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Penn
Staters Cheryl Achterberg,
dean of the Schreyer Honors College, participated in the American Association
for University Women-Knight Collaborative Roundtable on the Opportunities
for Women in Higher Education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge, Mass. The subject of the roundtable was how best to ensure
that women of the American professoriate experience opportunities, recognition
and rewards comparable to those of their male counterparts. N.K. Bose, HRB-Systems professor of electrical engineering, presented the opening lecture at the 2000 Workshop on Mathematics in Image Processing, held in Hong Kong. Bose's talk, "Toward Blind Robust Superresolution," was presented at the invitation of the University of Hong Kong's Institute of Mathematical Research. Thomas Boyle, assistant professor of business at Penn State Altoona, was appointed to the Board of The International Entrepreneurship Forum of the University of Central England. He also was also appointed to the Regional Advisory Board of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. This center is one of only 10 such centers in the United States. J. Greg Ferry, Stanley Person professor of molecular biology, has been selected to receive the 2001 Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award from the American Society for Microbiology. The award recognizes distinguished teaching and mentoring of students at the graduate and post-graduate level, plus their encouragement to attain subsequent achievements. In conjunction with the award, he will present a lecture titled "Methanogenesis: A Student Playground" during the society's general meeting awards dinner. Arthur E. Goldschmidt Jr., professor emeritus of Middle East history, was awarded the 2000 MESA Mentoring Award by the Middle East Studies Association of North America Inc. This honor is in recognition of Goldschmidt's contributions to the education and training of others in Middle East studies. Robert W. Koehler, associate professor of accounting in The Smeal College of Business Administration, was named as the PricewaterhouseCoopers' Faculty Teaching Fellow in Accounting. This achievement recognizes Koehler's accomplishments during his many years of service as well as his dedication to the accounting profession. Gary E. Miller, associate vice president for Distance Education and executive director of the Penn State World Campus, recently spoke at the National Academy Workshop on the "Impact of Information Technology on the Future of the Research University." In addition to the sponsorship by The National Academies, the workshop was cosponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Tony Mitchell of the Diversity Outreach Programs at Penn State McKeesport, presented a paper, "Healing Through Storytelling (Drum, Rap and Story): From Anansi the Spider to Tupac Shakur and Beyond," at the Seventh National African-American Student Leadership Conference at Rust College in Mississippi. Robert E. Newnham, professor emeritus of solid state science, has been appointed honorary professor of applied physics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and senior adviser to the Centre for Smart Materials. While in Hong Kong, he delivered a plenary lecture on "Symmetry and Antisymmetry in Ferroelectric Ceramic Transducers" at the Third Asian Meeting on Ferroelectrics. Penn State Fayette's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) training program has received reaccredidation as an EMS training institute by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The reaccredidation will last for another three years. Penn State Fayette EMS training department completed an extensive two step application process, fulfilling state requirements addressing personnel, instructors, facilities, equipment, operational documents and course plans. Anita Todd, director of cooperative education in the College of Engineering, received a Best Session Award at the 2000 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration for a session titled "Using Student Groups to Enhance Cooperative Education Programs." The conference was sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education, an association dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education. Bruce Trinkley, professor of music, and Jason Charnesky, graduate student in English, have won the National Opera Association's (NOA) 2001 Chamber Opera Competition. Their comic opera "Cleo" won the award at the NOA national convention in New York City. Scenes from "Cleo" were presented by the Penn State Opera Theatre at the NOA convention. The scenes, directed by Susan Boardman, associate professor of music, were performed by Penn State students, staff and alumni, including Korey Jackson, a School of Music undergraduate; Phil Doucette, a graduate alumnus of the School of Music; Kirsten Rossi, an alumna of the School of Theatre; and Russell Bloom, manager of Music at Penn's Woods. Jean-Claude Vuillemin, associate professor of French, gave a talk, "Theatrical Illusions in French Baroque Drama," at the International Corneille Colloquium, in Rouen, France. Vuillemin also was re-elected vice president of the Mouvement-Corneille, an international research group devoted to the study of the dramatic/performance texts by the French playwright Pierre Corneille (1606-1684). Kristine Clark, director of sports nutrition at the Center for Sports Medicine, was an invited lecturer at the University of Tokyo and Osaka, presenting, "Nutrition for Optimal Sports Performance." |