Faculty and staff achievements
Lucy Kerns, assistant professor, Mathematics and Statistics, co-authored a paper titled "Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Restricted Logistic Regression Models," that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Statistics. Kerns will present the article at the 10th International Chinese Statistical Association Conference in December in Shanghai, China.
Sara B. Michaliszyn, assistant professor, Human Performance and Exercise Science, has published a paper, titled “Maternal excess gestational weight gain and infant waist circumference: a two-year observational study,” in Pediatric Research.
Eric MacDonald, professor and Friedman Chair for Manufacturing, Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-authored a peer-reviewed article on 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, titled “Multiprocess 3D printing for increasing component functionality.” The article was published in Science, one of the most prestigious scientific journals. Ryan Wicker, an engineering professor from the University of Texas at El Paso, was co-author.
Diane Barnes, professor, History, presented a workshop Oct. 29 at the University of Cambridge in the UK, discussing her digital humanities project, “The Western Antislavery Papers” at the annual conference of BrANCH, the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians. Her research assistant, Andrew Zajac, also presented at the conference. The project has been in the works for several years and has involved several history graduate students acting as research assistants – and even one grad student majoring in mathematics.
Mark Vopat, professor, and Alan Tomhave, associate professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, co-authored a paper, titled “The Business of Boycotting: Having your chicken and eating it too.” The paper was published in the Journal of Business Ethics, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal is listed on the Financial Times List of the top 50 business journals. Vopat was also invited to participate in a panel discussion on artificial intelligence sponsored by the Northeast Ohio ACM at Kent State University. The topic of the discussion was “Can We Stop the AI Invasion? Should We? Is It Too Late?”
Michael Crescimanno and Jim Andrews, professors, Physics and Astronomy, working with student co-authors Brandon Latronica and Maddie Smotzer, wrote an article titled "Linear distributed Bragg cavity effects on optical limiting in two- and three-level media." The article is now available online and is scheduled for publication in a special December issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America on the topic "Nonlinear Optics near the Fundamental Limit." The research for the article was funded through grants from the National Science Foundation.