Faculty/Staff News of Note
September 2005
Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, has been invited to serve as a panelist on the Bangladesh session at the Conference on Religious and Social Conflict and Economic Development in South Asia. The conference will be held at Cornell University October 14-16.
Mary Ellen Bayuk, Becky Faulhaber, Patricia McClellan and Carol Tobin, all from the Office of the College Registrar, presented an hour-long session on “Best Practices in the Graduation Process” at the University's Enrollment Management Fall Conference, held September 19 and 20 at University Park. Ellie Richardson, who was unable to attend the conference, contributed to the session as well by gathering extensive information for it. The presentation was very well received by the 60+ individuals who attended the session.
On September 10 and 17, Erie's Business and Professional Women (BPW) partnered with Penn State Behrend's Center for Corporate and Continuing Education to deliver BPW's Individual Development Program. The 16-hour program, delivered by Mary Ellen Bayuk, College Registrar, is BPW/USA’s signature seminar series in personal and professional leadership development. Nine individuals from the Erie area participated and each received 1.6 continuing education units from Penn State.
Barbara E. Blount, grounds maintenance worker, has been appointed by Penn State President Graham Spanier to a three-year term as a member of the Penn State Commission for Women. She will serve from 2006-2009.
Charles A. Brown, assistant professor of accounting, presented “Auditors’ Use of Qualitative Information in Materiality Judgments” at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association, held August 2005 in San Francisco, California.
John Champagne, associate professor of English, has had the paper “Acting Like a Man” published in Volume 7, No. 1 of Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly. His essay, “At the Ballet,” on taking dance class in Paris, has recently been published in The Long Trip Home, an online literary magazine for travelers. www.thelongtriphome.com/articles-tj-champagne.html. “A Feminist Pirandello? Female Agency in ‘As You Desire Me,’” an essay on Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's 1930 play, is forthcoming in Forum Italicum.
Michael Christofferson, associate professor of history, and Sharon Gallagher, lecturer in English, have been nominated to apply for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends program for 2006. They were chosen from a number of faculty members seeking nomination. Each will prepare a proposal following the NEH guidelines and submit it before October 3.
Eric Corty, associate professor of psychology, has been appointed consulting editor to The Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy.
Tracy Halmi, lecturer in chemistry, and Martin Kociolek, associate professor of chemistry, attended the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in Washington, D.C. August 26-30.
Jane Ingold, assistant librarian in the Lilley Library, was elected chair of Behrend College's Liaison Committee to the University Commission for Women. The next meeting of Behrend's Commission for Women will be Wednesday, October 5, at 3:00 p.m. in 012 Library.
Colleen Kelley, associate professor of rhetoric and communication, presented “With God on His Side: Deconstructing the Post-9/11 Discourse of President George W. Bush” at the 2005 annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, held July 6 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her paper on this topic will be published this fall.
Mehmet Malcok, lecturer in computer science, had his paper, titled “Backward behavior of solutions of the Kuramoto Sivashinsky Equation,” published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Volume 307, Issue 2, Pages 455-464. His co-author is I. Kukavica of the University of Southern California.
Malcok, and his co-authors, A. Yesildirek and A. Aslandogan, also have had their paper titled “Fractal Dimensions and Similarity Search in a High-Dimensional Spatial Databases” accepted for IEEE ETC 2005 Conference.
Brian O’Leary, lecturer in integrative arts, presented “More Than Just a Cameo: The Signature Effect in Hitchock’s Films” at the University Film and Video Association Annual Convention, held August 5 at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois.
Diane H Parente, associate professor of management, is on sabbatical for the fall 2005 semester. She is working on an edited book titled “Online Reverse Auction Theory: Implications for Practice.” In addition to general publication, the book will be used by EBizITPA for the small and medium enterprises working with the center on the implementation of reverse auctions.
Parente is also a Research Fellow at the Penn State IST Solutions Institute in State College. She will assist in the development of a strategic plan for the dissemination of applied research to the academic and business communities.
Also, Parente, Mary Beth Pinto, associate professor of marketing, and Joseph Barber, M.D., had the paper “A Pre-Post Comparison of Service Operational Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction Under Open Access Scheduling” published in Volume 30 of the Health Care Management Review.
Dan Perritano, men’s soccer head coach, earned career win #300 with a victory over Grove City College. Prior to becoming men’s soccer head coach, he coached women's soccer at Monroe Community College, the University of the Redlands, and at Penn State Behrend. His career record stands at 300-168-33.
Scott Stevens, assistant professor of mathematics, presented a paper titled “Modeling Steady-state Intracranial Pressures in Microgravity” at the International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, held September 15-20 in Rhodes, Greece.
Margie Taylor, director of Development and Alumni Relations, has been elected to a three-year term on the Erie County Historical Society Board of Directors.
Janice Totleben, lecturer in MIS and computer science, attended a seven-day training camp for accelerated information technology training July 17-24. As a result of her attendance, she became a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), a designation that acknowledges successful design, implementation, and administration of business solutions with Microsoft products. The training camp was located in the Pocono Mountains. Totleben expects her MCAD training to benefit students in her MIS courses, including systems design and advanced application design, and she will use the certification to develop future courses.
Soledad Traverso, associate professor of Spanish, had her article titled “Tres mujeres” en Diez, de Juan Emar: Lucha entre el instinto y la libertad interior” published in Taller de Letras. Revista de la Universidad Católica de Chile.N 36, 2005. Her paper is a study on three short stories by the Chilean avant-garde writer.
Traverso also presented “Estructura de la novela policial en El secreto de los flamencos de Federico Andahazi.” at ALDEEU on July 8 in Burgos, Spain. This paper is a study on the novel El secreto de los flamencos by the Argentinian writer Federico Andahazi.
Assistant Professor of English and Professional Writing Craig A. Warren presented the paper “Mapping Literature: Cartographic Textuality and the Geographical Imagination in Faulkner’s Absolom, Absolom!” at last week’s New England American Studies Association Conference in Worcester, Mass.
Rob Weissbach, associate professor of engineering, and Carrie Payne, coordinator of placements and internships, attended the Career Summit at Norfolk Southern, in Atlanta, Georgia, August 24-26. Penn State Behrend was one of approximately forty-two schools nationally who were invited because of their recruiting success. The director of Career Services at Penn State University Park also attended. The three-day conference included information about Norfolk Southern's management training programs, a tour of the company, the history and future of the railroad, and a four-hour train ride. Contact Rob or Carrie if you'd like more information on the Norfolk Southern training programs.
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