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Dr. Denise E. Agosto assistant professor of IST, was appointed chair of the American Library Association’s Association of Library Service to Children’s Bechtel Fellowship Committee for a two-year term. Dr. Stacey Ake assistant professor of philosophy, presented the paper “When God Does Roll the Dice: Finitude and Natural Evil in the Thought of C.S. Peirce” to the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy at the 103rd annual meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Dr. Rolph Anderson Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing, co-authored the second edition of Personal Selling: Building Customer Relationships and Partnerships (Houghton Mifflin) Dr. Kapil Dandekar assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Daniele Piazza, electrical engineering doctoral student, published “Reconfigurable Antenna Solution for MIMO-OFDM Systems” in IEEE Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 8. Dandekar, Dr. Timothy Kurzweg, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Matthew Garfield, electrical engineering graduate student, and Chao Liang, electrical engineering graduate student, published “MIMO Space-Time Coding for Diffuse Optical Communication” in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 1108-10. Dr. Afshin Daryoush professor of electrical and computer engineering, presented “Performance Evaluation of Opto-electronic Oscillators Employing Photonic Crystal Fibers” at the University of Colorado electrical and computer engineering department. He lectured on “Development of Opto-electronic Oscillators Employing Photonic Crystal Fibers” at Alcatel III-V Labs in Marcoussis, France, and presented a seminar on “Digitally Beamformed Phased Array Antennas Using All-Optical ADC for Future Communication Satellites” at the Institut de Recherche en Eletrotechnique et Eletrinique de Nantes Atlantique, at the Universite de Nantes. Dr. Carl DellaBadia assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was elected president of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Jaudelice de Oliveira assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is travel grant chair for the ACM SIGCOMM 2006 conference, to be held in Pisa, Italy. She was awarded $20,000 from the National Science Foundation to support student travel to the conference. Jameson Detweiler materials science and engineering B.S./Ph.D. student, received a $2,000 National Science Foundation fellowship to attend a summer institute and participate in the course “Science Fundamentals for Nano and Biomechanics of Materials” at Northwestern University. Jameson Detweiler materials science and engineering B.S./Ph.D. student, received a $2,000 National Science Foundation fellowship to attend a summer institute and participate in the course “Science Fundamentals for Nano and Biomechanics of Materials” at Northwestern University. John Domzalski assistant professor of BIOMED, received a United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania Committed Community Volunteer Award. Lawrence K. Duke instructor of marketing, and a colleague published “Drivers of Mutual Fund Investment and Marketing Performance in a Changing Regulatory Environment: Implications for Mutual Fund Management” in the summer 2006 edition of The Journal of Investing. Lawrence Epstein was appointed program director of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design’s entertainment and arts management program and will serve as director of special projects in the College. Peter Evans biomedical engineering graduate student, presented “Novel Design on an Intervertebral Disc Replacement Utilizing Finite Element Methods” at the 14th Annual Symposium on Computational Methods in Orthopaedic Biomechanics. The paper was coauthored by Dr. Wei Sun, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics. Gerta Frasheri a junior fashion design major, received an honorable mention from the Council of Fashion Designers of America scholarship program for her portfolio of women’s sportswear designs at their committee meeting. Connie Gomez mechanical engineering and mechanics doctoral student, presented “Multi-Parameter Optimization for Two-Phase Unit-Cell-Based Tissue Scaffolds” at the 2006 IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference. The paper was coauthored by Drs. Wei Sun, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, and Ali Shokoufandeh, associate professor of computer science. Drs. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus William A. Mackie Professor of Management, and Gerard A. Callanan ’89, co-edited the two-volume Encyclopedia of Career Development (Sage). Greenhaus presented the paper “The Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Marital Quality: A Crossover Perspective” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and was invited to serve as editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology’s special issue section on the work-family interface. Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh professor of economics and international business, co-authored manuscript “Examining Asymmetric Behavior in U.S. Petroleum Futures and Spot Prices,” which was accepted for publication in The Energy Journal. Dan Hanna mechanical engineering and mechanics undergraduate, was accepted into Harvard Business School’s 2006 Summer Venture in Management program. Dr. Kenneth Hartman director of academic affairs for Drexel e-Learning, Inc., received the 2006 Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling’s Partner in Education Award. Vinayak Honkote electrical and computer engineering doctoral student, received a student travel grant to attend the IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerant Nanoscale Architectures. Dr. Xiaohua Tony Hu assistant professor of IST, won the 2006 IEEE Granular Computing Outstanding Service Award in recognition of his leadership role in the IEEE Granular Computing Advisory Board and for his contributions in establishing the IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing Series. Hu launched the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, for which he serves as editor-in-chief. Drs. Sandra Hughes-Hassell associate professor of IST, and Jacqueline C. Mancall, professor of IST, were invited to deliver the workshop “Using Your Budget to Impact Student Learning” at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. Dr. Dov Jaron Calhoun Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Medicine, was named chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute of Biocybernetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He was elected a fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering. Karen Johnson mechanical engineering and mechanics undergraduate, was selected to attend the International Institute of Women in Engineering 2006 Summer Conference in Paris. Dr. Douglas B. Keck School of Education M.S. in higher education student, was elected to serve as an at-large trustee of the American Academy of Pediatric Medicine for a three-year term. Keck has a dental practice with offices in New Haven and Madison, Conn. Dr. Robert W. Keidel visiting associate professor of management, had his book Game Plans: Sports Strategies for Business reprinted a second time by Beard Books. Dr. Susan Kilham professor and interim department head of bioscience and biotechnology, presented “Fractionation of Stable Isotopes of Nitrogen and Carbon in Neotropical Stream Ecosystems” at the meeting of the American Society Limnology and Oceanography in Victoria, British Columbia. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Meshagae Hunte-Brown, adjunct professor of bioscience and biotechnology, and colleagues. Devrim Kilinc BIOMED graduate student, received a National Neurotrauma Society travel grant to present his poster “Shear Stress Injury Induces Morphological and Structural Changes in Cultured Chick Forebrain Neurons” at the Society’s 2006 symposium in St. Louis. Dr. Daniel King assistant professor of chemistry, presented “Teaching Environmental Chemistry: Which Course Components are Most Effective?” at the Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Hershey, Pa. Matt Kurman mechanical engineering and mechanics graduate student, presented “Oxidation of Fischer-Tropsch JP-8 in the Low and Intermediate Temperature Regimes” at the 2006 Technical Meeting, Central States Section- The Combustion Institute in Cleveland. Dr. Timothy Kurzweg assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named associate editor of JM3: Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MEOMS. Dr. Bradley Layton assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, and mechanical engineering and mechanics undergraduates Daniel Tamayne, Matthew Dolin and Michael Gallagher presented “An Integrated Atomic Force Microscopy Nanomanipulation Stage for Biological Samples” at Seeing the Nanoscale IV in Philadelphia. Layton, Dr. Yury Gogotsi, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Ravi Patel, biological sciences undergraduate, and Benjamin Legum, biomedical engineering undergraduate, published “Piezoelectric Nanomanipulation Device” in Proceedings ESDA2006 8th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis,” held in Turin, Italy. Dr. Diamantino Machado auxiliary instructor of sociology, published the article “On the Modernist Social Sciences Understanding of Poverty and the Role of Experts in the ‘Conduct of Conduct’ of Human Subjects: A Critique” in INTERthesis, vol. 3, no. 1. Drs. Paula Marantz Cohen Distinguished Professor of English, Mariadelaluz Matus-Mendoza, assistant professor of Spanish; and Charles Morschek, professor of visual studies, and Anthony Pirnot ’96 published items in the summer 2006 issue of Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, an online publication co-founded and co-edited by Dr. Miriam N. Kotzin, director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing in the department of English and philosophy. Dr. Mariadelaluz Matus-Mendoza assistant professor of Spanish, presented “Actitudes Hacia la Variacion Dialectal en Philadelphia” at the 88th AATSP Annual Conference at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Dr. Joan May Cordova assistant professor of education, was the keynote speaker for the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Philadelphia. Kalyani Nair mechanical engineering and mechanics doctoral student, won the 2006 IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference Best Poster Presentation Award for “Numerical Model for Predicting Mechanical Properties of Cell Encapsulated Hydrogel Scaffolds.” Nair presented on “Characterization and Numerical Modeling of Alginate-based Cell Encapsulated Matrices” at the World Congress on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. The poster and paper were coauthored by Dr. Wei Sun, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics. Dr. Franco M. Nichini clinical assistant professor