Category: Faculty News

Dr. Sarah Allred (assistant professor, CFAS-psychology) has received a $145,026 continuation of her existing five-year NSF CAREER Award supporting her research project “Novel Approaches to Integrating Color Perception and Color Memory.”

Dr. Nir Yakoby (assistant professor, CFAS-biology) has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.  The five-year award, which is reviewed and renewed annually based on the scientific progress of the project, is $686,544 and supports the project “Dynamics and Diversity of Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling in Epithelial Cells.” The grant will allow … Continue reading Biology Assistant Professor Receives Prestigious CAREER Award…

Dr. ALAN TARR (professor II, CFAS-political science and director, Center for State Constitutional Studies) authored an article, “Contesting the Judicial Powers in the States,” in the spring 2012 edition of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Prof. LIQIN TAN (associate professor, CFAS-art) is displaying his artwork during a solo exhibition, “Primitive-Level Signals; Animation Installation with Digital Metal Prints,” at the Dalet Art Gallery in Philadelphia through June 23.  In the exhibit, the Rutgers–Camden professor uses spirit levels as a signal to describe a natural phenomenon in humans, where human brain development … Continue reading Professor Displays Artwork at Solo Exhibition…

Dr. CAROL SINGLEY (professor, CFAS-English) served as a judge for the Walt Whitman Association’s High School Poetry Contest for students from across the Delaware Valley.

Dr. WILLIAM FITZGERALD (assistant professor, CFAS-English) presented a paper, “Texting God: Delivering Prayer in the Digital Age,” at the biannual meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America in Philadelphia during the week of May 21.  His operetta, “A New Age,” was performed at the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland during May 17-19.

Dr. JOHN DIGHTON (professor, CFAS-biology) spent two weeks in China this spring, when he presented a lecture on the role of soil fungi in nutrient and pollutant dynamics to a graduate class in the Beijing Forest University. In his role as president of the Soil Ecology Society, he co-organized and participated in a workshop on … Continue reading Professor Presents Lecture Abroad…

RICK DEMIRJIAN (part-time lecturer, CFAS-history) presented a paper, “’A Paper Age’: Banks and Banking in Micropolitan America, 1783-1825,” as part of the Lees Seminar in History series at Rutgers–Camden on April 13.

Dr. CATI COE (associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) discussed how fosterage relations among transnational migrants have changed patron-client patterns in Ghana in “Global Flows of Patrons: Fosterage among Ghanaian Transnational Migrants,” at the event “Anthropologies of Africa Across Decades and Disciplines: A Day to Honor Sandra Barnes,” held by the anthropology department and African Studies Center at … Continue reading Professor Speaks at Event…

Dr. GLORIA BONILLA-SANTIAGO (Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy, CFAS and director, Community Leadership Center) has been elected to the Board of Trustees for Saint Peter’s College.