Faculty/Staff News of Note
October 2002
Paula Barrett, director of the Studio Theater, has been named to the board of directors of the Arts Council of Erie. She will serve on the Committee for Arts in Education, which is headed by Erie artist Susan Kemeneffy.
A paper by Dr. Michael Brown, assistant professor of management, was selected best paper in the Social Issues Management Division at the Academy of Management's annual meeting, held in August in Denver, Colorado. His paper is titled "Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethical Leadership: Development of an Instrument." Brown also had his article, "Making Things Click: Distributive Leadership in an Online Division of an Organization" published in the August 2002 issue of The Leadership Quarterly.
Dr. Michael Christofferson, assistant professor of history, presented "Explaining Gauchisme's Demise in the Early 1970s" at the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, held October 4 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, attended a mathematics conference at Miami University of Ohio October 4 and 5. While there she presented a paper titled "Temperance Arithmetic."
Dr. Anthony Foyle, assistant professor of geology, presented a poster, "Aquifers, Aquitards, Incised Paleovalleys, and Seawater Intrusion: A Case Study from a Regional Aquifer-Aquitard System on the Georgia-South Carolina Coast," at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, held October 27-30 in Denver, Colorado
Dr. Robert Gray, assistant professor of engineering and director of the Center for Navigation, Communication, and Information Systems received a new equipment donation from Philips Semiconductor. He received ten Intel 8051 Microcontroller Rapid Development Kits valued at $2,000. The kits contain thte latest in-system programming flash ROM memory now being sold by Philips and are now in use in electrical engineering technology labs.
Gray, along with his colleague, Maarten Uijt de Haag of The Ohio University, were invited guest lecturers for the Provost's "Lecture of Opportunity" at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Their ninety-minute lecture was titled "Synthetic Vision Systems and Flight Test Results of a Digital Elevation Model Integrity Monitor."
Gray has received funding in the amount of $32,923 from the Carnegie Mellon University Office of Sponsored Projects for the proposed research project "RF Coupling Simulation Model Development for Optimal Placement of Antennas Supporting Wireless Communications Systems."
Gray has been awarded his first U.S. patent, titled "Track Database Integrity Monitor for Enhanced Railroad Safety Distributed Power." The patent builds upon his twenty-year background in aerospace avionics systems and is the culmination of more than five years of research in this specific area of systems integrity monitoring.
Dr. Carl Kallgren and Dr. Kim Skarupski, co-directors of CORE, were invited to give a presentation at the annual Family Health Council, Inc. Teen Peer Education Program's "Peer Power―Let's Talk" conference held October 18 in Erie. The title of their presentation was: "Risky Behavior of Youth: A Review of National and Local Trends and Programs." The conference drew more than 200 participants including local students, teachers, health care practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and other advocates for youth.
Dr. Victoria Kazmerski, associate professor of psychology, attended a workshop titled "Measuring Up: Best Practices in Assessment in Psychology" September 27-29 in Atlanta, Georgia. The information obtained at this workshop will help psychology faculty prepare a self-study in preparation for an external review of the department.
Dr. Victoria Kazmerski and Dr. Dawn Blasko, associate professors of psychology, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Washington, D.C., October 3-6. Kazmerski presented a talk titled "Age Differences in Working Memory Correlates of P300" that was co-authored with Blasko and two students, Alejandra Marroquin and Banchiamlack Dessalegn. Blasko and Kazmerski also co-authored a poster presented by Banchiamlack Dessalegn, "Semantic Relatedness and Metaphor Processing," that was based on the first study for Dessalegn's honors thesis.
Parente and Dr. Peggy D. Lee, assistant professor of management, also presented a research professional development session updating results of a study titled "At the Intersections of the Disciplines: Null Set or Collaboration in Supply Chain Management Research?" Parente, Lee, and Noce presented a professional development pedagogy workshop, "Are You Ready to Swim? Assessing Readiness for Integration in Teaching."
Dr. Chris McNeil, assistant professor of finance, presented "Management Turnover in Subsidiaries of Conglomerates versus Stand-alone Firms" at the annual meeting of the Financial Management Association, held October 17 in San Antonio, Texas. While there he also discussed a paper on the efficiency of Turkish banks.
Several faculty in the School of Business recently attended the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Denver August 10-13. Dr. Diane Parente, assistant professor of management, moderated a debate titled "The Internet in the Supply Chain: Productive Playfulness or Employee Theft?" The session was an All- Academy Symposium and included panelists Dr. Peg Thoms, associate professor of management, Dr. Kathy Noce, instructor in management information systems, and Dr. Karen Papke-Shields, assistant professor of operations management at Salisbury State University.
Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto, the Breene Fellow in Management, traveled to London to meet with the head of the Office of Government Commerce, Sir Peter Gershon. "This office provides oversight of all Ministry of Defense projects and is looking for methods of getting more accurate information on ongoing projects," said Pinto. He consulted with Sir Peter on various techniques for assessing information technology project performance.
Dr. Clare Porac, professor of psychology, recently submitted a paper for publication titled "Mortality Risk and Left-Hand Preference: A Comparison of the Current Status of the Elimination and Modification Hypotheses." Her paper is a literature review covering the past ten years of research on the issue of reduced longevity among left-handed individuals. Porac hopes that this paper will lay to rest the idea that left-handers are at risk for an early death when compared to right-handers.
Dr. James Warren, assistant professor of biology, served on a grant review panel for the Cell Development and Function Integrated Review Group of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on October 24-25.
Dr. Robert Weissbach, assistant professor of electrical engineering technology, served as chair of the Erie section of IEEE at the 2002 IEEE Sections congress, held October 18-21 in Washington, D.C.
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