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June 11, 1992
Faculty and staff
PUBLICATIONS
Steven Dentel, civil engineering, with D.E. Sawyers, "Anoxic,
Zero-Headspace Titiations of Landfill Leachate," in Water Science
and Technology, vol. 26, pages 2265-2268, 1992.
Brent W. Thompson, nursing, "NursEXPERT: A Nursing Diagnosis
Assessment Expert System," in Computer Applications in Nursing
Education and Practice, pages 253-259, J.M. Arnold and G.A.
Pearson, editors, NLN Press, New York, 1992.
Paul T. Durbin, philosophy and urban affairs, "Environmental
Ethics and Environmental Activism," pages 107-117, "Reply to
George Allan," pages 129-132, a review of Larry Hickman's John
Dewey's Pragmatic Technology, pages 347-351, and of Edmund
Byrne's Work Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry, in Research in
Philosophy and Technology, vol. 12, F. Ferre, editor, JAI Press,
Greenwich, Conn., 1992.
Vistap M. Karbhari, composite materials, "Determination of
Interfacial Shear and Normal Stresses in Fiber Pull-Out," pages
1004-1008, and "Microcrack Interaction Toughening in Ceramics and
CMCs," pages 1016-1019, in Proceedings of Ninth American Society
of Chemical Engineers Engineering Mechanics Conference, May
24-27, 1992.
Mary P. Richards, arts and science, "The Gundulf Bible and
Related Manuscripts Formerly in the Library of St. Andrew's,
Rochester," pages 18-23, in Annual Report of the Friends of
Rochester Cathedral, 1991-92.
John Burmeister, chemistry and biochemistry, "Ambidentate
Ligands: The Schizophrenics of Coordination Chemistry," in
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marine Pollution,
pages 294-300, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan,
1991.
C.P. Huang and Herbert E. Allen, civil engineering, Donald L.
Sparks, plant and soil sciences, Paul Sanders of New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, with graduate
students Jack Lee and Benjamin Chen, "Trace Metal Soil Criteria
to Protect Groundwater," in Journal of Water Science and
Technology, vol. 26, pages 9-11, 1992. A poster of the same title
was presented at the International Association on Water Pollution
Research and control meeting, May 24-30, Washington, D.C.
PRESENTATIONS
Herbert E. Allen, civil engineering, "New Concepts in
Environmental Chemistry: Major Issues at the Science-Regulatory
Interface," an invited presentation, at Second European
Conference on Ecotoxicology, May 12, Amsterdam.
Gordon J. DiRenzo, sociology, "The Emergence of Italian Americans
in American Politics: 1940-1980," an invited presentation, at
Conference on Italian Americans: A Political Force in 1992 and
Beyond, May 15-16, Italian American Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Robert A. Day, English, scientific writing workshop, at
Professional Development Workshop Series of Center for
Neuroscience, May 7-8, University of Pittsburgh.
Patricia Tanner Nelson, Cooperative Extension, "Training
Paraprofessionals for Effective Family Support: Families
Matter!," at Family Resource Coalition National Conference, May
6-9, Chicago.
Mohsen Badiey, marine studies, "Effect of Randomly Inhomogeneous
Seafloor on the Reflection and Scattering of Plane Acoustic Waves
in Shallow Waters," at 123rd meeting, Acoustical Society of
America, May 10, Salt Lake City.
Gerard J. Mangone, University professor, "The Navigation and
Pollution of American Rivers," at Jean Moulin University, May 14,
Lyons, France.
Prasad Dhurjati, chemical engineering, with graduate student K.
Tokatlidis and J. Millet, P. Beguin and J.P. Aubert of Pasteur
Institute, "High Activity of Inclusion Bodies Formed in
Escherichia coli Overproducing Clostridium thermocellum
Endoglucanase-D," with graduate student Jim Klein, "An
Experimental Investigation of the In-vivo Kinetics of Inclusion
Body Formation" and with Tokatlidis, Beguin, Aubert and S.
Salamitou of Pasteur Institute, "Interaction of the Duplicated
Segment Carried by Clostridium thermocellum Cellulases with
Cellulosome Components," at American Chemical Society national
meeting, April 5-10, San Francisco; with graduate student T.F.
