Professional Activites

Recent Invited Activities

  • Selected Presentation. “The War in Iraq: The Ethics of Shared Information.” Faculty Research Day. St. John’s University, New York.
  • Invited Judge. Oceanside High School, Rockville Centre, Science Fair.
  • Selected Co-Presenter. “The LIS Professional as Administrator in Higher Education: Traditional Skills in an Emerging Role” ALISE\ALA. Philadelphia, PA.
  • Selected Presenter: Research Ethics & Library Strategies. New Fellows & Assistants Orientation.
  • Selected Participant: Presidential Summit with noted scholar Richard Light.
  • Selected Medical Ethics Panelist: Stuyvesant High School, New York, “Stem Cell Research”
  • Member: Monsignor Scanlan High School Middle States Planning Team
  • Student Intern: University Library Integration Committee (with the former College of Insurance); Assisting the Planning Team, “SJU Builds an Off-Campus Site Storage Facility”

St. John's University

  • Appointed Institutional 2003 -present
  • Appointed Graduate School Designee to the Graduate Council
    • Elected Secretary 1999 - present
    • Appointed to the Ad Hoc Committee on Scholarships (Chair), the Ad Hoc Committee on Ethical Issues in Graduate Education, Committee on Bylaws (Elected Co-Chair), Committee on Regulations and Procedures, Technology Committee in Graduate Education and Online Learning (Selected Co-Chair).
  • Appointed Coordinator of New Fellows and Assistants Graduate Orientation. 1997 - present
  • Appointed Secretary to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Personnel Committee. 1997 - 1999
  • Appointed Secretary to the Liberal Arts Faculty Committee. 1997 -1999
  • Selected Member of the University Commencement Committee
  • Appointed to the President's Commission on Multiculturalism
  • Appointed Academic Liaison - Accommodations for Physically Challenged Students Committee

Current Research Activities

  • AAHE Conference. Selected Poster Session: “A Theology Class as a Means of Fostering Moral Development and Ethics in Undergraduate Business Students.”
  • Co-Authored Graduate Course Proposals: Information Ethics and International Librarianship - St. John’s University, Division of Library & Information Sciences.
  • Developing - Online Graduate Advising Handbook for Faculty

GRANT AWARD
Academic Service Learning Development Grant. “The Morality of President Bush’s Health Care Agenda in Light of Catholic Social Teaching.” Summer 2003

INVITED DISCUSSION LEADER
St. John's Center for Teaching and Learning

  • Co-Leader of Discussion on “Making differences: A table of learning” by Lee S. Shulman, 2003
  • Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds by Richard J. Light, 2001
  • Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith by Sharon Daloz Parks, 2001
  • Discussion as a Way for Democratic Classrooms by Stephen Brookfield & Steven Preskill, 1999

IRB PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS ATTENDED

  • Council of Graduate Schools. Research Integrity Programs: Teaching the Responsible Conduct of Research workshop. Washington, D.C. December 2002
  • National Defense & Human Research Protections Conference. Washington, D.C. Certificate of Participation. October 2002
  • Bioethical Considerations in Human Subject Research. University of South Florida. March 2002
  • Certificate of Training in the Responsible Use of Humans as Research Subjects. National Institutes of Heath Workshop St. John’s University, September 2000