(Published in @John Jay on August 27, 2008)
Faculty Notes
ON BOARD
LAURA DRAZDOWSKI (Physical Education and Athletics) was appointed head coach of the
John Jay women's softball team. Drazdowski, the College's Assistant Director of Athletics for
Marketing and Promotion, served as interim softball coach for the 2008 season, leading the
team to a 12-23 record and a fourth place finish in conference play. Over the summer, John
Jay added two other new head coaches. CARL NEDELL was named women's tennis coach,
succeeding AMY ROWLAND, who resigned earlier this year. Nedell had previously coached
the John Jay men's tennis team during the 2000 season, and has also coached for Hunter
College, James Monroe High School and Forest Hills High School. JESSICA
KOLACKOVSKY will serve as interim coach of the women's swimming team for the 2008-09
season, filling in for JANE KATZ, who will be on sabbatical. Kolackovsky served as a
volunteer assistant under Katz last season, and also serves as the College's head lifeguard.
She was a Big East Conference Academic All-Star as an undergraduate swimmer at Seton
Hall University.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
ANDREW SIDMAN (Government) has an article, "Forecasting Non-Incumbent Presidential
Elections: Lessons Learned from the 2000 Election," due out in a forthcoming issue of the
International Journal of Forecasting. Sidman also has 12 entries in the recently published
Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Election, and Electoral Behavior (Sage, 2008).
MARY GIBSON (History) received a Senior Fulbright Research Grant and a National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to finish a book on the history of prisons in
modern Italy. Her article "Ai margini della cittadinanza: le detenute dopo I'Unità italiana
(1860-1915) [At the Margins of Citizenship: Women Prisoners after Italian Unification]" has
been published in the journal Storia delle Donne [Women's History]. NATHAN LENTS
(Sciences) had his manuscript "Identification and Characterization of a Novel Mdm2 Splice
Variant Acutely Induced by the Chemotherapeutic Agents Adriamycin and Actinomycin D"
published in the journal Cell Cycle in June.
DANIELLE SAPSE (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration), ELISE
CHAMPEIL and ANNE-MARIE SAPSE (Sciences), working in collaboration with two
professors from the University of Rouen, France, had their paper "Interaction of DNA
Fragments with Methyl Lithium" accepted for publication in the journal Comptes Rendus
des Sèances de L'Academie FranÇaise. The paper applies theoretical methods to the study
of DNA fragments interaction with methyl lithium and its possible use for criminal
investigation.
PRESENTING...
EDGARDO DIAZ DIAZ (Foreign Languages) addressed a full house of doctoral students
and faculty members at the University of Padova, Italy, on April 22. Diaz, an
ethnomusicologist, spoke about the meaning and influence of Italian opera in the
Caribbean.
(Published in @John Jay on August 27, 2008)
JANICE BOCKMEYER (Government) moderated the roundtable "Maximum Feasible
Misunderstanding at 40: The Midlife Crisis of Community Participation?" at the annual
meeting of the Urban Affairs Association in Philadelphia in late April. The roundtable
explored the impacts of federal community development policies in the 40 years since
the War on Poverty urban initiatives.
MARGARET WALLACE (Sciences) was an invited speaker at the Fourth Annual
Conference of the Korean Academy of Scientific Criminal Investigation. Wallace's
presentation on "Forensic Science: The Interface between Scientific and the Law"
discussed the role of forensic biology in human identification and genotyping botanical
and entomological samples. Wallace was also named Foreign Editor of the Journal of the
Korean Academy of Scientific Criminal Investigation. KIMORA (Law, Police Science and
Criminal Justice Administration) spoke to the Correctional Services Division of the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department on May 23, about the educational needs of adult
offenders and the programs funded by the National Institute of Corrections. M. VICTORIA
PEREZ-RIOS (Government) presented a paper on "Western Bias in International Law:
Francisco de Vitoria's Writings and the Third World School" at the International Studies
Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA, in late March.
PEER REVIEW
MARIA HARTWIG (Psychology) received the "Early Career Award" from the European
Association of Psychology and Law, for her "excellent track-record in peer-reviewed
papers in international journals and chapters in national and international volumes,
and for being an inspiring example showing how a young researcher from a small
place can find her way to a top position in the international arena." PETER
DODENHOFF (Institutional Advancement) recently earned his U.S. Coast Guard
merchant captain's certification. The license, awarded on the basis of experience, test
scores, fitness, character references and other criteria, allows the for-hire operation of
merchant and recreational vessels in U.S. coastal waters, including charters and yacht
deliveries.
