Faculty/Staff News of Note
March 2001
Dr. Daniel Barnard, lecturer in music, will give two presentations in the coming weeks. He will present a vocal jazz workshop March 16 and 17 at Central Illinois College in East Peoria, Illinois. On March 30 and 31 he will attend the Society of Composers, Inc., Regional Conference at the University of Kansas, where he will present his original composition, Three Short Choral Works on Texts by e.e. cummings.
Dr. G. William Baxter, associate professor of physics, attended the national meeting of the American Physical Society in Seattle, Washington, March 10-15.
Dr. Thomas J. Connolly, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will present two papers, "Creating a Prior Learning Environment to Facilitate the Introduction of Computer Languages and Programming to Engineering Students" and "Providing Inroads to Learning the Fundamentals of Pedagogy: Involving a Team in the Refinement of Web-Based PSI Courses," at the American Society for Engineering Education Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference, March 28-30, in College Station, Texas.
Joanne Diefenbach, R.N., college health nurse, has had her poem, "My Quest," placed on the CD, The Sound of Poetry, presented by the International Library of Poetry.
Yvonne Eaton, lecturer in psychology and sociology, has had two book chapters accepted for publication. "Comprehensive Crisis Intervention Model of Community Integration, Inc." will be published in Crisis Intervention Handbook. "Frontline Crisis Intervention" will be published in Social Workers Desk Reference. Both will be published by Oxford this year.
Dr. Diana Hume George, professor of English and women's studies, will present a paper, "What I Write About When I write About Sex (in the Academy) at the Associated Writing Programs national conference in April. Her paper discusses professional constraints on nonfiction writing about sexuality when a writer is also employed by a university.
Co-authors Dr. Richard L. Hart, library director, Patience Simmonds, reference librarian, and John A. Olson, MAPS/GIS librarian at Bird Library, Syracuse University, have had their article, "Laser Printing at Public Workstations: User Behaviors and Attitudes," published in the March 2001 issue of Information Technology and Libraries, Vol. 20, No. 1.
Dr. Archie Loss, professor of English and American studies, presented "Teaching Popular Culture at the Secondary Level" at the February 21 annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Barbara Power, lecturer in mathematics, presented "Optimization: A Group Project for Calculus I" at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics, held in Pittsburgh March 15-17.
Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski, director of research at CORE, presented her research titled "Poisoning in the Elderly: Gender Differences" at the joint conference of The American Society on Aging and The National Council on the Aging held March 10 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her analysis of over 6,000 callers aged 50 and older to the Pittsburgh Poison Center from 1998 to1999 found that compared to males, females calls were more chronic in nature, more likely the result of therapeutic error, more often the result of ingestion, and more likely to involve bleach products than males. While older adults constitute only 7% of annual calls to poison centers nationally, they comprise one-third of all poison-related fatalities.
Dr. Rich Stankewicz, assistant professor of mathematics, attended "Around Dynamics," a conference on complex dynamics, in Stony Brook, New York March 8-11.
Dr. Blair R. Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, presented "Theory of Hydrogen in Bulk Silicon, SiO2, and at Their Interfaces" at the meeting of the American Physical Society in Seattle, Washinton March 11-15.
Dr. Chuck Yeung, assistant professor of physics, attended a meeting of the American Physical Society in Seattle, Washington, March 10-15.
Return to Faculty and Staff News Index