Annual Day
of Giving Brings Out the Best in
John
Jay Supporters
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 John Jay's second Annual Day of
Giving (ADG), held Dec. 8, was an overwhelming success, with the
final fundraising tally handily surpassing the previous year's total.
More than 230 individual donors contributed to ADG 2015, generating a
total of over $220,000. John Jay Foundation board members and College
faculty and staff contributed $75,000 of the total, with the
remainder coming from alumni, current students, and even the parents
of two current students. Read
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Poll Cites 'Black Lives Matter' as
2015's Top Justice News Story, John Oliver as #1 Newsmaker
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 The "Black Lives Matter" movement,
with its focus on issues of police brutality, was the dominant
criminal justice news story of 2015, according to the fifth annual
reader survey conducted by John Jay's Center on Media, Crime and
Justice (CMCJ). Results of the survey were published Dec. 9 in The
Crime Report, an online publication of the center. Read
more...
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Alumni Profile: Odom's Lifelong
Learning
Adventure
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 Part of the legacy of John Jay
College for Oscar Odom III is that he's still learning: the retired
New York City police detective recently earned his doctorate in
education from Cappella University - this, while serving as chair of
the criminal justice division at ASA College in Brooklyn. Read
more...
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J Journal Scores Again in Pushcart
Prize Literary Rankings
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 The J Journal: New Writing on Justice -
John Jay's literary journal founded and co-edited by English
Professors Adam Berlin and Jeffrey Heiman - has been ranked 52nd out
of 245 publications featured in the 2016 Pushcart Prize Literary
Magazine Rankings for Fiction, placing it ahead of several notable
and longstanding journals. Read
more...
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New Study Charts NYPD Enforcement
Activity
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 A team of John Jay researchers has
documented a dramatic downturn in enforcement actions by New York
City police between 2011 and 2014, after the number of arrests,
summonses and stop-and-frisk actions had risen just as sharply in the
previous eight years. Read
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Homecoming Is Quite the Event for
Returning
Alumni
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 IDozens of alumni and friends of
John Jay athletics were on hand on Dec. 10 for the annual Homecoming
Day festivities. Guests watched both the women's and men's basketball
games from the exclusive Alumni Sky Box above the gymnasium. Read
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First-Year Students, First-Rate
Researchers
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 Scores of John Jay freshmen and
transfer students stood proudly alongside poster presentations and
other research efforts in the new building cafeteria on Dec. 10,
showing off their projects as part of the annual FYE (First Year
Experience) Student Showcase. Read
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Professor Brotherton Honored at
Annual Criminology Conference
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 The 71st annual American Society of
Criminology conference, held Nov. 18-21 in Washington, D.C., was once
again a tour de force for John Jay, with scores of faculty, staff and
students presenting papers and posters, and participating in panel
discussions and roundtables. Read
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Students Shine at Biomedical
Research
Conference
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 Fifteen future scientists, all part
of John Jay's Program for Research Initiatives in Science and
Math (PRISM), presented their research at the 15th Annual
Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) held in
Seattle in November. Read
more...
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Keri Reitman (Marketing and Development) is John
Jay's new Director of Special Events. Reitman, whose first day at
John Jay will be Jan. 5, has more than 20 years of special events
experience with such institutions as the Greenwich Historical
Society, Pace Law School, the Big Apple Circus and the Alliance for
Lupus Research.
Peggilee Wupperman's (Psychology) article
"Understanding Self-Destructive (Dysregulated) Behaviors"
was published Dec. 6 in the online edition of Psychology Today. Click
here to read the article.
Marie-Helen Maras (Security, Fire and Emergency
Management) was featured prominently in the "Ask the
Experts" section of WalletHub's recent article "2015's
States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft and Fraud." The
article is available online here.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard (Africana Studies) has been named
as one of the 2016 inductees to the Cooperative Hall of Fame.
Nembhard, who is Economic Development Director for the McNair
Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at John Jay, is the author of Collective Courage: A
History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.
Her induction ceremony will take place next May.
Susan Opotow (Sociology) has been elected to a
three-year term on the American Psychological Association's Board for
the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest. She is a
past president of the APA Division 9, the Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues.
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Frederick T. Martens (M.A. '74) has had his new book, We'll Make
You an Offer You Can't Refuse: A Primer on the Investigation of
Public Corruption, published by Complex Litigation Sciences, LLC.|
Stephen N. Knights Jr. (B.S. '00) resides in Georgia, where he is a
Superior Court Judge in Clayton County. He has worked as an Assistant
Solicitor General and a Senior Litigation Assistant District Attorney
in Clayton County, and in the latter role he prosecuted all major
felonies, including murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault,
achieving a 100-percent conviction rate. Knights also teaches legal
and criminal justice courses at Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta
University and Southern Crescent Technical College.
Ben Rosen (B.A. '05) is Director of Public Information
for the New York State Office of Mental Health. Previously he served
as the Director of Communications for Assemblyman Keith Wright, for
whom he interned in Albany while a student at John Jay in 2004.
Lydia DeCastro (M.S. '10) was recently promoted to Assistant
Director of the Department of Forensic Biology at the New York City
Office of Chief Medical Examiner. A veteran of more than 20 years at
the agency, DeCastro's new position places her in a leadership role
with responsibility for DNA testing workflow through the laboratory.
Newton Knowles (B.A. '11) graduated last spring from
UC-Hastings College of Law.
Newly admitted to the California bar, he is now a Special Deputy
Attorney General with the California Department of Justice. His note,
"Exonerated, But Not Free: The Prolonged Struggle for a Second
Chance at a Stolen Life," was published in the spring 2015
edition of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal.
Ronald Arp (B.S. '92, M.A. '97), a residentof Clifton Park, N.Y.,
died Nov. 30, 2015. He was 45. Arp had served as a Special Agent for
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in the Albany, N.Y.,
district office.
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Upcoming
Events
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January 28, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Presented by the Center for Private
Security and Safety
Contact: Jennifer.Bencivenga@jjay.cuny.edu.
212-484-1380
John Jay on the Road/American
Academy of Forensic Sciences Alumni Reception
Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las
Vegas
Abby Stein Memorial Lecture
"An American Latinx Abroad:
Contradictions of Identity, Intersectionality and Social
Justice"
Speaker: Nico Montano (B.A. '13)
Moot Court, 6th Floor, New Building
Current Trends in School Safety
Presented by the Center for Private
Security and Safety
Contact: Jennifer.Bencivenga@jjay.cuny.edu.
212-484-1380
Honorees: Bryan Stevenson, Gloria
Steinem, Anthony McGill
To register, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu/justiceawards2016
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