Caroline Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
John A. Rochowicz, Jr., Ed. D.
Assistant Professor of Communication and English
Professor of Mathematics
Presentation “Unearthing & Preserving Sigma Tau Delta’s Kulturgeschichte” Presented at the International English Honor Society’s Convention (Feb. 2014) on the people, the stories, and the unofficial traces of the society’s thriving organizational culture.
Award Reading Berks Science and Engineering Fair On March 12, 2013, Rochowicz received an award from the Reading Berks Science and Engineering Fair for more than 25 years of service as a judge in the junior and senior divisions in the categories of physics, physical science, mathematics and computers.
Installation “Vice President/President Elect, International English Honor Society” Elected to executive board (March 2014) of second largest international honor society consisting of 850 chapters, 1000+ faculty sponsors, and 9000+ members inducted on an annual basis. Presentation “The Quest for a Genderless Slut: The Cultural and Linguistic Influence of Sexually Derogatory” Rhetoric on Fe/Male Identity presented at the International Conference of Popular Culture Association (April 2014) on the etymology of derogatory words directed at women, the articulation of different meanings, and the socio-cultural effects of the labels throughout English language history. Presentation “A Pilot Investigation of Goffman’s Self-Presentation Theory as Applied to LinkedIn” Co-presented with Ryan Lange (communication) at the Eastern Communication Association Convention (April 2014) on the ways in which people communicate and manage their personal impressions with others and exhibit sense of self on the professional social network LinkedIn. Presentation “Goffman’s Theory of Self-Presentation on LinkedIn” Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference (Nov. 2013) on the dramaturgical communication within social networks with actors as symbols of individuals and performances as the impressions made to others. Presentation “Camus and the Communication of Science Paradox” Co-presented with Kevin Donnelly (history), Adam Heinze (biology) and Ryan Lange (communication) at the Pennsylvania Communication Conference, Albert Camus & Philosophy of Communication: Making Sense in an Age of Absurdity (Oct. 2013).
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Judge Reading Berks Science and Engineering Fair Judged 8th grade physics projects on March 12, 2013 at the RBSEF including a) Temperature effects on magnetic fields and b) The elasticity, surface tension and survival time of soap bubbles. This fair is held at Albright College and sponsored by the Intel Corporation and the Reading Berks Engineers. Judge St Catharine of Siena Science Fair Judged 6th grade and 8th grade physics projects on Jan. 27, 2014 including a) Protective properties of materials b) Creating circuits from coins and c) repeated strains and stress yield points of metals. The winning exhibit: Creating Circuits from Coins was well-presented with accurate and correct data analysis. Judge Berks County Mathematics Championship Being a member of the Berks County Mathematics Championship Committee, Rochowicz oversees the scoring and ranking of students and schools that participate in this contest. Every five years, he is also responsible for constructing tests. The annual championship was hosted by RACC on Nov. 4, 2013. Publication “Bootstrapping Analysis Inferential Statistics and EXCEL” This paper, published 2011, is the second most popular paper from Electronic Journal Spreadsheets in Education with over 5,600 downloads. Rochowicz has mentored various professors and students from Australia, Brazil, Japan and Texas on this analysis. This paper addresses statistical inference without validation of assumptions. Publication “P-Value Approximations of T-Tests of Hypothesis” This paper, published Dec. 2012, was downloaded over 600 times as of March 2, 2014 from eJSiE. In this paper numerical analysis techniques including Simpson’s Rule and Monte Carlo Approximations are applied to calculating the t-statistic.