On the Road: Celebrating Scholarly Achievements

Formal Presentations of Scholarly Work

Warren G. Abrahamson
Professor of Biology

Invited Research Seminar, Denison University, Granville, OH; October 22, 2009

Invited Research Seminar, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; October 2, 2009

Invited Eminent Ecologist Lecturer, Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI; July 1, 2009

Invited Eminent Ecologist Lecturer, Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI; June 29, 2009

Invited Research Seminar, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; April 10, 2009

Invited Research Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA; February 16, 2009

Invited Research Seminar, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL; March 27, 2008

Invited Research Talk, Florida Ecology and Evolution Symposium, Lake Placid, FL; April 4, 2008

Opening Address for the Workshop on Geography of Gall-Inducing Insects in South and Meso-America, Recife, Brazil, September 30, 2007.

Invited Symposium Talk, Conference on Plant Species and Speciation, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, January 30, 2008.

Research Seminar, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; November 2, 2006

Research Seminar, Department of Biology, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; September 28, 2006

Research Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, May 22, 2006

Research Seminar, Entomology Department, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana IL; May 1, 2006

Research Seminar, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; December 2, 2005

Research Seminar, Integrative Biology Division, University of Texas, Austin TX; October 6, 2005

Research Seminar, University of Virginia, Blandy Experimental Farm, The State Arboretum of Virginia, Boyce, VA, August 3, 2005

Christopher Boyatzis
Professor of Psychology

(Invited) "Child and adolescent religious and spiritual development." Keynote address at "The spiritual well-being of children," the Distinguished Scholars' Colloquium, Hunter College of City Univ. of New York, April, 2007.

(Invited) "Adolescent spirituality." Distinguished Scholar address at the annual meeting of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, Philadelphia, March 2007.

(Invited) "What psychologists need to know about children's religious and spiritual development." Keynote address at the Mid-Year Research Conference on Religion and Spirituality, Columbia, MD, March 2006.

Hetrick, C., & Boyatzis, C. J. (2007, March). Religiosity and spiritual disclosure in college couples' relationship satisfaction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Year Research Conference on Religion and Spirituality, Columbia, MD.*

Boyatzis, C. J., Bender, L., Beasley, J., Yanni-Brelsford, G., & Mahoney, A., (2006, August). College students' spiritual disclosure and religious intimacy with friends, siblings, and parents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans.*

Boyatzis, C. J. (2006, June). A modest proposal to replace two fundamental assumptions about children's spiritual and religious development. Paper presented at the triennial meeting of the Children's Spirituality Conference, River Forest, IL.

Boyatzis, C. J., & Morton, L. (2006, May). College students' religious coping with anxiety about the Iraq War. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York.*

Boyatzis, C. J., Sedges, H., & Wass, T. (2006, March). Southern college women's body image, religiosity, and religious intimacy with parents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Year Research Conference on Religion and Spirituality, Columbia, MD.

Backof, S., & Boyatzis, C. J. (2006, March).Prayer behavior and concepts in relation to age, sex, and gender orientation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Year Research Conference on Religion and Spirituality, Columbia, MD.*

Coralynn V. Davis
Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

"Transnational marriage as mobilization: a woman's self-circulation beginning in rural South Asia." Paper presentation as part of session entitled "Sexuality in out-of-the-way places: Tracing intimacies across borders" at the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, upcoming, November 19, 2010.

"Im/possible Lives: Gender, Class, Self-fashioning, and Affinal Solidarity in Modern South Asia." Session chair and paper presentation for "Structuring Families: Rights, Identity and the State" session at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, Mérida, Mexico, March 24, 2010

"Marginal or Mainstream? The beginnings and the end(s) of feminist anthropology," Co-organizer, Invited Session of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, December 3, 2009.

"Pedagogy and Prison: Knowledges, Selves and the Inside-Out Model," Co-organizer and discussant, Invited Session of the Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, December 5, 2009.

