Faculty win awards, present and publish
McCabe receives awards for two most recent books
Faculty from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford won awards, presented their research, edited books and more over this past summer.
Dr. Nancy McCabe, professor of writing, received awards for her two latest novels. Her comic novel “The Pamela Papers” won the 2024 Next Generation Indies Award for Humor/Comedy and was a finalist in the pandemic literature category. Her young adult novel “Vaulting through Time” was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal, the Eric Hoffer award for YA literature, the next Generation Indie award for YA literature, and the National Indie Excellence Award for YA fiction.
She also had an essay on a McKean County jury duty experience appear in Newsweek; a piece “Directions for Emergencies” appeared in Monkeybicycle; and her story “The Lost Diary of Nannita Daisey” is included in the new anthology “Through Western Storms.” Additionally, her essay “That was a Good Night” was reprinted in the anthology “Dispatches from the Rust Belt,” and she’s written for and been interviewed by Best Self Media, YA Outside the Lines, YA Book Chat and Expand the Table. She is working as a regular book reviewer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Dr. Behnaz Rezaie, assistant professor of mechanical engineering technology, presented research she conducted with Mychal Berlinsky, an engineering science and energy engineering technology student from Allegany, N.Y. She presented their paper, “Applications of AI Methods in Cooling and Energy Management of Smart Data Centers,” at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference on Energy Sustainability held in Anaheim, Calif.
Dr. Hirushie Karunathilake, assistant professor of engineering, co-edited a book, “Urban Resilience, Livability and Climate Adaptation.” The book consists of selected research papers from the International Conference on Health and Environmental Resilience and Livability in Cities held at the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2023.
Dr. Mihaela-Christina Drignei, associate professor of mathematics, made a remote presentation, “A numerical algorithm for a coupled hyperbolic Goursat-Cauchy boundary value problem,” at the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, which is the largest applied mathematics conference in the United Kingdom, held at New Castle (England) University.
Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, vice president and dean of academic affairs, was selected to take part in the American Association of State College and Universities’ Becoming a Provost Academy. Also, on Saturday, he will serve as the moderator of a panel discussion and question and answer session at a 90th birthday tribute for legendary opera mezzo soprano Marilyn Horne.
Rick Minard, instructor of art, designed and consulted with the Bradford Area Public Library on the creation of a community mural made up of 120 individual pictures painted by members of the community and pieced together to reveal local landmarks.
Karen Bell, instructor of writing, published a graphic narrative, “Out” in The Offing and an essay, “How to Construct Gender,” in SubTerrain magazine.
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