Jeffrey Senese

President’s Office
President

Email: [email protected]
Office: 973-618-3547
Location: Werner 312
Office Location: Werner Hall

Dr. Senese was the chief innovation officer at Corvus Education in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and he previously served as president of Saint Leo University in Florida and as a provost and vice president for academic affairs at several institutions. He was a faculty member at Indiana University and the University of Baltimore, where he was tenured. For more than a decade, he has engaged in extensive research with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Defense on use of force and other topics. Dr. Senese was also a tenured faculty member and served as the chief academic officer of one of the Penn State campuses. President Senese has extensive international work experience in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and South Africa. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Penn State, a master’s degree from Indiana State, and a Ph.D. in criminal justice/research methods/statistics from Michigan State. He completed the Institute for Higher Education Management and the President’s Institute at Harvard University, the Academic Management Institute at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems in Boulder, Colorado, and the Penn State University Leadership Academy. He earned certificates in fundraising from the University of Pennsylvania and Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. He has published a methods book, dozens of articles in professional publications, and delivered papers, book chapters, and other works. Dr. Senese is a member of the President’s Council for the Central Atlantic Athletic Conference, and a member of the New Jersey President’s Council and the Independent Colleges and University of New Jersey President’s Council. He previously served on the boards of the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce, including service on the Executive Committee, the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation, the Sunshine State Conference President’s Council serving as the president’s council chair, Enterprise Florida, and the Urban League of Milwaukee. He has been recognized by the State of Maryland, the City of Baltimore, and the Baltimore City Council for his contributions during nearly a decade of service in that community, and received the key to the City of Tampa for his contributions.
Dr. Senese and his wife, Alicia, have two adult children, Mia Senese of Tampa, Florida, and Daniel Senese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kelly Sepe

Athletics
Administrative Assistant

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3260
FAX: 973-618-3370
Office Location: Newman Center, Athletic Suite

Kelly Sepe begins her ninth year as the administrative assistant in Caldwell University Athletics in 2024-25.

She lives in West Caldwell with her husband Ron and two sons, Adam and Cooper.

Melissa Sepe

Nursing and Public Health
Instructor

Email: [email protected]
Office: 973-618-3000 x3159
Office Location: Student Center, Nursing Department Offices

Office:
Mon: 9:00am – 11:00am
Tues: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Wed: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Fri: By appointment

Melissa Sepe, APN, RN is clinical faculty in the School of Nursing and Public Health. She earned her MA in nursing from New York University and BSN from Villanova University. She has many years of experience in nursing having worked as a Nurse Practitioner in adult cardiology and Registered Nurse in adult intensive care, the emergency department, neonatal intensive care and elementary school health.

Kelly Sepe

Athletics
Assistant Director of Athletics, Academics & Student-Athlete Support Services

Marist College Master of Arts – Educational Psychology

Bachelor of Arts – Psychology/Special Education/Elementary Education

Stephen Shaw

Business and Computer Science
Adjunct Lecturer

Email: [email protected]

B.S. Caldwell University

M.S. Caldwell University

Brian Shube

Business and Computer Science
Adjunct Lecturer

Email: [email protected]

B.S. Hofstra University

M.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tina Sidener

Applied Behavior Analysis
Professor, Clinical Supervisor

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3539
Office Location: Center for Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis, Room 5

Education Background:

Ph. D. in Psychology from Western Michigan University

Brief Bio/Professional Experience:

Tina M. Sidener, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA(NY) is a professor in the Applied Behavior Analysis department at Caldwell University and Clinical Supervisor in the Caldwell University Center for Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Western Michigan University in 2006 under the mentorship of Dr. Jim Carr and completed a pre-doctoral internship at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sidener has over 20 years of experience providing ABA services and conducting research with individuals with developmental disabilities. She has served on the board of and published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, Behavioral Interventions, Education and Treatment of Children, and Behavior Analysis in Practice. Her clinical and research interests include teaching verbal behavior and play skills to children with autism spectrum disorder and establishing natural stimulus and reinforcer control.

