Faculty Notes
Vince Buonaccorsi, associate professor of biology, gave an invited lecture on genetic speciation in rockfish at the University of Pittsburgh in November 2008.
Michael Boyle, von Liebig Chair in Biomedical Sciences, attended the national Science Foundation-funded Bioscholars Writing Workshop in Washington, D.C. in January. He was one of six applicants selected to participate.
Peter Baran, assistant professor of chemistry, is one of the editors for the journal Research Letters in Organic Chemistry and co-authored three papers in inorganic chemistry in the following journals: Inorganic Chemistry (two, in 2008 and 2009), and Chemical Communications. The article in ChemComm was featured on the journal cover. He was invited to lecture on "Coordination Chemistry of Aromatic Amine N-oxides" at Palack University Olomouc in the Czech Republic. He also gave an invited lecture on "How to Maintain a Competitive Coordination Chemistry Undergraduate Research at a Liberal Arts College" at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City, Utah in March. He also gave a talk at a Zing Conference on Coordination Chemistry in Antigua.
So What?
"The title is pretty dry but it tells us the properties of the compound we are synthesizing and which trace metal we are using--vanadium. Sometimes researchers will use a title that describes the functionality of the research--what is it good for? Many times editors will ask the writer to use the compound as the title so all the articles have similar title styles. We are trying to understand the role of vanadium as a trace metal as it interacts with amino acids, which are the basic building blocks of proteins. Titles like these discourage people not in chemistry, and it sounds very complicated, but any chemist would understand it."
Celia Cook-Huffman, Burkholder Professor of Conflict Resolution, presented a paper "Conflict Resolution Education in the United States: The Elementary and Secondary Experience" at the Dyuti Conference, Rajagiri College, in Kochin, India in January. She also helped present a workshop "How Shall I Reconcile with My Neighbor" at the conference Heeding God's Call: A Gathering of Peace, in Philadelphia, and presented "Paradoxes of Congregational Conflict: Pastoral Leadership in Interpersonal Peacemaking" at the Church of the Brethren Minister's Association Continuing Education Conference in San Diego, Calif. in June.
Philip Dunwoody, assistant professor of psychology, served as guest editor for Judgment and Decision Making and contributed an article in the same issue, "Theories of Truth as Assessment Criteria in Judgment and Decision Making."
Doug Glazier, professor of biology, published two chapters in a book, Resource Allocation Theory Applied to Farm Animal Production. Glazier's work on animal metabolism was also highlighted in an essay by Andrew Spence, academic research fellow at the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom, in "Scaling in Biology" in Current Biology.
Richard Hark, professor of chemistry, spoke on "Raman Microscopy of Pigments: Archeological Puzzles and Miniature Treasures" at the 2008 Tripartite Symposium on Chemistry in Art And Archeology in Pittsburgh in May. Hark also published a paper (with four co-authors) on photobromination in Synthetic Communications 2008. He also published two papers on the Raman microscope analysis of artworks by Bourdichon, a French painter and miniaturist, in Applied Spectroscopy and Victoria and Albert Conservation Journal. Hark was also named to the American Chemical Society 2010 First Term Organic Chemistry Examination Committee, and was named as a Member Candidate of the InterAgency Board, which can approve what types of equipment emergency responder agencies can buy using Department of Homeland Security funds.
John Hille, executive vice president for advancement and marketing, was selected as a Top 100 Business Leader by the business newspaper Pennsylvania Business Central.
Kathleen Jones, assistant professor of education, and David Fusco, associate vice president and chief information officer, presented "Preparing Digital Natives for the 21st Century" at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference in February.
James Latten, assistant professor of music, was guest conductor for the Huntingdon County Senior High Honor Band and the Blair County Senior High Honor Band during spring semester 2009. He also was named an audition adjudicator for the Small College Intercollegiate Band festival in Austin, Texas, held during the College Band Directors National Association National Conference in March.
So What?
The hidden meaning in guest conducting a high school band or listening to college bands at a national conference goes well beyond waving a baton or tapping your foot to a rhumba beat, but Jim Latten explains why it's important to stay in tempo with students young and old.
"Any time you get to stand in front of musicians and lead them is fun, and it's an important part of our service mission. We want the surrounding communities to know they can look to Juniata as a place where the faculty is accessible and open to working with students and the community. It's also a recruiting method. Out of a local band program we may get one to three students. Going to a national band conference lets me hear new music and hear new composers but it's also important for networking. Almost all of the guest conductors and guest artists I've invited to the College, I met at the national band conference."
Patricia Kepple, manager of Juniata College Press, presented "Landmines for Presidential Spouses" with a colleague at the Council of Independent Colleges New Spouses Program in Bonita Springs, Fla. in January.
