For the Record

3:55 p.m., Sept. 10, 2003--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Jan H. Blits, professor of education, "The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'," Lexington Books.

Patricia A. DeLeon, professor of biological sciences, with postdoctoral fellow Hong Zhang, “Mouse Spam1 (Ph-20) Is a Multifunctional Protein: Evidence for Its Expression in the Female Reproductive Tract,” in Biology of Reproduction, vol. 69, pages 446-454; and with Zhang and Eric Evans, AS ’02, “Spam1 (ph-20) Protein and mRNA Expression in the Epididymides of Humans and Macaques: Utilizing Laser Microdissection/RT-PCR,” in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, vol. 1, page 54.

Edmund Nowak, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, “Electrical Noise in N-type and P-type Silver Chalcogenides,” in Applied Physics Letters, vol. 83, p. 503.

Daniel T. Simmons, professor of biological sciences, with Rupa Roy, research associate, biological sciences, P. Trowbridge, Y. Zheng and J.J. Campoux, “The Cap Region of Topoisomerase I Binds to Sites Near Each End of Simian Virus 40 T Antigen,” in Journal of Virology, vol. 77, pages 9809-9816; and Simmons with graduate student Junfang Jiao, “Nonspecific DNA Binding Activity of Simian Virus 40 Large T Antigen is Involved in Melting and Unwinding of the Origin,” in Journal of Virology, vol. 77.

J.W. Gillespie Jr., professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Center for Composite Materials, “An Assessment of the U.S. Army’s Manufacturing Technology Program Relative to the Needs of the Future Combat Systems Program” in Final Report of the Army Future Combat Systems Critical Technologies: Industry Man Tech Independent Assessment Panel, National Center for Advanced Technologies, Washington, D.C.

Catherine B. Kirn-Safran, assistant professor of biological sciences, with Mary C. Farach-Carson, professor of biological sciences, S.A. Miller and A.J. Brown, “HIP/RPL29 Down-Regulation Accompanies Terminal Chondrocyte Differentiation,” in Differentiation, vol. 71, no. 6, pages 322-336.

Patricia A. DeLeon, professor of biological sciences, “Transmission Ratio Distortion and Reduced Expression of the Murine Sperm Adhesion Molecule 1(Spam1) mRNA,” at the 19th International Congress of Genetics, July 6-11, Melbourne, Australia.

Edmund Nowak, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, “Magnetoresistance and Electrical Noise in the Silver Chalcogenide Ag2TE,” at SPIE’s first international symposium on fluctuations and noise, June 2, Santa Fe, N.M.; “Quasi-equilibrium Magnetic Noise in Micron-scale Magnetic Tunnel Junctions,” at Motorola Labs, Microelectronics and Physical Sciences Laboratory, July 9, Tempe, Ariz.; and “Problem-based Learning and Physics: Developing Problem Solving Skills in All Students,” at Cottrell Scholar Conference, July 11-12, Tucson, Ariz.

Patricia A. DeLeon, professor of biological sciences, has been named to the editorial board of the Journal of Andrology for a three-year term.

Joseph Santivasci, who served for five years as an assistant registrar at UD, began a new position as registrar at West Chester University Aug. 18. At UD, he was responsible for matching the scheduling needs of 18,000 students and professors with the classrooms and computer labs on the Newark campus.

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