AN ALMANAC OF SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL

26 Pages·2014·0.55 MB·English

by  Doree Baumgart

AN ALMANAC

OF

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL

ACHIEVEMENTS

BY MEMBERS OF THE

WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE

COMMUNITY

2013-14
The faculty at Washington & Jefferson College is described in the catalog as
“master teachers, mentors and advisers who take an active interest in
students’ futures and preparedness for life beyond campus.” Without a doubt,
this outstanding group of scholars, Fulbright Fellows, world travelers, and
experts in their fields creates a first-rate learning community within a
collaborative and integrated learning environment.

As a liberal arts college, we tend to focus on classroom excellence and the
learning environment. At the same time, however, our faculty members
achieve impressive recognition for their research and scholarship, a side of
their professional careers perhaps a bit less apparent to the College
community. These accomplishments take many forms: publications,
presentations, artistic and creative endeavors, new pedagogical methods, as
well as contributions to the community outside the College.

This Almanac of Scholarly and Professional Achievement brings together in one
document the accomplishments of this remarkable group of teachers and
scholars over the past year, along with the outstanding achievements of some
of their students. It serves as a celebration, if you will; a bit of blowing our own
horn, to be sure – but eminently appropriate and well deserved. We also hope
this impressive list serves as a motivator, a challenge, and a stimulus for future
endeavors.

This integration of excellent teaching with impressive scholarship is one of the
qualities which makes W&J special and about which we all should be quite
proud. Congratulations to all!

John E. Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty

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Publications

Dr. Barry Chametzky, Adjunct Instructor of Modern Languages, published the
following:
Chametzky, B. (2013). Generalizability and Offsetting the Affective
Filter. Grounded Theory Review, 12(2). Available from
http://groundedtheoryreview.com/2013/12/22/generalizability-and-
the-theory-of-offsetting-the-affective-filter/

Chametzky, B. (2013). Offsetting the affective filter and online foreign
language learners. Available from http://www.igi-global.com/open-
access/paper/offsetting-affective-filter-classic-grounded/7

Shaw, M., Chametzky, B., Burrus, S., & Walters, K. (Winter 2013). An
evaluation of student outcomes by course duration in online higher
education. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 16(4).
Available from http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/

Chametzky, B. (2013). What is involved in meaningful e-learning?
Journal of Interdisciplinary Collaboration, 1(1) pp. 41-59.

Dr. Rosalie T. Carpenter, Professor of Education, published “Oh the Places You
Will Go,” The Current, Kappa Delta Epsilon, #82, Winter 2013.

Drs. Elizabeth Bennett, Professor of Psychology and Michael Crabtree,
Professor of Psychology published the following:
Crabtree, M., Bennett, E. A., & Schaffer, M. E. (2013). Unique
challenges faced by the National Guard and Reserve. In J. Barnett & B.
Moore (Eds.). Military Psychologists' Desk Reference. New York:
Oxford University Press.

Dr. Robert Dunn, Assistant Professor of Economics and Business, published a
book review of Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities,
Charlie Karlsson and Robert G. Picard, eds. Forthcoming in Review of Regional
Studies.

Dr. Samuel Fee, Associate Professor of Computing and Information Studies,
published the following:
Fee, S. B. (2013). Building Knowledge: Implementing PBL and Using
Mobile Apps as an Approach to Learning. In Loveless, D. J., Griffith, B.,
Berci, M., Ortlieb, E., & Sullivan, P. (eds.) Academic Knowledge
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Construction and Multimodal Curriculum Development. Hershey, PA:
IGI Publishing.

Fee, S. B. and Griffith, C. (2013). Custom Mobile Applications for Field
Data Collection. CUR Quarterly. Volume 34, Number 2. Washington,
DC: Council on Undergraduate Research.

Dr. James Gormly, Professor of History published the following:
James L Gormly, “The Counter Iron Curtain: Crafting an American-Soviet Bloc
Civil Aviation Policy, 1943-1960.” Diplomatic History 37:1 (April 2013): 248-
279.

Dr. Mark Harris, Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Jennifer Logan,
Associate Professor of Chemistry, had an article titled “Determination of LogK
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Values for Four Drugs” accepted for publication by the Journal of Chemical
Education.

Dr. Jennifer Riddle Harding, Associate Professor of English, published the
following:
"Violence Then, Violence Now." Pittsburgh Post Gazette 27 Aug. 2013:
B-7.
"Reader-Response Criticism and Stylistics." A chapter in the Routledge
Handbook of Stylistics, 2014.

Dr. Robbie Iuliucci, Associate Professor of Chemistry, published the following:
Establishing Accurate High-Resolution Crystal Structures in the
Absence of Diffraction Data and Single Crystals—An NMR Approach,
Keyton Kalakewich, Robbie Iuliucci, and James K. Harper, Crystal.
Growth and Design, 2013, 13 (12), 5391–5396 [doi:
10.1021/cg401294k].

Refining crystal structures with experimental 13C NMR shift tensors and
lattice-including electronic structure methods, James K. Harper, Robbie
Iuliucci, Matthew Gruber and Keyton Kalakewich, CrystEngComm
2013, 15, 8693-8704 [doi: 10.1039/C3CE40108A] (themed collection
NMR crystallography).

