For the record
For the record
PUBLICATIONS
Norman J. Karin, associate professor, with research associate J.M. Lyons, both of biological sciences "A Role for G Protein-Coupled Lysophospholipid Receptors in Sphingolipi-Induced Ca2+ Signaling in MC3T3-E1 Osteoblastic Cells," in Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, vol. 16, pages 2035-2042,
G. Arno Loessner, policy fellow in the Institute for Public Administration, "Partnerships for Governance: Models for Workable Fiscal Decentralization," in Democracy at the Local Level, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, June 2001.
Lana Harrison, associate professor of sociology and criminal justice, "The Revolving Prison Door for Drug-Involved Offenders: Challenges and Opportunities," in Crime and Delinquency, vol. 47, no. 3, pages 462-484.
Herbert E. Allen, professor of civil and environmental engineering, with Jennifer K. Saxes, EG '98PhD, Christopher A. Impellitteri, EG 2000PhD, and Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg, "A Novel Model Describing Heavy Metal Concentrations in the Earthworm, Eisenia andrei," in Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 35, pages 4522-4529.
Cihan Cobanoglu, associate professor of hotel, restaurant and institutional management, "A Comparative Study: The Impact of Technology in Lodging Properties in the U.S. and Turkey," in International Journal of Hospitality Information Technology, vol. 2, no. 1.
A. Scott Andres, senior scientist with the Delaware Geological Survey, Hydrologic Map No. 10, Geohydrology of the Smyrna-Clayton Area, Delaware.
Benigo Aguirre, professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Environmental Degradation and Vulnerability in Cuba," in Natural Hazards Review 1, pages 171-179.
Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, "The Day A Poem Comes Home," in the Cortland Review, December; and "Newbliss Remembered in Newquay," a poem, in 35th anniversary issue of the Greensboro Review. Thomas Molyneux, a member of the English department from 1967 until his death in 1977, was a founding editor of the magazine.
Kelvin W. Ramsey, scientist, and Lillian T. Wang, research associate, both of the Delaware Geological Survey, Special Publication No. 26, Historical Coastline Changes of Cape Henlopen, Del., a poster.
Jeanne Walker, professor of English, "Saving Images," in Image, no. 30, pages 97-106; a script, The Queen's Two Bodies, chosen for a workshop session in the Rose Valley Playwrights' Conference, October; and two poems in The Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, pages 70-73, and three poems in the Gettysburg Review, pages 296-300.
Douglas Tuttle, policy scientist in the Institute for Public Administration, with John Wesley Lowery and Brett A. Sokolow, "Complying with the Clery Act: The Advanced Course," in Campus Safety and Student Development, vol. 3, no. 2, pages 17-18 and 29-32.
David Pong, professor of history, "Shen Baozhen and Revival of the Agrarian Economy in the Liang Jiang Provinces, 1875-1879," in Studies on Shen Baozhen, Lu Meisong, editor, pages 102-117.
Ken Haas, professor of sociology and criminal justice, "The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Death Penalty in the 21st Century," in Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century, third edition, pages 161-197, Prentice-Hall.
Erin Daiz and Sharon Epps, both senior assistant librarians, Morris Library, "University of Delaware Library Residency Program: Two Former Perspectives," in Diversity in Libraries: Academic Residency Programs, Greenwood Press.
Daniel D. Carson, chairperson and Trustees Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, and graduate student Errin Lagow, "Regulation of MUC1 Expression by Interferon-g and Tumor Necrosis Factor-a in a Human Breast Cancer Cell Line, T47D," in Molecular Biology Cell, vol. 11 supplement, abstract 831, page 160a.
Barbara Sheer, associate professor of nursing, "Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922," a review, on Medpulse Week in Review; with R. Goodyear, "New Horizons for Nurse Practitioners Around the World," on Medscape.com and on Medpulse Week in Review and Medscape Primary Care.
M.C. Farach-Carson, professor of biological sciences, with J.A. Keifer, AS 2001PhD, "Type I Collagen-Mediated Proliferation of PC3 Prostate Carcinoma Cell Line: Implications for Enhanced Growth in the Bone Microenvironment," in Matrix Biology, vol. 20, no. 1, pages 429-437.
PRESENTATIONS
Dewey M. Caron, professor of entomology and applied ecology, made presentations at Kansas Beekeepers annual meeting, Oct. 18-19; Indiana Beekeepers fall meeting, Nov. 1-2; Pennsylvania Beekeepers annual meeting, Nov. 9-10; and California Beekeepers annual meeting (presentation and workshop), Nov. 13-14.
