Faculty/Staff News of Note
May 2001
John P. Beaumont, associate professor of engineering, received the Engineer of the Year Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. at its recent Annual Technical Conference, held May 6 to 11 this year in Dallas, Texas. The award was presented in recognition of his dynamic leadership and outstanding service to the Injection Molding Division of the SPE.
Dr. Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, presented a paper, "Maria Gaetano Agnesi as seen by the Historian Antonio F. Frisi," at the American Mathematical Society Eastern Section meeting on April 28 and 29 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Ronald DelPorto, lecturer in computer science, attended SU101 Standards 2001 in Pittsburgh on Friday, May 4. While there he received cabling system training in preparation for teaching CMPBD350.
Head Women's Basketball Coach Roz Fornari participated in the Nike Championship Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 3-7. It is the largest clinic in the world and has several of the best coaches in the country as clinicians.
Dr. Robert Gray, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is co-author of a paper that has been accepted for publication in June 2001. "Availability Aspects for Terrain Database Integrity Monitors," which he wrote with colleagues J. Campbell and M. Uijt de Haag, will be published in the proceedings of the Institute of Navigation and the USAF Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility 20th Biennial Guidance Test Symposium. Gray and Dr. Robert Weissbach, assistant professors of electrical engineering technology, and Glen Shaffer, an engineer with GE Transportation Systems, had their paper, "Integrating Teaching, Research, and Community Outreach in Applied System Design for Locomotives," accepted for October publication in Outreach Scholarship: Learning, Discovery, and Engagement.
Jonathan Hall, instructor in physics, attended a National Science Foundation short course, "Promoting Active Learning in an Introductory Physics Course," May 9 to 12 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Blair Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, will give two lectures and organize a hands-on lab as part of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Summer School on Computational Materials Science in Urbana, Illinois. The school runs from May 29 to June 7, and Tuttle will give his presentation, "Point Defects in Semiconductors," on June 1. His research is featured on the home page of the summer school's Web site: www.mcc.uiuc.edu/summerschool.
Dr. James T. Warren, assistant professor of biology, recently had a paper published in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. The paper, "Topographic Restriction of TAG-1 Expression in the Developing Retinotectal Pathway and Target Dependent Re-expression during Axon Regeneration," was co-authored with colleagues Dirk Lang, Christiane Klisa, and Claudia Stuermer in Konstanz and Heidelberg, Germany.
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