La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons Celebrating Faculty Achievement Heritage Week 3-17-2014 Celebrating Faculty Achievement 2014 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/celebratingfaculty Recommended Citation La Salle University, "Celebrating Faculty Achievement 2014" (2014). Celebrating Faculty Achievement. 3. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/celebratingfaculty/3 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Heritage Week at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Celebrating Faculty Achievement by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CELEBRATING FACULTY ACHIEVEMENT MARCH 17, 2014 Heritage Week offers the Lasallian community the opportunity to recognize the outstanding academic achievements of the University’s faculty and staff and to highlight their contribution to enhancing our academic reputation and standing. On March 17, 2014, La Salle University held its annual “Celebrating Faculty Achievement” reception. At this event we recognized notable achievements by the University Faculty in the areas of scholarship, University service, and commitment to the mission of Lasallian education. What follows on subsequent pages is a selection of scholarly efforts by our faculty in 2012 and 2013. Honorees FACULTY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD: Lynne A. Texter, Ph.D. Associate Professor Communication FACULTY DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Frederick Van Fleteren, Ph.D. Professor Philsophy PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES BARBARA ALLEN “A. G. Shliapnikov i NKVD v 1930-kh godakh [A. G. Shliapnikov and the NKVD in the 1930s],” Leftists in Russia: Past and Present, Memorial Society, Moscow, Russia, June 18, 2012 “The Worker-Intellectual Relationship: Aleksandr Shliapnikov and Vladimir Lenin, 1914-1916.” Russia's Century of Revolutions: Parties, People, Places. Edited by Michael Melancon and Donald J. Raleigh (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2012), 37-57. “Alexander Tolokontsev (1888-1937), a Metalworker Elevated to Power by the Revolution,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, LA, November 16, 2012. “Did the Workers’ Opposition Hate the Specialists?” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Greensboro, North Carolina, March 22. 2013. Book Review Editor, The NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-1928, edited 14 reviews (20,724 words) published in volume 6 (November 2012). Assigned 17 books for review in volume 7 Peer Reviewer, Europe-Asia Studies (University of Glasgow, UK), September 2012; The NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-1928, October 2012; The Russian Review (University of Kansas), January 2013; Literature of Autobiography, (The Gale Group/Cengage Learning), selected essays in volume on oral history, January-February 2013 Review: James Ryan, Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence (Routledge, 2012) for Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes, vol. 55, no. 1 (2013). Review: Wendy Goldman, Inventing the Enemy. Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia (Cambridge, 2011) for The NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-1928, vol. 6 (2012): 87-90. Discussant: "Reassessing Political Ideologies in Late Imperial Russian Society: Ethnicity, Professors and Workers.” New Orleans, Louisiana, 11/15-18/12. Discussant: Delaware Valley Russian History Seminar. Swarthmore College, PA, 4/7/13. Slavic Symposium: Global Russian Culture, University of Pennsylvania, April 19-20, 2013 Historical Materialism NYC 2013, New York University, April /27-28, 2013. STEPHEN ANDRILLI (with David Hecker), Lines and Planes and the Cross Product in R3, (Elsevier / Academic Press, 2012) (28 pages) (with David Hecker), Jordan Canonical Form, (Elsevier/ Academic Press, 2012) (22 pages) T3 (Teachers Teaching with Technology) Conference, Philadelphia Convention Center, March 8-9, 2013. EPaDel (Eastern Pa. and Delaware Chapter of the MAA – Mathematical Association of America) Fall Meeting at Millersville University, October 27, 2012. COMERG (Collaborative Mathematics-Education Research Group) – three meetings at St. Joseph’s University: November 15, 2012: Charoula Stathopoulou, University of Thessaly, Greece; March 21, 2013: Aina Appova, Ohio State University; and May 15, 2013:Milos Savic, Michigan State University Developmental Mathematics Colloquium at Holy Family University (speakers from Cabrini College on developmental math and the MyMathLab software package), March 13, 2013. Served as a Referee for a paper “A Unique Area Property of the Quadratic Function” for Mathematics Magazine. Served as an At-Large Member of the Executive Board of EPaDel, until 