Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Anirban De, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is currently a visiting faculty scholar in the school of civil engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia, during his sabbatical leave from Manhattan College. He participates in collaborative research, curriculum development and lecturing in environmental geotechnics. Read.

Dr. Adam Koehler, assistant professor of English, is the co-editor of Avery, a journal of fiction, which will be presented at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, Sept. 13. The festival is a free public event presenting an array of literary stars and emerging authors. For more information, click Here.

Dr. Pamela Chasek, associate professor of government and director of the international studies program, was named by the National Women’s History Project as one of the honorees for 2009’s National Women’s History Month in March. She was recognized in part for 22 years of passionate commitment, working to save the planet in her writing and in her work planning a climate change awareness campaign for the National Wildlife Foundation in the 1980s.

Dr. Walter Baggett, associate professor of accounting, law and computer information systems, presented papers at two conferences in England this past summer. On June 25, he presented his views on the theory of fraud in “Beyond the Three Factor Theory: Using Behavioral Theory to Analyze and Prevent Fraud,” at the 2009 Oxford Business & Economics Conference at St. Hugh’s College of Oxford University. The conference was sponsored by the International Journal of Business and the Association for Business and Economics Research. Two days later, Baggett presented a joint paper, along with his wife, Dr. Lillie Shortridge-Baggett, on “Facilitation of Student Academic Integrity Self-Efficacy” at the Fifth Annual Mixed Methods Conference at the Herrogate International Conference Center. It was sponsored by the University of Leeds School of Healthcare.

Dr. Kathryn Weld and Dr. John McCabe, associate professors of mathematics and computer science, authored the article “On an Inverse Cayley Problem,” which will appear in the October 2009 issue of the Australasian Journal of Combintorics, vol. 45.

In addition, Weld delivered the paper  “On Groups That Admit a Cayley Prism Map,” at the special session on graph theory at Mathfest in Portland, Ore., from August 6-8.

Dr. Lisa Toscano, assistant professor of physical education and human performance, co-authored, along with Lou De Pasquale ’73, the paper “The SpringScale Test: A Reliable Tool for Explaining Fall History,” which will be published in fall 2009 issue of The Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. De Pasquale is currently a physical education therapist with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.

Dr. Janet Rovenpor, professor of management and marketing, and Dr. Mary Michel, assistant professor of accounting, CIS and law, co-authored the case study “JetBlue Airways: A Cadre of New Managers Takes Control,” which was recently published in the textbook Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage.

Dr. Nicholas De Lillo, professor of mathematics and computer science, completed the paper “Simulations of Deterministic Finite State Automata Using C++ and the Standard Template Library.” It has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Technical Reports Series of the Ivan G. Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University and will be published in either September of October.

In addition, De Lillo has been named a reviewer for papers submitted for presentation at the 41st Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education of the Association for Computing Machinery, to be held from March 10-13, 2010 in Milwaukee, Wis.

Dr. Joseph Lennon, associate professor of English, authored the cover story “The Art of the First Hunger Striker: Marion Wallace-Dunlop,” for the July 24, 2009 issue of The Times Literary Supplement. To read the article, click Here.