Scholarship and Recognition
Cristina Mathews
An article by Cristina Mathews, assistant professor of English, appears in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Bilingual Review. The paper, entitled "'A Nest from the Bones of the Dead': Challenging the Mourning and Melancholia Dichotomy in Irene Vilar's The Ladies' Gallery," discusses a 1996 memoir using relational psychoanalytic theories and new literary critical approaches to loss. In March, Dr. Mathews presented a paper, entitled "Deliberately Missing the Point: Elena Garro's Recollections of Things to Come," at "Women, Home and Nation," the 17th Annual Romance Languages Conference at SUNY Binghamton.
Williams Emeka Obiozor
Williams Emeka Obiozor, assistant professor of exceptionality programs, recently coordinated an international conference on Education and Development Initiatives in The Gambia. The international conference discussed systematic approaches to furthering the development of education and national growth in the small West African nation. Participants at the conference included students and faculty from the University of The Gambia, St. Mary's College, Maryland; Washington & Jefferson College, and Juanita College of Pennsylvania. Obiozor presented a paper titled: "Policy Recommendations on Girl Child Education and Teacher Training in The Gambia." Also, he donated used special education books to the library of Gambia Methodist Special School.
Roy Smith
Roy Smith, director of the Quest program, recently completed a project with a General Dynamics Division operation in York, Pa. Smith conducted team development training sessions for senior and mid level managers as well as a two day strategic planning session.
Victoria Kidd
Victoria Kidd (B.A., journalism, 1998) has been named assistant director of advancement communications and editor of Susquehanna Today magazine at Susquehanna University. She was promoted from news and editorial manager. Kidd was an associate editor and circulation director during the two years she worked on on Spectrum Magazine. After graduation, she worked for the Daily Item in Sunbury.
Mark Decker
Mark Decker, assistant professor of English, contributed a chapter, "Politicized Dystopia and Biomedical Imaginaries: The Case of 'The Machine Stops,'" to New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction. Edited by Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox, the book was recently published by The University of South Carolina Press.
Angela R. Hess
Angela R. Hess, assistant professor of biological and allied health Sciences presented the paper "EphA2 as a Promoter of Melanoma Tumorigenesis" at the First Annual Eph/Ephrins in Cancer Conference held in Winston-Salem, NC from June 25 -26, 2008.
Jerry Wemple
Jerry Wemple, associate professor of English, gave a poetry reading as part of the summer solstice celebration at Shikellamy State Park overlook on June 21. The event, sponsored by the Friends of Shikellamy State Park, included music, speakers, and other activities. Wemple was also featured in an article about the event published in The Daily Item. Wemple, who grew up in the region, is the author of two poetry collections, co-editor of a collection of poetry about Pennsylvania, and editor of a regional journal.
Michael C. Hickey
Michael C. Hickey, professor of history, has written an article titled "Communists vs. Clerics: The Smolensk Choral Synagogue, the Khislavichi Rov Shtibl Synagogue, and the Anti-Religious Campaign in Smolensk during NEP" that will appear in the September-October 2008 issue of the journal NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-1928.
Joneen Lowman
Joneen Lowman, assistant professor of audiology and speech pathology, is featured on the cover of Advance for Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Lowman works with classroom teachers to enrich the language and vocabulary skills of young children considered at risk.(The cover image was taken by Eric Foster.)
Jason Genovese
Jason Genovese, instructor of mass communications, presented a co-authored paper, "'Have you got game?' Hegemonic masculinity and neo-homophobia in sports coverage of John Amaechi" at the International Communication Association conference in Montreal.
Dennis Hwang and Blair Staley
Dennis B.K. Hwang, professor of accounting, Blair Staley, associate professor of accounting, and their colleagues, Ying T. Chen and Jyh-Shan Lan of Providence University (Taiwan) co-authored a referred journal article "Confucian culture and auditor whistle-blowing: An exploratory study" that was published in May 2008 in Managerial Auditing Journal, 23 (5), pp. 504-526.
Walter Brasch
Walter Brasch, professor of journalism, was moderator/speaker for a panel on the state's new Right-to-Know law. Panelists were Teri Henning, general counsel of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association; Barry Kauffman, executive director of Pennsylvania Common Cause; and Valerie Burch, ACLU counsel. The Pennsylvania Bar Association approved the ACLU-sponsored meeting for required annual continuing legal education credits. Also in attendance were journalists, public officials, and members of the public. Brasch is an ACLU vice-president and also president of the Pennsylvania Press Club.
M. Safa Saracoglu
M. Safa Saracoglu, assistant professor of history, was recently awarded a research scholarship for the month of August in the East European Studies of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He was also awarded the PASSHE's FTPDC grant for Summer Research in Turkey, Bulgaria and UK.
John Hintz
John Hintz, assistant professor of geography and geosciences, presented a paper "Undermining Environmental Justice: the Case of Uranium Enrichment in New Mexico" on December 6, 2007 at the Fifth International Conference of Critical Geography in Mumbai, India.
Ju Xin
Ju Xin, associate professor of physics, has won the Faculty and Student Team (FaST) competition. FaST is a summer research program jointly sponsored by DOE and NSF. He will bring two physics graduates Jeremy Pigeon and Tim Barvitskie to Brookhaven National Lab for a 10-week research.
Loreen M. Powell
Loreen M. Powell, assistant professor of business education and business information systems, was an invited speaker and participant in the 20th University Oxford Round Table on the topic of Cyberspace at Oxford University, England. This was an invitation only event extended to approximately forty academics. Powell spoke on Female Teleworker's Usage of Information Technology Communities of Practices in Cyberspace.
Nicole Defenbaugh
Nicole Defenbaugh, assistant professor of communication studies and theatre arts, recently performed her show, "It takes guts [colon] spelling (with) dis-ease" at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine as part of their yearly Penn Island Education Program. Her performance critically examined the construction of ill identities in Western medicine with a focus on "hidden" illnesses and intestinal diseases such as Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis. The audience consisted of third year medical students and medical educators.
