Faculty/Staff News of Note
October 2005
Diane H. Parente, associate professor of management, Randy C. Bowen, lecturer in management and finance, and Alfred G. Warner, assistant professor of management, had their paper, “Competency Testing in Strategic Management,” accepted in the Journal of Instructional Psychology.
Tracy Halmi, lecturer in chemistry, the Erie Section of the American Chemical Society, and the Erie Times-News’ Newspapers in Education program were honored with a ChemLuminary Award for Best National Chemistry Week Contest at ACS’s August national meeting in Washington, D.C. Their collaborative effort was a Web-based scavenger hunt for middle and high school students won by the Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy. The scavenger hunt celebrated the NCW theme of health and wellness.
David Hunnicutt, assistant professor of biology, presented the paper “Pathogenesis of Flavobacterium in Fish” at last week’s meeting of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s Animal Health and Diagnostic Committee.
Joe Paullet, associate professor of mathematics, presented the paper “Nonexistence of Solutions for Reverse Radial Stagnation Flow with Transpiration” at the25th Annual Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations held last weekend at University of Dayton.
A paper co-authored by Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, and marketing major Amy Caskey was presented at this month’s meeting of the Atlantic Marketing Association. The paper, “Explaining Customer Satisfaction with Food Services: An Examination of a College Cafeteria,” is based research Caskey conducted at Bruno’s Café.
Joshua Shaw, assistant professor of philosophy, had the article “Obstacles to Teaching Feminist Aesthetics” published in the American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter.
Tom Wortman, senior project associate for research, has applied to the state Department of Community and Economic Development for a $231,300 Keystone Innovation Starter Kit grant to create a proposed Applied Energy Research Center at Penn State Behrend.
Carla Torgerson, director of the Center for Teaching and Educational Technologies, was an invited guest presenter at the Academic Alliance for eLearning meeting at University Park earlier this month. She subsequently has been invited to sit on this committee as one of only two representatives from a non-UP location.
A proposal titled “HuBL: Expanding the Futures of Humanities Students” has been sent to the National Endowment for the Humanities requesting $99,994 in funding. The principal investigators are Elisabeth McMahon, assistant professor of history, Tom Wortman, Michael Brown, assistant professor of management, Joshua Shaw, and Carla Torgerson.
Assistant Professor of German Eva Kuttenberg presented the paper “Vienna and New York as Postmodern Urban Texts: Lilian Faschinger’s Weiner Passion and Paul Auster’s Smoke” at the annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA) held in September in Milwaukee, Wis.
Lecturer in English Sean Thomas Dougherty’s essay on South African journalist Kevin Carter, “Killing the Messenger,” has been accepted for publication by The Massachusetts Review, and his poems “Shift” and “All You Ask for is Longing” have been accepted by Jubilat, also based at UMass. Depaul University’s Poetry East has accepted two poems, “Eating the Violin, for Heather,” and “Karaoke Night at the Y Not Bar.” Boston University’s Agni has accepted his poem “When the Whole, As if Many, That Message,” and Poet Lore has accepted “The Heroic Ledge.”
In addition, Sean recently performed for Boa Editions at its annual fundraiser in Rochester, N.Y., and gave a reading and lecture on writing across genre at SUNY Binghampton’s Writing By Degrees conference.
James Kurre, associate professor of economics and director of the Erie Institute for Economic Research, attended the 59th Fall Conference of the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER). He organized three sessions for the conference, and he and economics major Jeremiah Riethmiller presented the paper “Creating an Index of Leading Indicators for a Metro Area.” He also was elected vice president of AUBER and will serve as head of its membership committee.
Tony Foyle, assistant professor of geology, presented the paper “Presque Isle Bay, Lake Erie: A Century of Sediment Dispersal in an Urban Freshwater Estuary” at the Estuarine Research Federation meeting held last week in Norfolk, Va.
Behrend students and staff represented 10 percent of the total attendance at the joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers held in Cleveland two weeks ago. The Physics Club sent 15 people, which was the largest student contingent. Blair Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, presented the paper “Theory of Band Offsets in Modern Transistors” at the meeting.
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