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Here are the faculty and staff activities for April 17, 2014.
Faculty and Staff Activities
Lori Austin, judicial affairs and president of the Millersville Lions Club, was presented with several awards in February. On the 11th of that month, she received three different membership awards from Lions Club International, awarding her efforts at increasing membership in the Club.
On February 25, the Immediate Past District Governor came to the Millersville Lions Club meeting to present Austin with a Lions of Pennsylvania Foundation Fellowship Award. Fellowships are awarded to a club member from each region who increased club membership from the previous year.
Dr. Robert Carballo, English, has had an essay accepted for publication in the forthcoming critical edition of Shakespeare’s “Othello” to be edited by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press (San Francisco). Its title is “A ‘Monstrous Birth Brought to the World’s Light’: The Assault on Authority and the Darkening of the Soul in Othello.” The book should be available in the early part of 2015.
Drs. Timothy Mahoney & John Ward, educational foundations, presented a paper in April at the annual conference of the American Educational Researchers Association called “Seeking balance: Rethinking who decides the role of dispositions in teacher evaluation.” This paper made the case that the definition and description of dispositions is an essential question to ask all accountability models of teacher effectiveness and that all teachers are affected by the shift in the accountability systems, and removing teachers from deciding how their work is defined, supervised and evaluated can lead to limitations on the success of all teachers in the new accountability systems.
Dr. M. P. A. Sheaffer, English, sang as an alto ringer in the spring concert by the Richmond Hill Sacred Music Chorale, Queens, New York, featuring Mozart’s “Kyrie in ‘D’Minor,” “Ave Verum” and the Requiem on March 30 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Richmond, Queens.
Dr. Ron Umble, mathematics, published three papers in academic journals during the school year. In October of 2013 he published, “Tensor products of A-infinity algebras with homotopy inner products” in “Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.” In March of this year he published “A topologically induced 2-in/2-out operation on loop cohomology” in the “Journal of Mathematic Sciences.” And in April he published, “Computing cup products in Z2-cohomology of 3D polyhedral complexes” in “Foundations of Computational Mathematics.”
Patrick Weidinger, environmental health & safety, human resources, recently had an article published in ListVerse.com, “10 More Archaeological Discoveries Made Possible By Global Warming” http://listverse.com/2014/04/03/10-more-archaeological-discoveries-made-possible-by-global-warming/.
Dr. Tiffany Wright, educational foundations, recently (April) presented a paper at the annual conference of the American Educational Researchers Association called,”The workplace climate for LGBT educators: Has it improved?” within a Symposium session titled: Does It Get Better? The Climate for LGBT People in Schools and Communities over Time. This paper provided information about whether or not the workplace climate for LGBT educators has improved since 2004. Findings show that LGBT educators of younger students seems to fear job loss if out to students and that professional development on LGBT issues is sorely lacking in schools.
Obituary
Katherine M. “Kitty” Johns, age 93, of Quarryville, Pa., died April 3. She had been a housekeeper in the residence halls at Millersville University.
