Faculty/Staff News of Note
September 2001
Welcome
to Dr. Mary Ellen Bayuk, newly appointed registrar. Prior to
her appointment at Behrend, she was at Penn State McKeesport.
Dr.
Sharon Dale,
associate professor of art history, has had her article, "A House
Divided: San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia and the Politics of Pope
John XXII," published in a recent edition of the Journal of
Medieval History.
Indranil
Ghosh,
lecturer in economics, has had his article, "Welfare Asymptotics of
the Pivotal Mechanism," accepted for publication in the Mathematical
Social Sciences Journal.
Robert Nelson, lecturer in MIS and computer science and Dr. Ido Millet,
associate professor of MIS, presented
"A Foundation Course in ERP and Business Processes:
Rationale, Design, and Educational Outcomes" at the 7th Americas
Conference on Information Systems in Boston.
Dr. Ann S. Pancake, assistant professor of creative writing
and literature, is the author of an award-winning new short story
collection, Given Ground.
Last year she won the Bakeless Prize, a national award
sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for a first book of
fiction. Given Ground was published this year by the University
Press of New England.
Dr. Diane H. Parente, assistant professor of management, had her paper, "Redesigning a
Square Peg: TQM Performance Appraisals," accepted for publication in
the Total Quality Management Journal. She co-authored the paper
with Dr. Khalid Aldakhilallah of King Saud University.
Congratulations to C. David Rogers, lecturer in electrical
engineering, who was named 2001 Volunteer of the Year by Perseus
House. He received the award at Perseus House graduation ceremonies in
May. He teaches youth in that organization a hands-on course called
"Sailing and Seamanship."
Dr.
Kimberly A. Skarupski, director of research at CORE and assistant professor of psychology,
assisted Forresters' Harbor, Inc., an adult day care center, in
securing a $3,125 grant from the Erie Community Foundation to
implement a new respite care project titled "Certified Family
Friends." CORE will provide the evaluation for the program.
Dr.
Kimberly A. Skarupski, director of research at CORE, was awarded a subcontract in the amount
of $90,000 to evaluate a three-year abstinence-based teenage pregnancy
awareness program. Skarupski developed the evaluation plan for The
Women's Care Center of Erie County in its $262,357 SPRANS (Special
Projects of Regional and National Significance) grant entitled: "The
Abstinence Advantage Program." SPRANS grants are awarded by the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Research and Services
Administration.
Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski, director of research at CORE, was recently awarded a $141,887 grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to conduct an outcomes evaluation of the Long Distance Dads Program at the State Correctional Institute at Albion. This outcomes evaluation follows the process evaluation conducted by CORE that ended June 30, 2001. The award is for an eighteen-month project that will start October 1.
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