Additional Duties:

Clinical Supervisor, Center for Autism and ABA

Teaching Interests & Courses Taught:

Language and Social Skills for Individuals with Autism, Motivational Systems and Reinforcement, Assessment and Treatment of Stereotypy, Professionalism for Behavior Analysts, Play Interventions for Children with Autism

Current Research (description of interests): establishing conditioned reinforcers, assessment and treatment of stereotypy, teaching verbal behavior and play skills to children with autism

Selected publications:

Kahlow, T., Sidener, T. M., Kisamore, A. N., & Reeve, K. F. (in press). Teaching the mand “when?” to children with autism spectrum disorder. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior.

Sainsbury, E. L., Sidener, T. M., Taylor-Santa, C., Reeve, K. F., & Sidener, D. W. (in press). A discrimination training procedure to establish praise as a conditioned reinforcer for children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Kay, J. C., Kisamore, A. N., Vladescu, J. C., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, K. F., & Taylor-Santa, C. (in press). Effects of exposure to prompts on the acquisition of intraverbals in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Gomes, S. R., Reeve, S. A., Brothers, K. J., Reeve, K. R., & Sidener, T. M. (2019). Establishing a generalized repertoire of initiating bids for joint attention in children with autism. Behavior Modification, online first. doi: 10.1177/0145445518822499

Szmacinski, N., DeBar, R. M., Sidener, T. M., & Sidener, D. W. (2018). Using an interrupted behavior chain and volume fading to teach manding. The Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 30, 653–668. doi: 10.1007/s10882-018-9610-4

Shnell, L. K., Sidener, T. M., DeBar, R. M., Vladescu, J. C., & Kahng, S. (2018). Effects of computer based training on procedural modifications to standard functional analyses. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 51, 87-98. doi: 10.1002/jaba.423

Johnson, K., Vladescu, J. C., Kodak, T., Sidener, T. M., & Giannakakos, A. (2017). An assessment of differential reinforcement procedures for learners with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 50, 290-303. doi: 10.1002/jaba.372

Bord, S., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, K. F., & Sidener, D. W. (2017). Teaching on-task rollerblading and ice-skating to a child with autism. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 10, 178–182. doi: 10.1007/s40617-016-0150-z

Cirelli, C. A., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, S. A., & Reeve, K. F. (2016). Using activity schedules to increase on-task behavior of children at-risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Education and Treatment of Children, 39, 283-300.

Pane, H. M., Sidener, T. M., Vladescu, J. C., & Nirgudkar, A. (2015). Evaluating function-based Social Stories™ with children with autism. Education and Treatment of Children. doi: 10.1177/0145445515603708

Somers, A. S., Sidener, T. M., DeBar, R. A., & Sidener, D. W. (2014). Establishing stimulus control of mands for items and mands for information in children with autism. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 30, 29-35. doi: 10.1007/s40616-014-0007-x

Taylor-Santa, C., Sidener, T. M., Carr, J. E., & Reeve, K. F. (2014). Evaluation of a discrimination training procedure to establish conditioned reinforcers for children with autism. Behavioral Interventions, 29, 157–176. doi: 10.1002/bin.1384

Rader, L., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, K. F., Sidener, D. W., Delmolino, L., Miliotis, A., & Carbone, V. (2014). Stimulus -stimulus pairing of vocalizations: A systematic replication. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 30, 69-74. doi: 10.1007/s40616-014-0012-0

Miliotis, A., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, K. F., Carbone, V., Sidener, D. W., Rader, L., & Delmolino, L. (2012). Stimulus-stimulus pairing of vocalizations: Evaluation of number of presentations of target sound per trial. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 45, 809–813. doi: 10.9101/jaba.2012.45-809

Saylor, S., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, S. A., Fetherston, A., Progar, P. R. (2012). Effects of three types of noncontingent auditory stimulation on vocal stereotypy in children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 45, 185-190. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-185

Howlett, M., Sidener, T. M., Sidener, D. W., & Progar, P. R. (2012). Manipulation of motivating operations and use of a script fading procedure to teach mands for information about location to children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44, 943-948.

Cassella, M., Sidener, T. M., Sidener, D. W., & Progar, P. R. (2011). Response interruption and redirection as treatment for vocal stereotypy in children with autism: A systematic replication. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44, 169-173.

