Faculty/Staff News of Note
July 2004
Dr. Paul Barney, lecturer in biology, Dr. Michael Campbell, associate professor of biology, and Carley Hopwood, lecturer in biology, attended the Tenth Annual Council on Undergraduate Research National conference at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, June 23-27. Barney and Campbell presented a poster titled "Utilizing the Arboretum at Penn State Behrend for Increasing Exposure of the Plant Sciences to Undergraduate Students."
Dr. Teresa Caruso, lecturer in English, has just released On the subject of the feminist business: Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor. This is an edited collection of essays published by Peter Lang Publishing, New York.
Dr. David
Hunnicutt, assistant
professor of biology, attended the Northeast Microbiologist:
Physiology, Ecology, and Taxonomy Conference at Blue Mountain Lake,
New York, June 25-27 and gave a presentation titled "Guiding Motility
in Flavobacterium."
Jim Fairbank and Al Warner, assistant professors of
management, have received notification that their paper titled
"Acquisition Timing in a Formal Standards Based Industry: The Effects
of Technical, Alliance, and Acquisition Experience," co-authored with
H. Kevin Steensma of the University of Washington, has been accepted
for presentation at the 2004 Southern Management Association annual
meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in November.
Dr. Archie Loss, professor of English and American studies, attended the Bloomsday100 James Joyce Conference in Dublin, Ireland, at which he participated in the panel session on teaching Joyce to undergraduate students. This was the 19th international Joyce conference, and with more than 800 delegates from more than thirty countries in attendance, perhaps the largest to date.
Dr. Peg
Thoms, associate professor
of management and director of the MBA program at Penn State Behrend,
presented a paper titled "Future Time Perspective as a Temporal
Anchor: Applications to Organizations" at the European Applied
Business Research Conference held recently in Edinburgh,
Scotland. The paper was
co-authored by Dr. Dawn Blasko, associate professor of
psychology. While at the conference Thoms also served as a Session
chair.
Thoms is the author of Driven by Time: Time Orientation and
Leadership Greenwood/Praeger, 2003), a book that explores
her research on how CEOs perceive the past, present, and future, and
the resulting implications for leadership.
Dr. James Warren, associate professor of biology, attended the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions meeting in Washington, D.C., June 27-July 2.
Dr. Robert Weissbach, assistant professor of electrical engineering technology, presented four papers at the American Society of Engineering Education's annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20-23. The first was titled "Hardware Experiments in Feedback Control Systems Using a Geared DC Motor." The second was titled "Lessons Learned and Best Practices in Multidisciplinary Teamwork and Teaching of a Small Product Realization Course," and was co-authored by Dr. Ralph Ford, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Jana Goodrich, lecturer in management and marketing.
The third paper was titled "Remote Sensing with GPS Sensor and Cellular Modem," written by David Loker, assistant professor of engineering, Ron Krahe, associate professor of engineering, and four students in electrical engineering technology: Jeffrey Kirsch, Ted Yowonske, R. Joseph Cunningham, and Joseph Petrovich. The fourth paper was titled "Broadening the Scope of a Material Science Course by Experimentally Testing the Effects of Electricity on Metallic Test Specimen's Material Properties," written by Fred Nitterright, lecturer in engineering, and Dr. John Roth, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
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