David Minderhout
David Minderhout, professor of anthropology, was an invited participant in the "Native American Languages in Crisis" conference at the University of Pennsylvania, May 3-4. The conference was sponsored by the Penn Center for Native American Studies. It focused on exploring the interface between academia, technology and smaller native language communities, such as Lenape in Pennsylvania.
Christine Alichnie
Christine Alichnie, professor of nursing, was awarded the Pennsylvania Higher Education Nursing Schools Association, Inc. (PHENSA) "Distinguished Colleague Award" for 2008. PHENSA is an association in which schools of nursing are members and the deans or chairs are the representatives. The group promotes baccalaureate and higher degree education in nursing as well as issues which affect health care in general.
Sharon Solloway
Sharon G. Solloway, associate professor of developmental instruction, has an article in the current issue of The Journal of Transpersonal Studies entitled, "Mindfulness in Measurement: Reconsidering the Measurable in Mindfulness Practice." The article reports results of the extension of previous work demonstrating the organic partnership of qualitative and quantitative data confirming the value of mindfulness practice as an assignment in undergraduate education. The article may be accessed online.
Kurt Smith
Kurt Smith, associate professor of philosophy, was one of three featured presenters at an early modern philosophy conference (April 25th) at UNC Chapel Hill. He presented "Debunking the Direct Realist Reading of Descartes". He also was an invited discussant on NPR's "The State of Things" (his third appearance on NPR), hosted by Frank Stasio. You can hear Smith by podcast.
Maureen Hill
Maureen A. Hill, M.Ed., CT, an interpreter in Accommodative Services for Students with Disabilities, facilitated a presentation "Children with Special Needs: Deafness" to a group of teachers at Lehigh Carbon Community College who are working on specialized certification in teaching children with disabilities.
Michael C. Hickey
Michael C. Hickey, professor of history, has been awarded a Research Associate Fellowship at the Summer Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois Center for Russian and East European Studies for June 2008.
Patricia Beyer
Patricia J. Beyer, associate professor of geography and geosciences, presented an illustrated paper titled "The Water Atlas Poster Project: Merging Content and Skills in Undergraduate Geography Courses" at the Association of American Geographers 104rd Annual Meeting, April 15-19, 2008, Boston, Mass. The paper presented an on-going effort in her Water Resources Management course (41.301) to develop an electronic water atlas by state, created by students in the class, as a way of integrating discipline-specific content with general skills (such as writing, researching, and data analysis) in an upper-level geography course. The students present their water use projects in a poster session at the end of the semester; look for another poster session in December of 2008.
Sam Slike, Pam Berman, Travis Kline, Kathryn Rebilas and Erin Bosch
Sam Slike, professor of exceptionality programs; Pam Berman, instructional designer and developer at the Institute for Interactive Technologies and an adjunct faculty member for the department of instructional technology; and master of science in instructional technology graduates Travis Kline and Kathryn Rebilas; and Erin Bosch, alumnus of the master of science in education of the deaf/hard of hearing program, recently published an article in The Journal of Instruction Delivery Systems. The article was entitled, "Providing Online Course Opportunities for Deaf/HH and Hearing Learners."
Williams Emeka Obiozor
Williams Emeka Obiozor, assistant professor of exceptionality programs, presented his paper, "Language and Graffiti: Pedagogical Strategies in Igboland" at the 6th Annual Igbo Studies Association Conference, held at Howard University, Washington D.C., April 4-5, 2008.
He will also chair the 1st Education and Development Initiatives Workshop at the 2008 Banjul International Conference, taking place at the YMCA Center, University of The Gambia Road, Kanifing, from May 24-26. His paper, "Policy Recommendations on Girl Child Education in the Republic of The Gambia" will be presented at the conference; also featuring the participation of study abroad faculty and students from Washington & Jefferson College, Washington-PA, and Juniata College, Huntingdon-PA, and University of The Gambia faculty and students. The policy recommendations are among the reports contained in his recent research/doctoral dissertation.
Timothy McConnell
Timothy R. McConnell, associate professor of exercise science, co-authored two papers that were presented at the American College of Cardiology 57th Annual Scientific Session held March 11, 2008 in Chicago, Il. The abstracts were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The first is: McConnell T.R., Santamore W., Menapace F.J., Bove A., Homko C., Kalyanasundaram A. Differential impact of telemedicine on exercise capacity and body composition in urban and rural underserved populations. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 51 (10):A242, 2008.
The second is: Bove A.A., Santamore W.P., Homko C.J., McConnell T.R., Shirk G., Cross R., Kashem A., Menapace F.J. Communication strategies to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in underserved populations. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 51 (10):A244-A245, 2008.
In addition Dr. McConnell co-authored the following publication: Santamore W.P., Homko C.J., Kashem A., McConnell T.R., Menapace F.J., Bove A.A. Accuracy of blood pressure measurements transmitted through a telemedicine system in underserved populations. Telemedicine and e-Health. 14(4):351-356, 2008.
Ralph M. Feather
Ralph M. Feather, Jr., assistant professor of educational studies and secondary education, attended a dinner in Boston with the Minister of Education of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Dr. Mohammed M. Al-Aseeri, on March 27 while attending the 2008 NSTA annual convention. The dinner honored his and other members of the Ministry of Education's visit to America to meet with the authors and publisher of science textbooks to be used in Saudi Arabia. Feather's 3-book series of middle school science textbooks, Glencoe Science Green, Red, and Blue (2008) is being translated into Arabic for Saudi Arabia and surrounding countries in the area. While at the NSTA convention, Dr. Feather twice presented his workshop, Dr. Ralph's Teaching Inquiry Science with Toys and Treats. The peer-reviewed workshops drew an attendance of 350 elementary, secondary, and higher education science educators.
