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Here are the faculty and staff activities for April 21, 2011.
New Millersville University Employees – December 2010
Seated (L-R): Emiyaril Andino, financial aid; Anne Pryzbylkowski, health services; Brenda Alexander, dining and conference services; Alice McMurry, development and Alison Hutchinson, registrar’s office.
Middle (L-R): Theresa DiPaula, accounting; Joanne Esposito, dining and conference services; Joanne Ocasio, health services; Ruth Salinkas, information resources; Holly Kalbach, experiential learning & career management and Corrine House, dining and conference services.
Back (L-R): Paul Young, graduate and professional studies and Derek Hoffman, development.
Faculty and Staff Activities
Dr. Robert Carballo, English, presented a paper, “Macbeth as Dramatization of an Anti-Machiavellian Polity and Sensibility,” at the 42nd annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association in New Brunswick, N.J., in April. The conference, an international gathering of scholars from several countries and various disciplines in the humanities, was sponsored by Rutgers University.
Dr. Sandra Deemer, educational foundations, and Melissa Ostrowski, Penn Manor High School, presented their paper “Students “Perceptions of a Program for Exploring Postsecondary Options,” in a featured session at the American Educational Research Association conference in New Orleans. Deemer also co-organized the Teaching Educational Psychology Special Interest Group program at the meeting and has been elected co-president of the Teaching Educational Psychology group for 2011-2012.
Dr. Dennis Downey, history, recently completed two years of work on an immigration story for the website ExplorePahistory.com. You can read the story, “The Peopling of Pennsylvania: The Creation of a Multicultural Society” at http://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=46.
Dr. Laurie B. Hanich, educational foundations, presented a paper “Cognitive Correlates of Mathematics Disabilities: Numerical and Working Memory Skills Differentiate Students with vs. without Mathematical Learning Disability” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, in Montreal, Canada. The paper was co-authored by her colleague, Dr. Michele M.M. Mazzocco, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Dr. John R. Wallace, biology, was an invited panelist to the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association (PWEA) special conference on Marcellus Shale Gas Mining at Mansfield University on March 9 and presented a talk titled “Environmental Monitoring: Urgency, consistency and sustainability to protect our aquatic systems for natural gas mining.” He also co-authored an article in PLos Neglected Tropical Diseases in December 2010 titled “Ecology and Transmission of Buruli Ulcer Disease: A systematic Review.” And, Wallace co-authored two presentations at the 2011 World Health Organization Annual Meeting on Buruli Ulcer. The first presentation was a plenary talk titled “Highlights and Review of Transmission and Related Research on Buruli Ulcer Disease in 2010.” The second presentation was titled “Micro-geography of Mycobacterium ulcerans and epidemiology of Buruli Ulcer in Tandjii village, Benin, Africa.
