Campus News Feed http://www.hn.psu.edu/ en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 01:08:07 EST RedDot CMS Business Professor Sherry Robinson receives award at conference http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30499.htm Associate Professor of Business Sherry Robinson and Hans Anton Stubberud, dean of Buskerud University College's School of Business and Social Science, Hønefoss, Norway, presented a paper for which they received a Distinguished Research Award at the Academy for Studies in International Business conference held April 14-15, 2010, in New Orleans. The paper was titled "European Entrepreneurs: Problems, Profits and Plans." 

 

While in New Orleans, Robinson also presented a paper titled "Student Use of an Online Textbook:  Even If It’s Free, Will They Buy It?" about her use of and research on e-books at the Academy of Educational Leadership conference, which was held at the same time.

]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:17 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30499.htm Business Professor Sherry Robinson's article published in "The Review" http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30498.htm Associate Professor of Business Sherry K. Robinson collaborated on an article with Hans Anton Stubberud and Carsten Blom-Ruud which was published in the International Society for Business Education's annual publication “The Review.” The article, titled “Using Podcasting for Blended Learning,” was published in the January 2010, Number 150 edition.

]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:17 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30498.htm Philosophy Professor Shane Ralston lists recent publications and presentations http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30497.htm Assistant Professor of Philosophy Shane Ralston recently had several articles published, including:

  • “An Outline for a Brief Teaching Demonstration,” which appeared in Teaching Philosophy, March 2010
  • “Can Pragmatists be Institutionalists?” which ran in Human Studies, April 2010
  • and “Dewey’s Theory of Moral (and Political) Deliberation Unfiltered” which was printed in Education and Culture, April 2010.

Additionally, he made several recent presentations including:

  • “Should Political Ethics be Partisan,” an invited talk on March 25, 2010, at the University of Maine
  • “On Taking the Political Too Seriously” at the New York State Political Science Assn meeting held April 16, 2010
  • and “Can Pragmatists be Institutionalists?” on April 23, 2010, at the New England Political Science Association meeting.
]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:16 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30497.htm Student awarded grant to accompany biology professor on research project http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30496.htm Penn State Hazleton student Lawrence Klomps was awarded a $2,500 Undergraduate Summer Discovery Grant in support of his proposed research project “Nest-site characteristics of mountain plovers breeding on prairie dog colonies in northeastern New Mexico.”  This grant was awarded by the Penn State Office of Undergraduate Education through a competitive process with more than 70 applicants from many Penn State campuses applying for grants. Thirty grants were awarded. Klomps will use the funds to accompany Assistant Professor of Biology Christopher Goguen to New Mexico during summer 2010 to help conduct research on the mountain plover, a rare bird species that is currently being considered for the federal endangered species list.

]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:14 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30496.htm Biology professor and student win award for research presentation http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30495.htm Assistant Professor of Biology Christopher B. Goguen and Penn State Hazleton student Robert T. Caccese won "Best Poster" award at the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Wildlife Society annual meeting in State College, Pa., held March 19-20, 2010. Their poster titled "Use of brush piles by winter wildlife at Nescopeck State Park, northeastern Pennsylvania" was based on research conducted over the past two winters.

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:50:31 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30495.htm M. Froehlich participates in ALA Conference http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30493.htm Assistant Professor of English Maggie Gordon Froehlich organized and moderated panels sponsored by the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society at the American Literature Association’s 21st Annual Conference in San Francisco, Ca., in June 2010.

 

Additionally , she participated in the foundation of a new society of the American Literature Association, which will be dedicated to supporting the study of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/queer-identified American writers and to queer and sexuality studies in American literature.

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:50:36 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30493.htm Froehlich gives presentation at Baltimore conference http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30492.htm Assistant Professor of English Maggie Gordon Froehlich presented “The Correspondence of Shane Leslie, Sigourney Fay, and William Hemmick: The Legacy of Fitzgerald's Mentors” in Oct. 2009 at the 10th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:50:38 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30492.htm English professor presents at Conference on Christianity and Literature http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30491.htm Assistant Professor of English Maggie Gordon Froehlich delivered the presentation “‘The Jesuits taught me how to think’:  Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street” at the March 2010 Conference on Christianity and Literature, Northeast region, in New York, New York. Conference topic: Christianity and the Detective.

