Hofstra Horizons

Spring 2009

Stuart Rabinowitz, J.D.
President

Herman A. Berliner, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Sofia Kakoulidis, M.B.A.
Associate Provost for Research and Sponsored Programs

Alice Diaz-Bonhomme, B.A.
Assistant Provost for Research and Sponsored Programs

Christopher Egan, M.S.
Assistant Dean for Research and Sponsored Programs

This Month in Hofstra Horizons

President's Column

Provost's Column

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The World’s Children in Crisis What Can We Do?

Denny Taylor
Director, International Center for Everybody’s Child, and Professor and Doctoral Director of Literacy Studies

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Promoting Democracy at Hofstra University

Cynthia Bogard
Director, Center for Civic Engagement, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

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Understanding Brainstorming and Creativity Through Behavioral Experiments and Neural Models

Simona Doboli
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Vincent Brown
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

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People See Shapes, Computers Compute Shapes

Gerda Kamberova
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science

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