of radiation oncology, was awarded a testimonial from the Pennsylvania Medical Society in recognition of 50 years of medical service faithfully performed in the traditional ideals of the medical profession. Dr. Ana Elizabeth Núñez associate professor of medicine and director of the Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and women’s health education program in the Drexel University College of Medicine, was appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Compensation. She presented “Beginning with the End—Impact Driven Cross Cultural Medical Education” at the Eliminating Health Disparities: The Role of Cultural Competency conference and “Women’s Health Through the Life Cycle” at the Latino Health Issues for Primary Care Providers: Achieving Better Health Outcomes conference, both sponsored by the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Paul Oh associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, presented at a special session on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Medical Logistics at the American Telemedicine Association. He was a panel speaker for the National Science Foundation Future of Robotics Research; co-chair of the IEEE workshop on UAVs Missions and Payloads; program committee member as video proceedings co-chair for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; and chair and organizer of the IEEE tutorial on Hands-on UAV Construction. Dr. Fariborz Partovi professor of decision sciences, was recently elected president of the Northeast Decision Science Institute. Alpa Patel chemistry doctoral student, received the American Institute of Chemists Graduate Achievement Award and received American Chemical Society Graduate Student Research and Poster awards for her work on nanostructured metal oxide, nanofibers and enzyme-containing nanocomposites for biosensor and biocatalysis applications. Kristy Pron digital media junior, and Matthew Fonda, fine art senior, tied for third place in the Walt Disney Company’s 15th Annual Imagi-Nations Competition for theme park design for their project “EAC Express.” Carla Rickenbacher a first-year graduate student in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design’s fashion design program, won the first place $1,000 prize in the 2006 C2C/CITDA Design Competition “Shades of Comfort” for her children’s wear print designs, Best Friends. She also received a complimentary student registration for the 2006 C2C International Conference & Exhibition, co-located with MEGATEX, at the Georgia World Congress Center, to be held in Atlanta October 31-November 2, 2006. Dr. Robert T. Sataloff was appointed professor and chair of the Drexel University College of Medicine’s department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (ear, nose and throat). He was also named associate dean for clinical academic specialties. Dr. Konstantinos Serfes assistant professor of economics, had his co-authored paper “Market Segmentation and Collusive Behavior” accepted for publication by the International Journal of Industrial Organization. Lauren Shor mechanical engineering and mechanics doctoral student, won the 2006 IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference Best Oral Presentation Award for “Precision Extruding Deposition of Polycaprolactone and Composite Polycaprolactone/Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering.” The paper was co-authored by Drs. Selçuk Güçeri, dean of the College of Engineering, Wei Sun, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, and colleagues. Drs. Scot Silverstein assistant professor of healthcare informatics and information technology and director of the Institute for Healthcare Informatics, and Katherine McCann, professor and associate dean of IST, presented “Tracing Persistent Highly Visible Research Themes in Medical Informatics” at the American Medical Informatics Association Spring Congress. Silverstein served as a visiting professor at the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare System, where he spoke about using advanced information systems to measure and improve quality, outcomes and decision support in invasive cardiology and cardiac surgery. His article “Sociotechnologic Issues in Clinical Computing: Common Examples of Healthcare IT Failures” will be published in the textbook Medical Informatics 20/20 (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. 2006) Dr. Mary Spiers associate professor of psychology, Maiko Sakamoto, psychology graduate student, and Richard Elliott, psychology graduate student, presented “Sex Differences in Spatial Location Memory in a Virtual Reality Environment” at the Association for Psychological Science Convention. Dr. Wei Sun associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, presented a seminar on “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering: at the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He presented on the same topic at the IndoUS International Workshop on Rapid Prototyping” in Bangalore, India. Dr. Baris Taskin assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and a colleague published “Delay Insertion Method in the Clock Skew Scheduling” in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 25, no. 4. Michelle Teti interventionist at the School of Public Health, presented “Partner Violence and Safer Sex: Are Prevention Programs Meeting the Needs of Women in Dangerous Relationships?” at the National STD Prevention Conference.
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