FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS, 2017-2018
Books
Tony Gaskew
Contributor, Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens:
Counterstories and Counterspaces (Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice), Lexington Books, July 2017.
Contributor, Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter: Policing Black and
Brown Bodies (Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice), Lexington Books, December 2017.
Editorial Boards
Yong-Zhuo Chen
Editorial Board, Journal
of Nonlinear Functional Analysis
Editorial Board, The Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Applications
Jonathan Chitiyo
Submissions Manager, International Journal of
Whole Schooling
Tony Gaskew
Editorial Board, Journal of Prison Education
and Reentry
Editorial Board, Journal of Police Use of
Force and Practices
David S. Soriano
Editorial Board, Current Research in
Bio-Organic & Organic Chemistry
Editorial Board, Current Medicinal Chemistry
Editorial Board, Letters in Drug Design & Discovery
Professional Recognition
Tammy M. Haley
Distinguished Alumni Award for Teaching and Dissemination, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Nancy G. McCabe
“Honeymoon Reservations,” published in Mud Season Review nominated for Best of the Net 2017
A quote from book From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood appears on p. 1 of the 2018 Barnes and Noble Desk Diary
Elected Positions in Professional Organizations
Helma G. E. de Vries-Jordan
Member, American Political Science Association
Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender
Individuals in the Profession
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Creative Works & Translations
Jonathan Chitiyo
Chitiyo. J. & May, M. E. (2018) Barriers to the use of school-wide positive behavior intervention support. Journal of the
American Academy of Special Education Professionals.
(Manuscript Accepted)
Chitiyo, J., & May, M. E. (2017) Factors predicting the sustainability of the school-wide positive behavior support model. Preventing School Failure 62(2) 1-11
Chitiyo, J. (2017) Challenges to the successful use of co-teaching practices by school personnel
. International Journal of Whole
Schooling 13(3) 55-66
May, M. E., Chitiyo, J. Goodin, T., Mausey, A., Swan-Gravat, C. (2017). Pre-service special education teacher perceptions and competencies in secondary transition.
Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 1-10
Lisa M. Fiorentino
Fiorentino, L. & Haley, T. (2017). Getting Social: The Use of Social Media to Improve Alumni Response Rates for Assessment of Program Outcomes. Nursing
Education Perspectives, 38(6):362-363.
Paper Presentation: Tammy Haley & Lisa Fiorentino. The Teaching Professor Conference, St Louis, MO 6/4/17. “Community engaged pedagogy using a blended course, team-taught approach”
Bradford Community Immunization Access: Bridging the Gap. ATP-ARC (Appalachian Teaching Project Appalachian Regional Commission). Tammy Haley & Lisa Fiorentino. Fall 2017 Student Research (NUR 1401 & 1404)
Tony Gaskew
(2017). Do
I want be a 30 Percenter or 70 Percenter?: Black Cultural Privilege. In Joni Schwartz & John Chaney (Eds.). Counter-Stories and Counter-Spaces: A Critical Race Analysis of Education’s Role in Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens. Lexington-
Rowman & Littlefield Books.
(2017). Unfriending
the Policing Culture: The Reawakened Black Consciousness. In Sandra E. Weissinger & Dwayne Mack (Eds.). Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter: Policing Black and Brown Bodies. Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield Books.
(2018). Transforming the
Systemic Humiliation of Crime and Justice: Reawakening Black Consciousness. In Daniel Rothbart (Ed.). Power, Humiliation, and Suffering in America. Palgrave Macmillan.
Joshua B. Groffman
“Report from the field(s): music of place in New York’s Hudson Valley,” Musica Est Donum, June 2017
Tammy M. Haley
Fiorentino, L., and Haley, T., (2017). Getting Social: The Use of Social Media to Improve Alumni
Response Rates for Assessment of Program Outcomes. Nursing Education Perspectives: The Research Journal of the National League for Nursing 38(6):362-363. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000160.
Nancy G. McCabe
“Facts About the Moon,” Timberline Review, summer 2017
“Behind the Scenes,” Brain Teen, November 2017
On “Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Properly Horrified,” Anne of Green Gables Anniversary
Read-a-Long, L.M. Montgomery Institute, Fall 2017
“Ways to Tell a Story,” Florida Review, Fall 2017.
“With Abandon,” Placeholder
Review, Winter 2018.
