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Named Professors

Kenneth B. Bischoff
     Kenneth B. Bischoff joined the Delaware faculty in 1976 as
Unidel Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical
Engineering, and he served as Chairperson of the Department of
Chemical Engineering from 1978 to 1982. He was educated at the
Illinois Institute of Technology, and was a National Science
Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the State University of Ghent in
Belgium. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in
1988, and is the recipient of the 1972 Ebert Prize of the Academy
of Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as the 1976 Professional
Progress, the 1982 Annual Institute Lecturer, the 1982 Food,
Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division and the 1987 R.H.
Wilhelm awards of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. A
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Bischoff
is a pioneer in the filed of pharmacokinetics and he is
internationally recognized for his work in chemical reaction- and
bio-engineering. He has served on several National Academy
Committees, and is just beginning a term on the new Hazardous Air
Pollution and Risk Assessment Study.

John S. Boyer
     John S. Boyer, E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine Biochemistry/
Biophysics in the College of Marine Studies, is a graduate of
Swarthmore College and holds a master's degree from the University
of Wisconsin and a doctorate from Duke University. Dr. Boyer
conducts research on the growth of marine and terrestrial plants
with limited water, especially emphasizing investigations of cell
enlargement, photosynthesis and reproduction. A Fellow of the Crop
Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy, he
has been a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in New
Zealand. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Boyer
received the Shull Award from the American Society of Plant
Physiologists, serving as President of the Society, and he earned
a Von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award from Germany.

William W. Boyer Jr.
     William W. Boyer Jr. has been Charles P. Messick Professor of
Public Administration since 1969, when he joined the Delaware
faculty as Chairperson of the Department of Political Science and
International Relations. An internationally recognized consultant,
lecturer and scholar on development in less-developed countries,
Dr. Boyer is a graduate of the College of Wooster, and he received
his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. Widely traveled, he
is the author of numerous articles and books, particularly on
bureaucracy, democratization, human rights and development. He is
currently co-authoring a book on the higher civil service in the
United States. One of the founders of the University's Winter
Session program in Geneva, Dr. Boyer will direct the Costa Rica
program in 1992.

L. Leon Campbell
     L. Leon Campbell is Hugh M. Morris Research Professor of
Molecular Biosciences, and he served as Provost and Vice President
for Academic Affairs from 1972 to 1988. The author of three books,
a laboratory manual and more than 100 scientific papers, Dr.
Campbell researches microbial taxonomy, the structure and function
of enzymes from microorganisms and artificial neural networks. Long
active in the American Society for Microbiology, he has served as
President, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bacteriology, and
Chairperson of the Publications Board. In 1983, he was elected to
honorary membership, the highest membership recognition conferred
by the society. A Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has
twice been elected to three-year terms on the board of directors of
the Center for Research Libraries. Dr. Campbell holds bachelor's,
master's and doctoral degrees in microbiology and biochemistry from
the University of Texas at Austin.

Tsu-Wei Chou
     Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, joined the University of Delaware faculty in 1969. Dr.
Chou earned a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University, a
master's degree from Northwestern University, and a doctorate from
Stanford University.  He has made significant contributions to the
fields of fiber composite materials, applied mechanics and
materials science.  Dr. Chou has also served as a visiting
professor at such institutions as the Argonne National Laboratory,
the University of Surrey in England, the University of
Witwatersrand in South Africa, the National Commission for the
Investigation of Space in Buenos Aires, the German Aerospace
Research Establishment in Cologne, the Office of Naval Research at
the London Branch Office, Tongji University in China, and Tokyo
Science University in Japan.  Author of 250 papers, Dr. Chou wrote
Microstructural Design of Fiber Composites, is co-author of
Composite Materials and Their Use in Structures, and is editor of
Textile Structural Composites and Structure and Properties of
Composites in the Materials Science and Technology Series. Dr. Chou
serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board of ACTA
Materiae Compositae Sinica and Encyclopedia of Composites and is
the North American editor of the international journal, Composites
Science and Technology, published by the Society for the
Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering.

