Vol. 20, No. 6 |
Nov. 16, 2000 |
Books Tom Sims, plant and soil sciences, with Gary M. Pierzynski of Kansas State University and George F. Vance of University of Wyoming, Soils and Environmental Quality, second edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla. Publications Rivers Singleton Jr., biological sciences and English, "Robert Earle Buchanan: An Unappreciated Scientist," in Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, vol. 72, pages 329-339. Marianne Green, Career Services Center, "Where Practitioners Draw the Line Between Their Professional Lives and Personal Lives," in Journal of Career Planning and Employment, fall 2000. Dewey M. Caron, entomology and applied ecology, "Development of a Treatment Threshold for Varroa Mites for Fall Miticide Decisions," in American Bee Journal, vol. 140, no. 11, pages 902-903. Maria Frawley, English, "The Tides of the Mind: Alice Meynell's Poetry of Perspective," in Victorian Poetry, spring 2000. Bonnie Robb, foreign languages and literatures, "Celestin/Celestine: Ambiguities of Identity Chez Mme de Genlis," in 18th-Century Fiction, vol. 12, pages 549-564. Edward Nowak, physics and astronomy, with A. Grushin, A.C.B. Barnum and M.B. Weissman, "Density-Noise Fluctuations in Vibrated Granular Media," in Physical Review E (Rapid Communication) and with R.D. Merithew, Weissman, F.M. Hess, P. Spradling, J. O'Donnell, J. Eckstein, Y. Tokura and Y. Tomioka, "Mesoscopic Thermodynamics of an Inhomogeneous Colossal-Magnetoresistive Phase," in Physical Review Letters, vol. 84, page 3442. Theodore E.D. Braun, foreign languages and literatures, "Audience Awareness Theory and 18th-Century French Novels," in Diderot Studies, vol. 28, pages 59-73. John B. Bishop, counseling and student development, "An Environmental Approach to Combat Binge Drinking on College Campuses," in Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, vol. 15, no. 1, pages 15-30. Robert L. Paretta, accounting and management information services, "Evaluating Windows 2000: Does Upgrading Make Sense?" in the Pennsylvania CPA Journal, vol. 71, no. 3, pages 12-13. Carl Jacobson, Management Information Services, "E-Business: Change, Challenge and Opportunity," in The 'e' Factor in Delivering Advising and Student Services, National Academic Advising Association monograph series. Frank B. Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies and Psychology, "Teacher Education: Words of Caution About Popular Reforms," in Learning From Change, Stylus Publishing. Mary Richards, English, "Manuscripts, Illuminations and Charters," in the Old English Newsletter, vol. 31, no. 2, pages 102-112. Presentations Ismat Shah, physics and astronomy, with Keming Xu and D. Guerin, "Low Temperature Deposition and Characterization of Polycrystalline Si Films"; with Guerin, "Deposition of Silicon Nitride on a Polymer Substrate by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition"; and with W.D. Li and Guerin, "Growth and Characterization of Mestastable Gel-xCx Thin Films on Si(100) substrate," at American Vacuum Society National Symposium, October, Boston. Tom Sims with A.B. Leytem, plant and soil sciences, with Frank Coale of University of Maryland, "Implementing a Phosphorus Site Index; The Delmarva Experience," at National Poultry Waste Management Symposium, Oct. 16-18, Ocean City, Md. Edward Nowak, physics and astronomy, "Electron Tunneling and Noise Studies in Ferromagnetic Junctions," at International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films " April 13, San Diego. Bonnie Robb, foreign languages and literatures, "Epistolary Education: Madame de Genlis Writes Casimir," at East-Central/American Society for 18th-Century Studies annual meeting, Oct. 5-8, Norfolk. Henry R. Glyde, physics and astronomy, with Jonathan DuBois, an invited paper, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Bose-Einstein Condensation," at International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Sept. 12-17, Buenos Aires, and a talk on research at the institute at 40th anniversary of the Theoretical Physics Institute at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 27-Oct. 2. Bruce Heggen, English, "Image, Transcendence, Transformation: The Apophatic Blue Guitar of Wallace Stevens" and "Habitations of the Word: Art and the Spiritual Ecology of Place," at eighth annual Image Conference in cooperation with Conference on Christianity and Literature, Oct. 19-22, Seattle Pacific University. Sandy Hiortdahl, English, guest reader from John Gardner's last novel, Mickelsson's Ghosts, at fifth annual Batavia Celebrates the Life