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Faculty and staff

Books

Gail Johnson, urban affairs and public policy, Recruiting,
Retaining and Motivating the Federal Workforce, Quorum Books,
Westport, Conn., 1991.

Publications

Nancy Signorielli, communication, "Adolescents and Ambivalence
Toward Marriage," in Youth and Society, vol. 23, no. 1, pages
121-149.

Marvin S. Gilman, urban affairs and public policy, "Why We're
Singing the Housing Blues," in Nation's Building News, and
"Affordable Housing," an editorial in Delaware State Chamber of
Commerce News, March 22, 1991.

Robert H. Wood, chemistry and biochemistry, with Wolfgang C. F.
Muehlbauer,  "Systematic Errors in Free Energy Perturbation
Calculations Due to Finite Sample Size: Sample-Size Hysteresis," in
Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, pages 6670-6675, 1991.

Jeffrey A. Raffel, urban affairs and public policy, with graduate
student Lance R. Groff, "Retirement Behavior Among Delaware
Teachers: A Statistical Analysis," submitted to Delaware
Development Office and State Superintendent's Committee on Teacher
Recruitment.

Charles Pavitt, communication, "An Analysis of Artificial
Intelligence Based Models for Describing Communicative Choice," in
Communication Theory, vol. 1, no. 3, pages 204-224, August 1991.

Raheemah Jabbar-Bey, urban affairs and public policy, "Wilmington
Area Community-Based Development Project, First Year Report," May
1991.

Joan Burnside and Larry A. Cogburn, animal science and agricultural
biochemistry, "Molecular Cloning of the Chicken Growth Hormone
Receptor Complementary Deoxyribonucleic Acid: Mutation of the Gene
in Sex-linked Dwarf Chickens," in Endocrinology, vol. 128, page
3183.

H. Perry Chapman, art history, "Jan Steen's Household Revisited,"
in Simiolus, Netherlands Quarterly for The History of Art, vol. 20,
no. 2/3, pages 183-196, 1990-91.

Herbert E. Allen, civil engineering, with Gongmin Fu of Drexel
University and Christina E. Cowan of Battelle, "Adsorption of
Cadmium and Copper by Manganese Oxide," in Soil Science, vol. 152,
no. 2, pages 72-81, August 1991.

Russell R. Dynes, sociology, "Social Science Research on Earthquake
Hazard Mitigation: Relevance for Policy and Practice," in
Proceeding of the International Symposium on Building Technology
and Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, pages 67-86, Kunming, Yunnan
Province, Peoples Republic of China National Center for Earthquake
Engineering Research; "Meeting of the Research Committee on
Disaster, World Congress of Sociology, Madrid," in Disasters, vol.
15, no. 1, pages 73-76, March 1991; with Fredrick Bates and E.L.
Quarantelli, "The Importance of the Social Sciences to the
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction," in Disasters,
vol. 15, no. 3, pages 288-289, September 1991; and, a review of
Clinical Sociological Perspectives on Illness and Loss: The Linkage
of Theory and Practice, in Clinical Sociology Review, vol. 9, pages
178-180, 1991.

Douglas W. Tallamy, entomology and applied ecology, with
Christopher J. DeHeer, "Affinity of Spotted Cucumber Beetle
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Larvae to Cucurbitacins," in
Environmental Entomology, vol. 20, no. 4, pages 1173-1175, 1991.

Presentations

Mark Roosa, library, "Preservation and Reformatting Issues for
Collections of Sound Recordings," at 1991 Society of American
Archivists Annual Conference, Sept. 26, Philadelphia.

John Burmeister, chemistry and biochemistry, "Good Teachers versus
Good Teaching," at Colorado Section, American Chemical Society
meeting, Sept. 20, Grand Junction, Colo.

Robert Warren, urban affairs and public policy, "Privatization,
Citizenship and Local Governance: The Boundaries of the Polity in
Late Capitalism," at Urban Affairs Association annual meeting,
April 18-20, Vancouver, British Columbia. At the same meeting,
several members of the college took part on panels: Warren
participated in a panel on "Urban Affairs Education"; Barry
Morstain chaired a panel on "Economic Participation by Minorities
and Women"; and Danilo Yanich participated in the "Youth and
Criminal Justice" panel. Warren also was invited participant in a
workshop on Research Utilization for Policy Analysis in Earthquake
and Other Hazard Mitigation, June 23-25, National Center for
Earthquake Engineering, Rensselaerville, N.Y.

Thomas Ernst, linguistics, "Chinese A-not-A Questions and the ECP"
and "The Phrase Structure of English Negation," at Linguistic
Society of America Summer Institute, July, Santa Cruz.

Gordon J. DiRenzo, sociology, "Changing Social Character in Asia"
and convener of session on "Modernization and National
Development," at World Congress of Institute of Sociology, Aug.
5-9, Kobe, Japan.

Edward C. Ratledge, urban affairs and public policy, conducted
expert systems workshop at New Technologies in Criminal Justice
conference, Aug. 13-14, Denver.

Kathryn L. Kotula, food science, "Irradiation as a Food
Preservation Method," at Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc. meeting,
Sept. 11, Salisbury, Md.

M. Jean Stokes, urban affairs and public policy, "MBTI
Psychological Types and Gender Norms-A Source of Conflict in
Organizations," at Organizational Development Institute, May 19-20,
Williams Bay, Wisc.

Robert H. Wood, chemistry and biochemistry, "Heat Capacities and
Densities of Aqueous Solutions at High Temperatures and Pressures,"
at second international symposium on Chemistry in High Temperature
Aqueous Solutions, Aug. 19-22, Provo, Utah.

