NEW NAMED PROFESSORS

James T. Kirby	Gonzalo R. Arce	J. Thomas Sims	Dominic Di Toro	Margaret Stetz

In recognition of their achievements and scholarship in their respective fields, five faculty members have been appointed named professors, all effective Jan. 1, Provost Dan Rich announced.

Gonzalo R. Arce has been named Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical Engineering; Dominic Di Toro has been named Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; James T. Kirby has been named E. C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; J. Thomas Sims has been named T. A. Baker Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences; and Margaret D. Stetz has been named Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies.

GONZALO R ARCE, chairperson of electrical and computer engineering, has been appointed Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical Engineering. His appointment recognizes "his notable record as a scholar and a teacher and distinguished service to the University of Delaware and beyond," Rich said.

Arce's research interests include nonlinear signal processing, wireless communications, statistical signal processing, electronic imaging and display, bioelectronics, image processing, multimedia security and communications.

Arce is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is a founding board member of the Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing Board. He has been a fellow of UD's Center for Advanced Studies and received the Du Pont Education Award in 1998, 1999 and 2002.

A visiting professor at the International Center for Signal and Image Processing at Tampere University of Technology in Finland in 1999, Arce also was a visiting member of the technical staff of Unisys Corporate Research Center in Virginia in 1985.

He has published extensively in his field and is coauthor of Modern Digital Halftoning and coeditor of Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, scheduled for publication this year. He also is writing a graduate level textbook on nonlinear signal processing.

Arce received his bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas and his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University.

Charles Black Evans, whom the professorship honors, was secretary- treasurer of the University's Board of Trustees from 1896 until his death in 1933. UD's engineering building, Evans Hall, built in 1928, was named in honor of Evans and his father, George G. Evans, who was a member of the Board of Trustees for 48 years, from 1856-1904.

DOMINIC DI TORO has been appointed Distinguished Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, joining the UD faculty in January from Manhattan College where he was the Donald J. O'Connor Professor of Environmental Engineering. "Prof. Di Toro has had a distinguished career in environmental engineering, and we are pleased to welcome him to the faculty of the University of Delaware," Rich said.

Regarded as a pioneer in the field of water quality modeling, Di Toro has specialized in the development and application of mathematical and statistical models to stream, lake, estuarine and coast water quality and sediment problems.

For the past 10 years, Di Toro has focused on the development of sediment quality criteria for the Environmental Protection Agency and the development of sediment flux models for nutrients and metals. He has coordinated the work of experts in this field from a wide range of organizations and scientific disciplines.

The author of Sediment Flux Modeling, Di Toro has published more than 60 technical papers and participated in numerous water quality studies for industry and governmental agencies.

He has received the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's highest award, the Founders Award, in 1997, the New York Water Environment Association's Kenneth Allen Memorial Award in 1994, the International Association for Great Lakes Research's Chandler-Misener Award in 1978 and 1983, and awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Di Toro was chairperson of the Gordon Conference on Environmental Sciences, Water in 2002.

A graduate of Manhattan College, Di Toro received his master's degree in electrical engineering and his doctorate in civil and geological engineering from Princeton University.

JAMES T. KIRBY has been appointed E.C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in recognition of his "notable record as a scholar and teacher and service to the University," Rich said.

Kirby's research focuses on the numerical modeling and laboratory investigation of ocean surface waves and wave-driven circulation. Additional topics in fluid mechanics research include wave-plant interaction and other environmental fluid mechanics topics, sediment transport processes in river and coastal environments, and unsteady low Reynolds number flows in measuring devices. He also is interested in areas of linear and nonlinear signal processing leading to several applications of wavelet transforms and nonlinear dynamics.

Kirby has written more than 70 articles in refereed journals and has made several presentations of his research. He also served as editor of Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering.

In addition, he has directed the development of the REF/DIF and FUNWAVE computer models for the Center for Applied Coastal Research for use in engineering practice and by other scientists. Kirby has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office and the Delaware Sea Grant College (the Department of Commerce).

In 1992, he received the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.

Kirby joined the University faculty in 1989 with a joint appointment in civil and environmental engineering and in marine studies. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Brown University and a doctorate from UD.

