Celebrating Your Success
April 2009
Dr. Ralph Davis (PHL 318, 325, 518, and HUM 597) published an article, “Thoughts on Art & Geometry,” in the September-October 2008 issue of Hyperseeing – a publication of ISAMA (The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture) and presented a paper, “Art & the Political:the Illusion of Failure,” at the New York School of Visual Arts’ 22nd Annual Natl. Conf. on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, in October. He offered a NSF-style Chautauqua Short Course, “Science & Art,” last June at the SUNY Stony Brook Manhattan campus and will offer it there again this coming June as well as California State University, Dominquez Hills. He wrote the following reviews for The American Journal of Physics: Gavin Parkinson, Surrealism: Art & Modern Science; J. R. Liebowitz, Hidden Harmony: the Connected Worlds of Physics and Art. And for Choice he reviewed: David Edwards, Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation; Eduardo Kac (ed.), Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond; Sasho Kalajdzievski, Math & Art: an Introduction to Visual Mathematics; Rolf Kuehni & Andreas Schwarz, Color Ordered: a Survey of Color Order Systems from Antiquity to the Present; Michel Pastoreau, Black: the History of a Color; Darryl Wheye & Donald Kennedy, Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens.
Dr. Hosep Torossian (EDL 645, 662, 670, 672, 692, 731) has received a $308,000 Charter School Dissemination Grant through the Department of Education for his work with targeted interventions to help students who are at risk of failing the MEAP tests. For the full press release on this grant, please click here.
Dr. Cande Tschetter (JRN 350, 360 and MKT 300) received her Ph.D. in Business, Management and Organization from Capella University in December. Her dissertation was titled: Emergence of A Purposeful Career Among Mid-life Women: Phenomenological Case Study. Her mentor was fellow CMU instructor Dr. Marilyn Harris.
Dr. Michael Stacey (EDU 614 and CED 655) has recently published a book titled “Observations Skills” through Pearson. Dr. Stacey and his two co-authors are also working on three more books, due out this year.