Refereed journal articles
"Hydrogen Storage Properties of Rigid Three Dimensional Hofmann Clathrate Derivatives: The Effect of Pore Size," Journal of Physical Chemistry.
"Hystersis in the Physisorption of CO2 and N2 in a Flexible Pillared-Layered Nickel Cyanide," Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Dr. Jay Breckenridge – Professor of Theatre Arts
Performances
"A Cajun Killing," Montour Country Club
“Jabberwok,” “Copacabana,” Bethel Park Community Theatre
“A Taste for Wine and Murder,” Bradley House banquet facility.
“The Funeral,” New Works Festival theatre productionPresentation
“Cultural Remodeling through the Arts,” Ninth Annual Symposium on Theatre in Academe; Washington and Lee University.
Original plays, written and directed at Penn State Greater Allegheny
Latin American Folk Tales
What Happened at Vaisali
Dr. Kathleen Taylor Brown - Assistant Professor of Communications
Presentations
“The Search for Artifacts in a Technological Age: The Process of Storytelling through Vodcasting,” International Society for Exploring and Teaching and Learning.” Presented with two PSUGA students.
“Exploring Communications Through a More Global Discipline: Applying Communications and Media, ” Pennsylvania Communication Association Conference.
“ Making a Difference,” Accepted as ‘Spotlight on Scholarship,’ 2008 Eastern Communication Association Convention.Grants
“The Innovation and Leadership for Engagement: The Scholarship of Outreach and Engagement. What is it and Why Does it Matter?” Outreach, Penn State
Dr. Zhibo Chen – Professor of Mathematics
Refereed journal articles
“Forcing faces in plan bipartite graphs,” Discrete Mathematics.
“On graphs with largest lapiacian index,” Czechoslovak Math. Journal (coauthored)Presentation
“Limit Points of Spectra and Fractal from Clique-Inserting,” The 46th Midwestern Conference on Graph Theory, West Virginia University.
Dr. George Crawford – Senior Instructor in Engineering
Parts of books
Chapter on Wireless IP Telephony, The Handbook of Information Security
Chapter on Wireless LAN Standards, The Handbook of Computer Networks.
Lori Hepner – Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts
Exhibitions:
Carnegie Museum of Art, Exhibit: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 97th Annual Exhibition
Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Exhibit: In the Beginning: Exploring Origins in Contemporary Art.
Union Gallery, Louisiana State University, Exhibit: 2008 20” x 20” x 20”, A National Compact Competition.
Fein Art Gallery, Exhibit: HOT!
Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Exhibit: Up Close.
Craddock-Terry Gallery, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA, Exhibit: Inventions/Interruptions.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Exhibit: Westmoreland Museum of American Art Biennial
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Work exhibited: Code Words: Mutations.
15 Minutes Gallery, Pittsburgh Technology Council, “Inaugural Exhibition.”
Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Art Center; Austin, TX, Exhibit: TPS: 17 The National Competition.
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University, Work exhibited: “Code Words.”
RMU Media Arts Gallery, Robert Morris University, Exhibit: Pittsburgh Photography Invitational.
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Exhibit: Wide Open: Pixel Pops 2008.
Southern Alleghnies Museum of Art,” “13th Regional Juried Exhibition.”
Melwood Gallery, Pittsburgh Filmakers, Solo Exhibtion.
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Exhibit: Fellowship 2008: A Map of Latin American Dreams.
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Exhibit: Rewind Remix, Fast Forward: Exploring Our Cultural Ecosystem Through Video.
New Works Gallery, Silver Eye Center for Photography, invitation for 2 person exhibition.Presentations
“Code Words: Dissolving a Practice of Photography in Technological Terms.” 2008 Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference: TECHNOCRACY: image production/distribution/consumption, Carnegie Mellon University.
“Code Words, An Obsession Technology,” 2008 National Conference: Southeastern College Art Conference; New Orleans, LA.
“Code Words: Exploring the Boundaries of the Photography, Digital Imaging, and Conceptual Art in a Post-Medium Era.” Society for Photograph Education 2008 Midwest Regional Conference: Imag(in)ing the Future of Photography: The Photographic and the Digital; Cleveland, OH.Work Featured
Exposure Magazine, biannual journal of the Society for Photographic Education.
Cover photo for Ticket Magazine, 2008.
Featured in Weekend Magazine, “Code Words Mutations.”Grants
Leon A. Arkus Memorial Award for creative piece, “Nebulous Spasm,” an installation piece consisting of 12 separately framed archival pigment prints and is 100” x 90” in size. Awarded by the Associated Artists of Pittsbrugh’s 97th Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Included a cash award of $500. The piece is part of Ms. Hepner’s Code Words series of creative works.
Received a $1,000 award from the Three Rivers Arts Festival to create a new art installation for the 2008 Three Rivers Arts Festival.
