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Middlesex County College

Staff Biographies


Dr. Reginald Luke is the Mathematics Department Chair at Middlesex County College. He is the project coordinator for the (RST)2 Meteorology and Watershed Projects. Mr. Luke can be reached at 732-548-6000 ext. 3737

Darlene Yoseloff is the director of MCC's Office of School Relations. School Relations was established in 1992 as the College's liaison to the K-12 sector and provides inservice programs to teachers and administers and various career exploration activities for students. She serves as director of the Central New Jersey Math/Science Consortium funded by the NJ Department of Education's Eisenhower Professional Development Grant program, and as coordinator for the Middlesex Tech Prep Initiative. Mrs. Yoseloff can be reached at 732-906-2554.


Meteorology Project

Ms. Maria De Lucia joined the (RST)2 program at Middlesex County College in 1997. Maria is the associate director of the program at MCC and teaches the data interpretation (analysis) portion of the program. Serving as a full professor in the mathematics department at Middlesex County College, she teaches all of the courses offered by her department. Maria is well known as an expert in graphing calculator technology and is a sought after clinician.

Mr. James X. Paterno is a Professor of Mathematics at Middlesex CountyCollege, as well as the Curriculum and Project Design Consultant for the New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education at the College. He has designed interactive educational software for this National Science Foundation Grant, and has authored Learning Activities for the College's Mecomtronics Program.

Mr. Robert Kaplan joined the RST2 program at Middlesex County College in 1997. His responsibilities include instructing satellite image acquisition, facilitating and technical support. At MCC Bob has taught mathematics as an adjunct instructor as well as serving as a presenter of Internet access workshops. In Bob's "other" career he is a music teacher and tennis coach in the Saddle Brook Public Schools where he has worked since 1972, and runs his own racquet stringing business.

Mr. Jeffrey Bowden is a professional meteorologist who is currently employed with CBS in New York. Jeff has previously worked on CBS This Morning, and currently forecasts the national weather for CBS Sunday Morning News. Jeff is also a teacher of earth science/physics at John Adams Middle School, in Edison New Jersey. Here he instructs students in the art of weather prediction and modeling. Jeff and his students maintain a weather station and club. Their internet addresses are as follows:
http://members.aol.com/bmm3000/


Watershed Project

Ms. Barbara Bogner is an assistant professor of Biology at Middlesex County College. She was a participant in the summer 1997 (RST)2 program at Ramapo. For the past seven years in conjunction with the Eisenhower Grant Program and State Science Initiative Program she has been doing workshops for and working with middle school teachers to acquaint them with hands on activities connecting science, math and technology.

Ms. Diane Trainor.

Ms. Lucy Tillotson was born and raised in Argentina. She has a B.S. in Medical Technology from Indiana University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Rutgers University. Lucy has worked in clinical laboratory settings, has done research in Virology at Rutgers and, since 1993 has taught full time at Middlesex County College in the Biology department. Lucy's main focus is Microbiology, but she also teaches Basic Biology, a developmental course. Lucy participated in grants linking up Math and Science at the high school and college level; she has also prepared workshops for high school science teachers on several Biology related topics.
 
 


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