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Jeanne Amlund – Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology
  • Prepared and Delivered Macromedia Dreamweaver & Fireworks Workshop (2006, November
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Education
  • College Representative, Education
Edward Bittner – Professor of Chemistry
  • Culp, J. T., Matranga, C., Smith, M., Bittner, E. W., & Bockrath, B.  Hydrogen Storage Properties of Metal Nitroprussides M[Fe(CN)5NO], (M=Co,Ni).  Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110: 8325-8328 (2006).
  • Summer Research Fellowship at US DOE/National Energy Technology Laboratory  – Competitive fellowship award to study hydrogen storage and organic interactions with carbon nanotubes (2006, Summer).
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Chemistry
  • College Representative, Earth and Mineral Sciences
Jay Breckenridge – Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
  • Breckenridge, J.  Dramatizing Folk Tales for the EFL Class.  Acción Pedagógica 15:  (2006)
  • Breckenridge, J., & Koepfinger, C. “Blood, Sweat & Steel:  Process and Product.” Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii (2006, January). 
  • “Creating a Theatre Production from Oral Histories” presented at the Eighth National Symposium of Theatre in Academe at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA – 3/9/06 p- 3/11/06
  • “Sundiata:  Legendary Lion King of Mal”i Penn State McKeesport campus production – co-wrote and edited script and co-directed production – 4/20/06 – 4/22/06
  • “Bye Bye Birdie” Bethel Park, PA, community theatre production – set design and construction, acting/singing – 5/5/06 – 5/21/06
  •  “Lethal Lua” mystery dinner theatre at the Bradlee House, Baldwin, PA
  • “Touching Aurora” theatre production at the performing arts high school, Pittsburgh, PA – directed
  • “Folk Tales from India” Penn State McKeesport campus children’s theatre production – adapted and dramatized four Indian folk tales
  •  “Dr. Jay:  Juggler, Storyteller, Stilt Walker, Fool” – performed throughout the tri-state area
  • Campus Program Head for Letters, Arts, and Sciences degree program
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Arts
  • College Representative, Arts & Architecture
Kathleen Brown - Assistant Professor of Communications
  • Brown, K. T., & Cooper, J.E. An Introduction to New Literacy Studies. International Journal of the Humanities 4(3): 77-83 (2006).
  • “Addressing Research Issues in Communication Courses:  Instructional Problem Based Course Methods” presented at the International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning (ISETL) conference in Palm Springs, California – 10/19/06 – 10/21/06
  • Brown, K. T. Faculty Engagement Project in Podcasting. $35,000 grant funded by Teaching and Learning with Technology, Penn State (2006).
  • Signorella, M. L., Cooper, J. E. & Brown, K. T. Community Service and the First Year Experience. $11,736 grant funded by the Office of Undergraduate Education, Penn State (2006).
  • Brown, K. T., Cooper, J. E., Signorella, M. L., & Winter, P. W. Program Fund for Engineering, Business, and Technology Projects. $12,500 grant funded by U. S. Steel (2006).
  • Pennsylvania Communications Association Harvey Kelly Excellence in Teaching Award
  • Campus Representative, Civic and Community Engagement Minor
