Research Seminar Series

The Research Seminar Series was established to meet the need for a time and place for faculty and staff research information exchange.  It began with our first research presentation on February 4, 2005.  In its essence, the series is intended to build community and collegiality by setting the venue for you to communicate to others just what you do. It's casual and fun: a great way to relax, meet faculty from various disciplines and get a good feel for the University community at its best.  We hope you'll join us!

The series runs Fridays from 3 to 4:30pm on the dates specified below.  At least 16 events are held per academic year, with about 40-45 participants at each event.  Attendance is growing!  Don't miss these valuable opportunities to learn what others are doing on campus as well as share your own ideas!

Spring 2009 was jam-packed with great presentations!  Special thanks goes out to all those who presented, and to all those who attended.  The ORS staff appreciates your support!  If you were unable to make it to the presentations or you'd just like to take a stroll down memory lane, click here.

We're gearing up for the next round of Research Seminar Series events.  Just scroll down to see the dates and venues for the 2009/2010 academic year.  Presenters and their topic titles will be posted soon, so check back at this space for updates.  Meanwhile, mark your calendar now!  'Hope to see you all there!

Are you interested in presenting?  We're always interested in your research!  Call Maria Landis (x6190) or e-mail LandisM2@scranton.edu.

Fall 2009:
Oct 2 - Michael Friedman, English and Theatre Performing The Taming of the Shrew in the Twenty-First Century TDC 405
Oct 16 - Jeff Holt, Pathology, The Commonwealth Medical College Ethics Profiling to Prevent Genetic Disease: Does Saving Lives Trump Social Concerns? BRN 509
Oct 30 - Michael Sulzinski, Biology TDC 405
Nov 6 - Dave Rusak, Chemistry TDC 405
Nov 20 - Thomas P. Hogan, Psychology TDC 405 Dec 4 - Darryl DeMarzio, Education TDC 405 Spring 2010 Feb 19 - TBA TDC 407A Feb 26 - TBA TDC 405 Mar 26 - TBA TDC 405 Apr 16 - TBA BRN 228 Apr 30 - TBA BRN 228 May 7 - TBA TDC 405
PAST PRESENTATIONS Spring 2009:   Feb 6 - Janice Voltzow, Biology Charles Darwin: A Natural Selection   Feb 20 - Stephen Whittaker, English & Theatre Loss of a Scholar in Joyce's Forge: A Cautionary Tale   Feb 27 - Joseph Connolly, Physics/EE The Joy of Physics - On a Bicycle   Mar 6 - Maria Squire, Biology Assessment of Bone Microarchitecture Using Micro-Computed Tomography   Mar 27 - Gretchen Van Dyke, Political Science So This May Lead to Civic Engagement ... Really? The Mid-Atlantic EU Simulation Program   Apr 3 - Meghan A. Rich, Sociology/Criminal Justice "Socioeconomic Diversity is Overrated": Social Class and Gentrification in a Racially Integrated Neighborhood   Apr 24 - Jessica Nolan, Psychology Cultivating Conservation: What's the Law got to do with it?
Fall 2008:
Sept 26 - Jody DeRitter, English & Theatre Literary Treatments of Terrorism Before & After 9/11
Oct 3 - Jennifer Tripp, Chemistry Dating the Aurignacian through AMS analysis of molluscan shells
Oct 17 - Cyrus Olsen, Theology Reason' in Theology?
Oct 31 - David Dzurec, History African Pirates, British Prisons, and American Self-Confidence in the Early Nineteenth Century
Nov 7 - Bryan Burnham, Psychology Capacity and Control Limits of Attention
Nov 21 - Patrick Tully, Philosophy Dead Fish, Firing Squads, and Doomed Embryos: Complicity in Embryo-Destructive Research
Dec 5 - Jeremy Sepinsky, Physics/EE Science that's literally out of this world:  An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics
Spring 2008:
Feb 15 - Maria Johnson, Theology, presents New Foes and Old Faces: Historical Novels and Victorian Religion
Feb 29 - Marlene Morgan, Occupational Therapy, presents Incentives and Barriers to Interdisciplinary Education in the Health Professions: Early Adopters Versus Mainstream Faculty
Mar 7 - Rose Sebastianelli, Operations & Information Management, Perceived Quality of Internet Retailers:  Does Shopping Frequency and Product Type Make a Difference?
Mar 28 - Terry Sweeney, Biology, In vivo microvascular preparations: placing microvascular measurements in a spatial context
Apr 4 - Sharon Meagher, Philosophy, presents Philosophical Streetwalking
