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SPRING
COMMENCEMENT
The Spring 1999 Commencement
ceremony will be held on Saturday.
May 15, at noon on the Reed Union
Building lawn. In case of inclement
weather, two ceremonies will be held.
The first will begin at 12:(X) noon and
the second at 2:30 pm. both in Erie
Hall. Beginning April 6,
graduation announcements may be
purchased on a walk-in basis from the
Media and Instructional Support
Center (MISC) in the Academic
Building. The cost is 35 cents for each
announcement. Please call the
Provost’s Office at 898-6160 by May
3 if you plan to attend.
FOUNDER OF ANSYS TO
SPEAK AT BEHREND
SENIOR PROJECTS DAY
Dr. John Swanson, founder and chief
technologist of ANSYS, Inc., will be
the keynote speaker at Senior Projects
99, to be held Saturday, May 1 from
8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p m. in the
Engineering Complex at Behrend. At
this event, graduating seniors in the
engineering programs present research
and industrial projects they have
completed during the year.
“Many of the senior projects
presented provide solutions to real
world engineering problems,” said
David Roth, associate professor of
engineering and faculty sponsor for the
day. “We invite representatives of
industry to bring their challenging
problems to our students, who work to
develop practical solutions.” Roth
noted that senior projects day often
draws many product design and
manufacturing representatives from
local and regional companies, who
come to meet the graduates and recruit
potential employees. “Although,” he
said, “by senior projects day, many of
these students have already accepted
jobs in industry,” we are particularly
pleased to have Dr. Swanson with us
for Senior Projects Day, said Dr.
Richard Progelhof, director of the
School of Engineering and
Engineering Technology. Swanson,
who will speak in Roche Hall at 12:45
p.m., is internationally recognized as
an innovator in the application of
finite-element methods to engineering.
He founded his company in 1970 to
develop, support, and market the
ANSYS program, a finite-element
software code widely used in the
computer-aided engineering industry.
For additional information about
Senior Projects 99, please call the Penn
State Behrend School of Engineering
and Engineering Technology at (814)
898-6153.
LEARN TO PLAY GOLF
Continuing and Distance Education
and the Athletics department is
offering a course on how to play golf.
This course will be instructed by
Dave Niland and Rob Wittman. The
cost is $75 dollars and all class
sections will be held from 6:oopm
-8:00pm. Enrollment is limited, so
to register, please call the Office of
Continuing and Distance Education
at 898-6103. The following are days
in which the course is offered. May
3 through May 24 (Mondays and
Wednesdays) or May 4 through May
25 (Tuesdays and Thursdays) or June
1 through June 22 (Tuesdays and
Thursdays) or June 2 through June
23 (Mondays and Wednesdays).
MATH OPTIONS ‘99 SET
FOR MAY 11
Seventh and eighth grade girls
from schools throughout
northwestern Pennsylvania have
been invited to Behrend, to
participate in Math Options Career
Awareness Day on Tuesday, May 1 1
from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Math
Options is a program designed to
encourage and increase the
participation of girls and young
women in mathematics, science, and
technology careers.
Girls from as far away as
Coudersport were invited through
their schools to participate.
Approximately 225 young women
and their teachers are expected to
attend.
Events of the day take place in
Erie Hall, where registration will
begin approximately 8:15 a.m., Girls
will gather first for a tower-building
contest coordinated by Jonathan
Hall, instructor of physics at Penn
State Behrend.
At 9:15 a.m. a keynote panel will
begin the day with encouraging
words for girls interested in math
and science careers. Speakers
include Dr. Judi Wakhungu, director
of the Women in Science and
Engineering Institute at University
Park; Ms. Peggy Dreher, General
Manager of Business Sourcing and
Support Operations, GE
Transportation Systems; and P.J.
Palumbo, D.V.M., veterinarian and
caretaker of the baby leopards at the
Erie Zoo.
Throughout the day girls will take
part in hands-on workshops such as
Traveling through Fiberoptics,
Bones and Ankles and Growth, and
Juice Do It. Their teachers will
attend professional development
workshops taught by Dr. Dawn
Blasko, assistant professor of
psychology, Dr. Peg Thoms,
assistant professor of management,
and Dr. Wakhungu.
“We are grateful to once again to
have the co-sponsorship of the
Northwest Pennsylvania Health
Education Center, the Elfun Society
of GE, Erie Engineering Societies
Council, Northwest Pennsylvania
Industrial Resource Center, the
School-to-Work programs in Erie
and Crawford Counties, and the
Manufacturers Association of
Northwest Pennsylvania,” said
Peggy McCarthy, area representative
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for Continuing and Distance Education
and Coordinator of Math Options.
