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Drs. Chris Agoglia assistant professor of decision sciences, and Maria Sanchez ’03, presented “Consideration of Control Environment and Fraud Risk” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting. Dr. Denise E. Agosto assistant professor of IST, was appointed to the ALA ALSC Bechtel Fellowship Committee. Dr. Rolph Anderson Royal H. Gibson, Sr. Professor of Marketing, chaired the session “Measuring Customer Loyalty” and was a panelist at the 2004 American Marketing Association’s CRM Faculty Consortium. Dr. Hande Benson ssistant professor of decision sciences, presented “Interior-Point Algorithms, Penalty Methods and Equilibrium Problems” at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. José Bermudez, materials science and engineering graduate student, presented “High Surface-Area Alumina Oxide-Supported Manganese Oxide by Colloidal Precipitation” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Dr. Chaomei Chen, associate professor of IST, won second prize for his citation network visualization entry to the IEEE InfoVIS 2004 contest. Chen’s network visualizations were included in the exhibition “Language of Networks: Mapping Science, Art and Technology” at the “ars electronica” festival. He will give the keynote speech at the Visualization and Data Analysis Conference in San Jose, Calif. Yi-Shih Chiu, materials science and engineering graduate student, presented “Synthesis and Characterization of Lead Strontium Titanate Thin Films by Sol-Gel Methods” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Dr. Kenneth Colwell, assistant professor of management, presented “Partner Selection and Network Resources: How Firms Use Alliance Networks to Gain Competitive Advantage” at the Organization Science Conference on Competitive Heterogeneity. He also presented “Strategic Posture and University Alliances in Technology Intensive Industries (co-authored with Dr. Donna DeCarolis, associate professor of organization sciences) at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference. Dr. Anthony Curatola, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, and colleagues published “Behavioral Implications of Going Concern Reporting: The Canadian Experience” in Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, vol. 7, 2004, pp. 51-72. Drs. H. Michael Dreher, associate professor of nursing and director of doctoral nursing programs, Katy Dawley, assistant professor of nursing, Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, associate dean for undergraduate programs and continuing nursing education, Linda Wilson, assistant professor of nursing, Magdeleine Vasso, clinical assistant professor of nursing, and Mary Gallagher-Gordon, clinical assistant professor of nursing, presented “Implementing the Use of the Standardized Patient with Undergraduate Nursing Students” at the Third Annual Meeting of the Association of Standardized Patient Educators. Mark Fiorentino, materials science and engineering junior, received a $1,000 SAE Long Term Member Sponsored Scholarship. Dr. David Fisman, assistant professor of public health, presented “Environmental Factors and Acute Communicable Disease Occurrence: A Rediscovery” at the Political and Ecological Influences on Health symposium at the University of Western Ontario. He led the workshop “Changing Epidemiology of STDs” at the Pennsylvania Department of Public Health’s annual Public Health Institute. He also taught the course “Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Dr. Arthur L. Frank, professor of public health, spoke on environmental health issues facing Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy. Dr. Angelo P. Giardino, professor of pediatrics, was appointed to the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Dr. Yury Gogotsi, , professor of materials science and engineering and associate dean, College of Engineering, presented a poster and three lectures at the NATO-ASI on Nanostructered and Advanced Materials for Application in Sensor, Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Technology. Dr. Marla J. Gold, dean, School of Public Health, joined the College Programs and Sections taskforce at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She was a participant at the 2004 Conference of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Sherry Goodill, associate professor and director of the Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy Program, was a panelist on “Dance/Movement Therapists in Action: The Genesis of a Practical Guide to Research” at the American Dance Therapy Association’s 39th Annual Conference. She also co-presented “Medical Dance/Movement Therapy: A Special Interest Forum” at the conference. Dr. Alan Haroian, associate professor of biomedical sciences, will be included in the 2004 edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Dr. Kabir Hassan, , associate professor of finance, and colleagues had “Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999: Market Assessment of Winners and Losers in the Insurance Industry” accepted for publication in the spring 2005 edition of Journal of Insurance Issues. He presented “Safety-First and Extreme Value Bilateral U.S.