2013 – Distinguished Alumni and Speaker Awards /distinguished-graduates Wed, 20 May 2020 16:58:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Robert J. Iacullo ’76 /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/21/robert-j-iacullo-76/ /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/21/robert-j-iacullo-76/#respond Tue, 21 May 2013 17:47:29 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/distinguished-graduates/?p=89 Robert Iacullo, president of United Water Inc., oversees operations and management of the company’s water and wastewater businesses nationwide. He is responsible for the company’s regulated and contract services business lines. In addition, he serves as president of United Water New Jersey, the company’s largest water business.

Iacullo also oversees Utility Service Group, the nation’s leading water tank maintenance service company, which is a subsidiary of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT NORTH AMERICA. Iacullo joined United Water in 1980 as a rate analyst and has held positions of increasing responsibility with the company including chief operating officer, president of the New York/New Jersey Metro Region and vice president of regulatory business.

Iacullo is a commissioner of the New Jersey Water Supply Authority and a member of the board of directors of the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey, Choose New Jersey, the National Association of Water Companies and the Bergen County United Way. He is also a trustee of the Bergen County Economic Development Corporation. He graduated from Ʒ˸ in 1976 with a BS in business administration and was a member of Phi Lambda Pi.

Bio as of May 2013

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Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., CAS /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/20/valerie-maholmes-ph-d-cas/ /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/20/valerie-maholmes-ph-d-cas/#respond Mon, 20 May 2013 14:14:07 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/distinguished-graduates/?p=21 Dr. Valerie is a graduate of Ʒ˸ College where, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and teaching certification in Secondary Education in 1980 and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling, Human Services and Guidance in 1984. Upon graduation from Ʒ˸, Dr. Maholmes worked in several capacities including Director of Admissions and Caldwell College in Caldwell, NJ and Education Development Specialist at the Educational Opportunity Fund Program at Ʒ˸. After completing her Ph.D. in Psychoeducational Studies with a concentration in research and statistics at Howard University in 1992, she was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Yale University Child Study Center in the School of Medicine. Upon completion of her post-doctoral training, she joined the faculty at the Yale Child Study Center. After serving in numerous capacities, she was awarded the Irving B. Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry—an endowed professorial chair in research and social policy. She was the first African American woman to have this distinction. She was the Director of Research and Policy for the Child Study Center’s School Development Program where she provided educational, clinical and technical support to schools in low-income neighborhoods and communities around the country. Dr. Maholmes earned a sixth-year degree in School Psychology with a concentration in neuropsychological and psychosocial assessments from Fairfield University. In 2003, she was awarded the prestigious Science Policy Fellowship sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). Her expertise has been sought after by the media. She has been interviewed by Reader’s Digest, the New York Times, The Hartford Courant, and has been on such radio shows as the NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show.

Dr. Valerie Maholmes currently serves as Chief of the Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health. In this capacity she sets the vision and priorities for research that addresses the continuum of psychosocial, behavioral, biological, and physiological influences that affect child health outcomes in trauma, injury, and acute care.

A recognized member of the community, Dr. Maholmes served two terms on the New Haven Board of Education for the New Haven Public Schools, where she was served as Vice President/Secretary and Chair of the Curriculum Committee. She also served as President of the Board of Directors for the Arnold Gesell Institute of Human Development and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Education Association’s Membership Insurance Trust. In September 2010 she was named one of Who’s Who in Black Washington, DC and in 2015 named to the list of Strathmore’s Who’s Who.

Dr. Maholmes is the author of numerous peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Notably, she edited a text titled, Applied Research in Child and Adolescent Development: A Practical Guide (Taylor and Francis, Psychology Press, 2010) and co-edited a comprehensive volume based on the NICHD supported Science and Ecology of Early Development (SEED) initiative which examined the impact of poverty on children’s development. This volume title the Oxford Handbook of Child Development and Poverty was published by Oxford University Press. Maholmes followed this volume with an authored book titled: Why Hope Still Matters: Fostering Resilience and Well-being in Children and Families in Poverty, also published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Her most recent book Post Dramatic Relationship Syndrome: How to Find Your Drama-Free Zone is an effort to address critical issues regarding women’s health and well-being. She intends to hold community conversations to raise these issues to a higher level of public discourse.

