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Merrimack Making Connections

Several members of the Merrimack College community regularly share their accomplishments, expertise, and love of Merrimack with others. Here are some examples of Merrimackans making connections.

  • Dr. Kathleen Shine Cain, Writing Center/Comm. Arts and Sciences; Lisa Schwartz, Wingate University; Dr. Patricia Sendall and Dr. Jane Parent, Girard School of Business; Kristin Stowe, Wingate University; and Kathryn Nielsen-Dube collaborated on a paper recently presented at the Academy of Business Education. The paper is titled "Writing Across the Business Curriculum: An Exploration of Writing Intensive Courses and Writing Program Fellows Programs.";
  • James F. Greeley, director of career services & cooperative education, was recently inducted into the 2009 St. Mary's High School of Lynn (MA) Hall of Fame. He is a 1967 graduate of the school;
  • Donald Lyman, adjunct instructor of biology, attended the Anolis Symposium at Harvard recently, where over 125 biologists and graduate students from colleges and universities across the globe attended and/or presented research on Anolis - a rare lizard species; 
  • The book, Running: The Sacred Art, by Associate Professor of Religious and Theological Studies Dr. Warren Kay, was translated into German with the title Meditieren in Laufschuhen. Kay's book was named one of the three best running books of all time by the German edition of Runner's World magazine (Nov. 2009);
  • Nancy Clark, director of major gifts, was one of only 12 winners to recive a $1,500 professional development scholarship from the National Educational Alumni Trust;
  • Dean of the School of Education Dr. Dan Butin has authored two new books: The Education Dissertation: A Guide for Practitioner Scholars (Corwin Press) published in Nov. 2009; and Service-Learning in Theory and Practice: The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. to be published in March 2010.
  • George Heffernan, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, has been selected by the German Academic Exchange Service/Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst as a research ambassador for the 2009-10 academic year;
  • David Toth, Ph. D (computer science), Mark Birnbaum, Ph.D. (biology), and Brandy Benedict, Ph.D. (mathematics) will attend the "SC Education Program at SC09";
  • David Toth, Ph.D. (computer science) and David Finkel, Ph.D. (W.P.I.) had their paper "Improving the Productivity of Volunteer Computing By Using The Most Effective Task Retrieval Policies,"
  • Anthony Deluzio, Ph.D. (retired professor, civil engineering) was honored by The Boston Society of Civil Engineers at the 161st annual awards dinner;
  • Merrimack senior Jason Demetrios Vergados was chosen to travel to Greece to study public policy;
  • A team of four faculty members from the Health Sciences Department (Kevin Finn, Ph.D.; Jay Campisi, Ph.D.; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.; Marcia Walsh, Ph.D.) participated in the 2009 Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Summer Institute in Chicago;
  • Asst. Professor of History Sean Condon, Ph.D. gave a speech entitled, "Abraham Lincoln and the Rule of Law" at the Lawrence Bar Association's Annual Law Day luncheon. Condon also contributed a chapter to the recently published "Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World" (University of S. Caroling Press);
  • Ciejek Chair of Business and Associate Professor of Marketing Chuck Comegys, Ph.D. published an article, "Effects of Consumer Trust and Risk on Online Purchasing Decision-Making: A Comparison of Finnish and United States Students" in the August issue of the International Journal of Management. The article was co-authored with Dr. Mika Hannula and Dr. Jaani Vaisanen of the Tampere University of Technology in Finland;