Faculty activities

Daniel Benincasa, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, attended the National Science Foundation-sponsored “VHDL and FPGA Design Workshop,” May 10-11, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Mich.

Andrea Dziubek, assistant professor of applied mathematics, presented “Effect of ocular curvature and myopia on retinal blood flow: a theoretical study” at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, May 4-9, Seattle, Wash.

Lorraine Kane, associate professor of health information management, attended the American Health Information Management Association Assembly on Education Symposium, July 21-24, Baltimore, Md., and the New York Health Information Management Association annual conference, June 9-12, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Mary Krenitsky Perrone, associate professor of English, attend the ACE Women’s Network Conference, June 13-14, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

Jennifer Klimek-Yingling, assistant professor of nursing, has received a Rita C. Kopf Memorial Research Grant for 2013 for her project “Grounded theory of the survivorship process in women who have completed treatment for breast cancer.”

Will Langdon, professor of finance, presented “The Application of Linear Programming Marginal Values as Theoretical Determinants for Labor Hourly Wage Rates” at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Business Research Consortium of Western New York, April 13, Buffalo, N.Y.

Ildiko Monahan, instructor of nursing, attended the 39th Annual National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference, April 9-14, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sala Qazi, professor emeritus, presented “Incorporating New Trends and Teaching Methodologies: Improving State of Engineering Education in Pakistan,” co-authored by Adeel Khalid of Southern Polytechnic State University, Ga., and Qaiser H. Malik of National University of Science & Technology, Pakistan, at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) annual conference, June 23-26, Atlanta, Ga.

Rafael Romero, associate professor of finance, participated in the Global Conference on Business and Finance, May 27-June 1, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Edmond Rusjan, associate professor of applied mathematics, presented “Discrete Exterior Calculus Model of Blood Flow in the Retina” at the 8th Conference on Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, June 10-14, Šibenik, Croatia.

Steven Wei, assistant professor of civil engineering, attended a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation Summer Institute on Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials and Micro/Nanomanufacturing, May 29-31, Northwestern University, Boston, Mass.