Vol. 19, No. 12

Nov. 18, 1999

Lamabrecht McDowell Prettyman Staboz

Books

Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, chemistry and biochemistry, Scorpionates: The Coordination Chemistry of Polypyrazolylborate Ligands, Imperial College Press.

Ken Haas, sociology and criminal justice, The Dilemmas of Corrections, fourth edition, Waveland Press.

Publications

Frank Scarpitti, sociology and criminal justice, with Steven S. Martin and James A. Inciardi, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Clifford Butzin and Amie Neilsen, "Measuring the Impact of Drug Treatment: Beyond Relapse and Recidivism," in Corrections Management Quarterly, vol. 3, fall 1999.

Francis Poole, library, "Basic Strategies for Film Preservation in Libraries," in Technical Services Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, pages 1-10.

Ken Haas, sociology and criminal justice, "The Rise and Fall of the American Death Penalty in the 21st Century," in Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century, second edition, pages 167-193.

Gibbons Ruark, English, "The Window in the Room," a poem inspired by a painting by Betty Watson, in Betty Watson: Paintings, Odalisque Press, Greensboro, N.C.

Lian-Ping Wang, mechanical engineering, with S. Chen of Los Alamos National Laboratory and J.G. Brasseur of Pennsylvania State University, "Examination of Hypotheses in Kolmogoov Refined Turbulence Theory through High-Resolution Simulations. Part 2. Passive Scalar Field," in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 400, pages 163-197.

Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Matthew T. Lee, sociology and criminal justice, "Contrasting Latinos in Homicide Research: The Victim and Offender Relationship in El Paso and Miami," in Social Science Quarterly, vol. 81, no. 1.

Presentations

Frank R. Scarpitti, sociology and criminal justice with Robert Rush, "Russian Emigre Organized Crime," at American Society of Criminology annual meeting, November.

Fleda Brown Jackson, English, a reading of poetry, Robin's Bookstore, Philadelphia, Nov. 9.

Elizabeth Higginbotham, sociology and criminal justice, "Perspectives on African-American Women and Work," at Stanford University Conference on Race: Research and Policy Perspectives at the Turn of the Century, Nov. 11-14.

Timothy F. Brooks, student life, "Higher Education Act Amendments: Implementation," at U.S. Department of Education 13th annual meeting on alcohol, other drug and violence prevention in higher education, Albany, N.Y., Nov. 6-7.

Several members of the Department of Education presented papers at the National Communication Association convention, Nov. 4-7, Chicago: Juliet L. Dee, "Whitney v. California" for most important free-speech decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 20th century; Nancy Signorielli and Susan Kalenberg of Muhlenberg College, "Television's World of Work in the '90s"; Elizabeth M. Perse, "Applying Audience Activity Theory to the Practice of Promotion"; Dee, Perse, John A. Courtright and Wendy Samter also served as panelists at the convention.

Rudi Matthee, history, "The Current State of the Arab-Israeli Conflict," at Academy of Lifelong Learning, Oct. 18, Wilmington, and "Prostitutes, Courtesans and Female Dancers in 16th- to 18th-Century Iran," at UD's Research on Women Series, Nov. 3.

Limin Kung Jr., animal and food sciences, "Enhancing Forage Quality with Inoculants," at Alltech Silage and Hay Symposium, Nov. 15, Lexington, Ky.; "The High Producing Dairy Cow: Controlling Nutrient Profiles" and "A Review of DFM for Lactating Dairy Cows," at Alltech third annual international dairy short course, Oct. 25-26, Boise, Idaho; "Managing the High Genetic Merit Cow," at Cornwall Farmer's Limited, Pye, Carr's Agriculture and Ecosyl Limited Farmer meetings, Oct. 11-15, Liskeard, Holsworthy, Glouster, Oswestry and Gatehouse of Fleet, England, and Ayr, Scotland.

Russell Murray, music, "Tell Tales Out of School: Hints of Pedagogical Style in Ludovico Zacconi's Prattica di Musica (1612)," at 65th annual meeting, American Musicological Society, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 4-7.

Susan Miller, sociology and criminal justice, "Getting What You Wish For: How Domestic Violence Arrests Affect Women," at UD's Research on Women Series, Oct. 17; and "Racial Profiling: A New Threat to Civil Rights," at Civil Liberties Union, Nov. 3.

Gerald J. Kauffman, Institute for Public Administration, water resources, "From Drought to Flood, Transmillennial Water Supply Solutions in New Castle County, Del.," at Society of American Military Engineers, North Atlantic Regional Conference, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Theodore E.D. Braun, foreign languages and literatures, "Voltaire as Prometheus in the First Opera of Personal Satire in France (Le Franc de Pompignan's 'Promethee')," at 30th annual meeting, East-Central American Society of 18th-Century Studies, Oct. 21-23, Washington and Jefferson College. Braun also co-organized and co-chaired a four-session exploration of "Death and Dying in the 18th Century."

