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3:45 p.m., March 20, 2003--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.
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Farley Grubb, professor of economics, review of Sam A. Mustafa’s Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776-1835, in American Historical Review, vol. 108, page 158.
Kathleen Kerr, director of residence life, and Keith Edwards, Gilbert and Harrington Complex coordinator, “Impetus for Opportunity: Reflections on an Organizational Change Process,” in Talking Stick, vol. 20, no. 4, pages 18-20.
Several members of the Delaware Geological Survey contributed to the “Bethany Beach Site Report”, in Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, vol. 174AZ Supplement: Peter P. McLaughlin, senior scientist, Richard N. Benson, senior scientist, Kelvin W. Ramsey, scientist, Stefanie J. Baxter, research associate, and Thomas E. McKenna, associate scientist, with Kenneth G. Miller, James V. Browning and 13 other coauthors.
Alice D. Ba, assistant professor of political science and international relations, with Matthew J. Hoffmann, associate professor of political science and international relations, “Making and Remaking the World for IR 101: A Resource for Teaching Social Constructivism in Introductory Classes,” in International Studies Perspectives, vol. 4, no. 1, pages 15-33.
Karen Bauer, Office of Undergraduate Studies, and Gabriele Bauer, teaching consultant, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, “A Comprehensive Plan for General Education Assessment: A Case Study at the University of Delaware,” at AAC&U Network Conference, Philadelphia. February.
Peter McLaughlin, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, a teacher development workshop, “Life of Delaware’s Ancient Land and Seas” and “The Hidden Geology of Southern New Castle County and Delaware’s Groundwater Resources,” at Gunning Bedford Middle School, Feb. 14, New Castle County.
William S. Schenck, scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, “Rocks and Minerals,” to third grade classes, Shields Elementary School, Jan. 23, Lewes.
Members of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice made presentations at the 73rd annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, held in Philadelphia, Feb. 27-March 3. Benigno E. Aguirre, professor, “Education: Diversity in Higher Education”; Margaret L. Andersen, professor, “Politics: Resisting Exploitation: How Folks from Under-Represented Groups Just Say No (to invitations to serve on committees, etc.)”; Tammy L. Anderson, assistant professor, “Stigma Management by Drug Offenders: Examining Race and Gender Differences”; graduate student Victor Argothy, “Framing Helping Behavior in a Consensus Crisis: Mass Media Coverage on Volunteers in the WTC Response”; Joel Best, professor, “First Words: Do Sociologist Actually Use the Terms in Introductory Textbooks’ Glossaries?”; graduate student Kathleen Bogle, “Sex and ‘Dating’ in College and After: A Look at Perception versus Behavior”; graduate student Rory Connell, “Organizational Features of Hospital Disaster”; graduate student Bill Donner, “The Human Ecological Model and Its Application to Severe Weather Phenomena: The Prediction of Tornado Morbidity”; Russell Dynes, professor emeritus, “Finding Order in Disorder: Continuities in the 9/11 Response”; Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, professor, and Valerie Hans, professor, “The Juvenile Death Penalty and Contemporary Values: An Empirical Analysis of Capital Jurors’ Sentencing Discretion”; Lana Harrison, associate professor, “Drug Offender Reentry: Examining Arrest and Incarceration Trends by Race and Gender”; Elizabeth Higginbotham, professor, “Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration” and “Race, Class and Gender: The Impact of African American and Multiracial Feminism on American Sociology”; graduate student Elizabeth A. Mansley, “Equal Time for Equal Crime? Examining Gender Disparity for Defendants Charged with Stranger and Intimate Homicide”; graduate student Brian Monahan, “The NYFD and the Symbolic Appropriation of the WTC Response”; Leonard A. Mundy, assistant professor, “Configurations of Consciousness: Men, Masculinity and Heterosexuality”; graduate student Victor Perez, “The Influence of Gender Role Socialization on the Relationship Between Forced Sexual Intercourse and Deviant Behavior”; graduate student Gabriel Santos, “The Religious Dimensions of Disaster Response” and “Ideology, Rhetoric and Manufactured Collective Behavior in the Tobacco Industry”; graduate student Christopher W. Steinbrecher, “The National Dairy Council and the Creation of a Nutritional Panic”; and Kathleen Tierney, associate professor, “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.”
Tom Sims, T.A. Baker Professor of Soil and Environmental Chemistry, with Nicole J. McCafferty, AG ’97, and R.A. Eaton, AG 2002, “Effect of Water Treatment Residuals on Phosphorus Leaching and Forms of Soil Phosphorus,” Sims et al, “Phosphorus Fate and Transport in Biosolids Amended Soils: (1) Phosphorus Forms in Soils Used for Corn Production, (2) Phosphorus Losses in Runoff from Soils Used for Corn Production and (3)Phosphorus Forms in Soils and Losses in Runoff from Fescue Pastures,” at Water Environment Federation Conference on Residuals and Biosolids, Feb. 19-21, Baltimore; and Sims, “Environmental Management Practices for Agricultural Phosphorus: Challenges and Recent Advances,” at symposium on phosphorus and the land, Feb. 26, Rutgers University.
Alice D. Ba, assistant professor of political science and international relations, “Who’s Socializing Whom? Power and Identity in Sino-ASEAN Relations,” at International Studies Association annual conference, Feb. 25-March 1, Portland, Ore., and “The Political Implications of an ASEAN-China Free Trade Area,” an invited presentation, at conference on the 16th Chinese Community Party Congress, at St. John’s University, Nov. 16, Jamaica, N.Y.
Christopher Boorse, associate professor of philosophy, an invited speech, “Analysis of Disease as Statistically Species-Subnormal Biological Functioning,” at NIH Joint Bioethics Seminar, March 4, Johns Hopkins University medical campus.
A. Scott Andres, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, served as a judge in the Shue-Medill Middle School science fair, Feb. 6, Newark.
Tom Sims, T.A. Baker Professor of Soil and Environmental Chemistry, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Agronomic Science Foundation and of the U.S. National Committee on Soil Science.
Several faculty in the Department of Political Science and International Relations convened the second workshop on contending perspectives on global governance at the International Studies Association annual meeting, Feb. 27, Portland, Ore. Involved in the workshop, which was a follow-up to the workshop session held at UD in October 2002, were Matthew J. Hoffman, associate professor, Alice D. Ba, assistant professor, Daniel Green, associate professor and Leslie Goldstein, Hugh M. Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations.
John Cavanaugh, AS ’75, former University of Delaware administrator, was inaugurated Jan. 10 as president of the University of West Florida, near Pensacola. President David P. Roselle delivered the keynote speech.
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