of John Gardner meeting, Oct. 14, Batavia, N.Y. Dewey M. Caron, entomology and applied ecology, "Threshold Determination for Varroa Mite IPM Program," at Cornell University, Oct. 12, and Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Oct. 14, New Haven, and "Roadside Marketing of Honey Products," at West Virginia Beekeepers fall meeting, Sept. 29, and Massachusetts Beekeepers Federation annual meeting, Oct. 21. Peter G. Roe, anthropology, an invited presentation, "Born of Powder, Raised in Tea: Hallucinogenic Imagery in the Tello Obelisk, Chavin, Peru," at third D.J. Sibley Family Conference on World Traditions of Culture and Art, Nov. 2-5, University of Texas at Austin. Thomas E. McKenna, Delaware Geological Survey, "Aerial Thermal-Infrared Imaging and 'Ground-Truthing' to Qualify Ground-water Discharge to a Coastal Estuary on the Atlantic Coast of Delaware," Oct. 12, Department of Geosciences colloquia, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Martin Brucker, English, "Re-Placing Identity: Space and Subjectivity in Brown's Geographic Writings," at Frontiers of Charles Brockden Brown Conference, October, Las Vegas; and "The Continent Speaks: Geography, Oratory and the Figuration of Identity in British American," at American Studies Association meeting, October, Detroit. Julie Mapes Wilgren, individual and family studies, "Sexuality Across the Life Span," at 23rd annual conference, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, eastern region, April, Philadelphia. Charles E. Mason, entomology and applied ecology, "Carrion Beetle Ecology in Our Own Backyard," at Entomological Society of Pennsylvania annual meeting, Sept. 22, State College, Pa. Seven faculty members from the Writing Center and the Department of English, Eleanor Austin, Dee Baer, Gilda Kelsey, Barbara Lutz, Clyde Moneyhun, Dorothy Ross and Chris Penna, had made a presentation at a "Reading in the Writing Center" workshop during the National Writing Centers Association Conference, Nov. 4, Baltimore. Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, "From Recuperation to Analysis: Women in the History of Natural History," at Women and Gender in Science, Medicine and Technology conference, Oct. 12-15, St. Louis. Maria Frawley, English, "Bedroom Prophet, Sick-room Saint: Ellen Chadwick, the 'Famous Manchester Invalid,'" plenary lecture, at Victorian Institute, Oct. 6-7, University of South Carolina. Bonnie Scott, English, "Rebecca West's Responses to Fascism," at conference on British women in the '30s, Sept. 15, City University of New York; "Uses of Nature in Joyce and Woolf," Oct. 14, University of Pennsylvania. Benjamin Steiner, sociology and criminal justice, with graduate student Victor Argothy, "The White-Addiction Thesis: Racial Ideology, the War on Drugs and the New Jim Crow," at political and civil rights law review symposium, Oct. 14, Temple University Law School; and with Valerie Hans, sociology and criminal justice, "The Capital Jury," at Death Penalty 2000, Oct. 27, Widener Law School, Wilmington. Lana D. Harrison, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, "Comparing Estimates of Drug Use Among Youth in the U.S. Produced by the MTF, NHSDA and YRBS Studies," at European Society for Social Drug Research 11th annual meeting, Sept. 21-23, Dublin; and "The Challenge of Reintegrating Drug Offenders into the Community" at Urban Institute Reentry Roundtable, Oct. 12-13, Washington, D.C. James A. Inciardi, Hilary L. Surratt and Steven S. Martin, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, "Preventing Relapse and Recidivism Among Drug Involved Offenders," at Addictions 2000 Conference, Sept. 22-24, Hyannis, Mass.; Inciardi, Surratt, Martin and Carl G. Leukefeld of University of Kentucky, "Evaluation of Behavioral Interventions," at 13th International AIDS Conference, July 9-14, Durban, South Africa; and Inciardi, "TC Research in Special Settings," "New Directions for TC Research" and "Treating Special Populations in Therapeutic Communities," at conference on new directions in therapeutic community research, Aug. 30-31, San Francisco. Farley Grubb, economics, "Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union, 1761-1811: A Quest for Monetary Stability or a Usurpation of State Sovereignty for Personal Gain?" at University of Colorado, Oct. 13, Boulder, Colo., and at Social Science History Association annual meeting, Oct. 27, Pittsburgh. Barbara H. Settles, individual and family studies, "Social Transformations and the Future of Family Theory, Research and Programs," at International Sociological Association Research