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Berzsenyi, C. A. (2010). The Golden Girls share signature stories: Narratives of aging, identity and communal desire. Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present), Volume 9, Issue 2. http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2010/berzsenyi.htm

Chen, W. F. (2009). Teaching Problem Solving in Engineering Education: Expert Systems Construction. International Journal of Engineering Education, Special issue on Instructional Technologies in Engineering Education, 25(4), pp. 723-728.
Chen, W. F. (2009). A Model for Assessing Web-based Simulations in Engineering Education. International Journal of Engineering Education, Special Issue on Simulators for Engineering Education and for Professional Development, 25(2), pp. 318-323.
Chen, W. F., Wu, W. H., & Su, T. J. (2008). Assessing Virtual Laboratories in a Digital Filter Design Course: An Experimental Study. IEEE Transactions on Education, Special Issue on Virtual Laboratories, 51(1), pp. 10-16.

Michael W. Ecker, Generalized Additive Sequences from Fibonacci Numbers, Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 46, No. 1, p. 41-52, Winter 2012.
Michael W. Ecker, Limit Interchange and L'Hôpital's Rule, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 382-383, November 2011.
Michael W. Ecker, A Calculus Unification: Regarding Some Differentiation Rules as Sums of Special Cases, MathAMATYC Educator, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 42-43, May 2011.
Michael W. Ecker, Pedagogy: Defending the Differential, MathAMATYC Educator, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 61-62, May 2010.
Michael W. Ecker, Linking All Pythagorean Triples, Mathematics and Computer Education. Vol. 42, No. 3; p. 238 – 248, October 2008.
Michael W. Ecker, Maximizing the Probability of a Big Sweepstakes Win, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 32-36, January 2007.
Michael W. Ecker, Controlling the Discrepancy in Marginal Analysis Calculations, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, p. 299-300, September 2006.
Michael W. Ecker, Building Primitive Pythagorean Triples, Recreational & Educational Computing, Vol. 20, No. 3, p. 8-10, July 2006.
Michael W. Ecker, Revisited: Arctan 1 + Arctan 2 + Arctan 3 = Pi, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 218-219, May 2006.
Michael W. Ecker, An ArcTangent Triangle: Puzzling Over Arctan1 + Arctan2 + Arctan3 = Pi, Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 40, No. 2, p. 124 – 127, March 2006.

Ghilani, C. D. (2011). In Holly Stark (Ed.), Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics. (13th ed.). Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Ghilani, C. D. 2011. Instructor's Manual to Accompany Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics. (13th ed., 271 pp.). Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Ghilani, C. D. (2010). 20 Years and Still Waiting. Pennsylvania Surveyor, FALL/WINTER, 4.
Ghilani, C. D. (2010). Developing Research Skills in an Undergraduate Program. Surveying and Land Information Science, 70(2), 7.
Ghilani, C. D. (2010). Transformation of Coordinates - Part I. Pennsylvania Surveyor, Spring 2010(2).
Ghilani, C. D. (2010). Geodetic Observations. Pennsylvania Surveyor(Winter/Spring), 5.http://www.psls.org/PA%20Surveyor/PA%20Surveyor.htm
Ghilani, C. D. (Author) (2010). Instructor's Manual to Accompany Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Ghilani, C. D. (2010). "Data Analysis." In John D. Bossler (Ed.), Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology. (ed.). CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group.
Ghilani, C. D. (2010). Problem Generator 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=5561&itemId=0470464917&resourceId=20280. A suite of software to generate realistic surveying problems for publication with Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis, which is downloadable on the Wiley website

A.F. Ivanov and S.I. Trofimchuk, Periodic solutions of a discretized differential delay equation. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 16 (2010), nos. 2-3, 157-171.
I.A. Dzhalladova, A.F. Ivanov, D.Ya. Khusainov, and A.V. Swishchuk, Stability and rate of convergence estimates for a linear neutral stochastic equation. Bulletin of Kyiv National University, Ser.: Physics and Mathematics 2010, no. 3, 173-178.
A.F. Ivanov, Global dynamics of a differential equation with piecewise constant argument. Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications 71 (2009), e2384-e2389. (doi:10.1016/j.na.2009.05.030)
D. Y. Khusainov, A. F. Ivanov, and I. V. Kovarzh, Solutions of a heat equation with delay. Nonlinear Oscillations 12 (2009), No. 2, 251-272.
A.F. Ivanov and A.V. Swishchuk, Optimal control of stochastic differential delay equations with application in economics. International Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations and Applications 2, no. 2 (2008), 201-213.

Theodora A. Jankowski, "Virginity, Class, and the Changing Economies ofEarly Modern Marriage in Aphra Behn's and Margaret Cavendish's Plays," inThe History of British Women's Writing: 1610-1690, ed. Mihoko Suzuki, due out in February 2011 from Palgrave 2010.
Theodora A. Jankowski, "'Virgins' and 'Not-Women': Dissident GenderPositions" in The Lesbian Premodern, eds. Noreen Gaffney, Michelle Sauer,and Diane Watt, due out in February 2011 also from Palgrave 2010.

Putzel, Steven. Virginia Woolf and the Theater. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.
Putzel, Steven. Reconstructing Yeats: The Secret Rose and the Wind Among the Reeds. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1986.
Putzel, Steven. "Virginia Woolf and Theatre." The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts. Ed. Maggie Humm. Edinburgh [Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. 437-455. Print.

Seybert, T.A., 2010. “Dual Criteria Grading for Improved Learning,” Journal of Engineering Technology, 27:2, 30-35.
Seybert, T.A., 2010. “Penn College to Penn State Wilkes-Barre: Completing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Surveying Engineering,” The Pennsylvania Surveyor, Fall/Winter 2010, Issue 4, pp. 6‑8.
Seybert, T. A., 2010. “Using Course Outcomes Achievement for Assigning Course Grades,” Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, Palm Springs, CA, February 3-5 2010.
Seybert, T.A. and W. W. Parks 2009. “Penn State Wikes-Barre Surveying Program: Activities and Achievements 2007 to 2009,” Surveying and Land Information Science, 69:4, 225-229. (85% contribution)
Seybert, T.A., 2009 “Estimating Stormwater Detention Volumes for Planning Purposes,” The Pennsylvania Surveyor, Winter 2009, Issue 1, pp 22-25.
Seybert, T. A., 2009. “Retention of Surveying Students Using a First-Year Seminar,” Surveying and Land Information Science, 69:2, 75-80; (also published in Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 23-25, 2008)
Seybert, T. A., 2009. “Using an Industrial Advisory Council for Outcomes Assessment: A Work in Progress,” Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, Orlando, FL, February 4-6, 2009.
Seybert, T. A., 2008. “Evaluating Program Outcomes and Classroom Instruction on the Basis of Course Outcomes Assessment,” Surveying and Land Information Science, 68:3, 125-132.