Marianne Broome ‘10 stage managed “Cymbelline” and “Misalliance” this past summer for New York Classical Theatre.
Carrie Miller ‘09 served as dramaturg on the Morse Code Theatre Company production “My Name Is Rachel Corrie.” Morse Code is a theatre company in New York City. The production featured Molly Beth Seremet ‘04.
The Mid-America Theatre Conference selected Lizzy Pecora ‘09 to present her paper “The Blessing of Angels in America: More Life, The Reagan Administration, and AIDS” at the organization’s March gathering in Chicago.
Professor of Mathematics Michael Barry’s article “The Density Function of the First Occurrence of a Binary Pattern” has been accepted for publication by the Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Barry became interested in the ideas that resulted in this article after serving as second reader of Mark Imling’s fall 2002 senior comprehensive project, “Expected Waiting Times until the Occurrence of a Pattern of Heads and Tails,” which was directed by Professor of Mathematics Anthony Lo Bello.
Professor of Environmental Science Richard Bowden recently received a grant from the Wild Resource Conservation Fund, a program of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources that funds programs to conserve natural resources and non-game species. The grant, titled “High School Forest Conservation Education Modules: Preparing Students to Understand Conservation and Management of Penn’s Woods,” will develop high school-oriented forest education modules that introduce students to means by which modern forest science is applied to forest research and management. The modules, which will contain forest study exercises, background information, and forest research equipment, will be located at five sites around Pennsylvania. The $40,375 grant, which builds upon current work by Bowden and Department of Environmental Science Chair Terry Bensel, will support this effort, including students, through 2010.
Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cosdon published a book review of “Angels in the American Theatre: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy,” edited by Robert A. Schanke, in the New England Theatre Review. The American Theatre and Drama Society has appointed Cosdon to chair the Betty Jean Jones Award Committee; the award honors an outstanding teacher of American theatre. With funding from the Academic Support Committee, Cosdon will conduct research this summer on the Roman Empire’s popular performers.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science TJ Eatmon presented a paper titled “Paradiplomacy and Climate Change: American States as Actors in Global Climate Governance” at the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in New York City. The paper will appear in an upcoming issue of Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, a new interdisciplinary journal offering various policy-oriented perspectives on issues of natural resources.
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies Judson Herrman gave an invited presentation titled “Hyperides’ Against Diondas and the rhetoric of revolt” at an international conference on the new Hyperides text at the Institute of Classical Studies in London on January 30.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Gregory M. Kapfhammer recently had a research paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Automation of Software Test (AST 2009), co-located with the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009). Kapfhammer co-authored “An Experimental Study of Methods for Executing Test Suites in Memory Constrained Environments” with Suvarshi Bhadra ‘08, Alexander Conrad ‘09, Charles Hurkes ‘09 and Brian Kirklin ‘09. The paper describes and evaluates several new methods for running test suites in execution environments where main memory is severely limited. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can reduce testing time by 17 percent and the code size of the test suite and application under test by 68 percent. In future research and development, Kapfhammer and his students aim to apply their techniques to the testing of software on modern mobile phones. More information about the paper is available at http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/research/juggernaut/.
Assistant Professor of Art Darren Lee Miller is part of a four-person exhibition at the Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall in Cambridge from March 5 through April 11. The show, titled “fourselves,” features photographs by John Arsenault, Janieta Eyre, Darren Miller and Lissa Rivera and is curated by Arlette Kayafas of Gallery Kayafas, Boston and Andrew Mroczek of Lesley University. Miller will present a public lecture about his work at the Art Institute of Boston on Thursday, March 5 and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Friday, March 6. More information about the exhibition can be found at http://www.lesley.edu/aib/events/events.html.
Professor of Religious Studies Carl Olson has had several essays published recently: “Trends and Competition within the World Religions Academic Marketplace,” Religious Studies Review (2008): 255-259; “Risks, Writing, Memory, and Intention: Reflections on the Process of Creating Introductory Texts on Buddhism and Hinduism,” Religion Compass, Vol. 2, No. 6 (2008): 993-1003; and “Implicatiile Hermeneuticii lui Elide,” translated by IIimpia Iacob. Origini: Romanian Roots Vol. XLII, Nos. 6-7-8 (August 2008): 91-97 (a journal published in Romania). His essay “Radical Monotheism of the Qur’an and the Equitheism of the Bhagavata Purana: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Allah and Krishna” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion.
On Friday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m., the Erie Art Museum will host an opening of the documentary film “The Love of the Brick,” co-produced and co-written by Eleanor Weisman, director of the Allegheny Dance and Movement Studies Program. The film was created from interviews at BrickWorld 2008, a convention of adult and teen fans of LEGO. It illustrates the power of creativity and collaboration inspired by the “brick” and documents the internet community that has grown around the phenomenon.
Professor of Biology and Environmental Science Scott Wissinger’s article “Absence of species replacements between permanent and temporary lentic communities in New Zealand” was published in a recent issue of the Journal of the North American Benthological Society. The paper is based on research conducted while Wissinger was on sabbatical in New Zealand and is co-authored by Hamish Grieg and Angus McIntosh.
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