Recent faculty publications

Dedicated teachers and mentors, Lafayette faculty also produce new knowledge in a broad range of fields.

Publications coauthored with students:

Laurie Caslake, assistant professor of biology

(coauthor Jessica Schneck ’04 [B.S. biochemistry]). “Genetic Diversity of
Flavobacterium columnare Isolated from Fish Collected from Warm and Cold Water.” Journal of Fish Diseases 29 (2006): 245-48.

Robert Kurt, assistant professor of biology

(coauthors Teresa Cridge ’06 [biology/government & law], Kari Horowitz ’04 [B.S. biology], Michelle Marinucci ’05[B.S. biology], Kathryn Rose ’06 [neurology], McKenzie Wells ’05 [B.S. neurology], and Michael Werner ’07 [biology/geology]). “Functional and Molecular Alterations in T Cells Induced by CCL5.” Immunological Investigations 35 (2006): 115-32.

William Miles, professor of chemistry

(coauthor Katelyn Connell ’04 [B.S. biochemistry]). “Synthesis of Methyl Diantilis, a Commercially Important Fragrance.” Journal of Chemical Education: Print, Software, Online, Books 83.2 (2006): 285-86.

Cliff Reiter, professor of mathematics

(coauthors Deidra A. Coleman, Christopher J. Dugan, Robert McEwen ’05 [B.S. computer science/mathematics], and Tran T. Tang). “Periods of (q,r)-Fibonacci Sequences and Elliptic Curves.” The Fibonacci Quarterly 44.1 (2006): 59-70.

Yih-Choung Yu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering

(coauthors Marwan A. Simaan, Nicholas V. Zorn, and Simon Mushi ’06 [electrical and computer engineering]). “Model-based Prediction of a Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device Performance.” 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005: 3835-40.

(coauthor Joshua Porter ’06[electrical and computer engineering]). “Pressure-Flow Modeling of a Rotary Ventricular Assist Device.” Proceedings of the IEEE 32nd Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Easton, PA, April 1-2, 2006: 123-24.

(coauthor Simon Mushi ’06 [electrical and computer engineering]). “Evaluation of a Simple Cardiovascular Model with the Short-Term Baroreflex.” Proceedings of the IEEE 32nd Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Easton, PA, April 1-2, 2006: 151-52.

Other Recent Publications

Susan Averett, professor and head of economics and business

(coauthors Laura M. Argys, Daniel I. Rees, and Benjama Witoonchart). “Birth Order and Risky Adolescent Behavior.” Economic Inquiry 44.2 (2006): 215-33.

W. Mark Crain, William E. Simon ’52 Professor of Political Economy

(coauthor John Charles Bradbury). “Legislative District Configurations and Fiscal Policy in American States.” Public Choice 125 (2005): 385-407.

Curlee Raven Holton, professor and head of art

Silent Voices, Loud Echoes. The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, March 17-December 24, 2006 [group exhibition].

Red Love. El Museo de Arte Tridimensional de Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, February 5-28, 2006 [group exhibition].

Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change. The National Cummings Foundation, New York, NY, March 1-June 2, 2006 [group exhibition].

John Kincaid, Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service

“Coercive Federalism.” “Competitive Federalism.” “Decentralization.” “Devolution.” “Federalism Summit.” In Federalism in America: An Encyclopedia, Volume One: A-J, ed. Joseph R. Marbach, Ellis Katz, and Troy E. Smith. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2006: 90-91, 105-07, 147-48, 151-54, 242-43.

“Noncentralization.” In Federalism in America: An Encyclopedia, Volume Two: K-Z, ed. Joseph R. Marbach, Ellis Katz, and Troy E. Smith. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2006: 465.

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, associate professor and head of foreign languages and literatures

“Überlegungen zur Identitätskonstruktion im Zeitalter der Globalisierung und die Prager Konferenz.” In Kultur, Religion, Region: Junge Tschechen, Deutsche und Polen im vereinten Europa, ed. Frank Ahlmann. Berlin: Metropol, 2005: 43-58.

Stephen E. Lammers, Helen H.P. Manson Professor of Religion

Rev. of Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia, by Nigel Biggar. Reviews in Religion and Theology, 2 March 2006: 210-13.

Robert Mattison, Metzgar Professor of Art History

“Richard Pousette Dart: In the Context of Abstract Expressionism.” In Richard Pousette-Dart: The New YorkSchool and Beyond, ed. Sam Hunter and Joanne Kuebler. Milano, Italy: Skira Editore S.p.A., 2005: 47-52.

Alix Ohlin, assistant professor of English

“Wonders Never Cease.” Colorado Review 33.1 (2006): 44-58.

Verica Radisavljevic-Gajic, visiting assistant professor of mechanical engineering

“A New Feed-forward/Feedback Scheme for Elimination of Power Transients in Erbium-Doped Optical Fiber Amplifiers.” Proceedings of the Fourth International DCDIS Conference, 2005: 708-12.

Joseph Sherma, Larkin Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

“A Field Guide to Instrumentation: The Corona Charged Aerosol Detector for Liquid Chromatography and High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry Combined with Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry and Gas Chromatography.” Journal of AOAC International 89.1 (2006): 15A-19A.

David Shulman, associate professor of anthropology and sociology

(coauthor Ira Silver). “Demystifying the Hidden Magic of Producing Sociologists.” The American Sociologist 36. 2 (2005): 5-11.

ed. (coeditor Ira Silver). The American Sociologist 36.2 (2005) [special issue].

Jim Toia, director of the art department’s community-based teaching program

“Dawn.” Spore Drawings and Video. Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY, April 22-May 27, 2006 [exhibition].

Lorenzo Traldi, Metzgar Professor and head of mathematics

“On the Colored Tutte Polynomial of a Graph of Bounded Treewidth.” Discrete Applied Mathematics 154 (2006): 1032-36.

Rev. of Explicit Formulae for Two-Bridge Knot Polynomials, by Shinji Fukuhara. Zentralblatt MATH Database 1931-2006: 1077.57010.

Rev. of Polynomial Splittings of Casson-Gordon Invariants, by Se-Goo Kim. Zentralblatt MATH Database 1931-2006: 1077.57005.

Lee Upton, writer-in-residence and professor of English

“Bitter Chocolate.” Sex & Chocolate. Arlington: Paycock, 2006: 345-45 [fiction].

“Undid in the Land of Undone.” New England Review 27.1 (2006): 128 [poem].

“Window Seat at the Paradise,” “Somewhere So Lush,” “Contortionist,” “The Imagination of Flowers,” “Scroll,” “Bedtime Story,” “Jim’s Hairball,” “The Quality of Mercy,” “Destruction of Daughters,” “Happiness,” “The Scarlet Letter,” “Beatrix Potter,” “Civilian Histories,” “The Table.” American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Ed. David Walker. Oberlin: Oberlin College P (2006): 353-68 [reprinted poems].

Yih-Choung Yu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering

(coauthor Pujitha Weerakoon). “Minimally Invasive Estimation of Cardiac Function for Patients with Rotary VAD Support.” 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005: 3812-16.

“Blood Pressure, Automatic Control of.” In Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation, Second Edition, Volume 1: Alloys, Shape Memory – Brachytherapy, Intravascular. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006: 490-500.