E. Wayne Craven
     E. Wayne Craven, H.F. du Pont Professor of Art History, joined
the Delaware faculty in 1960 and is an authority on American
painting and sculpture. He studied at the John Herron Art School,
earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Indiana University and
received a doctorate from Columbia University. In 1964, Dr. Craven
created The Index of American Sculpture, which is the basis for a
computerized research archive at the National Museum of American
Art. He served as Coordinator of the Winterthur Program in Early
American Culture for five years. He is a member of the editorial
boards of Smithsonian Studies in American Art, The American Art
Journal, The Daniel Chester French Papers, the University of
Delaware Press, and, most recently, The Peale Family Papers, being
published by the Yale University Press and the National Portrait
Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Craven was
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in the College of Arts and Science,
and he has received the Francis Alison Faculty Award. A member of
the American Antiquarian Society and the National Sculpture
Society, he is author of Sculpture in America, Colonial American
Portraiture, and is completing a third book, American Art in its
Cultural Context.

J. Barry Cullingworth
     J. Barry Cullingworth, Unidel Professor of Urban Affairs and
Public Policy, was educated in Great Britain and has held a number
of academic and advisory positions in government there and in
Canada, serving over the years as a researcher and consultant. A
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an honorary member of the
Royal Town Planning Institute, Dr. Cullingworth serves on a number
of editorial boards of journals in his field, and he is author, co-
author or editor of numerous publications, including the classic,
Town and Country Planning in Great Britain, which was originally
published in 1964 and is now in its 10th edition. His latest book,
The Political Culture of Planning is to be published by Routledge
in 1992.

William B. Daniels
     William B. Daniels is Unidel Professor of Physics and
Astronomy. He joined the Delaware faculty in 1972. An international
authority on high pressure physics, Dr. Daniels is a graduate of
the University of Buffalo, and he earned his advanced degree from
the Case Institute of Technology. The recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and a Humboldt Senior Award, Dr. Daniels has been a
visiting professor at the Technische Hochscule at Munchen,
University of Amsterdam, College de France, University of Paris,
Riso, Denmark, IBM Laboratories in Zurich, the Maz Planck Institute
in Stuttgart, and the University of Groningen. From 1977 to 1980,
he served as Chairperson of the Department of Physics. He has done
collaborative research at a number of institutions, including the
Brookhaven National and Bell Telephone Laboratories. A Fellow of
the American Physical Society, Dr. Daniels currently is working on
the application of non-linear optics techniques to the study of
matter at extreme conditions.

Jean H. Futrell
     Jean H. Futrell is the Willis F. Harrington Professor and
Chairperson of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Formerly President of
the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Dr. Futrell is
internationally recognized for his pioneering research in ion-
molecule reaction kinetics and dynamics and the development of
important experimental methods in mass spectrometry. In 1989, his
research, supported by a grant from the National Science
Foundation, led to a breakthrough in understanding of the mechanism
of chemical activation of ions in the important analytical
technique of tandem mass spectrometry. He has chaired the American
Society for Testing Materials Subcommittee II (Fundamental Studies
in Mass Spectrometry). A Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Dr. Futrell is the author of over 300
research articles. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of
the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and
Advances in Chemical Physics. Dr. Futrell graduated from Louisiana
Polytechnic Institute summa cum laude in chemical engineering and
received a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of
California at Berkeley.

Richard W. Garvine
     Richard W. Garvine, Maxwell P. and Mildred Harrington
Professor of Marine Studies, joined the faculty in 1977. Dr.
Garvine has made valuable contributions in physical oceanography,
particularly in the dynamics of the coastal ocean and estuaries.
Recently, he assisted in the discovery of a Middle-Atlantic coastal
current. A recipient of the University's excellence-in-teaching
award, Dr. Garvine holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a
doctorate in mechanical and aerospace science from Princeton
University.

