Faculty/Staff News of Note
March 2002
Dr. Dean Baldwin, professor of English, and Dr. Terri Caruso, lecturer in English, attended the College English Association National convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4-6. While there they participated in a special panel presented by the Association of Advisors in English. Baldwin, who is secretary of the association, presented "MLA's Graduate College survey and Its Relevance to Advising English Majors." Caruso, who is treasurer of the association, presented "Using Freshman English as a Recruiting Tool for English Majors."
Dr. G. William Baxter and Dr. Chuck Yeung, associate professors of physics, and Dr. Blair Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, attended the American Physical Society meeting March 17-21 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Seven Penn State Behrend physics majors also attended. While there Baxter presented a paper, "Stress in a Two-dimensional Granular Medium," and Yeung present a paper, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Reactive Blending."
Ed Blaguszewski, director of University Relations, is the 2002 recipient of the Don Hale Award from the College and University Public Relations Association of Pennsylvania (CUPRAP). The award is given annually to a member who has significantly contributed to the organization. Blaguszewski was president of CUPRAP from 1999 to 2001. This award is named for Don Hale, a former UPI reporter and head of university relations at Carnegie Mellon University. Hale was CUPRAP president from 1982 to 1984.
Charles A. Brown, instructor of accounting, and a colleague, Prevaiz Alam of Kent State University, have had their article, "The Forecast Accuracy Improvements from Earnings Disaggregation: A Case of the Banking Industry," published in the Journal of Corporate Communications.
Dr. David T. Doran, associate professor of accounting, and Charles A. Brown, instructor of accounting, have had their article, "The Future of the Accounting Profession," published in the Journal of State Taxation.
Dr. Gregory W. Fowler, assistant professor of literature and American studies, has received a Fulbright Award to lecture and conduct research at the John F. Kennedy School of American Studies, Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany. Fowler also had two papers accepted for publication recently. "Stone-Throwing in Glass Houses: When Baby Boomers Met Generation X" will be published in Popular Culture Review and "Avoiding Phyrric Victories: Twain, Generation X, and Technology" will be published by the Canadian Review of American Studies.
Dr. Brian O'Leary, lecturer of integrative arts, presented "Apocalypse Now Redux: Diluting the Darkness" at the Regional Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, held February 15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
John Kerwin, assistant professor of communication, attended the 21st Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, March 13-15. While there he presented a paper, "Constructing Gender and Sexual Identity: The Construction of Gender and the Male 'Take.'"
Dr. William C. Lasher, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has received an award from the Council on Undergraduate Research Summer Research Fellowship in Science and Mathematics, sponsored by CUR's Undergraduate Researchers' Graduate School Registry. This award is for $3,000 plus up to $500 for travel to support an undergraduate student for ten weeks this summer. The title of the proposal is "Experimental Determination of Downwind Sail Force Coefficients." The project will be done by Kenton White, a junior in Mechanical Engineering.
Over spring break, Cathy Sargent Mester, senior lecturer in communications, served as an independent judge for the Erie Diocesan Forensic Championships. More than a dozen high schools from four counties sent students to this full-day competition with the winners advancing to the national championships later this spring.
Dr. Joseph Paullett, associate professor of mathematics, and Dr. Joseph Previte, assistant professor of mathematics, have had their article, "A Lotka-Volterra Three-Species Food Chain," accepted for publication this fall in the College Journal of Mathematics. The article was co-written with Erica English and Zac Walls, students from the 2000 REU Summer Program in Mathematical Biology.
Dan Perritano, head men's and women's soccer coach, and Bethany Cummings, a December 2001 Behrend graduate and women's soccer alumna, finished the inaugural Washington, D.C. Marathon on Sunday, March 24. More than 8,000 runners participated in the event.
Dr. James T. Warren Jr., assistant professor biology, published a paper titled "The heat-inducible zebrafish hsp70 gene is expressed during normal lense development under non-stress conditions" in the journal Mechanisms of Development. Coauthors on this study were Scott Blechinger, Tyler Evans, Ping Tao Tang , John Y. Kuwada, and Patrick Krone from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Michigan.
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