B. Service to the University
Because of my NIH funding, I have been able to provide campus employment for the following post-doc fellows, SHU students, and faculty:
•  Jitesh A. Patel (Summer 1997 - Summer 1999: SHU undergraduate)
•  Nilesh A. Patel, M.D. (Summer 2000: Post-doc project)
•  Yuhui Jiang, M.S.; M.D. (January 1999 - December 2000: Post-doc Fellow)
•  Heng-wha Cheng, Ph.D. (September 1998 - June 1999: Exchange Scholar)
•  Xin Mao, M.S. (Summer 2001: Exchange Scholar)
•  Bernardo Felix, B.S. (December 1999 - June 2000 SHU graduate)
•  Courtney Kiest (January - December 2000: SHU undergraduate)
•  Maria MacWilliams, Ph.D. (July and August 2000: SHU Assistant Professor)
•  Allan Blake, Ph.D. (August 2000: SHU Assistant Professor)
•  RJ Clemor (January to July 2001: SHU undergraduate)
•  Jenine Anday, B.S. (2000 - 2001: SHU graduate)
•  Xin Yu, B.S. (Summer 2001, 2002: SHU graduate)
•  Paolo Salvatore, B.S. (Summer 2001: SHU graduate)
•  Frank Ocasio, B.S. (Summer 2001, 2002: SHU graduate)

Although I am an empirical scientist, I do not confine myself to an ivory scientific tower. Because of my background in sociology and social psychology, I enjoy reaching out to my non-science colleagues on campus. I have served on various committees ranging from the Radiation Safety Committee to the Asia Center Executive Board where my interpersonal skills are often utilized to facilitate communication.
Inspired by the late Professor Matthew Petersheim, I began to serve on the campus-wide exposition planning committee in 1998. In honor of Professor Petersheim’s contribution as the faculty founder of this worthy annual event in the spring semester, I worked with Professor Don Wimmer in 1999 to name the event the Petersheim Academic Exposition (please see documentation included in Section 3 of Notebook III). It was also Dr. Petersheim’s intent to have one faculty member and one administrator to co-chair the planning committee. I had the honor of co-chairing the planning committee with Dean Dawn Williams in 2000 - 2001, and
Dr. Vivienne Baldini has joined me as a co-chair for the coming years. The exposition’s theme, “Bringing Knowledge to Life,” celebrates the sights and sounds of knowledge and academic achievement at the University. At the exposition, our students highlight their research and academic works through oral and poster presentations, recitals, performances, debates, artistic displays, and demonstrations. It is a campus-wide scholarship of excellence event and has attracted the SHU community and local communities. The planning committee usually meets between early October and late April to plan the details of the exposition. Our weekly meeting minutes and a copy of the event schedules are provided in Section 3 of Notebook III. My service on the Petersheim Academic Exposition has helped me to appreciate what the faculty, students, and administrators have done for one another.
My service as a visiting professor to the College of Life Sciences at Wuhan University, China in 1998 was a successful task that combined teaching, research, and service (Please see Vice President Wen-Xin Li’s comments included in Section I of Notebook III). In addition to presenting my research to the Wuhan faculty and students, I also conducted a course at Seton Hall which consisted of both classroom and on-line teaching. In September 1998, I had completed my on-line lectures for the Signal Transduction course using the LearningSpace, and posted them electronically. Befor I left for Wuhan, I had two initial meetings with the graduate students at SHU. I continued my SHU on-line lectures while I was at Wuhan to present the same lectures to the Wuhan students in the classroom. At the end of my visit to Wuhan, I arranged for the Wuhan students to continue taking the course with me when I returned back to SHU. It was a wonderful experience to conduct a “virtual” course and to present SHU’s powerful information technology capabilities to the Wuhan community. As a result of my trip to China, many students applied to our Master’s program, and two visiting scholars joined my lab to work on their research. In addition, VP Li asked me to serve as a co-advisor on the doctoral dissertation of Ms. Xin Mao, one of the two scholars mentioned above. In summary, my trip to Wuhan was fruitful in that it not only strengthened the intellectual relationship between our two institutions, but also extended my collaborative network to Wuhan University, China (Pleas see Section 1 of Notebook III).