Council seminar on social transformations at the turn of the millennium, July, Montreal; "Language and Multicultural Issues in Adapting Family Life Education and Evaluation: A Model for Collaborative Development," at International Sociological Association seminar on theoretical and methodological issues in cross-cultural family studies, June, Uppsala, Sweden; and "Family Sociology in Prevention and Education Programs," at Austrian Institute for Family Studies, April, Vienna, Austria. Valerie Hans, sociology and criminal justice, discussed civil justice and law suits against corporations on The John Rago Show, WDEL-AM, Wilmington, Oct. 20. Steven K. Dentel, civil and environmental engineering, with J.T. Sims and R.O. Maguire, plant and soil sciences, and J.T. Mah and Y. Kadar, civil and environmental engineering, "Availability and Biological Impact of Phosphorus in Soil Amended with Biosolids: Effect of Wastewater Treatment Processes on the Forms, Solubility and Biological Availability of Phosphorus in Municipal Biosolids," at Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, Oct. 18, Anaheim, Calif.; Dentel, "Recent Advances in Solids Liquid Separation in Wastewater Treatment," at first National Environmental Pollution Control Symposium, Oct. 6, Ankara, Turkey; and Dentel with B.M. Gucciardi, N.J. Griskowitz, L. Chang, D.L. Raudenbush and B. Arican, "Chemistry, Function and Fate of Acrylamide-Based Polymers," at ninth Gothenburg Symposium, Oct. 2, Istanbul. Theodore E.D. Braun, foreign languages and literatures, "Voltaire, Virgil, Metastasio and Le Franc de Pompignan's Didon," at East-Central/American Society for 18th-Century Studies 31st annual meeting, Oct. 5-8, Norfolk. Mary Dozier, psychology, "Tailoring Services to the Needs of Young Children in Foster Care," at Illinois Infant Mental Health Association meeting, Oct. 26-27, Washington, D.C. Andrew Fields and Breck Robinson, finance, "Market Reaction of Thrift Institutions to Interstate Banking: The Benefits of Consolidation," at Financial Management Association meeting, Oct. 26, Seattle. Robert Schweitzer, finance, chaired a session on interstate mergers at the meeting. Service Ajay K. Prasad, mechanical engineering, as been selected as associate technical editor of the Journal of Fluids Engineering. Barbara Lutz, Writing Center, co-chaired the National Writing Centers Association Conference, Nov. 2-4, in Baltimore. Nancy Nelson, library, serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Access Services: Innovations for Electronic and Digital Library and Information Resources. John Jebb, English, served as a discussion leader for the Delmarva Discussion Series, at libraries in Appoquinimink and Bear. Dewey M. Caron, entomology and applied ecology, was a reviewer of proposals for U.S. AID entomology/ecology grant submissions in the U.S.-Israel/ Middle East Cooperative Development Research Program in October. He represented the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. Timothy Murray, library, was elected vice chairperson/ chairperson-elect of the Privacy and Confidentiality Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists. Robert Taggart, education, was elected to the board of directors, Community Legal Aid Society of Delaware and was elected president of the Midwest History of Education Society. Martin Bruckner, English, was elected to the advisory board of the Charles Brockden Brown Society in October. Phyllis Keys, finance, participated in the KPMG Ph.D. Project at the Financial Management Conference in October, providing mentoring and guidance to African-American, Hispanic American and Native American doctoral students in finance. Anniversaries 25 years Faye E. Bullen, Information Technologies/Network and Systems Services, Nov. 18, 1975 Donald Redmond, Labor Relations, Nov. 26, 1975 20 years Lorena J. Hobart, marine studies, Nov. 17, 1980 Toni Marie Trainor, theatre, Nov. 18, 1980 15 years Kathleen Bieker, University Parallel Program/Dover, Nov. 18, 1985 Carol A. Eichinger, Morris Library, Nov. 18, 1985 Darius J, Hudson, Information Technologies/Network and Systems Services, Nov. 18, 1985 Linda Hughes, Payroll, Nov. 25, 1985 Evelyn M. Jackson, education, Nov. 25, 1985 James D. Warrington, marine studies, Nov. 18, 1985 Richard A. Wittenberg, Morris Library, Nov. 25, 1985 10 years Gerald A. Collins, Dining Services, Nov. 19, 1990 5 years Quentin D. Golston, Facilities Management/building services, Nov. 27, 1995 David W. Mackenzie, Perkins Student Center, Nov. 27, 1995 Masako H. Sargeant, Residential and Conference Facilities/shops, Nov. 20, 1995 |
