COLLEGE & FACULTY NEWS
>BY ANNA MIEHE ’13
RAMAPO COLLEGE REMAINS ACTIVE DURING THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE SANDY
Photo Courtesy: Louis DiPaolo ‘14
After Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey and the East Coast at the end of October, Ramapo College rallied and helped the area recover from the devastation that left many New Jerseyans without power, a home and all of their belongings.
Ramapo students Rachael O’Brien ’13 (on the truck lift), Rebecca Bray ’15 and Claire Kelly ’14, volunteering at the shelter at Bergen Community College
On November 3, Governor Christie toured Little Ferry and Moonachie, NJ, and the damage done by Hurricane Sandy. During a briefing, he thanked business owners who had donated funds and services for the recovery effort and also thanked a group of Ramapo College students who volunteered in Little Ferry, helping elderly residents clear damaged belongings from their flood-damaged homes. “These are extraordinary examples of the great people we produce in this state,” Christie said.
CHEMISTRY CLUB TIES FOR FIRST PLACE IN AN UNDERGRADUATE OUTREACH COMPETITION Ramapo College’s Chemistry Club tied for first place with the College of St. Elizabeth in the Sister Marion Jose Smith Undergraduate Outreach Competition at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ, in late October.
PROFESSOR OF ITALIAN ROSETTA D’ANGELO PRESENTS TRANSLATED NOVEL AT CONFERENCE IN ITALY
Professor of Italian at Ramapo College Rosetta D’Angelo
Professor of Italian Rosetta D’Angelo recently presented her translated and edited version of Umberto Piersanti’s novel Olimpio with her co-translator and editor, Italian Professor Barbara Zaczek of Clemson University at “The Future of Italian Teaching: Media, Social Networks, New Technologies and MultiDisciplinary Perspectives” conference at The American University of Rome in Italy.
Camille Menendez ’13, Associate Professor of Computer Science Scott Frees and Associate Professor of Biology Paramjeet Bagga
BIOINFORMATICS STUDENT CO-AUTHORS RESEARCH MANUSCRIPT WITH PROFESSORS FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Junior Camille Menendez ’13, a bioinformatics major, co-authored a research manuscript with Associate Professor of Computer Science Scott Frees and Associate Professor of Biology Paramjeet Bagga titled “QGRS-H Predictor: A Web Server for Predicting Homologous Quadruplex Forming G-Rich Sequence Motifs in Nucleotide Sequences” for the international, peer-reviewed journal, Nucleic Acids Research, published by Oxford University Press.
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