“First Love: A Curriculum Guide,” Potomac Review, Spring 2018.
Duane E. Mitchell
Mitchell, D. E. (2017). Responses to organizational conflict. In A. Farazmand (Eds.), Global encyclopedia of public
administration, public policy, and governance. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3078-1
Y. Ken Wang
Sun, Y., Jiang, F., Gu, J. J., Wang, Y. K., Hua, H., Li, J., Ding, G. (2017). Development and Testing of an Intelligent Pain Management System (IPMS) on Mobile Phones Through a Randomized Trial Among Chinese Cancer Patients: A New Approach in Cancer Pain
Management.
JMIR mHealth
and uHealth, 5(7), e108. http://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.7178
Klaus Wuersig
“Electronic Circuit Design with MatLab” presented at the University of Buffalo for ASEE, (American Society for Engineering Education) and ETA (Engineering Technology Association) April 22nd, 2017
“MatLab, a very potent tool, to solve many Electrical Engineering Problems” presented at ATINER (Athens Institute for Education and Research), Athens, Greece July 17th – July 20th, 2017
Hashim A. Yousif
Melka, R., Berrettini, V., Yousif, H. (2018.) The differential equation of an arbitrary reflecting surface, European Journal of Physics, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aaa8fc
Timothy F. Ziaukas
“Hardly ‘False,’ the Ka-Door was the Egyptian Tomb’s ‘Toggle Switch’,” Kmt: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt. Winter 2017-18. Vol 28, No. 4, pp. 68-75.
“Remembering Private Enright: The Context of the Lawrenceville Doughboy,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. July 2017, Vol. 84, No. 3. pp. 313-324.
Digital
Warren Fass
Worth Publishers (Macmillion learning): July 2017 Digital activities for: Nolan S. A., & Heinzen, T.M. (2017). Statistics
for the behavioral sciences (4th ed.). NY: Worth Publishers.
Choosing the Correct Statistical Test. A new digital activity in which students are presented with various statistical findings from a new data set for Chapters 10-18. Students must then apply their knowledge of hypothesis testing to identify the correct
statistical analysis that could have been used to general those findings. With over twenty activities, students will have ample opportunity to put their knowledge to the test in this engaging new way.
Chapter 10: Successful Dieting: Everything Up to the Independent-Samples t Test (Fass & Nolan). Three examples
Chapter 11: Everything Up to One-Way Within-Groups ANOVA (Fass, McCartney, & Nolan), five examples.
Chapter 12: Everything Up to Factorial ANOVA (two-way between-groups ANOVA) (McCartney, Fass, & Nolan).
Chapter 13: Tinder and Online Dating: Everything Up to the Pearson Coefficient (Fass & Nolan), four examples.
Chapter 14: How to Improve Government Operations: Everything Up to Regression (Fass & Nolan). six examples.
Chapter 15: Getting More to Emails: Everything Up to Chi-Square (Fass & Nolan), six examples.
Chapter 16: Crisis Text Line-Crisis Trends: Everything Up to Nonparametric Tests with Ordinal Data (Fass & Nolan). Six examples.
Exhibitions & Creative Works
Kevin A. Ewert
Director, Master Builder by Tamara Kissane (World Premier), for Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, January 19-February 3 2018, Mystery Brewery, Hillsborough NC.
Joshua Groffman
Seegers (collaborative multimedia concert), Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, April 2017
An arrow pointed down (video/live electronics), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, July 2017
Laud (solo piano), College Music Society National Conference, October 2017 Piano score to Unter der Laterne (silent film), Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, FR (November 2017)
Notes from
the end of an empire: summer (guitar, piano, live electronics, video), Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival, February 2018
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS, 2016–2017
Books
Nancy McCabe
Following Disasters: A Novel. Outpost 19, October 2016.
