Faculty/Staff News of Note
October 2006
Ruth Pflueger, director of the Learning Resource Center, has received a one-year, $25,735 Perkins Consortium grant through Edinboro University. This state-funded program supports associate degree programs in technical fields.
Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, participated in a panel discussion on teaching the history of math at the Mathematical Association of America’s NExT Workshop held last month at the University of Pittsburgh.
J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-45, a new book by Douglas Charles, lecturer in history, has been accepted for an August 2007 publication by Ohio State University Press.
Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, and two student co-authors presented the paper “Relationship Building Ideas from a Gender Perspective: Insights for Personal Selling from Dating in College Campuses” at the Atlantic Marketing Association meeting held last month in Charleston, South Carolina. The paper won first place at the Undergraduate Research Conference held last spring.
Chuck Yeung, associate professor of physics, presented a seminar, “Short Time Behavior of Polymer Cyclization,” to the physics department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, last month.
Cathy Sargent Mester, senior lecturer in speech communications, has had the article “Technology is Not a Toy” published in the Association for Psychological Science’s Observer. It is part of the magazine’s regular “Teaching Tips” series.
Shannon Sweeney, assistant professor of engineering, presented “Effect of Surface Processes on High-Cycle Fatigue Life of Titanium Alloys,” a paper co-written with Matt Berlin of Lord Corp., at the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Aerospace Manufacturing and Automated Fastening Conference held last month in Toulouse, France.
“The Effects of Clutch Volume on Cooling Rates of Eggs in the Black Brant” was the title of a presentation made by Margaret Voss, assistant professor of biology, at the Fourth North American Ornithological Conference held earlier this month in Veracruz, Mexico.
John Roth, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received salary, equipment, and in-kind funding of almost $160,000 for two research projects he’s conducting with valve company COLDfire Technology, LLC of Norcross, Georgia.
Lisa Mangel, lecturer in biology, has received $500 in funding from Technology Grant News for the one-year proposal “The Power of the Pen: Enhancing Tablet PC Use in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom.”
“Final Steady Flow Near a Stagnation Point on a Vertical Surface in a Porous Medium” was the title of a talk given by Joe Paullet, associate professor of mathematics, at an American Mathematical Society section meeting held at the University of Cincinnati last week.
Barbara Power, lecturer in mathematics, presented the paper “College Algebra Exploration of Solving Systems of Linear and Quadratic Equations” at the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting held this week at Seven Springs resort.
Larry Downey, assistant professor of mathematics, has published the article “On the Openness of Surjective Operators: Repelling Points” in the International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
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