"The Power of Storytelling and Subaltern Registers in Maithil Women’s Tales.” Panel on Rural Women Negotiating Power: Fulbright Scholar Research in Panama, Cameroon, China, and Nepal, Cameroon, China, and Nepal. National Women’s Studies Assocation Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio, June 19-22, 2008.

“Im/possible Lives: Tales of Torture and Affinal Solidarity in One Woman’s Self-Fashioning Project in Modern Nepal.” Gender, Identity, and Change Panel. Sociological/Anthropological Society ofNepal International Conference on Social Sciences in a Multicultural World Addressing the Persistence of Deprivation, Conflict and Violence, December 12, 2006

“Development and Modernity, NGOs and Consumer Culture: Shifting Solidarities and Vulnerable Futures.” SUNTA/GA and APLA Invited Panel at American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, San Jose, California, California, November 16, 2006.

>“Redefining Literacy: Women in Prison, Writing in Community.” Round-table presentation at the 3rd Annual (Net)Working Conference on Women & Literacy - Moving to Power & Participation. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut, March 11, 2006.

“The Story Went into the Forest, the Thoughts into One’s Own Mind: Correspondences between Folktales and Life Narratives among Maithil Women of Nepal.” American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, DC, November 30, 2005.

“Storied Selves: Maithil Women’s Deployment of Folktales and Personal Narratives in the Construction of Selves.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 10, 2005.

David W. Evans
Professor of Psychology

Subbotsky, E., & Evans, D.W. (2006). Developmental aspects of magical thinking. Symposium Co-conveners at annual conference of the International Study for the Society of behavioral Development. July, 2006, Melbourne, Australia. (invited)

Evans, D.W., & Capaldi, E. (2006). Developmental considerations of magical thinking. To be presented at the annual meetings of the International Study for the Society of behavioral Development. July, 2006, Melbourne, Australia. (invited)

Evans, D.W., Canavera, K*., Pietrefesa, A.*, Lombardo, L*., & Gross, A*. (2005). Executive function, compulsive-like behavior and a new Stroop test for young children. Biennial Meetings for the Society for Research in Child Development. April, 2005, Altanta, GA.

Pietrefesa, A*., & Evans, D.W. (2005). Children's Rituals: Insights from the Neurobiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Biennial Meetings for the Society for Research in Child Development. April, 2005, Altanta, GA.

Evans, D.W. (2006). Understanding the Typical and atypical development of brain-behavior relations in obsessive-compulsive behavior. Invited presentation to the Research Workshop on "Cognitive Neuroscience, Development and Psychopathology: Understanding the Typical and Atypical Development if Brain-behavior Relations." Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December, 2006.

William F. Flack, Jr.
Associate Professor of Psychology
* Indicates paper presented with student co-author(s).

*Kanga, M.R., Flack, W.F., Jr., & DeKeseredy, W.S. (2008, February). Predictors of college sexual assault perpetration and male peer support. Paper accepted for presentation at the American Psychological Association Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships: Connecting Agendas and Forging New Directions, Bethesda, MD.

*Kimble, M.O., Neacsiu, A.D., Flack, W.F., Jr., & Horner, J. (2007, November). Unwanted sexual experiences at college: A test of the "red zone" hypothesis. Paper presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, MD.

*Flack, W.F., Jr., Kimble, M., Minacapelli, L., & Neacsiu, D. (2007, November). Unwanted sex, alcohol use, and hooking up at two U.S. colleges. Paper presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, MD.

*Flack, W.F., Jr. & Brian, L. (2007, November). Contexts of intimacy and unwanted sex in a U.S. university sample. Paper presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Flack, W.F., Jr. (2005, November).Issues in disseminating information about unwanted sex on college campuses. Presented as part of a panel discussion, Getting word out to students about unwanted sexon college campuses (W.F. Flack, Jr., Chair), for the 21st annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.;

*Flack, W.F., Jr., Breitenbach, K.G., Leinen, S.J. et al. (2005, November). Temporal risk of attemptedand completed unwanted sex among first- and second-year college students.Paper presented at the 21st annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.;

Serena Fujita
Jewish Chaplain

Rabbi Serena Fujita, Bucknell’s Jewish Chaplain, was elected president of the National Association of College and University Chaplains at the Feb. 19, 2008, national conference in Portland, Ore. The term of office is one year. She succeeds the Rev. Timothy Boddie, Chaplain at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.

