FACULTY/STAFF
Sara Atwood, associate professor of engineering, published a paper in the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, held in New Orleans in June 2016. The paper was titled “Best Practices for Using Standards-based Grading in Engineering Courses.” The study was funded by NSF DUE: IUSE grant for “Making Grades Meaningful: Standards-based Grading for Engineering Project Courses,” on which Atwood is a co-principal investigator.
Justin Badgerow, associate professor of music and advisor to Elizabethtown Chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta is attending the national leadership conference for ALD in Washington, D.C. ALD is an honor society for high-achieving first year students. The E-town chapter is currently involved in several service projects, including one developed by national ALD to provide hygiene kits for D.C. public school children. The Elizabethtown Chapter was awarded an Alpha Silver award by the national office leadership for an 84 percent inductee rate from invitations.
David Bowne, associate professor of biology, is co-author on “Collaborative Research Networks Provide Unique Opportunities for Faculty and Student Researchers,” published in the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly, Summer 2016, Volume 36, Number 4.
Jane Cavender, professor of biology, had her paper “SV40 T-Antigen Amino Acid Changes that Disrupt the Cul-7 or Bub-1 Binding do not Globally Distort the T-Common Region” published in Intervirology 59(1).
Dan Chen, assistant professor of political science and Asian Studies, presented a paper titled “Local Distrust and Regime Support: Sources and Effects of Political Trust in China” at a conference at the University of Zürich.
Kurt DeGoede, professor of engineering and physics, published a paper with Kelly Seymour ’12. “Cellular Telephone Dialing Influences Kinematic and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Healthy Adults” was published in the Journal of Motor Behavior 2016. He served on Seymour’s Master’s Thesis Committee at the University of Delaware.
Milt Friedly, professor of art, had his printmaking exhibited at the North Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from July through December, 2016. The exhibition includes original printmaking, etchings, collagraphs, high-type blocks, lithographs and monotypes dated from 1981-2016. The exhibition is self-curated. Friedly also had his New Mixed Media Sculpture shown at the Rudy Collective in York, Pennsylvania. Included in the show are “Escape – Move Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee,” “Remove Ashes Daily,” and “Corn Chip.” Friedly’s sculptures combine traditional and experimental media to challenge the eye and intellect.
Tam Humbert, associate professor of occupational therapy and chair, and three occupational therapy alumni Rachel Turkovich MS’15, Kelly Van Clief MS ’15 and Elizabeth VanBuskirk MS’15 recently had a book review published in the journal “Occupational Therapy in Mental Health.”
Gary Hoffman, professor of chemistry and department chair, is co-author for an invited seminar “Supercapacitors Based on Carbon-Nanotube Forests” that took place at the Scientific Workshop on “Ions in Solution: Biology, Energy, and Environment” in Telluride, Colorado, on July 15, 2016.
Shari Kain, administrative assistant, and Katie Derreth ’17 won Outstanding Women in Business Awards from the Lancaster Barnstormers.
Kyle C. Kopko ’05, assistant dean for academic achievement and engagement, was elected president of the Northeast Association of Pre-Law Advisors (NAPLA) for the 2016-2017 academic year. NAPLA is the country’s oldest and largest pre-law advising association. In this capacity, Dr. Kopko will also serve on the Board of Directors for the Pre-Law Advisor National Council.
Jonathan Rudy, Peacemaker-in-Residence with the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking, visited the Institute of Religion, Culture and Peace (IRCP) at Payap University (Chiang Mai, Thailand) where he was invited to conduct a workshop on human security and peacebuilding with students and faculty.
Curtis Smith, adjunct professor of English, had his review of Chuck Kinder’s “The Silver Ghost” appeared in Necessary Fiction, and his interviews with authors have been recently featured in Change Seven, Entropy, and JMWW. Smith also had his fiction appear in the current issue of Smokelong Quarterly and in the anthology Best Short Fictions 2016.
Jill Sunday-Bartoli, Social Work and Education emerita, is a candidate for State Representative in the 199th District in Pennsylvania.
Debra Wohl, professor of biology, and Megan Mendenhall ’16 travelled to Montreal, Canada, to present their research this August at the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME). “Sharing more than an apartment? The Human Forearm Skin Microbiome of Individuals Living in Campus Housing” examined whether or not we ‘share’ microorganisms that reside on our arms.
Jodi L. Yorty, associate professor and chair, presented research titled, “Anti-CD40 Prevents the Corticosterone-Induced Loss of Splenic Dendritic Cells in C57Bl/6 Mice,” at the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society annual meeting in Brighton, England in June of 2016.
STUDENTS
Michael Twist ’17 presented a paper “Pose Method of Running: Fact or Fiction” at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting, in Raleigh. Two other research students Margo Donlin ’19 and Otis Statham ’18 attended the four-day conference, as well.
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