Faculty/Staff News of Note
November 2002
Dr. Dawn Blasko and Dr. Victoria Kazmerski, associate professors of psychology, received advanced training in electrophysiological recording at the Neuroscan School in El Paso, Texas, October 7-11. Blasko attended Part I, which covered EEG/ERP data acquisition and analysis. Kazmerski attended Part II, covering source localization procedures for identifying brain structures that are the likely sources of activity in the brain recordings, such as those recorded in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab run by Blasko and Kazmerski.
Dr. Terri Caruso, lecturer in English, presented "From Breastmilk to Biscuits: Food and Eating as Metaphor in Beloved" at the Literature/Film Conference held October 19 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Tracy Halmi, lecturer in chemistry, has declared National Chemistry Week 2002 a success. She extends thanks to the following chemistry faculty: Dr. Mary Chisholm, who coordinated the water authority demonstration (which worked out great); Dr. Martin Kociolek, who prepared the luminol (as well as being Harry Potter); Dr. Alan Jircitano, who went to all three events and read the novel to help the group prepare for Harry Potter; Alan's wife, Kellie Brosius , who also went to all three events and helped every week with packing and more; Dr. Jay Amicangelo, who volunteered at the mall event; and Dr. Tom Spudich, who helped put a poster together and helped with supplies.
Dr. Carl Kallgren and Dr. Kim Skarupski, co-directors of CORE, gave a presentation at the 2002 Teen Pregnancy Prevention Conference, "New Strategies, New Perspectives," held October 21 at University Park. The title of their presentation was "The CORE Model of Social Intervention: Teen Pregnancy and Your Community." The annual conference draws practitioners, teachers, and advocates from across the region.
Dr. Ed Masteller, professor emeritus of biology, has been busy this fall. During ZooBoo, October 11-30, he portrayed Max Zeller at the Erie Zoo, showing off some of his exotic creatures, including Cleopatra the Arachnid (a tarantula); Brutus the Bess Beetle; and Antares of Scorpio (an empire scorpion). Masteller also taught the entymology section of the Master Gardener Class offered in Meadville on October 17 by the Crawford County Penn State Extension Program. On November 6, he was the opening speaker on the topic of "Integrated Pest Management" at the Earth Force Youth Training Day at Glinodo Center.
Dr. Gregory Morris, professor of American Literature, presented "'I Have Had Some Satisfactory Times': Peter Bowen's Yellowstone Kelly Novels" at the Western Literature Association Conference held October 12 in Tucson, Arizona.
Eric Obert, associate director of Pennsylvania Sea Grant, was quoted in the Science section of the October 22 New York Times in an article about Type E botulism and its effects on Lake Erie.
Dr. Brian O'Leary, lecturer in the integrative arts, presented "Modality in Wyler's 'Wuthering heights'; A Linguistics-based Interpretation" at the Literature/Film Association Annual Conference held October 19 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. O'Leary also presented "Modality in Zinneman's 'From Here to Eternity'; A Linguistic-Based Interpretation," at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Conference, held November 1 in Pittsburgh.
Gregor Olsavsky, instructor in mathematics, had his paper, "The Number of Two by Two Matrices over Zp with Eigenvalues in the Same Field," accepted for publication by Mathematics Magazine in 2003.
Dr. Diane Parenti and Dr. Peter Southard, assistant professors of management, recently had separate articles published in the same issue of the September 2002 issue of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management. Parente's article is titled "An Exploratory Study of the Sales-Production Relationship and Customer Satisfaction" and was co-authored with C. Carl Pegels and Nallan Suresh. Southard's article is titled "Extending Product Profiling through Simulation" and was co-authored with Scott Swanseth and John Olson.
Dr. Kimberly Skarupski, director of research at CORE, and former CORE senior research technologist Jennifer Pelkowski have had their manuscript, titled "Multipurpose Senior Centers: Opportunities for Community Health Nursing" accepted for publication in the Journal of Community Health Nursing in the spring of 2003. Their paper is the result of a longitudinal program evaluation of a local senior center where they examined numerous health, functional, social, and psychological outcomes.
Dr. Tom Spudich, assistant professor of chemistry, attended the annual meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) in Providence, Rhode Island, October 13-16. While there he oversaw a student presentation, "The Characterization of a Digital Micromirror Array for Atomic Spectroscopy."
Dr. Peg Thoms and Dr. Ray Venkataraman, associate professors of management, had their article, "Relation of Managers' Personality to Accident and Injury Rates," accepted for publication in the April 2003 issue of Psychological Reports.
Research on planetary orbits done by Dr. Darren Williams, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is covered in "Circles of Life," an article in the November 2002 issue of Discover Magazine.
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