She is also serving on the planning committee for the international chaplains’ conference in Tampere, Finland, from June 30 to July 4, 2008.

Michael R. James
Associate Professor of Political Science

"Rethinking Social Group Perspective" To be presented at the Political Science Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 2005

"Rethinking Social Group Perspective" to be presented at the Political Theory Colloquium, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 15, 2005

"The Normative Consequences of Identity Construction" to be presented at the Political Theory Colloquium, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, January 25, 2005.

Stephanie Larson
Associate Professor of Classics

"Sappho's Penelope: Reconsidering Fragment 94," presented at the semi-annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Gainesville, Florida, April 2006.

"Late Archaic Boiotian Ethnicity: Links to the Aiakids in Genealogy and Iconography," presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal, January 2006.

"A few Aspects of Boiotian Ethnicity," presented at the Fifth International Congress on Boiotian Antiquities, Thebes, Greece, September 2005.

"Herodotus On the Naming of Women," presented at the semi-annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Madison, Wisconsin, March 2005.

L. Felipe Perrone
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Invited talk at the Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES 2009). March 6th, 2009. Rome, Italy. Slides available at http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~perrone/Research_files/scenes.pdf

Paul Shrivastava
Professor of Management

Shrivastava, P. "Managing with Passion" Presentation at the Annual Colloquium of the European Group on Organization Studies (EGOS), Economics University of Vienna,Austria, July 5, 2007.

Shrivastava, P. "Ecological Antecedents of Terrorism". Paper presented the 2nd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of Granada, Spain, July 10, 2007.

Alfred K. Siewers
Associate Professor of English

"Nature as Otherworld: Landscape as Centre in the Tain Bo Cuailnge," 2nd International Conference on the Ulster Cycle Tales, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, June 2005

"Medievalism, Ecocriticism, and Tolkien's Fantasy," Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, January 2005

Lori D. Smolleck
Assistant Professor of Education

Smolleck, L. A. & Pomeroy, R. (January, 2009). Succeeding in academia: What I didn’t learn about teaching and supervision from my mentor. Presentation at the Association for Teacher Education International Conference “What Science Educators Make” Hartford, Connecticut

Eick, C. J., Tippins, D., Brown, S., Smolleck, L. A., Koehler, C., & Mueller, M. (January, 2009). Science education scholarship for new professors: Defining and doing it for successful promotion and tenure. Presentation at the Association for Teacher Education International Conference “What Science Educators Make” Hartford, Connecticut.

Smolleck, L. A. (October, 2008). Improving the self-efficacy beliefs of preservice elementary science teachers. Presentation at The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators “Focusing the Lens on Teacher Education: Visionary Policies, Practices and Partnerships” Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Smolleck, L. A. & MacKenzie, S. K. (October, 2008). (Un)defining boundaries: A study on pre-service beliefs, understandings, and practices regarding reading instruction in the elementary classroom. Presentation at The Pennsylvania Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Grantville, PA.

Smolleck, L. D. (January, 2008). From science methods to student teaching: Changes in self-efficacy. Presentation at The Association for Science Teacher Education International Conference “Teacher Preparation and Quality: Interconnections and Strategies for Science Education” St. Louis, Missouri.

Smolleck, L. D. & Pomeroy, R. (January, 2008). Best practices for preservice teacher education. Presentation at The Association for Science Teacher Education International Conference “Teacher Preparation and Quality: Interconnections and Strategies for Science Education” St. Louis, Missouri.

