Graduate Students have a variety of opportunities to
showcase the knowledge gained in their respective graduate
programs. What follows are examples of students' recent
accomplishments (from 2004-present), either through conference presentations,
articles published, art exhibits and musical performances,
as well as awards they received. We believe these demonstrate two of the Graduate School
Tenets:
Community
of Scholars and Scholarly Inquiry.
Biomolecular Sciences
Publications
Badal, Romina; Haughton, Richard A.; Khan, Izaz M.; King,
Thomas R.; Magnan, David R.; Paul,
Emily L.; Soucy, Francis M. and Thompson, David S., The mouse frizzy mutation (fr) maps between
D7Csu5 and D7Mit165. In review at the Journal of
Experimental Dermatology.
Presentations
Pagliaruli,
T; Mulrooney, J and Watson C., The role of cofilin in migration of F9 parietal endoderm
cells Experimental Biology Conference; April 27-May 2,
2007; Washington, DC.
Bannock, Jason and Hoopengardner, B.M., RNA editing in the cacophony and slowpoke ion channels
Experimental Biology Conference; April 27-May 2, 2007;
Washington, DC.
Watson, C.L. and Ferrazzoli, Alexander, Serotonin regulation by primary culture neonatal rat astrocytes Experimental Biology Conference; April 27-May
2, 2007; Washington, DC.
Jarombek
M.; Padua, Roberto and Davis, M.A., Isolation and characterization of antibacterial compounds
from soil microorganisms with activity against
Mycobacteria 107th General Meeting of the
American Society for Microbiology, April 21-25, 2007;
Toronto, Canada.
Slomski, Davis; Damiano, Jeff and Mulrooney, J. The role of cell-cell interactions in parietal yolk sac
formation.
Pagliaruli,
Thomas and Mulrooney, J. The role of cofilin in migration of F9 parietal endoderm
cells.
Ryznar,
Rebecca and Watson, C.L. Calcium regulation in cardiac muscle of the Southern
Kingfish.
Grove,
Owen; Goralnik, Justin and Watson, C.L. Isolation of calcium-tolerant cardiac myocytes.
Ferrazzoli,
Alex and Watson, C.L. Vesicular packaging follows serotonin uptake in primary
culture rat astrocytes.
Ferranti,
Katelynn; Dugo, Michael; Fisher, Annie; Gomes,
Jesse; Ton, Lisa and C.L. Watson
Expression of connexin 43 gap junctional protein in rat
cardiac fibroblasts.
Bannock,
Jason and Hoopengardner, B.M. RNA editing in
voltage-gated ion channels.
Jarombek, Max; Padua, Roberto and Davis, M.A. Characterization of an anti-mycobacterial compound secreted
by a bacterial isolate from soil
Azeredo,
Stacy and Davis, M.A. Bacteriophage Therapy: Isolation and identification of lysogenic bacteria of Propionibacterium acnes
Business
Awards
Rebecca
Salerni (2004), who earned her Masters Degree in
International Business Administration, won a financial
reporting achievement award from the Government Finance
Officers Association of the United States and Canada. As the
city's manager of accounting, she also helped New Britain
earn a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in
Financial reporting. Lisa Carver, Mayor Timothy
Stewart's chief of staff, told The New Britain Herald,
"We're fortunate to have her working for us."
Communication
Publications
Stiles, M.
& Tyson, B. (2008). Marketing Civility: Improving a School's
Communication Climate. American School Board Journal
(March).
English
Publications
Cherolis, Stephanie, Philip Roth’s
Pornographic Elegy: The Dying Animal as a Meditation on Loss in Contemporary Times.
Philip Roth Studies.
2.1 (Spring 2006): 13-24.
Cherolis, Stephanie, Co-Editor with Stuart
Barnett and Aimee L. Pozorski,
The Connecticut Review.
Trauma issue. 28.1 (Spring 2006).
Cherolis, Stephanie, When
Language Fails: Witnessing Holocaust Testimony. The Connecticut Review.
28.1 (Spring 2006): 93-101.
Cherolis, Stephanie
(2006). Failed Metaphors and
Silence: Absence in Holocaust Testimony. NYCEA
Conference, "Resistance
to Tyranny: Representing the Struggle for Human
Rights in Literature." Tarrytown, NY. 28-29 April
2006.
Cherolis, Stephanie
(2006). When Language Fails.
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
National Conference. Atlanta, GA. 12-16 April 2006.
Cherolis, Stephanie
(2006). Failure of the Familiar:
Film and the Crisis of Witnessing. 31st Annual Florida
State University Conference on Literature and Film,
“Documenting Trauma and Terror.” Tallahassee, FL. 2-5
February 2006.
Cherolis, Stephanie
(2005). Consuela Castillo:
Pornographic Woman and Icon of Loss in Philip Roth's
The Dying
Animal.
From Pornography to
Politics Conference. University of Newcastle.
Newcastle,
U.K. 11 November 2005. Paper accepted but conference
not
attended.
Cherolis, Stephanie
(2005).