The following members of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice presented papers or chaired sessions at the 53rd annual American Society of Criminology, Nov. 7-10, Atlanta: Tammy L. Anderson, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Issues in the Availability of Health Care for Women Prisoners"; Ronet Bachman, associate professor of sociology and criminal justice and session chairperson, Joel Best, chairperson and professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Medicalizing the Seven Deadly Sins"; Clifford Butzin, research administrator, Steven S. Martin, senior scientist, both of the Center for Drug and Alcholol Studies, and James A. Inciardi, professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Time to Relapse and Recidivism Associated With Participation in Therapeutic Community Treatment Program"; Martin, Hilary L. Surratt, associate scientist, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Inciardi, graduate student Daniel J .O'Connell, graduate student Erik F. Dietz and Butzin, "Intermediate Outcomes of a Brief Intervention With Probationers: Probation With an Attitude Change"; Christine A. Saum, associate scientist in the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Frank Scarpitti, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Butzin, Duretta Nichols-Jennings, research associate, and Alison R. Brzozowski, research specialist, both of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, "Drug Court Clients‚ Satisfaction With Treatment and the Court Experience"; Dietz, O'Connell and Scarpitti, "Assessing Misconduct on Correctional Treatment Units: Better Management or Better Inmates"; graduate students Brian A. Monahan and Christine A. Eith, "Law Enforcement or Natural Law: A Critical Analysis of Project Exile"; graduate students Eith, Carol R. Gregory and Erin Farley, "Television Media in a Post-Columbine Sample"; Gregory, "Reducing Bullying in the Schools: An Evaluation of Modes of Intervention," "Batterer Intervention Programs: How Successful is 'Success'?" and "Bullying in Schools: The Reciprocity of People and Places"; Valerie Hans, professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Hung Juries: An Empirical Look"; graduate student Erika A. Harrell, "The Relationship Between Child Abuse and Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse"; Roberta Gealt, research assistant in the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, O'Connell, Harrell and Russell Silverberg, research specialist in the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, "What Are the Chances? A Look at the Similarities and Differences Between Predictors of Juvenile Substance Abuse and Juvenile Problem Gambling Behavior and Their Relationship to Predictors of Adult Problem Gambling Behavior"; O'Connell, Harrell, Gealt and Martin, "Is Ecstasy Really Different? Investigating the Risk and Protective Factors of Ecstasy Use Vis-aVis Other Drugs Among Public School Students"; Charles E. Freeman, research associate, and Lana D. Harrison, assistant director, both of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, "The Relationship Between Drugs and Violence Among Detained Youth"; Michael S. Backenheimer, research scientist in the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies and Harrison, "Obtaining Entry Into Juvenile Facilities for the Purpose of Interviewing Detainees"; Harrison, "NIDA's State of the Art Research on the Effectiveness of Prison Treatment"; Carl B. Klockars, professor of sociology and criminal justice, session chairperson; Susan L. Miller, associate professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Domestic Violence Paradox: Arrest of Battered Women"; Andre Rosay, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Intra-Individual Variability in Crime and Its Relation to Local Life Circumstances: A Comparison of Three Causal Models"; and Benjamin D. Steiner, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Punishing Identities: Legal Consciousness Among European and African-American Capital Jurors."
Bob Mulrooney, extension specialist in plant and soil sciences, Cooperative Extension, with N.F. Gregory, "Fungicidal Control of Powdery Mildew of Flowering Dogwood in Delaware" at joint meeting of Northeastern and Potomac Divisions, American Phytopathological Society, Oct. 18, Cromwell, Conn.; and Mulrooney, "A Revised Classification Scheme for Genetically Diverse Populations of the Soybean Cyst Nematode" at sixth annual Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School, Nov. 13-15, Ocean City, Md.
James M. Brophy, associate professor of history, "Unruhige Offentlichkeit: Social Unrest and Popular Protest in the Prussian Rhineland, 1815-1848," at German Studies Association meeting, Oct. 4-6, Washington, D.C.