-Mexican Portfolio Optimization Around the Peso Crisis and the NAFTA in 1984;” “Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999: Market Assessment of Winners and Losers in the Insurance Industry;” “Federal Reserve Policy and the Returns of Real Estate Companies;” “Grann-Leach-Bliley Act and the Insurance Industries of Developed Countries;” “The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Efficiency of the U.S. Banking Industry;” “Does Distance Matter in Venture Capital Financing;” “Forward Discount Bias: Is it Risk Premium or Expectational Errors;” and “Effect of Monetary Policy on Commercial Banks Across Different Business Conditions” at the Academy of Financial Services and Financial Management Association. Dr. Gregory W. Hislop, associate professor of IST, and colleagues published “A Conceptual Trust Framework for Semantic Web Agents: in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 2004. Dr. Pawel Hitczenko, professor of mathematics, participated in the National Visitors Programme in Mathematics: New Techniques in Applied Stochastics. As part of the program, he presented “Samples of Geometric Random Variables and Their Applications in the Analysis of Algorithms” at the New Techniques in Applied Stochastics workshop in Helsinki, and “Central Limit Theorem for Martingales and its Applications” at the University of Jyvaskyla. Dr. Prabakar Kothandaraman, assistant professor of marketing, will receive the Best Paper in the Personal Selling and Sales Management Track for “Selling Organization Mapping: Some Antecedents and Consequences” at the Winter American Marketing Conference. He will edit a special issue of Industrial Marketing Management on “Outsourcing Business Processes: Impact on Industrial Marketing Strategy Formulation and Implementation” to be published in 2006. Dr. Vicki D. Lachman, associate professor in the physician assistant program, presented “What is the Role of Informed Consent?” at the Nursing Management Congress Annual Meeting. Dr. Peter A. Lewin, Richard B. Beard Distinguished University Professor of Biomedical and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Sumet Umchid, BIOMED graduate student, published the refereed paper “Beyond 40 MHz Frontier: The Future Technologies for the Calibration and Sensing of Acoustic Fields” in the British Journal of Physics, CS (1), 2004, pp. 38-43. Hui Li, , materials science and engineering graduate student, presented “Force Generation and Electrical Voltage Induction in Miniaturized Piezoelectric Fingers for Cellular Elasticity Measurements” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Huidong Li, materials science and engineering graduate student, presented “PZT Thin Films on Silicon Wafer by Sol-Gel Methods for Sensor Applications” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Hongyu Luo, materials science and engineering graduate student, presented “Comparison in the Coating of Mg(OH)2 on Micron-Sized and Nanosize Nb2O5 particles” and “miniaturized Cantilever Sensor from Highly Piezoelectric PMN-PT Thick Films” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Dr. Mariadelaluz Matus-Mendoza, assistant professor of Spanish, presented “Affricate /é/ in an Immigrant Community” at the 28th Annual Conference of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. John-Paul McGovern, materials science and engineering graduate student, presented “Rapid In Situ Biological Agent Detection Using PZT/Ti Microcantilevers” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Dr. Thomas McWilliams, associate professor of decision sciences, published “The Design of Truncated Sequential Test Plans Based on Attributes Data” in Communications in Statistics — Simulation and Computation, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 843-59. He presented “Economic Advantages of CUSUM Control Charts for Variables” at the Eighth International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control in Warsaw. Dr. Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, assistant professor of French, presented “Chronique alicienne chronique franco-new-yorkaise” at the centennial celebration of the French and Francophone Professors in America Association and the organization’s Seventh International Colloquium. She also presented “Carnival in Flanders or Karnaval by Thomas Vincent” at the 2004 Romance Studies Colloquium. Dr. Elizabeth Petit de Mange, assistant professor of nursing, had the manuscript “Are All Children Equal? An Analysis of the Predictive Value of Pediatric Characteristics of the Referral of Children to Pediatric Home Health Services” accepted for publication in Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing. She presented to ANCHOR “Reflections of the Significance of the Body: An Exploration of Cross-Cultural Perspectives of the Body in Health, Illness and Death.” Dr. Robert M. Piasecki, architecture student, exhibited two paintings in The Third World Exhibition of Fine Arts in Miniature at The Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery. Dr. Erik P. Rau, visiting assistant professor of history and politics, organized a panel on technological mediation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology in Amsterdam. He also presented a paper on the mechanization of library work at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester (Great Britain). Casey K. Sacks, assistant director of residential living/resident director of Towers Hall, and Gary M. Miller, assistant director of residential living/resident director of Van Rensselaer Hall, published “Making Student Staff Selection an Educational Process” in the September 2004 issue of the newsmagazine of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. Ellen Schelly Hill, assistant professor and director of dance/movement therapy education, Warin Tepayaone, Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy Program graduate student, and Angela Tatum Fairfax and Hsiu-ling Yang, Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy Program alumni, gave poster presentations at the American Dance Therapy Association’s 39th Annual Conference. Zuyan Shen, materials science and engineering graduate student, presented “Miniaturized Highly