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Faculty and Staff Achievements
LOUISE AMICK, assistant professor of mathematics, gave a presentation titled "Cauchy's Integral Theorem" at the 2001 Annual Joint Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society held in New Orleans. She also presented the paper "That Indispensable Constant of Integration" at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics held in Orlando in April.
MILISSA BOLCAR, assistant professor of chemistry, MARK HUBLEY, assistant professor of biology, and VICKY LENTZ, assistant professor of biology, were successful in a grant writing effort, bringing to the College $60,000 from the Merck Company to support collaborative student research and other programming initiatives.
KEVIN BRIEN, professor of philosophy, had a paper titled "Logos and Mythos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom via the Union of Marx and Buddha" accepted and selected for discussion at a special session of the Fourth World Congress of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, to be held at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, this July. He also gave a talk titled "Three Wise Men: Heraclitus, Lao Tzu, and Buddha" at Wesley College in April and has taught a workshop on the basics of Buddhist meditation for the Unitarian Universalists of the Chester River.
TOM COUSINEAU, professor of English, reviewed an essay, "Beckett and France," for a panel held at last year's MLA Convention. The essay will appear in an upcoming issue of The Beckett Circle, the newsletter of the Samuel Beckett Society. In addition, he has published an essay titled "Cherchez La Foule" in the journal Samuel Beckett Today.
LISA DANIELS, assistant professor of economics, presented a paper titled "Testing Alternative Measures of Microenterprise Profits and Net Worth" at the Eastern Economics Association meeting in New York City in February. At the same meeting, she was a discussant for a paper titled "Institutions and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from a Cross-National Analysis," by Maya Vijayaraghavan.
Assistant professor of biology DOUG DARNOWSKI had a peer-reviewed paper, co-authored with sophomore Matthew McDermott, accepted by the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter of the International Carnivorous Plant Society. Titled "Abiotic Factors, Particularly CO2 Concentration, Affecting Carnivorous Plants from the Eastern Shore of Maryland," the paper is based on the research done in the Summer 2000 Undergraduate Research Program funded by the Gale Foundation. Dr. Darnowski's teaching in plant diversity and research on carnivorous plants also were featured in an article in The (Baltimore) Sun on May 3, 2001. A short article on results of his recent trip to Australia was accepted by the Bulletin of the Australian Carnivorous Plant Society. Dr. Darnowski and McDermott also had an abstract for a poster accepted by the Botanical Society of America. Titled "Analysis of growth requirements of locally rare bladderworts (Utricularia spp.; Lentibulariaceae)," the abstract's first author is McDermott, who conducted the investigation as part of the Undergraduate Research Program funded by the Gale Foundation.
PEGGY DONNELLY, assistant professor of education, presented a session titled "From Campus to Classroom: Best Practice in Teacher Education" at the annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators in New Orleans in February. She also delivered a presentation to the faculty of Worton Elementary School on "Professional Portfolios as an Assessment Instrument in Teacher Education" in March. In addition, she presented a session, "Thunder at Gettysburg: Fourth Grade Interpretation," at the Children's Literature Conference at the University of Pittsburgh in May 2001.
MARK HUBLEY, assistant professor of biology, had an article co-authored with Christopher Parks '00 and physics professor JUAN LIN accepted for publication. "Temperature-Induced Changes in the Locomotor Capacity of Juvenile Marenzelleria Viridis (Polychaeta: Spionidae)" will appear in the journal Invertebrate Biology.
MIKE KERCHNER, associate professor of psychology, attended the recent meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Washington, DC, and was the chief organizer of the behavioral neuroscience panel discussion, where he summarized the collaborative-laboratory project that MARK HUBLEY and he have been developing. He also presented a poster with junior Donald Stranahan as the primary author and another poster on research conducted with GEORGE SPILICH, professor of psychology, and a colleague at Middlebury College. One of the co-authors was senior Amanda Delcher.
JUAN LIN, professor of physics, had an article, "Fuzzy Decisions in Modular Neural Networks," accepted for publication. Co-authored with E. Mizraji, it will appear in the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 11, 155-167 (2001). In addition, he reviewed "The Dynamics of a Vertically Transmitted Disease" for Applied Mathematics Letters, and "Permanence for N-species Lotka-Volterra Systems" for Computers and Mathematics.
LAUREN LITTLEFIELD, assistant professor of psychology, presented three posters at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association with student co-authors. The posters addressed "What you should know before diagnosing ADHD," "The cognitive underpinnings of reading disorder," and "Evaluating the efficacy of a summer enrichment program for at-risk children."
HARRIET MASEMBE, visiting Jessie Ball duPont Scholar, attended the conference "Crossroutes: The Meanings of Race for the 21st Century," held in Italy in March. While there, she presented a paper, "Finding their Song: August Wilson's Joe Turner and Multiracial Identity in the U.S.A." and chaired a workshop in drama.
KEVIN MCKILLOP, associate professor of psychology, and two student co-authors presented papers at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Washington, DC. The papers were titled "We Have Met the Enemies, and They Are Not Us" and "The Anatomy of a Secret." In addition, an article concerning his work on secret-keeping (mentioning Washington College) appeared in the April 2001 issue of Allure magazine.
BOB MOONEY, director of the O'Neill Literary House and assistant professor of English, had his short story "Witness" accepted for publication in the literary journal Artful Dodge. He was one of five speakers at this year's From Bay-to-Ocean Writers' Conference held in February in Easton, MD. He gave a talk titled "Truth and Fiction" and participated in a panel discussion on the subject of "The State of Contemporary Letters."
SÉAN O CONNOR, professor of education, completed a CD/audiotape set titled "An Active Approach To Learning" for a faculty development project to support the overall quality of teaching and learning in graduate programs for the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney, Australia. In addition, he created a CD/audiotape for graduate students titled "The Student as Learner."
DAN PREMO, professor of political science, completed a book review of The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America by Donna Lee Van Cott. The review will appear in the American Political Science Review.
JOHN SEIDEL, assistant professor of environmental studies, was elected to the Executive Board of the Council for Maryland Archaeology, which represents professional archaeologists in Maryland's academic institutions, government agencies and the private sector.
GEORGE SHIVERS, professor of Spanish, participated in a Fulton School of Liberal Arts colloquium at Salisbury State University in March.
KAREN SMITH, professor of physical education, gave two presentations titled "Using Imagery to Improve Alignment" and "Putting it All Together: Planning Your Dance Concert or Festival" at the Eastern District Association of HPERD's annual convention in Newport, RI.
SUISHENG ZHAO, associate professor of political science, served as a moderator on a television program aired in March titled The China Forum, discussing "Political Succession in China."
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