Scholarship and Recognition
Eric S. Rawson, associate professor of exercise science, recently published a book chapter titled "Doping in Children and Adolescents" in The Young Athlete: The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine. The book is an International Olympic Committee Medical Commission Publication in collaboration with the International Federation of Sports Medicine.
David Minderhout, anthropology, and alumna Andrea T. Frantz presented a paper at the 69th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 17-21. Their presentation was entitled "Our Futures, Ourselves: The Eastern Delaware Nations Oral History Project." The EDN Oral History Project is an on-going project funded by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the Allan F. Pierce Foundation.
Anthropology/French major Jessica Dowsett is currently working with the project as a field researcher. Minderhout also chaired the session on "Native American Identity in Projects and Initiatives." This session included papers from scholars from the University of British Columbia, the University of Southern California, the University of Connecticut, and Emporia State University, as well as the paper from Bloomsburg University.
Nathalie G. Cornelius, associate professor of languages and cultures (French), has had her review of Alain Denis's novel Foule intime published in the April 2009 edition of The French Review. Foule intime explores French Canadian identity and culture through an analysis of personal space and its relationship to contemporary art, politics and the media. Structured around a professor listening to secretly taped student conversations, the novel intersperses a series of dialogues with the professor's commentaries on a class assignment to assess private space as depicted through modern literature. However, shifts in the balance of power, divisions within the student group working on the project, and personal insecurities progressively enmesh the students in a game of testing and transgressing the personal boundaries of their peers.
Frank Baur, Au.D., a recent graduate from the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology Au.D. program, was selected by the American Academy of Audiology as a student research forum award winner. He received his award at the awards banquet at the AudiologyNOW! Annual Convention in Dallas, Tex. Baur also presented the findings of his research titled "Preferred Listening Levels of Noise-Cancellation Headsets with an Audio Component in White Noise" at the student research forum. Also from the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, faculty member Thomas R. Zalewski, presented the findings from two research projects titled "Central Auditory Processing Disorders, Normal Hearing Children and Otoacoustic Emissions" and "Occlusion Effect and Musicians' Earplugs." The American Academy of Audiology is the world's largest professional organization of, by, and for audiologists.
Deborah S. Stryker, assistant professor of exceptionality programs and president of the Association of College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACE-DHH), presented her research at their national conference in New Orleans, titled "Distance Education Beyond the Classroom: Preliminary Results." Members of ACE-DHH include professionals of the 68 other Education of the DHH teacher preparation programs across the US as well as professionals from programs in Canada, China, Netherlands, and the UK. More about ACE-DHH and the conference can be found at www.acedhh.org.
Tara Diehl, instructor of mathematics in the Department of Developmental Instruction recently presented "Using Student Work as a Study Tool for Developmental Mathematics" at the 28th annual Pennsylvania Association of Developmental Educators (PADE) conference held in Grantville.
Elena Litvinova, instructor of mathematics in the Department of Developmental Instruction, presented "C-BIRD Method for Word problem solving" at 33nd Annual NADE(National Association For developmental Education) Conference, in Greensboro, N.C. in February. At the 28th Annual PADE (Pennsylvania Association For developmental Education) Conference in Grantville in March, she presented "Subject Specific Tutor Training for Developmental Mathematics."
Sam Slike, professor of exceptionality programs, recently served as accreditation site visitor for the national Council on Education of the Deaf (CED). His team reviewed the University of Texas Health Science Center- Deaf Education Teacher Preparation Program in San Antonio, Tex. This program is affiliated with Sunshine Cottage for Deaf Children, one of the oldest auditory-oral programs for the deaf in the United States.
Conrad Quintyn, assistant professor anthropology, has been accepted as an associate member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences based on peer-review of his forensic anthropology cases and continuing work in forensic science.
Sam Slike, professor of exceptionality programs, and Pam Berman, instructional designer and developer at the Institute for Interactive Technologies and an adjunct faculty member for the Department of Instructional Technology recently participated in the 35th annual conference of the Association of College Educators of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing (ACE-DHH) in New Orleans. Their presentation was titled: "Using Wimba to Provide Equal Access of Information to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Synchronous Online Courses." At the same conference, Sam Slike also presented a training session entitled "Accreditation Site Visitors and Panelists Training" for the national Council on Education of the Deaf.
Brian Johnson, academic adviser/Act 101 part-time program coordinator, is a coauthor of Reel Diversity: A Teachers Sourcebook (Peter Lang Publishing, September 2008), a resource manual for teachers who want to infuse the concepts of diversity and social justice into their secondary and college courses. Lecturers and workshop presenters will also appreciate this text for its practical uses. More than a book on film literacy and criticism, this manual includes user-friendly mini-lessons using film clips from mainstream Hollywood feature films to illustrate the 25 diversity definitions provided in the text.