Piezoelectric Cantilevers for Rapid, Direct and Multiple Biosensing at the Nanoscale” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Dr. Arthur B. Shostak, emeritus professor of sociology, made the following presentations: “Teaching Futuristics as Applied Sociology” at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Sociology; “Men and Abortion” at the South Jersey N.O.W. Alice Paul Chapter meeting; and “Futuristics and Key Forecasts” at Mainline High School in Radnor, Pa. He published “High Schools for Futurism: Nurturing the Next Generation” in the November 2004 issue of The Futurist, and “On Teaching Futuristics: Utopian Thought and Non-Traditional Students” in the November 2004 issue of the Journal of Futures Studies. He was a guest of the Israel Labor Bonds organization in Israel from November 28-December 6. Dr. Il-Yeol Song, presented “Using Database Technologies for Banks and Credit Card Companies” at ShinHan Card, Korea. He had “Use of Tabular Analysis Method to Construct UML Sequence Diagrams” (co-authored with Margaret Hilsbos, IST graduate student) and “Entity-Relationship Modeling: Revisited” at the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling” accepted for the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. He had “An Analysis of Additivity in OLAP Systems” (co-authored with John Horner, IST doctoral student and a colleague) and “Data Warehouse Design for Customer Relationship Management” (co-authored with Colleen Cunningham, IST doctoral student and a colleague) accepted for the Sixth ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP. Chen and colleagues published “A Taxonomic Class Modeling Methodology for Object-Oriented Analysis” in Information Modeling Methods and Methodologies, pp. 216-40. Dr. Martin Thomas, , Executive-in-Residence in the department of finance, and a colleague published Hedging Instruments and Risk Management: How to Control Financial Risk in Any Market (McGraw-Hill/Irwin). Dr. Roberta Waite, , assistant professor of nursing, published the following in Advance for Nurses: “Maintaining Professional Boundaries” (May 24, 2004); “Adult ADHD” (June 21, 2004); “Quieting ADHD Children’s Minds” (July 5, 2004); and “Bipolar Disorder” (August 2004). She also published “Successful Aging: Mental Health” in NBNA News (Spring 2004); “Psychiatric Nurses: Transitioning from Student to Advance Beginner RN” in Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (August 2004); and “Psychiatric APN’s Make an Impact on Mental Health” in Nursing Spectrum (August 2004). Dr. Suzanne Willard, assistant professor of nursing, presented a workshop on building public-private collaborative initiatives for HIV Medication Adherence Programs at the United States Conference on AIDS. Dr. Linda Wilson, assistant professor of undergraduate nursing, presented “Correct Patient, Correct Procedure, Correct Site” at the American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses 23rd National Conference; “ASPAN Standards,” “Malignant Hyperthermia” and “Development of the ASPAN Pain and Comfort Clinical Guideline” at the New Jersey/Bermuda Perianesthesia Nurses Association Spring Conference; and “Comfort Theory in the Perianesthesia Setting and “Pain and Comfort Clinical Guidelines” at the Learning Academy of Missouri’s Boone Hospital Center. She published “Practical Application of Comfort Theory in the Perianesthesia Setting” and (with a colleague) “Clinical Evaluation of the ASPAN Pain and Comfort Clinical Guideline” in the June 2004 issue of Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing. Dr. Steven P. Wrenn, assistant professor of chemical engineering, presented “Response-to-Retention Hypothesis in Atherosclerosis: Colloidal Perspectives” at the 78th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium at Yale University. He will present his recent work on cholesterol nanodomains at the 2004 Biophysical Discussions Meeting, “Probing Membrane Microdomains,” in Asilomar, Calif. Wrenn, Andrew J. Guarino, chemical engineering doctoral candidate, and colleagues will publish “Aggregation Kinetics of Low Density Lipoproteins upon Exposure to Sphingomyelinase” in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Dr. Bijou Yang Lester, associate professor of economics, organized the joint Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and International Association of Economic Psychology. She edited the joint conference proceedings, Cross-Fertilization of Economics and Psychology. Hakki Yegingil, materials science and engineering doctoral student, presented “Measurement of Tumor Stiffness and Mobility Using Piezoelectric Fingers” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Dr. Robert Zaller, professor of history, premiered his Lysistrata 2004, a play based on Aristophanes’ comedy, at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Zaller published “Robert Musil and the Novel of Metastasis” in Harold Bloom’s Critical Interpretations: Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities (Chelsea House), and “Kenneth Rexroth: A Memoir and a Reflection” in The Schuylkill Valley Journal. He also contributed several articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press) and Chelsea House’s multi-volume text on the Iraq war. Qing Zhu, materials science and engineering doctoral student, presented “Selective, Sensitive Detection of Salmonella T. Using Gold-Coated Piezoelectric Cantilevers” at the 228th ACS National Meeting. Qing Zhu, materials science and engineering doctoral student, presented “Selective, Sensitive Detection of Salmonella T. Using Gold-Coated Piezoelectric Cantilevers” at the 228th ACS National Meeting.
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