Anniversaries

20 years

Katharine M. McCormick, human resources, Nov. 19, 1979

Gloria J. McDowell, Residential Conference Facilities/shops, Nov. 19, 1979

James P. Flynn, Institute for Public Administration, Dec. 1, 1979

Rae D. Stabosz, foreign languages and literatures, Dec. 1, 1979

15 years

Patrick M. Dennis, Facilities Management/plumbing services, Nov. 19, 1984

Deborah L. Fields, Payroll, Nov. 19, 1984

Diane G. Gupta, Purchasing, Nov. 19, 1984

Craig D. Prettyman, Information Technologies/User Services, Dec. 1, 1984

10 years

Paula M. Armstrong, University development, Dec. 1, 1989

Donald Lee Harmon, Residential Conference Facilities/ shops, Nov. 20, 1989

Ward Alexander Harris, Agriculture Research and Education Center, Nov. 24, 1989

Richard A. Noonan, Facilities Management/building services, Dec. 1, 1989

Tara T. Webber, history, Nov. 27, 1989

Georgia K. Whitford, Information Technologies/ Network and Systems Services, Nov. 27, 1989

5 years

Bruce Lambrecht, Information Technologies/ University Media Services, Nov. 21, 1994

Rita M. Pennypacker, physical therapy, Dec. 1, 1994

Jennifer R. Simcox, Purchasing, Dec. 1, 1994

Grants

Raul F. Lobo, chemical engineering, $60,000 from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc. for "Molecular Recognition Phenomena in Crystalline Silica-Water Networks Containing Organic Guests."

Barbara G. van Dornick, student services, $49,993 from state Department of Education for "Mentoring Program."

Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical Engineering, $27,584 from Tuskegee University for "Behavior of Composite and Sandwich Materials at High Strain Rate and Sandwich Constructions for Naval Structures."

Michael T. Klein, chemical engineering, $16,500 from Mobil Technology Co. for "Estimation of Asphaltene Reaction Products by Analytical Reaction Chemistry and Monte Carlo Modeling Techniques" and $102,000 from Colorado State University for "Synthesis and Characterization of Mixtures of Substituted Benzo(a)pyrene, Benzothiophene, Isoquinoline, Carbozole and Their Metabolic Pathways."

Anthony S. Wexler, mechanical engineering, and Murray Johnston, chemistry and biochemistry, $30,000 from Rupprecht and Patashnick Co. Inc. for "A New Instrument that Measures the Number of Particles in a Gas as a Function of Size."

James Kolodzey, and Paul Berger, electrical and computer engineering, and Karl Unruh, physics and astronomy, $65,806 from Texas Instruments for "Silicon-Germanium-Carbon Heterostructures and Quantum Devices."

Lori L. Pollock, computer and information sciences, $99,910 from University of Pittsburgh for "Experimental Evaluations of Scalable Optimization Techniques."

Laura T. Eisenman, education, $4,952 from the Delaware Department of Education for "Postsecondary Manual."

From National Science Foundation: Kenneth E. Barner, electrical and computer engineering, $75,000 for "Rendering Algorithms for Tactile and Haptic Display of Multidimensional Data"; Mary E. Galvin-Donoghue, materials science and engineering, $74,217 for "The Role of Polymer Architecture of Polymer Silicate Nanocomposites" and $119,477 for "Charge Transport in Electroactive Oligomers"; Eric W. Kaler, Elisabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering, $15,250 for "1998-99 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Chemical Engineering"; Nobuhisa Kobayashi, civil and environmental engineering, $88,195 for "Cross-shore Sand Transport on Beaches"; John M. Lambros and Michael Santare, mechanical engineering, an additional $5,000 for "Analytical and Experimental Study of Crack-interface Interactions in Continuously Inhomogeneous Solids (CIMS)"; Dennis W. Prather, electrical and computer engineering, $10,000 for "Meso-scopic Diffractive Optical Elements for Monolithic Integration with VLSI"; Thomas Rocek, anthropology, and $3,565 for "Brownware Ceramic Variability in Pithouse Period Prehistoric Southeastern New Mexico"; Harry W. Shenton, civil and environmental engineering, $200,000 for "New Concepts in Long-term Structural Health Monitoring"; Jian-Qiao Sun, mechanical engineering, $10,000 for "An Acoustic Boundary Control Method for Suppressing Structural Sound Radiation"; K. Vijayashanker, computer and information sciences, and $4,875 "Collaborative Research: Phrase Structure and C-command." Hai Wang, mechanical engineering, $60,000 for "Integrated Study of Benzene Combustion by Quantum Mechanical Calculation, Detailed Kinetic Modeling, and Optimization"; and Andrew L. Zydney, chemical engineering, $98,013 for "Undergraduate Research Program in Chemical Engineering."