Faculty/Staff News of Note
December 2001
Dr.
Michael Campbell, associate professor of biology, has submitted a
proposal to the National Science Foundation requesting $82,512. His
research is titled "Amino Acid Profiling in Aid of Gene
Discovery."
Dr.
Michael Christofferson, assistant professor of history, had an article, "Francois Furet
Between History and Journalism, 1958-65," accepted for publication
by Oxford University Press in French History. It will be published in
the first half of 2002.
Dr. Indranil Ghosh, lecturer in economics, presented "Strategy-proofness, Theories of Justice, and Ability to Pay Principle of a Pure Public Good" at the Southeastern Economic Theory and International Economics Conference, held November 16-18 in Miami, Florida.
Dr.
Anthony Foyle, assistant professor of geology, has presented his
proposal, "An Integrated GIS-based Approach to Quantifying the Rates
of and Geologic Controls on Shoreline Change in the Georgia
Bight-Phase II, 2000-2003," to the Skidway Institute of
Oceanography. His proposal requests $35,293.
Dr.
Thomas Hemminger, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Dr.
Chris Coulston, assistant professor of electrical and computer
engineering, had a paper, "Routing Strategies for Multicast Packet
Radio Networks," accepted for publication in the International
Journal of Smart Engineering Systems. The date of publication has
not yet been determined.
Dr.
James A. Kurre,
associate professor of economics and co-director of the Economic
Research Institute of Erie, addressed the Northwest Pennsylvania
Mortgage Bankers Association on December 4. His presentation, "Erie
and the National Economy," discussed Erie's economic history as
well as the current state of the national economy.
Dr.
Robert Light, Eric Obert, Steve Curcio, and Anne Danielski have
submitted a proposal to the National Sea Grant Program to support the
Pennsylvania Sea Grant Program. Their proposal requests $347,637.
Dr.
Diane Parente,
assistant professor of management, presented two papers at the
Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, held
November 17-20 in San Francisco, California. The first, "A
Conceptual Research Framework for Analyzing Online Auctions in a B2B
Environment," was co-authored by Parente, Dr. Ray Venkataraman, Dr.
John Fizel, and Dr. Ido Millet. The second, a two-session panel, "At
the Intersection of the Disciplines: Null Set or Collaboration in
Supply Chain Research," was co-authored by Parente, Dr. Peggy Lee,
Michael Ishman of Niagara University, and Aleda Roth of UNC Chapel
Hill.
Dr.
Kimberly Skarupski, director of research for CORE, has had her
proposal, "Evaluation of Mercyhurst College Department of
Education's PT3 Grant," funded in the amount of $80,755.
Dr.
Meng Su,
assistant professor of computer science, had an article, " A
Nonlinear Parameter Dependent Boundary Value Problem in One space
Dimension," published in Semigroup Forum, Vol. 63 (2001) pages
415-421.
He also presented "An Optimal Construction of Invalidation
Reports for Mobile Databases" at the ACM International conference on
Information and Knowledge Management, held November 5-10 in Atlanta,
Georgia.
Dr. Darren Williams, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, attended the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 26-30. His poster presentation, with Behrend physics major Brian Sands, was titled "Gas-assisted Capture of Earth-sized Moons Around Extrasolar Giant Planets."
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