Dr. Robert N. Martin joined the Department of Geography at Kutztown University in January

1984. His primary teaching responsibilities are Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Economic Geography and World Regional Geography. However, over his twenty plus years at Kutztown, Dr. Martin has taught a variety of courses including regional geography courses on the Soviet Union and Europe, Cultural Geography, Transportation Geography, Manufacturing Geography, and Agricultural Geography.

Dr. Martin was born on the Fairmont Army Air Force Base in Geneva, Nebraska, during the Second World War. He was then raised in Gary, Indiana, where after high school he worked summers in the United States Steel Plant and Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s Dean Mitchell Generating Station to pay for college. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Indiana University in 1968, Dr. Martin was drafted into the U.S. Army and served at the U.S. Army Headquarters Europe. After military service he worked for the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad (“The J”) as a train crew member assembling and delivering rail cars within the U.S. Steel Plant. These cars included ‘torpedoes’ with molten iron from the blast furnaces, ‘tea cups’ with slag from the blast furnaces, coke cars, gondolas of scrap for the open hearths, and flat cars of steel plates and parts. The income from the railroad job and the GI-Bill allowed Dr. Martin to attend graduate school at Indiana University. He received additional support as a graduate student as a member of the State of Indiana Rail Planning Staff when Conrail was formed

in the early 1970s. Prior to coming to Kutztown, Dr. Martin taught for three years in the Geography Department at SUNY College at Oswego and also served for three years as Chief of Policy Planning for the Transportation Planning Office of the State of Indiana.

Most of Dr. Martin’s research has been in the applications of geographic information systems to real-world problems. A number of his articles have been published in the proceedings of the Environmental Systems Research Institute User Conferences which are held annually. Dr. Martin has been active on campus, serving as Chair of the Geography Department from 1989 to 2008, a member of the University Senate, and an APSCUF representative. He has also served on a Middle States Review subcommittee as well as many other department, college, and university committees.

Aside from teaching and research, Dr. Martin likes to design, build, and fly scale model aircraft, listen to classical music, and bake and cook for his family.

spring 2010

Dean’s CornerThere are very few times in the life of any university where undergraduate students, faculty, and a faculty emeritus interconnect. At Kutztown University, Dr. Carlson R. Chambliss, from the Department of Physical Sciences, is that one special faculty emeritus who has chosen to honor the best of our undergraduates through the Chambliss Academic Achievement Award. Students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who received this year’s medals are from the departments of Biology, Computer Science, English, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences and Social Work. Their successes could not have occurred without the support of faculty who were willing to provide the necessary guidance. Highlights from the awards ceremony can be seen on YouTube. Anne E. Zayaitz

Ph.D., Acting Dean

Dr. Patricia Kelleher is an Associate Professor of History. After earning her bachelor’s

degree at Rosemont College in 1970, she started her graduate studies in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Upon completion of her Master’s, Dr. Kelleher decided that she wanted to combine her interests in Irish-American history and women’s history into a topic for her doctorate dissertation. However, women’s history was still in its infancy and the historiography on Euro-American ethnicity was generally unsophisticated.

By the mid-1970s, Dr. Kelleher was turning her attention to the new field of women’s studies. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Dr. Kelleher devoted much of her energy to building up the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. By the early 1990s, the field of women’s history had blossomed and the field of ethnic history had vastly improved. Dr. Kelleher thus decided to turn her attention back to the discipline of history and completed her doctorate degree in 1995. She then took a three-year position teaching history at

the University of New Hampshire and in 1998 Dr. Kelleher joined the KU History Department.

Dr. Kelleher feels fortunate that her teaching assignments at Kutztown dovetail so closely with her research specialization in American social history with a concentration on nineteenth and early twentieth-century gender, ethnicity, and class dynamics. Students’ queries and comments have prompted her to refine her analyses and, in turn, her research has affected her courses’ content. While Dr. Kelleher is active in many service responsibilities at KU—currently she is a member of the University Tenure Committee—her heart lies in teaching and research.

