Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Patricia Sheridan, assistant professor of business law, authored the article “The Effect of Tax Apportionment Clauses on Nontestamentary Assets,” which was published in the summer 2009 issue of the Westchester County Bar Journal. It was also selected for inclusion in the Journals and Law Reviews database on WESTLAW, which includes significant articles, comments, notes and similar materials from legal periodicals.

Dr. Anirban De, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a research grant titled Understanding the Role of Flexible and Rigid Barriers in Mitigating Surface Blast Effects on Underground Structures. For this project, he will serve as principal investigator from the National Science Foundation. The total award of $158,789 over three years is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Dr. Jeffrey Cherubini, assistant professor of physical education and human performance, published the article “Positive Psychology and Quality Physical Education” in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

Dr. Claire Nolte, professor of history, delivered the lecture Praga caput regni: Celebrating Slavic Prague on the Eve of the Great War at the conference The Changing Landscape of East-Central Europe Since 1700 in Transnational Context held at Oxford University in September.

In addition, Nolte’s article “Our Brothers Across the Ocean: The Czech Sokol in America to 1914” was published in The International Journal of the History of Sport. The article originally appeared in the Czechoslovak and Central European Journal in 1993 and was edited and updated by the author.

Dr. Shawn Ladda, professor of physical education and human performance, delivered the presentation The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport of the United States: Continued Advocacy Toward Equity for All at the 2009 Congress of the International Association for Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women in Stellenbosch, South Africa, this past July.

Ladda also authored the article “The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport: 110 Years of Promoting Social Justice and Chance,” which appeared in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. It is part of a series of articles for the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance’s 125th anniversary.

Dr. Julie Leininger Pycior, professor of history, authored the article “Making History,” which was published in the book Moving Beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies. She presented it at the National Association of Chicano Studies in New Brunswick, N.J., this past April.

Pycior also authored “Bearing Witness: Catherine De Hueck Doherty and the Gospel of Dorothy Day,” the lead article in the spring 2008 issue of Catholic Historian.

In addition, last year Pycior presented the papers “Julian Samora and the Johnson White House” at the American Studies Association conference in Albuquerque, N.M., and “The Johnson Administration and Mexican Immigration” at the Texas State Historical Association conference.

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.