A. Blair Staley, professor of accounting, and his colleagues Donald T. Williamson of American University and James S. Gale of Northern Virginia Community College, published an article "Planning for Federal Appointees' Conflict of Interest Requirements," Tax Notes, 122 (2), 1359 et. seq. (2009). Staley and colleagues Charles J. Russo and Julius C. Green of Parente-Randolph, published an article, "Gas Leases Can Blow Up Tax-Exempt Clubs" in the Pennsylvania CPA Journal, 80 (1), 8-9 (2009).
Deborah S. Stryker, assistant professor of exceptionality programs and president of the Association of College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACE-DHH), presented her research at their national conference in New Orleans, titled "Distance Education Beyond the Classroom: Preliminary Results." Members of ACE-DHH include professionals of the 68 other Education of the DHH teacher preparation programs across the US as well as professionals from programs in Canada, China, Netherlands, and the UK. More about ACE-DHH and the conference can be found here.
Kurt Smith, associate professor of philosophy, has had his paper (co-authored with professor Alan Nelson, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, philosophy), "Cartesian Substance and Divisibility," accepted for publication in the upcoming volume (vol. 5) of the _Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy_ (Oxford University Press). On a lighter note, Smith's contribution in Open Court's pop culture series, Stephen Colbert and Philosophy, titled "The Wealth of Colbert Nations," will hit the bookstores soon. The contribution deals with Colbert's crazy view of free market capitalism and the privatization of higher education.
Sybil L. Holloway, psychological counselor in the Center for Counseling and Human Development, recently had a book review published on Faculty at the Margins that will be cited in the Fall 2009 issue of NACADA Journal: The Journal of the National Academic Advising Association. The complete review can be found at here.
Margaret O'Connor, associate professor of business education and business information systems, and her co-author Tulay Girard (Penn State Altoona) won the 2009 MBAA International McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award for the Society for the Advancement of Information Systems Track for their research paper titled, "A Collaborative Approach for Developing Interactive Case Studies: Learning from a University Setting" at the recent 2009 MBAA International Conference held in Chicago.
Mark Noon, assistant professor of English, had two essays published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Radical and Reform Writers, volume 345, second series (2009 Gale Cengage Learning). The first essay focuses on Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1925), a former mayor of Scranton and leader of the Knights of Labor from 1879 to 1893. The second essay is about Rose Pastor Stokes (1879-1933), who work as a journalist, public speaker, poet and playwright made her a major reformer in the early twentieth century.
Avinash Srinivasan, assistant professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics (computer forensics), served on external review board of four international journals, and on technical program committees of six international conferences and workshops. Srinivasan also served as the student research symposium coordinator for the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing held in Bangalore, India in December, 2008. He gave an invited talk at Sri Sathya Sai University at Prashanthi Nilayam, India, titled "Computer Forensics: A New Education Major and Career Path."
While visiting India, Srinivasan met with Dr. M. K. Nagaraj, the Inspector General of Police for the state of Karnataka who currently serves as the Chief of Anti Terrorist Cell (ATC) and discussed several digital forensics research challenges and several opportunities for Bloomsburg University to collaborate with ATC, Karnataka.
Williams Emeka Obiozor, assistant professor of exceptionality programs, presented a paper titled "Diversity and Learning Disabilities on Campus: The Challenges for Exceptional Black Students" at the 15th Annual Sankofa Conference, held at BU in February. The paper discussed diversity issues and learning needs exceptional Black students encounter on college campus; and provided suggestions for academic support and related services from staff and faculty, in order to encourage academic achievement, student retention, avoid academic probation and dropout of diverse students on campus. Students from Penn State University, Lock Haven University, Kutztown University, etc, were among the participants.
Jesús Salas-Elorza, professor of languages and cultures, presented the paper titled "Recurso narrativo de desfamiliarizació n en La vida conyugal " at XIV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea held at the University of Texas at El paso on March 5-7.
John O. Okpara, associate professor of management and Pamela Wynn, professor of management recently published an article, titled "The Impact of Ethical Climate on Job Satisfaction and Commitment in Nigeria: Implications for Management Development" in The Journal of Management Development, Vol.27, No. 9, 2008.
