Accomplishments of SU faculty, employees

Following is a list of presentations, awards, honors and other achievements by or to Shippensburg University faculty and other members of the campus community. If you need further information, please call 477-1202.

• Dr. APRIL BAILEY, assistant professor of accounting/MIS, successfully defended her dissertation “Exploring Adult Business Students’ Transition to College through a First-Year Seminar Course: An Action Research Study” March 12 and earned her doctoral degree from The Pennsylvania State University.
• Dr. SEAN CORNELL, assistant professor of geography-earth science, chaired a session at the Northeast Geological Society of America Meeting in Portland, Maine late last month. The session he co-organized was Bioevents, Tectonics, and Sea-Level Change in Marine to Non-Marine Strata of Northeastern North America. He also gave the talk “Time-Restricted Facies of the Late Ordovician: Tectonic and Environmental Implications” at the program. He also co-authored a research poster with student Kara Bushman on “Morphologic Landmark Analysis and Glabellular Fenestrae Count of North American Cryptolithus Trilobites.”
• Dr. THOMAS FEENEY, associate professor of geography and earth science, gave an invited lecture at the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry’s Annual Conference in State College. Feeney’s talk, entitled “The Watershed Hydrology of Carbonate Springs in Pennsylvania’s Cumberland Valley,” was attended by more than 200 state foresters and forest managers stationed across the Commonwealth.
• Dr. RAYMOND E. JANIFER SR., professor of English and Ethnic Studies, recently published two articles: “The Comedic Genius of Richard Pryor” and “Miles Davis: A Man With a Horn” in ABC-CLIO’s Encyclopedia of African American History.
• Dr. IAN M. LANGELLA, associate professor of supply chain management, co-authored the paper “Examining the Performance of Heuristics for the Disassemble-to-Order Problem Under Rolling Planning Using Actual Product Structures” that was recently listed as one of the top 10 downloaded papers in two topic areas of the Social Science Research Network, viz. Statistical Decision Theory; Operations Research and Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis.
• Dr. BLANDINE MITAUT, assistant professor of French, presented the paper “Pascal Quignard: Bilingualism, Starvation and the Disappearing Body” at the Northeast Modern Language Association’s 40th Convention in Boston on Feb. 26. She was also invited to give a lecture at Miami (Ohio) University’s Department of French and Italian on “Rouges-gorges: Meurtrissures linguistiques dans l’oeuvre de Pascal Quignard” March 3.
• Dr. KATHRYN NEWTON, assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and College Student Personnel, presented “African American women and mandated substance abuse treatment: Concerns, needs, and expectations” at the American Counseling Association Conference March 19 to 23 in Charlotte, N.C. She is also serving a two-year term as the Multicultural Consultant to the Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC), a national division of the American Counseling Association.
• DOUG NICHOLS, Career Education, was asked by the president of the American Association for Career Education to write part of a tribute to thelate Dr. Kenneth B. Hoyt, U.S. associate commissioner for career education, who is considered the “father” of the career education movement and was a major influence in Nichols’ professional life.