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Faculty and staff

Books

Ellen Pifer, English, Saul Bellow Against the Grain, paperback
edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Publications

Insup Lee, finance, "Bank Acquisitions of Non-Bank Financial Firms:
An Examination of Shareholders' Wealth," in The International
Journal of Finance, vol. 3, no. 2, pages 77-87.

R. Byron Pipes, Robert L. Spencer Professor of Engineering, Michael
Keefe and S.G. Advani, mechanical engineering, "The Draping and
Consolidation of Commingled Fabrics," in Composites Manufacturing,
vol. 2, no. 1, March 1991.

Clifford B.O. Keil, entomology and applied ecology, "Field and
Laboratory Evaluation of a Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis
Formulation for Control of Fly Pests of Mushrooms," in Journal of
Economic Entomology, vol. 84, no. 4, pages 1180-1188, 1991.

Noel M. Murray and Lalita A. Manrai, business administration,
"Variety Seeking: A Cross-Cultural Study of Irish and American
Female Consumers," in Proceedings of the 20th European Marketing
Academy Conference, vol. 3, pages 888-908, and "Exploratory
Consumption Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Perspective," in Journal of
International Consumer Marketing, vol. 5, no. 1; and Manrai with
Ajay K. Manrai, business administration, "A Model of Preference of
Department Stores," in Enhancing Knowledge Development in
Marketing, pages 145-153, Gilly et al., editors, American Marketing
Association, San Diego, August 1991; also Ajay K. Manrai with Wayne
DeSarbo, "A New Multidimensional Scaling Methodology for the
Analysis of Asymmetric Proximity Data in Marketing Research," in
Marketing Science, vol. 10, no. 4, pages 1-20, fall 1991.

Monika Shafi, foreign languages and literatures, " 'Mein Ruf Ist
Dunn und Leicht.' Zur Weiblichkeitsdarstellung in Gertrud Kolars
Zyklus Weibliches Bildnis," in The Germanic Review, vol. 66, no. 2,
pages 81-88.

Valerie Hans, criminal justice, with Joe Cecil and Beth Wiggins of
Federal Judicial Center, "Citizen Comprehension of Difficult
Issues: Lessons from Civil Jury Trials," in American University Law
Review, vol. 40, pages 727-774, and with graduate student William
Lofquist, "Behind Closed Doors: The Civil Jury Decides," in Court
Manager, vol. 6, pages 19-22, summer 1991.

Donald L. Sparks, plant and soil sciences, with S.A. Grant,
"Ca-K-H- Exchange on Silt-, Clay- and Silt + Clay-size Soil
Separates," in Journal of Chemical Society Faraday Transactions,
vol. 87, pages 2501-2506.

David Kirchman, marine studies, with Yoshimi Suzuki, Christopher
Garside and Hugh W. Ducklow, "High Turnover Rates of Dissolves
Organic Carbon During a Spring Phytoplankton Bloom," in Nature,
vol. 352, pages 612-614.

Richard C. Hoffman, business administration, with John F. Preble,
"The Globalization of U.S. Fast-Food Franchising Companies," in Ten
Best Papers, Proceedings of the Academy of International Business-
Northeast, Bermuda, June 1991.

Presentations

Ivo Dominguez, foreign languages and literatures, "Cervantes:
Innovador de la Novela Morisca," at first international congress,
Associacion de Cervantistas de Espana, June 24-29, Almagro, Spain.

Richard T. Sylves, political science and international relations,
"Academicians and Weaponeers: Technoscientific Knowledge
Acquisition Through the U.S. Defense Science Board," at American
Political Science Association meeting, Aug. 30, Washington, D.C.

Peter Cole, linguistics, with Li-may Sung, "Long Distance
Reflexives," at workshop on syntactic theory, Linguistics Institute
of Linguistic Society of America, July, University of California at
Santa Cruz. Cole also organized a Chinese Linguistics Workshop July
14 at the institute.

Clifford W. Sloyer, mathematical sciences, "Mathematical
Programming-A Strand," at Fifth International Conference on the
Teaching of Mathematical Modeling, Sept. 10, Noordwijkerhout, The
Netherlands.

Irene Vogel, linguistics, "Pragmatics and Semantics in Postlexical
Phonology" and "The Contribution of Syntactic and Other Factors to
Postlexical Phonology," at National Science Foundation workshop on
Grammatical Foundations of Discourse and Prosody, June 27-July 6,
Santa Cruz.

William H. Clark Jr., alumni, "Keeping Up Enthusiasm for the
Seasoned Adviser," panelist, 1991 Student Alumni
Association/Student Foundation Network Convention, Aug. 31,
University of California at Los Angeles.

Raymond Callahan, history, "India in British Imperial Strategy,
1815-1918," at U.S. Marine Corps War College, Sept. 13, Quantico,
Va.