  • Treasurer of the PA Communication Association Executive Council
  • Chair (2006-2007) of the Eastern Communications Applied Communication Interest Council – Program planner, Annual conference in Providence RI, Spring 2007
Zhibo Chen - Professor of Mathematics
  • Chen, Z.  On Integral Sum Graphs.  Discrete Mathematics 306(1): 19-25 (2006).
  • Che, Z., & Chen, Z.  Forcing Hexagons in Hexagonal Systems.  MATCH (Communication in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry) 56(3): 649-668 (2006).
  • Chen, Z., & Liang, T.  The Converse of Viviani’s Theorem.  The College Mathematics Journal 37(1): 390-391 (2006).
  • Zhang, F., & Chen, Z.  On Commutativity of Two Unary Digraph Operations: Subdividing and Line-digraphing.  Discrete Mathematics 306(21): 2733-2739  (2006).
  • Zhang, F., & Chen, Z.  Limit Points of Eigenvalues of (di)graphs.  Czechoslovak Math, J 56(131)(3): 895-902 (2006).
  • “Polynomials and Transpositions” presented at the Second Conference of Combinatorics and Graph Theory in Nankai University, China – 8/16/06 – 8/19/06
  • “Limit Points of (di)graph Eigenvalues and Spectral Dynamics of Clique-inserting” presented at the International Conference on Applied Combinatorics and Graph Theory at Xiamen University, China – 12/21/06 – 12/24/06
  • Guest co-editor for  a special issue of the mathematical chemistry journal “MATCH.”
Russell Ciolli – Senior Instructor in Communications Arts and Sciences
  • “That’s the Way to Live,” cover photo publication in the Spring 2006 edition of ABSENCE, volume 8, number 1
  • Adviser to campus radio station WMKP
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Communications Arts & Sciences
Delia Conti – Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
  • Penn Stater of the Quarter Award, (2006, Spring)
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Communication
  • College Representative, Communications 
Jeanna Cooper – Instructor in Information Sciences and Technology
  • Brown, K. T., & Cooper, J. E.  An Introduction to New Literacy Studies.   International Journal of the Humanities 4(3):77-83  (2006).
  • “An Introduction to new Literacy Studies:  The Work of James Paul Gee” was virtually presented at the Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Tunisia – 7/3/06 – 7/6/06
  • Signorella, M. L., Cooper, J. E. & Brown, K. T.  Community Service and the First Year Experience. $11,736 grant funded by the Office of Undergraduate Education, Penn State (2006).
  • “Acquired Discourse for Maximizing Learning Central to One’s Success in Sociocultural Settings” presented at the 67th Annual Pennsylvania Communications Association Conference in Beaver, PA – 10/5/06 – 10/7/06
  • Brown, K. T., Cooper, J. E., Signorella, M. L., & Winter, P. W. Program Fund for Engineering, Business, and Technology Projects. $12,500 grant funded by U. S. Steel (2006).
George Crawford – Senior Instructor in Engineering
  • Chair and Webmaster of the IEEE, Pittsburgh Section Consultants Network
  • Editor/reviewer of chapter on Wireless LAN Standards in the book The Handbook of Computer Networks published by John Wiley and Sons (2006)
  • Editor/reviewer of chapter on Wireless IP Telephony in the book The Handbook of Information Security published by John Wiley and Sons (2006)
  • Technology advisor for local newspaper, Greensburg Tribune Review

