Faculty/Staff News of Note
July 2006
The Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology funded a proposal presented by Diane Parente, associate professor of management, Peter Southard, assistant professor of management, and Brian Young, lecturer in engineering. Their proposal, “Penn State Behrend Plastics Benchmarking Study,” received $7,437 for a grant period of six months.
Douglas Charles, visiting lecturer in history, had an article published in this month’s Intelligence and National Security. His article, titled “Before the Colonel Arrived: Hoover, Donovan, Roosevelt, and the Origins of American Central Intelligence, 1940-41,” reinterprets the orthodox interpretation of the origins of the CIA.
Chris Coulston, associate professor of electrical, computer, and software engineering, recently had his paper, “Electronic Angle Measurement” published in the June 2005 issue of Circuit Cellar. The article describes the construction of an embedded system to make highly accurate angle measurements using a solid state accelerometer.
David Hunnicutt, assistant professor of biology, attended a meeting of NEMPET (North Eastern Microbiologists: Physiology, Ecology and Taxonomy) in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, June 24-26. While there he presented a paper, “LolA is required for colony spreading in f. Johnsoniae.”
Clare Porac, professor of psychology, attended the meetings of the Canadian Psychological Association in Montreal, Quebec, held June 10-12. While there she presented a paper titled “Hand Preference Consistency and Health Status in Adults Over the Age of 65.” Her co-author on this paper is Dr. Alan Searleman, professor of psychology at St. Lawrence University.
Michelle Previte, assistant professor of mathematics, recently had a paper accepted for publication in Topology and its Applications. The paper, titled “The Topological Dimension of Limits of Vertex Replacements,” was written with student author Shun-Hsiang Yang, who graduated from Penn State Behrend in May 2005.
Russ Warley, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, along with D.L. Feke and I. Manas-Zloczower, professors at Case Western Reserve University, has published a paper titled "Effect of Peroxide Crosslinking on the Dynamic Modulus of Silicone Rubber" in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science. The article will appear in the August 15 issue of the journal.
Al Warner and Jim Fairbank, assistant professors of management, have had their paper, “Managing Uncertainty in a Formal Standards-based Industry: A Real Options Perspective on Acquisition Timing,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Management.
Robert Weissbach, associate professor of engineering, presented “Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems Analysis for Off-grid Great Lakes Residential Housing” at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, held June 12-15 in Portland, Oregon. The paper was co-authored by Larry
Kephart, a December 2004 Penn State Behrend graduate in electrical engineering technology.
The Pennsylvania Psychological Association presented its annual Public Service Award to Carl Kallgren, associate professor of psychology and director of administration and outreach for the Center for Organizational Research and Evaluation (CORE). He received the award on Friday, June 17, during the awards ceremony at the annual PPA convention in Harrisburg.
The Pennsylvania Psychological Association presented its annual Public Service Award to Carl Kallgren, associate professor of psychology and director of administration and outreach for the Center for Organizational Research and Evaluation (CORE). He received the award on Friday, June 17, during the awards ceremony at the annual PPA convention in Harrisburg. Through CORE, Carl Kallgren, has been instrumental in coordinating the efforts of several community agencies that work in the area of teen pregnancy prevention. Through his efforts, these agencies have demonstrated a significant impact to their communities with better coordination, improved process and outcome measures, and impact development.
Michael Campbell, associate professor of biology, attended the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biology in Seattle, Washington, July 16-21. While there he presented his research, “Chemically forced and natural dormancy progression in potato tubers induces similar patterns in gene expression.”
Anne Danielski, coastal education and maritime specialist with Pennsylvania Sea Grant, is now licensed to captain Momentum, the sloop she uses in to conduct maritime classes, on the Great Lakes.
She completed training last spring with Dennis Daniels of Sea Tech Marine Training in Tonawanda, New York.
Amanda Knerr, associate director of Student Affairs, had her article, “Common Missteps in Assessment and How to Avoid Them” (Part I of III) published in the June 21 issue of NetResults, a publication of the National Association of Student Personnel Administration. Parts II and III have been accepted for publication in the September 2005 edition. The article is co-authored with Sherry A. Woolsey, Ph.D., assistant director of Institutional Effectiveness at Ball State University.
Phylis Mansfield, assistant professor of marketing, recently presented “An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Consumer Socialization Agents and Children's Consumption of Tobacco” at the 2005 European Applied Business Research Conference in Santorini, Greece. The paper, co-authored with Peg Thoms, associate professor of management, and Charisse Nixon, assistant professor of psychology, won the Best Paper of the Session Award.
Joseph Paullet, associate professor of mathematics, recently had his article, “Nonexistence of solutions for reverse radial stagnation flow with transpiration,” published in Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol. 18, 1009-1012 (2005). The article was co-authored by Patrick D. Weidman of the University of Colorado.
Meng Su, assistant professor of computer science, attended the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, held July 9-13 in Orlando, Florida. While there he presented “Grid File with Approximation for Multi-Dimensional Nearest neighbor Search.”
Shannon Sweeney, assistant professor of engineering, presented “A Demonstration of Heat-Affected Zone from Welding” at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition in Portland, Oregon, June 13. Principle author of the paper is Rich Englund, associate professor of engineering, and co-authors are Dave Johnson, associate professor of engineering, and Sweeney.
Yi (Elisa) Wu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, presented “Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Cardiovascular System with a Left Ventricular Assist Device” at the 2005 American Control Conference, held June 10 in Portland, Oregon.
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