Bruce C. Gates
     Bruce C. Gates is H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Chemical
Engineering. A graduate of the University of California at
Berkeley, Dr. Gates earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from
the University of Washington at Seattle. He joined the Delaware
faculty in 1969. Dr. Gates' research interests include catalytic
chemistry, reaction kinetics and chemical reaction engineering;
petroleum refining, petrochemical processing and coal conversion;
catalytic hydroprocessing; and catalysis by synthetic polymers,
strong acids, zeolites and supported transition metal complexes and
clusters. Three times a visiting Fulbright professor, the former
Director of the University's Center for Catalytic Science and
Technology has received the American Chemical Society's Delaware
Section Award, the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award, and the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Alpha Chi Sigma Award for
research in chemical engineering. Dr. Gates is co-author of
Chemistry of Catalytic Processes and numerous book chapters and
articles, and he is editor of Surface Organometallic Chemistry:
Molecular Approaches to Surface Catalysis and Metal Clusters in
Catalysis. His book Catalytic Chemistry has just been published.

Robert P. Gilbert
     Robert P. Gilbert joined the faculty in 1975 as Unidel
Professor of Mathematical Sciences. The recipient of an Alexander
von Humboldt Award, Dr. Gilbert has been a guest professor at
numerous European universities, including the Universities of
Glasgow, Dortmund and Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the
Technical University of Denmark and Karlsruhe University. He
completed his undergraduate work at Brooklyn College and earned
advanced degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is editor-in-
chief and a member of the editorial boards of several mathematical
journals. Dr. Gilbert's research is currently funded by several
National Science Foundation grants.

Irwin G. Greenfield
     Irwin G. Greenfield is Unidel Professor of Engineering. An
authority in materials science, solid surfaces and analytical
experimental techniques, Dr. Greenfield joined the University
faculty in 1963. In 1973, he was named Acting Dean of the College
of Engineering and from 1974 to 1984 served as Dean. Dr. Greenfield
has served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, Oxford
University, Eindhoven Technical University in The Netherlands and
Cambridge University. His research interests include processing of
metal matrix composites, electron microscopy, influence of
interfaces on properties of solids, mechanical and physical
properties, Auger electron spectroscopy, erosion, wear, and
diffused surface coatings. A member of several professional
societies, he holds a bachelor's degree from Temple University and
master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tamara K. Hareven
     Tamara K. Hareven is Unidel Professor of Family Studies. A
social historian and one of the foremost leaders in the field of
family history, Dr. Hareven has organized international conferences
and workshops, and she founded The Journal of Family History, which
she edits. She has also edited various collections of essays and
has published numerous articles in the areas of the historical
study of the family, the life course and aging. Besides publishing
her doctoral dissertation as a book, Eleanor Roosevelt: An American
Conscience, she wrote two books based on her research on the
effects of industrialization on individuals and families: Amoskeag:
Life and Work in an American Factory City and Family Time and
Industrial Time, and she is writing a sequel, Generations and
Historical Time. Dr. Hareven developed the University's
multidisciplinary Center for Family Research. In 1984, she went to
China as the National Academy of Science's Distinguished Visiting
Professor on a lecture tour and to conduct research on the family.
Dr. Hareven has also been a Senior Fulbright Fellow to India and
Japan. She has held grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Hareven is a graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, with
a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati and a doctorate
from Ohio State University.

Carol Hoffecker
     Carol Hoffecker, Acting Associate Provost for Graduate
Studies, was named Richards Professor of History in 1982. A member
of the Delaware faculty since 1970, she is the author of several
books on Delaware history, including Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait
of an Industrial City, 1830-1910; Delaware: A Bicentennial History;
Wilmington: A Pictorial History; and Corporate Capital, Wilmington
in the Twentieth Century, and she is coauthor, with Dr. John A.
Munroe, of Books, Bricks and Bibliophiles: The University of
Delaware Library. Dr. Hoffecker served two consecutive terms as
President of the University Faculty Senate. An honors graduate of
the University of Delaware, she received a master's degree from
Radcliffe College and a doctorate from Harvard University. She has
recently completed a forthcoming book called Federal Justice in the
First State: A History of the United States District Court for
Delaware.

