Faculty/Staff News of Note
March 2002
Dr. Dean Baldwin, professor of English,
and Dr. Terri Caruso, lecturer in English, attended the College
English Association National convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, April
4-6. While there they participated in a special panel presented by the
Association of Advisors in English. Baldwin, who is secretary of the
association, presented "MLA's Graduate College survey and Its
Relevance to Advising English Majors." Caruso, who is treasurer of
the association, presented "Using Freshman English as a Recruiting
Tool for English Majors."
Dr. G. William Baxter and Dr. Chuck
Yeung, associate professors of physics, and Dr. Blair Tuttle,
assistant professor of physics, attended the American Physical Society
meeting March 17-21 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Seven Penn State Behrend
physics majors also attended. While there Baxter presented a paper,
"Stress in a Two-dimensional Granular Medium," and Yeung present a
paper, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Reactive Blending."
Ed Blaguszewski, director of University
Relations, is the 2002 recipient of the Don Hale Award from the
College and University Public Relations Association of Pennsylvania
(CUPRAP). The award is given annually to a member who has
significantly contributed to the organization. Blaguszewski was
president of CUPRAP from 1999 to 2001. This award is named for Don
Hale, a former UPI reporter and head of university relations at
Carnegie Mellon University. Hale was CUPRAP president from 1982 to
1984.
Charles A. Brown, instructor of
accounting, and a colleague, Prevaiz Alam of Kent State University,
have had their article, "The Forecast Accuracy Improvements from
Earnings Disaggregation: A Case of the Banking Industry," published
in the Journal of Corporate Communications.
Dr. David T. Doran, associate professor
of accounting, and Charles A. Brown, instructor of accounting, have
had their article, "The Future of the Accounting Profession,"
published in the Journal of State Taxation.
Dr. Gregory W. Fowler, assistant professor of literature and American studies, has received a Fulbright Award to lecture and conduct research at the John F. Kennedy School of American Studies, Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany. Fowler also had two papers accepted for publication recently. "Stone-Throwing in Glass Houses: When Baby Boomers Met Generation X" will be published in Popular Culture Review and "Avoiding Phyrric Victories: Twain, Generation X, and Technology" will be published by the Canadian Review of American Studies.
Dr. Brian O'Leary, lecturer of
integrative arts, presented "Apocalypse Now Redux: Diluting the
Darkness" at the Regional Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture Association, held February 15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
John Kerwin, assistant professor of
communication, attended the 21st Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis and
Clark College in Portland, Oregon, March 13-15. While there he
presented a paper, "Constructing Gender and Sexual Identity: The
Construction of Gender and the Male 'Take.'"
Dr. William C. Lasher, associate
professor of mechanical engineering, has received an award from the
Council on Undergraduate Research Summer Research Fellowship in
Science and Mathematics, sponsored by CUR's Undergraduate
Researchers' Graduate School Registry. This award is for $3,000 plus
up to $500 for travel to support an undergraduate student for ten
weeks this summer. The title of the proposal is "Experimental
Determination of Downwind Sail Force Coefficients." The
project will be done by Kenton White, a junior in Mechanical
Engineering.
Over spring break, Cathy Sargent Mester, senior lecturer in communications, served as an independent judge for the Erie Diocesan Forensic Championships. More than a dozen high schools from four counties sent students to this full-day competition with the winners advancing to the national championships later this spring.
Dr. Joseph Paullett, associate
professor of mathematics, and Dr. Joseph Previte, assistant professor
of mathematics, have had their article, "A Lotka-Volterra
Three-Species Food Chain," accepted for publication this fall in the
College Journal of Mathematics. The article was co-written with Erica
English and Zac Walls, students from the 2000 REU Summer Program in
Mathematical Biology.
Dan Perritano, head men's and women's soccer coach, and Bethany Cummings, a December 2001 Behrend graduate and women's soccer alumna, finished the inaugural Washington, D.C. Marathon on Sunday, March 24. More than 8,000 runners participated in the event.
Dr. James T. Warren Jr., assistant professor biology, published a paper titled "The heat-inducible zebrafish hsp70 gene is expressed during normal lense development under non-stress conditions" in the journal Mechanisms of Development. Coauthors on this study were Scott Blechinger, Tyler Evans, Ping Tao Tang , John Y. Kuwada, and Patrick Krone from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Michigan.
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