Faculty make presentations

Faculty at Pitt-Bradford have made a variety of presentations so far in 2015, including lessons, songs and lectures.

Anna Lemnitzer, assistant professor of art, and Jennifer Lau, a biology major with an art minor from Bradford, presented “Creating Empathy through Visual Metaphors” to educators at the United States Society for Education through Art regional conference at Queens Museum in Queens, N.Y.

Pat Brougham, assistant professor of criminal justice, spent part of her summer in Ireland scouting locations to include in a spring break trip to study comparative justice. The program will be a Pitt Study Abroad program.

Dr. Rick Frederick, professor of history, spent his summer in the past, portraying Bob Hope in a sold-out USO-style show in the Bromeley Family Theater on campus. The show celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and benefitted the Eldred World War II Museum and the McKean County Historical Society.

In June, he gave a talk on World War I soldiers for the Friends of the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg. Later in the summer, he wrote an afterward on the Grant presidency for the latest Civil War book by alumnus Chris Mackowski '91, “Grant's Last Battle.”

Dr. Ron Mattis, associate professor of engineering, gave a poster presentation at the multidisciplinary International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference in Florence, Italy. He discussed the use of Excel spreadsheets with the Visual Basic for Applications programming language to model algorithms used to compress data for storage and communications.

Dr. Keary Rouff, assistant professor of sport and exercise management, presented a paper on “The Impact of the 2008 Economic Downturn on Golf Clubs in Northwestern Pennsylvania and Southwestern New York” at the International Academy of Business Disciplines Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla.