Faculty/Staff News of Note
November 2004
Dr. Terri Caruso, lecturer in English, presented a paper on the work of Flannery O'Connor titled "The Erasure of Mary Elizabeth in 'The Partridge Festival'" at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 29.
Welcome to four new employees at the Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (eBizITPA): Ron May, Marty Barclay, Doug Luthringer and Gerry Schneggenburger.
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With 29 years of experience in Information Technology Systems and Support, Ron May has been hired as an IT Program Manager at eBizITPA. Ron will be working with businesses, IT service providers and economic development organizations to develop and manage eBizITPA's IT talent recruitment/retention and e-Business growth initiatives.
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Success at the Center has prompted Marty Barclay to leave a 15-year career in sourcing at GE to become the Manager and Procurement Consultant for eDynaQuote at eBizITPA. After helping to install the initial groundwork for eDynaQuote at the Center, Barclay will now utilize his procurement experience to further develop the online competitive bidding tool.
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New hire Doug Luthringer joins eBizITPA as the Client Development Manager for eDynaQuote. After garnering experience as an eBizITPA intern, Luthringer will work full-time with buying and selling companies that use eDynaQuote Reverse Auction software. His responsibilities include assisting with live training sessions and developing web-based eDynaQuote training software. Doug is a recent graduate of Penn State Behrend and a former sergeant in the US Marine Corps.
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Gerry Schneggenburger has been appointed Manager of Advanced IT Development following 20 years of experience in electrical engineering, business operations, systems analysis and development. In this new position Schneggenburger will work with business start-ups and faculty research & commercialization projects to develop new IT capabilities.
Ed Evans, lecturer in engineering, was recently appointed an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) national standards subcommittee for engineering drawings. The main committee is the Y14 committee, which is responsible for maintaining the national standards for engineering drawings. He was appointed to subcommittee 8 (known as Y14.8), which is responsible for revising the standard on Castings, Forgings and Molded Part Drawings. Ed attended his first meeting of the Y14.8 subcommittee in Wichita, Kansas October 20-23.
Dr. James Kurre, associate professor of economics and co-director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie, presented a paper titled "Determinants of Productivity Differences Across American Metro Areas" at the 58th Fall Conference of the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER), in Tucson, Arizona. AUBER is composed of university business and economic research units, like ERIE. This paper is part of a research stream that grew out of work done on productivity in the Erie area by ERIE undergraduate research assistants.
Several members of the mathematics faculty in the School of Science attended the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics, held October 28 and 29 in Erie.
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Dr. Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, who presented "A Combinatorial Sampler";
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Dr. Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, who presented "A Mathematician for Erie: Artemas Martin";
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Maria Mioduszewski, lecturer in mathematics; and
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Barbara Power, lecturer in mathematics, who presented "Optimization and Marginal Functions."
Dr. Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, attended the 18th annual Midwest Conference on Cryptography, Combinatorics, and Computing in Rochester, New York, October 28-30. While there he presented a paper, "Search for Solvable Weighing Matrices."
Dr. Mary Chisholm, professor of chemistry, attended the American Chemical Society's regional meeting in Rochester, New York, October 30 and 31. While there she supervised a student presentation, which she co-authored: "Identification of Major Odorants in Citrus reticulata Blanco."
Dr. Antonella Cupillari, associate professor of mathematics, attended the American Mathematical Society meeting in Pittsburgh November 5-7. While there she presented "The Social Role of Temperance Arithmetic."
Dr. Richard Aquila, director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history, was a featured speaker at a teachers' conference sponsored by the Jamestown, New York, schools and held November 12 at Chautauqua. His presentation is part of the "Teaching American History "grant program funded by the U.S. government. Aquila spoke on behalf of the Organization of American Historians, who named him a Distinguished Lecturer for 2004-2007.
Dr. Chris Coulston, assistant professor of electrical, computer and software engineering, attended the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering conference recently. While there he presented a paper, "Modeling the Local Bending Reflex of the Leech." The paper was co-authored with Dr. Thomas Hemminger, Stefanie Scharf, and Dr. Theresa M. Vitolo.
Dr. Gregory W. Fowler, assistant professor of literature and American studies, presented "'From My Hand, By Thine': Shifting Characters from the Dramatic World to the Historical in Shakespeare's Henriad" at the Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Conference in Buffalo, New York, November 4-7.
Paul Olson, lecturer in mathematics, and Dr. Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, presented "A Combinatorial Sampler" at the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics" meetings in Erie, Oct 28-29.
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