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. JAN ARMINIO, professor in the Department of Counseling and College Student Personnel, was elected chair of the Senior Scholars of the American College Personnel Association at its recent national annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Arminio also recently had a book chapter on “Professional Standards” published in the edited volume of the Handbook of Student Affairs Administration. She also had an invited article on “Sophisticated Assessments” published in the March issue of Programming Magazine.
• Dr. WENDY S. BECKER, associate professor of management, had her research cited in a report by the National Academy of Sciences titled “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward.” The report cites Becker’s national survey of public crime laboratories in which she and her colleagues reported information about employee workload and credentials, critical issues in the management of crime labs.
• Dr. SAMUEL R. BENBOW, assistant professor of social work and gerontology, is cooperatively conducting a six-series multicultural educational-based workshops for students and educators of the Yellow Breeches Educational Center in Newville.
• Dr. LAURIE CELLA, assistant professor of English, and Dr. WILLIAM C. HARRIS, associate professor of English, participated in the 2009 Spring Undergraduate Conference for the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) at West Chester University. They also attended the EAPSU Board Meeting in preparation for Shippensburg to host EAPSU’s Fall 2009 conference, for which they are on planning committee.
• Dr. LAURIE CELLA, assistant professor of English, presented “A Service-Learning Show-Down: Academics versus the Streets” at the College English Association Conference in Pittsburgh March 27. She also led a Women Studies book discussion April 17 about Mama PhD., and received the Honors Professor of the Year Award for 2008-2009 at the Honors banquet April 14.
• TINA CHIARELLI-HELMINIAK, instructor of social work and gerontology, will have a case vignette featured in the book Affecting change: Social workers in the political arena to be published in 2010.
• Drs. JEN CLEMENTS and SAM BENBOW, assistant professors of social work and gerontology, presented the workshop “Celebrating Our Diversity” at the Building Bridges over Walls Conference at Lock Haven University March 17. Clements also presented the paper “Teaching the Importance of Advocacy: The GLBT Silent Witness Program” at the Social Work Baccalaureate Program Directors Conference in Phoenix, March 19.
• Drs. SCOTT A. DRZYZGA and CLAIRE A. JANTZ, assistant professors in the geography-earth science department, were invited to participate in the special symposium “Complexity in Human-Nature Interactions across Landscapes” at the International Association of Landscape Ecology U.S. division annual meeting in Snowbird, Utah, April 12 to 16. They presented their paper “Urban Growth and Water Supply in the Baltimore, MD Metropolitan Region” and served as panelists and discussants during subsequent sessions. The symposium was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
• Dr. DOUG ENSLEY, professor of mathematics, was named co-recipient of the 2009 ICTCM Award in recognition of excellence and innovation using technology to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics. Ensley won the award for the website, Flashandmath.com, a resource for developers of online mathematics teaching and learning applications. He received the award at the 21st annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics in New Orleans.
• Dr. ROBERT L. HALE, professor of psychology, recently served as an invited reviewer for the International Journal of Psychology in which he reviewed a scientific study in behavioral neuroscience, his area of expertise.
• Dr. SHARON HARROW, associate professor of English, participated in the 40th Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Richmond, Va., last month where she presented the paper “Boxing for England,” chaired the panel “The Performing Self: Theatre and Performing Women,” and chaired the roundtable session “When Does it End?; or, How Long is the Eighteenth Century?”
• Dr. CLAIRE A. JANTZ, assistant professor of geography-earth science, organized a session and presented a paper at the George Wright Society biennial conference. Her session was “Understanding protected areas in a geographical context” and her paper was “Forecasting urban development in the Upper Delaware Watershed.”
• Dr. IAN M. LANGELLA, associate professor of supply chain management, recently completed refereeing a journal submission to the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology on cell phone recycling. Also, his coauthored paper “Examining the Performance of Heuristics for the Disassemble-to-Order Problem under Rolling Planning using Actual Product Structures” was recently added to the list of top 10 downloaded papers in the topic area of production and operations management of the Social Science Research Network. He also recently completed reviewing an article on reverse logistics for the Journal of Operations Management.
• DORLISA MINNICK, assistant professor of social work and gerontology, and Dr. MARCELA PINEDA-VOLK, assistant professor of modern languages, conducted a focus group on the sexual and reproductive health needs in the Latino community of Chambersburg on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Central Pennsylvania. The results will be used in developing culturally appropriate peer education programming.
• Dr. GREG OCHOA, TOM GIBBON, CHAD BENNETT, and KURT DUNKEL of the Academic Success Program, presented “The Transition from a Summer Bridge to a Comprehensive Academic Year Support Program” at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference on Higher Education March 17.
• Dr. AGNÈS RAGONE, professor of Spanish and French, presented her paper “Frederick, MD: The Hispanic Press and Hispanics in the Press” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference in New Orleans April 8 to 11. Her book review on Isabelle Marc Martínez Le rap français, esthétique et poétique des textes (1990-1995) is to appear in the May 2009 issue of the journal Modern and Contemporary France.
