Student Achievement and Community Service 2008

Teresa Childers, an MPH candidate in community public health, presented a paper at the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Ellen Colcord, a master's candidate, presented a video installation of animated paintings in Lima, Peru for the Peru International Jazz Festival.

Erin Heisel, a doctoral student in vocal performance, performed in "Arias del Operas" with the Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, last November. Her trip was sponsored by a grant from the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy.

Patricia Bradby, who graduates with a BM in music business, created Threads that Teach, a nonprofit organization that merges arts, education, and fashion. Bradby's fundraising program engages grade school students by having them create their own apparel and sell it in their community. Revenues from apparel sales support schools' arts programs.

Roy Jerome, a doctoral student in applied psychology, has received a Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Support Award from the American Psychological Association to study methamphetamine abuse among black communities in New York City.

Jay A. Johnson, a junior in the program in vocal performance, will be postponing his studies to perform as Mark in the national tour of A Chorus Line. He writes, "If it were not for the preparation I received in my studies, this major achievement would not have been possible. I plan to come back to finish my degree." Penny Prince, a doctoral student in music education, has composed a new version of the Cinderella story for Lehman College, CUNY.

Jane Ross, a doctoral student in international education, was named Chevalier dans l'Order des Palmes Academiques by the French government in recognition of her service and activities on behalf of French education at an awards ceremony at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City.