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For the Record, July 15, 2005

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2:03 p.m., July 15, 2005--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Publications

Gerald J. Kauffman, director, and Kevin Vonck, senior graduate research assistant, Institute for Public Administration, with Stefanie Baxter, senior scientist, and John H. Talley, director, Delaware Geological Survey, “Seventh Report to the Governor and General Assembly Regarding the Progress of the Delaware Water Supply Coordinating Council,” 36 pages, June 25; and Kauffman, Vonck and Sara Wozniak, graduate research assistant, “Source Water Protection Guidance Manual for the Local Governments of Delaware,” for Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Delaware General Assembly, 81 pages, May 2005.

Presentations

Rudi Matthee, professor of history, “Iraq as Seen by Iranians in the Safavid Period,” at National Islamic University, April, and a talk on the scope and activities of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, Hyderabad, India.

Catherine R. Matsen, adjunct assistant professor of art conservation, “The Corbit-Sharp House at Odessa, Delaware: Finishes Analysis and Interpretation of Four Interior Rooms,” at the Architectural Paint Research in Building Conservation Conference, May, Nationalmuseet, Denmark.

William S. Schenck, scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, “Vertical Control in Delaware: The DataMIL, an Online Source,” at a flood resistant development workshop, May 5, Delaware Technical and Community College, Georgetown, Del.

Jennifer L. Mass, adjunct assistant professor of art conservation, “Confocal X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy: A New Technique for the Non-Destructive Compositional Depth Profiling of Paintings,” at Eighth International Conference on Non-Destructive Investigations and Microanalysis for the Diagnostics and Conservation of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, May 15-19, Lecce, Italy.

Joyce Hill Stoner, professor of art conservation, “The American Landscape as Metaphor: N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth,” at Encounters with the Land: American Depictions from the 17th Century to the Present conference, May 12-15, New York University; and a performance, “Whistler Through the Eyes of His Women,” at the Taft Museum’s Whistler exhibition, May 17.

Debra Hess Norris, Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, “Preliminary Report on the Heritage Health Index,” and Gregory Landrey and Mark Anderson, both adjunct associate professors of art conservation, “Developing a Treatment Protocol for a 1929 Phantom 1 Wood Body Rolls Royce Automobile,” at American Institute for Conservation annual meeting, June 9-10, Minneapolis.

Service

William S. Schenck, scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, represented the Delaware Board of Geology on the council of examiners and served as a subject matter expert on the council overseeing the maintenance and physcomechanics of the national geologic examination used for professional licensing, at the mid-year National Association of State Boards of Geology meeting, March 31-April 3. Schenck and Miriam Pomilio, geodatabase research associate III, Delaware Geological Survey, attended Water Festival 2005 and made numerous presentations to students and teachers from the Brandywine School District on how to use the Delaware DataMIL to “Map their Watershed.”

Leila C. Lyons, director, IT-User Services, was elected chair from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2008, of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services.

Merris Hollingsworth, psychologist II, Center for Counseling and Student Development, has been appointed by Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to a three-year term on the state board of examiners of psychologists.

Awards

Mark Fleming, psychologist I, Center for Counseling and Student Development, was awarded one of two diversity mentorship scholarships to attend the annual meeting of the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies in September.

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