David Minderhout and alumna Andrea Frantz have had two new articles accepted for publication. The first, "Native American Horticulture in the Northeast," will be published by the journal General Anthropology in its Spring 2009 edition (Vol. 16, No. 1). This article not only describes how Native Americans employed horticulture in Pennsylvania and contiguous areas at the time of European contact, but also it compares native horticulture and modern industrial agriculture in their impact on the environment. This paper is an expanded version of the presentation Minderhout and Frantz made at the Third Annual Susquehanna River Symposium at Bucknell University in September 2008.
The second article will appear in the April issue of the regional magazine, State College, and is entitled "Ten Things You Don't Know About Pennsylvania's Native Americans." The article is paired with one about Penn State University's annual Native American powwow which is scheduled for the first weekend in April and is run by John Sanchez, an Apache who is a professor of journalism at Penn State.
Regina Bobak, instructional technology specialist, and Julie Wolfe, instructional support specialist in the Instructional Media and Design Center presented "Lessons Learned from Standardization Selection and Small-scale Implementation" at the 2009 Turning Technologies Regional Users Conference at Temple University.
Tara Diehl, instructor of mathematics, computer science and statistics, presented "Thinking and Writing about Mathematics" at the 33rd Annual National Association for Developmental Education (NADE) conference in Greensboro, N.C., in February.
Danielle Lynch (B.A., journalism, '07) received an Honorable Mention from the Suburban Newspapers of America for a four-part series she co-wrote about poverty in Chester County. Lynch, former executive editor of Spectrum Magazine, is a reporter for the Daily Local News of West Chester. In her first year as a reporter, she also received first place for best example of public service, from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors; first place from the Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists; and third place from the Philadelphia Press Association. At BU, she headed the magazine staff that won All-American honors for the 18th consecutive year, first place in the American Scholastic Press Association contest, and gold medalist rating by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Michael M. Patte, associate professor in the department of educational studies recently had his article, "All in a Day's Work: Children's Views on Play and Work at the Fifth Grade Level," published in the peer-reviewed Play and Culture Studies, volume 8. In addition, he will present two research papers this spring, "Play in the Concrete Jungle: A Look Inside Urban School Classrooms" and "Block Play: Following the Child's Lead" at the Association for the Study of Play's Annual Conference in Brownsville, Texas. Further, Patte and his colleague Mary Mahoney-Ferster will provide the Keynote presentation, Creating the Backdrop for Transition at the 13th Annual Kindergarten Transition Conference this spring at Bloomsburg University.
Nathalie G. Cornelius, associate professor of languages and cultures (French) has just had her book review of L'absence de l'ogre by Dominique Sylvain, published in the February 2009 edition of The French Review. Sylvain's fourth detective novel interweaves murder with light philosophical and social reflections as it travels between Paris and New Orleans, between literary references and historical fact. Through the characters' discussions the novel becomes a vehicle for social commentary on France and the United States, countries with different personalities and challenges, but with a capacity for cooperation and mutual respect.
Kelly VanGorden, assistant professor of exercise science and athletics, did a presentation at the 88th Annual Eastern District Association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance in Lancaster on Feb. 7. The title of the presentation was Olympic Education: The Experience of China and the United States and was presented with Anita Lee (Eastern Connecticut University).
Kurt Smith, associate professor of philosophy, presented "Leibniz on Unity and Harmony" at Johns Hopkins. The conference was sponsored by a Mid-Atlantic research group in modern philosophy, whose members are Columbia University, Rutgers University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins. More about the conference can be found here.
Andrea Fradkin, assistant professor of exercise science, was recently interviewed about her golf research and appears in the January 2009 issue of "Biomechanics" magazine.
John Polhill, associate professor of mathematics, computer science, and statistics, recently had the article "Paley Partial Difference Sets in Non p-groups" accepted for publication in Designs, Codes, and Cryptography. The results in this paper provide a solution to a long-standing open problem in Design Theory. He also authored or co-authored six peer-reviewed papers that were published or accepted for publication in 2008. "Summing Up the Euler Phi Function" was co-authored with colleague Paul Loomis and former Bloomsburg math major Michael Plytage, and was published in the widely circulated College Journal of Mathematics. "Perfect Distance Forests" was written with colleague William Calhoun and published in the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics. A third paper, "Improving Retention in a STEM Field with a Major Specific One-Credit Course for First Year Students," discusses the success of the University Seminar course designed specifically for mathematics majors. The remaining three of these represent various results in difference sets, and appeared in Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, and the Journal of Combinatorial Designs.
