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September 9, 2002
College Welcomes Six New Professors

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Darren Johnson (PR@southampton.liu.edu)
(631) 287 8313
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Southampton College welcomed six new professors this week in fields including English, Marine Science, Education, Psychology and Communications. They come from as far away as Miami, Amherst and San Diego and as nearby as Sag Harbor, Middle Island and East Quogue. Classes began the week of September 9.

Lou Ann Walker of Sag Harbor joins Southampton College's Humanities Division, which offers undergraduate and Master of Fine Arts programs in English and Writing. The College hosted one of the America's top writing conferences this summer, with classes and lectures led by top authors including Margaret Atwood, E.L. Doctorow, Roger Rosenblatt, Jules Feiffer and Frank McCourt.

Walker brings an impressive resume to the English faculty, as well. Her screenplays, "Zippy Chippy" and "Love Above" were recently commissioned by Paramount Studios. A graduate of Harvard with honors, she has also written several books, including "Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist at Work" (Lodestar/Penguin, 1994), which was named a Notable Book for Children by the American Library Association, and "A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family" (HarperCollins, 1996), which won a Christopher Award. Her articles have appeared in scores of top publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Parade, Esquire and People.

Two faculty members join Southampton College's acclaimed Marine Science Program, which has produced 33 of the College's 36 Fulbright Scholarship winners in the past 27 years - a remarkable accomplishment for a school of Southampton's size.

Dr. Bradley James Peterson of Miami is an expert on the interactions between people and the marine environment, as well as the predator/prey relationships between species, biogeochemistry, water quality and seagrass ecosystems. Peterson received his Ph.D. from the University of South Alabama's Dauphin Sea Lab.

Also joining the marine science faculty is Dr. Joseph D. Warren. He is from San Diego, where he served at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center as a Naval research Postdoctoral Fellow, and has a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Warren's research focuses on engineering and physics to study biological and physical oceanographic processes. His interests including using sound techniques to study such processes in the marine environment.

Southampton College's Education Division, which is known for its hands-on instruction and high success rate of students who land teaching jobs in area schools, adds Julio C. Gonzalez Martinez to its faculty. Gonzalez Martinez is from Amherst and earning his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. He is an expert in assessment and evaluation of neonatal behavior and students with learning disabilities. Southampton College recently added a new master's degree program for certified teachers in special education, where Gonzalez Martinez will teach.

The Social Science Division also adds an expert in special education. Emily Jones of Middle Island has worked as a consultant at the Autism Help Center in Riverhead and the Autism Inclusion Center at Developmental Disabilities in Smithtown. She has an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from SUNY-Stony Brook and is receiving her Ph.D. there this fall.

The Arts and Media Division adds Terence O'Daly of East Quogue as a Communications professor. With a B.F.A. from Southampton College and a M.A. from New York Tech, O'Daly is an expert on electronic page design, computer imagery, electronic photography and animation. O'Daly's graphics company, pixelperfect.org, has designed ads for scores of top magazines.