Dor Remsen
Dor Remsen, manager of communications and prospect research, was elected as Membership Director of Prospect Researchers of Eastern Pennsylvania/ Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (PREP/APRA), the regional chapter of APRA. Remsen works with the seven other directors to provide leadership for the PREP/APRA and works with volunteers in developing materials and records related to chapter membership and recruitment. Remsen also presents information to the membership during conference events and contributes to the planning process.
Suzi Glowaski
Suzi Glowaski, a staff interpreter in the office of accommodative services for students with disabilities, successfully completed her Certificate of Interpretation (CI) exam administered by the national organization, the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID).
Alan K. Goodboy
Alan K. Goodboy, assistant professor of communication studies, is the lead author on a publication titled "Relational Maintenance Behaviors of Friends with Benefits: Investigating Equity and Relational Characteristics" that appears in the latest volume of Human Communication.
Neil Strine IV
Harry C. "Neil" Strine IV, assistant professor of political science and director of forensics, recently presented a paper with Dr. Christopher R. Darr, titled "Incivility in Supreme Court Nomination Hearings, 1971-2006" at the Midwest Political Science Conference held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Strine IV's paper, "George W. Bush and Presidential Signing Statements: An Abuse of Power or Continuing a Presidential Tradition" will be included in Cambridge Scholars Publishing forthcoming publication of a collection of papers from the "Symposium on the Legacy of George W. Bush" held at Mount Union College in March.
Sybil L. Holloway
Sybil L. Holloway, psychological counselor in the Center for Counseling and Human Development, published an article titled "Tips on Stress and the Economy" in the April 2008 issue of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association's e-newsletter, Psychological News You Can Use. This newsletter, with her lead article, can be found at here.
Ruth R. Kennedy
Ruth R. Kennedy, assistant professor of early childhood and elementary education, gave two presentations at the Association for Childhood Education International's annual conference in Atlanta. One session was titled "The Power of In-Class Debates" and the other was titled "Hot Topics in Early Childhood: The views of undergraduates regarding universal pre-kindergarten, full day kindergarten, and school readiness." Also, an article she wrote titled "Learning Styles of Elementary Teacher Candidates" will be published this month in Academic Exchange Quarterly (volume 12, issue 1).
Her article "The Power of In-Class Debates" will be published in Active Learning in Higher Education (a Sage publication) in 2009.
Mark Decker
Mark Decker, assistant professor of English, recently published "'Moving Again Among the Shades of Tall, Unaxed Trees': Regional Utopias, Railroads, and Metropolitan Miscegenation in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses" in Mississippi Quarterly.
Sharon Solloway
Sharon G. Solloway, associate professor of developmental instruction, has recently presented several papers. They include: "Beginning Again: Continuing the Calibration of An Instrument for Improving What we Do-Establishing Rasch Measurements for Self-Theories of Intelligence" at the International Objective Measurement Workshop in New York City; "The Mathematical as Soulful Inquiry: A Rasch Model Informs Curriculum Decisions" at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies in New York City; and "The Usefulness of Investing in More Fully Mathematical Survey Research: Applying Probabilistic Models to Develop Curricula" and "Getting Mindfulness into the Curriculum at a Public University: The Continuing Story of the Impact of a Project Measuring Mindfulness and Mindset Orientations" at the American Educational Research Association in New York City.
Walter Brasch
Walter Brasch, professor of journalism, has been named senior editor of OpEd News. The web-based newspaper focuses upon political and social issues, with sections for opinion, news, entertainment and recreation. Bill Moyers calls OpEd News one of his favorite sites.
Robin Drogan
Robin Drogan, a BU master's degree candidate in special education, presented a poster on March 27, 2008 on functional behavior assessment at the fifth international conference of The Association for Positive Behavior Support.
Ferda Asya
Ferda Asya, assistant professor of English, is the winner of the 2008/2009 Edith Wharton Collection Research Award granted by the Edith Wharton Society to conduct research on the Edith Wharton materials at the Beinecke Library of Yale University. The Edith Wharton Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contains 50,000 items, consisting of manuscripts, letters, photographs, miscellaneous personal papers that belonged to Edith Wharton (1862-1937) and were a part of her estate at her death. The Edith Wharton Collection Research Award is a competitive grant. It is offered each year by the Edith Wharton Society to one scholar for bringing a thorough preparation to the research project, which will contribute significantly to Wharton Scholarship.
Patricia Dorame-Holoviak
Patricia Dorame-Holoviak, associate professor of languages and cultures, read her paper "Mariana de Jesus en Aprendiendo a Morir: Su orden simbolico en la Audiencia de Quito y su reinvencion en el texto novelesco" at the 17th Romance Languages and Literatures Conference - Women, Home and Nation: Private and Public Spaces - held at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, March 14-15. Dorame-Holoviak examines how Mariana's corpora - a saint from the 17th century - is perceived, interpreted and represented when crossing cultural discourses and how her sexual body in the novel is moved to the center of cultural discourse.
Andrea Fradkin
Andrea Fradkin, assistant professor of exercise science and athletics, recently presented two papers, "Do Brochures Promote the Benefits of Warm-up to Golfers and Help Change Their Warm-up Behaviours?" and "Describing the Warm-up Habits of Recreational Golfers and the Associated Injury Risk", and was co-author on a third "Observed Warm-up Behaviors Do Not Reflect Those Reported by Amateur Golfers" at the 5th World Scientific Congress on Golf in Arizona.
Fradkin also recently published three book chapters entitled, "Do Brochures Promote the Benefits of Warm-up to Golfers and Help Change Their Warm-up Behaviours?" and "Describing the Warm-up Habits of Recreational Golfers and the Associated Injury Risk", and "Observed Warm-up Behaviors Do Not Reflect Those Reported by Amateur Golfers" in the book entitled "Science and Golf V."
Nancy Coulmas
Nancy Coulmas, professor of accounting, presented a research paper at the recent Association of Marketing Theory and Practice (AMTP) National Conference in Savannah, Georgia. The paper, co-authored with Dr. Stephen Markell, Associate Professor of Management, focused on the assurance of learning assessment processes of the College of Business.
