Keeping up with Faculty and Staff

Frederick M. Swain, geology emeritus, "Micro-Ostracoda from the Eocene of North Carolina: A Suggested Interstitial Faunule," in Revista Espanola de Micropaleontologia, vol. 32, no. 3, pages 411-421.

Barbara Sheer, nursing, "Case Study: Young Boy Presenting with Swollen Glands and Sore Throat," in Lippincott's Primary Care Practice, vol. 4, pages 524-528.

Ken Haas, sociology and criminal justice, "Coerced Confessions," pages 293-296, "Corporal Punishment," pages 307-312, and "Cruel and Unusual Punishment," pages 357-361, in Violence in America: An Encyclopedia, Ronald Gottesman and Richard Maxwell Brown, editors.

Daniel Simmons, biological sciences, "SV40 Large T Antigen-Functions in DNA Replication and Transformation," in Advances in Virus Research, vol. 55, pages 75-134.

Ann Ardis, English, "Delimiting Modernism and the Literary Field: D.H. Lawrence and The Lost Girl," in Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-1930, St. Martin's Press.

Peter Feng, English, "Recuperating Suzie Wong: A Fan's Nancy Kwan-dary," in Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism, Darrell Hamamoto and Sandra Liu, Temple University Press; co-editor with Soo-Young Chin and Josephine Lee, Journal of Asian American Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, a special issue on cultural production available online.

McKay Jenkins, English, "John Heinz Wildlife Refuge," in Philadelphia Magazine, November.

Jeanne Walker, English, "Apology." plus a bibliography of her work and a statement of her aesthetic principles, in Great Plains Poets, The Midwest Quarterly, autumn.

Joel Best, sociology and criminal justice, "Studying the Social Construction of Crime Problems," in the Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology, vol. 25, pages 12-28.

Francis C. Poole, library, "The Wind and the Lion: Myth and Reality in the Life and Times of Moulay Ahmed al-Raisuli," in The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies, pages 279-289.

Josephine B. Williamson, library, "Are We Having Fun Yet: Motivating Staff in Times of Change," in Advances in Serials Management, vol. 7, JAI Press.

Cliff Sloyer, mathematical sciences, "Algebraic Objectives, Perspectives and Connectives: The MATH Connections Vision," in 2000 Yearbook, Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics, pages 39-47.

