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Announcements
(updated 12/14/2010)
Fall 2010
12/01/10
Dean Toney launches new blog at ScienceBlogs, the largest online community dedicated to science!
Biology major Diego Morales honored as "Volunteer of the Year" by The Salvation Army at their annual luncheon in Roselle Park on October 27. Congratulations Diego!
11/08/10
Computer Science Releases Fall 2010 Newsletter [PDF]10/14/10
Dean Toney has been invited to be a writer for Huffington Post! Follow his blog here.
9 /29/10
Dean Toney has News Analysis article published in Truthout!
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Spring 2010
Computer Science Department's Spring 2010 Newsletter
4/15/10
Dean Toney adds 'IN THE NEWS" section to his research website
12/04/09
Dr. Patricia Morreale, Computer Science Professor Invited and Inducted into The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective all-discipline honor society. Phi Kappa Phi has chapters on nearly 300 select college and university campuses in North America and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff, and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.
Kean has had a chapter since 1977.
12/01/09
Dean Toney published a Letter to the Editor in the Dec. 1 issue of The New York Times in the Science Times section. The staff Editor chose this commentary as the leading Letter in today's paper. Toney, J.H., Prezant, R.S., “Snails, Left and Right” [Letter to the Editor] The New York Times,
Science Times, 1 December 2009, p. D4.
11/05/09
Dean Toney has published a Letter to the Editor in The New York Times, as a commentary on sustainability. The staff Editor chose this as the lead letter in the printed version of the newspaper on November 3. Toney, J.H. “Eating Right, for a Green Planet” [Letter to the Editor] The New York Times, 3 November 2009, p. A28.
10/26/09
Kean's Programming Teams makes NEWS in Suburban News
10/22/09
Kean University Participates in the 2009 ACM Greater New York Programming Contest [pdf]
Best Performance Ever Recorded by Kean’s Teams
10/21/09
Kean University administrators, faculty, staff and students invited to participate
The Upward Bound program will host Kean University Day on Friday November 6th, 2009. . During this groundbreaking event, participants will be provided with the many attributes of university life, thereby encouraging them to pursue a world class undergraduate education at Kean University. The university panel discussion will begin at noon and will conclude at 2 pm. Kean University administrators, faculty, staff and students are invited to share and encourage the participants of the program to pursue a degree at Kean University. Those interested in participating are asked to RSVP with Veronica Jackson, director of Upward Bound, or Kerlange Claude, Upward Bound counselor, at 908-737-3603.
Kean Undergraduate Computer Science Major receives Scholarship [pdf[
Ms. Ibtisam Ali (CS ’11) received scholarship award from AAAEA
Kean University Alum Publishes Book on Wireless Network Security [pdf]
Graduate (CS ’06) Shares Expertise in Neural Networks and Digital Signatures
10/19/09
KU Students Win First Place Award at UMBC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium
Kean participates in in the National Science Foundation Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NSF LSAMP) Program
10/14/09
Summer Research Team Poster to be presented at the IEEE International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (Supercomputer 2009) November 14-20, Portland, Oregon (PDF file)
10/6/09
Department of Computer Science announces the release of their Fall 2009 Newsletter (pdf)
10/05/09
Fall issue of Biophilia released - The Department of Biological Sciences Newsletter (pdf)
10/02/09
Dean Toney's research website updated with new publications - see it here.