Monika Malewska, assistant professor of art, had an artwork published in an issue of Meatpaper, a journal of meat culture. She also exhibited her art at the Arts Guild of Rahway, in Rahway, N.J., and Mills Pond House Gallery in James, N.Y.
Scott McKenzie, soccer coordinator, was selected chair of the NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Committee at committee's recent meeting in February in Indianapolis, Ind. He served as the committee's vice chair for the past 12 months, and he has been a member of the NCAA Women's Soccer Committee since 2006.
Dennis Plane, assistant professor of politics, published "Political Engagement, Attitude Formation, and Extremitization in the 2004 Presidential Election" with a co-author in the journal American Review of Politics, 2008. He also presented a paper, "Political Trust: Levels of Government, Institutions, and Types of Trust" at a meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, Ill. in April.
Susan Prill, assistant professor of religion, published "Representing Sainthood in India: Sikh and Hindu visions of Namdev" in the July 2009 journal Material Religion.
So What?
Q: Where did you go to research the article and how long did it take you to write?
A: I went to India for a month in 2005 and gathered materials, particularly the religious posters that are the focus of the article. I did a month of research before the trip, six months of research after the trip. I then presented a preliminary article at a conference and spent much of the next year adding material and polishing the article. Some colleagues here at Juniata read it and I reworked it based on their feedback. It was submitted in March 2008 and accepted in June.
Q: How did you pick the journal to submit it to?
A: The article has a number of full-color images and few journals have the budget to publish high-quality illustrations. Material Religion’s subject matter is art and religion, so it was a natural home for this article.
Q: How long does it take to appear?
A: It will appear almost exactly a year between acceptance and publication.
Randy Rosenberger, Swigart Associate Professor of Management, spoke on, "You: A Rich Source of Gap-Bridging OB Exercises," at the Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference in March in Philadelphia. Rosenberger also wrote and presented two case studies "Imagine a Playground" and "Finders Keepers" at the Eastern Academy of Management Conference, in Hartford, Conn., in May.
Paul Schettler, Dana Professor of Chemistry, presented a seminar on natural gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale to Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, a corporate research center for Schlumberger, an international oilfield services company, in Cambridge, Mass. in January.
Catherine Stenson, associate professor of mathematics, and Matt Katz '08 published "Tiling a (2 by n)-Board with Squares and Dominoes" in the Journal of Integer Sequences.
Jennifer Streb, assistant professor of art history, presented the paper "Minna Citron's Social Conscience: Images of Newspapers in the 'Feminanities' Series" at the American Culture Association Conference in New Orleans, La., in April.
Jack Troy, associate professor emeritus of art, published "What Are We Offered?" and "Inheriting Legacy," in the October and November issues of Ceramics Monthly and wrote an essay, "Pragmatic Savvy: Frank Boyden's Wood-fired Porcelain," in Coexistence with Fire: Wood-fired Ceramics by Frank Boyden, 1985-2006. Troy published a book review of Firing: Philosophies Within Contemporary Ceramic Practice, by David Jones, in The Log Book. Another essay, "Flood-time at Jingdezhen," received Honorable Mention in the 2008 WITF Writing Contest. Troy taught ceramics workshops at: Touchstone Center for the Crafts, Farmington, Pa.; The Clay Studio, Missoula, Mont.; University of Montana, Missoula; Alison Palmer Studio, Kent, Conn.; Valley Regional High School, Deep River, Conn.; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine; Frederick Pottery School, Frederick, Md.; Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Ore.; and C. Barton McCann School of Art, Petersburg, Pa. He also was Prescott Visiting Artist at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. He had exhibitions at Miss Porter's School, The Clay Studio and Blue Heron Gallery, in Deer Isle, Maine.
Debra Trudeau, lecturer in music, performed with the her instrumental trio, Allegria Ensemble at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State and at Schlow Library in State College in March.
Jamie White, Book Professor of Physics, co-authored a chapter on quantum coherence in rubidium in the book New Trends in Quantum Coherence and Nonlinear Optics, which is the latest in a book series, Horizons in World Physics. This is a review article of research of which a major component was started by Jamie White while on sabbatical (2004-05). He worked with researchers at the University of Melbourne on producing a blue laser through the interaction of two infrared lasers with a rubidium vapor. He has continued this work with students at Juniata College, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Financial support for this project has allowed the creation of a Quantum Optics Lab at Juniata. Justin Schultz '08, having worked on this project at Juniata, is also continuing to work with this system while on a Fulbright fellowship at the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Optics at The Australian National University. Seven Juniata physics students (including Justin) have worked on this project over the past four years with five of them receiving paid summer internships at Juniata to support their research.
David Witkovsky, chaplain, received a $15,000 Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Pastoral Leadership to take part in a project "Contemplative Connections: Ministry in a Pluralistic Setting" from May 26 to Aug. 20 at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
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