Faculty/Staff News of Note
April 2005
Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, recently completed editing the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. She edited Volume 17, the proceedings of the thirtieth annual meeting held July 9-11 at Clare College in Cambridge, England. This is the third volume she has edited.
Diane H. Parente, associate professor of management, was elected Professional Development Workshop Chair for the Operations Management Division of the Academy of Management, a leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. This position is the first of a five-year commitment by Parente to the service of the Academy, moving through to the position of Division Chair. Founded in 1936 by two professors, the Academy of Management is the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world. Today, the Academy is the professional home for 15,061 members from 91 nations. The Operations Management Division is home for empirical operations management researchers and is more than thirty years old.
Gary Viebranz, lecturer in music and director of instrumental ensembles, presented a clinic session titled "Unspeakable Acts: Conditioning Your Ensemble to 'Talk Back' to the Podium" at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Region II Orchestra Festival, held at McDowell High School on March 11.
Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, will present an invited talk in the Quality of Care Research Seminar Series at Harvard University's School of Public Health on Tuesday, May 17. His topic is "When Doctors Fail: Improving and Sustaining Medical Care Quality in Bangladesh." Andaleeb also has had a paper accepted for presentation at the June 18 Marketing Science Conference at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His paper, titled "Service Quality Evaluation: An information Economics Approach, " is co-authored with Professor Amiya Basu at Syracuse University.
Archie Loss, professor of English and American studies, was a visiting scholar at the University of Jaen, Spain, during March. On March 14 he presented a lecture on "Humanities Research in the Digital Future" and on March 15 a seminar on current research in Joyce studies. He also attended an international meeting of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS), which took place March 16 to 18 at the University of Jaen. During his visit he met with the vice president for International Relations and the chair of the English philology department at the university to discuss the development of a student and faculty exchange program. The University of Jaen, located in Andalucia in southern Spain, has 15,000 students and academic programs from undergraduate to doctoral levels. Archie's visit to Jaen was funded in part by a grant from Penn State's Global Fund.
Teresa Caruso, lecturer in English, presented a paper titled, "Look into my Eyes: The Courtship of Mary Elizabeth," at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania College English Association, April 7-9, 2005 in Gettysburg, Pa.
Matt Davies, assistant professor of political science, attended the forty-sixth annual convention of the International Studies Association, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1-5. While there he presented a paper titled "Everyday Life and the Global Political Economy: Beyond the Impasse Between Post-structuralism and Historical Materialism?" on the panel "Experiencing Globality: Phenomenological Approaches Toward Analyses of Global Politics." Davies also presented "Everyday Life and the Global Political Economy: Beyond the Impasse between Post-Structuralism and Historical Materialism?" at a workshop at the Université du Québec à Montréal, organized by CEPES - Centre D'études des Politiques étrangères et de Securité and by the Institut D'études Internationales de Montréal. The workshop was on "Gender, Security and Insecurity," and was held on April 1.
James Kurre, associate professor of economics, and Michael Hammill, graduate research assistant for the Economic Research Institute of Erie, presented a paper titled "Estimating the Spatial Cost of Living for Areas without Primary Price Data" at the Forty-fourth Annual Meetings of the Southern and Mid-Continent Regional Science Associations in Arlington, Va., on April 7. At the meetings Kurre also served as the discussant on a paper dealing with business climate rankings by three researchers from Iowa State University. Hammill is the first-ever graduate research assistant in the Black School of Business and will be receiving his M.B.A. in May. This paper is on result of a summer undergraduate research grant from the college last year.
Clare Porac, professor of psychology, presented an invited address to the psychology department of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, on Monday, April 4. Her talk was titled "Switching Hand Preference from Right to Left: Hows and Whys."
Scott Stevens, assistant professor of mathematics, had his article titled "Modeling Steady-State Intracranial Pressures in Supine, Head-down Tilt, and Microgravity Conditions" published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 76, No. 4, 2005). His co-authors are William D. Lakin and Paul L. Penar of the University of Vermont.
David Waples, lecturer in speech communication, has had his book, The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia: A History from the First Discovery to the Maturity of the Industry, published by McFarland Publishing Company
Andy Herrera, director of Educational Equity and Diversity Programs, recently presented "What is Culture? Sensitivity to Diverse Groups" at the university-wide Student Affairs staff development program at University Park.
School of Science staff members Lisa Harrington and Kathy Mauro (a.k.a. Blondes 'R' Us) would like to send a big "thank you" to everyone who donated money for "bail" to release them from jail (or perhaps keep them in) and to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The team raised over $600, enough to send a child to summer camp.
Bill Baxter, associate professor of physics, presented "Experiments on Driven Granular Gases and Comparisons to Kinetic Theory" at the American Physical Society's New York State Section Spring Symposium, held April 15-16 at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The symposium was titled "Frontiers in Squishy Physics."
School of Science faculty members Bill Baxter, Paul Becker, Michael Rutter, and Yi-Hong Wang attended the Council on Undergradaute Research Dialogues April 17-19 in Arlington, Virginia.
Charles A. Brown, assistant professor of accounting, recently presented his paper titled "Auditors' Use of Qualitative Information in Materiality Judgments" at the 2005 Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association, held April 21-23 in Charlotte, N. C.
An article by Michael E. Brown, assistant professor of management, has been accepted for publication in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The article, "Ethical Leadership: A Social Learning Perspective for Construct Development and Testing," will appear in the June 2005 issue. His co-authors are Linda Trevino and David Harrison from the Smeal School of Business at University Park.
Michael Christofferson, assistant professor of history, participated in a roundtable discussion and presented "Understanding the Collapse of the Intellectual Left and the Rise of Liberal Thought: A Reply to Perry Anderson" on April 22 at the New York University Institute of French Studies conference titled "The End of French History? Perry Anderson dissects 'neo-liberal' France."
School of Science faculty members Jennifer Holt and Alan Jircitano accompanied student presenters who attended the National Council on Undergraduate Research Conference in Lexington, Virginia, April 20-23.
Eva Kuttenberg, assistant professor of German, attended the 20th Annual International Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature held in Louisville, Kentucky, April 7 - 10. While there she gave a talk titled "Thomas Bernhard's Aesthetics of Extremes in Korrektur." Most recently she also attended the Annual International Conference of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association: Transcending the Borders: Austria in the Context of Central Europe (Past and Present), held at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, April 21-24. She moderated one panel and also gave a presentation titled "Arthur Schnitzler's Cinematography: Getting the Image Out of the Book."
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