13C chemical-shift anisotropy of alkyl-substituted aromatic carbon in
anthracene derivatives, Cody L. Hoop, Robbie J. Iuliucci, Solid State
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 2013, 53, 1–12. [doi
10.1016/j.ssnmr.2013.01.004].
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Investigation of Phosphonic Acid Surface Modifications on Zinc Oxide
Nanoparticles under Ambient Conditions. Rosalynn Quiñones, Kate
Rodriguez, and Robbie J. Iuliucci, Thin Films manuscript under
revision.

High Resolution Solid-State NMR: Characterization of Polymorphism in
Pharmaceutical Compounds. Julie E. Pacilio, John Tokarski, Rosalynn
Quiñones and Robbie J. Iuliucci, Journal of Chemical Education,
accepted, in press.

C-13 Chemical Shift Tensors in Organic Materials. James K. Harper and
Robbie Iuliucci, Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, accepted, in
press.

Dr. Jason Kilgore, Assistant Professor of Biology, published:
Leege, L., and J. Kilgore. Recovery of foredune and blowout habitats in
a freshwater dune following removal of invasive Austrian pine (Pinus
nigra). Restoration Ecology. (forthcoming)

Lindsey, A., and J. Kilgore. (2013). Soil type affects Pinus ponderosa
var. scopulorum (Pinaceae) seedling growth in simulated drought
experiments. Applications in Plant Sciences 1(8):1300031.

Dr. John P. Lambertson, Professor of Art, published:
“The Boulevard and the Salon: Popular Theatre and Romanticism in
1824,” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, vol. 40, no. 1, Summer
2013, 15-35.

Michael S. Leonard, Associate Professor of Chemistry, published the following:
Intermediate Organic Chemistry; a textbook that is used in his
intermediate organic chemistry class,

Introductory Organic Reaction Mechanisms: A color-coded approach
to arrow pushing; a textbook detailing 80 mechanisms commonly
encountered in introductory organic chemistry courses. This book has
an accompanying YouTube channel with all 80 mechanisms presented
over the course of 80 short videos.

Dr. Robert Litchfield, Associate Professor of Business, published the following:
Gilson, L. L., Litchfield, R. C., & Gilson, P. W. (In Press). An examination
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of the relationship between time and creativity: Applying a temporal
lens to the study of creativity. In A. J. Shipp and Y. Fried (Eds.) Time
and Work: How Time Impacts Individuals (Vol. 1). East Sussex, UK:
Psychology Press.

Litchfield, R. C. (2013). Brainstorming. In E. H. Kessler (Ed.),
Encyclopedia of management theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.

Dr. Karin Maresh, Associate Professor of Theatre and Communication,
published “Ireland.” International Women Stage Directors. Eds. Anne Fliotsos
and Wendy Vierow. Urbana, IL: U of IL P, 2013. 187-197.

Dr. Andrew Mulvania, Associate Professor of English, published “Sylvia Plath: A
Fifty-Year Retrospective,” The Missouri Review, Winter 2013, Volume 36,
Number 4, 177-188.

Dr. Michael Pettersen, Chair and Professor of Physics, Davitt, Kristina, Michael
S. Pettersen, and Etienne Rolley. "Thermally Activated Wetting Dynamics in the
Presence of Surface Roughness." Langmuir 29, 6884 (2013).

Dr. Anupama Shanmuganathan, Assistant Professor of Biology, published the
following:
Shanmuganathan, A. (2013). Course-based research is effective in
engaging students in ‘real’ science: soil bacterial diversity research in
an undergraduate microbiology course. Abstract in Journal of
Microbiology & Biology Education 14: 160.
Dr. Deborah Sunderland, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, published:
Sunderland, D.P. Studying Crystal Structures through the Use of Solid State
Model Kits. J. Chem. Educ. 2014, DOI: 10.1021/ed400367x. :

Dr. Robert Vande Kappelle, Professor of Religious Studies, published two books
in 2013: Iron Sharpens Iron: A Discussion Guide for Twenty-First-Century
Seekers (Wipf & Stock) and Hope Revealed: The Message of the Book of
Revelation—Then and Now (Wipf & Stock).

Dr. Yongsheng Wang, Associate Professor of Economics, published the
following:
"Teaching Econometrics: An Interdisciplinary Approach", International
Social Science Review, 88(3-4), 2013.
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Review on "Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United
States", edited by P. Arestis, P. Mooslechner, and K. Wagner (Palgrave
Macmillan), Eastern Economic Journal, 39(2), 2013, 280-282
Review on "Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences,” edited by
R. Sun (MIT Press), International Social Science Review, 88(3-4), 2013.

Dr. Kelly Weixel, Assistant Professor of Biology, published Resveratrol inhibits
the epithelial sodium channel via phopshoinositides and AMP-activated protein
kinase in kidney collecting duct cells. Weixel KM, Marciszyn A, Alzamora R, Li H,
Fischer O, Edinger RS, Hallows KR, Johnson JP. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 24;8(10)

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Presentations

Dr. Amparo Alpañés, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, presented:

“Ficción y realidad contemporánea: cómo la literatura y el cine
español comentan las estructuras de poder actuales.” At Pennsylvania
Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, September 2013.