These organizations play an important
role in the success of the program.
McCarthy also noted that the Math
Options program has grown this year
to include a 3-day summer camp at
Penn State Behrend for girls ages 11-
15 who want more hands-on
opportunities to learn about career
options in mathematics and science.
The camp, scheduled for July 14-16, is
co-sponsored by the Penn Lakes Girl
Scout Council.
For more information about Math
Options Career Awareness Day or Math
Options summer camp, please call the
Penn State Behrend Office of
Continuing and Distance Education at
(814) 898-6103.
REGIONAL
UNDERGRADUATES
EARN RESEARCH
AWARDS
Students and faculty from SUNY
Fredonia, Grove City College,
Mercy hurst College, Edinboro
University, and Penn State Erie, The
Behrend College, were honored
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recently by the Northwestern
Pennsylvania Chapter of Sigma Xi.
the national scientific research
society.
Recipients received the awards at
a luncheon following the eighth
annual Undergraduate Student
Research and Creative
Accomplishment Conference,
sponsored by Sigma Xi and Penn
State Behrend on March 27. More
than 50 students and their faculty
sponsors offered posters and oral
presentations resulting from several
semesters of research.
Dr. Russell Sexton, president of
the Northwestern Pennsylvania
Chapter of Sigma Xi and director of
the microbiology and chemistry
program at Lake Erie College of
Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM),
welcomed the students and faculty.
He noted Sigma X focuses on
fostering collaborative research
among its members, becoming
politically aware and active, and
insuring state support of research
initiatives. Vicki Snyder, a
representative of Congressman Phil
English, read a letter from English
congratulating the honorees and
reminding the group that
undergraduate research is an
summer school
(sum'er skool)
the act of getting a great education, enjoying summer
activities, saving money, saving time, getting caught up,
getting a head start, having a great time ....
Three Summer Sessions
1 2 3
Registration: May 24 Registration: June 14 Registration: July 19
Classes begin: May 25 Classes begin: June 15 Classes begin: July 20
Last day: June 11 Last day: July 16 Last day: August 19
Call the Admissions Office at 814-732-2761
(toll-free 1-888-BGO-BORO)
or the Scheduling Office at 814-732-5555
Look for a complete course listing on the World Wide Web at
http://www.edinboro.edu
EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
A member of the State System of Higher Education
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investment in our future that
enhances both our local and global
communities. English is a member
of the National Science Policy
Study, which is working to guide
and develop the nation's long-term
science model.
Dr. Philip Hultgren, chair of
Sigma Xi is awards committee and
a member of the LECOM faculty,
presented institutional and student
awards. In the poster category, two
posters by Penn State Behrend
students tied for first place: Eric
Fink, biology, and Shannon Lenze,
Banchi Dessalegn, and Andrea
Furman, psychology. Runners-up
for the poster awards were: Shital
Patel and Chad Stolz, chemistry,
Penn State Behrend; Ryan Waltos
and Janice Mentz, chemistry,
SONY Fredonia, and Charlene
Wick, biology. Grove City College.
In the oral presentations category,
in the division of chemistry,
engineering, physics, mathematics
and computer science, Robert
Dolak, Jonathan Midgetle, and
Jason Ruhlman of Penn State
Behrend were the winners.
Runners-up in this category were
Megan McLean and Brian
Chapados. SUNY Fredonia, and
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Matt Behan, Penn State Behrend
Oral presentation winner in the
division of business and history was
Allyson J. Cuccia, Penn State Behrend.
Runners-up in this category were
Christopher Cairns and Kim Thurston,
Matt Roche, Joe Angelo, and John
Linville of Penn State Behrend. Oral
presentation winner in the division of
biology was J.K. Patel of Penn Stale
Behrend. Runners-up were John
Magenau IV and Kevin Wellejus, both
of Penn State Behrend.
Sigma Xi presented faculty mentoring
awards to Dr. Mary Chisholm, associate
professor of chemistry at Penn State
Behrend, Dr. Craig W. Steele, assistant
professor of biology at Edinboro
University, and Dr. Melissa Barranger-
Mathys, assistant professor of chemistry
at of Mercyhurst College.
The Faculty Research Award, given to
the person who, in the opinion of Sigma
Xi, has demonstrated the greatest
encouragement and support of student
and scientific research, went to Dr.
Michael Campbell, assistant professor
of biology at Penn Stale Behrend. In
accepting the award. Campbell thanked
the students who work for him now and
have worked for him in the past. “ It is
they who deserve this award," he said.