12/31/12. VIVIENNE ANGELES “Visualizing Islam: The Art, Architecture and Functions of Philippine Mosques” in Imtiyaz Yusuf, Islam and Knowledge: Al Faruqi’s Concept of Religion in Islamic Thought (London: IB Tauris, 2012). “Abu Sayyaf Group” in Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies. Ed. Tamara Sonn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155- 0146,xml. Chair, “Religion in Southeast Asia Panel,” American Academy of Religion, 11/19/12. Chair, “Islam, Identity and Belonging Panel,” American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies conference, Seton Hall University, New Jersey, 04/04/13. Co-organizer, American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies 30th Conference at Seton Hall University, 04/04- 05/13. Presider, Religion in Southeast Asia Business Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL, 11/17-20/12. Research project on “Filipinas in Malaysia: Conversion, Identity and Belonging.” Working on bibliographic article on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for the Oxford University Press Bibliography Online. Working on a book chapter on “From Secession to Engagement in Civil Society: Muslim Women’s Activism in the Philippines.” Invited speaker on “Modern Muslim Movements in the Philippines and Southeast Asia” at Friends Select School Third Annual Intersession, Friends Select School, Philadelphia, 01/23/12. SHARON LEE ARMSTRONG (with Klein, E. R.) (2013). “Speech-language therapy and selective mutism. Selective Mutism Group~Childhood Anxiety Network.” Retrieved from http://www.selectivemutism.org/resources/library/index_html/speech-and- language-issues/ (with Klein, E. R and Shipon-Blum, E. (2013). Assessing spoken language competence in children with selective mutism: Using parents as test presenters. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 34(3), 184-195. doi:10.1177/1525740112455053 (with Klein, E. R., Spillman-Kennedy, D., Kushner, R., Gordon, J., Gerber, C., and Shipon-Blum, E.) (April, 2013). “Innovative methods for assessing and promoting social communication in children with selective mutism,” presented at New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Conference. (with Klein, E. R.) (2012, November) “How to assess speech-language in children with selective mutism,” presented at American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA. (with Klein, E. R., Shipon-Blum, E., Gordon, J., Skira, K., and Lyman, B.) (2012, October). “Cognitive, psychological, and linguistic features of children with selective mutism,” presented at the Selective Mutism Group~Childhood Anxiety Network Annual Conference, Orlando, FL. (with Lyman, B. C., Williams, D., Klein, E. R., Brown, C., Branch, K., Rouse, C. (May, 2013). A study of stigma in mothers of children with an autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. (with Becker, R. E., Zelikovsky, N., Wilson, P., & Chamberlain, K. (2012, October). Decision making style that guides health behaviors in a geriatric population. Poster presented at La Salle University Diversity Forum. (with Lavery, M., Allison, K., J. Spitzer, J., & Dilks, R. (2012, September) Psychological barriers to cervical cancer screenings in overweight and obese women. Poster presented at Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, TX. Consulting Editor, Journal of General Psychology. American Psychological Association Accreditation Site Visitor: October, 2012. Co-Director of Research, Selective Mutism Research Institute (SMRI) EXPRESS Language Group: Developing Narrative Language Skills in Children Project MARY ELLEN BALCHUNIS Served as elected member of Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee 2013 Reviewed “Mass Media” in By The People for Oxford University Press. Conducted initial induction ceremony for Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society for Chestnut Hill College: April 6, 2013. GERALD BALLOUGH (with G. Rivera, V. Vavala, D. Battaglia, P. Gary, S. Kovalenko, C. Schwartz, A. Moffa, C. Kennan, and N. DiIenno) “Acute Ethanol-Induced Brain Damage in Rats: Assessed using GFAP Immunohistochemistry and Eosin . 24rd Annual Saint Joseph's University Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 19, 2013. (with P. Gary, D. Battaglia, V. Vavala, S. Kovalenko, G. Rivera, and A. Moffa) “Assessment of Acute Ethanol- Induced Neuropathology in Rats and Determination of Neuronal Apoptosis Using Activated Caspase-3 Immunohistochemistry and TUNEL Staining.” 24rd Annual Saint Joseph's University Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, April 19, 2013. (with A. Moffa, C. Schwartz, and A. Miller) “Changes in Respiratory Rate Following Acute Ethanol (Alcohol) Intoxication in Rats: Predictive Evidence of Impending Survival or Respiratory Collapse.” 24rd