Editorial Boards
Yong-Zhuo
Chen
Editorial Board, Journal of Nonlinear Functional Analysis
Editorial Board, The Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Applications
David Soriano
Editorial Board, Letters in Drug Design and Discovery
Editorial Board, Current Medicinal Chemistry
Special Awards
John
Crawford
Nationality Rooms Program John G. Bowman Faculty Grant, University of Pittsburgh
Joshua
Groffman
Grant to fund the production of Unfinished: an Opera, Arts Mid-Hudson
Shelly
Klinek
University/College Physical Education Teacher of the Year, PA State Association of Health, PE, Recreation & Dance
Elected Positions in Professional Organizations
Helma de
Vries-Jordan
Chair, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Caucus of theAmerican Political Science Association
Member, American Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender Individuals in the Profession
Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Creative Works
Marius
Buliga
Andrew Abboud, Qi Mi, Ava Puccio, David Okonkwo, Marius Buliga, Gregory Constantine, Yoram Vodovotz — Inflammation Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Humans: Insights from Data-Driven and Mechanistic Models into Survival and Death, Frontiers
in Pharmacology, published on September 27, 2016, doi: 10.3389 fphar.2016.00342.
Gregory Constantine, Marius Buliga, Qi Mi, Florica Constantine, Andrew Abboud, Ruben Zamora, Ava Puccio, David Okonkwo, Yoram Vodovotz — Dynamic Profiling: Modeling the Dynamics of Inflammation and Predicting Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury Patient,
Frontiers in Pharmacology, published on November 1, 2016, doi: 10.3389/fphar.2016.00383.
Helma de
Vries-Jordan
de Vries-Jordan, Helma G. E. (2016). “LGBT Activism in Western Europe.” In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples, Renee C. Hoogland, Maithree Wickramasinghe, and Wai Ching Angela Wong, 1–7. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
doi: 10.1002/ 9781118663219.wbegss689
Lisa
Fiorentino
Clark, D., Martin, C., Chung, T., Gordon, A., Fiorentino, L., Tootell, M., & Rubio, D. (2016). Screening for Underage Drinking and Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition Alcohol Use Disorder in Rural Primary Care Practice. The Journal of Pediatrics, 173, 214–220.
Joshua
Groffman
Unfinished: an Opera, Vital Opera, Summer 2016
Nancy McCabe
“Donde Esta el Bano? Bathrooms in Literature,” Ploughshares Online, March 2016.
“Sparks,”
Louisville Review, Spring 2016.
“Roadkill Roundup: Wildlife as Metaphor,” Ploughshares Online, April 2016.
Review of Joe Gisondi’s Monster Trek, Ploughshares Online, Spring 2016.
“Laura Ingalls Wilder and Samuel Worthen Ingalls: Discovering the Roots of Favorite Childhood Books in Cuba, NY,” Ploughshares Online, May 2016.
“From ‘Unlearned Poet’ to ‘Untutored Housewife’: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Samuel Worthen Ingalls,” Little House on the Prairie website, Ed Friendly Productions, May 2016.
“A Setting Out of a Horror Story: Reverse Mirdered at the Red Rim Motel,” Ploughshares
Online, June 2016.
“An Angel Choir, Titans of Industry, and a Writers’ Festival: Western New York’s Chautauqua Institution,” Ploughshares Online, July 2016.
“Looking for Anne of Green Gables in Prince Edward Island,” Ploughshares Online, August 2016.
Review of Sherrie Flick’s Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories, Ploughshares Online, Summer 2016.
“Mark Twain and Literary Caves,” Ploughshares Online, September 2016.
“‘A Big Book for People to Wander Inside’: The Appeal of Writers’ Houses,” Ploughshares
Online, October 2016.
“Coming of Age with Nancy Drew,” The Nancy Drew Anthology, Silver Birch Press, 2016.
“Breathing on Your Own: How to Overcome that Nasal Spray Addiction,” Punctuate, October 2016.
“Just Mercy: Visiting a Local Prison with Former Death Row Inmate Anthony Ray Hinton,” Ploughshares Online, November 2016.
“Detaching,”
Fugue, Fall 2016.
“Clearing off the Cobwebs: Seneca Falls, New York and the First Women’s Rights Convention,” Ploughshares Online, December 2016.
“Honeymoon Reservations,” Mud Season Review, Fall 2016.
“Growing Up Writing,” Spalding MFA Blog, February 2017.
“The Thing with Feathers: My Five Years at a Small Church College,” The Guardians
of Mediocrity: How Universities Use Tenure Denial to Thwart Change, Creativity,
and Intellectual Innovation, Foiled Crown Books, 2017.