• JUDY RUUD, assistant professor in the John L. Grove College of Business, recently completed reviewing two journal articles, one for the Journal of Business Cases and Applications and one for the Journal of Business and Psychology.
• Dr. BILL RUUD, president, and JUDY RUUD, assistant professor in the John L. Grove College of Business, had an article conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Cases and Applications. The article, “Business Ethics Across the Curriculum ­— From the Inside Out: A Student-Driven Approach” discusses results from a real-life experiential assignment designed to develop skills of moral awareness, stakeholder understanding, and ethical analysis in undergraduates taking a stand-alone business and society course.
• Dr. BILL RUUD, president, recently completed reviewing seven conference papers/proposals for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management – Green Management Matters in Chicago Aug. 7 to 11. The proposals are: “Compensation Committee Group Process, Social Exchange and CEO Compensation,” “Corporate Reconfiguration and its Effects on Performance: An Intra-Firm Analysis,” “Organizational Structure as a Determinant of Performance: Evidence From Mutual Funds,” “The Role of Performance Feedback in Early Stage High Tech Boards: Empirical Evidence,” “Borrowing From Sleep to Pay Work and Family: An Extension of Work-Family Conflict,” “A Comparison of Three Collaborative International Research Projects,” and “Paradoxes of Implementing Work-Life Flexibility Policies: Emerging Research, Theory and Practice.”
• Dr. JOEL SCHOENING, assistant professor of sociology, presented the paper “Home Rule: Rewriting the Politics of Environmental Health” at the Pacific Sociological Association in San Diego April 9 to 12.
• Dr. RICHARD D. STONE, professor of marketing and logistics, presented his co-authored paper, “Forgotten Battlefields of the Vicksburg Campaign: Milliken’s Bend, Champion Hill, and Big Black River Bridge,” at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas March 25.
• Dr. KIM VAN ALKEMADE, director of composition, had her creative nonfiction essay “Resting Place” published in the Spring/Summer edition of the Alaska Quarterly Review.
• Ten faculty members and two students from the geography-earth science department participated in the Association of American Geographers’ annual meeting in Las Vegas in March. SCOTT DRZYZGA, CLAIRE JANTZ and student Gary Lasako presented “Urban growth and water supply in the Baltimore, MD metropolitan region;” TOM FEENEY and Lasako presented “Spring hydrograph analysis along a carbonate mantle boundary;” KURT FUELLHART presented “Do frequent-flyer awards really exist? One American legacy carrier and the availability of “free” and upgraded seats on international routes,” TIMOTHY W. HAWKINS presented “Relationships between hydroclimate and land use-land cover in the United States;” CLAIRE JANTZ, PAUL MARR, and Richard Jantz presented “Body proportions in recent Native Americans: colonization history vs. ecogeographical patterns;” JANTZ and James Manuel presented “Estimating the impact of population growth on ecosystem services in Albemarle County and Charlottesville, VA;” MARR presented “Finding Fort Morris: the search for a lost colonial fort;” GEORGE POMEROY presented “University and Local Government Collaboration in Land Use Planning: The Case of Shippensburg University;” JAN SMITH was on the panel “Geography program assessment in higher education”and presented the paper “ The landscape of geography education in the U.S.;” CHRISTOPHER J. WOLTEMADE presented “Modeling residential soil compaction with the NRCS curve number method;” and JOSEPH ZUME presented “Burial practices and groundwater quality in rural central Nigeria.” POMEROY also organized a field trip for participants titled “Planning Las Vegas: A Profile of Urban Planning Activities in the City of Las Vegas.”
• Three faculty in the geography-earth science department received two research grants through the University Research and Scholarship Program. Dr. CHRISTOPHER J. WOLTEMADE received $13,475 for his project “Impact of residential soil compaction on urban storm water runoff” and Drs. PAUL G. MARR and CLAIRE A. JANTZ received $16,500 for their project “Population concentration, village abandonment, and accessibility in the Colchane region of northern Chile.”
• Various faculty members were involved in presentations at the annual conference of NALS: the International Association of Laboratory and University-Affiliated Schools April 1 to 3 in Memphis. Dr. BILL McHENRY, assistant professor of counseling, and graduate students Amanda Burger and Steve Lauer presented “Training Counselors in a Lab School.” Their presentation focused on the utility and challenges associated with training school counseling graduates students in the laboratory school. Dr. STEPHANIE HARTY, assistant professor of teacher education, and KONNIE SERR, adjunct professor of early childhood education, presented “Anything Goes! First Graders Explore Anything Writing During Writing Workshop.” Their presentation offered differentiated instructional approaches for diverse learners within a community of elementary writers. MICHELLE FOREMAN, adjunct professor of library, moderated the discussion forum “The Purpose of the Lab School Library/Media Center in the 21st Century.” Participants brought questions and topics to explore current issues, establish networks, and exchange best practices. Dr. PHILLIP DILLER, associate professor of educational leadership and director of the Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School, co-presented “Writing for the NALS Journal,” a workshop for prospective authors of articles pertinent to laboratory and university-affiliated schools. Diller also is the association’s vice president for conference planning and co-editor of the NALS Journal.