Angela R. Hess, assistant professor of biological and allied health sciences, has a paper, "EphA2 as a promoter of melanoma tumorigenicity," published in the journal Cancer Biology and Therapy." Coauthors are Margaryan, N.V., L. Strizzi, D.E. Abbott, E.A. Seftor, M.S. Rao, and M.J.C. Hendrix. The article title appears on the cover of the February 1 issue of the journal as a "Highlighted Article." This research study investigated the role of EphA2 in mediating various aspects of an aggressive melanoma phenotype, including increased growth and invasion. This study was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Children's Memorial Research Center and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine located in Chicago. Current research projects in my laboratory here at Bloomsburg University are aimed at further understanding the signal transduction mechanisms that regulate melanoma growth with respect to EphA2 as well as developing therapeutic strategies to target EphA2 in melanoma.
Ralph M. Feather Jr. , assistant professor of educational foundations and secondary education, is the consulting author for a new three-year middle level science program that will be published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill starting in 2010. During the fall 2008 term, Feather published a three-book series of state-coordinated middle level science textbooks for Tennessee. Additionally, he presented two sessions of his Dr. Ralph's Teaching Inquiry Science with Toys and Treats at each of the three NSTA Regional Conventions held during the Fall 2008 term. The peer-reviewed workshops drew an attendance of nearly 1000 elementary, secondary, and higher education science educators. In January, 2009, he also presented an all-day workshop for science teachers in Nashville on using inquiry to teach science and on test-item writing.
Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus, professor of languages and cultures, has been invited by "The Section on Venezuelan studies of the Latin American Studies Association" to serve as a judge for its semiannual paper competition. She was selected on the bases of her respected scholarly work in the Venezuelan Studies academia. This past August, she also presented the paper "Del Puerto Rico Insular al Puerto Rico Transnacional: La historia étnica puertorriqueña en La casa de la loca y otros relatos de Marta Aponte Alsina" at the Jornadas Andinas de Estudios Latinoamericanos in Santiago de Chile. In October she also presented the paper "La historia: Arma narrativa en dos cuentos de Ojos de Luna de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro" at the Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Maureen A. Hill, M.Ed., CT, staff interpreter in the accommodative services for students with disabilities, has passed the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) Certificate of Interpretation (CI) performance examination. This is an intensive evaluation of the usage of American Sign Language, both receptively and expressively.
Nicole Defenbaugh, assistant professor of communication studies and theatre arts, had three articles accepted for publication this past year: "'Under Erasure': The Absent Ill Body in Doctor-Patient Dialogue" published in Qualitative Inquiry. "A review of: "Charon, R. (2006). Narrative Medicine: Honoring Stories of Illness" published in the Journal of Health Communication. "Housewives, Athletes, and Smiling Menopausal Women: An Analysis of Female Gender Roles in DTC Advertising" published in the Iowa Journal of Communication.
Michael Stephans, assistant professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics, has had one of his poems orchestrated and published for mixed-voice chorus. The piece, "Memorandum," was premiered at a University of Miami choral concert recently, and has been published by a major publisher of contemporary choral music. In addition to teaching technical writing for The College of Science and Technology and authoring several books of poetry and fiction, Stephans is an accomplished jazz musician and has a new CD coming out next month.
Dennis Hwang, professor of accounting, and his colleagues, Yan Chen, professor of accounting at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, and Patricia Golemon, professor at University of Houston-Downtown, published an article, "Guanxi and Business Ethics in Confucian Society Today: An Empirical Study in Taiwan" in Journal of Business Ethics (JBE, online edition, DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9996-5, 05 December 2008). JBE is a very prestigious journal on the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).
Joseph L. Andreacci, associate professor, and Kelly M. VanGorden, assistant professor of exercise science, have written an article, "The Effect of an Acute After-School Exercise Bout on Percentage of Body Fat Using Leg-to-Leg Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Children," that appears in the December 2008 issue of Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. Former graduate student, Krista Rompolski (MS '07), also serves as a co-author on this manuscript. The student was supported by a Bloomsburg University Margin of Excellence Award.
Sam Slike, professor of exceptionality programs, and Pam Berman, instructional designer and developer at the Institute for Interactive Technologies and an adjunct faculty member for the Department of Instructional Technology, recently published an article in The Journal of Instruction Delivery Systems. The article was titled, "Integrating multiple media sources to teach synchronous online courses to learners who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing."
Alan K. Goodboy, assistant professor of communication studies, is the lead author or co-author on nine recent publications in peer-reviewed journals. His latest research appears or will appear in Communication Research Reports, Human Communication, Communication Quarterly, Journal of Instructional Psychology (twice), Western Journal of Communication, Communication Education (twice), and the North American Journal of Psychology. Dale A. Bertelsen, professor of communication studies, is the lead author on one of the Communication Education articles.
