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Professional
Activity in the Physical and Natural Sciences
Rich Di Dio
Mathematics & Computer Science
Lectures/Presentations:
- "The Chaos Game and Fractal Strategies" - a public lecture for Arcadia University's 2006-2007 University Colloquium Series
News/Media/Publicity:
- Six books reviewed for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2007 (for a total of 19 since 2002): Faust in Copenhagen, The Ultimate Force, Dishwasher, God's Gold, Einstein: His Life and Universe, and Einstein: A Biography
Professional Offices/Related Community Activities:
- Served on the subcommittee of the PA Governor's Commission for College and Career Success charged with revising the state standards for high school physics courses.
Conrad Gleber
Digital Art
Grants/Scholarships:
- Awarded, as Co-PI, a National Science Foundation CPATH Grant (0722261), "Making Connections in Computer Science by Liking Science to Practice Through Digital Media," a three-year grant to conduct six invitational conferences at six different institutions.
Lectures/Presentations:
- Artwork included in “Production not Reproduction” artist book exhibition at the Center for Book Arts, New York City, September 28 - December 8, 2007 and The Museum of Printing History (MPH) in Houston, Texas, January 18 - March 22, 2008.
Raymond
P. Kirsch
Mathematics & Computer Science
Presentations:
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(with Margaret McCoey) "DArt History: A Ten-year Retrospective," that was reviewed, and accepted for publication into the Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities: 11-14 Jan. 2008.
Margaret
McCoey
Mathematics & Computer Science
Lectures/Presentations:
- "Developing a portfolio assessment for an inter-disciplinary program" at the IDMAA Conference: Philadelphia, PA: November 2007.
Margaret M. McManus
Mathematics & Computer Science
Lectures/Presentations:
- (With Wilson, P., Montague, D., Samulewicz, S., Turk, J.) "Search for Identity in the College Age Student" at the NSF-SENCER Capitol Hill session on Civic Engagement, Washington, DC, March, 2007.
- Panelist, "Return on IT Investment," CIO Forum and Executive Summit, King of Prussia, PA: May 2007.
- Organizer, moderator and panelist "The STEM Pipeline: Increasing the Flow into the Workfoce" at the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Chicago, Il, November 2007.
Michael
Prushan
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Recent Publications:
- "Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of a Trinuclear Copper(II) Thiocyanurate Complex: A Spin-Frustrated Molecular Propeller" Inorganic Chemistry Communications: 2007.
- "A Nickel(II) di-Phenolato Bridged Dinuclear Complex: Weak Antiferromagnetic Interactions in Nickel(II) Dimers" Inorganica Chimica Acta: 2007.
Please note the above papers are the result of research carried out with his undergraduate reseach students, the majority of the work was carried out at La Salle.
Lectures/Presentations:
- “The reaction of Li2S with unsaturated carbonyls: A safe alternative to H2S ” at the 7th Annual Graduate and 2nd Annual Undergraduate Student Poster Session, Philadelphia Section, American Chemical Society, January 18, 2007.
- “The reaction of Li2S with unsaturated carbonyls: A safe alternative to H2S ” at the 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, Il, March 2007.
- “Synthesis and characterization of a mixed valence dinuclear nickel (II/III) complex with bis-μ2-sulfido bridges” at the 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, Il, March 2007.
- “Synthesis and characterization of a copper(II) tetranuclear ladder ” at the 233rd ACS National Meeting Chicago, Il, March 2007.
News/Media/Publicity:
- "Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of a trinuclear copper(II) thiocyanurate complex: A spin-frustrated molecular propeller" was voted fifth among the 25 "Hottest Articles" published between April-June 2007 in Inorganic Chemistry Communications.
- Huy (Mike) Dao, undergraduate chemistry major, and Dr. Prushan presented their research poster entitled "Nickel(II) Complexes of a Pyridyl Thioether oxime Ligand" at the 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences on October 13 at UMBC. In the afternoon chemical sciences session, Mike Dao won the second place award.
My
Students:
three students presented at the 7th Annual
Graduate and 2nd Annual Undergraduate Student Poster Session,
The Philadelphia Section, American Chemical Society, January
18, 2007.
- Jake
Zimny, presented "The reaction of Li2S with unsaturated
carbonyls: A safe alternative to H2S", Jake was awarded
one of only two prizes for his poster presentation. Jake
then presented the work at the 233rd ACS National Meeting,
Chicago, Il, March 2007.
- Brian
Moore, presented "A mixed valence dinuclear nickel
(II/III) complex with bis-μ2-sulfido bridges."
- Laura
Grande presented, “Synthesis and characterization
of a copper(II) tetranuclear ladder."
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