Newsmakers

Varda Main, director of the Technology Licensing Office, discussed “Technology Assessment Committees—Choosing the Optimal Structure” during a workshop presentation at the Licensing Executives Society 2004 annual meeting on Oct. 20 in Boston.

Matthew Marshall, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, received a faculty advisor award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers for contributions as advisor to the RIT IIE student chapter. The chapter was awarded a silver award for recent activity, including planning and hosting a three-day regional student conference.

John Morelli, associate professor of environmental management and safety, co-wrote, with RIT alumna Dawn Collins, “Operational Controls: The Affect and Solution Approach for Environmental Managers,” published in the August 2004 edition of EM, the journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. He presented the paper at the Advanced Environmental Management System Workshop, Oct. 13, at Cornell University.

Karen Proctor, professor and chair of packaging science, and RIT packaging science faculty members Daniel Goodwin, Deanna Jacobs, Tom Voss and Fritz Yambrach, along with lab coordinator Chris Robinson, accompanied 46 packaging science majors, members of the RIT Packaging Club, to PACK EXPO International 2004, Nov. 7-11, in Chicago.

Laurence Winnie, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, led the panel, Bourgeois Families: Social Networks, Survival Strategies and Professionalism, 1800-1945, at the 50th annual meeting of the Society
for French Historical Studies, in Paris, in June.

George Zion, professor of computer engineering technology, presented “Building Ethics and Project Management into Engineering Technology Programs” at the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 20-23, in Salt Lake City. The paper was co-written by Ron Fulle, associate professor of telecommunications engineering technology, and Carol Richardson, professor and chair of electrical, computer and telecommunications engineering technology.