The
Pornography of Jealousy': Philip Roth's
The Dying Animal.
American Literature
Association. Boston, MA. 26-29 May 2005.
Cherolis, Stephanie
(2005). Jack
Sheppard and the Uncanny: Criminality and
Criticism. Victorian Criminalities Conference.
University of Exeter. Exeter, England. 18-19 April
2005.
Cherolis, Stephanie (2006 ). Philip Roth's Pornographic
Elegy: The Dying Animal as a Contemporary Meditation on
Loss. The Journal of Philip Roth Studies.
Cherolis, Stephanie (2006 ). When Language Fails: Witnessing
Holocaust Testimony. The Connecticut Review.
Vita, Barbara (2007). Ekphrasis in Peter Ackroyd's
English Music.
Hirth, Brittany
(2007). Trauma and Gender Division in D.M. Thomas's
Pictures at an Exhibition.
Meraay, Maha (2007). When Text and Image Collide:
Generating Chaos in Penelope Lively’s
The Photograph and
W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants.
Awards
Kathleen Siddons,
a 1993 CCSU Graduate Student Association Distinction
Award-winner for Academic Excellence, in May
2006 received an award from the National Network of Early
Language Learning (NNELL) for her excellence in teaching,
mentoring, and use of technology as a Spanish teacher in
grades 2,3,4,5 in the public schools of Mansfield, CT
Geography
Awards
Thomas Brodnitzki, M.S. in Geography (2007), has been
awarded a Milken Family Foundation National Educator award.
Brodnitzki also received a M.S. in Educational Foundations
from CCSU in 2003 and now teaches at Northwestern Community
College in Winsted, CT.
International Studies
Presentations
Saporia-King, Jennifer, M.S. in International Studies
with a concentration on the Middle East, returned to C.C.S.U
in Spring 2007 to share her experiences as a
Foreign Affairs Officer.
Awards
Megan Alubicki, M.S. in International Studies
(2007), has been
awarded a research grant from the J. William Fulbright
Foreign Scholarship Board to conduct research in Sweden and
Belgium for 10 months (5 months at Vakjo University, one of
CCSU's overseas partner institutions; 5 months at Vesalius)
during the 2007-2008 academic year. Megan's research
topic is "Speaking European: Promoting Linguistic Diversity
through Public Education in Sweden and Belgium."
Modern Languages
Awards
Brian McCarthy, M.A. in Modern Languages (2007),
has had his paper titled, "Medusa como farmakon de
salvacion en dos dramas de Calderon," accepted for
presentation at the Association for Hispanic Classical
Theater conference in El Paso, Texas. This is one
of the most prestigious meetings for scholars in
Hispanic theater.
Music
Publications
Beaven, Allison Harbeck. Quality
Repertoire Selection: Forgotten Essential
Resources. Choral Journal, August 2006.
Glory, Douglass. Chorus: No Longer Just a
Performance Ensemble. Vermont Music Educator,
March 2007.
Presentations
Bretthauer, Colleen Sprague, Over the
past year, has presented 12 different seminars in
Early Childhood Music Education for Head Start, St.
Joseph School for Young Children, Central
Connecticut State University, and Brandeis
University.
Beaven,
Allison Harbeck, Presented The Choral Repertoire
Selection Dilemma: A New Approach for the High
School Director. American Choral Directors
Association
National Conference, March 2007.
Awards
Glory, Douglass (2007). Received an
award from The Vermont Alliance for Arts Education.
Pekar, Kristine (2007). Received an award for the
Highest Scoring Chamber Choir at the North American
Music Festivals.
Psychology
Awards
Rodriguez-Arauz, Gloriana
(2007). Received a Fulbright Foreign Student grantee
from Costa Rica. She began her M.A. in Health
Psychology in Fall 2007. Gloria
is the first graduate student to come to C.C.S.U on a
Fulbright Scholarship.
Reading &
Language Arts
Awards
Goss, Amity (2007). A
reading Specialist at Colchester Elementary School
and a 2002 graduate of the Master Degree in Reading
and Language Arts, was recently awarded the
Outstanding Reading Specialist Award from the
Connecticut Reading Association.
Hurley, Joan (2007).
Sixth Year Certificate in Reading and Language Arts,
admitted to the program in Fall 2005, was named
Connecticut Teacher of the Year 2007.
Lynch, Susan &
Martinez, Mildred &
Murratti,
Elizabeth
(2008).
Master of Science in Reading and Language
Arts received an award from the Connecticut
Association for Reading Research
(CARR)/International Reading Association
Honor Council, Wirth-Santoro Scholarship for
their research study on: Application of
SIOP in a Non-ELL Social Studies Classroom.
Mildred
Martinez graduated in 2007; Elizabeth
Murratti is graduating in 2008.
Technology
Management
Publications
Giampietro, C.
and Emiliani, M.L. ( 2007).
Coercion and
reverse auctions.
Supply Chain Management: An International Journal,
Vol.
12, No. 2., pp. 75-84.
