8/15/13 Activities

Here are the faculty and staff activities for August 15, 2013.

Faculty and Staff Activities

Dr. Kevin Robinson, mathematics, presented the talk “Statistics – What’s So Hard?” at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Mathematics Association conference at Clarion University, April 19-20. He also presented a peer-reviewed poster, “Statistics Education – An Evolving Collaboration: Data, Technology, and Learning,” at the 2013 United States Conference On Teaching Statistics, May 16 – 18 in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. His co-presenter was Justin Kimmel, James Madison University.

Dr. Gregory J. Seigworth, communication and theatre, presented a talk in late May titled “Affect Theory as Pedagogy of the ‘Non” at the National Symposium on Deleuze Scholarship, hosted by the Theory Department in Delft, the Netherlands’ School of Architecture. The paper will be published in their journal “Footprints.” In early June, Seigworth participated in a two-day “Timing of Affect” symposium held at the Academy of the Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. He also organized and chaired three panels on “The Soul at Work and in Debt” at the London Conference in Critical Thought 2013, hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London, June 6-7.

Dr. Ying WuShanley, wellness & sport sciences, presented the research paper “Linda Estes – A True Warrior for Gender Equality in American College Sports” at the 41st annual convention of the North American Society for Sport History at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 24-27.

Retired

Sy Brandon, retired music professor, was a finalist in the 2013 American Prize for chamber music composition competition and a semifinalist in the band music composition competition. His composition, “Meditation and Festive Celebration for Clarinet and Organ,” was included in the July 29 American Public Radio’s nationally syndicated program, Pipedreams. The program can be heard online at the American Public Media website .

Dr. David Zegers, emeritus, biology, and Dr. J.F. Merritt, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, recently published a peer reviewed paper in Mammalia-International Journal of Systematics, Biology and Ecology of Mammals concerning the behavioral and metabolic responses of the least shrew (Cryptotis parva) to cold. Their research confirmed the hypothesis that huddling in communal nests by this shrew provides significant energy conservation in winter, which makes them, in this respect, more like the shrews of Africa, Middle East and the Orient than their more genetically and evolutionarily similar relatives in North America and Europe.

Obituary

Beth H. Greenough, 83, died July 9 in Lancaster. Greenough worked at Millersville University from 1963 to her retirement in September 1989. She worked in human resources.