Attention High Schools:Biology Department announces Biophilia Seminar Series - Student Research Seminars (PDF file)
9/16/09
National Science Foundation (NSF) recently funded a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to the Department of Biological Sciences at Kean University. “MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for a Molecular Ecology and Biosystematics Laboratory"
9/03/09
The New York Times - Letter to the Editor published
The New York Times published Dean Toney's Letter to the Editor regarding “How Can We Get Kids to Eat Right?” (news article, August 29). This Letter was published in today’s paper (September 3, page A31):
09/03/09
International Herald Tribune (Global Edition of The New York Times)
Letter to the Editor published
The Global Edition of The New York Times published Dean Toney's Letter to the Editor regarding “Technology and the Environment” (“Connecting nature’s dots,” Views, Aug. 23). This Letter was published online (September 1):9/02/09
The New Jersey President's Council Academic Issues Committee unanimously approved Kean's B.S. in Sustainability Science
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SUMMER 2009 and before
8/25/09
Dr. Jeffrey Toney, Dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences, was featured in a Government & Policy article published August 24 in Chemical and Engineering News, titled "Human Rights and Science". See: Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical and Engineering News reaches more than 300,000 readers and is published by the American Chemical Society. Dr. Toney's efforts in bridging human rights, science and education at Kean University are discussed. Dr. Toney has been working closely with Dr. Hank Kaplowitz, Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute, along with other faculty, to discuss how human rights can benefit student learning and has initiated research projects exploring human rights and science with Kean University undergraduates.
7/16/09
Board of Trustees at Kean University adopts resolutions for new Schools within College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences
7/16/09
New 'Message from the Dean' posted
6/30/09
NY Times - Letter to the Editor published
The New York Times published Dean Toney's Letter to the Editor regarding “Playing It Safe in Cancer Research” (front page, June 28). This Letter was published in today’s paper (page A20): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/opinion/l30cancer.html?pagewanted=2
6/02/09
Dr. Patricia Morreale, Computer Science, presents at IEEE International Conference in Bradford, UK
Dr. Patricia Morreale, of Kean’s Department of Computer Science, presented "Real-time Contextual Representation of Sensor Network Data for Environmental Trend Identification" at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’09), held May 26-29, 2009 at the University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. This was a collaborative research work with Dr. Feng Qi and Dr. Paul Croft of the Department of Geology and Meteorology, Dr. George Chang of the Department of Computer Science and SpF 2008 students Justin Czarnik, Nick Doell, Jhon Espin, and Ryan Suleski.
5/28/09
Occupational Therapy Faculty present research findings at the 89th American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) National Conference and Expo in Houston, Texas
Professors Lynne F. Richard, MA, OT; Laurie Knis-Matthews, PhD, OT and Mary Falzarano, MHS, OTR, from the Department of Occupational Therapy presented at the 89th American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) National Conference and Expo in Houston, Texas on April 23, 2009. They discussed the findings from the in-press research study, “Are We Really Client Centered? Using the COPM To See How Clients' Goals Connect With the Goals of the Occupational Therapist”. The annual AOTA conference brings together leaders, professionals, practitioners, educators and students in the field of occupational therapy to present research, inform participants about current, best and evidenced-based practice, to network, invigorate practice for the present and plan for the future.
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5/14/09
Undergraduate Commencement took place Thursday May 14, 2009 at PNC Bank Art Center in Holmdel
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5/12/09
Nathan Weiss Graduate Commencement took place Tuesday May 12, 2009 at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.photo gallery on Kean University site: http://www.kean.edu/grad09/photogallery/
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4/24/09
Launch of Dean Toney's research website.
See: http://www.kean.edu/~collnahs/Toney/
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4/14/09
STUDENTS - EARTH WEEK - April 20th - 25th, 2009
Please take the Annual EARTH WEEK survey and also find out about the activities you can participate in.(survey is not an active link now that Earth Week is over).
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** NEWS ALERT ** - Paper Published in the Prestigious Journal Science! (April 10, 2009)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5924/176a
Toney, J.H., "Advancing Human Rights Through Science," Science 2009, 324, 176.
Dean Jeffrey Toney has published a featured Letter to the Editor in the latest issue of Science, "Advancing Human Rights Through Science," that describes how science education can contribute to important human rights issues. Dean Toney and Dr. Hank Kaplowitz, Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute at Kean University are working together to facilitate teaching and learning about science and human rights. Dean Toney and Dr. Kaplowitz are members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Coalition..