William I. Homer
     William I. Homer, Chairperson of the Art History Department,
is H. Rodney Sharp Professor. Dr. Homer received the University's
Francis Alison Faculty Award in 1980 and in 1981 was selected as
the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in the College of Arts and
Science. He has held fellowships from the American Council of
Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. A specialist in late 19th- and 20th-
century American and European art, Dr. Homer is the author of six
books, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs and articles in
professional journals. His book, Thomas Eakins, Life, Art, and
Teaching, will be published in 1992. He received a bachelor's
degree magna cum laude from Princeton University and master's and
doctoral degrees from Harvard University.

Carroll Izard
     Carroll Izard, Unidel Professor of Psychology since 1976, was
educated at Mississippi College and Yale and Syracuse Universities.
A recipient of the American Psychological Association's G. Stanley
Hall Award for research on emotional development and the Elliot
Memorial Award for his book, The Face of Emotion, Dr. Izard was a
National Academy of Sciences Exchange Fellow in the emotions
laboratory of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and his book, Human
Emotions, has been published in German by Beltz Verlag and in
Russian by the University of Moscow Press. His research on the role
of emotions in human development, funded by the National Science
Foundation, has been featured on the PBS television series, "Nova,"
and in other science-education media such as Smithsonian magazine.
Dr. Izard is series editor for the Plenum Press books on emotions
and a consulting editor for several psychological journals. In 1986
he was awarded the College of Arts and Science Distinguished
Faculty lectureship and in 1989 he received the Francis Alison
Faculty Award.

John C. Kraft
     John C. Kraft, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Geology, earned
a bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University and advanced
degrees at the University of Minnesota. The former Chairperson of
the Department of Geology from 1969 to 1983, he is a recipient of
numerous grants and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of
America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and the Explorer Club. He has authored or co-authored many articles
on such topics as coastal processes, rates of shoreline change and
relative sea level rise, and coastal geomorphologic changes related
to archaeology and historic events. He has received awards and
honors from the Geological Society of America, the American Society
of Civil Engineers and the Society of Economic Paleontogists and
Mineralogists. Dr. Kraft received the Francis Alison Faculty Award
in 1987. A member of the German/American/Turkish Archaeological
Expedition to Troy, the Osterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut
Expedition to Ephesus, and the American Archaeological Expedition
at NiKopolis in Greece, Dr. Kraft analyzes in his research the
nature of changes that have occurred in the past 10,000 years to
ancient coastal landscapes, as well as the potential destruction of
present and future coastal environments as a result of coastal
processes and sea level rise caused by the Greenhouse effect.

J.A. Leo Lemay
     J.A. Leo Lemay joined the faculty in 1977 as the Winterthur
Professor of English. The nationally recognized specialist in early
American literature has been awarded Guggenheim and National
Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, among other grants. He
earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of
Maryland and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. His
book, The Canon of Benjamin Franklin 1722-1776: New Attributions
and Reconsiderations, was published by the University of Delaware
Press in 1986, and Benjamin Franklin Writings, edited by Dr. Lemay,
was issued in 1987 by The Library of America, in celebration of the
Constitution's 200th anniversary. The University Press of Virginia
published his books, Robert Bolling Woos Anne Miller and The
American Dream of Captain John Smith.

William Markell
     William Markell, Chairperson of the Department of Accounting
since 1976 and former chairperson of the Department of Business
Administration, is the first Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of
Accounting at Delaware. He has been appointed to the Academic and
Career Development Executive Committee of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and to the Accounting Accreditation
Committee of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of
Business. A member of the Delaware faculty since 1958, Dr. Markell
has served as a visiting professor at such institutions as the
University of Manchester in England, the University of Canterbury
in New Zealand and the American College in Paris, and was a
Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Botswana. Dr. Markell has
also been an active member of the American Accounting Association
and the Federation of Schools of Accountancy. The Certified Public
Accountant holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from City
College of New York, a master's degree from the University of
Denver and an Ed.D. from Teacher's College, Columbia University.

