Faculty & Staff Articles

Have expertise you're willing to share? Professional Development recently simplified the professional-development program-proposal form. Faculty and staff interested in presenting a professional-development program on campus are encouraged to use this form to forward your program information to Professional Development.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Penn College employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Carolyn Hindman, Test Center Proctor, (Regular Part-Time), Academic Affairs, effective Jan. 24 Keith Saboski , Library Circulation Assistant (Temporary Regular Part-Time), College Library, starting Jan.

More and more Penn College employees are adding their support to the Madigan Library Campaign. One of them is Diana L. Kuhns, assistant professor of mathematics. "As a young person, I spent countless hours in libraries, feeding my passion for reading," Kuhns said. "As a student, I was often tucked away in the corner of a library searching for sources and writing countless papers.

Vinay Bahl, associate professor of sociology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has authored a book in which she suggests an alternative perspective on "history from below," as promoted by the Indian school of Subaltern Studies. The book, titled "What Went Wrong With 'History From Below': Reinstating Human Agency As Human Creativity," was published in 2005 by K. P.

All Penn College employees are invited to attend the next informational session about one of the most exciting additions to the Penn College campus: the new Roger and Peggy Madigan Library. The 45-minute session will be held at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Library Instructional Room (LRC, Room151). Light refreshments will be served.

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Nationally renowned speaker and pre-eminent legal scholar Donald D. Gehring will present three professional-development sessions on Jan. 25 in the Mountain Laurel Room of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Thompson Professional Development Center.

Frederick G. "Rick" Terry, director of the Factory Built Housing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently presented to a group of builders, manufacturers and other industry attendees at the 20th Annual National Association of Homebuilders' Building Systems Council Showcase.

William Ma, associate professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, made presentations recently at an international workshop and conference, both held in India. Ma attended the "International Workshop on Quasi-conformal Mappings and Their Applications," held in Chennai, India, from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1.

Vinay Bahl, associate professor of sociology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently had two articles published, one in a German journal. Bahl's article "The House of Tata" was published in the book "History of World Trade Since 1450," edited by John J. McClusker and published by Macmillan Reference USA, a division of Thompson Gale.