattan College in November. For a complete list of recent anniversaries, click Here.