{"id":12922,"date":"2014-05-12T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=12922"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:12:02","slug":"12922_csam-celebrates-the-end-of-the-year-with-awards-recognition-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2014\/05\/12\/12922_csam-celebrates-the-end-of-the-year-with-awards-recognition-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"CSAM Celebrates the End of the Year with Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Science and Mathematics celebrated the end of the academic year by honoring and awarding both student and faculty for their work and contributions over the past year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Outstanding Masters\u2019 Students<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aquatic and Coastal Sciences:<\/strong> Christie Castellano<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Paul Bologna<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biology:<\/strong> Kelly Triece<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Meiyin Wu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Molecular Biology:<\/strong> Caitlin Burns<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Jack Gaynor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chemistry:<\/strong> Tamara W. Kreiss<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0John Siekierka<\/li>\n<li><strong>Computer Science:<\/strong> Lurdes Ruela<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Dino Coutras<\/li>\n<li><strong>MA in Environmental Studies:<\/strong> Sara E. Dager-Smith<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Stefanie Brachfeld<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geoscience:<\/strong> Daniel J. Ciarletta<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Sandra Passchier<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sustainability Science:<\/strong> Nanci Fioravanti<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Stefanie Brachfeld<\/li>\n<li><strong>Math concentration in Pure and Applied:<\/strong> Joseph Fiordilino<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Ashwin Vaidya<\/li>\n<li><strong>Statistics:<\/strong> Abhishek Karki<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Ashwin Vaidya<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Margaret and Herman Sokol Awards<\/h2>\n<h3>Graduate Summer Research Fellowship<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Martha Bauver, Mathematics major<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Dr. Eric Forgoston<br \/>\n<em>\u201cDiscovering How Disease Epidemics Become Extinct\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Matthew J. Newton, Biology major<br \/>\nMentor:\u00a0Dr. Meiyin Wu<br \/>\n<em>\u201cDetermining the Sources of Pathogen Contamination in the Third River and Evaluating the Impact on the Public and Environmental Health&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Faculty\/Student Research Award<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Stefan Robila, Computer Science<br \/>\n<em>\u201cCUDA GPU and Efficient Processing of Remote Sensing Data\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>CSAM Awards of Excellence<\/h2>\n<p>Led by Donna Lorenzo<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graduating Senior Research:<\/strong> Ban Edani<br \/>\nMentor: Yvonne Gindt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graduating Masters Research:<\/strong> Tamara Kreiss<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professional Staff: <\/strong> Dr. William H. Thomas, NJ School of Conservation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Faculty Research Award:<\/strong> Dr. David Rotella, Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Faculty Teaching Award:<\/strong> Dr. Yvonne Gindt, Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Faculty Service Award:<\/strong> Dr. Quinn Vega, Biology<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outstanding Academic Advising: <\/strong>Dr. Kirsten J. Monsen, Biology and Molecular Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Retiring Faculty<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Stephen J. Koepp, Biology and Molecular Biology,\u00a0started in\u00a01973, 41 years<\/li>\n<li>Dr. John K. Korky, started in 1978, 36 years<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Pamela J. Delaney,\u00a0started in\u00a01982, 32 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From April 30, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":112922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209265,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/209265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}