Vol. 20, No. 2 |
Sept. 21, 2000 |
BooksEllen Pifer, English, Demon or Doll: Images of t he Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville and London. A. H.-D. Cheng, civil and environmental engineering, Multilayer Aquifer Systems– Fundamentals and Applications, Marcel Dekker, New York and Basel. Publications Ben Steiner, sociology and criminal justice, "Still Arbitrary: Capital Sentencing in the Post-Firman Era," in Criminal Justice Policy Review, vol. 10. Monika Shafi, foreign languages and literatures, "Turning the Gaze Inward: Gertrud Kolmar's 'Briefe an die Schwester Hilde 1938-1943,'" in Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present, Elke P. Frederiksen and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach, editors, State University of New York Press, Albany. Marian Lief Palley, political science and international relations, "Rethinking a Women's Health Agenda," in Women and Politics, vol. 21, no. 3. Billy P. Glass, geology, "Cenozoic Microtektites and Clinopyroxene-bearing Spherule Layers in Marine Sediments," in Terrestrial and Cosmic Spherules: Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Meeting TECOS, pages 57-71. A. H.-D. Cheng, civil and environmental engineering, with D. Halhal, A. Naji and D. Quazar, "Pumping Optimization in Saltwater-Intruded Coastal Aquifers," in Water Resources Research, vol. 35, no. 8, pages 2155-2166. Presentations Valerie Hans, sociology and criminal justice, appeared in August on the Marc Steiner Show, WJHU in Baltimore, for a program on new limits on the jury system and was interviewed by KCSN News in Northridge, Calif., on jury bias in whiplash cases, Aug. 23. Ellen Pifer, English, "Wordworth's Child in DeLillo's White Noise," at the University of Granada, March 17, and the University of Cordoba, Spain, March 18. John P. McLaughlin, psychology, "Memory for Aesthetic Qualities Revisited" and with undergraduates Michelle E. McGettigan and Timothy P. O'Dwyer, "The Poggendorf Illusion in Paintings," at International Association for Empirical Aesthetics Conference, Aug. 9-12. Sandra Millard, library, "UDLib/SEARCH," at Literacy Roundtable/Idea Exchange, Sept. 12, at International Reading Association, Newark, Del. Raymond Callahan, history, panelist, "British Hegemony Revisited," at American Political Science Association meeting, Aug. 31-Sept. 1, Washington, D.C. Hilton Brown, Harriet T. Baily Professor of Museum Studies, Art History and Art Conservation, "The Medium IS the Message: Some of the Materials and Techniques of Selected Abstract Expressionist Painters and Others," at National Teacher Institute meeting, "The Beat Generation and Beyond: American Art of the 1950s and 1960s," July 14 and 28 and Aug. 11, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Kevin B. Theobald and Guang R. Gao, electrical and computer engineering, and Gagan Agrawal, computer and information sciences, with graduate student Rishi Kumar and postdoctoral fellow Ruppa K. Thulasiram and Gerd Heber of Cornell University, "Developing a Communication Intensive Application on the EARTH Multithreaded Architecture," at Sixth International Euro-Par Conference, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, Munich. The paper, which was one of five to be awarded distinguished paper status, appears in the proceedings of the conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1900, pages 625-637, Springer-Verlag. Marian Lief Palley, political science and international relations, a keynote address, "Women and Politics in the United States," at New Zealand Political Studies Association annual convention, June 28; and "Presidential Elections in the United States," at University of Otago Law School, June 21, Dunedin, New Zealand; and "Korean Women: Prospects for a New Century," at International Political Science Association conference, July 31. Chandra L. Reedy, museum studies, "Recent Advances in the Conservation of Silver," a workshop at Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center, Aug. 21-25, and "The History and Conservation of Silver," at Joslyn Art Museum, Aug. 25, Omaha. Kevin Kerrane, English, "What Writers Can Learn from Documentary Movies," at conference of writers and editors, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Aug. 24, St. Petersburg, Fla. Tom Sims, plant and soil sciences, an invited paper, "Nutrient Cycling and Transport in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Integrating Research into Agricultural Management and Policy," at American Chemical Society national meeting, Aug. 24, Washington, D.C. Billy P. Glass, geology "Upper Eocene Impact/Spherule Layers: A Status Report" and "Cenozoic Microtekite and Impact Spherule Layers," at 31st International Geological Congress, Aug. 6-17, Rio de Janeiro. Service Ellen Pifer, English, served as director of the UD Paris Semester Abroad during the spring. Anniversaries 30 years Henrietta Watson, animal and food sciences, Sept. 16, 1970 25 years Elizabeth B. Reynolds, University Honors Program, July 1, 