Smolleck, L. D. (January, 2007). Improving elementary preservice teachers' self-efficacy in an effort to increase the amount of instructional time devoted to the teaching of science as inquiry. Presentation at the Association for Science Teacher Education International Conference "Character, Critique and Controversy in Science Teacher Education" Clearwater Beach, Florida.

Smolleck, L. D. (October, 2007). The importance of self-efficacy in the preparation of elementary science teachers. Presentation at The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators Annual Teacher Education Assembly “P.A.C. – T.E. Leadership for Responsible Change: Creating Opportunities and Addressing Challenges” Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Smolleck, L. D. & Hershberger, V. G. (October, 2007). Playing with science: An investigation of young children’s conceptions and misconceptions. Presentation at The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators Annual Teacher Education Assembly “P.A.C. – T.E. Leadership for Responsible Change: Creating Opportunities and Addressing Challenges” Harrisburg, Pennsylvania..

Smolleck, L.D. & Hills, A. (October, 2007). The development and validation of a rubric for assessing the teaching of science as inquiry. Author Symposium Presentation at The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators Annual Teacher Education Assembly “P.A.C. – T.E. Leadership for Responsible Change: Creating Opportunities and Addressing Challenges” Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Smolleck, L. D. & Hills, A. (October, 2006). The development and validation of a rubric for assessing the teaching of science as inquiry. Presentation at The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators Annual Teacher Education Assembly "P.A.C.T.E. Celebrating 25 Years: Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future" Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Smolleck, L. D. & Yoder, E. (April, 2006). Further refinement of the teaching science as inquiry (TSI) instrument. Presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting "Education Research in the Public Interest" San Francisco, California.

Smolleck, L. D & Yoder, E. (January, 2006). Refinement of the TSI instrument for inquiry science teaching and the role of self-efficacy in explaining outcome expectancy. Presentation at the Association for Science Teacher Education International Conference "Learn all you can!" Portland, Oregon.

Dira-Smolleck, L. and Yoder, E. (April, 2005). Further development of the TSI: Teaching science as inquiry instrument. Presentation at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

Dira-Smolleck, L. and Yoder, E. (January, 2005). Further development and validation of an instrument to measure preservice teacher self-efficacy in regard to the teaching of science as inquiry (The TSI Instrument). Presentation at the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science International Conference "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Eric Tillman
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Lehigh University September 14, 2005, Invited to give a talk entitled "Synthesis of End-labeled Vinyl Polymers"

University of Pennsylvania March 1, 2005, Invited seminar entitled "Synthesis of Chromophore-labeled Vinyl Polymers"

American Chemical Society National Convention, Washington, DC, August 2005, "Synthesis of 2,7-Dibromofluorene-labeled Macromonomers Utilizing a Variation of Reverse Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" and "End-Labeling of Polymer Chains Using Variations of Reverse Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization"

Joseph Tranquillo
Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering

A. Pasha Hosseinbor, J Tranquillo, Classification of Cardiac Arrhythias using Nonlinear Analysis of Electrograms”, BMES 2007. Los Angeles, CA

E Banerjee, J Tranquillo, “A First Step toward an Understanding of the Unique Characteristics of the Mouse Electrocardiogram”, BMES 2007. Los Angeles, CA

J Tranquillo, “A Novel Mechanism for the Initiation and Evolution of Cardiac Fibrillation”, Accepted for Presentation at BMES 2007. Los Angeles, CA

J Tranquillo, A Sunkara “Can We Trust the Transgenic Mouse? Insights from Computer Simulations”, Presented at FIMH Conference 06/07/07 Salt Lake City, UT

N Badie, J Tranquillo, N Bursac, “Micropatterned Heart Slice Cultures for Studies of Intramural Cardiac Electrophysiology”, Presented at AHA 2006. 11/15/06. Chicago, >IL

A Sunkara and J Tranquillo, “Mutations in Cardiac Ion Channels have Different Effects on Mice and Humans”, Presented at BMES 2006. 10/13/06. Chicago, IL

M Howes and J Tranquillo, “Spiral Wave Breakup to Cardiac Fibrillation is Sensitive to the Site of Reentry Initiation”, Presented at BMES 2006. 10/14/06. Chicago, IL

"The role of restitution in Pacing Induced Wave Acceleration", Presented at the IEEE-EMBS conference. New York, September 1, 2006.

