Faculty/Staff News of Note
April 2006
Rob Speel received a $1,500 grant from Penn State's Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy to help subsidize student hotel costs for his biennial Washington D.C. student trip next March.
Sean Thomas Dougherty, lecturer in English, has had a number of poems accepted for publication: "The Blue Intercession of Erin" by Portland University's The Portland Review; "Oberek for Etheridge Knight" by Antioch College's The Antioch Review; "Oberek" and "Dozing Woman" by Bowling Green State University's Mid-American Review; “What Praise Will Cost" by Eastern Washington University's Willow Spring; "After Hearing Some Sister Sigh a Minor Chord" by George Mason University's Phoebe; and "The Noise" by the Los Angeles journal Arson.
Two prose poems by George Looney, associate professor of English and creative writing, “Das Lied Einer Mutter” and “Where Passion Becomes Sound,” and Sean Thomas Dougherty’s story “Hinges” were just published in PP/FF, a new anthology of short prose.
Jay Amicancelo, assistant professor of chemistry, presented the poster “Matrix Isolation Infrared Observation of the N3 Radical From a Nitrogen Microwave Discharge Plasma Source” at the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Atlanta last month. Michael Justik, assistant professor of chemistry, also attended.
Robert Weissbach, associate professor of engineering, participated in the panel presentation “Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions” last month at the tenth annual National collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) conference held in Portland, Oregon. The proceedings paper was co-authored by Jana Goodrich, lecturer in management and marketing, and eleven colleagues at other colleges.
Teresa Caruso, lecturer in English, presented the paper “‘The Likeness of Their Kinsman’: The Epiphany of Mary Elizabeth in Flannery O’Conner’s The Partridge Festival” at the O’Conner and Other Georgia Writers: A Scholarly Conference meeting held earlier this month at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has received an $11,500 proposal from Amanda Knerr, associate director of Student Affairs, to fund “Penn State Behrend Program to Reduce Underage and High-Risk Drinking.”
David Johnson, adjunct lecturer in medical technology, David Forsman, senior lecturer in engineering, and Michael Lobaugh, lecturer in engineering, have submitted a $186,527 proposal, “Low-Cost High-Temperature Heat Exchanger for Solid Fuel Cells Using a Near-Net-Shape Ceramic Powder Forming Process” to Spinworks, LLC, which is located in Knowledge Park.
Michael Rutter, assistant professor of statistics, presented workshop session on “Statistical Analysis of Bullhead Tumor Data Collected in Presque Isle Bay” at a Tumor Criteria Conference held last month in Columbus, Ohio. Michael’s work was supported by Pennsylvania Sea Grant.
Jennifer Holt, assistant professor of chemistry, and Tracy Halmi, lecturer in chemistry, attended the March meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, Georgia. Jennifer presented the paper “Spectroscopic Investigations of Host-Guest Complexes: Brooker’s Merocyanine in Cyclodextrin Cavities.”
Jim Warren, associate professor of biology, escorted students to the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research meeting held last week at the University of North Carolina in Asheville.
Sharon Gallagher, lecturer in English, presented the paper “Defining the Regions of Intellectual Ownership: The Controversy Surrounding the Question of Authorship in ‘The Diamond Lens’” at the College English Association's 37th Annual Conference held last week in San Antonio, Texas.
Rob Wittman, coordinator of intramural and recreational programs, presented the session “Innovative Programming Ideas for One- and Two-Person Departments” at the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association conference held April 4-7 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Sudarshan Nelatury, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently presented “A Comparison of Models for Shadowing Functions for Random Rough Surfaces” at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Southeast conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
Thomas Wortman, senior project associate for research, and Emily Allen, undergraduate studies advisor, received the Center for Service Leadership’s Implementation of Service in the Classroom Award for incorporating a service component into their Education 100S course. Students were required to complete 20 service hours working with children.
Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology, Jane Brady, assistant director of admissions and financial aid, Roger Knacke, director of the School of Science, Kenneth Miller, director of student affairs, and Ruth Pflueger, director of the Learning Resource Center, have submitted a four-year proposal to the National Science Foundation that requests $496,788 for “Scholarship Opportunities for Increasing STEM Enrollments at Penn State Behrend and Northwestern Pennsylvania.” If approved, the grant will support scholarships for women and underrepresented students in science and engineering.
Ken Louie, associate professor of economics, has received $916 from the Penn State Global Fund and $1,000 from the Sam and Irene Black School of Business to help defray student travel costs for his summer session course ECNS 487 China in the Global Economy. Students will experience Beijing, Shanghai, and two cities new to Ken’s itinerary, Xi’an and Hong Kong.
A proposal from Lisa Mangel, lecturer in biology, requests $500 over one year from Technology Grant News to fund “The Power of the Pen: Enhancing Tablet PC Use in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom.”
Pennsylvania Sea Grant staff Ann Faulds, associate director for the Delaware Estuary, and Sarah Whitney, Delaware Estuary coastal outreach specialist, have presented the Pennsylvania Game Commission with a proposal, “Creating a Pennsylvania Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Mapping and Predicting System,” that requests $130,341 over two years.
Penn State Behrend was well represented at the Allegheny Mountain Sectional Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America held earlier this month at Juniata College.
Michael Rutter presented the paper “How Many Samples Do I Need: Logistical Regression and Power;” Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, presented “Scrabble Tournaments, Ramsey Theory, and Resolvable Designs;” Amos Ong gave a talk on the symmetric product of surfaces; and Larry Downey, assistant professor of mathematics, spoke on repelling points and subjective mapping. Gregor Olšavský, instructor in mathematics, Paul Olson, lecturer in mathematics, and Scott Stevens, assistant professor of mathematics, also attended.
Blair Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, presented the paper “Theory of Hydrogen Related Metastability in Amorphous Silicon” at this week’s Materials Research Society’s spring meeting in San Francisco.
Robert Speel, associate professor of political science, has been named to the Project Vote Smart Key Vote Advisory Board for Pennsylvania. The role of the Key Vote Advisory Board is to assist Project Vote Smart in identifying the most significant votes taken by the Pennsylvania state legislature, as well as upcoming hot topics. The information will be made available through the nonpartisan voter education organization’s Web site, vote-smart.org.
Christine Mangone, lecturer in theatre, and the student-actors in the spring production of The Laramie Project have been invited by the regional president of PFLAG (Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays) to perform selections from the play at this fall’s Erie Pride Weekend event.
Qi Dunsworth, instructional designer in the Center for Teaching and Educational Technologies, and Robert Atkinson of Arizona State University, made a poster presentation, “Using Personalized Instruction to Support Multimedia Learning of Science,” at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting held earlier this month in San Francisco.
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