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Penn State Harrisburg to honor faculty, staff with publishing celebration

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Penn State Harrisburg faculty and staff will discuss their works, published during the past year, at the college’s annual Creativity, Publishing, and Book Signing Celebration on March 23 at 3 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge. 

Open to the public, the event will honor college community members and their collaborators whose recent works include publications on art, politics, education, culture and diversity. Featured publications will be available for purchase and authors will be on hand to sign copies of their works.

The event is hosted by the Office of Research and Outreach.

Individuals to be honored are listed below. Members of the Penn State Harrisburg faculty are in bold.

Heidi Abbey Moyer

“Penn State Harrisburg: The Campus History Series,” Arcadia Publishing, 2016

Michael Barton, Editor

“Glorious Recollections,” Xlibris, 2016

Simon J. Bronner

“Folklore: The Basics,” Routledge, 2017

“'Who’s That Knocking at my Door?': Barnacle Bill the Sailor and his Mates in Song and Story," Loomis House Press, 2016

Simon J. Bronner and Cindy Dell Clark, Editors

“Youth Cultures in America," Volumes 1 and 2, Greenwood, 2016

Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, Editors

“Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia,” Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore, 2017

Anthony Bak Buccitelli

“City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston,” The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016

Changzhi Li, Mohammad-Reza Tofighi, Dominique Schreurs and Tzyy-Sheng Jason Horng, Editors

“Principles and Applications of RF/Microwave in Healthcare and Biosensing," Elsevier, 2017

Jen Hirt and Erin Murphy, Editors

"Creating Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers," State University of New York Press, Albany, 2016

Glen A. Mazis

“Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics Imagination, and Poetic Ontology,” State University of New York Press, Albany, 2016

Daniel M. Morra, Contributor

“One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre,” Routledge, 2017

Anna Laros, Thomas Fuhr and Edward W Taylor, Editors

“Transformative Learning Meets Bildung: An International Exchange,” Sense Publishers, 2017

Troy Thomas

“Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity,” Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016

William E. Thompson and Jennifer Gibbs

“Deviance & Deviants: A Sociological Approach,” Wiley Blackwell, 2017

Judith T. Witmer

“World War II 1941-1945: A Son’s Letters to his Father," Yesteryear Publishing, 2016

Patents:

Mohammed-Reza Tofighi

“System and Method for Combined Microwave Heating and Radiometry for Characterizing Biological Tissues,” U.S. Patent No: 9,250,139

Art and Artists

Craig Welsh and Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927-2016) Designers

Creative Work:Wood Type Font” produced by Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, 2016

Digital Font produced/distributed by P22 Digital Type Foundry, 2016

Last Updated March 21, 2017