Vol. 20, No. 17 |
June 14, 2001 |
20 retired faculty awarded emeritus status In recognition of their years of distinguished service to the University, during the last year the following retired faculty members have achieved emeritus status, as approved by the University Board of Trustees. John Stephens Crawford Crawford, art history, came to the University in 1969 and served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Science from 1980-1982 and as associate chairperson from 1987-1992. His honors include the excellence-in-teaching award in 1985 and the Mortar Board Faculty Recognition Award for Teaching and Service to Students in 1991. An archaeologist who took part in excavations including those in Sardis, Turkey. from 1967-1973, Crawford is the author of The Byzantine Shops at Sardis. Crawford was graduated from Michigan State University and received his master's and doctoral degrees in classical archaeology from Harvard University. William B. Daniels Daniels, who joined the UD faculty in 1972, was named Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy in 1991 and chaired the department from 1977-1980. An international authority on high-pressure physics, Daniels has carried out collaborative research with several institutions. During his career, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and Humboldt Senior Award and was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, the College de France, the University of Paris, the Max Planck Institute and the University of Groningen, among others. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Daniels is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and earned his doctorate from the Case Institute of Technology. Robert A. Day Day, English, joined the faculty to teach technical writing in 1986 and is considered an authority on scientific publishing. He began his career as librarian and editor of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University. He then was appointed managing editor of the American Society for Microbiology and edited the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and the Journal of Bacteriology. Day became director and later vice president of ISI, the book-publishing subsidiary of the Institute for Scientific Information. He is the author of How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, now in its fifth printing. He has taught writing seminars all over the world and many of his articles have been translated into other languages. He currently serves on the editorial board of Dr. English. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Day received his master's degree from Columbia University. Frank B. Dilley Dilley, philosophy, came to UD 33 years ago. He has published extensively in his field and is the author of Metaphysics and Religious Language and editor of Philosophical Interactions with Parapsychology. He has served on several committees at the University and held two terms as president of the Faculty Senate from 1988-1990. He received the outstanding service award from the College of Arts and Science in 1995. Dilley received bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy from Ohio University, a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Columbia University. W. Bruce Finnie Finnie, English, has taught at the University for 35 years and also held a joint appointment with the linguistics department for 15 years. He served as director of graduate studies in English from 1975-1981. A medieval scholar, he is the author of many publications, including The Stages of English: Texts, Transcriptions, Exercises, which was used in college classrooms for many years. Also an expert on American dialects, Finnie was editor of Names: Journal of the American Name Society. He was awarded the UD excellence-in-teaching award in 1968, the Excellence in Teaching Adult Students Award by the Division of Continuing Education in 2000 and also was listed in Prentice Hall's 1990 College Book as an outstanding teacher. Finnie is a graduate of the University of Akron, and he received his master's degree from Columbia University and his doctorate from Ohio State University. Arthur Halprin Halprin, physics and astronomy, joined the UD faculty in 1964. His research involves elementary particle theory and nutrinos. During his career, he has served as president of the College of Arts and Science Senate and as vice president of both the Faculty Senate and the American Association of University Professors University of Delaware Chapter. Halprin has had visiting positions at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Stanford Linear Accelerator, CERN in Switzerland, LAPP in France, Technion in Israel and Seoul National University in South Korea. He also organized a physics conference at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia in 1996, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Halprin received his master's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and this doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Robert Hannah Hannah, health and exercise sciences, completed his 36th and final season as UD's head baseball coach in 2000, with a career record of 1,053-464-6, becoming the 22nd all-time coach to win 1,000 games. Hannah was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1991 and has been a charter member of the state of Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame since 1994. He has been named NCAA East District Coach of the Year five times and named conference Coach of the Year seven times. He directed the Blue Hens to 21 regular season conference titles. Hannah, who chaired the physical education department for 14 years and for whom the Bob Hannah Stadium is named, earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Delaware. Robert Hogenson Hogenson, music, has been a member of the music faculty since 1968. A noted composer, he has written nearly 50 musical works for instruments, ensembles and orchestra, and his music has been performed by the Atlanta Symphony Brass, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony, the Delaware Symphony and several other musical groups and by nearly all the soloists and ensembles at UD. Hogenson graduated from Northeast Missouri State University, and he received a master's degree from Louisiana State University and a doctorate from Michigan State University. Barbara J. Kelly Kelly, health and exercise sciences, joined the UD faculty in 1962 and served as chairperson of the Women's Physical Education Department, as associate dean from 1982-89 and acting dean from 1989-90 of the then-College of Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation. She has published extensively in her field and has served as vice president and on the board of the International Association of Physical Education and Sports for Girls and Women. In 1993, she received the Trabant Award for Women's Equity and the 1997 Pioneer Award from the Delaware Women's Alliance for Sports and Fitness. In 1992, she was an invited visiting professor in China. She received her bachelor's degree from Bridgewater College, her master's degree from the University of Maryland and her doctorate from the UD. Victor Martuza Martuza, education, joined the UD faculty in 1970. He served as chairperson of the Department of Educational Studies from 1986-1991 and as director of the Center for Intercultural Teacher Education (CITE) from 1992-1999. He also directed eight study abroad programs. He has written several articles, books and book chapters and coauthored Introduction to Statistics, which