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3:48 p.m., July 9, 2008--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Publications

Gibbons Ruark, professor emeritus of English, “A Room in Donnybrook,” in a special spring/summer 2008 issue of Irish University Review, devoted to the celebrated writer Benedict Kiely, who died last year at 87.

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, “Convict Labor” and “Indentured Servitude,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition, Steven N. Durlaf and Lawrence E. Blume, editors, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008.

Presentations

Suzanne Burton, associate professor of music education, presented research and its practical application on ”Emergent Music Literacy,” at the Early Childhood Music and Movement Convention, July 3-6, Providence, R.I.

Araya Debessay, professor of accounting and MIS, presented continuing professional development programs on “Developments in International Accounting and Key Differences Between United States' Generally Accepted Accounting Standards and International Reporting Standards” to five Financial Executives International (FEI) groups: Executives International, New York Chapter, March 25, Union League Club, N.Y.; FEI Connecticut, West Chester chapter, April 2, Old Greenwich, Conn.; New Jersey chapter, May 20, West Orange, N.J.; Philadelphia chapter, June 11, Saint David, Pa.; and Institute of Management Accounting, June 12, Penn State Great Valley Chapter, Malvern, Pa.

Service

Paul Laux, professor of finance, completed a Fulbright Fellowship in the Fulbright Senior Scholar Program at ISCTE Business School in Lisbon, Portugal, where he worked on research in capital markets and corporate governance, taught international finance to master's students and presented research seminars for faculty.