“Once upon a Soap Opera: Introducing Creative Writing in the Foreign
Language Classroom.” At Northeast Modern Language Association
2014 Convention, Harrisburg, PA, April 2014.

Drs. Elizabeth Bennett, Professor of Psychology and Michael Crabtree,
Professor of Psychology, presented the following:
Bennett, E. A., Crabtree, M., Schaffer, M. E. (2014, March). Improving
Civilian Emergency Departments’ Ability to Identify PTSD in Reserve
Component Members, poster presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting
of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Crabtree, M., Bennett, E. A. (2013, September). Combat Stress
Intervention Program, presented at the Military Operational Medicine
Research Program (MOMRP) Product Line Review, Fort Detrick, MD.

Bennett, E. A., Crabtree, M., Schaffer, M. E. (2013, June). Civilian
Health Care Settings’ Ability to Identify Combat Stress related concerns
in Reserve Component Members and Their Families, poster presented
at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association Annual Convention,
Harrisburg, PA.

Dr. Rosalie T. Carpenter, Professor of Education, co-presented at the 2013
National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference at Slippery Rock
University, Slippery Rock, PA. ABC: Always Bring Connections: School, College,
Community Partnerships, April 2013.

Dr. Barry Chametzky, Adjunct Instructor of Modern Languages, presented the
following:
A Primer to Online (E-)Learning. Invited lecture to a foreign language
methodology class at Washington & Jefferson College: December 3,
2013

Dr. Michael Crabtree, Professor of Psychology, presented the following:
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Crabtree, Michael, Schaffer, Mary E.; (2014, June). Using Free
Assessment Instruments to Enhance Therapy and Evaluations;
Pennsylvania Psychological Association, Harrisburg PA

Crabtree, Michael and Stange, Jeff; (2013, June). Mental Illnes
Potential for Violence: What Can Psychology Tell Us?; Pennsylvania
Psychological Association, Harrisburg PA

Crabtree, Michael(January, 2014). Child Victim Testimony; Washington
County Bar Association, Winter Bench Bar.

Crabtree, Michael(August, 2013). Protection from Sexual Predators;
Maple Terrace Community Meeting, Washington PA

Crabtree, Michael; (September, 2013). Mental Health and Gun
Violence; Part of the W. Edward Sell Legal Forum, 2nd Ammendment
Rights; Washington & Jefferson College, Washington PA

Candy DeBerry, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, gave the following
presentations:
Pollination and Pollinators”, “Gardening for Butterflies”, “Green Your
Gardening: Water Conservation”, “Green Your Gardening: Compost
Happens”, and “Growing Great Garlic” at the Lavender Festival at
Destiny Hill Farm in Washington, PA on June 22, 2013.

“Native Plants For Your Garden” for the Penn State Master Gardener
Program of Washington County in Canonsburg, PA, on September 14,
2013.

“Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden” at the 4th annual Mother
Earth News Fair at Seven Springs, PA, on September 22, 2013. The
Fair, sponsored by Mother Earth News magazine, is one of the premier
sustainable living events in the United States, covering all aspects of
living more lightly on the Earth.

"Gardening to Support Pollinators" for the Washington County
Watershed Alliance annual banquet in Washington, PA, on March 19,
2014.

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"Creating Wildlife Habitats" workshop for the Master Naturalist
Program of the West Virginia Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources at the Good Zoo in Oglebay in Wheeling, WV, on April 6,
2014.

“Why Grow Natives?” keynote address at the 23rd Native Plants in the
Landscape Conference at Millersville University, Millersville, PA, on
June 7, 2014. Dr. DeBerry serves on the conference steering
committee and is assistanceships coordinator for the 2014 conference.

“Pollination and Pollinators” for the GO Green Camp for Kids at Peters
Township Public Library on June 11, 2014.

Christine Dee ’15 and Christopher Casagrande ’15 presented the results of
their research with Dr. Anupama Shanmuganathan as a research poster titled
“A four-year assessment of soil bacterial diversity in SW Pennsylvania” at the
National Conference on Undergraduate Research held in Lexington, KY Apr. 3-5,
2014.

Dr. Annette Drew-Bear, Professor of English, presented:
“Theatricality in Lust’s Dominion,” Blackfriars Conference, Staunton,
Virginia, October, 2013.
“Finding the Signals for Performance in a Shakespeare Text,”
Shakespeare Association of America, April, 2014.

Presentations by Dr. Robert East, Associate Professor and Director of
Environmental Studies
“Lessons not Learned? Sixty-Five Years after Donora”
65th Anniversary of the Donora Smog Disaster Environmental
Conference, 30 October, 2013, Donora, PA

“Agroforestry and Permaculture in Semi-Arid Western Kenya”
Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences Annual Conference
Duquesne University, 20 June, 2013 ,Pittsburgh, PA

“Two-Year Trials of Biochar Applications in No-Till Agricultural
Systems”, Webinar hosted by the International Biochar Initiative, 17
February, 2014

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