On May 18, the Hudson Area Math Alliance (HAMA) honored 5 of our students. Criteria for the award is that the student graduated from a public secondary school in Hudson county, met all requirements for a BA in math, and completed all of the requirements for K-12 Math Teacher Certification or K-5 Elementary plus 5-8 Middle School Mathematics.
The students are:
- Tracy Goycochea, graduated from McNair Academic, receiving a BA in Math with K-12 Mathematics Teacher Certification
- Peter Morin, graduated from Hoboken High School, receiving a BA in Math with K-12 Mathematics Teacher Certification
- Edward Roesing, graduated from Secaucus High School, receiving a BA in Math with K-12 Mathematics Teacher Certification
- Mary Ellen Farnelli, graduated from Bayonne High School, receiving an MAT in Secondary Education with K-12 Mathematics Teacher Certification
- Elizabeth Kaczka, graduated from Bayonne High School, receiving a BA in Math and Elementary plus 5-8 Mathematics Certification
In addition, nine teachers were honored as "Math Teacher of the Year" from individual schools. Among them were:
Billy Urena, NJCU BA in Math, math teacher at Dickinson High School, Jersey City
Deka Torres, NJCU BA in Math, math teacher at Bayonne High School
Jeanette Flores, NJCU MA in Math Eduction, math teacher at Union City High School
From April 17-21, students from our Model United Nations Workshop course and our Model United Nations club participated in the
National Model United Nations simulation in New York City. The week-long event included teams from national and international colleges and universities conducting a full scale simulation of United Nations sessions.
Here's a video that two of our student delegates -- Edwin Quito and Brian Flores --created about their experiences.
The full delegation included: Darlan Bastidas, Michelle Contreras, Jennifer Muñoz, Davis Obi, Victoria Perez, Uzma Rashidi, Haneen Salem and Brian Suhovic.
On Thursday, April 28, Kappa Mu Epsilon, the Mathematics Honors Society, held its annual induction ceremony. Congratulations to the newest members of the society:
Allison Arbitblit
Melvyn Drag
Jeimy Hirujo
Rusty Laracuenti
Bernard Lipat
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Lina Nassar
Daniela Petofi
Dariusz Serwach
Elisa Tejada
Rachid Aguiouar
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The
Mathematics Department also awarded its Dr. John Reckzeh Memorial Scholarship Award and the Harvey Weiss Scholarship Award to Elisa Tejada and Alyson Stenzhorn.
The John Raines Memorial Scholarship winner was Yilmary Fernandez.
And the Foster E. Grossnickle Scholarship was awarded to Melvyn Drag, Rachid Aguiouar.
The highly competitive INRO program identifies talented students from populations underrepresented in the biomedical sciences who are interested in exploring career opportunities in allergy, immunology, and infectious diseases.
On November 22, students from Prof. Fausty's EC1 and RWAD classes attended a taping of
Democracy Now, a daily news radio program hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and syndicated on 850 stations across the USA.
Art major Laura Krapacher is currently working as an intern at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and following completion of the internship, will join the Museum staff as an art handler.
This spring semester the
Art Department established a new chapter of
Kappa Pi, the international art honors society, on campus and held its first induction ceremony in May.
The NJCU Jazz Ensemble performed on Thursday, 27 May in New York at the "
Jazz on the Plaza Series" at 12:30pm. This series features jazz groups from around the tri-state region who perform free outdoor concerts at 54th St. & Lexington Avenue, adjacent to St. Peters Church.
The Jazz Ensemble, a 17-piece group directed by Professor Ed Joffe, featured NJCU faculty member and saxophonist Bob Malach as guest soloist with the band. This wa the ensemble's 2nd appearance on this Series in recent years.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, 4-5 May,
Media Arts majors Robert Astudillo, Irving Abreu, and Jessie Abreu presented a Godzilla Exhibit in the
Fries Hall TV studio, that included a screening of the original (1954) Japanese edition of the movie, Gojira. Click the pic for the full poster and details.
2010 Science Showcase
On Wednesday, 21 April, the College sponsored the 2010 Science Showcase, an opportunity for students in biology, chemistry, geoscience, and physics to share poster presentations of their work.
The
Mathematics Department inducted its first honorees into
Kappa Mu Epsilon, the national Mathematics Honors Society. The ceremony included a talk by Dr. Ron Wasserstein, Executive Director of the American Statistical Association.
Kappa Mu' Epsilon's take on the ceremony is available
here.
Good news from our
English Department's creative writing program. Senior Krystal Sital, has been accepted in the MFA program in
Creative Writing at Hunter College, currently considered one of the best in the country, with faculty like Louise DeSalvo, Kathryn Harrison, and Meena Alexander. Krystal also has created and maintains two online fora for collaborative writing whose members and contributors come from across the United States.
Also, one of our majors, Keith Chiappone, has started to publish a literary journal, The Instigator, a monthly publication featuring short stories in all genres, poetry, plays, and artwork, usually in the form of a comic
Lisa Halpern and Richard Buntzen (MFA 2009), a student and a recent alum in the Art Department 's
MFA program, were among 37 of 100 artists whose work is included in an exhibition for the
Arts Council of the Morris Area in Morristown, NJ. Prof. Midori Yoshimoto,
Art Department, guest curated the exhibition. The opening is 19 February, from 5-7:30 and is part of the Morristown Gallery Walk.
Ammar Rizvi an undergraduate student in the
Biology Department was selected to participate in a winter break internship with the
Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. Ammar, (click the pic to enlarge, he's third from left) is a fulltime NJCU student and currently interns for three New Jersey Podiatric Physicians.
Two MFA students, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern and Matthew Lahm, in the Art Department exhibited their work in the 2010 National Wet Paint Exhibition at the Zhou B. Art Center in Chicago. This was a juried competition and Lisa and Matthew were two of only three artists in New Jersey whose work was selected for the show.
Here's a video clip of the show, and here's another of an interview with Matthew discussing his work.
Four NJCU students -- seniors Kelly Cuenca (Union), Elias Jimenez (Jersey City), juniors Chazz Jogie (Jersey City) and Stephanie Herrera (Union City) -- placed first in the Art Directors Club of New Jersey (ADCNJ) Design Derby, an annual statewide competition that presents contestants with a real-life design challenge. The four winners are all art majors specializing in illustration, and were among 102 students from New Jersey colleges and universities competing.
On Tuesday 17 November, the English Department celebrated the launch of the latest issue of PATHs, the student journal of creative writing