2008FacultyNews Janet Dolgin, the Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law, presented “Choice and Genetics” at Seton Hall Law School and two papers at Case Western University School of Law in April, one titled “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” and the other titled “Biological Elaborations.” In January Professor Dolgin presented a lecture as part of Yeshiva University’s Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities on “Social and Legal Responses to Abortion.” Professor Dolgin and Joel Weintraub, adjunct professor of law and associate director of health law studies, directed the February 2008 Hofstra conference Embryonic Stem Cells, Clones and Genes: Science, Law, Politics and Values. Edward Elefterion, adjunct assistant professor of drama, received the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Award for “Outstanding Director” for the Stanton Wood play The Night of Nosferatu. Professor Elefterion is artistic director and founding member of the Rabbit Hole Ensemble, a Brooklyn-based theater group. On January 8, 2009, Professor Elefterion’s newest project, Shadow of Himself, premiered at The Access Theater in Manhattan. This modern epic about man’s struggle for immortality continued his long collaborative relationship with OBIE-winning playwright Neal Bell. Hy Enzer, professor emeritus of sociology/anthropology, is co-editor of Episodes and Fragments: A War and Peacetime Memoir by Kurt Fuchel, a survivor of the Kindertransport and principal narrator of the Academy Award-winning film Into the Arms of Strangers. Dr. Enzer also is co-editor of Anne Frank: Reflections On Her Life and Legacy with his late wife, Dr. Sandra Solotaroff Enzer, a Hofstra alumna.
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Troy Etter, adjunct instructor of music, presented two lectures in New York City: “Subculture, Semiotics, and Stratification in the Music of Boards of Canada” on November 7 and “Policing Perversity at the Court of François I: Musical Representations of the Prodigal Son in French Art and Song, ca. 1535” on November 21. He assisted with the preparation of three forthcoming scholarly publications: Cantatas de Antoni Literes: El manuscrito de Guatemala (edited by Antoni Pizà), Cabanilles and Other Composers: The Fundació Cosme Bauçà Manuscript (edited by Antoni Pizà) and Baltasar Samper: Lectures (edited by Antoni Pizà). He also served as assistant editor of Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale. E. Christa Farmer, assistant professor of geology, proposed to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) that it hold its annual Junior Faculty Forum for 2008 on the topic of “Combining Models and Geological Data to Explore Past, Present, and Future Tropical Cyclone Activity.” Her proposal, prepared jointly with James Done, a postdoctoral researcher at NCAR, was accepted and combined with a similar proposal on thermohaline circulation. The conference took place July 8-10 at NCAR in Boulder, CO.
Edward Elefterion
Laurie Fendrich, professor of fine arts, had some of her paintings featured in the exhibition ?abstraction: laurie fendrich, luke gray, tad wiley, held May 29 to July 25 at the new Gary Snyder/Project Space, located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition focused on these three contemporary painters who question and embrace abstraction in diverse ways. Alan Flurkey, associate professor of literacy studies, is project director on a $12,000 grant from the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking in support of the National Meeting of Eye Movement Miscue Analysis Researchers. David F. Foulk, dean, School of Education, Health and Human Services, was named to this position, effective July 1, after an almost yearlong national search. Dr. Foulk earned an Ed.D. in health education from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and most recently served as a professor of health education and associate dean for administration and research at Florida State University’s College of Education. Prior to serving as
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