Faculty News

Courtney M. Lappas, Department of Biology, gave an invited seminar to the Cell and Molecular Biology Department at Penn State.  Her talk was broadly focused on the field of pharmacogenomics – the study of how genetic variations influence the ways in which individuals respond to drugs.  Specifically, she discussed two genetic polymorphisms that influence both the development and progression of atherosclerosis, and the efficacy of statin treatment.   

Michael Schroeder, Department of History, was the featured speaker at this year's Law Day and Naturalization Ceremony on Friday, April 29, at the Lebanon County Courthouse.  Schroeder welcomed 14 new citizens to citizenship in the USA, and urged them to always insist on their full rights of citizenship and keep the United States to its foundational promise of genuine political equality for all.  In June, Schroeder accompanied Arnold Grant-funded student researcher and History Major Melissa Zellner to the US National Archives in Washington D.C. to conduct research related to his Sandino rebellion website." 

Phylis Campbell Dryden, emerita faculty of the Department of English, published an essay in the May 2011 Central PA Magazine, the official magazine for WITF public TV.  Entitled "Central Court," the article is a profile of Central Court, a twice-monthly judicial event held in the Lebanon County Courthouse.  The article may be accessed online through the following link:  http://www.witf.org/voices/central-court-voices-may-2011.  

Gary Grieve-Carlson, Department of English, organized and chaired a panel titled “Charles Olson: Only One Poem” at the American Literature Association conference in Boston on May 28.  His essay “John Winthrop in The Maximus Poems” will appear in the December issue of The New England Quarterly.  His essay “At the Boundary of the Mighty World: Charles Olson and Hesiod” will appear in the January issue of the online journal The Poetic Front.  His essay “The House-Top: Melville’s Poem of Force” has been accepted for publication in the journal War, Literature, and the Arts, published by the U.S. Air Force Academy.  He reviewed Joshua Miller’s Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism (Oxford UP) and Anthony Bradley’s Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of William Butler Yeats: Nation, Class, and State (Palgrave Macmillan) for Choice.  And his fantasy baseball team is ahead of Bob Riley’s. 

Treva Clark, Department of Business & Economics, recently had an article published by the Journal of the Comparative and International Education Society.  The CIES operates out of UCLA and included her article in its most recent online publication.  The article was titled:  “Tertiary Education in Emerging Markets: Fertile Ground for Private Investment”.  The article and the CIES website may be accessed online through the following link: http://www.higheredsig.org/cihe/v03no1.html 

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