Duane
Mitchell
Mitchell, D. E. (2016). Causes of organizational conflict. In A. Farzmand (Eds.), Global
encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance (pp. 1–5). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3077-1
Timothy
Ziaukas
“Troubled with Desire in 19th Century Pittsburgh: The Journals of Wilson Howell
Carpenter,” Western Pennsylvania History, Vol. 99, No. 3, Fall 2016.
Exhibitions & Creative Works
Joshua Groffman
Unfinished: An Opera, National Opera Center, New York, NY, August 2016
Unfinished: An Opera, Grace Episcopal Church, Millbrook, NY, August 2016
Landscapes, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, June 2016
Pained in the blue seat, pained in the red seat, Fordham University, New York, NY, April 2016
Eight miniatures for horn and bassoon, New Paltz, NY, April 2016
Music from elsewhere: flute, Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN, March 2016
Shelly
Klinek
Archery and Autism in the Community Project, SHAPE (Society of Health and Physical Education) America, Boston, MA, March 2017
Anna
Lemnitzer
Repsychling, curated by Vida Sabbaghi, Cope NYC, Pfizer Building, NYC, November 16–December 16, 2016, invitational.
PA Wilds Art Invitational, Lynn Hall, Port Allegany, PA, October 1–31, juried.
PennBrad Oil Museum’s Exhibition Fundraiser, Bradford, PA, April 2, 2016, invitational.
CICA International Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea, March 16–20, 2016 along with Jake Moore and Dillon Chapman, juried.
Klaus
Wuersig
Toward a more practical Engineering Curriculum — A
Sequel, PAEE (2016), University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal, July 2016
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS, 2015-2016
Books
Carys Evans-Corrales
Principal Translator, Borrazás, Xurxo. Criminal (Translated Title: Vicious). Sofia, Bulgaria: Small Stations Press, 2015.
Principal Translator, Ruído: Relatos de guerra (Translated Title: Soundcheck), Murado, Miguel-Anxo. Sofia, Bulgaria: Small Stations Press, 2015.
Tony Gaskew
Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming
Humiliation into Humility. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.
Marvin Thomas
The Saxon Aspect of the Bavarian Allodial
Succession 1777-1779: The History of a Legal Dispute. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015.
Editorial Boards
Yong-Zhou Chen
Editorial Board, Journal of Nonlinear Functional
Analysis
Editorial Board, The Journal of Nonlinear Sciences
and Applications
Kevin Ewert
Series Editor, Botvinick, Marshall. The
Shakespeare Handbooks: Shakespeare's Contemporaries – Volpone. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series Editor, Loehlin, James N. The Shakespeare
Handbooks: Shakespeare's Contemporaries - Doctor Faustus. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Tony Gaskew
Book Series Editor: Critical Perspectives on Race,
Crime, and Justice; Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).
Nancy McCabe
Guest Creative Nonfiction Editor, Louisville Review, Fall 2015
Professional Recognition
Tony Gaskew
Beacon of Dignity Award, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (Human DHS), Columbia University
Joshua Groffman
ASCAP Plus Award, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Matthew Kropf
US Patent Awarded by the US Patent and Trade Office: US9192968 B2 (24 Nov. 2015)
US Patent Published (under review/ award pending): US20150247083 A1 (3 Sept. 2015)
Elected Positions in Professional Organizations
Helma de Vries-Jordan
Chair, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Caucus of the American Political Science Association
Shelly Klinek
Research Chair, The Pennsylvania State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Inc.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Creative Works and Translations
Yong-Zhuo Chen
“Stability of certain nonautonomous difference equations” in Positivity, 20(1), 115-130, 2016
Richard G. Frederick
“Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Inauguration of the New Deal,” Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy, edited by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Marla J. Jarmer, 81-91. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2016
Tony Gaskew
“Developing a Prison Education Pedagogy.” in Bringing College Education into Prisons: New Directions for Community Colleges, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2015.
Joshua Groffman
"Vertigo Rounds" for spatially arranged singers and organ. Commissioned by the Vertigo Rounds Project. June-August 2015
"Dearly beloved!" for soprano, cello, and electronics. Commissioned by Lucy Dhegrae, soprano May 2015
Jeffrey Guterman
“A Case for Ultra-High Definition 4K Television’s Place in the Future of Electronic Media Higher Education,” October 2015, Vol. 6 (4). Journal of Media Education.