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, associate professor of English, reviewed an essay for Children's Literature, one of two peer-reviewed academic journals sponsored by the Children's Literature Association. In addition, she was appointed by the president-elect of the International Reading Association to serve on the Poetry and Prose Awards committee for the academic year 2008-2009.
She will also present two papers this summer and fall. The first is "Newbery Honor Books Set in Africa: Do They Exemplify Both Literary and Cultural Merit?" at the 22nd World Congress on Reading this July in Costa Rica. This paper is part of a book project she is currently editing on Children's Literature and Awards.
The second is "Outsiders in Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales." She will present this at the 31st IBBY (International Board on Books for Young people) World Congress this September in Copenhagen, Denmark.
She will be part of a panel titled, "Exploring the 'Critical' in Critical Content Analysis of Children's Literature" for the Fall National Reading Conference. According to Kathy Short (University of Arizona), chair of the panel, Vivian is one of "three established researchers who engage in critical analysis from different theoretical perspectives." Her presentation then will focus on the postcolonial theoretical frame. Using a picture book selected by the chair of the panel, she will demonstrate this postcolonial research methodology.
David Magolis and Linda Neyer
David Magolis and Linda Neyer of the Andruss Library, recently co-presented a session, "Where's the Library?: Establishing Our Presence in the Course Management System," with Jane Hutton, West Chester University, and Sheila Kasperek, Mansfield University, at the annual Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Library Conference in Grantville.
Nathalie G. Cornelius
Nathalie G. Cornelius, associate professor of languages and cultures, has had her review of French Canadian author Clara Ness's novel "La genese de l'oubli" published in the April 2008 issue of The French Review. The novel explores the feelings of alienation French-born Hadrien and his French Canadian wife Ariane experience with regard to their cultural and genetic pasts, and their quest for immersion into middle class Quebec.
Gilbert Darbouze
Gilbert Darbouze, Professor/Languages and Cultures, read his paper "Women as Memory of a Nation in Alfons Cervera's Maquis (Resitance Fighters), El Color del Crepusculo (The Color of Dusk), and La Noche Inmovil (The Motionless Night)" at the 17th Romance Language and Literature Conference held at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, March 14-15. The paper shows that, in Cervera's trilogy, women play a very important role as the individual, familial and national collective memory of the Spanish civil war. Women seem to have a greater capacity to internalize than men. They are capable of storing more memories which they recall to use when appropriate. Cervera uses women's voice in a very original narrative style replete with poetic imagery, scents and colors to keep alive the memory of the civil war that divided the Spanish nation and changed the course of its history.
Williams Emeka Obiozor
Williams Emeka Obiozor, assistant professor of exceptionality programs, presented his paper, "African Names: Cultural Pedagogy and the Black Race" at the 32nd Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference (NCBS) held at Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown, Atlanta, GA. March 19-22, 2008.
David Martin
David G. Martin, dean of the College of Business at BU was recently named to a three-year term for the Initial Accreditation Committee of AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Bloomsburg University is one of only 554 schools worldwide accredited by AACSB. According to the AACSB International website (www.aascsb.edu):
The Initial Accreditation Committee (IAC) oversees processes for initial business accreditation to ensure consistency of standards application and equity of recommendations across teams and across programs reviewed. The committee reviews and, if appropriate, accepts Accreditation Plans forwarded by the PreAccreditation Committee (PAC), monitors the implementation of the accreditation process and oversees the initial accreditation process including the development of the Self Evaluation and the peer review team visit.
The committee has a maximum of 18 members and meets three times per year.
Steven Rier
Steven Rier, assistant professor of biology and allied health sciences and researchers at Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, PA and Bucknell University have received a grant for $214,725 from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Growing Greener program to expand an on-going study that demonstrates the impacts of acid mine discharge on stream ecosystem function, particularly nutrient processing.
Darlene Perner
Darlene Perner, associate professor of special education in exceptionality programs, has had two chapters entitled "Creating Inclusive Schools: Changing Roles and Strategies" and "Creating Inclusive Schools: Strategies for Change, Administrators and Teachers" recently published by PRO-ED, Inc. in the book, Research-Based Practices in Developmental Disabilities (2nd ed.).
John Barrett, Melissa Cheese, Tara Diehl, Joan Dillon, and Elena Litvinova
John Barrett, Melissa Cheese, Tara Diehl, Joan Dillon, and Elena Litvinova, of the department of developmental instruction/Act 101/EOP, recently co-presented "Voices from the Trenches: Developmental Programs for Student Success" at the National Association of Developmental Education Conference "The New Revolution" in Boston.
David Minderhout and Andrea Frantz
David Minderhout, professor of anthropology, and former BU student, Andrea Frantz, presented a paper at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology on March 27, 2008. The meetings were held in Memphis, TN, and the title of the presentation was "Pennsylvania's Native Americans in the K-12 Curriculum." Ms. Frantz is a graduate student in anthropology at Arizona State University.
Pamela Donovan
Pamela Donovan, assistant professor of sociology, social work, and criminal justice, presented "The Role of Uncertainty in Knowledge of Suspected Drink Spiking Incidents," a paper based on her current research on students' knowledge and experience of date rape drugs, at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in New York City.
Williams Emeka Obiozor
Williams Emeka Obiozor, assistant professor of exceptionality programs, presented his paper, "Girl Child Pedagogy and Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of The Gambia," at the 7th Annual Conference of the Women's Studies Graduate Organization at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, March 1, 2008. Obiozor also recently accompanied a delegation of 10 undergraduate students to the Annual African Writers Conference organized by SENASE and FECA-Washington D.C. at Greenbelt Marriot Hotel, Maryland. Earlier in 2008, he chaired the Panel on Education and Development Initiative in The Gambia, in Banjul, Republic of The Gambia.
