Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Nada Marie Assaf-Anid, professor of chemical engineering, has been nominated programming chair of the environmental division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and will lead the programming of all sessions and symposia during the society's Philadelphia Centennial in fall 2008. She also recently attended the AIChE national meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she chaired sessions on Emissions and Waste Control from Emerging Industies and Novel Risk Assessment Tools.

In addition, Assaf-Anid recently published the peer-reviewed journal articles “Curbing the Greenhouse Effect by Carbon Dioxide Adsorption with Zeolite 13X” and “Sustainable Engineering for the Future: A Laboratory Experiment on Carbon Dioxide Adsorption from a Carbon Dioxide-Nitrogen Stream,” in the journals AIChE and the International Journal of Chemical Engineering , respectively. Her co-authors on the papers were students John Iarocci '05, Natalie Ivezaj '05, Peter Lindner '05 and Naveen Konduru '06.

Dr. Kevin Farley, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was a featured speaker at the Contamination Assessment and Reduction Project Conference at The National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Nov. 29, 2007.

Dr. Mohammad Naraghi, professor of mechanical engineering, organized four sessions on Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering Education at the International Mechanical Congress held in Seattle, Wash., this past November.

Claudia Setzer, professor of religious studies, presented her paper “A Pinch of Common Sense: Nineteenth Century Feminist Biblical Interpretation” at the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting in San Diego, Calif., this past November.

Dr. Helene Tyler, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, presented her research on “Sequences of Reflection Functors and the Preprojective Component of a Valued Quiver” at the 12th International Conference on Representatives of Algebras this past summer at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. The accompanying paper, which was co-authored by Dr. Mark Kleiner of Syracuse University, will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra .

Dr. John Mahony, professor of environmental engineering, and Dr. Robert Mutch , adjunct professor of environmental engineering, presented the paper “A Study of Tritium in Municipal Solid and Waste and Gas” at the Eighth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology in Rochester, N.Y., this past September.

Dr. Kathryn Weld, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, attended the national summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America and presented the paper “Graphically Abelian Groups” in the special session on graph theory. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Richard Goldstone , assistant professor of mathematics and computer science.

Dr. Anirban De, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, published the paper “Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Settlement: Postclosure Perspectives” in the June 2007 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering , printed by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Hari D. Sharma of GeoSyntec Consultants, Inc.