Andrew Rapoff, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, recently presented “Curved Beam Model of Mandibular Symphyseal Bending including Heterogeneous Elasticity” at the annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia. Co-authors of the work are Ronald Bucinell, the Thomas J. Watson Sr. and Emma Watson Day Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Scott McGraw of the Ohio State University and David Daegling of the University of Florida.
An article by Professor of Computer Science David Hemmendinger, titled “The ACM and IEEE-CS Guidelines for Undergraduate CS Education,” has been published in the May issue of the Communications of the ACM, in a special section on the 60th anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Pilar Moyano, professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled “El Regreso de Medea: Trasgresión y Locura en el Teatro de Luz Méndez de la Vega” at the XV International Conference on Central American Literature, held in Antigua, Guatemala, in April.
Janet Grigsby, visiting associate professor of Sociology, is facilitating a panel discussion by the Coalition for the Protection of Reproductive Health in Schenectady, titled, “When Religion Compromises Health Care,” Monday, May 14 at 7 p.m., in F.W. Olin Center 115. The discussion will deal with the impending merger between Ellis Hospital and St. Clare’s Hospital and the closure of Bellevue Women’s Hospital.