Faculty/Staff News of Note
April 2002
Dr. Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, recently returned from Bangladesh, where he designed and conducted a research methodology workshop with faculty members from six private and public universities. Fourteen faculty members took part in the workshop, which was supported by a grant from the American Institute for Bangladesh Studies. East West University in Bangladesh provided the venue and logistics support.
The outcome of the workshop was four research proposals addressing the issue of service quality in the private and public sector organizations in Bangladesh, including such entities as the nationalized commercial banks and the Telegraph and Telephone Board. The four proposals are being funded by a consortium of private universities in support of knowledge generation. Andaleeb has been asked to serve as coordinator to assist the faculty members to complete their proposed studies.
Before leaving for Bangladesh, Andaleeb completed the fifth issue of The Journal of Bangladesh Studies (Volume 3 No. 2) that he edits. The journal generally addresses policy issues pertaining to Bangladesh, and has a growing base of patrons including prestigious U.S. academic libraries. Papers for the publication are received from scholars in various countries and are reviewed double-blind. Penn State Erie faculty members have reviewed some of the papers.
Andaleeb also had two papers accepted for presentation at the Hawaii International Conference on Business, to be held June 18-22 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The title of the first paper is "Gender Issues and Participation in Decision-Making in a Developing Country." The second paper is co-authored with Carolyn Conway, a Penn State Behrend student, who conducted an independent study with Andaleeb on restaurant service quality. The title of the paper is "Customer Satisfaction in the Restaurant Industry: An Examination of the Transaction-Specific Model."
Dr. Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, attended the Allegheny Sectional Meeting of the Mathematics Association of America to oversee research presented by students Jennifer Mendes and Benjamin Tabone. Their paper was titled "Group Rings, Cheese Wheels, and Applications." The meeting took place April 5-6 in New Liberty, West Virginia.
Dr. Sharon Dale, associate professor of art history, presented a paper, "Counting Virtues: Pietro Castellato's Funeral Oration for Giangaleazzo Visconti," at the Thirteenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, held March 16 in Sarasota, Florida. Dale also presented "The Arca di Sant' Agostino: Art at the Intersection of Religion and Politics," at the Mid-Atlantic Renaissance and Reformation Seminar held March 23 at Johns Hopkins University.
Dale will be on sabbatical in Rome, Italy, for the next academic year. While there she will present two invited lectures on the Arca di Sant'Agostino and the Visconti and Lombard Chronicles to the Medieval Seminar at Leeds University in England.
Dr. Lawrence Downey, assistant professor of mathematics, Paul D. Olson, lecturer in mathematics, and Dr. Pradeep Singh, assistant professor of statistics, attended the Allegheny Mountain Section Meeting of the Mathematics Association of America, held April 5-6 in West Liberty, West Virginia.
Dr. Gregory W. Fowler, assistant professor of literature and American studies, presented a paper, "Postmodernism: This Changes Everything!" at the College English Association annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 6, 2002.
Dr. Anthony M. Foyle, assistant professor of geology, attended the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, April 3-6. While there he presented a poster, "Developing a State-of-Knowledge Report for the Georgia Bight as Part of the South Carolina-Georgia Coastal Erosion study (Phase II): Initial Findings." He also co-authored two other posters, "Quantitative Shoreline Change Analysis of the Georgia coast from Topographic Survey Sheets," and "Quantitative Shoreline Change Analysis of the Georgia coast from Aerial Photography." Support for his travel came from South Carolina Sea Grant and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.
Dr. Diana Hume George, professor of English and women's studies, made two presentations at the Associated Writing Programs Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4-6. Her talks included "American Writers Respond to 9-11" and a discussion of ethics in essay writing.
Dr. Phylis M. Mansfield, assistant professor of marketing, presented "Anomie and Disaster in Corporate Culture: The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Ethical Climate of Market Organizations" at the Marketing Management Association Conference held March 1 in Chicago, Illinois. Mansfield received the 2002 Distinguished Paper Award, which is presented by Irwin McGraw/Hill for the best paper of the conference.
Dr. Brian O'Leary, lecturer in integrative arts, presented "Intertextuality in the Biopic: The Case of Alma Mahler-Werfel" at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, held April 12 in Toronto.
Anna Pilston, assistant librarian, has had an article, "Wireless Laptops for Library Instruction," published by Library Hi Tech News, vol. 19, no. 3, April 2002.
Dr. Mary Beth Pinto, assistant professor of marketing, is the co-author of a paper, "Patient Satisfaction with Outpatient Physical Therapy Care: Instrument Validation and Identification of Important Components," to be published in the June 2002 issue of Physical Therapy. Pinto also co-authored a paper with Dr. Diane Parente, assistant professor of management, titled "Open Access, Electronic Medical Records and Patient Satisfaction: Is Automation Better?" The paper was presented at the 2002 Production and Operations Management Society Conference, held April 5-8 in San Francisco, California.
Marjorie Podolsky, who retired last year as senior lecturer in English, received the Marion von Rosenstiel Award from the Pennsylvania College English Association at the organization's annual conference, held March 22 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The award is given "in appreciation for outstanding service."
Dr. Clare Porac, director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and professor of psychology, has received word that her paper, "The Effects of Hand Preference Side and Hand Preference Switch History on Measures of Psychological and Physical Well-being and Cognitive Performance in a Sample of Older Adult Right- and Left-handers," will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal, Neuropsychologia. Her co-author is Alan Searleman, a colleague from St. Lawrence University.
Jeanette L. Schnars, lecturer in biology, attended the Sea Turtle Symposium April 3-8 .in Miami, Florida.
On Sunday, April 7, Aquatics Director Jen Slack participated in the 20th Annual Quad Swim sponsored by Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Slack won the 100-yard event with a record-breaking time of 54.87. She broke the women's record of 56.54 set by Kelly Knaus in 1991.
Dr. Pamela Silver, associate professor of biology, is co-author of a chapter in Freshwater Meiofauna: Biology and Ecology, edited by S.D. Rundle et al. and published this year by Backhuys Publishers. Her chapter is titled "The Small Scale Ecology of Freshwater Meiofauna."
Dr. Peg Thoms, associate professor of management, traveled to Umeä University in Umeä, Sweden in April to do several presentations and work with doctoral students . Her first presentation on April 10, titled "Leadership and Time Orientation," was to faculty in the university's School of Business. Her second presentation, "Human Resource Management," was to undergraduate students in the School of Business.
Dr. Ray Venkataraman, associate professor of management, is co-author of an article that has been accepted for publication in April 2003 by the International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management. His article is titled"Relationship Between Weibull and AMSAA Models in Reliability Analysis: A Case Study."
Dr. Alfred Warner, assistant professor of management, presented "The Role of Limited- Scope Consortia in the Standardization of Complex Products" at the annual meeting of the Midwest Academy of Management, held April 19 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr. Darren M. Williams assistant professor of astronomy and physics, is the co-author of "Earth-Like Worlds on Eccentric Orbits: Excursions Beyond the Habitable Zone" published in the International Journal of Astrobiology. His co-author is David Pollard of University Park. Williams also presented "Climates of Earth-like Planets at High Obliquity" and "Locations of Extrasolar Planets Relative to the Habitable Zones Around Nearby Stars" at the Astrobiology Science Conference 2002, held April 9-11 at NASA Ames in Moffett Field, California.
An article co-authored by Dr. Chuck Yeung, associate professor of physics, was published in the American Physical Society Journal volume 87, number 4, July 2001. The article is titled "Universal Distribution of Centers and Saddles in Two-Dimensional turbulence."
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