Frank B. Murray
     Frank B. Murray is H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the
Departments of Educational Studies and Psychology at the University
of Delaware and has been Dean of the College of Education since
1980. Dr. Murray received a bachelor's degree from St. John's
College in Annapolis, Maryland, and he earned advanced degrees from
the Johns Hopkins University. He has published some 100 articles in
his research interest, children's cognitive and intellectual
development, and he serves on the editorial boards of several
journals. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr.
Murray currently chairs the National Board of the Holmes Group, a
consortium of 100 research universities working to reform teacher
education. He is co-director of Project 30, a Carnegie Foundation-
funded consortium of arts and science and education leaders from 30
colleges and universities in the United States that are reworking
and extending the components of their teaching education programs.
Dr. Murray chairs the task force on the knowledge base for teacher
education for the American Association of Colleges of Teacher
Education and serves on the Teacher Program Council of the
Educational Testing Service, which is developing a new National
Teacher Examination.

Hershel Parker
     Hershel Parker, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, came
to Delaware in 1979. A graduate of Lamar University, he received
advanced degrees from Northwestern University. He has held Woodrow
Wilson and Guggenheim Fellowships. Known first as a Melville
scholar and editor, he has worked on the relationships between
textual evidence and literary criticism and theory as well as
between editorial theory and creativity, the subject of a book he
wrote while holding a University of Delaware Center for Advanced
Study fellowship: Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority
in American Fiction. He is Associate General Editor of the
Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville,
of which 12 volumes have appeared. Northwestern University Press
published his Reading "Billy Budd." In 1991, the centennial of
Melville's death, Dr. Parker served as President of the Melville
Society. His next large project is a biography of Herman Melville.

Donald L. Peters
     Donald L. Peters, Amy Rextrew Professor of Individual and
Family Studies, joined the Delaware faculty in 1985. Dr. Peters
holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from Brown
University, a master's degree in educational psychology from
Northeastern University, and a doctorate in educational psychology
from Stanford University. Recipient of numerous research and
training grants, he is author, co-author and co-editor of nearly 50
articles in scholarly journals and more than 75 publications. He
has authored, co-authored, and edited nine books, including: The
Development of Self-Regulatory Mechanism, New Methods for Educating
and Credentialing Professionals in Child Care, Early Childhood
Education: Theory and Practice, Continuity and Discontinuity of
Experience in Child Care, and Professionalism and the Early
Childhood Practitioner. Active in consultation and technical
assistance to a variety of agencies in Delaware, Dr. Peters
currently serves on the Interagency Coordinating Council of Infant
and Toddler Programs as well as on a number of other state-wide
committees and task forces.

R. Byron Pipes
     R. Byron Pipes, Robert L. Spencer Professor of Engineering,
was Dean of the College of Engineering from 1985-91, when he was
named Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He is
internationally known for his interdisciplinary leadership in
composite materials research and for development of an exemplary
model of university, industrial and governmental interaction in
research and education. In 1987, he was elected to the prestigious
National Academy of Engineering, the highest recognition accorded
an engineering professional or academic. His national and
international awards include the Chaire Francqui, the highest award
in Belgium for distinguished visiting faculty, and the Gustus
Larson Award of the mechanical engineering honorary, Pi Tau Sigma.
While a faculty member of the University of Delaware he co-founded
the Center for Composite Materials and served as its director from
1978-85. The author and co-author of five books on composite
materials and numerous refereed publications, he holds a bachelor's
degree from Louisiana Polytechnic, a master's degree from Princeton
University and a doctorate from the University of Texas. Graduate
degrees granted under his supervision now number more than 50.