Sidener, T. M., Carr, J. E., Firth, A. M., Heinicke, M. R., & Cornelius, C. E. (2010). Effects of single versus multiple verbal operant arrangements on the acquisition of mands and tacts in preschool children. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 26, 26, 15-30.

Kaplan-Reimer, H., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, K. F., & Sidener, D. W. (2010). Evaluating a stimulus control fading procedure to teach indoor rock climbing to children with autism. Behavioral Interventions, 26, 1-22.

Stevens, C., Sidener, T. M., Reeve, S. A., & Sidener, D. W. (2010). Effects of behavior-specific and general praise on acquisition of tacts in children with pervasive developmental disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5, 666-669.

Sidener, T. M., Shabani, B. D., Carr, J. E., & Roland, J. P. (2006). An evaluation of strategies to maintain manding at practical levels. Research in Developmental Disabilities,27, 632-644.

Sidener, T. M., Carr, J. E., & Firth, A. M. (2005). Superimposition and withholding of edible consequences as treatment for automatically reinforced stereotypy. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 38, 121-124.

Patrick Sime

Mathematics
Professor and Chair

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3518
FAX: 973-618-3365

B.A. Rutgers University

Ph.D. University of Maryland

Marc Siravo

Business and Computer Science
Adjunct Instructor

Phone: 973-618-3255

MBS, CISSIP, CISA

Education
B.S., Stockton University
M.B.A., Seton Hall University

Stephanie Sitnick

Academic Support Services
Assistant Vice President for Academic Support Services

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3491
Location: Aquinas Hall 102
Office Location: Aquinas Hall 109

Education:
BS in Special Education from The College of New Jersey
MS in Child Development from the University of California Davis
PhD in Human Development from the University of California Davis

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0HgP19kAAAAJ

Dr. Stephanie Sitnick is the Assistant Vice President for Academic Support Services at Caldwell University, where she is a key leader in student success and retention. She oversees a wide array of support and retention services, including Academic Advising, Accessibility Services, Academic Coaching, Tutoring and Writing Support, the EOF program, and the office of Career Planning and Development. A passionate advocate for equity, Dr. Sitnick is also the co-director and one of the founders of the Caldwell University Social Justice Institute, established in 2020. Prior to her current role, she served as a faculty member, Associate Dean of the School of Psychology and Counseling, Honors Program co-director, and a special education teacher, grounding her work in the principles of Human Development, the field in which she earned her PhD from the University of California, Davis. When she is not advocating for students, she enjoys unwinding by hiking and cooking with her family.

Elizabeth (Libby) Skinner

Academic Support Services, School of Education, Student Support Services
Accessibility Services Coordinator, Academic Success Center, Adjunct Lecturer

Email: [email protected]
phone: 973-618-3645
FAX: 973-618-3488
Office Location: Aquinas Hall, Academic Success Center

Mrs. Elizabeth (Libby) Skinner has a B.A. from the University of Denver, an M.A. from Montclair State University and an M.A.A. from Caldwell University. She began her career teaching reading in the Denver Public Schools. Upon moving to New Jersey in 1971, she worked briefly in the Caldwell Public Schools. After pausing to have her children she worked in the Verona Public Schools for 32 years before retiring in 2015. Mrs. Skinner has taught both general education and special education in preschool through 12th grade. While working in Verona she was a classroom teacher, an LDT-C, a Supervisor of Special Education and a Director of Special Services. Mrs. Skinner has been an adjunct lecturer with the School of Education at Caldwell University since 2013 and accepted the position of Director of Accessibility Services in February, 2020. In her leisure time, Mrs. Skinner enjoys traveling, reading and spending time with her family, especially her eight grandchildren.

Stacey Solomon

Counseling
Professor

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3387
Office Location: Werner Hall, 330

Education

B.S., Rider University
M.A., Kean University
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Dr. Stacey Solomon has been teaching at Caldwell University for over 20 years. She holds a School Counselor Certification for the State of New Jersey and is a licensed professional counselor. Dr. Solomon teaches and utilizes a strengths-based, collaborative and compassionate approach to counseling. She has experience working with children, adolescents and adults and enjoys working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Solomon received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of Virginia.