June Fishbourne – Instructor in Psychology

  • Editoral Board, Behavior Therapy
James Gillespie– Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  • Gillespie, J.  The Flat Model Structure on Complexes of Sheaves.  Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 358:(7):2855-2874
Galen Grimes – Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
  • “The Status of IS/IT Curricula in PA Public High Schools – Are PA Public Schools Working to Prepare Future IS/IT Professionals” presented at the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference 2006 in Pittsburgh, PA – 11/8/06 – 11/9/06
  • “The Future of Information Assurance (Network Security) Professionals – the Status of Telecom Education in PA High Schools” presented at the 2006 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems – Modeling and Analysis at Penn State Berks – 10/5/06 – 10/8/06
  • Grimes, G.  Online Behaviors Affected by Spam.  Social Science Computer Review  24(4): 507-515  (2006).
  • Campus Program Head and Department Coordinator, IST
  • College Representative, IST

MaryEllen Higgins – Assistant Professor of English

  • Higgins, M. Transnational, Transcultural Feminisms?  Amma Darko’s Response in Beyond the Horizon. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.  25(2): 307-322(2006)
  • Writing Haiti from New York:  Local and Cosmopolitan Resistance in Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory presented at the African Literature Association Conference:  Perspectives on African Literatures at the Millennium
  • “Post-Negritude Cosmopolitanism in the films of Sembène Ousmane, Djibril Diop Mambery, and Moussa Sene Absa” presented at The Dubois-Nkrumah-Dunham Inaugural Conference at The University of Pittsburgh – 3/31/06 – 4/1/06
  • “From Negritude to Migritude?  Some Examples from Senegalese Cinema” presented at the Négritude:  Héritage et Actualité Colloquium at The University of West Indies, Barbados – 10/25/06 – 10/29/06
  • “World Cinema a la Senegalaise:  The Rooted Cosmoplitanism of Sembène, Mambety, and Absa” presented at the African Studies Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA – 12/14/06 – 12/16/06 Coordinator, campus English Department – 2006
  • Campus Department Coordinator, English - Fall 2006
Michelle Hough – Assistant Professor of Business
  • Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Application Committee member  (2005 – 2006).
  • Campus Program Head and Department Coordinator, Business.

James Jaap – Senior Instructor in English

  • Promoted to Senior Instructor – July 1, 2006
  • Campus Department Coordinator, English - Spring 2006    
Kristin Kokal – Instructor in Mathematics
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Mathematics
Otto Linsuain – Assistant Professor of Physics  
  • Linsuain, O.  “In Defense of Newton’s Second Law” - paper presented at the AAPT Western PA Conference, New Wilmington, PA (2006, September). 
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Physics

Eric Lipsky – Instructor in Engineering

  • Lipsky, E. M. & Robinson, A. L.  Effects of Dilution on Fine Particle Mass and Partitioning of Semivolatile Organics in Diesel Exhaust and Wood Smoke.  Environmental Science and Technology.  40(1):155-162  (2006)
  • Grieshop, A. P., Lipsky, E. M., Pekney, N. J., TakahamaS. & Robinson, A. L.   Fine particle emission factors from vehicles in a highway tunnel:  Effects of fleet composition and season.  Atmospheric Environment – Online Edition.  Vol. 40 (2006)
  • Member and participant of group of artists, Industrial Arts Coop, working on a commissioned sculpture by the City of Pittsburgh to be on permanent display at the South Side Works project – 2006
Lydia Lockhart – Instructor in Business
  • Campus representative, Business/Liberal Arts and Business Minors
  • OLEAD Program coordinator

Clifford Manlove – Assistant Professor of English

  • Faculty Adviser for Absence: Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Art & Literacy Magazine
  • Team Organizer and Leader, Pittsburgh World Affairs Council Contest.  Led team of six PSGA students and faculty to compete on issues of world affairs, culture and geography against 31 other academic and corporate teams in the Pittsburgh area – Nov. 2006
Michael Manojlovich – Instructor in Information Sciences and Technology
  • IST 440W Class Project – Development of prototype web site for the McKeesport Housing Corporation, McKeesport, PA – Fall 2006

Dinah Marcinik – Instructor in English
  • Marcinik, D. “An Investigation of Multi-Literate Schooling Practices.” Paper presented at the Three Rivers TESOL Annual Fall Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (2006, October).
  • Exhibition of three pieces of computer art at the Penn Hills Arts Show – 7/7/06-7/8/06 Award

