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Faculty and Alum Presentations and Publications
- Dr. Ted Davis, Professor of the History of Science, has published several articles relating to creation, evolution and intelligent design, including Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s: Religious pamphlets by leading scientists of the Scopes era provide insight into public debates about science and religion (American Scientist, May-June 2005); Intelligent Design on Trial (Religion in the News, Winter 2006), concerning the Dover Intelligent Design case; and a review of Michael Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle (Harvard University Press 2005), (Isis, Sept 2006). Dr. Davis has also continued his work on Robert Boyle with an article on Boyle in the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (2005) and The Making of Robert Boyle's Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature (1686) with Michael Hunter in Hunter's The Boyle Papers (Ashgate 2007), for which he is also a contributing author.
- Dr. Gary Emberger, Professor of Botany, published (2006) a website dedicated to Fungi Growing on Wood, including pictures, descriptions and identification keys. This website serves to aid in the identification of over 200 fungi growing on wood in the Northeast United States, as well as to emphasize the importance of these fungi.
- Dr. John Harms, Assistant Professor of Biology, along with colleagues from Hershey Medical Center, presented a poster entitled RNAi- and antisense-targeted down-regulation of gastrin in pancreatic cancer cells inhibits tumor growth and metastasis at the Joint Meeting of the American Pancreatic Association and the International Association of Pancreatology in
Chicago, IL in November, 2006.
- Dr. Scott Kieffer,
Associate Professor of Exercise Science, and Wendy Cheesman,
Senior Lecturer in Athletic Training, with students J. Unick and A. Feeney, published a paper entitled The acute effects of static and ballistic stretching on vertical jump performance in trained women in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2005.
- Dr. Kay Huber, Professor of Nursing, authored one chapter and co-authored another chapter in a new textbook entitled Women's Health: An Integrated Approach to Wellness and Illness. In addition, she has been appointed the Council on Aging in Dauphin County by the County Commissioners for a two-year term.
- Dr. Larry Mylin, Assistant Professor of Biology, co-authored an article published in The Journal of Immunology, vol. 171: 697-707, 2003, with collaborators from Penn State University College of Medicine and La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, entitled In Vivo Ligation of CD40 Enhances Priming Against the Endogenous Tumor Antigen and Promotes CD*+ T Cell Effector Function in SV40 T Antigen Transgenic Mice.
- Dr. Gerald Hess, Professor of Biology and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, and colleagues at Penn State University Hershey School of Medicine presented their research in Naltrexone Trafficking COS-7 Cells at the FASEB national meeting in San Diego in March, 2003.
- Dr. Sheri Boyce, Assistant Professor of Biology, and colleagues published a the results of their research, ProNGF Induces p75-Mediated Death of Oligodendrocytes following Spinal Cord Injury, in the journal Neuron, 36: 375-386, 2002.
- Joanna (Lehman '82) Mohn, M.D., co-authored a recently published paper entitled, An Analysis of the Causes of the Decline in Non-marital Birth and Pregnancy Ratees for Teens from 1991 to 1995, in the journal Adolescent & Family Health, vol. 3 (1), 39-47, 2003. Dr. Mohn is a member of the New Jersey Physicians Resource Council, Parsippany, NJ.
- Brian Bradow ('00) is a Pre-ITRC Fellow in the Laboratory of Cellular and Moleculr Biophysics at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Health, in Bethesda Maryland. He is co-author of an article entitled, Large Scale Production of Pseudotyped Lentiviral Vectors Using Baculovirus GP64 in the journal Human Gene Therapy, 14: 67-77, 2003.
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