With faculty awards, a renewed grant and a unique trip to Paris, Saint Peter’s College is proud to share recent news and developments.
Associate Professor of Classics and Director of Special Scholarships and Graduate Studies Kristina Chew, Ph.D., recently won two awards for her writing, both in an academic journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, and for her online blogging. Her essay, "The Disabled Speech of Asian Americans," was selected to receive the 2010 Tyler Rigg Award for Disability Studies Scholarship in Literature and Literary Analysis. The essay was published in Disability Studies Quarterly and can be read online. A contest judge commented, “This is a deeply impressive piece of scholarship that valorizes autism as experienced by a character, his mother, and his larger community.”
Dr. Chew’s blog about raising her autistic son Charlie, titled “We Go With Him,” was named one of the top 25 autism blogs by Babble. Her writing about her family’s daily life is sometimes poignant, often humorous and always inspiring.
Saint Peter’s College is pleased to be the recipient of a $15,000 grant to support the Healthing Along program. Awarded by The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, the program provides local high school students with health education seminars taught by health and education students from the College. The program focuses on teaching the basics of healthy living such as frequent hand washing, brushing and flossing teeth, maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and refraining from smoking.
Finally, members of the Center for Microplasma Science and Technology (CMST) team as well as undergraduate and graduate students recently attended the 6th International Workshop on Microplasmas, which was held in Paris from April 3-6. The seven CMST staff members included Jose L. Lopez, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics and director and principal investigator, Wei-Dong Zhu, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics and director of research and co-principal investigator, Rev. Daniel O’Brien, S.J., director of educational outreach, Valencia Johnson, Ph.D., senior research scientist, Jenny M. Mahoney, Ph.D., senior research scientist, Alfred Freilich, Ph.D., senior research scientist, and David Jacome ’10, research technician and visiting graduate student from Stevens Institute of Technology.
In addition to Jacome, students that attended were Danny Palacios ’14, Justin Lo Re ’11 and Rachel (Ruixue) Wang, a visiting graduate student from Polytechnic Institute of New York University and a graduate student in the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Peking University in China. In total, the College representatives presented nine posters and hosted one discussion. A complete list of the materials presented is available on Inside Saint Peter’s College, the Saint Peter’s College blog.