Faculty/Staff News of Note
September 2001
Welcome to Dr. Mary Ellen Bayuk, newly appointed registrar. Prior to her appointment at Behrend, she was at Penn State McKeesport.
Dr. Sharon Dale, associate professor of art history, has had her article, "A House Divided: San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia and the Politics of Pope John XXII," published in a recent edition of the Journal of Medieval History.
Indranil Ghosh, lecturer in economics, has had his article, "Welfare Asymptotics of the Pivotal Mechanism," accepted for publication in the Mathematical Social Sciences Journal.
Robert Nelson, lecturer in MIS and computer science and Dr. Ido Millet, associate professor of MIS, presented "A Foundation Course in ERP and Business Processes: Rationale, Design, and Educational Outcomes" at the 7th Americas Conference on Information Systems in Boston.
Dr. Ann S. Pancake, assistant professor of creative writing and literature, is the author of an award-winning new short story collection, Given Ground. Last year she won the Bakeless Prize, a national award sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for a first book of fiction. Given Ground was published this year by the University Press of New England.
Dr. Diane H. Parente, assistant professor of management, had her paper, "Redesigning a Square Peg: TQM Performance Appraisals," accepted for publication in the Total Quality Management Journal. She co-authored the paper with Dr. Khalid Aldakhilallah of King Saud University.
Congratulations to C. David Rogers, lecturer in electrical engineering, who was named 2001 Volunteer of the Year by Perseus House. He received the award at Perseus House graduation ceremonies in May. He teaches youth in that organization a hands-on course called "Sailing and Seamanship."
Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski, director of research at CORE and assistant professor of psychology, assisted Forresters' Harbor, Inc., an adult day care center, in securing a $3,125 grant from the Erie Community Foundation to implement a new respite care project titled "Certified Family Friends." CORE will provide the evaluation for the program.
Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski, director of research at CORE, was awarded a subcontract in the amount of $90,000 to evaluate a three-year abstinence-based teenage pregnancy awareness program. Skarupski developed the evaluation plan for The Women's Care Center of Erie County in its $262,357 SPRANS (Special Projects of Regional and National Significance) grant entitled: "The Abstinence Advantage Program." SPRANS grants are awarded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Research and Services Administration.
Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski, director of research at CORE, was recently awarded a $141,887 grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to conduct an outcomes evaluation of the Long Distance Dads Program at the State Correctional Institute at Albion. This outcomes evaluation follows the process evaluation conducted by CORE that ended June 30, 2001. The award is for an eighteen-month project that will start October 1.
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