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Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences Chair of GEMS NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative Rider University 2083 Lawrenceville Road Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 609-896-5330, 895-5782 (fax) www.rider.edu/gems husch@rider.edu Dr. Husch's Curriculum Vitae (pdf) | 
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My Biography: I was born on September 21, 1953 in New York City and lived in the Rego Park section of the Borough of Queens until I left for college. I attended P.S. 206 and Stephen A. Halsey Junior High School, and graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1971. I have one older brother, Matthew, who still lives in the 4.5 room apartment (I never have figured out what half a room is) we grew up in. My mother, Sylvia (nee Greenblatt), was a secretary for various corporations until 1969 and then a business skills teacher (typing, shorthand, and computer) in the New York City Public School System, most recently at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn, until her death in 2001. My father, Joseph, was a dentist in private practice and also for the Children's Aid Society of New York City until his death in 1984. I attended Colgate University in Hamilton, NY and majored in geology. While there, I completed a senior thesis under the direction of Dr. James McLelland (aka "The Chief") on the anorthositic rocks of the southern Adirondacks near Speculator, NY. I also was on the (club) ski team for two years and I graduated in 1975 with honors in geology, magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. From 1975 until 1980 I was in residence as a graduate student, teaching assistant, and research assistant in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. I received my Masters of Science degree from Princeton in 1977 and my Ph.D. in 1982. My Ph.D. dissertation, completed under the direction of Dr. Robert Hargraves, was a comprehensive study of the petrogenesis and evolution of Paleozoic anorthosites and related granitic rocks associated with subvolcanic ring complexes, Air Massif, Republic of Niger. Field work for my dissertation involved two separate expeditions to Niger, one for five weeks and the other for three months. While there, I worked closely with Dr. Christian Moreau, then of the Universite de Niamey. In addition to Princeton, geochemical analyses were carried out at the Lunar and Planetary Institute and at the NASA Johnson Spaceflight Center, both in Houston, TX. |
| In 1978, I married Gerri Hutner, who I had known for nine years since high school and summer camp (Camp Cayuga in Schroon Lake, NY). Gerri received her BA in English from SUNY-Albany in 1975 and her Masters in English from New York University in 1977. Gerri has been the Public Information Officer/Director of Communications for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District since 1999. She also was a member of the Lawrence Township Board of Education, serving in 1995-2001 and 2005-2008. Prior to her present position, Gerri worked for 19 years as the Managing Editor of New Jersey Medicine, the monthly journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. Earlier jobs included editorial positions for New York Magazine, Berkely Publishing, and the Princeton Spectrum. Gerri and I love to travel and over the last few years we've been to Chile, London, Paris (three times, see photo), Amsterdam, Rome, Florence, Siena, Venice, and Quebec and Victoria, Canada; hopefully, Chile, to visit family, and southern Africa are next. Gerri also is a voracious reader of books and this passion led to her 15 minutes of fame. Actually it was an hour-long appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2002 as an Oprah's Book Club panel member, discussing Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, with the author and Oprah. |  |
 | Gerri and I have two sons, Benjamin (on right in photo), born in 1984, and Jared, born in 1986. Ben graduated cum laude from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2006 where he majored in economics and minored in history and international studies. Ben received his Masters in Public Policy in 2008 from Rutgers University's Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick, NJ where he was a Bloustein Fellow and a research and teaching assistant. During the summer of 2007, Ben interned in Washington D.C. with the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. Ben recently accepted a position in Washington as a Research Analyst for the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO), an affiliate of the National Governors Association. Jared graduated with honors and magna cum laude from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia in 2008 where he majored in economics and minored in environmental studies. During the summer of 2007, Jared interned in New York City with Mercer Consulting, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Inc., where he worked in their prescription drug insurance division. He presently is completing a post-baccalaureate, pre-medical program at the University of Miami with plans to go to medical school. We could not be prouder of both of them! |
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I started at Rider in 1980 and I currently hold the rank of Professor. I was appointed GEMS chair in December 2006. In addition to my primary teaching responsibilities at Rider (see below), I have been a faculty member for the Princeton-Penn-YBRA Geology Field Camp in Red Lodge, Montana. I also was a Visiting Research Scientist at Rutgers University where I continued with my ongoing research project on the geochemistry, mineralogy, and petrogenesis of Early Jurassic diabase in the Newark Basin of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In addition, I have studied the petrogenesis of Late Archean amphibolites from southwest Montana, and the ICP analysis of trace metals in marine, lacustrine, and other environmental samples, particularly those associated with the Centennial Lake Watershed Restoration Project. Over the years, I also have developed an expertise in the general area of undergraduate education in the sciences and also in the area of geologic hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, etc.), generally, and those affecting New Jersey, specifically. In the latter area, I have been utilized as a media source (including CNN, PBS, FOXNews, WWOR, AP, UPI, Voice of America, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Trenton Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian (UK), Jerusalem Post, and Singapore Strait Times) on numerous occasions.
Since 1996, I have been the Rider University NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative and, as a result, I am extremely involved in a wide variety of athletic issues and projects on campus. These include serving on NCAA Certification Self-Study Steering Committees and associated Compliance Certification Review Subcommittees, the Athletics Council, the Athletics Hall of Fame Selection Committee, the Rider University Strategic Planning Facilities Task Force, the Rider University Middle States Accreditation Institutional Resources Subcommittee, the Rider University Presidential Task Force on Alcohol, Personal Responsibility, and Student Life: Enforcement Subcommittee, numerous screening committees when hiring coaches and the Director of Athletics, and participating in many, many other committees, task forces, and projects across the University. I also represented Rider University as a member of the 2001 People to People Delegation to Cuba on Women in Sports, and have travelled recently to Costa Rica, Iceland (see photo below), and the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador as part of my team teaching for the Nature's Business course. Finally, I was honored for my teaching excellence by being selected for inclusion in the 2002 and 2007 editions of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" and for my service to the University by being awarded the 2005 Frank N. Elliot Award for Distinguished Service.
If you desire even more details about my professional activities, check out my complete Curriculum Vitae (in .pdf format). If this relatively short biography hasn't bored you yet, my CV surely will! |
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