Reza Noubary
Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics, has written eight papers published or accepted for publication so far in the 2007-2008 academic year. Papers include: "Probabilistic analysis of a table tennis game," in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. 3, 1-18; "It is time to support extremes," in FOCUS, Mathematical Association of America. 27, 9, 24-25; "Prediction of sports records; a review," in IMA Sport (Percy et. al. Eds.) 142-146; "Analysis of a table tennis game; a teaching tool," in IMA Sport (Percy et. al. Eds.) 147-151; "Tail modeling applied to athletic performances" in the Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences. 16, to appear; "Some statistical methods for prediction of athletic records," in the Journal of Statistical Research. 3, 1, to appear; "Alcohol, a motivating theme for introductory mathematics and statistics courses," in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, to appear; and "It is time to include extremes in statistics curriculum," in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, to appear.
Noubary is shown holding the books has written related to sports and statistics.
David Minderhout and Andrea Frantz
David Minderhout, professor of anthropology, and former BU student, Andrea Frantz, have a article published in the Spring issue of Human Organization, the journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology (Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 61-67). The article is entitled "Invisible Indians: Native Americans in Pennsylvania."
John Riley
John Riley, professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics, has had "Windows Directory Entries for 8.3 Names in VFAT File Systems" published in the most recent issue of Journal of Digital Forensic Practice.
Stephen Whitworth
Stephen Whitworth, associate professor of English, has been invited to be a respondent on a panel entitled "Transference Love and the Agalma," by the Lacanian organization, Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workshops, in Philadelphia.
John O. Okpara and Pamela Wynn
John O. Okpara associate professor of management and Pamela Wynn professor of management recently published a paper titled "Human Resource Management Practices in a Transition Economy. Challenges and Prospects" in Management Research News, Vol. 31, No1. pp. 57-76. Management Research News is one of the Emerald's peer reviewed academic journal that has been in publication for 30 years.
Ethan Krupp
Ethan Krupp, assistant professor of communication studies and theatre arts, designed sound for the recent Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble production of Noel Coward's play Blithe Spirit.
Eric Rawson
Eric S. Rawson, associate professor of exercise science and athletics, recently published an invited book chapter entitled "Safety of creatine supplementation in health and disease" in the text Creatine and Creatine Kinase in Health and Disease. The book, published by Springer in the Netherlands, is part of the distinguished Subcellular Biochemistry Series.
Wazi Apoh and Ivan B. Turnipseed
Frederick Douglass teaching scholars and assistant professors Wazi Apoh (anthropology, shown on right) and Ivan B. Turnipseed (management, shown on left) recently accompanied a delegation of 14 undergraduate and graduate students to the 20th Annual National Black Graduate Student Conference in Chicago, Ill. The five-day interdisciplinary event (March 12-16) was themed Brilliance in Black and drew more than 200 participants from more than 70 institutions. Apoh presented the paper "Globalization and Socio-Spiritual Life of Religious Images: An Anthropological Gaze on the Kpando Marian Grottos Ghana." Turnipseed facilitated a workshop entitled "A.R.R.G.!: Parsing Age, Race, Religion, and Gender in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election." Bloomsburg University was awarded a certificate for having the largest student presence, and BU graduate students Judith Harry and Philip Thomas were elected to the NBGSA national leadership team as Nominations and Elections Commission Chair and Northeast Regional Representative, respectively.
Michael Patte
Michael M. Patte, assistant professor of early childhood and elementary education, recently shared the preliminary results of an empirical research study titled, "An Examination of the Attitudes and Actions of Teachers Concerning the Implementation of Play-Based Pedagogy" at The Association for the Study of Play's Annual Conference in Tempe, Ariz. In addition, Patte had an article, "Examining the Therapeutic Benefits of Play on Hospitalized Children," accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Play and Culture Studies.
Joseph L. Andreacci
Joseph L. Andreacci, assistant professor of exercise science, is a co-author on the manuscript entitled, "Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Percent Body Fat using Leg-to-leg and Segmental Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Adults," which appears in the International Journal of Body Composition Research 6 (1): 2008. Former graduate student, Christina Ledezma (MS '06), also serves as a co-author on this manuscript.
Gilbert Darbouze
Gilbert Darbouze, professor of languages and cultures, read his paper "Women as Memory of a Nation in Alfons Cervera's MAQUIS (Resitance Fighters), EL COLOR DEL CREPUSCULO (The Color of Dusk), and LA NOCHE INMOVIL (The Motionless Night)" at the 17th Romance Language and Literature Conference held at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, March 14-15. Darbouze argues that in Cervera's trilogy, women play a very important role as the individual, familial and national collective memory of the Spanish civil war. Darbouze notes that in the works, women seem to have a greater capacity to internalize than men and are capable of storing more memories which they recall to use when appropriate. Cervera uses women's voice in a very original narrative style replete with poetic imagery, scents and colors to keep alive the memory of the civil war that divided the Spanish nation and changed the course of its history.
Ronnie Breisch
AFSCME Council 13 Executive Director David Fillman recently appointed Local 2361 President Ronnie Breisch as a member of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Work and Family Committee. This 6 person committee addresses issues facing working women and their families and is chaired by Barbara Cooper, Council 13 Vice President for State Employees.
Harry C. "Neil" Strine IV
Harry C. "Neil" Strine IV, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper titled, "George W. Bush and Presidential Signing Statements: An Abuse of Power or Continuing a Presidential Tradition?" at a symposium on George W. Bush held at Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio on Saturday, March 1.
Kelly VanGorden
Kelly VanGorden, assistant professor of exercise science and athletics, recently presented at the Eastern District Association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance in Newport, RI. The title of her presentation was "Psychosocial Development of Pre-Service Physical Education Teachers Throughout an Early Field Experience."
Loreen Powell and Carl J. Chimi
Loreen Powell and Carl J. Chimi of the Business Education/Business Information Systems Department have had a journal article titled "What Will Make Primary Educators Use LORs: A Better Interface or More Free Time?" published in the Journal of Education & Human Development.