Elizabeth Mazur – Associate Professor of Psychology
  • Mazur, E. Biased Appraisals of Parenting Daily Hassles Among Mothers of Young Children: Predictors of Parenting Adjustment.  Cognitive Therapy and Research 30:161-175  (2006).
  • Mazur, E. Positive and Negative Events Experienced by Parents with Acquired Physical Disabilities and Their Adolescent Children.  Families, Systems, and Health 24:160-178 (2006)
  • Tyszkiewicz, A., Carroll, C., & Mazur, E. "Predictors of self-esteem and anxiety of adolescent children of physically disabled parents." Paper presented at the meetings of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, Harrisburg, PA (2006, June).
  • Mazur, E. “Assessing the positive and negative life events of parents with acquired physical disabilities and of their adolescent children.” Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston (2007, March).
  • Campus Representative, Psychology Minor
  • Director, Mt. Lebanon Extended Day Program Board – Pittsburgh PA – Spring, 2006
Mildred Mickle – Assistant Professor of English
  • Gayl Jones.  Chapter in Southern Writers:  A Biographical Dictionary, pp. 224-225.  (2006)
  • Gerald Barrax.  Chapter in Southern Writers:  A Biographical Dictionary, p. 16.  (2006)
  • Tina McElroy Ansa.  Chapter in Southern Writers:  A Biographical Dictionary, pp. 9-10.  (2006)
  • From the Page to the Screen:  Symbolic Explorations of Black Identity in Ousmane Sembene’s Short Story ‘Black Girl’ and film ‘La Noire de’ presented at the College Language Association Conference in Birmingham, AL – 4/5/06 – 4/7/06
  • The Politics of Addiction and Adaptation:  Dis/ease Transmission in Octavia E. Butler’s Survivor presented at the MURAP Conference in Chapel Hill, NC – 7/21/06 – 7/23/06
Amelia Mitchell – Instructor in Biology
  • College Representative, Agricultural Sciences
Verónica Montecinos – Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Gave the presidential address,“Antiquated Nationalism vs. Global Sociology,” at the 56th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Sociological Association as out-going president - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania – 10/14/06
  • Invited to present paper, “Democracy and Economic Governance:  Chile since 1990,” at the International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Conference in Fukuoka, Japan – 7/9/06 – 7/13/06 – Could not attend Montecinos, V.  
  • Gender and Politics in Bachelet’s Chile.  Perspectives, Newsletter of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  26(2)  (2006)
  • Project, “Gender Aspects of a New Pension Reform in Chile”, funded in 2006 – Consultancy for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Finance Ministry of Chile.  Went to Chile in May 2006.  Wrote report for the drafting of a bill that President Michelle Bachelet sent to Congress in the second half of 2006.
  • Chaired the Teaching India project – 2006/2007
  • Disciplinary Coordinator for Social Sciences and Education
  • President of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society until October 2006
  • Member of the Regional Advisory Board, West European Studies/European Union Center, University of Pittsburgh. – 2006
  • Served as consultant to the government of Chile on pension reform – Spring 2006
  • Member of the advisory board of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Summer, Fall 2006
  • U. S. correspondent for Comunidad Mujer, a non-governmental organization in Chile (http://www.comunidadmujer.cl/) – Summer, Fall, 2006. 
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Sociology
John Peles – Associate Professor of Biology
  • Allozyme heterozygosity and metabolic rate in Blarina brevicauda.  Chapter in Advances in the Biology of Shrews II, pp. 367-372.  (2005) Peles, J. D., Glenn, T. C., Brant, H. A., Wall, A. K., & Jagoe, C. H. 
  • Mercury Concentrations in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) from Five South Carolina Reservoirs.   Water, Air, and Soil Pollution.  173:151-162  (2006)
  • Coordinator, campus Honors Program – Fall 2006 (ongoing)
  • Chairperson, Penn State McKeesport Science Division – 2006
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Biology
Mary Preuss – Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature 
  • Preuss, M.  La X’tabay:  Su papel en el pasado y el futuro.  Presented at refereed proceeding, Memorias del 1 o Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, at the conference 1 o Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya.   2:1313-1322  (2006)
  • President, Latin American Indian Literature Association
  • Editor, Latin American Indian Literatures Journal
  • Preuss, M., translator  Narratives from Guatemala.  Latin American Indian Literatures Journal.  22(1):74-96  (2006) Preuss, M. H., recorder and translator 
  • Village Tales from Yucatan.  Latin American Indian Literatures Journal.  22(2):153-199  (2006)