Several members of 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, Oct. 21-25, in Charlotte, N.C. Donald Sparks, chairperson and T.A. Baker Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences, with former graduate student D. Roberts, former postdoctoral associate G. Senesi, and U. Kukier and R. Chaney of USDA-ARS, "Microscopic and Spectroscopic Speciation of Nickel in Soils in the Vicinity of a Nickel Refinery"; with graduate student Maarten Nachtegaal, "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Nickel Sorption to a Goethite-Coated Kaolinite"; with graduate student J. Derek Peak, "Effect of Sulfate on Lead Desorption from Goethite" and "Direct Determination of Phosphate Species in Alum-Amended Poultry Litter"; with graduate student Yuji Arai, "Microscale Arsenic Chemical Speciation in Poultry Litter" and "In Situ Spectroscopic Investigation on Arsenate Surface Speciation at the Hematite-Water Interface"; with graduate student Stefan Hunger, "On the Use of 31-P NMR Spectroscopy to Determine Chemical Forms of Phosphorus in Soils"; with graduate student Markus Grafe, "Direct Arsenic Speciation in Soils Using Macroscopic and Micro-Focused Spectroscopic Techniques"; with undergraduate student Kristin Staats and Arai, "Alum Amendment Effects on Soil Phosphorus Stabilization in Poultry Litter Amended Sandy Soils"; J. Thomas Sims, professor of plant and soil sciences, with G. Mullins of Virginia Tech and F. Coale of University of Maryland, "National Phosphorus Runoff Project Activities in the Northeast: Virginia, Maryland and Delaware"; with plant and soil sciences research associate Maria Paulter and graduate student Nicole McCafferty, "Alum as a Poultry Litter Amendment: II. Effect of pH on Phosphorus and Aluminum Solubility in Litter-Amended Soils"; with Momoh Lavahun, Coale, and J. White of University of Maryland, "Phosphorus Fate and Transport in Biosolids-Amended Soils: I. Forms of Soil Phosphorus" and "Phosphorus Fate and Transport in Biosolids-Amended Soils: II. Phosphorus Losses in Runoff"; with postdoctoral associate Rory Maguire, A. Allen of University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, and W. Stout, W. Gburek and A. Sharpley of USDA-ARS, "Effect of Nitrogen versus Phosphorus Nutrient Management Plans on Subsurface Movement of Phosphorus"; with former postdoctoral associate April Leytem, "Development of Phosphorus Availability Coefficients for Organic Amendments"; with Leytem and Coale, "Evaluation of the Phosphorus Site Index in Delaware"; with McCafferty, "Effect of Alum Water Treatment Residuals on Phosphorus Solubility in a Soil Under Flooded-Drained Conditions"; with McCafferty and L. Syme, "Alum as a Poultry Litter Amendment: I. Farm-Scale Evaluation of Alum Effects on Litter Properties"; with McCafferty, Pautler, and S. Lynch, "Alum as a Poultry Litter Amendment: III. Phosphorus and Aluminum Availability and Plant Uptake"; with graduate student Joshua McGrath, Gburek, and Vincent Lariccia, associate professor of food and resource economics, "Long-Term, Field-Scale Comparison of Phosphorus Losses in Runoff from Four Cropping Systems"; with former graduate student Chad Penn and Leytem, "Effect of Soil Type on Phosphorus Losses in Runoff from Mid-Atlantic Soils"; Jeffrey Fuhrmann, professor of plant and soil science, with graduate student Claudia Mesa, "Phenotypic and Genetic Analysis of Soybean Bradyrhizobia Isolated from Delaware Soils"; with former graduate student Wipa Homhaul and P. van Berkam of USDA-ARS, "Polyphasic Analysis of Soybean and Cowpea Bradyrhizobia Isolated from U.S. and Thai Soils"; Mark Radosevich, associate professor, and K. Eric Wommack, assistant professor, both of plant and soil sciences, and graduate student Kurt Williamson, "Comparison of Methods for Extracting Bacteriophage from Soils"; Yan Jin, associate professor of plant and soil sciences, with postdoctoral associate Jie Zhuang, "The Role of Various Forms of Organic Matter in Influencing Virus Transport" and "Virus Retention and Transport in Aluminum-Oxide Coated Sand Columns"; with Zhuang and undergraduate student N. Romisch, "Colloid and Colloid-Facilitated Cesium Transport through Sand Columns"; Gregory Binford, David Hansen, both assistant professors of plant and soil sciences, and Sims, with W. Rohrer of the Delaware Nutrient Management Program-Delaware Department of Agriculture, "Nutrient Management Plan: Delaware Example" and "Nutrient Management in Delaware"; Hansen with K. Balkcom of USDA-ARS, A. Blackmer and A. Mallarino of Iowa State University, and T. Morris of University of Connecticut, "Early Season Losses of Fertilizer Nitrogen from Iowa Cornfields."
Martha Carothers, associate dean of arts and science, participated in an exhibit of contemporary artists' books, "Kings, Hummingbirds and Monsters" at Evergreen House, Baltimore. The exhibit continues through Feb. 28.
Jay Halio, professor of English, "Eros and Death in Philip Roth's Later Fiction," at America Literature Association meeting, Oct. 26, Santa Fe.
Elaine Safer, professor of English, "Satire or a Bit of Jewish Mischief: The Later Novels of Philip Roth," at International Society for Humor Studies, June, University of Maryland, and "Tragedy and Farce in Roth's Human Stain," at Modern Language Association meeting, Dec. 27-30, New Orleans.
