Faculty kudos

 

College of Business and Economics

George C. Georgiou, Economics, was the main speaker at the Turnaround Management Association Annual Economic Conference, Bethesda, Md., May 21.
The presentation topic was "Underlying Economic Imbalance Threaten Economic Recovery."

College of Liberal Arts

David Bergman, English, has had a poem, “Death and the Young Man,” set to music by Ned Rorem as one of his Songs for Susan, written for the mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. She gave the piece its world premiere at Carnegie Hall on May 11 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. To hear the entire concert, go to http://www.wnyc.org/shows/eveningmusic/episodes/2009/05/11

Alan Britt, English, had his latest book of poems, Vegetable Love, published earlier this spring by March Street Press. To read one of the poems, go to http://www.marchstreetpress.com/cat/britt-veg.html

Gary Shockey, Foreign Languages (German), delivered a paper at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., on May 10. The paper was titled "'Und tet im Gotes lere kunt': Barlaam, Josaphat, and the Traditions of Old Testament Stories in Fourteenth-Century Passion Plays, with Emphasis on Die Erloesung."

Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

Jonathan Lazar, Computer and Information Sciences, has been named to the editorial board of the journal Interacting with Computers.

Tatyana Sorokina, Mathematics, received a TU Faculty Development and Research Committee Summer Research grant to support her research project “Properties of Multivariate Splines.” The proposed research will be carried out this summer.

Sandy Spitzer, Mathematics, received a TU Faculty Development and Research Committee Summer Teaching Innovation Fellowship for her project titled “A Learning-from-Teaching Approach to Elementary Mathematics Methods Courses.” The proposed project will be carried out this summer.