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11/3/2011 Activities

Here are the faculty and staff activities for November 3, 2011.

Here are the faculty and staff activities for November 3, 2011.

Faculty and Staff Activities

Dr. Richard Clark presenting at the UCAR Alliance Workshop in October

Dr. Richard Clark, earth sciences, was a co-organizer and presenter at a panel discussion at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) annual meeting in Boulder, Colo., October 3-6. The purpose of this panel was to solicit ideas from the members on whether UCAR should be considering alliances to tackle the kind of workforce and training issues being raised by the keynotes and fellow panel members. Some of those issues included how to make the nation more resilient to severe weather and a changing climate, support for a community-focused effort to partner universities and stakeholders to work on severe weather and climate adaptation, and how to engage students to enter Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.

Dr. Sam Earman, earth sciences, was a lead author on two presentations at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Minneapolis, “Development and Initial Results of an Exam to Assess Learning Outcomes for Geology Majors,” with co-authors

Drs. Lynn Marquez and Jason Price, both earth sciences, and “Stable Isotope Applications in a Study of Potential Climate-Change Impacts on Hydrologic Systems—Sagehen Basin, California.” In addition, he was a co-author on another presentation at the meeting “Using Dissolved Gases to Observe the Evolution of Groundwater Age in a Mountain Watershed Over a Period of Thirteen Years.”

Hiram Martinez, social equity and diversity, recently received an ADELANTE award for his contributions to educational excellence, at a forum sponsored by the Lancaster Latino Education Committee. Martinez was first hired by Millersville in 2001 and serves on various University committees and on the board of directors for the Spanish American Civic Association in Lancaster. The fourth annual education forum was held October 23 at The Ware Center, Millersville University Lancaster, where four other educators were also recognized.

Drs. Enyang Guo and Gary Leinberger, accounting and finance, were selected for one of the Silver Wheaton Best Paper Awards in International Finance at the September 2011 Applied Financial Research Conference in Atlantic City, N.J. Their paper “Firm Growth and Financial Choices in Pennsylvania Firms – An Empirical Study about the Pecking Order Theory” was presented by Guo.

Dr. Behnam Nakhai, management & marketing, had his latest refereed research paper titled “Attitudes of Business Students Toward Corporate Social Responsibility,” published in the Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the Eastern Academy of Management in Boston. The paper is co-authored with Brenda E. Ghitulescu and Joao S. Neves from the College of New Jersey.

Dr. Karen Rice, social work, had her article titled “Child Welfare in the Court: A Collaboration Between Social Work and Law Faculty to Prepare Social Work Students for Work with the Courts” published in the Journal of Public Child Welfare. The article was co-authored with colleagues from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and is based on an innovative interdisciplinary short course in which social work students work with law and social work faculty and law students in a simulated child welfare court experience. In addition, Rice and Dr. Heather Girvin, social work, presented a workshop titled “Utilizing Focus Groups as a Means for Program Evaluation” at the annual National Association of Social Workers-Pennsylvania conference held October 13-15 at Willow Valley.

Dr. Dominic Scott, educational foundations, made a presentation titled “Understanding Religious Diversity: History, Conflict and Acceptance” on October 22 at the 2011 Lancaster Latino Education Forum held at The Ware Center, Millersville University Lancaster.

Dr. E. Elliott Seda, educational foundations, presented a paper titled, “Characteristics of Effective Urban Teachers,” at the 4th Annual Lancaster Education Forum in The Ware Center, Millersville University Lancaster, on October 22.

Retired

Dr. Charles Wolf, had several articles published recently: “m Stands For Slope” in the fall 2010 edition of the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics (PCTM) magazine; “Some Amazing Totally Useless Theory of Geometric Numbers (Part 1), in the winter 2011 edition of PCTM Magazine and “Some Amazing Totally Useless Theory of Geometric Numbers (Part 2), in the spring 2011 edition of PCTM Magazine.

Obituary

Victor J. “Vic” Ruth, Jr., 76, of Lancaster, died on October 11. He was retired from Millersville University where he worked as an electronic technician for seven years.

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