Among other grants and fellowships, Dr. Kelleher won a Social Science Research Council Training Grant and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant as a graduate student. Kutztown University has generously supported her research with numerous grants, including a year-long sabbatical leave. In 2005, the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism granted Dr. Kelleher a Hibernian Research Award. Within her field, Dr. Kelleher is known as a meticulous researcher whose innovative interpretive strategies combine the dynamics of gender and class into studies of the evolution of ethnicity. Among her publications, three are particularly notable. “Maternal Strategies: Irish Women’s Headship of Families in Gilded Age Chicago” appeared in the Journal of

Women’s History in 2001. In 2003, the University of Wisconsin Press published New Directions in Irish-American History in which her essay “Young Irish Workers: Class Implications of Men’s and Women’s Experiences in Gilded Age Chicago” was selected for inclusion because it was among the best historical essays from two special issues of the peer-reviewed journal, Eire-Ireland. Finally, in 2009, the Journal of American Ethnic History used Dr. Kelleher’s article, “Class and Catholic Irish Masculinity in Antebellum America” to anchor its first special issue on the Irish in nearly twenty years.

Dr. Kelleher’s current short-term project is to explore the Civil War era relations between the Irish and “Americans,” which were complicated by class tensions and by controversies among the Irish over the meaning of Irishness. She conducted research on that topic for two weeks in Chicago in June 2009 as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library.

Of the courses Dr. Kelleher teaches, History 378: Seminar in Historical Methods is her favorite. In this course she mentors students as they conduct their own research and craft their own interpretations of historical topics. When she sees students lean forward in their seats and focus their minds on their own (as well as their fellow students’) attempts to “make sense” of history, she knows she is fortunate to teach at Kutztown University. We are also very fortunate to have her as a member of the faculty.

THANK YOU

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences would like to thank Dr. Judith Rauenzahn, Associate Professor of Psychology, for all her hard work while serving as the Interim Associate Dean during the 2009-2010 academic year.

Congratulations to the CLAS Winners of the 2010 Academic Achievement Awards • Lauren Storm, Geology• Rachel Wisemiller, Mathematics• Taryn Dick, Biology• Elizabeth Goodman, Marine Science & Biology• Sarah Sitar, Social Work• Katelyn Dovey, Biology• Vadim Fedorovsky, Philosophy• Jeffrey Kunkel, Computer Science• Elizabeth Schroeder, English/Professional Writing

ABOVE: The Society of Physics students held a cantaloupe-launching contest on April 10. The above picture shows the catapult.

ABOVE LEFT: On Thursday, April 1, the dean hosted a luncheon for students with outstanding academic achievement within the CLAS.

ABOVE: Photos from the Psi Chi induction ceremony. The officers for the 2010-2011 academic year are also featured.

BELOW: Pictures from the AITP conference that Christine and Cory attended with Dr. Joo Tan.

ABOVE LEFT: New Alpha Phi Sigma inductees.

ABOVE RIGHT: Dr. Patch Adams came to campus to speak about living a life of joy on April 27.

BELOW: Kutztown University Model United Nations students competed at Harvard’s ModelUN in Taipei, Taiwan.

Mallory Willet, a senior biology major and chemistry minor, is interested in pathology, which is

the “scientific study of the nature, origin, progress, and cause of disease.” For this reason, she is the secretary for the Health Career Society at Kutztown University. Involved with the society since she was a freshman, Mallory explained that she has organized and attended three Organ Recitals sponsored by the Reading Hospital and Medical Center and the Health Career Society. At the recital hospital professionals, “allow students to analyze human organs from autopsy cases in order to understand the effects of disease on various organs in the body,” says Mallory. The pathologists explain the factors that distinguish a healthy

organ from a diseased organ. The hands-on opportunity to learn about disease is a great experience for those interested in medicine, or more specifically, pathology. The organ recital is what first sparked Mallory’s interest in pathology.

The Health Career Society also organizes trips to medical schools, medical museums, and participates in Relay for Life and fundraising for the March of Dimes.

This past summer (2009), Mallory completed an internship at St. Luke’s Hospital where she rotated through different departments of clinical and anatomical pathology. She had the experience of observing gross specimens which are organs that have been surgically removed from the body. She also witnessed three different autopsies which she found to be “invaluable to her understanding of disease in the human body.”

This semester Mallory studied autoimmune diseases, particularly Lupus, with two other students (Kayla Martin and Joshua Sabatine) for an independent study course under the direction of Dr. Cristen Rosch, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Mallory presented this research at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists’ annual conference held this year at East Stroudsburg University on April 16-18.

Dr. Angelika Antoni, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, started researching autoimmune diseases in graduate school, and then continued her research at KU. Recently, Dr. Rosch and her students (among them Mallory) joined Dr. Antoni’s research team.

