Four professors given emeritus status

Four faculty members were named University of Delaware emeritus professors in recognition of their many years of distinguished service.

Lucille Pulliam was named professor emerita of nursing, effective Aug. 1.

An instructor at UD from 1968-72, she was supervisor of obstetrical and gynecological nursing at the Wilmington Medical Center from 1972-75 and an instructor at Delaware Technical and Community College from 1975-1985, when she again joined the UD faculty.

Her teaching and recent publications have focused on health care for older adults and computer applications in health care. She attended the Brookdale Foundation Summer Institute in Research on Aging in 1990 and was a trainee in the Delaware Valley Geriatric Education Center's program from 1988-1990.

She served on the founding steering committee and then as an officer of the Delaware Valley Nurses Computer Network and also on the board of the Delaware chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. At UD, she served on computer committees and in the Faculty Senate.

A graduate of the University of Kansas School of Nursing, Pulliam has a master's degree with a concentration in health education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, a master's degree in medical-surgical nursing from UD, a post-master's certificate and D.S.N. in adult health education from the School of Nursing of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Maurice V. Barnhill was named professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, effective Aug. 31.

His research, which has been funded in part by the Department of Energy, involves the structure and interactions of elementary particles and is focused on quarks and leptons, especially on models for determining their masses.

He has written a wide spectrum of scientific papers and is the author of Student's Guide to Physical Science with Modern Applications. Barnhill also is a coauthor with three others of Birds of Delaware.

An early supporter and participant in the UD Honors Program, he serves as an adviser to physics students. He was associate chairperson of the department from 1990-95.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he received his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Stanford University. He joined the UD faculty in 1968.

Joe Moss and Stephen Tanis were named professors emeriti of art, effective Sept. 13.

Moss, a member of the UD faculty since 1970, is known for sculptures that range from small abstractions to massive outdoor metal installations and multimedia installations, which are appealing to sight, sound and touch.

He has had several solo exhibitions and installations at museums, colleges, galleries and public places and has taken part in several group exhibitions at institutions throughout the United States, including Alaska, and in Finland, Canada and Germany. His work is part of several public collections at universities, museums and other institutions.

A research fellow in the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he spent a year there in 1987-88 and took part in its Space, Light, Time exhibition in 1994.

Moss holds bachelor's and master's degrees from West Virginia University.

Tanis, who joined the UD faculty in 1972, is a realistic painter, who juxtaposes different combinations of textures, objects and figures. He has had several solo exhibitions at the Sherry French Gallery in New York and the Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington, D.C., which have traveled to museums, colleges and universities and other venues, and his works also have been shown at several group, invitational and juried exhibitions. His works are in private and museum, college and university, corporate and other collections. He also is a portraitist and has been commissioned to do portraits of scholars on the UD campus. He frequently has been a visiting artist and lecturer.

Tanis is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, with a master of fine arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.


Lucille Pulliam	Maurice V. Barnhill	Joe Moss	Stephen Tanis