  • Women’s Roles in Contemporary Mayan Oral Literature presented at the XVII International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures at Ohio State University – 5/11/06 – 5/13/06
  • Program, “Once Upon a Myth:  Exploring Yucatec Mayan Stories,” presented at the Research Unplugged event at University Park – 3/29/06
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Foreign Languages
  • Board of Directors, Pittsburgh American Indian Center
  • First Vice President, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century
Donna Rhodes – Senior Instructor in Kinesiology
  • Photographer for McKeesport Heritage Center – 2/18/06
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Kinesiology
  • College Representative, HHD 
  • Outdoors Club Adviser
Margaret Signorella – DAA and Professor of Psychology & Women’s Studies
  • Signorella, M. L. Developmental Trends in Gender- and Race-Related Schemata. Paper presented at the Gender Development Research Conference, San Francisco. (2006, April).
  • Signorella, M. L. The Average Girl and the Average Boy are No One in Particular. Paper presented at the Gender Development Research Conference, San Francisco. (2006, April).
  • Signorella, M. L. Multimedia Teaching Object grant to digitize Milgrams Obedience to Authority film for PSY 217 (now PSYCH 221). Teaching and Learning with Technology, Penn State (2006).
  • Brown, K. T., Cooper, J. E., Signorella, M. L., & Winter, P. W. Program Fund for Engineering, Business, and Technology Projects. $12,500 grant funded by U. S. Steel (2006).
  • Signorella, M. L., Cooper, J. E. & Brown, K. T. Community Service and the First Year Experience. $11,736 grant funded by the Office of Undergraduate Education, Penn State (2006).
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Psychology & Women's Studies
Marissa Sinisi – Instructor in English
  • Sinisi, M.   Midnight Valediction.  Renovation Journal 3(2):48-49  (2006).
  • Faculty Adviser for ABSENCE, campus literary magazine
Guangfeng Song – Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology 
  • Presented “A Peer to Peer Approach to User Collaboration in Web Browsing” at the proceedings of the 2006 Information Resource Management Association International Conference – 5/22/06 – 5/24/06
  • Reviewed article, Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design, Robert W. Proctor & Kim-Phuong L. Vu (Eds) for the journal International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.  20(2): 161-162
James Stewart – Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations 
  • Member, Executive Board of the National Council for Black Studies Member
  • Advisory Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
  • Served as scholar-in-residence for one week making daily presentations of “The Development and Evolution of Africana Studies” to the participants in the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute in New York City – 6/19/06 – 6/24/06
  • Social Science and Systematic Inquiry in Africana Studies.  Chapter in Sage Publication Handbook of Black Studies – 2006
  • Darity Jr., W. A., Mason, P. L., & Stewart, J. B.   The economics of identity:  The origin and persistence of racial identity norms.   Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.  60(3):283-305  (2006)
  • Clark, P. F., Stewart, J. B., & Clark, D. A.  The globalization of the labour market for health-care professionals.  International Labour Review.  145(1):37-64  (2006)
  • “The Global Sullivan Principles as a Guide to International Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century”, lecture/workshop series funded by the GM Sullivan Fellowship Program, 2006-2007 (Also provides paid internships for two PSU students.)
  • Sub-Disciplinary Specializations and Disciplinary Maturation:  Relationships Among Afro-American Studies, Critical Race Studies, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Afro-Latino/a Studies, and Africana Women’s Studies at the Conversations for Sustaining Black Studies in the 21st Century.  Presented at a conference at the Ford Foundation in New York City – 4/21/06 – 4/22/06
  • Member, Board of Directors, Adventures in Health, Education and Agricultural Development, Inc.  (AHEAD) a non-profit organization that helps underserved communities in various African countries
  • Board of Directors, Blueroof Technologies, Inc.
Robert Walters – Professor of Engineering
  • Provided coordination of program with Maglev to develop an Associate degree in Precision Manufacturing Technology
  • Developed Blueroof Smart House and research center
  • Presented paper entitled, “Reinventing the Home,” at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition in Pittsburgh, PA – 6/21/06
  • Program coordinator:  Nanotechnology Associate Degree
  • Campus Department Coordinator, Engineering