Marilou Hinchcliff
Marilou Hinchcliff, associate professor, Harvey A. Andruss Library, was co-author of a successful $50,000 Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries to obtain records in bulk for selected microform sets owned by 6 PASSHE university libraries. Hinchcliff wrote the sections pertaining to Andruss Library's microform sets; Bloomsburg's share of the grant will be approximately $17,600, the largest of the participating libraries, and will provide catalog records for 8 microform sets, including the Schomburg Collection in black culture, Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, Pennsylvania County and Regional Histories, and Harrisburg Newspapers 1792-1866. Other participating libraries are Edinboro, IUP, Kutztown, Clarion, and West Chester. When loaded, the records will allow library patrons to locate information on these materials in the libraries' online catalogs.
Kurt Smith
Kurt Smith, associate professor of philosophy, just returned from giving three invited lectures at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. The first focused on 17th Rationalism, the second was a department colloquium talk focused on his new book manuscript (Matter Matters), and the third was a campus wide talk on academic freedom.
Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus
Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus, professor of languages and cultures, has been granted a traveling grant from the University of Merida, Venezuela. Hidalgo de Jesus has been invited by the institution to give a talk on her co-edited critical anthology Escritura y Desafio: Narradoras Venezolanas del siglo XX. While in Merida, she has been also invited by the University of Merida Scholarly Press to discuss the possibility of a second edition of the critical anthology and also the possibility of editing another critical anthology on "Venezuelan Female Writers of the Last Decades of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st century."
A. Blair Staley
A. Blair Staley, associate professor of accounting, and his colleague Nace R. Magner, the J. C. Holland Professor of Accounting at Western Kentucky University, have had a paper "Budgetary Fairness and Governmental Program Heads' Turnover Intention" accepted for publication in Managerial Auditing Journal. The paper is scheduled to appear in issue 4 at the end of May. Staley and his colleague Donald T. Williamson, professor and Director of the M.S.T. program and the chair of the accounting department at American University, have granted Matthew Bender and Company, Inc. permission to reprint their article "Are the Proposed Timely Mailing/Timely Filing Regulations Timely? 108 Tax Notes 597 (2005) in the new edition of a law school publication "Tax Controversies: Practice and Procedure."
Nancy Gentile Ford
History professor Nancy Gentile Ford's third book, The Great War and America: Civil-Military Relations During World War I, was just published by Praeger Security International/Greenwood Press.
Alan K. Goodboy
Alan K. Goodboy, assistant professor of communication studies, is the lead author on a publication titled "The Effect of Teacher Confirmation on Student Communication and Learning Outcomes" that appears in the April issue of Communication Education. This manuscript also received a top paper award from the Instructional Development Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). This paper will be presented in May in Montreal Quebec, Canada.
Swapan Mookerjee
Swapan Mookerjee, professor of exercise science and athletics, served as the Technical Advisor for the III International Congress on Sports Medicine, Exercise Science, Physical Education, and Yogic Science, Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, India (Feb. 12 to 15, 2008). He played a key role in the organization and conduct of the Congress which was attended by delegates from all over India as well as 10 different countries. Mookerjee also gave a keynote address and co-authored two paper presentations at this Congress.
Vincent Hron
Vincent Hron, associate professor of art and art history, has been awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 2008 Individual Fellowship for Painting. This is a very competitive statewide grant for $5,000.
Mark Noon
Mark Noon, assistant professor of English, was the featured speaker at "The Making of the Movie The Molly Maguires" at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton, on Sunday, February 24. The program was held to mark the 40th anniversary of the filming of the motion picture in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The big budget historical drama, starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris, was a box office disaster for Paramount Pictures when it was released in 1970. Today many film scholars consider The Molly Maguires an artistic success and the premier achievement of Martin Ritt, recognized as one of America's finest directors of social films. Noon had previously written about the movie for Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine and Carver.
John Okpara and Pamela Wynn
John O. Okpara, associate professor of management and Pamela Wynn, professor of management recently published a paper titled "Cultural Influences on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment: A study of Bank Managers in Nigeria" by the African Journal of Business and Economic Research (AJBER) Vol. 2, Nos. 2/3, pp.9-35, 2007; It is the lead article in the journal.
David Minderhout and Andrea Frantz
David Minderhout, professor of anthropology, and former BU student, Andrea Frantz, presented a paper at the Ethnography & Education Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania on February 29, 2008. The paper was entitled "Native Americans in the Pennsylvania K-12 Curriculum." Frantz will receive her Master's Degree in anthropology from Arizona State University in May.
Stephen Whitworth
Stephen Whitworth, associate professor of English, has been invited to deliver a paper entitled "A Dream, A Romance: Motherhood and Projective Identification" at the Washington D.C. Center for Psychoanalysis on February 17th.
Stephen Wiist
Stephen Wiist, associate professor, Harvey A. Andruss Library has received a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries in the amount of $24,940 for digitizing the Bloomsburg Daily Sentinel and Bloomsburg Daily Mail newspaper (1892-1909) and making it available full text to the public via the library's new Digital Collection. The Daily Sentinel was the first daily newspaper published in Columbia County.
William Calhoun
William Calhoun, associate professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics, was recognized in the February 2008 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly for submitting a correct solution to Problem 11236ab Coloring the Plane. Calhoun was one of three individual mathematicians world-wide to solve the problem. It was also solved by two problem-solving groups: the GCHQ Problem Solving Group and the Microsoft Research Problems Group. The GCHQ- Government Communications Headquarters- is the United Kingdom's (and the European Union's) counterpart to the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States.
Sam Slike and Pam Berman
Sam Slike, professor of exceptionality programs, and Pam Berman, adjunct faculty member from the IIT, recently presented a webinar to an online conference of an organization called "Supporting Deaf People" in England. The 5-day conference had 242 participants from 18 countries world-wide. Slike and Berman's webinar was the only live real-time presentation of the conference and was entitled, "Using Wimba to provide equal access for Deaf students in online courses."