The 12th Annual Kean University Gala will be held on June 7, 2009 on Ellis Island, NY to benefit the Human Rights Institute.
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4/2/09
Dr. Eric W.A. Boehm, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, has recently published a paper, as first author, in the journal Mycological. Research, published by Elseveir, out of London: Boehm, E.W.A., Schoch, C.L. and J.W. Spatafora. 2009.
The paper is on the evolution of the Hysteriaceae and Mytilinidiaceae (Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) using four nuclear genes. Mycological Research 113(4): 461-479.
An abstract of the paper can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09537562.
A full PDF copy of the paper can be found at the bottom of the first page of his
research website at http://www.eboehm.com/ (listed as publication #14).
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3/6/09
Students - Students interested in applying for the Merck-AAAS Undergraduate
Science Research Program Summer 2009 ($4,000 stipend) click
here for details - deadline is April 15th!
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3/3/09
Dr. F. Tamari, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology is an author on a paper that appears in this month's issue of Biology of the Cell (impact factor 3.752). The paper is entitled "Endosomal lipid accumulation in NPC1 leads to inhibition of PKC, hypophosphorylation of vimentin and Rab9 entrapment" and is authored by Marc Walter, Fannie W. Chen, Farshad Tamari, Rong Wang and Yiannis A. Ioannou.
The abstract can be found at: http://www.biolcell.org/boc/101/boc1010141.htm
(click on March 09 on right side - Research Articles)
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2/23/09
CONGRATULATIONS Kean for being a Merck/AAAS USRP 2009 AWARD WINNER!!!
The Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program (USRP) is a national
competitive awards program. The money awarded is to be used by biology and
chemistry departments to support undergraduate research activities.
(click here for award details [PDF file])
Students interested in applying for the Merch-AAAS Undergraduate
Science Research Program Summer 2009 ($4,000 stipend) click
here for details - deadline is April 15th!
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STUDENTS: Stipends Available to Study Type-2 Diabetes with NAHS Dean Toney Summer 2009
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WINTER 2008 Ryan Suleski, Senior in the Computer Science Program receives award in the Computational Science Student Award Program at Supercomputing ’08 in Austin, TexasComputer Science student researchers have research paper accepted for publication
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11/21/08
Occupational Therapy Faculty Participate in Autism Conference at Kean
Mary Falzarano, MHS, OTR, Assistant Professor; Sonia Morrehead, OTR, Academic Fieldwork Coordinator and Mara Cohen Podvey, Ph.D., OT, Assistant Professor from the Department of Occupational Therapy participated in the Autism: Putting the Pieces Together: An Interdisciplinary Conference for Teachers, Parents, and Professionals on November 21, 2008. Occupational Therapy is an integral piece of the related services that assist people diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to function and participate in meaningful occupations of living: play, school, work and leisure. The Department of Occupational Therapy also informed conference participants of the "Transitions to College" program for high school students interested in going to college who are diagnosed with ASD.
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STUDENTS - Your Opinion Counts - Please take these surveys!
Survey #1 - Potential degree program in Sustainability
Survey #2 - Kean Transportation and Parking
Dr. Toney, Dean of the College of NAHS was invited speaker at University of Virginia
The Ronald E. McNair Program @ KU is now accepting applications.
College of NAHS Advisory Council Established Fall 2008
Computer Science Department Fall '08 Newsletter released
NSF Scholarships available in Computer Science
for more information click on the link above or view the Computer Science Department Website.
Applications are due March 16, 2009
Brochure available
** NEWS ALERT ** - Paper Published in the Prestigious Journal Science! (Oct 3, 2008)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol322/issue5898/index.dtl
Toney, J.H., “Big Payoffs Possible for Small-Molecule Screening ”, Science, 322, 46 (2008)
Professor Daniella Shebitz Speaks on Blue Goes Green Initiative at Kean (YouTube Video)
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