An independent panel has selected Assistant Professor of Music Patrick Long as the recipient of a 2002-2003 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Award recognizing his talent as a composer and performer. In the past year, Patrick has played full-length concerts at the University of Delaware, the State University of New York at New Paltz, Susquehanna and Hunter College in New York City. He also wrote a large piece for electronic percussion, interactive graphics and symphonic band, which he performed with the Selinsgrove High School Band.
Assistant Professor of English Drew Hubbell presented a paper at the 10th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, held in London, Ontario, in August. Drew also had an essay, "Laon and Cythna: A Vision of Regency Romanticism," published in the 2002 Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 51, 174-197.
Assistant Professor of Information Systems Boris Roussev presented a paper in June at WITMUL, 16th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Malaga, Spain, which is the premier conference on object-oriented analysis and design. Boris also presented recent papers at the sixth conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics in Orlando, Fla., and the annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute in San Diego.
Assistant Professor of Music Gail Levinsky was one of five Americans invited to perform at the 2002 British Saxophone Congress in Cardiff, Wales. Gail presented a recital at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD), where she also worked with saxophone students as part of a teaching exchange. Professor Gerard McCrystal of RWCMD will perform and present master classes at Susquehanna in March 2003. Gail recently released her first solo compact disc recording, "Saxophone & Other Voices."
Professor of Music Susan Hegberg presented a lecture/demonstration at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Philadelphia in July. She presented a repertoire session on organ music based on the Psalms for the Region I convention of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians in Lansdale, Pa., where she was also elected vice president of ALCM's Region I.
Professor of English and Director of the Writers' Institute Gary Fincke was recently named Central Pennsylvania's "Top Poet" by the Harrisburg Patriot-News. His essay, "The Mussolini Diaries," was selected as one of the five best essays published in The Black Warrior Review during the 1990s. Gary has recent short stories or poems published in numerous magazines including Cimarron Review; Front Range Review, on-line Mag, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Rhino, and Number One.
Associate Professor of Economics Tony Rusek attended the 3rd annual International Monetary Fund Research Conference and the policy forum "Corporate Governance in Eurasia: Business and Legal Perspectives," both in Washington, D.C.
Assistant Professor of History David Imhoof delivered a paper entitled "Modernism Outside the Metropolis: Cultural Practice in Interwar Göttingen" at the 25th Annual German Studies Association Conference in San Diego in October. David also spoke at the Villanova history department lecture series in September entitled "Weimar Culture, Nazi Culture, and the Space Between."
Director of Multicultural Affairs Brian Johnson and Mary Hennighan '03, a senior French and Spanish major, were featured panelists at Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pa., during International Education Week in November. They discussed study abroad opportunities for high school and college students, as well as the benefits of multicultural education and an understanding of global issues in education and business. Hennighan shared her experiences with study abroad in Canada, France, and Mexico.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Simona Hill was a panelist at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, "The Local and the Global," in Houston, Texas, in November. The topic was "Talking Back to 'Whiteness?': Women of Color Educators, Students and Texts."
Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies Laurence Roth presented a paper at the American Studies Association in November entitled "Kosher Hybridity and American Jewish Cookbooks, 1870--1990." The paper is from a book project he is working on exploring the literary history and textual dynamics of contemporary American Jewish popular literature.
Associate Professor of Art History Valerie Livingston, director of the Lore Degenstein Gallery, presented a paper, "Zero Mostel, Herbie Kallem, and the 28th Street Gang," at the Southeast College Art Association conference in Mobile, Ala.
Lecturer in Business Law Marvin J. Rudnitsky had his article, "Witnessing Glacial Change," published in the September-October issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine.
Associate Professor of Accounting Rick Davis co-authored an article titled "The Road Widens for the Cash-Method Odyssey: Rev. Proc. 2002-28 Expands and Clarifies Availability" with Dennis Gaffney, professor of accounting at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, Maureen Smith-Gaffney, a consultant in Fayetteville, N.Y., and Richard Weber, associate professor of accounting at Michigan State University. The article was published in the July issue of the Journal of Taxation.
Two members of the political science department presented research at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston, Mass., in September. Assistant Professor Andrea M. Lopez presented a paper, "Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Intervention: The Role of Legitimacy in Civil Wars." Assistant Professor Michele DeMary presented "Separation of Powers in Massachusetts: Cooperation, Not Conflict - The Supreme Judicial Court and the Massachusetts Legislature."
Professor Emeritus of French Jack Kolbert published a review of Judith Kauffmann's Grotesque et Marginalite: Variations sur Albert Cohen et l'effet Mangeclous.in The French Review.
Instructor of photography Leo Mendonca, recently had has a solo exhibition of his work at the Fine Art Gallery at Manatee Community College in Bradenton, Fla. He also had his works exhibited at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., the Art Center of Battle Creek in Michigan, the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, and the September 11 Memorial exhibit at Elizabethtown College.
