George E. Andrews, Evan Pugh professor of mathematics, was an invited participant in a panel discussion, "Collegiate Mathematics Instruction for the 21st Century," during the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Berlin, Germany.
Paul Becker, lecturer in mathematics at Penn State Erie, presented "Non-existence of Soluble (120, 35, 10) Difference Sets," at the NATO Advanced Study Institute, "Difference Sets, Sequences and their Correlation Properties," in Bad Windshein, Germany.
Pamela Silver Botts, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Erie, has been named an associate editor of the Journal of the North American Benthological Society. At the society's annual meeting she presented a paper, "Density-dependent Influence of Spatial Arrangement of Resource Patches on Chironomid Life History Traits."
Mary Chisholm, professor of chemistry at Penn State Erie, attended the 15th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Waterloo, Ontario. While there, she presented a paper, "An Introductory Organic Chemistry Course for Plastics Technology Students."
Daniel W. Conway, professor of philosophy, presented an invited paper at the 1998 meetings of the International Society for the Society of European Ideas, in Haifa, Israel. Conway's paper, "The Daybreak of Aesthesiology," charts the flow of competing epistemological currents in 19th-century German philosophy.