Professional Presentations

Summer 2006

Dr. S. Pascale Dewey, modern language studies, presented "Francophone Women Coming of Age: Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence in Autobiography and Fiction" and "Paradise Lost and Quest for Identity in Marie-Claire Blais' 'Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange'" for the 37th annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, March 2006; "La disgrace de Turgot, dernier grand réformateur de l'Ancien Régime" at the monthly meeting of the Alliance Francaise of the Lehigh Valley, March 2006; "Portrait of the Artist and Coming to Writing in Marie-Claire Blais' 'Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel'" at the Pennsylvania Consortium for Canadian Studies annual conference, Lock Haven University, March-April 2006; "Mythes et réalité du travail féminin dans la France des Lumières" at the third International Women In French conference at the University of New Hampshire, April 2006.

Dr. Percy H. Dougherty, geography, presented "Influence of Physical Geography on the Wines of Chateauneuf-du-Pape;" and organized the following paper sessions: "The Geography of Wine 1: New World Wine Regions," "The Geography of Wine 2: Terroir," and "The Geography of Wine 3: Wine Regions of the Old World," all at the 2006 AAG Wine Specialty Group Conference, Chicago, March 2006.

Ruthanne Hackman, criminal justice and social work, presented "Needed multilingual resources to care for an increasingly diverse older adult population" as invited testimony for the "Make Room for All" pre-White House Conference on Aging Summit, Washington, D.C., December 2005, and with Dr. Susan McDonald, criminal justice and social work, presented "Investing in storytelling with seniors: Strengthening older adults' mental health and promoting healthy development" at the 2006 Joint Conference of the National Council on Aging and The American Society on Aging, March 2006.

Dr. Susan McDonald, criminal justice and social work, presented with Ruthanne Hackman, criminal justice and social work, "Investing in storytelling with seniors: Strengthening older adults' mental health and promoting healthy development" at the 2006 Joint Conference of the National Council on Aging and The American Society on Aging, March 2006.

Dr. Avidan Milevsky, psychology, with M. Schlechter, M. Kiphorn, L. Klem, C. Bell, J. Carney, and R. Kehl, presented the symposium "Constellations of maternal and paternal parenting in adolescents: Congruity and adjustment," at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, March 2006; with Schlechter, D. Keehn, S. Netter, A. Kolb, C. Dengler, Kehl, Klem, and M. Machlev, presented the paper "Patterns of Parental Involvement in Adolescent Sibling Conflict: Gender Differences and Variations in Sibling Warmth" at a meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, March 2006; and with Schlechter, and Bell, presented the paper "Familial relationship variables and adolescent religiosity" at the meeting of Division 36 Psychology of Religion of the American Psychological Association, Columbia, Md., March 2006.

Dr. Dennis Rains, psychology, presented five lectures on neuroanatomy, the neuropsychology of memory, localization of function, prefrontal cortex and executive function, and recovery of function at the First National Seminar on Neuropsychology held at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, March 2006.

Dr. Glenn Richardson Jr., political science, presented the paper "How Liberals and Conservatives Think: Evidence on Lakoff's Theory in the Rhetoric of Political Advertising" at the 64th annual national meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2006.

Dr. Robert Ryan, psychology, presented the poster "Characteristics of Pictures of Insects Associated with Fear and Disgust" with student co-authors Joseph Cipko and Alyssa Rizzo at the 77th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, March 2006, and presented the poster "Global Processing Improves Self-Assessment of Face Recognition Ability" with students Renee Aulenbach, Morgan Becker, Thomas Johnson, Krysta Murray, and Jessica Bergmaier at the 18th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, N.Y., May 2006.

Dr. Dawn Slack, modern language studies, presented the paper "You've Come a Long Way, Baby...Or Have You: Female Bound(aries) in Latin American Women's Fiction" at the 25th annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages, University of Cincinnati, May 2006.

Dr. Jack M. Treadway, political science, was the featured author on PCN's Pennsylvania Books for his book, "Elections in Pennsylvania," April 2006, and was a guest speaker on the PCN call-in show on the 2006 election, May 9, 2006.

Dr. Carole Wells, Dean's Office, with A. Ruiz, J. Warchal and A. Chapdelaine, presented the paper "Identifying and resolving ethical issues that emerge through civic engagement" at the conference on "University and Civic Society: Autonomy and Responsibility," University of Bologna, Italy, May 2006.