For the Record, Nov. 3, 2004

David Pong, professor of history, “China’s First Telegraph Lines and the Defense of Taiwan against the Japanese in 1874-1875,” in Modern Chinese Naval History: New Perspectives, pages 270-280, Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense.

Christopher A. Knight, assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, with G. Kamen, “Enhanced Motor Unit Rate Coding with Improvements in a Force-Matching Task,” in Journal of Electromyography Kinesiology, vol. 13, pages 619-629.

Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, published poems, “Polio,” “The Visitor and “Lecturing My Daughters,” in Contemporary American Poetry, Pearson Longman’s Penguin Academics series; “Goldfinch Without Madonna,” in Shenandoah, fall issue; “The Visitor,” in Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, Pearson Longman’s Penguin Academic series; ‘Basil,” in Working the Dirt, edited by Jennifer Horne, New South Books; six poems in Words Brushed by Music, an anthology edited by John Irwin, Johns Hopkins University Press; and “Thirteen Ways of Listening to the Songbirds,” in online literary magazine The Cortland Review [http://www.cortlandreview.com].

Richard Wolbers, associate professor of art conservation, and Janice Carlson, adjunct associate professor of art conservation, et al, Solvent Gels for the Cleaning of Works of Art, edited by Valerie Dorge, The Getty Conservation Institute.

Presentations

Debra Hess Norris, Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, with Nora Kennedy of National Gallery of Art, “Illusions of Light—Do They Last Forever?,” a one-day workshop in Helsinki, Finland, September; “Fundraising for Conservation Education,” at International Council of Museums Committee on Conservation Education interim meeting, Vantaa, Finland, September; and, with Jennifer Jae Mentzer, limited term researcher in art conservation, “Readings in Photograph Conservation,” at International Council of Museums Committee on Conservation Photographic Records Workshop interim meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October.

John Krill, adjunct associate professor of art conservation, with Leslie Paisley, “Contemporary Machine-Made Papermaking,” a workshop at Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Oct. 20-23, Williamstown, Mass.

Service

William S. Schenck, scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, and Margaret Plank led the field conference in Northern Delaware as co-host with the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, of the 69th Pennsylvania Geologic Field Conference, “Marginalia-Magmatic Arcs and Continental Margins in Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania,” Oct 7-9.

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