Valerie P. Hans, professor of sociology and criminal justice, "Civil Jury Trials with Corporate Litigants: Is Business or the Jury on Trial?" at New York Law School, Oct. 26, New York City; and Hans et al, "The Psychology and Law of Hung Juries," at Baruch College, Oct. 26, New York City.
Fleda Brown, professor of English, poetry readings at Arkansas Technical College, Oct. 18, Russellville, Ark., Quichita Baptist University, Oct. 19, Arkadelphia, Ark.; Academy of Lifelong Learning, Oct. 11, Wilmington; and Delaware Arts Summit, Oct. 26, Dover.
Charles Robinson, professor of English, "The 10 Texts of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," at 75th George Parker Winship Lecture, at Houghton Library, Harvard University, Oct. 26, Cambridge, Mass.
Janice Selekman, professor and chairperson of nursing, "Myth and Realities of ADHD," at Pediatric Nursing Conference, Sept. 19, Philadelphia.
David Pong, professor of history, "Industrial Relations on the Eve of the 1911 Revolution," at Association for Modern Chinese History international conference, Nov. 12-14, Baptist University of Hong Kong; and discussant of works of anthropologist Charles Keyes at Ethnicity in Modern Nations Roundtable, Mid-Atlantic Region, Association for Asian Studies, Oct. 27, Slippery Rock University.
Steve Fifield, assistant professor of biological sciences, "Teaching on the Edge: Negotiating the Cultural Intersections of Gay and Biology Teacher," at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for the Study of the 21st Century, Oct. 19, Milwaukee.
Chandra L. Reedy, associate professor of museum studies, "New Evidence for the Historical Context of Buddhist Bronzes from Swat Valley, Northern Pakistan," at international conference on scientific research in the field of Asian Art, at Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Sept. 27-29, Washington. D.C.; and an invited presentation, "Charting the National Center for Preservation Technology" and "Training's Role in Preserving America's Heritage in the 21st Century," at Northwestern State University, Nov. 7-8, Natchitoches, La.
Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, "Robert Frost to Ezra Pound's Daughter from his Deathbed," "The Enniskillen Bombing," "Essay on Solitude" and "Late December," poems translated into Slovene by Mia Dintinjana and broadcast on Radio Slovenia on Nov. 15.
J. Thomas Sims, professor of plant and soil sciences, "Agriculture and Water Quality: Changing the Nonpoint Source Pollution Paradigm," at North American Lake Management Society annual conference, Nov. 8, Madison, Wisc.; "Phosphorus-Based Management Practices for Agriculture: Advances in Research and Policy," at University of Wisconsin, Nov. 9, Madison; and "Effect of Alum on Phosphorus Availability and Mobility in Manured Soils of the Delmarva Peninsula," at Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School, Nov. 14, Ocean City, Md.
Several members of the finance department participated in the Financial Management Association conference, Oct. 17-20, in Toronto, Ontario: Phyllis Keys, assistant professor of business and economics, "Corporate Governance in South Korea: The Chaebol Experience," coauthored with Terry Campbell, assistant professor of business and economics, finance, and served on two panels at the KPMG Ph.D. Project Finance Doctoral Students Association annual held in conjunction with the FMA conference; Yoon Shin, visiting assistant professor of business and economics, discussant of a working paper by Yong-Cheol Kim, "Role of Main Banks in the Changing Japanese Financial Markets"; and Jay Coughenour, assistant professor of business and economics, "Information Inventory and the Relative Flow of Different Size Trades."
SERVICE
J. Thomas Sims, professor of plant and soil sciences, has been appointed technical editor for surface water quality and wetlands for the Journal of Environmental Quality.
Peter Feng, assistant professor of English, chaired a panel, "Displacement and Effacement: Racial Identifications and Elsion," at the American Studies Association meeting, Nov 8, Washington, D.C.
Carol Henderson, assistant professor of English, panel moderator, "Self, Resistance and Slavery," at ninth International American Women Writers of Color conference, Oct. 19, Ocean City, Md.
Fleda Brown, professor of English, received the Porter Fund Prize for Literary Excellence, Arkansas' premier prize for "an impressive and substantial body of work."
Jeanne Walker, professor of English, won Best of Philly Award, Philadelphia Magazine for her script "Reading Aloud," after the WHYY-Interact Short Story Reading Series presented Walker's short Story, Sudden Fever, in June.
Stephen Bernhardt, Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Jr. Chair in Writing, taught several short courses to groups of clinical researchers at Pfizer in Groton, Conn., in October and December.