Lois D. Potter
     Lois D. Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor of English, is a
scholar of Renaissance and 17th-century literature. Author of A
Preface to Milton, Twelfth Night: Text and Performance and Secret
Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-60, Dr. Potter
is General Editor of The Revels History of Drama in English, Vols.
I and IV. She has edited two anonymous plays of the mid-17th
century and is currently editing The Two Noble Kinsmen by
Shakespeare and Fletches, for the Arden series. Her articles and
reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including
the Times Literary Supplement, Shakespeare Survey, English Studies,
and The Literary Review. Dr. Potter founded the Renaissance Drama
Newsletter, which she edited for three years. Educated at the
Sorbonne in Paris, Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and Girton
College, Cambridge, Dr. Potter received her doctorate from
Cambridge University, where she held a Marshall Scholarship.

T.W. Fraser Russell
     T.W. Fraser Russell, Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical
Engineering, is Director of the Institute of Energy Conversion, a
laboratory devoted to thin-film photovoltaic research. Dr. Russell
holds bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from
the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
the University of Delaware. His research efforts are directed
toward semiconductor reaction and reactor engineering and the study
of multi-phase fluid mechanics with application to the design of
process equipment. He is the author of numerous technical
publications and co-author of two chemical engineering texts. Dr.
Russell has received the University's excellence-in-teaching award
and the Francis Alison Faculty Award, the American Chemical
Society's Leo Friend Award, the American Society for Engineering
Education Chemical Engineering Division Lecture Award, the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers Award in Chemical Engineering
Practice and the Thomas H. Chilton Award. He also was elected to
the National Academy of Engineering.

Stanley I. Sandler
     Stanley I. Sandler was named Henry Belin du Pont Professor of
Chemical Engineering in 1982 and has been a member of the Delaware
faculty since 1967. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical
engineering from the City College of New York and a doctorate from
the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sandler has received the
prestigious Professional Progress Award of the American Institute
of Chemical Engineering, the Chemical Engineering Division Award of
the American Society for Engineering Education and a U.S. Senior
Scientist Award from the Humboldt Foundation (Germany). He serves
on editorial boards of several journals and is a member of a number
of professional organizations. Dr. Sandler is author or co-author
of numerous scholarly publications and several books. His research
interests include the thermodynamic properties of liquids and
liquid mixtures, applied thermodynamics and phase equilibrium,
computer-assisted engineering education and computer-aided process
design.

W.D. Snodgrass
     W.D. Snodgrass, Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing
and Contemporary Poetry, is a well-known poet and the author of
Heart's Needle, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960.
His most recent books include several illustrated by DeLoss McGraw:
The Midnight Carnival and an exclusive edition of the same; The
Death of Cock Robin; and To Shape a Song. In 1990, The Midnight
Carnival was staged by the Faustwork Mask Theatre at the American
Place Theatre in New York. His poems, translations, and essays have
been anthologized and published widely. His numerous awards include
the Hudson Review Fellowship in Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an
Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant
for study in the theatre. In 1991, he received an Honorary Doctor
of Letters degree from Allegheny College and was invited to visit
the Batuz Foundation in Berlin and Bad Ems, Germany, and the
Romanian Writer's Union, who conferred him an Award for Translation
of Romanian Literature. The Southern Review published a tribute to
him in the summer 1991 issue, entitled "W.D. Snodgrass: Poetry and
Poetics." A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters,
he received Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Master of Fine
Arts degrees from the University of Iowa.

Damie Stillman
     Damie Stillman, John W. Shirley Professor of Art History, was
Chairperson of the Department of Art History from 1980 to 1986. Dr.
Stillman is the author of The Decorative Work of Robert Adam,
English Painting: The Great Masters, 1730-1860 and English Neo-
classical Architecture, for which he received the 1988 Gottschalk
Prize from the American Society for 18th-Century Studies. A
graduate of Northwestern University, he received a master's degree
in the University's Winterthur Program in Early American Culture,
a doctorate at Columbia University, and he also studied at the
Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. In 1988, he
received a fellowship from the University's Center for Advanced
Study to research a book on American federal architecture. The
former President of the Society of Architectural Historians is
twice a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship. Recently appointed the Associate Editor of the
Buildings of the United States series, he is currently at work on
a book on Neo-classical architecture in America during the era of
the Early Republic.

