Faculty/Staff News of Note
November 2006
The Chesapeake Bay Integrated Science Program, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Department of Commerce have jointly funded a proposal by Ann Faulds, Pennsylvania Sea Grant’s associate director for the Delaware Estuary, titled “Susquehanna River Aquatic Biodiversity Network.” Ann requested and received $389,347.
Victoria Kazmerski and Dawn Blasko, associate professors of psychology, presented their work titled “Reversibility of Metaphor Processing: Improving Reliability Using Items Analysis” at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research held last week in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Ido Millet, professor of MIS, and Robert Nelson, lecturer in MIS and computer science, have had the article “Data Flow Diagrams Versus Use Cases: Student Perceptions” accepted by The International Journal of Information & Communications Technology Education. Their research conclusions were developed from three years of systems analysis data.
David Hunnicutt, assistant professor of biology, presented the research “Flavobacterium: Gliding Motility and Pathogenesis” at a symposium held earlier this week at the University of Rhode Island.
Leigh-Ann Bedal, lecturer in anthropology, has submitted two proposals for funding of her Petra garden and pool complex excavation project in Jordan—one for $358,819 to the National Endowment for the Humanities and another for $30,000 to the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration.
“Erie Area 4 Youth: Infusing the 40 Developmental Assets County-Wide” has been submitted to United Way of Erie County by Carl Kallgren, CORE director. It requests $180,000.
David Skellie, coastal land use and economic specialist at Pennsylvania Sea Grant, has requested $49,490 from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Water Planning Office to fund the project “Assessment of Streambank Conditions/Characteristics in Targeted Growth Areas within the Pennsylvania-Lake Erie Watershed.”
Russell Warley, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, had the paper “Effect of Preheat Temperature on the Location of the Minimum State of Cure in a Molded Component” published in Advances in Polymer Technology, Volume 25.
Greg Filbeck, Samuel P. Black III Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, has been awarded the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation after successfully passing the second level of the CAIA exam.
Michelle Previte, assistant professor of mathematics, and Joseph Previte, associate professor of mathematics, have submitted a three-year grant to the National Science Foundation requesting $284,542 to support the proposal “RUI Program in Vertex Replacement Rules: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.”
Courtney Nagle, lecturer in mathematics, presented the teaching lesson “Exploring Inverse Functions With Tracing Paper,” at the Northwest Ohio Symposium n Science, Mathematics, and Technology Teaching held two weeks ago in Toledo.
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