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Penn State Intercom......January 24, 2002

S. Ashok, professor of engineering science, presented an invited paper on "Formation and Characterization of Multi-layered Nanocavities in Silicon with Cascade Helium Implantation" at the International Conference on Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Technology in Shanghai, China. Ashok also served as a session chair during the conference. The paper was co-authored with Sanjay Rangan, a former doctoral student now with Intel, and researchers Gordon Chen and David Theodore of Motorola.

Ellen Boyd, assistant program director for the Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, was presented with the 2001 Daisy S. Klinedinst Memorial Award at the Pennsylvania Alliance for Environmental Education conference in Harrisburg. The award was given in recognition of "the great impact she has on interns and fellow staff in bringing new ideas to old challenges and building community among all at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center."

Wesley E. Donahue, director of management development programs and services, was elected to a four-year term on the advisory board for the annual Conference on Management and Executive Development held in Palm Harbor, Fla. The board organizes conferences for management and executive development directors, program coordinators, marketing managers and staff members involved in business, cooperative extension and continuing education operations at four-year colleges and universities.

Louis Geschwindner, professor of architectural engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Architectural Engineering Institute. The organization provides a multidisciplinary forum for building industry professionals to examine technical, educational, scientific and professional issues.

Paul W. Howe, assistant professor of business administration/ travel and tourism at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was elected to the board of directors of the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators. He will serve a two-year term on the board.

Kristin Ivanova, a physicist in the Department of Meteorology, presented "Are the British RGB Pound and Euro Different or the Same Currency?" at the Third EPS Conference on Application of Physics in Financial Analysis in London, England.

Jainendra K. Jain, Erwin W. Mueller professor of physics, is one of three physicists selected by the American Physical Society to receive the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 2002. He and two of his colleagues, Nicholas Read of Yale University and Robert Willett of Lucent Technologies, are being honored for their theoretical and experimental work in "establishing the composite fermion model for the half-filled Landau level and other quantized Hall systems," according to the society.

David Kelton, chair of the Department of Management Science and Information Systems, received the 2001 Outstanding Simulation Publication Award from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences' College on Simulation for the third edition of Simulation Modeling and Analysis. Kelton co-authored the textbook with Averill M. Law and Associates of Tucson, Ariz. The award was presented at the INFORMS' College on Simulation 2001 Winter Simulation Conference in Arlington, Va.

Robert Lima, professor of Spanish and comparative literature, and fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, presented "Leonora Carrington: An Exegesis of Her Alchemical Art" at an international conference on art and alchemy at Aarhus, Denmark.

Gerald Mahan, distinguished professor of physics, has been elected to a four-year term as a councillor of the American Physical Society. Councillors serve on the governing board of the organization and also are expected to participate in planning and organizing some of many initiatives of the society.

CHOICE magazine has selected Pushing the Digital Frontier: Insights into the Changing Landscape of E-Business, as one of the two Outstanding Academic Titles of 2001. The book was edited by Nirmal Pal, executive director of the eBusiness Research Center, and Judith Ray, senior research associate. Faculty members and researchers contributed chapters to the book. They included: James Thomas, dean of the School of Information Sciences and Technology; Fariborz Ghadar, director of the Center for Global Business Studies; Rocki-Lee DeWitt, associate professor of management and the associate dean of professional master's programs; Michael E. Brown and Kevin G. Corley, doctoral students in management and organization; Dennis A. Gioia, professor of organizational behavior; Hemant K. Bhargava, professor of management information systems; Albert A. Vicere, professor of business administration; Shawn M. Clark and Cole Camplese, co-directors of the IST Solutions Institute; Kristin Camplese, manager of instructional design and research in the IST Solutions Institute; Richard Taylor, co-director of the Institute for Information Policy; and Fred Loomis, special assistant to the executive vice president and provost for Web strategy development and implementation. Judy Olian, dean of The Smeal College of Business Administration, co-authored the book's foreword.

Nirmal Pal, executive director of the eBusiness Research Center, will serve as an external reviewer for the comprehensive review of the academic departments in Brigham Young University's Marriott School Centers and Institutes. Pal will review the Center for International Business Education and Research, Rollins Center for eBusiness, Center for Entrepreneurship and Institute of Retail Management Department.

Alan Price, professor of English, and Elizabeth Wright, assistant professor of English, both at Penn State Hazleton, participated on a panel discussing the topic of "Can France Survive These Defenders?" at an international conference, "American in Paris: Paris in Americans," which aimed to explore the interchanges between French and American culture, especially the transatlantic dialogue that took place during the 19th and 20th centuries. Price presented "Edith Wharton and the Dimensions of French Propaganda" and Wright presented "Dorothy Canfield Fisher's 'The Deepening Stream and the Politics of Travel.'"

Nancy Marie Tischler, professor emeritus of English and humanities, and Albert J. Devlin, a member of the Department of English at the University of Missouri, were awarded the Morton N. Cohen Award for Distinguished Edition of Letters. The Modern Language Association of America honored the two for editing The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume 1, 1920­1945.

Jean-Claude Vuillemin, associate professor of French literature, presented a paper titled, "Baroque Dramaturgy: Pertinence and Persistence," at the Université de Montréal. This one-hour conference was given in conjunction with a graduate seminar on 17th-century French drama and had been partially funded by a University Global Fund Grant.

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