Darlene Del Prato, associate professor of nursing, gave a presentation at the National League for Nursing Education Summit, September 21-24, Orlando, Fla., and attended the American Association of Colleges of Nursing fall semiannual meeting, October 21-25, Washington, D.C.

Amir Fariborz, professor of physics, presented "Probing scalar mesons below and above 1 GeV"  at the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields meeting August 9-13, Brown University, Providence, R.I.; "Exploring Low-Energy QCD Using a Generalized Linear Sigma Model" at Meson Physics in Low-Energy QCD, PrimeNet (HP2), September 26-28, at the Institute for Nuclear Physics,  Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; and "Scalar mesons & their roles in low-energy QCD" during an invited seminar presented on Thursday September 29, at the Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Joanne Joseph, associate professor of psychology, and Mary Krenitsky Perrone, associate professor of communication, presented "Improving Student Performance Through Interdisciplinary Teamwork in a Senior Seminar Pilot" at the New England Educational Assessment Fall Forum 2011, November 3-4, Worcester, Mass.

Joanne Joseph, associate professor of psychology, and Veronica Tichenor, associate professor of sociology, attended the Middle States assessment conference, September 14-15, Philadelphia, Pa.

Steven Schneider, professor of social sciences and humanities, presented "The September 11 Web Archive: Opportunities for Discovery" at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, October 10-13, Seattle, Wash.

Geethapriya Thamilarasu, assistant professor of computer science, chaired the Networking Networking Women (N2W) event at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2011), October 29-November 6, Seattle, Wash. N2W is a discipline-specific community for researchers in communications and networking research fields, supported by the IEEE Communications Society, Microsoft Research and HP Labs, with the main goal of fostering connections among women researchers in these fields.

Veronica Tichenor, associate professor of sociology, presented "The Division of Domestic Labor and Long-Term Family Well Being" and was an invited panelist for a session entitled "Why Study Housework?" at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting, August 20-23, Las Vegas, Nev. The paper will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Family Theory and Review.

Linda Weber, associate professor of sociology, presented "Social Capital and Trust: The Mechanics of Bridge Building" at the 2011 Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Conference, October 13-15, New Orleans, La.