Marjorie Squires

Natural Sciences
Professor of Chemistry

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3612
Office Location: Albertus Magnus Hall, Room 204B

Education

BA Chemistry from Gettysburg College
PhD Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry from Boston College
Post Doctoral Fellow at SUNY at Stony Brook with Dr. Andreas Mayr

Teaching chemistry for 25 years. Course taught: General Chemistry I and II with laboratories, Analytical Chemistry with laboratories, Spectroscopic Determination, Polymer Chemistry, Forensic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Principles of chemistry with laboratories, Food, Clothing, and Shelter, Our Material World with laboratories, Instrumental Analysis with laboratories, Coordination Chemistry.
The institutions these courses were taught were Montclair State University, Felican (College) University, and Caldwell University.

Conducting research in the synthesis and characterization of inorganic/organometallic complexes. Mentor students independent research projects.

Member of the American Chemical Society and mentor of the student chapter a Caldwell University.

Mary Joan Stiuso

Counseling Services
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Email: [email protected]
Office Phone: 973-618-3319
FAX: 973-618-3540

I have been a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner for over 30 years and have worked in many various capacities. After receiving my Master’s from Columbia University and subsequently becoming a Board Certified Psychiatric/ Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurse (NP), I worked in research at the NY Psychiatric Institute and then for Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center establishing the first Childhood Depression/ Suicide Clinic. After my move to NJ, I worked in Community Mental Health Centers, private practice and for Bergen County Department of Human Services. My work with Bergen County has been the greatest professional achievement in my life. Shortly after beginning this work, I saw clients in the Juvenile Justice System, the Youth Shelter and several other programs including our AFT and Substance Abuse Program, but the most significant work has been with the Venture Program. This program is a middle and high school program for emotionally disabled and psychiatrically involved youth. I had a big part in the development and evolution of the program over the past 24 years. I also provided evaluation, medication management, group and individual therapy to students, as well as, intake and discharge plans, supervision of clinical staff and interns, consultation and education to academic staff and risk assessments. Serving the youth of Bergen County and surrounding communities has been a great honor

I maintain my Board Certification and ANCC Accreditation along with NJ licenses as an RN and an Advanced Practice Nurse with Prescriptive Authority.

It is my pleasure to embark on this new role at Caldwell University and I hope I can provide a very meaningful contribution.

Cindy Striano

Health Services
Executive Director

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3319
FAX: 973-618-3540
Office Location: Newman Center

Cindy Striano has more than 40 years of experience in professional nursing and healthcare administration. Having worked in acute care, private surgical practice, hospital administration, nursing education, and many other facets of nursing, she developed a love for working with college-aged students when she began working part-time over thirty years ago at Caldwell University. Her passion became assisting college students to be successful academically by providing care that removed any health barriers while educating students to be self-advocates and educated healthcare consumers. She is a member of the New Jersey College Health Association and the NJ State Nurses Association. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Nursing Education.

In her personal life, she is a wife, a mother to two grown children who continued in the healthcare professions of Dentistry and Orthopaedic surgery, a grandmother to an adorable grandson, and a dog mom to Phoebe. She loves to read, travel, and is a foodie who loves to cook.

Daniel Summer

Counseling
Assistant Professor

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3511

Dr. Dan Summer is an assistant professor of Art Therapy in the department of Psychology and Counseling. Dan completed his master’s degree in creative arts therapy at Hofstra University in 1997. Most recently he earned a Ph.D. in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University and is a licensed, board-certified art therapist in New York. His previous clinical experiences include working on an inpatient psychiatric unit with adults living with chronic mental illness and most recently in an outpatient setting providing group and individual therapy to children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances. Dan graduated from Institute for Arts in Psychotherapies with a certificate in the drama therapy method developmental transformations and is taking classes in New Jersey to ultimately become licensed as a professional counselor in New Jersey.

