Faculty/Staff News of Note
June 2006
Lisa Mangel, lecturer in biology, Thomas Wortman, senior project associate for research, Qi Dunsworth, instructional designer, and Russell Warley, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, have submitted the proposal “Better Learning Through Student Engagement Using HP Tablet PCs” to HP’s corporate philanthropy. The grant requests $120,500 for one year.
Archie Loss, professor of English and American studies, has published the article "The Censor Swings Again: Freedom of Inquiry and the Principle of Suppression" in Papers on Joyce (No. 10/11), a special issue honoring Francisco Garcia Tortosa, the Spanish translator of Joyce's Ulysses.
Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, has just returned from the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics’ annual meeting at York University in Toronto, where she presented the paper “Of Square Fields, Circular Islands, and other Peculiar Probabilities.”
The psychology department was well represented at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science held at the end of May in New York City.
Dawn Blasko and Victoria Kazmerski, associate professors of psychology, and three students presented "Sarcasm as a Weapon: Personality Characteristics and Aggression." Charisse Nixon, assistant professor of psychology, presented "Protective Factors and Relational Aggression: An Exploratory Study," which was co-authored by Mary Baird, director of the Ophelia Project. Charisse and Victoria also presented "Familial Socialization Influences on Relational Aggression," which was written with two recent psychology graduates. Derek Mace, lecturer in psychology, presented a paper titled "Perspective Taking as a Function of Sex and Cue Type."
The scientific conference was preceded by the APS/Society of Teaching in Psychology Teaching Institute. Dawn Blasko and a spring psychology graduate presented "An Assessment of Service Learning: Student and Faculty Perspectives," and Dawn, Jennifer Trich Kremer, lecturer in psychology, and three students co-authored the presentation "Using Personal Response Systems in the Classroom."
Center for Credit and Consumer Research staff Mary Beth Pinto, director, and Jaime Schember, graduate assistant, recently presented a credit education program for the Minority Achievers at the YMCA titled "Driving on the Credit Highway." The students also had the opportunity to play the center’s online credit game.
Since the online game launched in March the site has had 1,000 hits and approximately 100 requests for resource materials.
Anne Danielski, coastal education and maritime specialist for Pennsylvania Sea Grant, has submitted a proposal to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association for “Pennsylvania Sea Grant NOAA Ship Time Support.” The one-year proposal requests $11,589.
Yi (Elisa) Wu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was invited to speak on “Overview of Physiologic Controller for Artificial Heart Pump” at the 52nd annual meeting of American Society of Internal Artificial Organs (ASAIO) conference held in Chicago this month. Additionally, she presented the poster “Adaptive Estimation for Aortic Pressure,” and was co-author of a paper of the same name published in the society’s journal.
Andy George, lecturer in mathematics, served as a grader at the 2006 Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus Reading held the first week of June at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. More than 750 faculty were invited to score the free-response questions of the AP Calculus exam taken by 250,000 high school students nationwide.
James Kurre, associate professor of economics, made an invited presentation, “Tapping University Partners for Economic Research,” at the 46th annual Council for Community and Economic Research conference held earlier this month in Charlotte, North Carolina. One topic of the conference was the economic importance of the motor sports industry to the Charlotte area; Jim did field trips to two speed shops and had dinner at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. While there he rode three laps in a Jeff Gordon car at 170 m.p.h. and reports that it wasn’t nearly as interesting a driving on I-90 during a February snowstorm.
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