Tracee Howell
“The Monstrous Alchemy of Alan Moore: ‘Promethea’ as Literacy Narrative” in 'Studies in the Novel', Fall 2015, Vol. 47 (3). Johns Hopkins University Press.
Michael Klausner
“Organizational Conflict & Its Management," (with Saleem Gul), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict Resolution, IGI Global. 2016
Shelly Klinek
“Archery and Autism in the Middle School,” (with J. Holtz), Betwixt and Between: Education for young Adolescents, 2016. Journal.
Nancy G. McCabe
“Review: Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot by Joe Gisondi,” Ploughshares Online, February 2016.
“’Doom as Entertainment’: The Johnstown Flood in Art and Literature,” Ploughshares Online, February 2016.
“Review: The Pittsburgh Anthology edited by Eric Boyd,” Ploughshares Online, January 2016.
“Armchair Traveling Through History: The Orphan Trains in Literature,” Ploughshares Online, January 2016.
“Gifts,” in Every Father’s Daughter: Twenty-Four Women
Writers Remember Their Fathers, McPherson and Company, 2015.
“The Baby Room,” in Oh, Baby! True Stories about
Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love, In Fact Books, 2015.
“Threads to the Past,” in A Pink Suitcase: 22 Tales
of Women’s Travel, World Traveler Press, 2015.
“A Castle in Our Backyard: Activating Imaginations in Ireland,” Ploughshares
Online, December 2015.
“Composing the Air,” Literary Mama: Writing about
the Many Faces of Motherhood, December 2015.
“Lost in Translation: A Journey on the Li River,” Ploughshares
Online, November 2015.
“’Changes of Scale by which We Measure Ourselves Anew: The Appeal of Tiny Objects and Compact Forms,” Ploughshares Online, October 2015.
“Looking for Charles Ingalls in Cuba, NY,” Little
House on the Prairie Website, Friendly Productions, October 2015.
“The Baby Room,” reprinted at Littsburgh:
Celebrating Literary Pittsburgh, October 2015.
“Upton Sinclair, The Spirit of Sophocles, and Me: A Visit to Lily Dale,” Ploughshares Online, September 2015.
"Laura Ingalls Wilder's Artistic Development and Growth," Little House on the Prairie Website, Friendly Productions, September 2015.
“Deep Valley Homecoming and Laurapalooza: Keeping Classic Children's Literature Alive,” Ploughshares Online, August 2015.
"Fallingwater: the Rock Opera": The Collaboration of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Hall,”
Ploughshares Online, July 2015.
“Telling the Stories of the Dead: Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery,” Ploughshares Online, June 2015.
“'A Ripple Effect that Turned into a Tidal Wave': The Journey of a Discarded Book,” Ploughshares
Online, May 2015.
“Review: Belief is its own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori Jakiela,” Ploughshares Online, May 2015.
“’Beruffled Little Wet Apron’ or ‘Prodigious Cadence of Water’: Bicycling at Niagara Falls,” Ploughshares Online, April 2015.
“Review: The Paper Man by Gallagher Lawson, Ploughshares
Online, March 2015.
“The Zippo Museum in Bradford, PA and Zippo Sightings in Literature,” Ploughshares Online, March 2015.
Stephen F. Robar
“Herbert Clark Hoover: Farm Relief,” Bully Pulpit,
Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy, edited by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Marla J. Jarmer, 67-79. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2016
Om V. Singh
“Role of Enzymatic Envelopment in Energy Unconventionality,” (with Matthew S. Muroski). Advances in Enzymatic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels, October 2015
Klaus Wuersig
“Toward a more practical Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings
of the International Conference of Engineering Education, July 2015
Exhibitions & Creative Works
Joshua Groffman
“Dearly beloved!,” Poughkeepsie, NY
“Dearly beloved!,” Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“Pained in the blue seat, pained in the red seat,” Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA
“Pained in the blue seat, pained in the red seat,” Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“An arrow pointed down,” SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
“An arrow pointed down,” Poughkeepsie, NY
“Foster the Light, Ars Musica Chorale,” Hillsdale, NJ
“Foster the Light, Ars Musica Chorale,” Ridgewood, NJ
Nancy McCabe
Keynote Speaker, Deep Valley Homecoming: A Celebration of the Work of Maud Hart Lovelace, Mankato, MN
Featured Speaker, Laurapalooza: A Celebration of the Work of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Brookings, SD