Several members in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences made presentations at the annual meeting of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America, Nov. 5-9 in Minneapolis: Donald L. Sparks, Distinguished Professor of Soil Science, with C.J. Matocha of University of Kentucky and former student Evert J. Elzinga, "Reactivity of Lead on Solid Manganese Materials"; with postdoctoral associate Florence G. Gillot, "Kinetics and Speciation of Ni Sorption on Beidellite"; with graduate students Yuji Arai and James Dyer, "Arsenic Speciation in Contaminated Sites Using Microfocused X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy"; with graduate student J. Derek Peak, "Effect of Reaction Conditions on Boron Sorption on Iron Hydroxides"; with graduate student Darryl R. Roberts, "The Direct Identification and Stability of Zinc Species in Contaminated Soils"; with graduate student Stefan Hunger, "Reactions of Phosphate at the Gibbsite-Water Interface: A Molecular Scale Study"; and with graduate student Maarten Nachtegaal, "Nickel Sequestration in a Mixed Kaolinite-Humic Acid System"; J. Thomas Sims, "Comparisons of State Approaches to the Development of Phosphorus Indices" and "The Phosphorus Index: Current Versions Compared"; with R.R. Simard of Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, "Phosphorus Leaching in Agricultural Soils: Source, Transport, and Management Factors"; with J.R. Heckman of Rutgers University, D. Beegle of Pennsylvania State University, F.J. Coale of University of Maryland and S. Herbert of University of Massachusetts, "Nutrient Concentration and Uptake in Harvested Corn Grain"; with Coale, E.B. Baugher, and postdoctoral associate April B. Leytem, "Applications of the Phosphorus Index: Mid-Atlantic U.S."; with Leytem, "Effect of Initial Soil Test Phosphorus Value and Broiler Litter Additions on Phosphorus Buildup in Atlantic Coastal Plain Soils"; with Coale and postdoctoral associate Rory O. Maguire, "Phosphorus Loss from Agricultural Soils by Subsurface Flow on the Delmarva Peninsula"; with research associate Karen L. Gartley and M.A. Flock of Brookside Labs Inc., "Soil Test Summary Data: Valuable Education Tool or Invasion of Privacy"; with graduate student Peter A. Vadas, "Modeling Field-Scale Phosphorus Export from Artificially Drained Atlantic Coastal Plain Soils" and "Predicting Phosphorus Concentrations in Runoff from Atlantic Coastal Plain Soils"; with graduate student Chad J. Penn and A.N. Sharpley of USDA-ARS, "Characterizing Phosphorus Losses in Runoff from Biosolids-Amended Soils by a Rainfall Simulation Method" and "Effect of Wastewater Treatment Process on Forms of Phosphorus in Biosolids-Amended Soils"; with graduate student Joshua M. McGrath, "Effect of Poultry Diets Using Phytase Enzymes and High Available Phosphorus Corn on Phosphorus in Poultry Litter, Soils, and Runoff"; and with graduate student Robert A. Eaton, "Effect of Water Treatment Residuals on Growth and Phosphorus Removal by Plants Adapted for Vegetative Buffers in the Mid-Atlantic U.S."; Jeffry J. Fuhrmann with A.E. Peach and D.A. Zuberer of Texas A&M University, "Influence of Surface Mining Reclamation on Microbial Diversity" and with T.L. Lalande, H.D. Skipper, W.C. Bridges, C.M. Reynolds, D.C. Wolf, P.G. Hartel and D.M. Sylvia of Clemson University, USACRREL, University of Arkansas, University of Georgia and University of Florida, "Effects of Annual Ryegrass and Pyrene on the Microbial Community of a Cecil Soil"; Mark Radosevich and Yan Jin with Daniel Cha, civil and environmental engineering, and graduate student Stacy M. Dean, "Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization Analysis of Cell-Cell Interactions Between Biosurfactant-Producing and Phenanthrene-Degrading Bacteria"; Radosevich with graduate student E. Danielle Rhine, "DGGE and FAME Analyses of Microbial Community Responses to Repeated s-Triazine Exposure and Nutrient Availability"; Jin with postdoctoral associate Jie Zhuang and T. Miyazaki of University of Toyko, "Estimating Water Retention Characteristic from Soil Particle Size Distribution Using Non-Similar Media Concept" and with former student Yanjie Chu and M. Flury of Washington State University, "Virus Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media as Affected by Solid Surface Properties"; Gregory D. Binford, David J. Hansen, and Sims with W.R. Rohrer of the Delaware Nutrient Management Program, "Delaware's Nutrient Management Program"; Hansen with A.M. Blackmer of Iowa State University, "Soil Nitrate Test Calibrations Based on Probability of Response and Net Returns to Fertilization."

Several staff members from Information Technologies/User Services made presentations at the SIGUCCS User Services Conference, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, Richmond, Va.: Janet de Vry with Julius Bianchi of California Lutheran University, "Teaching with Technology: Designing, Implementing and Sustaining Faculty Development Programs"; Debbie Durant and Ginny Redmond with Jerry Martin of Ohio State University, Jim Osborn of University of Wyoming, Court Sansom of Texas A&M University, "Slowing the Revolving Door: Motivating and Retaining Student Employees"; Paul Hyde and John Hall, "Different Strokes for Teaching Folks"; Kate Webster with Bernice Ginder of Rutgers University and Jim Yucha of Virginia Commonwealth University, "Recruitment and Retention of IT Staff in Higher Education"; and Debbie Jeffers, Hyde and Hall, "Introducing Technology to Educators in a Way that is Compelling–Not Intimidating: Support Issues."

Valerie Hans, sociology and criminal justice, "The Psychology of the Juror," at Criminal Practice Institute of District of Columbia Public Defender Service, Nov. 19, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Barbara Landau, psychology, with graduate student Edward Munnich, "Maturation and Second Language Learning: A Focus on Spatial Semantics," at Boston University Child Language Conference, Nov. 3-5, Boston.

Jeffrey Rosen, psychology, with graduate student Karen Wallace and Seema Malkani, "Antisense Oligonucleotide to EGR-1 Inflused into the Lateral Nucleus of the Amygdala Blocks Contextual Fear Conditioning," at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Nov. 4-9, New Orleans.

Dallas G. Hoover, animal and food sciences, "Safety of rDNA Biotechnology-derived Foods," at IFT's International Food Safety and Quality Conference and Expo, Nov. 15-17, Orlando.