Apr 18 - Ron Deitrick, Exercise Science & Sport, Walking: Physiological Effects and Benefits
Fall 2007:
Sept 21 - Roy P. Domenico, History Catholic Culture in Italy in the 1950s
Sept 28 - SP Chattopadhyay, Marketing, with guests, Edwin P. Bernal and Winston Tellis Selling One Banana to One Customer, Three Times a Week - Profitably!
Oct 5 - Mike Cann, Chemistry Green Chemistry, Benign by Design
Nov 2 - Dan Haggerty, Philosophy White Guilt and White Shame: Moral Psychology and Political Philosophy
Nov 16 - Ben Bishop, Computing Sciences Interactive Simulation and Haptics
Nov 30 - Dallas Wisehaupt, Systems and Software Resources Behind the Scenes of Authentication and Authorization
Spring 2007:
Feb 16 - Christie Karpiak and Galen Baril, Psychology Care for the Environment and Kohlberg's Justice Orientation
Feb 23 - Joe Vinson, Chemistry Coffee: a healthy beverage
Mar 2 - Ed Scahill, Economics Searching for Racial Discrimination in the Baseball Card Market
Mar 23 - Mike Allison, Political Science Where Have All the Guerrillas Gone?
Mar 30 - Ned Fetcher, Biology Climate Change: What Al Gore Didn't Tell You
Apr 13 - Guest speaker, Bob Steneck, Professor of Oceanography, Marine Biology and Marine Policy, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine The loss of resilience and accelerating booms and busts in the world's coastal ecosystems
Apr 27 - Joyce Hanks, Foreign Languages & Literatures Technique and Theology in Jacques Ellul
Fall 2006:
Sept 1 - Ellen Casey, English Reading with the Victorians: Fiction Reviews in The Athenæum
Sept 22 - Masood Otarod, Mathematics Steady State Isotope Transient Tracing of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions: Dimethyl Ether Synthesis
Oct 6 - Rich Larsen, Theatre Sustainability: The Musical! or My Dad's got a recycling bin in the barn!  Let's put on a show!
Oct 20 - Connie Wisdo, Technology Development and Innovation Internet2 is HERE! Do you know what to do with it?  What I2 means to you and your research
Nov 3 - Dan Townsend, Biology Bambis Gone Wild: Ecological Pornography in Penn's Woods
Nov 17 - Chris Baumann, Chemistry Matrixes and Matrices
Dec 1 - Rob Smith, Biology Avian Migration: Why it's good to be fat, and other migratory tales
SPRING 2006:
Feb 3 - Tim Cannon, Psychology Travels of a Functional Neuroanatomist through Pain, Audition, Environmental Enrichment, Sexual Dimorphism...Interconnections and Dead Ends
Feb 24 - Gary Kwiecinski, Biology Biology of bats: visual accommodation, calcium homeostasis, and Lesser Antilles biogeography
Mar 3 - Stephen J. Casey, Theology A Social Ethics Issue: The Common Good & Public Health
Mar 17 - Jerry Carter, Physics/Electronics Engineering The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Monitor the Bomb
Mar 24 - Harry Dammer, Sociology/Criminal Justice Crosses, Crescents, Stars and Bars: An ethnographic study of religion in the correctional environment
Mar 31 - George V. Coyne, S.J., Director of the Vatican Observatory John Paul II on the Relationship between Science and Religion
Apr 7 - Sam Lesko, NRCI Cancer Epidemiology in Northeast Pennsylvania
Apr 28 - Virginia Picchietti, Foreign Languages & Literature A Semiotics of Judaism: Representations of Judaism and the Jewish Experience in Italian Cinema, 1992-2004
May 5 - Janice Voltzow, Biology Snails: More than an appetizer
FALL 2005:
Sept 2 - Paul Fahey, Physics/EE Biophysics of Hearing
Sept 23 - Len Tischler, Management Applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to Society and Business
Sept 30 - Jerry Muir, Mathematics A Taste of Some Problems in Geometric Complex Function Theory
October 7 - John Deák, Chemistry Little Bits of Chemistry: Molecular Interactions in Nanoscale Materials
October 21 - Joe Kraus, English Making Book: Story, Ethnicity, and Organized Crime
October 28 - Mike Carey, Biology Twenty Years in the Life of an Old Field Biologist: Field Sparrow Breeding Biology
Nov 4 - Tim Foley, Chemistry Forgetting How to Function: Proteins in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Nov 18 - Linda Ledford-Miller, Foreign Languages & Literature On The Coffee Trail: Helen J. Sanborn's "A Winter in Central America and Mexico" (1886)
Dec 2 - George Gomez, Biology The Story of O: olfaction, cell function, and nerve cell growth