won the Educom/NCRIPTAL Award for the best software tutorial in 1989. A graduate of Wilkes College, Martuza received his master's and doctoral degrees in educational research, measurement and statistics from the University of Maryland. Peter McCarthy McCarthy, music, joined the UD faculty in 1972. He has studied under several noted conductors and has frequently appeared as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. He is the author of two computer-based education lessons and choral editions. For several years, McCarthy has conducted the choir and orchestra with participants from the U.S. and Europe at the Salzburg Church Music Festival. The recipient of a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, McCarthy is a graduate of the Crane School of Music of the State University of New York at Potsdam and received his doctorate in musicology from the Catholic University of America. James B. Mehl Mehl, physics and astronomy, has been a member of the UD faculty since 1968 and was named interim associate dean of graduate studies and research in the College of Arts and Science in 1997. He also served as chairperson for the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1988-94. A fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, he has been a guest scientist at a number of institutions, including the University of Heidelberg and Kernforschungsanlage, Juelich, Germany. He had a long-term collaboration with scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he applied acoustic and electromagnetic resonance principles to the determination of the thermophysical properties of fluids. He also worked with Center for Composite Materials engineers in a program on laser-based ultrasonics. Mehl holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota. Ludwing Mosberg Mosberg, education, joined the UD faculty in 1970 and served in several positions within what was formerly the College of Education, including chairing the Department of Educational Studies from 1974-84, serving as director of the Center for Educational Leadership and Evaluation from 1989-1993 and as acting dean in 1993. He also served as president of the Faculty Senate in 1974-75. His area of research is information processing, language comprehension, cognition and instruction, and he is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Society. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Mosberg earned his doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles. William Pulliam Pulliam, history, was a high school history teacher for several years before joining the UD faculty in 1967. At the University, he taught social studies education courses for pre-service and in-service teachers and curriculum development courses for doctoral students, also directing a curriculum development project. He had a Fulbright fellowship in Munich from 1965-1967. Among his publications are America Rediscovered and The Status of World History Instruction in American Secondary Schools. Pulliam is a graduate of the University of Kansas and earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Illinois. Robert A. Rothman Rothman, sociology and criminal justice, joined the UD faculty in 1967 and chaired the department from 1994-1999. His field of expertise is social stratification and mobility. He is author or coauthor of four books, including Working: Sociological Perspectives. A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, he earned his master's degree at Michigan State University and his doctorate at Purdue University. Jerold M. Schultz Schultz, who joined UD's chemical engineering faculty in 1964, is the C. Ernest Birchenall Professor of Chemical Engineering. His research field is semicrystalline polymers, and he is the author of several books on diffraction and materials science. He joined the Delaware faculty in 1964, and since then has held several visiting appointments throughout the world, including Stanford University, the universities of Mainz, Saarland and Bochum in Germany, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Sofia in Bulgaria and the National Chemical Laboratory in India. An Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist awardee in 1977 and 1982, he received the Kliment Ohridski Medal from the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1986. A graduate of University of California at Berkeley, where he also earned his master's degree, Schultz conducted research at Westinghouse Research Laboratories and then received his doctorate in metallurgical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. Arthur A. Sloane Sloane, business and economics, came to UD in 1966 as a professor of industrial relations. He has won the Outstanding Teacher in Business Administration four times, the UD excellence-in-teaching award, the Mortar Board Award for Exceptional Teaching and has been honored for his teaching by the Danforth Foundation. Sloane chaired the Delaware Public Employment Relations board from 1990-1996 and was a member of the National Labor Panel of the American Arbitration Association, the National Roster of Labor Arbitrators of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and was a permanent arbitrator under the Chrysler Corporation-United Auto Workers. He is the author of the biography Hoffa, which was named one of the most "Noteworthy Books" in its field by Princeton University. A graduate of Harvard College, Sloane received his M.B.A. from the Columbia University Graduate Business School and his doctorate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Damie Stillman Stillman joined the UD faculty in 1977 and was named the John W. Shirley Professor of Art History in 1989. He served as chairperson of the department from 1980-1986 and from 1993-1998. He is the author of The Decorative Work of Robert Adam, English Painting: The Great Masters, 1730-1850 and English Neoclassical Architecture, which received the 1988 Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for 18th Century Studies. A past president of the Society of Architectural Historians, Stillman twice received National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his master's degree from UD's Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, his doctorate from Columbia University and also studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. Barbara Viera Viera, intercollegiate athletics, came to UD in 1973. Her 27-year record as volleyball coach is 682-429-4, and she led her teams to nine straight conference tournament appearances from 1991-1999. The 1992 and 1994 squads won America East titles. She is seventh on the all-time college coaching win list. The East Coast Girls Volleyball Junior Olympic Championships trophy and the Barbara Viera Volleyball Court in the Carpenter Sports Building are named in her honor. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, she earned her master's and doctoral degrees at Springfield College. William Henry Williams Williams, who taught history in the University Parallel Program and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program in Georgetown, joined the UD faculty 33 years ago. He is the author of Slavery and Freedom in Delaware; The Garden of American Methodism: The Delmarva Peninsula, 1769-1820; The First State: An Illustrated History of Delaware; and America's First Hospital: The Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1841. A graduate of Drew University, he received a master's degree in education from Yeshiva University and a doctorate from the University of Dealware. |