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C. Service to my Profession
Service to my profession is one of the effective mechanisms through which I present my scholarship outside Seton Hall University. As a neurobiologist with biomedically related research projects, one of my highest academic honors was to be appointed as a regular member of the National Institute of Drug Abuse Initial Review Group (NIDAIRG) in 1999. I had served as an ad hoc member on several National Institutes of Health peer review committees. This national service opportunity not only represented a national recognition of my research accomplishments, but also enhanceed the reputation of my department and Seton Hall University as sources of highly respected scientists. As a result of this prestigious service that involved the review and critique of research proposals, my own grant writing skills and award request strategies have been further improved. Intensive discussions with well established scientists on the panel changed my vision from one as a pure scientist to a strategy-oriented grant writing scientist. Such a transformation enabled me, as the Chair of Biology, to effectively supervise the grant writing of my Biology faculty.
Establishing the new Society of NeuroImmune Pharmacology (SNIP) with my colleagues in the fields of neuroimmunolgy, neurovirology, neuropathology, and neuropharmacology is another of my contributions to my profession. As a charter member of SNIP, I have been able to list Seton Hall University as the beneficiary of my donations. By serving as the Chair of the Communications Committee, I have been able to recruit a biology graduate, Mr. Kenneth Smith, to serve as the Webmaster for SNIP. Because of my intensive contribution to SNIP, my Master’s graduate students have been considered for annual travel awards in order to present their research projects at the SNIP annual symposia. Normally only graduate students in doctoral programs are eligible for such an opportunity. Jennifer Graf, Rong Kong, Bernardo Felix and Jenine Anday are SNIP Travel Award recipients.
All of these national service opportunities have been greatly rewarding experiences. They not only gave me the opportunity to work with world class research scientists on the NIH peer review panels, but also allowed me to present my students and my university to a national forum.
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D. Service to the Community
Besides teaching, research, and service, my remaining time is mainly devoted to: (1) biblical teaching in my church, the Chinese Christian Church in New Jersey (CCCNJ),
(2) extra-curriculum teaching at local grade schools, and (3) Chinese American student activities. I volunteered as a Sunday School Teacher at the CCCNJ for grades 4-6 between
1995 - 1998. From 1998 - 2000, I served as a substitute teacher because I had taken a Children’s Evangelism Fellowship course entitled “Teaching Children Effectively” (tce1). In September 2000, I was honored to become a certified Sunday School Teacher, grades 1-6. This academic year, I resumed my regular Sunday School Teaching responsibilities in the CCCNJ.
Because of my experience in biological science, my participation in the extra-curriculum science courses for local students is always welcome. I have presented a small portion of the biology curriculum to students at a local grade school in order to enrich their science learning. In addition, I was invited to serve as a judge at the science fair for Oak Knoll School in Summit. This service opportunity not only allowed me to reach out to their students, but also allowed me to interact with the other judges who were local scientists from various biotechnology companies.
As a parent of two American born Chinese children, I take advantage of their dual cultural foundation in raising them. I also realize that it is a challenge for them to face the cultural and social diversity and internal identity tension within themselves. To extend my care and love for my children to other American born Chinese children, I co-sponsored two workshops for Chinese American youth at the American Chinese Professional Association. During the current academic year, I am also serving as the president of the Northern New Jersey Chinese American Youth Chorale (Wha-Yin). Wha-Yin was founded in October 1989 with the goal of nurturing, enriching, and broadening the cultural horizons of children through music education. They have weekly rehearsals on Sunday, and participate in many local cultural events. This group is an active participant in many cultural events in the New Jersey area. They have also performed at charity events sponsored by the American Cancer Society, at homeless shelters, nursing homes, and the New Jersey Foundation for the Blind. Wha-Yin has been invited to attend international choir festivals, including one in Prague in 1997 and one in Canterbury in 1999. Wha-Yin believes that music is a universal language, and singing can transcend cultural barriers and communicate feelings deep in the souls of people everywhere. They sing to remind us that we are able to love and share our love. Thanks to Professor June Yoon, Director of the Asia Center at SHU, Wha-Yin has been invited to participate in the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Asia Center at Seton Hall University. It is my hope, as a Biology faculty member and Chair and Senior Fellow of the Asia Center to introduce SHU to Wha-Yin. It is also my great honor, as their President, to present Wha-Yin to Seton Hall University on April 27-28, 2002.
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