Ivan B. Turnipseed
Ivan B. Turnipseed, Frederick Douglass teaching scholar and assistant professor of management, recently moderated a hospitality industry panel discussion entitled "Racial Divides: Are They Widening, Shrinking or Blending" at the 19th Annual National Society of Minorities in Hospitality (NSMH) Conference in Pittsburgh. The four-day event (February 21-24) drew nearly 1,000 participants from more than 100 institutions across the country. NSMH is the premier professional organization for minority hospitality students. This non-profit, student-run organization addresses diversity and multiculturalism, as well as the career development of its student members. NSMH believes these lessons are important for future hospitality leaders and that anyone of any ethnicity, gender, or other demographic group can find value in its conversation. It provides programs that link college-level students with company sponsors, industry representatives, other hospitality organizations, advisors and mentors, and hospitality high school students.
Jerry Wemple
Jerry Wemple, associate professor of English, is editor of "Watershed: The Journal of the Susquehanna," a 72-page interdisciplinary journal focused on the tri-state Susquehanna River region, that recently debuted. Megan Angstadt, a junior English: Creative Writing/Mass Communication major from Middleburg, serves at the managing editor. The journal includes nonfiction articles, short fiction, and poetry by established and newer writers, as well as photography. The journal was funded by a grant from the Degenstein Foundation. Complimentary copies may be obtained by emailing a request to river@bloomu.edu.
David Minderhout
David Minderhout, professor of anthropology, and former BU student Andrea Frantz have had an article accepted for the international journal, Museum Management and Curatorship. The article is entitled "The Museum of Indian Culture and Lenape Identity." Ms. Frantz is a graduate student in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
Conrad Quintyn
Conrad Quintyn, assistant professor of Anthropology, presented a paper, "Admixture and the growing list of racial categories: Clarity or confusion for law enforcement (and the public)," at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Washington, D.C., on 22 February 2008. Quintyn argued that the proliferation of the race categories on the most recent census may have a negative impact on law enforcement (and other programs). While the "race" concept has been proven to be dubious genetically, it does not change the general perception of the person on the street which includes law enforcement. Law enforcement must use racial categories which are simple and most familiar in order to increase the likelihood of finding criminals and missing individuals.
Steve Hales
Steve Hales, professor of philosophy, has just published (with Timothy Johnson), "Time for Change" in The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 54, no 4, Winter 2007, pp. 497-513.
Susan Dauria
Susan R. Dauria, associate professor of anthropology, facilitated a workshop entitled, "Applying for Employment in the Anthropology," at the 106th Annual American Anthropological Association Meetings in Nov 30, 2007. The workshop was sponsored by the National Association of Student Anthropologists, (NASA) a subgroup of the AAAs.
Steven Si
Steven Si, professor of management, has advised a dissertation in Doctoral of Business Administration at University of South Australia Graduate School of Business. This dissertation titled "A Contingent Model as A Prerequisite to Achieving Global Reach and Performance."
Si will also publish a research paper entitled "The Effect of Organizational Psychological Contract Violation on Managers' Exit, Voice, Loyalty and Neglect in the Chinese Context" in the International Journal of Human Resource Management (SSCI journal) in May 2008. This paper was accepted in 2006.
Sybil Holloway
Sybil L. Holloway, psychological counselor in the Center for Counseling and Human Development, recently had a book review published on Life During College: Your Guide to Success, 2nd Edition that will be cited in the Spring 2008 issue of NACADA Journal: The Journal of the National Academic Advising Association. The complete review can be found at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/bkrev_1031.htm.
Steven Rier
Steven Rier, Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, gave an invited seminar presentation to the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University this past Friday. The title of his talk was "Biofilm extracellular enzymes as indicators of stream ecosystem function."
Andrea Fradkin
Andrea Fradkin, assistant professor of exercise science and athletics, recently delivered a plenary presentation entitled "Sports Injury Epidemiology" at the 3rd International Congress on Sport Medicine, Exercise Science, Physical Education, and Yogic Science in Gwalior, India. Dr. Fradkin also presented another free communication talk at this conference entitled "The effect of warming-up on physical performance: A systematic review with meta analysis" and this presentation was awarded the young scholar award for the best congress presentation.
John Grandzol
John Grandzol, professor of management, has been appointed to the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance Advisory Council. The Alliance, a partnership of educators, administrators, developers, and customers, facilitates collaboration, innovation, and dissemination of best practices using enterprise system software to build technology-rich, integrative curricula that prepare students for modern business careers. Dr. Grandzol, joined by faculty from Business Information Systems, Finance, Management, and Marketing, leads a volunteer workgroup seeking to maximize the benefits, such as curriculum integration across business disciplines and supply chain career preparation, of active participation in this partnership. He has presented at Microsoft's Convergence the past two years and will deliver a general session on building industry partnerships at this year's conference in March. The workgroup's dedication was recognized in 2006 when Bloomsburg University received Microsoft's Pinnacle Award for Excellence in Education.
Kevin Ferland
Kevin Ferland, associate professor of mathematics, computer science and stastics, has written a textbook, Discrete Mathematics: An Introduction to Proofs and Combinatorics, published by Houghton Mifflin with a copyright date of 2009. He is using it in his Discrete Mathematics class (53.185) this semester. Ferland starting writing the book in 2001, signed a contract with Houghton Mifflin in 2003 and has been writing and having the book reviewed for the past five years. The book goes on sale across the country for use staring in Fall 2008. Ferland will be using it in two sections of Discrete Mathematics in the fall.
Nathalie G. Cornelius
Nathalie G. Cornelius, associate professor of languages and cultures, has had her analytical afterward, De pere en fils ou de l'oral a l'ecrit: persistence de l'identite quebecoise, of French Canadian Alain Denis's novel Bidou Jean, Bidouilleur published with the second edition of his novel. The annotated edition is intended for use in French classes on Quebec literature and for the public at large.
