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Larry Atkins, professor of journalism in the School of Communications and Theater, wrote op-eds, essays and articles for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Daily News, Counterpunch.org and Z Magazine.
A.R.M. Imtiyaz, of the Department of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts, published the review of Patrick Peebles’s book, The History of Sri Lanka, in the fall 2007 issue of Journal of Third World Studies
Christopher M. Loftus, professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the School of Medicine, has written the second edition of Neurosurgical Emergencies, released in September.
Eric Press, an associate professor and department chair of accounting at the Fox School of Business, co-authored “Do Stock Options Always Align Manager and Shareholders’ Interests? An Alternative Perspective” in Advances in Financial Education, which was published in fall 2006. He also wrote the chapter “Regulation-Induced Differences in Disclosure of Corporate Debt Securities” in the book Commission: Policies, Practices and Perspectives, which was published this year.
Ram Mudambi, associate professor and department chairman of general and strategic management at the Fox School of Business, published “The long-run performance of UK IPOS: Can it be predicted?” in the June edition of Managerial Finance.
Jack Vanderhei, associate professor of risk, insurance and healthcare management, published “Automatic Contribution Increases to Benefit Poorest” in Pensions & Investments on September 17.
Michael Brown, associate professor of kinesiology in the College of Health Professions, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project titled “Genetics of In Vivo and In Vitro Endothelial Function in African Americans.” The award provides $668,882 for the first year of support with total funding estimated at $3,245,513 over five years.
The Institute on Aging has been awarded a grant of $282,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration to teach primary-care doctors and nurse practitioners about managing mental health problems in the elderly and co-morbities in the entire eastern part of Pennsylvania using the Internet. Evaluation will use the Practice Integrated Learning Sequence process developed by Albert J. Finestone, adjunct professor of medicine at the School of Medicine.
Svetlana Kotochigova, research associate professor of physics in the College of Science and Technology, received a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce- National Institute of Standards and Technology for the project “Creation and Control of Ultra-cold Molecules in Optical Potentials.” The award provides $60,000 for the first year of support with total funding estimated at $120,000 over two years.
Grace X. Ma, professor of public health in the College of Health Professions, received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project “A Randomized Trial of Hep B Screening and Vaccination of High Risk Vietnamese.” The award provides $471,806 for the first year of support with total funding estimated at $2,406,458 over a period of five years.
Asher Madjar, research professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, received a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “U.S. - Israel Planning Visit: Enabling Technologies for Ultra Wideband Digital Optical Links Operating at Rates of 100 of Gb/s” for the period Sept. 1, 2007, through Aug. 31, 2008.
Vasilis Megalooikonomou, associate professor of computer and information science in the College of Science and Technology, received a grant for the project “III-COR: Collaborative Research: Mining Biomedical and Network Data Using Tensors.” The award provides $307,456 over three years.
Allen W. Nicholson, professor of biology and chemistry and associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Science and Technology, received a competitive continuation grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the project “Reactivity epitopes of ribonuclease III Substrates.” The goal of this project is to determine the role of double-stranded RNA processing in cellular and viral gene expression and regulation. The grant award provides $270,000 for the first year, with total funding estimated at $1,100,000 over a four-year period.
Michael Sachs, of the Department of Kinesiology at the College of Health Professions, received a grant for $1,760 from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology for the project “TU Web Access Linking Kinesiology & Imagery (TUWALKI).”
Daniel Strongin, professor of chemistry in the College of Science and Technology, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “CRC: Coollaborative Research: Structure-sorption Relationships in Disordered Iron-oxyhydroxides.” The award provides $75,000 for one year and NSF expects to continue funding through 2012 for a total of $375,000.
Norman Baglini, senior lecturer of risk, insurance and healthcare management at the Fox School of Business, was an invited panelist discussing the topic "Ethics: A Leadership Perspective" at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society in Honolulu, Hawaii in September.
Dominique Devanand, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine, co-presented “Vertebral Body Replacement in the Setting of Metastatic Spinal Disease” at the European Association of Neurological Surgeons meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
Thomas Fekete, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine and chief of infectious diseases at Temple University Hospital, was a local moderator for the national Continuing Medical Education program, “Treating Bloodstream Infections in the ICU.” The program, held on Sept 6, was sponsored by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Advanced Studies in Medicine.
Thomas Fekete, professor of medicine and chief of infectious diseases at the School of Medicine and Hospital, presented the Mildred C.J. Pfeiffer Lecture at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia: “Medical Education for Doctors in Practice: Who Cares, Who Pays?” on Sept 25.
Dan Fesenmaier, professor of tourism and hospitality management, presented a paper, “Marketing Destinations through First-Person Stories – A Narrative Structure Analysis,” at Travel and Tourism Research Association’s Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Fesenmaier co-authored the paper with Iis Tussyadiah, sport and recreation management lecturer for the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Sam Hodge, professor and chair of the Department of Legal Studies at the Fox School of Business, presented the paper “Medical Records and Diagnosis” at the Indiana State Bar Association in Indianapolis, on Sept. 14. He presented “The Anatomy of the Back” at the Wyoming State Bar Association in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Sept. 12. For both conferences, he was also the featured speaker.
Howard Keen, assistant professor of finance at the Fox School of Business, presented his paper “Use of an Online Homework Tool in a Principles of Finance Course” at the Financial Education Association’s annual conference Sept. 27–29, in Bermuda.
Harold Klein, associate professor of general and strategic management, delivered the plenary address and presentation “Revelatory Attributes of Neuronal Group Architecture for Strategic Knowledge Management” at the Seventh Understanding Complex Systems Conference, held at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in May.
Christopher Loftus, professor and chair of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine, co-presented “The Differences between Electroencephalographic and Somatosensory Changes in Patients Undergoing Carotid Endarterectomy.” Loftus presented at the European Association of Neurological Surgeons meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.
Iis Tussyadiah, sport and recreation management lecturer for the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, presented a paper in June, at the Sixth Symposium on Aspects of Tourism in Eastbourne, U.K., titled “Organic Representation of Destinations – Interpretation from Personal Photo Galleries.”
Mike Valenza, professor of legal studies at the Fox School of Business, presented "Activity Fees in Public Education" at the ABLA annual conference in Indianapolis the week of August 20-24. The paper addressed the issue of whether or not colleges and universities consider extra-curricular activities to be a component of a basic education.
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