Education
BA Adelphi University
MA Hofstra University
Ph.D. Lesley University
Professional Certifications
ATR-BC, LCAT Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (New York) Board-Certified
Ph.D. Doctorate in Philosophy-Expressive Therapies

Professional Affiliations
American Art Therapy Association
New Jersey Art Therapy Association board member
New York Coalition of Creative Arts Therapists

Publications
Burch, Summer, Ward, Watt, and Feldman (2019). Qualitative data from a mixed-methods study of resilience in ENACT’s therapeutic theatre process show UP! Drama Therapy Review 5(1), 117-138.
Summer. D. (2009) An introduction to Developmental Transformations. In (Ed. Dellapietra. L.) Perspectives on Creativity. pp. 109-121. Cambridge Scholars
Summer, D. (2007). Honoring Timothy’s spirit: Mural making to express, process, and overcome grief and loss. In (Ed. Camilleri, V.A.). Healing the inner city child: Creative arts therapies with at-risk youth. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Special interests
Expressive Therapies Summit- Presenter and participant

Victoria Swanson

Library
Library Director

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3311
FAX: 973-618-3360
Office Location: Jennings Library

Victoria has a BA from Seton Hall University and an MLS from Pratt Institute. She has worked in small and large corporate libraries, an internet start-up and academic libraries. She enjoys working with students the most.

Christine Szeluga

Career Planning and Development
Assistant Director

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3306
FAX: 973-618-3425
Office Location: Aquinas Hall, 109

Christine M. Szeluga is a Career Advisement professional who works with students and alumni in career exploration and planning, securing internships, job searches and coordinates programs to enable students to navigate these processes. After spending almost two decades working for professional associations both in New York and New Jersey, as an education manager, Christine joined Caldwell in September 2008 as Assistant Director, Career Planning & Development. Over more than fifteen of service to the university, she has worked with hundreds of students and alumni to find their careers and achieve professional success.

Larry Szycher

Visual Art and Design
Professor

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3521

B.A. Jersey City State College

M.F.A. University of Maryland

Anna Taggart

Enrollment Management and Communications
Graphic Designer

Email: [email protected]
Office: 973-618-3209
Location: Newman Center – Office of Graduate Admissions

Anna graduated with honors from Parsons School of Design in 2022. She has experience working as a graphic designer for small companies based in NJ.

Christopher Tamburro

Education
Adjunct Lecturer

Email: [email protected]
Office Location: Visceglia Hall

Office:
Mon: 3:15pm to 7pm
Tues: 3:15pm to 7pm
Wed: 3:15pm to 7pm
Thurs: 3:15pm to 7pm
Fri: 3:15pm to 7pm

Dr. Tamburro currently serves as the mayor of the Township of Verona. He was elected to the Township Council in 2021 before being selected as mayor in 2023. Concurrently, Dr. Tamburro has been a high school teacher for the Verona Public Schools since 2008, specializing in history, political science, economics, and law.

Dr. Tamburro has been a UniServ consultant for the New Jersey Education Association since 2016, where he manages various labor-related matters. In 2024, Dr. Tamburro and two partners leveraged their labor expertise to establish Representation Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in collective negotiations, contract enforcement, and strategic planning for public sector unions, including those representing first responders. The same year, Dr. Tamburro was appointed an adjunct lecturer of education at Caldwell University, teaching a course in the Ph.D./Ed.D. program on public-private administration.

Dr. Tamburro received a Bachelor of Arts in political science with a minor in law and criminal justice from The College of New Jersey, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Doctor of Letters in historical studies and fine art and media studies from Drew University in 2019. Dr. Tamburro’s holds an educational supervisor certificate after taking completing coursework at Montclair State University in 2012. He completed the three-summer residential James Madison Program on Constitutional Ideals and Principles at Princeton University.

Dr. Tamburro serves as the vice president of the New Jersey Council for History Education and is a member of the Professional Consultants Association. Dr. Tamburro was president of the Verona Education Association from 2014 to 2022. He is also a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society and Pi Sigma Alpha. He was honored as a distinguished educator by Springfield College in 2023.

Besides his work-related endeavors, Dr. Tamburro’s commitment to community service and emergency management includes serving as a deputy emergency management coordinator for the Township of Verona since 2014 and a member of the Verona Rescue Squad since 2009. He is a former chief of the Long Valley First Aid Squad Inc., assistant EMS chief in Verona, and a deputy emergency medical services coordinator for the Essex County Sheriff’s Department Office of Emergency Management.