Jeffrey M. Trop
Associate Professor of Geology

Trop, J.M., Snyder,D.C., Hart, W.K., Idleman, B., and Delaney, M.R., 2007, Miocene intra-arc basin development within the Wrangell volcanic field, Frederika Formation and Lower Wrangell Lava, eastern Wrangell Mountains, Alaska: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7.

Kochel, R.C., and Trop, J.M., 2007, Earth analog for recent flows and high-latitude landforms on Mars: Icy debris fans in the Wrangell volcanic field, Alaska: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7.

Witmer, J., Trop, J.M., Rioux, M., Palfy, J., and Blodgett, R.B., 2007, Stratigraphy, geochronology, geochemistry, and paleontology of the McCarthy Formation, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska: bearings on pre-collision crustal conditions within the Wrangellia terrane: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7.

Smith, S.G., Kassab, C.M., Trop, J.M., and Kochel, R.C., 2007, Overwash deposits on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, NC, Cape Hatteras National Seashore - a sedimentary record of tropical and extratropical storms along the AtlanticCoastand variation with shoreline orientation: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7.

Rivka B. Ulmer
Associate Professor of Religion

Apocalypticism in Pesiqta Rabbati and Its Christian Intertexts. (Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Los Angeles, 2009).

Egyptian Cultural Icons in Rabbinic Literature. (Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 2009).

Das Fortleben Ägyptens im Midrasch (Universität Wien, 2009).

The global language of family sagas as a reflection of national themes: Thomas von Steinaecker and Etgar Keret. (Harvard University, Spring 2009).

Typology of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature: The homiletic midrashim (University of Manchester, UK, 2009)

Cleopatra and the Garments of the Afterlife (International Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, Vienna 2007

Ben Vollmayr-Lee
Associate Professor of Physics

DPG (German Physical Society) Meeting, Berlin, March 2005.

T. Joel Wade
Professor of Psychology
* = student co-author

Wade T. J., & *Walsh H. The Big-5 Does Not Relate to Jealousy or Infidelity Reactions? To be presented at the Inaugural Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Conference New Paultz, NY, April 13-14, 2007.

Wade, T. J., *Kelley, R., & *Church, D. Sex differences in reactions to sexual infidelity? Presented at the Evolution and Human Behavior Society Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 7-11, 2006.

Wade, T. J., & *Tessier, R. Are There Personality and Life Success Halo Effects Associated with Women's Hair Length and Color? Presented at the 77th Eastern Psychological Association Convention, Baltimore MD, March 2006.

T. Joel Wade and Rebekah Tessier* (2006). Are There Personality and Life Success Halo Effects Associated with Women’s Hair Length and Color? Presented at the 77th Eastern Psychological Association Convention.

T. Joel Wade & LeeAnn Renninger (2005). Skin Color, Facial Shape and Black Male Facial Attractiveness Evaluation. Presented at the 113th American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, DC, August 18-21, 2005.

Wade, T. J., & Renninger, L. Skin color, facial shape, and Black male facial attractiveness. Accepted for presentation at the American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, DC, August 19-21, 2005.

John Westbrook
Associate Professor of French

“From the Perinneal to the Annual: Recherches Philosophique, Inquisitions, and the Emergence of an Academic Avant-Garde in Interwar France,” The Space Between, Lewisburg (June 2006)

“School Memories: Educational Simulacra in the Age of Globalization,” 20- / 21st-Century French Studies Colloquium, Miami FL (March 2006)

“The Feeling of the Primitive at the Quai Branly,” Modernist Studies Association Seminar, Chicago (October 2005)