Page 12 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • November 30, 2011 Area The PhD Project, an award-winning program to increase diversity in management, has inducted its first members into the newly-established PhD Project Hall of Fame. The inductions took place at the organization’s annual conference in Chicago. Allendale resident Bernard J. Milano, president of The PhD Project and of the KPMG Foundation based in Montvale, was among those who received this special honor. The other members are Quiester Craig, Ph.D., dean of the School of Business and Economics at North Carolina A&T State University; John A. Elliott, Ph.D., dean of the Zicklin School of Busi- PhD Project welcomes Milano into Hall of Fame ness at Baruch College; Andrew J. Policano, Ph.D., dean of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine; and Melvin T. Stith, Ph.D., dean of the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. The PhD Project Hall of Fame’s inaugural inductees were honored with statuettes at organization’s annual conference on Nov. 18. Starting in 2012, a new class of inductees will be selected annually, with supporters of The PhD Project and the public invited to submit nominations for each year’s class. The PhD Project established the Hall of Fame to recognize a select few who have Melvin T. Stith, Quiester Craig, Bernard J. Milano, John A. Elliott, and Andrew J. Policano. inspired many. These individuals have sustained an unwavering commitment to The PhD Project’s mission and their positive leadership has resulted in significant encouragement and impact within the project’s network of minority business doctoral students and faculty. Since the project began in 1994, the number of minority faculty in U.S. university business schools has increased from 294 to 1,113 and there are 377 minority business doctoral students who will become faculty over the next few years. These doctoral students and faculty are role models and mentors attracting minority students to the study of business, thereby enhancing the talent pool available to corporate America. Milano lives in Allendale with his wife, Sharon, and sons Matthew, a junior at Brown, and Adam, who will be a freshman at Middlebury College this fall. Milano has four older children and six grandchildren. For more information visit: http://www.phdproject.org or contact Lisa King at (646) 234-5080 or lisak@mediaimpact.biz. PSE&G (continued from page 6) Purchase and wrap an insulation blanket around the tank of your water heater. Wrap the outlet pipe with inexpensive flexible insulating tubing to reduce the time it takes for hot water to reach your shower. Set your hot water heater to no more than 120 degrees. Move furniture and drapes away from heating registers, radiators, and baseboard element covers. Open any register or baseboard dampers. Cover window air conditioners to reduce drafts. Install insulated or lined drapes on windows. Use weather stripping or one-sided sticky tape to seal cracks and prevent drafts in windows and doorframes. Caulk smaller gaps. Beneath doors, install draft guards available at hardware stores. Use a shrink film insulation kit on really drafty windows or make one yourself from plastic sheeting and doublefaced tape. Seal wall switches and electrical outlets with small foam gaskets available at hardware stores. Remove the cover plate, insert the gasket, and screw the cover plate back in place. If you have a door leading outside from your basement, hang a full-size sheet of plastic from the door frame to keep heat from escaping. Seal windows in the basement with plastic to create a barrier against the cold. Make sure to allow enough air supply to feed your fuel-burning appliances safely. If the garage is attached to the house, be sure to keep the garage door closed. Install a programmable thermostat that can be set to automatically lower room temperatures when rooms are not in use and at bedtime if health conditions permit. Visit PSE&G’s Home Energy Toolkit at www.pseg. com/toolkit to calculate the energy efficiency of your home and learn how to save energy and money on appliances and heating systems.