Melissa K. Comber, assistant professor of political science and research fellow at the Center for Political Participation, presented a paper on January 12 at the conference “Latino/a Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations and Politics of Representation” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld, in Bielefeld, Germany. The paper is titled “Latino Youth Participation in American Democracy: Voice and Education.” Dr. Comber is a Fulbright Guest Lecturer at the Universität Duisburg-Essen.
TJ Eatmon, visiting scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, was one of only ten graduate students selected to receive the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The award recognizes graduate students who are committed to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others and who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education. Recipients of the award were honored at AAC&U's 2008 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC January 23-26. AAC&U received approximately 150 nominations from across the country, and all of those associated with the award noted the impressive credentials of this year's nominees. “They represent the finest in the new generation of faculty who will teach and lead higher education in the next decades,” said Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U's president.
James Ellenberger '09 has been awarded a full FreemanASIA scholarship and a Benjamin Gilman Scholarship. James will be attending the Allegheny-Capital Normal University Exchange program in spring 2008.
Vice President for Enrollment and Communications Scott Friedhoff was invited to speak at the College Board's 2008 Colloquium in Southern California (Laguna Niguel). The session title was “Four Different Institutional Perspectives on Return on Investment – Follow the Money!” The panel also included the academic dean and vice president for academic affairs at Earlham College, the vice president of finance at North Carolina Wesleyan College, and the vice chancellor of student affairs at UCLA.
Martyn Inkley '07, Professor of Biology and Environmental Science Scott Wissinger, and Assistant Professor of Biology Brandi Baros recently coauthored a paper published in the journal Freshwater Biology titled “Effects of drying regime on microbial colonization and shredder preference in seasonal woodland wetlands.” The paper was based on Martyn's senior project conducted at Allegheny's Bousson Environmental Research Reserve.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Gregory M. Kapfhammer presented a paper at the 18th Workshop on Analysis, Slicing and Transformation, hosted by King's College, University of London. “Towards Regression Testing for Database Applications” describes several techniques that solve minimal set cover problems in order to reduce and reorder a database application's test suite. The paper also includes empirical results that evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the approaches to database-aware testing. More information is available at:
http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/research/diatoms/.
Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry Ann M. Kleinschmidt is the first author of a paper, “Sequences in intron 51 of the VWF gene target promoter activation to a subset of lung endothelial cells in transgenic mice,” in press in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. A coauthor on the paper, Molly Stitt '99 worked on the project as an undergraduate and continued it as a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh in the laboratory of Bruce Pitt, also a co-author. Additional co-authors are Marjan Nassarie and Nadia Jahroudi, University of Alberta, and Karla Wasserloos and Simon Watkins, University of Pittsburgh.
Aisha Damali Lockridge, assistant professor of English, has been invited to give a lecture on February 18 at Earlham College on the impact of male gaze in Spike Lee's film She Hate Me.
Over winter break, Michael Peroski, a second-year student who is double majoring in biochemistry and philosophy, coauthored a book chapter titled “Bioethics and National Security” with Jonathan D. Moreno, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. The chapter will appear in the University of Pennsylvania Handbook of Bioethics, to be published later this year. The work focuses on the connection between human subjects of experiments and national security, bioterrorism preparedness and bioethics, triage in mass casualty medicine, and the role of doctors in interrogation.
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