Melissa Tarantula

Business and Computer Science
Project Manager

Email: [email protected]
phone: 973-618-3515
Office Location: Werner Hall Room 222

Melissa Tarantula is the ACBSP Accreditation and Assessment Coordinator within the School of Business and Computer Science. She earned a Master of Business Administration with a Global Business concentration from Caldwell University. She has a Bachelor of Science in Finance and minors in Spanish and International Business from The Pennsylvania State University (University Park). She helps manage a variety of initiatives within the school including program development, advisement, assessment and accreditation, recruitment and retention, event planning and operations, and international study trips.

Joseph Testa

Business and Computer Science
Adjunct Professor

Email: [email protected]
Office Location: Werner Hall

Education:

B.S., Seton Hall University
M.B.A., Caldwell University

Bio:

Professor Testa is a graduate of Seton Hall University, where he studied Business Administration, with a concentration in Marketing. He went on to graduate with his Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) from Caldwell University. Professor Testa currently teaches undergraduate courses in the School of Business and Computer Science, within areas of Business Communications and Leadership. Professor Testa is also an active member of the Caldwell University Alumni Board.

Rachel Thomas

Applied Behavior Analysis
Adjunct Instructor

Email: [email protected]
Office Location: Werner Hall

Rachel earned her PhD in ABA from Caldwell University and her MS degrees in ABA & OBM from FL Tech. Currently, she aims to disseminate behavior analysis in the area of project management & has a research line in the area of public speaking.

Arnold Toffler

Business and Computer Science
Assistant Professor

Email: [email protected]

M.P.A. Wharton Graduate Division, University of Pennsylvania, 1974

M.A. Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1974

B.A. English Literature, Lehigh University, 1969

Gregory Tortoriello

Psychology
Assistant Professor

Email: [email protected]
Location: Student Center 286

Ph.D., Experimental (Social) Psychology, The University of Alabama

M.A., Experimental (Social) Psychology, The University of Alabama

B.A., Psychology, Miami University—Oxford

Dr. Tortoriello is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Caldwell University. He earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from The University of Alabama specializing in social psychology and statistics. His previous experience includes working in higher education as a college professor and in the public sector doing research analytics for an educational consulting firm.

Dr. Tortoriello studies personality elements and expressions under various social conditions. This framework of study has prompted re-examinations of personality constructs with prominent moral and prosocial implications, such as psychopathy, and their underlying features (e.g., manipulation, impulsivity, lack of empathy, lack of guilt). Are these features, and hence psychopathy, accurately represented theoretically and empirically? Can psychopathic people behave in morally consistent, or even morally superior, ways? In what circumstances are psychopathic people the most helpful?

Dr. Tortoriello is passionate about undergraduate teaching and training students to evaluate psychologically-based problems using the scientific method. In this vein, he operates a student-focused discussion group, Curious Scientists, which is dedicated to discussing and examining everyday observations, personal experiences, contemporary issues, and media through a scientific framework.

Sherri Treasurywala

Business and Computer Science
Assistant Professor

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 973-618-3451
FAX: 973-618-3355

Dr. Sherri Treasurywala teaches classes in global business, healthcare, strategy, supply chain and marketing. Dr Treasurywala earned her PhD, and an MBA from Cornell University.

Lily Tsoi

Psychology
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Honors Program

Email: [email protected]
Office Phone #: (973) 618-3910
Office Location: Werner Hall, 120

B.A. in Neuroscience, Wellesley College
Ph.D. in Psychology (specialization in Cognitive Neuroscience), Boston College
Postdoctoral training, Princeton University

Dr. Tsoi is an assistant professor at Caldwell University. In addition to teaching advanced psychology courses, she conducts research and loves giving students opportunities to get involved. Her research uses survey methods, behavioral methods, and neuroimaging methods to understand how the brain supports social interactions and to uncover features of social interactions that promote social connection between people.

Dr. Tsoi is also the Co-Director of the Honors Program, the faculty advisor of Psychology Club and the Caldwell chapter of Psi Chi (the student honor society in Psychology), as well as the President-elect of the Caldwell chapter of Phi Kappa Phi (multidisciplinary honor society promoting scholarly excellence).

In her free time, Dr. Tsoi enjoys trying out recipes on cooking blogs, exploring different neighborhoods, and visiting family and friends in NYC.