Dr. Sara Atwood, assistant professor of engineering, recently presented a paper co-authored with Dr. Brenda Read-Daily, assistant professor of engineering, titled “Using a Creative Fiction Assignment to Teach Ethics in a First-year Introduction to Engineering Course.” The peer-reviewed paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education in Seattle, Washington, in June 2015, and was published in the conference proceedings.
She also was recently awarded an NSF grant for engineering education. The proposal was funded under the DUE-IUSE program. The award for $248,893 titled “Making Grades Meaningful – Standards-Based Grading for Engineering Project Courses,” is under the direction of Adam R. Carberry (Arizona State University), Sara A. Atwood (Elizabethtown College), Heidi A. Diefes-Dux (Purdue University) and Matthew T. Siniawski (Loyola Marymount University).
Jean-Paul Benowitz, director of student transition programs and assistant director of academic advising, has written a book, “Elizabethtown,” on the history of Elizabethtown Borough, which is part of the “Images of America” series by Arcadia Publishing in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dr. Douglas Bomberger, professor of music, has been elected to a three-year term on the leadership council of the American Musicological Society.
Dr. David C. Downing, the College’s Ralph W. Schlosser Professor of English, recorded a half-hour interview with Mars Hill Audio on his new annotated edition of C.S. Lewis’s “Pilgrim’s Regress.” Downing is scheduled to speak on C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot at the Inklings Festival in Michigan in October and at the Kelly Writers House at UPenn in November. Downing has consented to be an editorial reader on Lewis and Tolkien for PMLA (Publication of the Modern Language Association) and LIT (Literature Interpretation Theory).
Milt Friedly is featured in the exhibit “Creatively Yours” at the Art Space at HACC’s Lancaster Campus, 1641 Old Philadelphia Pike. The exhibit continues through Oct. 21.
Dr. Kirsten Johnson, associate professor of communications, won the top faculty paper award in the Electronic News Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Francisco. The paper, “Citizen Journalists’ Views on Traditional Notions of Journalism, Story Sourcing and Relationship Building: The Persistence of Legacy Norms in an Emerging News Environment,” was co-authored with Burton St. John of Old Dominion University. The paper has been published in the journal “Journalism Studies.”
Dr. Fletcher McClellan, dean of faculty and professor of political science, and Kyle Kopko, assistant professor of political science and director or the pre-law program, presented a paper, “High-Impact Practices in the Political Science Major: Effects on Student Learning,” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in September in San Francisco.
Terri L. Riportella, the Edgar T. Bitting Chair of Accounting and director of the accounting program has been elected to a two-year term on the council of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Robert Spence, associate professor of music and director of instrumental studies, FAPA, has been elected vice-president of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Bandmasters Association for the 2015-2016 academic year. Spence will serve as president of the organization during the 2016-2017 academic year.
Dr. Mark Stuckey, professor of physics, Dr. Michael Silberstein, professor of philosophy, and Dr. Timothy McDevitt, professor of mathematics and department chair, published a paper entitled, “Relational Blockworld: Providing a Realist Psi-Epistemic Account of Quantum Mechanics,” in International Journal of Quantum Foundations 1, No. 3, 123-170 (2015).
Dr. Mark Stuckey, professor of physics, presented the paper, “Concerning Quadratic Interaction in the Quantum Cheshire Cat Experiment,” at the conference “Quantum Theory: from Foundations to Technologies” in Vaxjo, Sweden, in June.
Dr. Michael Swanson, associate professor of theatre and director of theatre and dance, and Richard Wolf-Spencer, associate professor of theatre, were involved in the production of the Ephrata Performing Arts Center production of Bernard Pomerance’s “The Elephant Man.” Swanson directed the production; Wolf-Spencer, designed the lighting. The play examines the life of the famously disfigured Victorian, Joseph Merrick, as he ascends from being peered at in freak shows to audiences with the Prince and Princess of Wales. Performances of the play take place Sept. 10 through 19.
Dr. John A. Teske, professor of psychology, presented “Disembodied Connection: Technology-Mediated Social Intercourse” at a conference on “Our Transhuman Futures” at Juniata College, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in July.