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Joyce Smith, Esq. ’94 /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/19/joyce-smith-esq-94/ /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/19/joyce-smith-esq-94/#respond Sun, 19 May 2013 17:44:10 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/distinguished-graduates/?p=86 As chief legal officer of Prudential Trust Company since 2005, Joyce Smith is in charge of all legal matters for the trust company, including its collective investment trusts. Following graduation from Harvard Law School and prior to joining Prudential, she was an associate attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City, where she handled everything from security offerings and leveraged bank financing to mergers and acquisitions, including the AOL-Time Warner merger, the Dex-Media financing and Lucent’s spin-offs, Avaya and Agere Systems.

Smith received a BA, summa cum laude, in political science with a minor in pre-law studies from Ʒ˸ in 1994 and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1998. While at Ʒ˸, she was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship. Additional campus activities included leadership roles in The Conservation Club, the Ʒ˸ Paper Recycling Program and Greenpeace. She also received the University’s Woman of the Year award. At Harvard University, she was a senior technical editor of the Environmental Law Review and a pre-law tutor at one of Harvard’s undergraduate houses.

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Marta Fernandez ’02 /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/19/marta-fernandez-02/ /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/19/marta-fernandez-02/#respond Sun, 19 May 2013 17:39:10 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/distinguished-graduates/?p=83 In her position as senior vice president of original programming for the premium cable network Starz, Marta Fernandez runs drama development and current production. Her most recent projects include: Da Vinci’s Demons with The Dark Knight and Man of Steel co-writer, David Goyer, and Incursion, an epic sci-fi drama with Spartacus screenwriter, Steven S. DeKnight.

Previously, she worked in television development for Starz, where she oversaw the network’s first ratings hit, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, as well as Golden Globe-winner, Boss, with Kelsey Grammar, and cult favorite, Party Down. Prior to joining Starz, she worked as a coordinator on the NBC series, Fear Factor, and on USA’s Monk and Criminal Minds.

As an undergraduate broadcasting major at Ʒ˸, Fernandez and her fellow students produced the short feature, “Book of Thanks,” which was part of an hour-long NJN special program, America Together: New Jersey Voices…Heroes, that won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award.

Fernandez received the 2002 Gracie Allen Award for American Women in Radio & Television for her documentary, Women Pioneers in Broadcasting.

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Evan Maletsky ’53, ’54 MA /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/19/evan-maletsky-53-54-ma/ /distinguished-graduates/2013/05/19/evan-maletsky-53-54-ma/#respond Sun, 19 May 2013 14:08:37 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/distinguished-graduates/?p=17 Mathematics Professor Evan Maletsky received a BA and MA in mathematics from Ʒ˸ in 1953 and 1954 and earned a doctorate from New York University. After serving in the Army and teaching high school geometry and physics, he returned to Ʒ˸. After 50 years in the classroom, he retired as professor and senior faculty member in 2006 and was granted emeritus status.

Maletsky taught a variety of mathematics courses at all levels, relishing the subject and its relationship to history, beauty, creativity and imagination, and believing that mathematics must stimulate the senses as well as stretch the mind. His international collaboration with German mathematicians led to publications on fractals and a unique Ʒ˸ course offering.

Maletsky, the first Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Fellow, directed and taught in numerous institutes and programs at Ʒ˸ and beyond and wrote or co-wrote more than 30 textbooks and articles. Maletsky was the recipient of the 1984 Ʒ˸ Alumni Association Outstanding Alumni Award and the 1993 Ʒ˸ Distinguished Teacher Award. His honors include the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Award for Distinguished Service in Mathematics Education and the Distinguished University Teacher of Mathematics Award.

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