FACULTY/STAFF
Dr. Gail Bossenga, assistant to the chair of the board, presented the paper, “Markets and the Consumer Revolution: A Force for Civic Equality?” at the 62nd-annual conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, March 3 through 5, 2016, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Kyle C. Kopko ’05, associate professor of political science and director of the Honors Program, co-authored a piece with Dr. Christopher Devine for Oxford University Press’s online blog, titled “Veepstakes 2016: A Reality Check.” Kopko also gave a presentation at the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren May 22, titled “Making America Great Again? Frustration, Division, and Conflicting Visions in the 2016 Presidential Primaries.” He co-authored two pieces for Time Magazine’s online website: “The 4 Advantages a Vice President Pick Could Offer a Candidate” and “How Clinton and Trump Should Choose Their Vice Presidents.”
Curtis Smith, adjunct professor in the Department of English, had his book “Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five” published by Ig Publishing in its Bookmarked Series. The story is a personal and creative take on the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
Mark Stuckey, professor of physics; Timothy McDevitt, professor of mathematics and Department Chair; and Michael Silberstein, professor of philosophy, won honorable mention in the prestigious Gravity Research Foundation Awards for Essays on Gravitation for their essay “End of a Dark Age?”
The essay contains and explains their fits of the Union2 Compilation supernova data, THINGS galactic rotation data, and ROSAT/ASCA data on the mass profiles of X-ray clusters without need of dark energy or dark matter. These results contradict the concordance model of cosmology wherein dark energy and dark matter are believed to comprise 96 percent of the mass-energy in the observable universe. The fits are achieved by modifying Regge calculus, the graphical form of Einstein’s general relativity, based on their proposed new approach to fundamental physics called the Relational Blockworld.
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