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Staters Anthony Atchley, chair of the Acoustics Program in the College of Engineering, gave the keynote address at the 17th International Congress on Acoustics in Rome. His lecture was titled, "An Introduction to Thermoacoustics: Underlying Principles and Research Challenges." Atchley also chaired a session of technical papers on thermoacoustics. John Bagby, professor of business law in The Smeal College of Business Administration, has been appointed to the American Bar Association's task force to the Committee on Cyberspace Law. In addition, he is serving as editor of an upcoming special "Cyberlaw" issue for The American Business Law Journal. Monty L. Christiansen, associate professor of recreation and parks management in the College of Health and Human Development, has been selected to receive the first Distinguished Fellow Award given by the National Playground Safety Institute. He will receive the award during the institute's annual meeting, which will take place in Denver, Colo. Gregory A. Crawford, head of public services at Penn State Harrisburg Library, and Lisa Stimatz, former public affairs and government information librarian at Penn State Harrisburg Library and currently coordinator of library instruction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received the Bernard M. Fry Award for 2000. It was presented by the Journal of Government Information at the American Library Association annual meeting in San Francisco. Mark Dirsmith, Deloitte and Touche professor of accounting in The Smeal College of Business Administration, presented the paper "Going Global: Transformation of the Accounting Professional from Information Service Provider to Knowledge Expert," at the Global Business and Technology Association international meetings in Istanbul, Turkey. He also presented the papers "Technology and the Changing Location of Expertise in Knowledge-Based Professional Organizations" and "Accounting Wars: Jurisdictional Disputes Over Professional Work" at the national meetings of the American Sociological Association in Anaheim, Calif. Dennis Gioia, professor of organizational behavior in the Department of Management and Organization in The Smeal College of Business Administration, was appointed to the editorial board of the journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education. David Harrison, professor of organizational behavior, and Wenpin Tsai, assistant professor of business administration, each received the Perfect Reviewer Award at the Academy of Management's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The award is given to editorial board members of the Academy of Management Journal who provide the highest quality reviews of submitted papers. Harrison also was recently selected as associate editor of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Steven Huddart, associate professor of accounting in The Smeal College of Business Administration, was awarded "best paper" honors from the editors of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. Huddart co-authored the study, "Information Distribution Within Firms: Evidence From Stock Option Exercises," with Mark Lang of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was presented at the Journal of Accounting and Economics conference, "Accounting and Economics in the New Economy," which took place at MIT. Mohsen Kavehrad, professor of electrical engineering and holder of the W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) chair, presented the keynote lecture at the 2001 Wireless and Optical Communications meeting held in Banff, Alberta, Canada. His lecture was titled "Next Generation Communications Systems." James P. Lantolf, professor of applied linguistics and Spanish and director of the Center for Language Acquisition, has been elected second vice president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics for the 2002-2003 academic year. He will become first vice president and program chair for the annual meeting of the association in 2003-2004 and will become president of the organization in 2004-05. The association has more than 1,400 members. William Mark, senior scientist within the Applied Research Laboratory's Institute for Manufacturing and Sustainment Technologies, received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award -- the U.S. Navy's second-highest civilian service award -- in recognition of his work in developing modifications that resulted in the improved operational performance of a naval vessel. Pennsylvania College of Technology has been chosen to receive a Governor's Highway Safety Award for the efforts made by Penn College and Community Coalition to prevent alcohol abuse and underage drinking by students. The college was selected to receive its award in the "Alcohol Highway Safety" category. The college, through the coalition, developed an alcohol/underage drinking fact sheet for distribution to parents at freshman orientation; offered two Alcohol Jeopardy Workshops at freshman orientation; and participated in National Alcohol Screening Day in April 2000. It also sponsored a DUI-simulation activity during College Alcohol Awareness Week and sponsored a panel presentation on underage-drinking law enforcement featuring participation by law enforcement, local government officials and landlords. Jean-Claude Vuillemin, associate professor of French literature, presented a paper titled "Michel Foucault: théorie et pratique de l'indiscipline" at the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris. The talk was sponsored by the Institute of Modern Philosophy, a branch of the French National Center for Scientific Research of which Vuillemin is an associate member. |