1975 Carol D. Rylee, Budget Office, Sept. 29, 1975 20 years Douglas J. Baker, civil and environmental engineering, Sept. 16, 1980 Susan Coombes, mechanical engineering, Sept. 24, 1980 Barbara K. Mackenzie, Office of Vice Provost , Sept. 16, 1980 Brian E. McCandless, energy conversion, Sept. 22, 1980 Madlen F. Michael, Dining Services, Sept. 22, 1980 Donna D. Ries, history, Oct. 1, 1980 Leathia E. Tate, bookstore, Sept. 22, 1980 Helen J. Waters, Dining Services, Sept. 22, 1980 15 years James R. Bacon, food and resource economics, Sept. 16, 1985 Walter M. Dabell, Bartol Research Institute, Sept. 23, 1985 Nancy K. Davis, University Parallel Program/Wilmington, Sept. 23, 1985 Carol V. Falgiano, Information Technologies/Management Information Systems, Sept. 16, 1985 Alethea E. Johnson, Facilities Management/building services, Sept. 16, 1985 Rosalie A. Kirlan, civil and environmental engineering, Sept. 17, 1985 Louise W. Stevens, education, Sept. 30, 1985 Judith L. Watson, sociology, Sept. 30, 1985 10 years Donna B. Brenchley, accounting and management information services, Oct. 1, 1990 Renee R. Fisher, arts and science, Sept. 17, 1990 Tammy Allston Kater, agricultural communications, Sept. 17, 1990 Patricia B. Moeller, education, Oct. 1, 1990 5 years Timothy S. Conrad, Transportation Services, Sept. 18, 1995 Christina I. Everhart, Benefits Services, Oct. 1, 1995 Katherine H. Kuck, business and economics, Oct. 2, 1995 Seymour Levine, psychology, Sept. 16, 1995. Donna Lumpkin, Center for Economic Education, Sept. 18, 1995 Trudy M. Riley, international programs and special sessions, Oct. 1, 1995 Lucille Z. Short, plant and soil sciences, Oct. 1, 1995 Sonja L. Simowitz, applied sciences and engineering center, Oct. 1, 1995 Constance C. Sims, individual and family studies, Sept. 25, 1995 Mark J. Vangessel, plant and soil sciences, Sept. 18, 1995 Andrew S. Welsh, Facilities Planning and Construction, Sept. 27, 1995 Grants From National Science Foundation: Stephen Craig Cary, marine studies, $292,675 for "Eurythermal Adaptations to an Extreme Environment by the Symbionts of the Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete, Alvinella Pompejana"; Guang R. Gao, electrical and computer engineering, $60,672 for "Experimental Evaluation of Active Caches for Fine Grain Multi-threading Systems"; Robert P. Gilbert, Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences, $20,000 for "Inverse Acoustic Problems in Shallow Oceans"; Brian Hanson, geography, $102,200 for "Investigation of Tidal Aliasing and Climate Scale Processes in Sea Ice and Their Influence on Oceanic-Atmospheric Heat/ Momentum Balances Using Stochastic Methods, Satellite Derived Products, and In-situ Buoy Arrays"; David L. Kirchman, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies, $92,720 for "Formation of Modified Biochemicals and Their Contribution to Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in Marine Ecosystems"; Susan McGeary, geology, $131,839 for "Neotectonics and Climatic History of the Central Andes: High-resolution Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Salar de Uyuni"; Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, $196,645 for "Measurement and Prediction of Global Phase Diagrams of Binary Mixtures Using Equations of State and Excess Gibbs Free Energy Mixing Rules"; and Robert H. Wood, chemistry and biochemistry, $110,800 for "Aqueous Solutions at High Temperatures." From National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research: Mary C. Farach-Carson, biological sciences, $37,500 for "Growth Factor Bioavailability and Gingival Overgrowth"; and Norman J. Karin, biological sciences, $37,500 for "Cycling of Ca2+ across the Plasma Membrane of Bone Cells." Martha J. Buell, disabilities studies, $1,012,171 from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, for "Northern Delaware Early Head Start." John W. Gillespie, Jr., composite materials, $165,000 from U.S. Office of Naval Research for "Intelligent VARTM Processing of Composite Structures." Rena A. Hallam, disabilities studies, $15,000 from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, for "Examination of the Effects of Early Head Start: Parental Efficacy and Parent-Child Interaction." Lana D. Harrison and Steven Martin, drug and alcohol studies, $399,996 from National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, for "Validity of Self-Reported Drug Use in Population Surveys." James T. Kirby, civil and environmental engineering, and Ib Svendsen, Distinguished Professor of Ocean Engineering, $1,095,432 from U.S. Office of Naval Research for "Development and Verification of a Comprehensive Community Model for Physical Processes in the Nearshore Ocean." Krzysztof Szalewicz, physics and astronomy, an additional $8,115 from U.S. Army Research Laboratory for "Parallelization of Symmetry-adapted Perturbation Theory Codes." Qing Xiang, mathematical sciences, $13,000 from National Security Agency, Central Security Service, for "Difference Methods in Combinatorics." |