Awarded Heinz Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA 5/10 – 5/19/2008 and $1250 from the Heinz Endowments to cover a 10 day residency . Allowed creation of an artwork commissioned by the Three Rivers Arts Festival.
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Fellowship, 2008: “A Map of Latin American Dreams.”
Awarded an internal PSU Research Development grant ($2769) for equipment and supplies for her Code Words Project.
Dr. MaryEllen Higgins – Assistant Professor of English
Presentation:
"What’s Wrong with Human Rights Films?” African Literature Association Annual Conference, Macomb, IL.
Dr. Michelle Hough – Assistant Professor of Business
Refereed journal article
“Increasing elder consumer interactions with information technology,” Journal of Consumer Marketing. Coauthored with Andzej Kobylanski.
Fulbright lecture award, Spring, 2008. Delivery of teaching in Spring, 2009 at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta. Teaching 2 undergraduate sections of Basic Management Concepts and an MBA course in Strategy.
Dr. James Jaap – Senior Instructor in English
Grant
EOPC Diversity Grant, Penn State (with M. L. Signorella)
Dr. Andrzej Kobylanski – Assistant Professor of Marketing
Refereed journal article
“Increasing elder consumer interactions with information technology,” Journal of Consumer Marketing. Coauthored with Michelle Hough.
Kristin Kokal – Instructor in Mathematics
Grant
Toys N More grant, providing funds to support programs intended to help student retention in Math Science, and Engineering pursuits.
Dr. Otto Linsuain – Assistant Professor of Physics
Presentation
“Optical Properties of the Conics from Static Considerations,” AAPT Western PA Conference, Thiel College, Greenville, PA
Dr. Eric Lipsky – Instructor in Engineering
Presentation
Grant“Fine Particle Emissions from Engines,” America Association of Aerosol Research; Orlando, FL
Toys N More grant, providing funds to support programs intended to help student retention in Math Science, and Engineering pursuits.
Dr. Clifford Manlove – Assistant Professor of English
Refereed journal article
“On the Split Between the Eye and the Gaze In Literature, ” (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies.
Dinah Marcinik – Instructor in English
Grant
Toys N More grant, providing funds to support programs intended to help student retention in Math Science, and Engineering pursuits.
Dr. Elizabeth Mazur – Associate Professor of Psychology
Refereed journal article
“Negative and Positive Disability-Related Events and Adjustment of Parents with Acquired Physical Disabilities and of Their Adolescent Children,” Journal of Child and Family Studies.Presentations
“Adolescents social networking on line: Similar to or Different from Friendships Offline?” Society for Research in Adolescence; Chicago, IL.
“Parent and adolescent positive and negative disability-related events and their relation to adjustment,” 2008 Research Symposium on Military Families, Purdue University.
“Are children of parents with disabilities overburdened by household chores?” American Psychologoical Association; Boston, MA.
Dr. Mildred Mickle – Assistant Professor of English
Part(s) of book(s)
New Essays on the African American Novel. Chapter: “Seeking Space to Save Humanity: Spatial Realighments as a Structuring Motif in Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark.”
Beyond the Canebrakes: West Indian Women Writers in Canada. Chapter: “The Interplay of Situation, Sight, and Sound in Lillian Allen’s Poetry.”
Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Chapter(s): “Gayl Jones,” “ Gerald Barrax,” “ Tina McElroy Ansa.”
Presentation:
“Calling the Conscience: The Interplay of Situation, Sight, and Sound in Lillian Allen’s Poetry,” The Second Annual Caribbean Arts and Culture Symposium at SCAD-Atlanta, GA; Atlanta, GA.
Dr. John Peles – Associate Professor of Biology
Book
The Allegheny Woodrat: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of a Declining Species. Springer-Verlag Press. Editor.
Part of book
"Synthesis: Lessons learned and recommendations for the future.” The Allegheny Woodrat: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of a Declining Species. Springer-Verlag Press.
Refereed journal article
“Influence of metal concentrations, percent salinity, and time of exposure on the metabolic rate of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas),” Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Series C.Associate Editor, Mammals for the American Midland Naturalist.
Reviewer, Fish Physiology and Biochemistry Fisheries
Dr. Mary Preuss – Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Editor, Latin American Indian Literatures Journal
Dr. Margaret Signorella – Professor of Psychology & Women’s Studies
Refereed journal article
“Interrelations of gender schemas in children and adolescents: Attitudes, preferences, and self-perceptions,” Social Behavior and Personality.
Associate editor, Sex Roles
Grant
EOPC Diversity Grant, Penn State (with J. A. Jaap)
Robert Walters – Professor of Engineering
Refereed journal article
“The Aware Community,” The Third International Symposium on Smart Homes.”
Presentation
“Public Scholarship and Democracy: The new Vision for the Greater Good,” Eastern Communication Conference; Pittsburgh, PA.