Cornelius has also had her review of Nicolas Dickner's Nikolski published in the February issue of The French Review. The French Canadian novel traces the paths of three characters who unknown to each other, are biologically related as they build their lives and search for self-identity. The narrative's collage of mythologies draws the reader into a fairy tale journey through the sea of Montreal's immigrant population, to the Aleutians, to Alaskan and Venezuelan islands.
She also had her review of Fred Vargas's Dans les bois eternels published in the February issue of The French Review. Fred Vargas is an extremely popular detective fiction writer, whose compelling mysteries are a pretext for a study of memory, human suffering, and self-identity.
Steven D. Hales
Steven D. Hales, professor of philosphy, has just published "A Proof of the Existence of Fairies" under the pseudonym Tink R. Bell in the latest issue of Think (vol. 16, winter 2008).
Marilee Salvator
Marilee Salvator, assistant professor of art and art history, is currently exhibiting her creative research at the John Sloan Fine Arts Gallery, Lock Haven University in a three women show titled, "Women Artist: Feminist Concerns". The show will remain on display until Mid February. She was also recently awarded Best Artist of Pennsylvania 2007 through Midnight in Chicago, an international Cultural and Tourism Initiative. This yearly contest helps raise funds for the National Association of Autism Research. One of her prints has recently become part of the permanent art collection at Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Shown is her "Circular Composition #11," 2007, Archival ink jet print.
Conrad Quintyn
Conrad Quintyn was asked by the Hazleton State Police Troop N. to submit a report of his finding regarding a recent murder case. The victim was found at the Mount Pocono exit of Interstate 380 and I-80. Dr. Quintyn has been assisting the local police in several cases in the area. One such recent case was the reanalysis of sex in the Beth Doe case (Cold Case 1976 murder) using bone analysis.
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, associate professor of English reports that of the 25 children's books she recommended for 2008 award considerations, 19 made the Notable Book for a Global Society award list; 2 made the Caldecott honor award list; 1 made the Newbery honor award list; 2 made the Coretta Scott King award list, and one made the Theodor Seuss Geisel award list. She received more than two hundred and fifty books from several publishers from across the nation to review for this purpose. She is currently reviewing books for the Children's Africana Book Award. This award will be announced in May.
Eric Rawson
Eric Rawson, associate professor of exercise science and athletics, recently published the paper "Creatine supplementation does not reduce muscle damage or enhance recovery from resistance exercise" in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Michael Conti, M.S., a graduate of the BU exercise science graduate program was a co-author. The research was funded by a BU Research and Disciplinary Grant (to Rawson) and grants from the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, and the BU Graduate School (to Conti).
Mark Noon
Mark Noon, assistant professor of English, had an article, "'It ain't your color, it's your scabbing': Literary Depictions of African American Strikebreakers," selected to be reprinted in a forthcoming book, Social Issues in Literature: Workers' Rights in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." The book will be published in the second quarter of 2008 by the Gale Group, a division of Cengage Learning. Social Issues in Literature is a new series of books focused on the intersection of literature and sociology in major works of literature. Noon's essay originally appeared in African-American Review in 2004.
Lee Millard
Lee Millard, Haas Gallery associate, has work in two included in two shows. One is the International Contemporary Art Gwangju Artvision at the Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea until Feb. 20. And the o.ther is Fakes at the Red Saw Gallery in Newark, N.J. until Feb. 21.
Marilyn K. Miller
Marilyn K. Miller, associate professor of exercise science, is a contributing author on the newly revised textbook: "Total Fitness & Wellness" published by Pearson/Benjamin Cummings. In addition, Miller consulted with the Pearson/Benjamin Cummings company to produce a set of 80 exercise videos to accompany the textbook.
Roy Smith
Roy Smith, director of Quest and the Corporate Institute, gave the keynote talk at the meeting of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources meeting in State College. His talk was about explorations in Omo River Valley in Ethiopia and the first ascent of the last unclimbed 20,000 foot mountain in the Andes.
Gifford Howarth
Gifford Howarth, assistant professor of music, spent January 18-20, in Phoenix, Ariz., presenting several percussion workshops throughout the area. These included a session on 4-Mallet technique for the School of Music at Arizona State University, an adjudicating workshop for the state wide WGAZ indoor percussion circuit, and hands-on clinics at two area high schools.
William Calhoun and John Polhill
A paper by William Calhoun (right) and John Polhill (left), associate professors of mathematics, was recently accepted for publication. Their article, "Perfect Distance Forests," will appear in the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.
Ralph M. Feather
Ralph M. Feather, Jr., assistant professor of educational studies and secondary education, is an author of the supplemental materials for the 2009 edition of The Act of Teaching by Cruickshank, Jenkins, & Metcalf. Dr. Feather wrote all chapter questions, PowerPoint presentations and Praxis questions material. The material is published by McGraw-Hill and it the textbook used for the Principles of Teaching course at Bloomsburg University.
Andrea Fradkin
Andrea Fradkin, assistant professor of exercise science and athletics, recently had a peer-reviewed manuscript entitled "Describing the epidemiology and associated age, gender, and handicap comparisons of golfing injuries." published in the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. This is one of the leading journals in the sports injury epidemiology field.
Ferda Asya
Ferda Asya, assistant professor of English, presented a paper, "Love and Death in the Work of Anna de Noailles," at the Annual Convention of Modern Language Association (MLA) in Chicago, IL, on 30 December 2007.
Mark Decker
Mark Decker, assistant professor of English, published a review of Lindsay Boyd's Proper Respect for a Wound in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability Through Literature and the Fine Arts.
Alan K. Goodboy
Alan K. Goodboy, assistant professor of communication studies, is the lead author on a publication titled "Affective Orientation and Eating Behavior: Two Studies of Emotional, Restrained, and External Eating Decisions" that appears in the December issue of Psychological Reports.