Faculty/Staff News of Note
February 2004
Dr. Michael Christofferson, assistant professor of history, has written a book titled French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Anti-totalitarian Moment of the1970s. Publisher is Berghahn Books.
Brad Comann, lecturer in English, published an article titled "Last Making" in the Raritan Review.
Two faculty members will be part of the "One Book, One Erie" celebration sponsored by the Erie County Library and planned for March 2004. A. Daniel Frankforter, professor of history, and Nicole Louise Reid, lecturer in creative writing, will be part of a panel discussing Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, on Sunday, March 14, at 4:00 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 5909 Peach Street. The discussion is open to the public and all are welcome. For more information on "One Book, One Erie" go to http://www.ecls.lib.pa.us/onebook.html.
Chris Coulston, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, attended the technical program committee meeting for the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI held in New York City on February 6. In addition, Coulston will be the finance and registration chair for the conference to be held later this year in Boston.
Dr. Archie Loss, professor of English and American studies, has been elected to the national board of the Society for Commercial Archaeology, based in the Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green University. SCA is an organization concerned with the preservation of commercial artifacts of twentieth century American popular culture (early motels, gas stations, bus depots, etc.) and with the highway system that created them (Lincoln Highway, Route 66, etc.). SCA publishes a quarterly newsletter and a journal, and holds an annual national meeting.
On February 3, Blair Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, gave a presentation to the classes at the Montessori Children's House of Erie. The presentation was titled "Science, Math and Fractals" and the students played a group "chaos game" that resulted in the creation of a fractal.
Dr. Gary Viebranz, lecturer in music and director of instrumental ensembles, served as guest conductor of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 2 Band Festival February 11-14. The event, which took place at Coudersport Area Junior-Senior High School, included an honors ensemble of approximately 165 students representing 42 high schools from Northwest Pennsylvania. As part of the weekend's activities, Viebranz conducted the ensemble in eighteen hours of rehearsals over three days, culminating in a Saturday afternoon concert performance of seven selections.
Lucy Dzeskiewicz Lenhardt, research assistant, plastics engineering technology laboratory, was a member of the committee for the Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania's (PROP) thirteenth annual conference. This three-day conference, which moves around the state of Pennsylvania, was held in Erie this year, and included a tour of Penn State Behrend to see the college's implementation of its campus-wide Ecological Sustainability Plan. The Pennsylvania Recycler has published its first issue, winter 2004, highlighting the conference, including the tour of Behrend College.
Lessons Learned: Practical Advice for the Teaching of Psychology, a book published this month by the American Psychological Society, includes two articles written by Behrend faculty. "Acting Lessons for Teachers: Using Performance Skills in the Classroom" is co-authored by Cathy Sargent Mester, senior lecturer in communication and Robert Tauber, professor emeritus of education. In addition, Mester is the sole author of "Entrances and Exits: Making the Most of Sixty Key Seconds in Every Class."
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