Xiao-Hai Yan, marine studies, "Air-Sea Interaction and Upper Ocean
Response Sensing Technique," at 20th General Assembly,
International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy, Aug. 11-24, Vienna,
and "Ocean Surface Velocity Determined by Satellite Data and
Pattern Recognition," at National Meteorological Center, Aug. 6,
Washington, D.C.

Gerard J. Mangone, marine studies, "International and Maritime
Law," at Port of Singapore Authority; and "Law of the Sea," at
Korean Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Seoul, and at Research Institute for Ocean
Pollution, Pusan, South Korea, July.

Donald L. Sparks, plant and soil sciences, "Dynamics of Potassium
Exchange in Soils," at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany;
"Kinetics of Reactions on Colloidal Surfaces," at Institute for
Radiochemistry and Environmental Studies, Munich, and at Wageningen
Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Valerie Hans and William Lofquist, criminal justice, "Lay
Perceptions of Business Responsibility for Harm," at Law and
Society Association, June 28, Amsterdam, and "Civil Justice and
Business Litigation: The Attitudes of Civil Jurors," at American
Psychological Association meeting, Aug. 18, San Francisco; and,
Hans, "New Directions in Jury Research," at Cardiff Law School,
June, Cardiff, Wales, and "Law-Psychology Research Funding: Issues
and Challenges for the 1990s," panelist, American Psychological
Association meeting, Aug. 18, San Francisco.

Clifford B.O. Keil, entomology and applied ecology, presented
research results at "Biological Control--The Reality" symposium,
British Mushroom Growers Association Conference, Sept. 2-14,
Glasgow, Scotland.

Ellen Pifer, English, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting:
Kundera's Narration Against Narration," at International Conference
on Narrative Literature, June 13, Nice.

Miscellaneous

A research paper, "Effect of Seawater Biofilms on Corrosion
Potential and Oxygen Reduction of Stainless Steel," written by
Steven C. Dexter, marine studies, and G.Y. Gao, a former visiting
scholar in Dexter's laboratory and now director of international
development, Shenyang, China, received the Melvin Romanoff Award
from the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, Northeast
Region.

Dewey M. Caron, entomology and applied ecology, volunteered for the
farmer-to-farmer program of Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative
Assistance, teaching beekeeping to Mayan Indians in Southern
Belize, Aug. 22-Sept. 5.

Valerie Hans, criminal justice, elected secretary of Law and
Society Association.

Donald L. Sparks, plant and soil sciences, reappointed to editorial
board of Geoderma and as technical editor of Soil Science Society
of America Journal.

Ivo Dominguez, foreign languages and literatures, elected to
two-year term, Public Relations Committee, American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Ellen Pifer, English, will serve as visiting professor of American
literature at University of Lyon, France, during spring semester.

Gifts

John D. Engel, Center for Science and Culture, with Robert S.
Blacklow, Jefferson Medical College, $250,000 from The Longwood
Foundation for the "Univeristy of Delaware/Jefferson Medical
College Medical Scholars Program."

Grants

From Delaware Department of Transportation: Ardeshir Faghri, civil
engineering, $18,000 for "Demonstration of Various Levels of
Service Through Videotape Technology," and Shinya Kikuchi, civil
engineering, $4,000 for "Delaware Transportation Center's
Distinguished Speakers Series."

John W. Gillespie, composite materials, an additional $25,000 from
Du Pont Co., bringing total funds awarded to $50,000, and $17,000
from state, under Delaware Research Partnership Program, for
"Non-Isothermal Fusion Bonding of Thermoplastic Composites," and
$79,961 from Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.-Georgia, for
"Resistance Heated Dual Resin Bonding"; and Vistasp M. Karbhari,
composite materials, with Gillespie, $99,999 from U.S. Army, for
"Feasibility Study and Fabrication of Potential Composite
Components of a Production Intent Lightweight Electric Generator."

Victor R. Martuza, educational studies, $9,550 from Christiana
School District, for "Multicultural Education."

Frank B. Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies,
$249,839 from U.S. Department of Education, for "To Improve the
Skills of Mathematics and Science Teachers."

Stanley P. Owocki, Bartol Research Institute, $22,000 from National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, for "Bartol Training Grant."

Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Professor of Chemical
Engineering, with Eric W. Kaler, chemical engineering, $23,000 from
Du Pont Co. and $25,500 from state, under Delaware Research
Partnership Program, for "Enhancing Bioseparations: Aqueous
Two-Phase Extraction."

Rivers Singleton, life and health sciences, $5,300 from Academy of
Applied Science, for "Delaware Junior Science and Humanities
Symposium."

Ferris Webster, marine studies, $149,729 from National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, for "Oceanographic Data for Global
Change Research."