NEW FACULTY MEMBERS JOIN BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE
| August 30, 2001, Bloomfield, NJ - As the school year
begins, Bloomfield College recently welcomed five new faculty members:
Gloria J. Brown, Instructor of Biology; Laura Kelly, Assistant Professor
of Nursing; Donna Naturale, Instructor of Nursing; Jeanne Nutter,
Associate Professor of Communications; and Robyn Serven, Associate
Professor of Computer Information Systems.
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Gloria Brown comes to Bloomfield College from Montclair State
University, where she served as an assistant professor in the Department of
Biology and Molecular Biology. She has also taught as an adjunct professor of
Biology at Bloomfield College and the County College of Morris. Her research has
included angiogenic factors associated with wound repair, the neurophysiology of
Cranial Nerve 12, and human endometriosis. Brown received her bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in Biology from Montclair State University, and is currently
a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Laura Kelly served as a public health nurse for the Monmouth County Health Department before joining the Bloomfield College faculty. Prior to that, she was Director of Therapeutic Programs for Presbyterian Homes of Southern New Jersey, a mental health practitioner for the Ocean County Department of Health HIV Clinic, and Vice President of Clinical Services at the Shoreline Behavioral Health Center in Toms River. She has been a health occupations teacher at Monmouth County Vocational School, and an adjunct faculty member at Brookdale Community College. Kelly holds a B.A. from Monmouth University and an M.S. from Rutgers University, where she is currently a doctoral student. Donna Naturale has served as an adult nurse practitioner and a certified diabetes educator at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair for the past four years. Prior to that, she was an adult nurse practitioner for Veterans Affairs New Jersey Healthcare System in East Orange, and a diabetes educator at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. Naturale has taught at William Paterson University, Seton Hall University and Bloomfield College. She received her B.S. in Nursing from Bloomfield College, and her M.S.N. from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Jeanne Nutter has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in interpersonal communication at William Paterson University, and is a former speech laboratory instructor at Bowie State College. For two years, she served as a special assistant, responsible for external affairs and the management of the Mayor’s Office staff in Wilmington, DE. She has also held positions with the Association of Junior Leagues International, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and WNBC-TV. Dr. Nutter has participated on many diversity panels and served as keynote speaker for events including the Newark, Delaware NAACP Annual Dinner and the Black History Month celebration at DuPont. She earned a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cincinnati, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Communications from Howard University. Robyn Serven has served as an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Central Arkansas for the past 16 years and was a finalist for the Teaching Excellence Award in 1990. Before that, she was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She has presented her research at the University of Oklahoma, Hendrix College, the University of South Carolina, and Northern Kentucky University. Currently, she is researching the social experience of mathematics among gender-variant people. Dr. Serven earned a B.A. in Mathematics with highest honors from Portland State University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Oregon. |
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