David Gerhan, professor and head of Public Services and of Reference, Schaffer Library, has published an article, co-authored with Stephen M. Mutula of the University of Botswana, in the journal, Information Technology for Development (vol. 13, issue 2), titled “Testing a Recent Model of ICT in Development: Botswana and its University.”

Rebecca Surman, associate professor of Physics, gave an invited talk titled “The Role of Neutrinos in Supernova and Gamma-Ray Burst Nucleosynthesis” at the European Physical Society conference “Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics III” in Dresden, Germany, in March. On April 5, she gave a physics department colloquium “The Ashes of Gamma-Ray Bursts” at Bucknell University. Also in April, she presented work done with undergraduate research students Sean Kane ’07 and Crystal Smith ’08, titled “Heavy Element Synthesis in the Outflows from Black Hole Accretion Disks,” at the meeting of the American Physical Society meeting in Jacksonville, Fla. In late April, she gave the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society induction lecture at Hartwick College.

Andrew Rapoff, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Wesley Johnson of the University of South Florida, published a paper titled “Microindentation in Bone: Hardness Variation with Five Independent Variables” in the April 2007 issue of the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. 

Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, has been selected to receive the Faculty Meritorious Service Award from the Alumni Council during ReUnion Weekend.