Mallory has worked in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office since August 2008. She serves as the Project Manager for the Math/Science/Technology Open Houses that are held once a semester for prospective students. Mallory manages the correspondence with students who register for the open houses and also organizes the schedule of the day’s events and advertising in local newspapers. Aside from the Math/Science/Technology Open Houses, Mallory assists with the open house visitations for the entire college, which occur once a month, and with the preparation of welcome letters for newly accepted students within the CLAS.

Mallory has been a member of the honors fraternity, Phi Sigma Pi since 2007 and was recently inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, which is made up of the top 10% of seniors.

After graduating from KU, Mallory hopes to be accepted into a graduate program to study pathology.

MALLORY WILLET, ’10

Interested in LAS Graduate Programs?The graduate program at Kutztown University offers 26 programs of study and provides students with affordable tuition, flexible class times, and great faculty with vast experience in their fields.

The degree areas offered in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences include (please see website for specialization areas): Master of Public Administration, Master of Science in Computer Science, Master of Science in Electronic Media, Master of Arts in English, and Master of Social Work.

To learn more about specific graduate programs and requirements, call or e-mail the Graduate Admissions Office at (610) 683-4200 or graduate@kutztown.edu.

The spring 2010 edition of The Collage was designed and written by Jacqueline M. Conley, ’11, professional writing major,

under the supervision of Ms. Sherry Lillington.

Congratulations Class of 2010 Graduates!

Senior computer science majors Cory Land and Christine Luecke took the CSC 354: Software Engineering

course during the fall 2009 semester with Dr. Joo Tan. While in the class, Cory and Christine worked on a semester-long project forming an application intended for faculty in the computer science department. Dr. Tan saw their project and encouraged the students to continue their work; thus, an independent study, CSC 372: Advanced Software Engineering, was formed.

The web-based program that Cory and Christine created is called PADS, an

acronym for Program Accreditation Database System, a name that Dr. Randy Kaplan produced. PADS was created to aid the computer science program in gaining accreditation. By allowing professors to upload student work, PADS is aiding in the accreditation process.

As part of their independent study, Christine and Cory attended the National Collegiate Conference for the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) Web Application Project Competition held in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 27. To be accepted as a presenter at the conference, Christine and Cory were asked to send in documents explaining their project. Seventeen groups applied but only 10 were accepted—among them were Christine and Cory.

Cory and Christine displayed their research using a PowerPoint presentation and demonstration of the PADS program. They presented in front of a panel of judges, students from colleges across the nation, and some professionals. The team was given an honorary mention and placed in the top seven.

Christine and Cory have worked extremely hard on this project. “There would be days when I would wake up and think about it and go to sleep thinking about it,” said Cory. However, the two said that

the project has enhanced their resumes. “I definitely gained real-world experiences,” said Christine.

Next semester, other students will take over the project. Christine and Cory estimate that in 1-2 years the project will be completed and ready for use.

CORY LAND, ’10

CHRISTINE LUECKE, ’10

For more information and to view the program visit

http://pads.kutztown.edu.

Congratulations, Max Needle

Max Needle was one out of 15 students that were awarded best student posters at the combined Northeastern and Southeastern Geological Society of America Meeting in Baltimore, MD. There were 253 students that presented at the event. Max is the first KU student to win the honor with his poster, “Physical Modeling of Primary and Progressive Orogenic Curvature.” This meeting consisted all of the geologists from Canada to Florida. The project used Dr. Tindall’s student-built structural analog modeler. Associate Professor of Physical Sciences, Dr. Sarah Tindall, and Max

Needle stand with the poster.

Where: Vitalistic Therapeutic Children’s Center in Allentown, Pa. The Center evolved from a church basement in the 1970s, where it started because the

owner’s daughter was born with a disability. The Center is geared towards children with cognitive, communication, and social/emotional development disorders.

Responsibilities: interacting with all the children. I don’t observe. I am very proactive when it

comes to dealing with their needs. I perform informal assessments for the children. I help the teacher of the class teach basic information to the students. I help the Mental Health Counselor write IEP’s for the students. Additionally, I sit in on intakes and medication checks with the psychiatrist and supervisor. I also assist children in the lunchroom, at recess, and the boarding of transportation vehicles. Everyday activities include physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, library and music lessons. Interesting Experiences: I met a six-year-old child with autism, who is a very smart boy, but extremely hyper. The way he gets internal stimulation is abnormal. Another case I encountered was a four-year-old boy who was growing and

articulating normally until his family moved to another house. He was eating paint chips that contained lead off the walls and he started to become mentally disabled. He can only speak 50 Spanish words, and he’s very primitive and unresponsive to authority. The next extreme case I have experienced is with a three-year-old girl who is under-developed by two years. She can’t speak, walk correctly, or eat without a bib or assistance. She had a problem at birth which hindered her ability to develop normally. I love what I do and I enjoy working every Tuesday and Thursday. Even though these kids have been through a lot in such a short period of time, I just try to make their experience at school an enjoyable one.