Michael Gamel-McCormick, individual and family studies, "Young Children with Special Needs: Strategies for Providing Developmentally Appropriate Experiences in a Standards, Testing and Accountability Environment," at 2000 annual conference National Association for the Education of Young Children, Nov. 8, Atlanta.

Rivers Singleton, biological sciences, "What Is This Thing Called Biology, Anyway?" at a conference on ideas of humans and nature culture wars in biology, Nov. 13-14, at Hastings Center for Bioethics.

Philip Goldstein, parallel program, "Post-Marxism and Literary History: From Realism to Reception Study," at Rethinking Marxism Conference, Sept. 21-24, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; and "The Canon and Black Feminism: The reception of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom and Morrison's Beloved," at Midwest Modern Language Association convention, Nov. 2-4, Kansas City, Missouri.

Farley Grubb, economics, "Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union, 1761-1811: A Quest for Monetary Stability or a Usurpation of State Sovereignity for Personal Gain?" at University of Maryland, College Park, Nov. 3, and at Southern Economic Association annual conference, Nov. 11, Arlington, Va.

Two members of the Delaware Geological Survey made presentations at Delaware GHIS Day 2000 conference, Nov. 17, Dover: William S. Schenck and Nicole M. Minni of Water Resources Agency, "GIS May Make Maps Fast, But Cartography Is Still an Art"; and Lillian T. Wang, "Digital Delineation of Ground-Water Divides."

Martin Brucker, English, "The Continent Speaks: Geography, Oratory and the Figuration of Identity in British America," at American Studies Association meeting, October, Detroit, and "Re-Placing Identity: Space and Subjectivity in Brown's Geographic Writings," at The Frontiers of Charles Brockden Brown conference, October, Las Vegas.

Members of the Delaware Geological Survey made presentations at the Geological Society of America annual meeting and exposition, Nov. 13, Reno: Thomas E. McKenna, "Low-Budget, Do It Yourself Thermal-Infrared Imaging of Ground-Water Discharge to Surface Waters"; and Peter P. McLaughlin Jr. and R.N. Benson with K.G. Miller and J.V. Browning, "Regional Correlation of Miocene Sequences, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain: New Results from Bethany Beach, Del."

Michael Rewa, English, "Escalibur at the Millennium's End: Cullings from the Camelot Courier 1990-2000," at 14th conference on medievalism, Sept. 27-30, Hope College, Mich.

Shirley Samuels, English, "Women at War," at the Pairing Empires conference, Nov. 10, Johns Hopkins University.

Jeanne Walker, English, poetry readings, at UD Writer's Harvest, Oct. 17; Philadelphia Arts Alliance, Oct. 23; Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif., Nov. 3; and a script reading Inventing Montana, at Blue Sphere Theatre, Los Angeles, Nov. 4.

Ralph Begleiter, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication, Distinguished Journalist, report on Delaware's U.S. Senate race, Nov. 3, CNN's Inside Politics; served as analyst on differences between George W. Bush and Al Gore on foreign policy and national security issues, Nov. 1, CNN's international broadcast.

Several members of the Department of Communication made presentations at the National Communication Association convention, Nov. 9-12, Seattle: Julie L. Dee, "From Hazlewood to Kincaid: Divorce, Bad Grammar and the Color Purple" and "School Shootings, Computer Games and Goth Websites: Do the Media Encourage Mass Murderers?"; Scott Caplan, "Interrelationships Among Appraisals, Feelings and Health Indices in a Sample of Older Adults Coping with Loss"; Beth Haslett, "Leadership Initiatives for Women"; Elizabeth M. Perse, "How Communication Motives Respond to the Context and Relationship" and "Web Surfing Satisfaction" with Douglas A. Ferguson of College of Charleston.

Larry Purnell, nursing, "Cultural Diversity in Medical Care Management," to Case Management Society of America, regional division, Sept. 14, Montchanin Assisted Living Facility, Wilmington.

Barbara Sheer, nursing, "Developing Global Mentoring Networks," at eighth international nurse practitioner conference, Sept. 28-Oct. 1, San Diego.

Lisa Chieffo, foreign languages and literatures, "Publicity and Marketing for Short-Term Study Abroad Programs" and "Determinants of Student Participation in Study Abroad Programs at the University of Delaware," at regional conference of NAFSA-Association of International Educators, Nov. 16-18, Richmond.

Vol. 20, No. 7

Nov. 30, 2000

Vol. 20, No. 7

Nov. 30, 2000