Faculty/Staff News of Note
April 2003
Dr. Joseph E. Paullet, associate professor of mathematics, presented "Animating Solutions of Differential Equations" on April 4 at the meeting of the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Dr. Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, has been invited by the secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Bangladesh to provide his expertise and experience in developing a healthcare delivery system in that country. He will help in developing the nation's next "sector program," a five-year perspective on health, nutrition, and population issues. While on sabbatical during the 2003-2004 academic year, Andaleeb will work in the Health Economics Unit of the Ministry. Bangladesh is a country of 130 million people in an area 144,000 square kilometers―an area about the size of Wisconsin. While in Bangladesh, Andaleeb will teach research methods workshops and conduct research on healthcare delivery to the most vulnerable.
Dr. G. William Baxter, associate professor of physics, Dr. Anthony Foyle, assistant professor of geology, Dr. Martin Kociolek, assistant professor of chemistry, Dr. Roger Knacke, director, School of Science, Ron McCarty, instructor in computer science, and Dr. James T. Warren Jr., assistant professor of biology, attended a Project Kaleidoscope workshop titled Planning Facilities for Science at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, April 10-13. Project Kaleidoscope is an informal national alliance working to build strong learning environments for undergraduate students in mathematics, engineering, and the various fields of science.
Dr. Michael E. Brown, assistant professor of management, co-authored a paper titled "A Qualitative Investigation of Perceived Executive Ethical Leadership: Perceptions From Inside and Outside the Executive Suite" that was recently published in the journal Human Relations.
Dr. Chris Coulston, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently had his paper, "Steiner Minimal Trees in a Hexagonally Partitioned Space" accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of The International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design.
Dr. Chris Coulston also presented a paper, "Constructing Exact Octagonal Steiner Minimal Trees" at the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI in Washington, D.C. on April 28 and 29. His paper received "Best Paper" awarded by the conference's technical program committee.
Anne Danielski, education and maritime specialist with Pennsylvania Sea Grant, was responsible for the concept and content development of the "Newspapers in Education" insert in the Erie Times-News on April 15.
Dr. Ralph Ford, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been appointed as a program evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). After completing evaluator training this spring, he will start evaluating electrical and computer engineering programs next fall.
Dr. Archie Loss, professor of English and American studies and interim director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, has signed an agreement with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for print-on-demand of two of his books which have been out of print for some time. This will make it possible for scholars and libraries to acquire new copies. The books are W. Somerset Maugham, originally published by Frederick Ungar in 1987, and Of Human Bondage: Coming of Age in the Novel, originally published by Twayne Publishers in 1990.
Dr. Loss also presented a paper, " 'We Did Our Best with the Roles You Gave Us': Hollywood and African American Stereotypes in 1960s Films," as part of the Diversity Panel session on the construction of American identity at the thirty-fourth annual national meeting of the College English Association, St. Petersburg, Florida on April 3-5.
Dr. Al Warner, assistant professor of management, presented "Do Technology Acquisitions Substitute for Exploration? Data from the Information and Telecommunications Industry 1995-2000" on April 5 at the Midwest Academy of Management in St. Louis, Missouri. He was also named an outstanding reviewer for the conference.
Dr. Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, presented a lecture titled "Do Normal Subgroups Have Straight Tails?" and Chuck Burchard, instructor in computer science, presented a lecture titled "Russian Peasant Multiplication and an Efficient Algorithm for Division" at the Allegheny Mountain MAA Section's annual spring meeting in DuBois, Pennsylvania. Also attending were David Falvo, lecturer in mathematics, Andrew George, lecturer in mathematics, Paul Olson, lecturer in mathematics, Dr. Amos Ong, lecturer in mathematics, Dr. Joseph Previte, assistant professor of mathematics, Dr. Michelle Previte, assistant professor of mathematics, and Dr. Scott Stevens, assistant professor of mathematics.
Dr. Phylis Mansfield, assistant professor of marketing, Dr. Mary Beth Pinto, associate professor marketing, and Dr. Diane Parente, assistant professor of management, are co-authors of "Self Control and Credit Card Use Among College Students," a paper that will be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Reports.
Dr. Ido Millet, associate professor of MIS, had a book chapter "Managing Document Taxonomies in Relational Databases," published in the book Effective Databases for Text & Document Management.
Dr. Brian O'Leary, lecturer of Integrative Arts, presented "Sameness and Difference in Letter from an Unknown Woman and Madame de .: An Exercise in Applied Functional Semiotics" on March 28 at the Max Ophuls beyond Borders conference in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Dr. Clare Porac, professor of psychology, and Alan Searleman, professor psychology at St. Lawrence University, had a paper accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the journal Brain and Cognition. The article is titled "Lateral Preference Profiles and Right Shift Attempt Histories of Consistent and Inconsistent Left-Handers."
Carla Torgerson, instructional designer, attended the Wings to the Future: Teaching Strategies to Grow Life-Long Learning conference, hosted by the Teaching and Learning Consortium of Penn State Altoona. Torgerson and Ron DelPorto, lecturer in computer science, presented a session titled "Applying Mastery Learning Using ANGEL."
Dr. Darren Williams, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and D. Pollard had a paper accepted to appear in the International Journal of Astrobiology titled "Extraordinary Climates of Earth-like Planets: Three-Dimensional Climate Simulations at Extreme Obliquity."
Kevin Norton, lecturer in geology, presented a paper at the meeting of the Geological Society of America, Northeast Section, titled "100 Years of Coastal Change from a Dynamic Strandplain System at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania: Shoreface Changes Revealed Using GIS Analysis." Co-authors were Dr. Anthony Foyle, assistant professor of geology, and student Adam Tarr.
Dr. Clare Porac, professor of psychology, gave two presentations at the meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association in Baltimore, Maryland. The presentations were titled "Exploring the Effects of Shifting the Functional Fovea on the Components of the Mueller-Lyer Illusion" with Alan Searleman and Brian Hetzel of St. Lawrence University and "Changing the Strength of the Horizontal/Vertical Illusion by Altering the Placement of the Functional Fovea" with Alan Searleman and Leah Brzuszkiewicz of St. Lawrence University.
Dr. Margaret Voss, assistant professor of biology, attended the meeting of the Society for College Science Teachers sponsored by the National Science Teachers Convention. Voss is the newsletter editor for the Society for College Science Teachers.
Dr. Thomas Wortman, special projects assistant to the CEO and Dean, was the keynote speaker at the Pennsylvania College Personnel Association's (PCPA) Keystone Seminar in March in California, Pennsylvania. Presenting with Wortman were Dr. Zachary Irwin, associate professor of political science, Ken Miller, director of Student Affairs, and Debbie Hayes, staff assistant, Student Affairs. The presentation was titled "International Students' Needs and the State of the World Today." Miller is the president-elect of PCPA.
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