Where: Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown.

Responsibilities: At my internship I have assisted in fieldwork and investigations,

observed courtroom trials and district attorney interactions, composed case notes of interviews and investigations, observed detectives’ usage of criminal history databases, and organized, reviewed, and revised case files.

Interesting Experiences: Unfortunately, I signed a confidential agreement which prevents me from releasing any specifics, but it was very exciting to learn classified information and witness events that typically the public do not see.

On a daily basis I follow along with the typical duties of a Lehigh County detective. These duties can range from assisting in interviewing potential witnesses and suspects to preparing a criminal case for a district attorney and anything in between. The work for a detective and my job as an intern is to follow, observe, and learn from them.

In today’s world there are numerous television shows that illustrate the work of detectives and district attorneys, but very few people get the chance to actually witness these fields in reality. This internship has granted me the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look into the real life of criminal justice professionals, which has made it a great learning experience for my future.

Where: The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS) which is sponsored by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). One

student from each of the 14 Pennsylvania State Universities is selected to study state government and public policy. Some examples of placements in THIS are at the Attorney General’s Office, the Governor’s Policy and Budget Offices, the Department of State, and Senator Costa’s and Senator Hughes’ Offices. I was placed in the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC).

Responsibilities:• Assist with public seminars • Report on Legislative Committee Meetings• Prepare legislative reports

• Read, summarize and analyze legislation• Proof presentation PowerPoints, inter-office

documents and the annual report• Update IRRC’s database• Public Policy Analysis

Interesting Experiences: First and foremost I’ve learned a great deal about the regulatory review process in our commonwealth. While interning at THIS, I have had the opportunity to meet with members of the General Assembly. I have attended many committee meetings including the joint finance committee, appropriations (in the majority caucus room), and the environmental quality board. We (the interns) met with Governor Rendell and he discussed his plans for retirement. One of the many things he plans to do is participate in a group with others like Arnold Schwarzenegger to improve our roads and highways. It was really enjoyable and he gave us all pens that said “Stolen from the Desk of the Governor.”

Each day is different at IRRC. A typical day starts with reading articles from the media and professional and/or legislative journals that are related to proposed or final form regulations. I read regulations and public comment. Regulatory analysts within the department invite me to stakeholder meetings specific to a regulation or I may have to attend a committee meeting to report on that committee’s comments specific to a regulation. I spend a lot of time proofing, reading and summarizing house and senate bills.

THIS interns are required to work 35 to 40 hours at our placements for 9 credits. We attend a seminar weekly at the Dixon University Center for 3 credits. Finally, we must write a 30 page minimum research paper for 3 credits. The internship is for a total of 15 credits and we are paid a stipend. For those who are interested in public service, THIS is an invaluable opportunity. I was proud to be the THIS intern that represented Kutztown University, THIS, and PASSHE.

Where: I am Interning at BCTV in Reading, Pa.

Responsibilities: Mostly my duties consist of interacting with volunteer producers,

directing live programs, operating a camera, helping out on remote shoots which are programs we shoot on location outside of the studio, and editing footage for future programs.

Interesting Experiences: The most interesting part of my internship is traveling to different locations when we shoot. Also, by just networking and meeting different people, you’d be amazed at the contacts you can generate.

I arrive and set up the studio for that day’s programming. I put out microphones, chairs, set the lighting, etc. I normally have a sheet of things to do that day, but each program is different and requires a different set up so I’m constantly running around setting up the studios after each program. Sometimes I am put in charge of one studio and get to direct the entire day

which means I only have to worry about that studio. I enjoy those days the most.

I definitely recommend BCTV to anyone interested in television production. They are always accepting volunteers and interns and it’s a good place to go to learn the business on a fundamental level. Everyone is friendly and welcoming and, most importantly, willing to help you learn. It’s a small studio but it’s very hands-on. They let interns control things in the studio so you are able to get a great experience to carry into the real world.

JUMMY KING

LUKE DILLON

yVoNNE FoNTE

BRENT HOWARD

Interesting Internships