Faculty/Staff News of Note
January 2004
Dr. Diana Hume George, professor of English and women's studies, was a panelist in November at a symposium honoring literary critic Leslie Fiedler, who died last year. The title of her presentation at SUNY/Buffalo was "Tracking Freaks with Fiedler," an account of Fiedler's influence on her own work and that of a generation of scholars, critics, and teachers.
Dr. Archie Loss, professor of English and American studies, has authored six articles in the recently published two-volume Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1991. These include entries on the Backstreet Boys, Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, and the Rolling Stones.
Dr. Blair Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, participated in a panel January 12-13 at the National Science Foundation's headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, to review research proposals in the area of silicon circuits and nanoelectronics submitted to the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical and Communications Systems.
Dr. Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, and Paul Olson, lecturer in mathematics, attended the American Math Society's national meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, from January 6-10.
Tracy Halmi, lecturer in chemistry, has been appointed to the American Chemical Society's newly formed Committee on Community Affairs. Her appointment follows service on the National Chemistry Week Task Force, which involved development of regional celebrations of National Chemistry Week. Halmi has overseen Erie's National Chemistry Week celebration for the past two years.
Dr. Phylis Mansfield, assistant professor of marketing in the Sam and Irene Black School of Business, and Dr. Jacquelyn Warwick, of Andrews University, have published the paper "Perceived Risk in College Selection: Differences in Evaluative Criteria Used by Students and Parents," in the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education.
Nicole Louise Reid, lecturer in creative writing, will sign copies of her first novel, In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage, November 2003), at Barnes and Noble, 6300 Peach Street, on Saturday, February 21, at 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Mary Ellen Bayuk, registrar, and Mary-Ellen Madigan, director of admissions and financial aid, gave a presentation to the Pennsylvania College Personnel Association on November 21 at St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania. The presentation was titled "Communicating with Students: Technology, Tools, and Techniques," and was part of a best practices panel.
Robert Michael, lecturer, mechanical engineering technology, passed the PE exam and is now a licensed professional engineer for the state of Pennsylvania. Michael also received a patent titled "Mount with Dual Stiffness for Truck Vocational Suspension."
Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto, the Samuel A. and Elizabeth B. Breene Professor in Management, has accepted the departmental editorship for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. IEEE is a professional society with over 100,000 members.
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