M. Safa Saraçoǧlu, assistant professor of history, presented a paper titled "Reading Untrue Stories and Ignored Details: Curious Correspondences from the Vidin County Councils in the 1860s and 1870s" at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America held in Washington, D.C. in November. He was also as part of a panel focusing on forgery and forged practices in the Ottoman Empire.
David Randall, associate professor of English, will publish an essay in the anthology Literature, Writing and the Natural World, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. The essay is titled "Evolutionary Film Theory: Crash and The End of the Road Film." He will also publish several contributions on his work previously published on the author Marguerite Duras in the anthology Les Ecrits de Marguerite Duras. Bibliographie des oeuvres et de la critique, 1940-2006, sous la direction de Robert Harvey, Bernard Alazet et Helene Volat. Paris: Institut Memoire de l'Edition Contemporaine (Inventaires, 2), March 2009.
Williams Emeka Obiozor, assistant professor of exceptionality programs, recently published the following journal articles: "Language and Graffiti of Exceptional Individuals: Pedagogical Strategies in West Africa", AJCJS; 3 (2), 2008. "Applying Focus Groups in Educational Research in Africa", Institute of Education Journal, UNN; 19 (1), 2008. "Culture and Education: The Significance of Names in Igboland," Institute of Education Journal, UNN; 19 (1), 2008; and a book chapter, "Globalization and Women's Education: Evidence from a Sub-Saharan Africa," in Globalization of Business: Theories and Strategies for Tomorrow's Managers by J.O. Okpara (ed.) 2008; Adonis and Abbey Publishers, United Kingdom.
A. Blair Staley, professor of accounting, and his colleagues, Donald T. Williamson, professor of taxation and chair of the department of accounting and taxation at American University, and Farooq Sheikh, assistant professor at SUNY Geneseo, published a journal article, "A mixed-integer programming model to optimize tax-efficient payments of salary and dividends from a C corporation to its sole shareholder-employee for taxable years 2007-2010,"Tax Notes, 121 (1), 67-73 (2008). Staley and Charles J. Russo, senior tax manager at Parente Randolph, LLC, and Julius C. Green, tax principal at Parente Randolph, LLC, published a journal article, "Tax consequences of the rush for natural gas in the Appalachians" Tax Adviser, 8, 495-497 (2008).
Mark L. Usry, associate professor of legal studies, Mark Law, associate professor of accounting, Wilmer Leinbach, instructor of accounting, David E. Magolis, reference librarian, A. Blair Staley, professor of accounting, and Mike Shapeero, professor of accounting, presented a paper "e-Discovery: What future business leaders need to know" at the Northeastern Association of Business, Economics and Technology Annual Meeting, State College, Pennsylvania (2008, October).
Sybil L. Holloway, psychological counselor in the Center for Counseling and Human Development, published "Expand Your Social Support Network" in the December 2008 issue of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association's e-newsletter, Psychological News You Can Use. The article can be viewed at http://www.papsy.org/public/Newsletters/Dec08.html.
Wazi Apoh, assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Archaeological Anthropology at the Fall 2008 commencement ceremony held at Binghamton University of New York on Dec. 14, 2008.
Doreen M. S. Jowi, assistant professor of communication studies and theatre arts, has published a peer-reviewed co-authored article entitled "Social communication apprehension: The intersection of communication apprehension and social phobia" in the Winter 2008 Issue of the Human Communication, 11(4), 409-430.
David Minderhout, professor of anthropology, and alumna Andrea Frantz have recently had an article published in Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 32(3):28-31 (Fall 2008). The article is entitled "Stepping Out of the Shadows," and is paired with an article on the new Lenape exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Minderhout and Frantz's book and articles were used as reference materials for the exhibit which will be on display until 2010.
Nicole Defenbaugh, assistant professor of communication studies and theatre arts, presented in October at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) conference in Nashville, Tenn. She presented on a roundtable panel titled, "Narrating Women's Bodies through Time and Across Cultures," a workshop titled, "Narrative Truths: Storytelling as Feminist, Social, and Political Praxis," and was an invited respondent for a performance entitled, "Game Theory Story." Defenbaugh also presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) conference in San Diego, Calif. She presented on a roundtable entitled, "Why are we here? (Dis)Enchantment with and Reframing of the National Conference," presented another workshop on storytelling and feminism, and responded to a panel of ethnographic papers entitled, "Ethnographic Studies of Cultural Play and Performance: Food, Fans, and Jazz."