Edward C. Davis, whom the professorship honors, graduated in the class of 1905 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and was a baseball player at UD. A native of Seaford, he became a partner in the St. Louis engineering firm of Frazier-Davis and became one of the nation's leading hydraulic engineers. He sold his interest in the firm and moved to a farm near Seaford while buying Sussex Country timberland. He left the bulk of his estate to the University when he died in April 1959.

J. THOMAS SIMS has been appointed T. A. Baker Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences in recognition of his outstanding record as a scholar, teacher and his service to the University.

His research has focused on the cycling, fate and transport of phosphorous and nitrogen in soils, the development of profitable, environmentally sound agricultural nutrient practices, the development of environmental soil tests, the use of municipal and industrial byproducts as beneficial soil amendments and trace metal fate and cycling in soils. He has worked with colleagues in Ireland, the U.K., the Netherlands and Sweden on practices to prevent agricultural phosphorus pollution of surface waters.

Sims, an adjunct professor of marine studies, served as the director of the University of Delaware Soil Testing Program from 1984-2000 and currently is the director of the Delaware Water Resources Center and director of the Institute of Soil and Environmental Quality.

He has written 75 refereed articles, 22 book chapters and a textbook, Soils and Environmental Quality, in addition to technical papers and conference proceedings. He served as technical editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality in 2002.

Sims has served as president of the Northeast Branch American Society of Agronomy (ASA) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) and is a fellow of ASA and SSSA and received their Outstanding Research Award in 1995. He also received the ASA Excellence in Extension Education Award in 1997 and 1999, the SSSA Applied Research Award in 2000 and the ASA Environmental Quality Research Award in 2001 Sims currently is the vice chair of Division 4 (Role of Soils in Sustaining Society and Environment) for the International Union of Soil Sciences and serves as president of the SSSA.

Sims received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Georgia and his doctorate in soil chemistry from Michigan State University.

Thomas A. Baker whom the professorship honors, was a professor of animal husbandry and on the faculty of the then College of Agricultural Sciences for 39 years. He and his wife, Ruth, made a bequest to the college, which established the named professorship.

MARGARET STETZ, professor of humanities in the College of Arts and Science, has been named the first Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies. She was cited by Rich for her "leadership in the field of women's studies and dedication to the continued development of instruction and research programs in women's studies at the University of Delaware."

Stetz came to UD as a visiting associate professor in 2002 after serving on the faculty in the English department and women's studies program at Georgetown University from 1986.

Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century women's cultural history, women at war, women and comedy and late Victorian women writers and artists.

Stetz has written extensively in her field and is the co-editor of Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II, the author of British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990: Not Drowning, But Laughing. She also is the founding editor of the journal Turn-of-the-Century Women and is on the editorial board of the "19th-Century Writing and Culture" monograph series.

Stetz and Mark Samuels Lasner, scholar-in-residence at the University Library, have been curators of numerous library and museum exhibitions, including the "Beyond Oscar Wilde" exhibition at UD last fall and have written accompanying catalogues, including The Yellow Book: A Centenary Exhibition; England in the 1890s: Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head and England in the 1880s: Old Guard and Avant-Garde. They are planning an exhibition, "Gender and the London Theatre at the Turn of the Century," scheduled to be held at Bryn Mawr College next fall.

Stetz won the Howard Mumford Jones Prize for the best dissertation in English and American literature, 1780-1900, from Harvard University in 1982. She was the first recipient of the Wise Woman Award for scholarship and service in women's studies given by the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, and a woman of distinction award was named in her honor by the Georgetown University Women's Center. She was a scholar-in-residence at Tokyo Women's Christian University in November 1994.

A graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York, Stetz received a master's degree from Sussex University in England, and master's and doctoral degrees in English and American language and literature from Harvard University.

Mae Carter, whom the professorship honors, is a pioneer in women's equity at UD. She helped initiate and chaired the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Program and the Commission on the Status of Women and also was instrumental in the creation of the Office of Women's Affairs. The annual Mae Carter Award for outstanding returning adult woman student is given in her honor. A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, she was inducted into the Delaware Women's Hall of Fame. Robert Carter had a career in management with Getty Oil. An amateur photographer, he and his wife travel extensively and have visited more than 130 countries.

SUE MONCURE