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:50:37 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30491.htm English professor presents at annual conference http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30490.htm Assistant Professor of English Maggie Gordon Froehlich gave a presentation at the 24th Annual MELUS (Multiethnic Literature of the United States) Conference held April 8-11, 2010, in Scranton, Pa. The panel was chaired by Assistant Professor of English Peter Alan Froehlich and included presentations by Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Wright and Assistant Professor of History Justin Nordstrom. 

 

Title: “[M]y splendid mirage”: New York City in the Imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald”

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:50:39 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30490.htm English professor's article published http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30488.htm Assistant Professor of English Maggie Gordon Froehlich recently had an article accepted for publication in The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, a refereed journal published annually and devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship on the period bracketed by the two World Wars.

 

Title: Jordan Baker’s Queer Work:  Gender Dissent and Homosexual Passing in 'The Great Gatsby'

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:50:35 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30488.htm Psychology Professor Peter Crabb's research in "Psychology Today" http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30487.htm Associate Professor of Psychology Peter B. Crabb's research was featured in the July 15, 2010 edition of Psychology Today.

 

Title: Cell phones don’t kill people! by D. Kenrick. 

 

Overview:  Research on technology traps discussed

 

For more information, go to: http://www.psychologytoday.com/node/45407

]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:15 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30487.htm Psychology professor quoted in driver survey article http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30485.htm Associate Professor of Psychology Peter B. Crabb was quoted in an article published in The Patriot-News on July 13, 2010.

 

Title: New highway safety survey asks drivers if they drive drunk, speed, use cell phones on the road by K. Andren.

 

Overview: Quoted about privacy implications of PennDOT survey of drivers.

 

For more information, go to: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/07/new_highway_safety_survey_asks.html

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:50:33 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30485.htm Pittsburgh Post Gazette quotes Dr. Peter Crabb http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30484.htm Associate Professor of Psychology Peter B. Crabb was quoted in a story in the March 1, 2010 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Title: Many find Internet’s newest sites seductive, irresistible by M. Sciullo.

Overview: Quoted about ChatRoulette.com, a webcam-based social networking site that randomly pairs users and their images and voices with others from around the world.

]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:14 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30484.htm Faculty member quoted in press http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30483.htm Associate Professor of Psychology Peter B. Crabb was quoted in an article titled in The Intelligencer on Feb. 12, 2010.

 

Title: Snowbound and stir crazy by J. McGinnis.

 

Overview:  Quoted about how disconnected people in the U.S. are from nature and why snow storms are opportunities to slow down and appreciate nature.

]]> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:16:38 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30483.htm Crabb article published in International Journal of Technoethics http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30482.htm Associate Professor of Psychology Peter B. Crabb and Professor of Psychology Steven E. Stern from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown recently collaborated on an article published in the April-June 2010 edition of the International Journal of Technoethics, 1, 19-26.

Title: Technology traps: Who is responsible?  

 

Overview:  As a counterpoint to corporate propaganda about the benefits of increasing technological complexity, this literature review identifies five technology traps that befall modern societies: incompetence, self-miscontrol, misbehavior, techno-centrism, and environmental degradation. Responsibility for these traps is placed on businesses that do not adequately test technological products for impacts on behavior, health, and the environment, as well as on governments that fail to perform their regulatory duties.

 

For more information, go to: http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=43571

 

]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:42:16 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30482.htm Faculty member presents to Eastern Psychological Association http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30480.htm Associate Professor of Psychology Peter B. Crabb and Associate Professor of Education Deb L. Marciano of Washington College presented their findings at the Eastern Psychological Association in Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 7, 2009.

Title: Representations of material culture and gender in Caldecott Award Children’s Books

Overview:  Presented research showing that award-winning children’s books portray females as mostly using household tools and males as using tools outside the home. This gender-typing of material culture did not change despite changes in women’s and men’s work patterns.

]]> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:16:37 EST http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30480.htm Crabb article appears in "Aggressive Behavior" http://www.hn.psu.edu//Information/News/Archive/30478.htm Associate Professor of Psychology Peter B. Crabb and Penn State Abington Schreyer Honors Student Andrew Elizaga collaborated on an article published in the November 2008 edition of Aggressive Behavior, 34, 633-638.

 

Title: The adaptive value of tool-aided defense against wild animal attacks

 

Overview:  This study of modern news accounts of wild animal attacks on humans revealed that the uniquely human ability to pick up a tool, whether a stick, stone, knife, or gun, and defend against attacking animals prevents injury and death. The findings suggest that early human ancestors who were the most skilled tool users would have survived animal attacks at higher rates and thus natural selection would have favored tool use as a way of life.

 

For more information, go to: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ab.20273/abstract

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