A. Julian Valbuena
     A. Julian Valbuena, Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish, is an
internationally known expert on the theatre of the Spanish Golden
Age and Latin American literature. He has served as a visiting
professor at New York University, the Universities of Madrid and
Mexico (Aragon) and the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogota,
Columbia. He received a Licenciatura from the University of Murcia,
a Maestria Nacional from the School of Pedagogy and a doctorate
from the University of Madrid. The author of 14 books and over 100
articles, Dr. Valbuena has lectured extensively in Europe, Canada,
Latin America, and the U.S., and serves on several editorial boards
in the U.S., Germany, and Spain. He has been on the Fulbright
Screening Board and was a Division Chair of the Modern Language
Association of America. Dr. Valbuena received the University's
excellence-in-teaching award in 1988 and was made an honorary
member of Phi Kappa Phi in 1975.

Richard L. Venezky
     Richard L. Venezky, Unidel Professor of Educational Studies
since 1977, is also Professor of Computer and Information Sciences.
He is internationally known for his work on English orthography and
computer applications to education and lexicography and is co-
director for research and development for the National Center on
Adult Literacy. Dr. Venezky chairs the Advisory Panel for the
Office of Technology Assessment's study of technology and adult
literacy. Among his recent publications are The Intelligent Design
of Computer-Assisted Instruction, a book on computer-assisted
instruction, and an introductory essay for the University
Publications of America's microfiche collection of American
Primers. Dr. Venezky holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell
University and a doctorate from Stanford University, both in
linguistics.

Jack R. Vinson
     Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, joined the Delaware faculty in 1964. He served as
Chairperson of the then Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering from 1965 to 1979 and was the first Director of the
Center for Composite Materials from 1974 to 1978. A graduate of
Cornell University, he received his doctorate from the University
of Pennsylvania after spending a year in graduate study at
Cambridge University. Dr. Vinson has authored or co-authored four
textbooks and numerous research papers, as well as edited seven
books. Active in various professional organizations, he was the
U.S. organizer of the first four U.S.-Japan Conferences on
Composite Materials. He was the recipient of a fellowship from the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and was a guest
professor at the University of Tokyo in 1985.

Donald B. Wetlaufer
     Donald B. Wetlaufer is E.I. du Pont de Nemours Professor of
Chemistry and Biochemistry and he chaired the  Department of
Chemistry from 1975 to 1985. He has been a visiting investigator at
the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen and at the Max-Planck
Institut fuer Ernaehrungsphysiologie. His research has focused on
understanding how proteins acquire their three-dimensional
structures, and relationships between protein structure, stability
and biological function. The National Science Foundation and
industrial biotechnology firms have supported his recent research
on high performance protein chromatography. He is a member of
several professional societies and has served several times as
councilor in the American Chemical Society. Dr. Wetlaufer, who has
received numerous awards and honors, has served on panels of the
National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He holds a bachelor's
degree in chemistry and a doctorate in biochemistry from the
University of Wisconsin.

Jin Wu
     Jin Wu, who was named H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Marine
Studies and Civil Engineering in 1980, joined the Delaware faculty
in 1974. Dr. Wu established and directs the Air-Sea Interaction
Laboratory in the College of Marine Studies. Active in promoting
science in China, he received an honorary professorship awarded by
China's Ministry of Education. Under the sponsorship of the
National Science Foundation, he also led a national delegation of
distinguished professors to Taiwan to establish a large-scale
research program in ocean science. A member of the Academia Sinica
(The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of China), Dr. Wu
earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National
Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan and master's and doctoral degrees
in mechanics and hydraulics from the University of Iowa. The author
of more than 160 articles, Dr. Wu is internationally known for his
work on environmental and oceanographic fluid dynamics.