FACULTY/STAFF

 

Dr. E. Douglas Bomberger, professor of music, presented a paper and participated in a panel discussion on the history of the symphony in America during the annual conference of the American Musicological Society in Louisville, Kentucky, that took place in mid-November.

 

Dr. Ed Chung , associate professor of marketing, and his co-investigators Dr. Paul Ngo of St. Norbert College and David Gallop ’16 presented their paper, “Herd Instinct and the Ethnic Divide: A Study of Media Consumption By Chinese Immigrants in Canada,” at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver, Colorado.

 

Dr. Cristina Ciocirlan, Department of Business, presented her co-authored paper, “Not all green employees are created equal: why some go beyond or above, off or against job descriptions,” at the London Inter-Disciplinary Conference, University of London Union, at the beginning of November. Co-author was Victoria Wells, Reader in Marketing, Durham University Business School. Dr. Ciocirlan’s research is sponsored by a U.S. Scholar Fulbright Award in the U.K.

 

Debbie Peterson, textbook/receiving manager in the College Store, was awarded the James C. Sampson and Past Presidents Scholarship by the Middle Atlantic College Stores Association (MACS). This scholarship enabled her to attend the MACS 45th Annual Meeting held recently in Lancaster. MACS strives to provide educational opportunities and member services, while encouraging and developing each individual’s professionalism and leadership skills.

 

Dr. Mark Stuckey, professor of physics; Dr. Michael Silberstein, professor of philosophy; and Dr. Timothy McDevitt, professor of mathematics and department chair, had their paper, “Concerning Quadratic Interaction in the Quantum Cheshire Cat Experiment,” accepted for publication in the International Journal of Quantum Foundations. The paper refutes the most spectacular claim made in the foundations of physics last year, as published in Nature Communications, that neutrons and their spins were separated, i.e., the quantum Cheshire Cat experiment was successfully performed.

 

STUDENTS

Phillip Belder ’17, Gates Failing ’16, Andrew Fry ’16 and Nate Williams ’16, are the recipients of 2015 Tri Beta National Biological Honors Society Research Scholarships Foundation Grants. These grants will support their undergraduate research. Belder and Failing are working with Dr. Deb Wohl. Belder’s research is “Metagenomic Analysis of Oral Cavity Microbiome in Rural Amish and non-Amish Populations via Illumina Sequencing;” Gates Failing’s research is titled “The Community Dynamics of Microbial Resuspension in the Indoor Built Environment.” Fry and Williams are working with Dr. Jane Cavender; their research is “Altered gene expression of the cannabinoid receptor 2 in HeLa cells.”

 

Phillip Belder ’16 and Tyler Latshaw ’17, along with Dr. Kyle C. Kopko 05, assistant professor of political science and director of the College’s Honors Program and the Pre-Law Program, presented at a session of the National Collegiate Honors Council annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, in mid-November. The title of their presentation was “Making Big Plans: Transitioning Honors Programs Seamlessly and Efficiently.”

 

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