Petti, "On-line Hydrogen Resource Management in a Refinery Using
Fuzzy Optimization" and with Petti and Antony Beris, chemical
engineering, "Expert Systems in the Design and Control of Batch
Manufacturing Processes," at IFAC international symposium on
On-line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process
Industries, April 22-24, Newark.
Several faculty members, staff and students affiliated with the
Center for Composite Materials made presentations at the Third
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in Composite
Material Technology, held May 13-15 at the University: A.J.
Beaussart, R.B. Pipes, Robert L. Spencer Professor of
Engineering, and R.K. Okine, an invited paper, "Numerical
Modeling of Sheet Forming Processes for Thermoplastic
Composites"; R. Shanker, J.W. Gillespie Jr., composite
materials, and S.I. Guceri, mechanical engineering, "Computer
Simulation of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Fiber Suspensions";
T.D. Kostar and T.-W. Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, "Design and Automated Fabrication of 3-D
Braided Preforms for Advanced Structural Composites"; S.
Roychowdhury, Gillespie and S.G. Advani, mechanical engineering,
"Void Formation and Growth in Thermoplastic Processing"; V.M.
Karbhari, composite materials, "Microcrack-Interaction Induced
Toughening in Ceramics and Advanced Composites" and "The Role of
Expert and Decision Support Systems in Composites Design and
Manufacturing"; T.A. Martin, Pipes and D. Bhattacharyya,
"Computer-Aided Grid Strain Analysis in Fiber Reinforced
Thermoplastic Sheet Forming"; K. Friedrich, visiting professor,
University of Kaiserslautern, "FE-Modeling of the
Three-Dimensional Stress Field in a Plasticizing Short Fiber
Reinforced Composite,"; M.N. Ghasemi Nejhad, Gillespie and R.D.
Cope, mechanical engineering, "Prediction of Process-Induced
Stresses for In-Situ Thermoplastic Filament Winding of
Cylinders"; and C.Y. Chan, A.N. Beris, chemical engineering, and
Advani, "3-D Simulation of Fiber-Fluid Interactions During
Composite Manufacturing Using the Galerkin Boundary Element
Method."
MISCELLANEOUS
Donald Conlon, business administration, named to editorial board
of The International Journal of Conflict Management.
Frank B. Dilley, philosophy, received the D. Scott Rogo Award for
Parapsychological Literature from the Parapsychology Foundation
for his collection of writings by H.H. Price, Oxford philosopher.
David Graham, psychology, received the Emeritus Faculty Award
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Alumni
Association on May 15.
Frances Graham, psychology, was recognized as a Distinguished
Alumna and presented a Wilbur L. Cross medal at the Yale
University Graduate School Commencement on May 25.
Xiao-Hai Yan and Chung-Ru Ho's work on satellite remote sensing
of the Western Pacific warm pool has been reported by The New
York Times, Science and Time magazines and CNN. Reports are also
scheduled in June for ABC's World News with Peter Jennings and
Voice of America radio.
GRANTS
Roberta F. Colman, chemistry and biochemistry, $40,000 from
American Heart Association, for "Active Site of Heart
NADP-Specific Isocitrate Dehydrogenase"; and an additional $6,000
from National Science Foundation, for "Affinity Labeling of
Purine Nucleotide Sites in Proteins (REU)," bringing total funds
awarded to $95,000.
From U.S. Department of the Interior: Steven K. Dentel, with
Herbert E. Allen, civil engineering, $17,000 for "Effects of
Surfactants on Sludge Dewatering and Pollutant Fate"; John R.
Mather, with Jay Hodny, geography, "15,000 for "Climate Change
and Delaware's Water Resources Future"; William F. Ritter,
agricultural engineering, $13,000 for "Cropping Systems to Reduce
Nitrate Contamination of Ground Water"; Joseph R. Scudlark, with
Thomas M. Church, marine studies, $12,000 for "An Assessment of
the Wet Depositional Flux of Toxic Trace Metals to the Delaware,
Rehoboth and Indian River Estuaries: Spatial and Temporal
Trends"; Donald L. Sparks, plant and soil sciences, $18,000 for
"Sorption and Desorption Kinetics of Pesticides on Delaware Soils
and Soil Constituents: Effects on Water Quality"; and Robert D.
Varrin, Water Resources Center, $26,381 for "1992 Delaware Water
Research Institute Program."
From Delaware Soybean Board: Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, with Bruce L.
Vasilas, plant and soil sciences, $4,700 for "Identification of
Soybean Cultivars Tolerant to Nodulation by
Rhizobitoxine-Producing Bradyrhizobia" and $4,900 for "Evaluation
of the Potential to Increase Soybean Yields Through Increased
Nitrogen Fixation"; Robert P. Mulrooney, Cooperative Extension,
$4,500 for "Nematode Assay Program"; and with Robert Uniatowski,
plant and soil sciences, $1,050 for "Regional Soybean Cyst
Nematode Variety Evaluations"; Richard W. Taylor, with
Uniatowski, plant and soil sciences, $3,000 for "Proper Soybean
Maturity Selection for Double-Cropping and Replant Situations,"
$4,500 for "Performance Evaluation of Single-Crop Soybean
Varieties in Delaware," $3,800 for "Soybean Variety Response to
Postemergence Application of 2,4-DB" and $2,500 for "Performance
Evaluation of Soybean Varieties in a Double-Crop System"; and
Francis J. Webb, with Mark S. Causey, Cooperative Extension,
$5,850 for "Low Cost Weed Control Programs for Soybean
Production."
John W. Gillespie, composite materials, $57,402 from Du Pont Co.,
for "Design of Graphite Composite Pressure Hull Joints."
Selcuk I. Guceri, mechanical engineering, $121,128 from Northrop
Corp., for "Numerical Process Simulation in Reactive Resin
Transfer Molding."
Catherine K. Halbrendt, with Conrado M. Gempesaw, food and
resource economics, an additional $8,500 from U.S. Department of
Agriculture, for "Regionalized Multi-Crop Model for China,"
bringing total funds awarded to $16,300.
Laurence S. Kalkstein, geography, $22,027 from U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, for "The Differential Impact of Pollution and
Heat Stress Upon Human Mortality."
Eric W. Kaler, chemical engineering, $41,501 from University of
Washington, for "Cholesterol Solubilization in Bile."
Steven Martin, with Dorothy Lockwood, $74,455 from New Castle
County, Del., for "New Castle County Community Partnerships
Evaluation."
William H. Matthaeus, Bartol Research Institute, an additional
$250,000 from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for
"Particle Acceleration Transport and Turbulence in Cosmic and
Heliospheric Physics," bringing total funds awarded to $500,000.
David L. Mills, electrical engineering, an additional $201,769
from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for
"Performance and Policy Dimensions in Internet Routing," bringing
total funds awarded to $636,612.
Beth A. Mineo, with Patrick W. Demasco, applied science and
engineering, $144,172 from U.S. Department of Education, for
"Enhancing Picture-Based Communication via Computer-Assisted
Design and Instruction."
Timothy F. Pfeiffer, marine studies, $26,351 from National
Science Foundation, for "Oceanographic Instrumentation."
Kelvin W. Ramsey, Delaware Geological Survey, $20,678 from
University of Texas, for "Stratigraphic Framework Studies and
Compilation and Assessment of Geologic Data, Offshore Delaware."
Edward C. Ratledge, urban affairs and public policy, $14,700 from
Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, for "A
Detailed Evaluation of the Four Key Elements of the Delaware
Community Cluster Against Substance Abuse (DECCASA)."
Arnold L. Rheingold, chemistry and biochemistry, $40,000 from
American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, for
"Diphosphenes and Diarsenes in Cluster Synthesis. Preparation of
Metal/Main-Group Multiple Bonds."
James T. Sims, with Bruce L. Vasilas, plant and soil sciences, an
additional $3,200 from Tennessee Valley Authority, for
"Evaluation of the Soil Nitrate Test for Manured Soils of the
Atlantic Coastal Plain," bringing total funds awarded to $39,200.
Robert A. Wilson, urban affairs and public policy, $12,000 from
Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, for
"Evaluation of Village Project."
Colin Thorpe, chemistry and biochemistry, $29,888 from U.S.
Public Health Service, for "Small Instrumentation Grants
Program."