Steven W. Peuquet, urban affairs and public policy, "Housing in the
1990s: A Nonprofit Agenda," June 6, and "Findings of 'Insight
Delaware'" April 11, Wilmington.

H. Perry Chapman, art history, "A New State, A New Art: The Rise of
Dutch Painting in Historical Perspective," at Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Aug. 1, Washington, D.C.

Eric D. Jacobson, urban affairs and public policy, "Delaware's New
Tourism Policy and Five-Year Plan for Tourism Development and
Marketing," at  tourism conference, May 7, Dover.

Russell R. Dynes, sociology, "Research on Earthquake Hazard
Mitigation: Policy/Practice," at Earthquake Mitigation Workshop,
July 23-24, Alexandria, Va.; "Current Research at the Disaster
Research Center," at International Sociological Association,
Research Committee on Disasters, Aug. 26, Cincinnatti; and
"Disaster Reduction: The Importance of Adequate Assumptions About
Social Organization," at seminar on training materials for disaster
reduction, Sept. 4, UNESCO-Delft University of Technology, Cairo,
Egypt.

Miscellaneous

Gordon J. DiRenzo, sociology, reappointed to oversight committee on
professional certification, American Sociological Association.

James B. O'Neill, economics, named to advisory board, National
Federation of Independent Business Foundations.

William Markell, Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting,
appointed to academic and career development executive committee,
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Stanley I. Sandler, H.B. du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering,
appointed area editor in thermodynamics for Chemical Engineering
Education, a member of editorial advisory board of Journal of
Chemical and Engineering Data, to the advisory board in chemical
engineering for John Wiley & Sons and to visiting committee for
chemical engineering department of Carnegie-Mellon University. A
second edition of his textbook, Chemical and Engineering Education,
has been translated into Korean and was selected as
book-of-the-month by McGraw-Hill's Chemical Engineering Book Club.

James E. Swasey, Longwood program, served on panel of judges to
select the 1991 National Grounds Maintenance Awards presented by
the Professional Grounds Management Society.

J. Thomas Sims, plant and soil sciences, selected to attend a
research leadership course designed for state agricultural
experiment station scientists, Sept. 28-Oct. 4, in Indianapolis.

Grants

Timothy K. Barnekov and Steven W. Peuquet, urban affairs and public
policy $14.635 from the Boys Club and $5,000 from the University
President's Office for the first of three components to study the
community impacts of a new Boys Club facility planned for the
Brookmont Farms area of New Castle County.

Jeffrey A. Raffel, urban affairs and public policy, $16,636 from
Delaware Division of the Arts to conduct a survey of public
attitudes toward arts education, and $8,520 from New Castle County
departments of Housing and Community Development and of Planning,
for a study on first-time homebuyers.

Myrna Bair, urban affairs and public policy, $5,000 from Speer
Trust, $500 from Continental American Life Insurance, $1,000 from
Delaware Trust, $500 from Beneficial Corp., $5,000 from Du Pont
Co., $2,000 from ICI Americas and $1,000 from Delmarva Power, for
scholarships for Women's Leadership seminar participants.

Jerome R. Lewis, urban affairs and public policy, $5,150 from the
Institute of Governmental Service at the University of Maryland, to
produce two informational pamphlets on the federal budget and the
Maryland economy.

David L. Ames, urban affairs and public policy, $6,265 from the
National Park Service to document buildings for America's
Industrial Heritage project.

Edward C. Ratledge, urban affairs and public policy, $15,306 from
Delaware Division of Vital Statistics, for data processing birth,
death, marriage and divorce records for the fourth quarter of 1990;
$2,625 from Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control, for data entry of wildlife records; $17,000
from Aloyisus, Butler & Clark, to conduct a survey on issues
concerning bus service; $5,000 from New Castle County to cover the
cost of computer work for redistricting; $600 from Delaware
Department of Public Instruction, to provide a random list of
mailing labels; and $6,698 from Delaware Office of Health
Education, for the second quarter for survey and data processing.

Phyllis M. Raab, urban affairs and public policy, $3,238 from
Delaware Humanities Forum, for assistance with questionnaire
design, data processing of 400 interviews and an analysis of data;
and $5,400 from New Castle County Police Department, for a
telephone survey of 500 county residents and processing of data.

Betty L. McCummings, urban affairs and public policy, $48,000 from
U.S. Dept. of Education for three Patricia Roberts Harris Public
Service Education Fellowships.

Rebecca J. Siders, urban affairs and public policy, $35,750 from
Vanasse, Hangen & Brustlin to update, evaluate and identify sites
eligible for National Register nominations.

Bernard L. Herman, urban affairs and public policy, and graduate
student Gabrielle Lanier, $22,785 additional funds from Delaware
Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, for data recovery and
technical assistance on the Delaware Threatened Buildings Survey,
and $52,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a
study of architectural pattern and process in the United States
landscape, 1795-1801.

New assignments

Marilyn A. Bauman has been named associate director, Delaware
Institute for Arts in Education.

Eunice E. Goldsmith has been named research associate, sociology.

Guy R. Herrick has been appointed extension associate, Cooperative
Extension.

Thomas R. Howard has been named physician, Student Health Services.

Lisa Miller has been named extension agent, Cooperative Extension.

Robert T. Allen has been appointed chairperson, entomology and
applied ecology.

Joseph L. Fitzpatrick has been appointed director of Delaware RE:
Learning, education.

Natalie F. Lamoreau has been named senior secretary, education.

Sheila E. Gehrlein has been named senior secretary, museum studies.

Linda F. Holmes has been named service specialist, Office of the
President.

William P. Kustas has been appointed visiting scholar, marine
studies.

Richard D. Martel has been named chairperson, Air Force ROTC.

James E. Troeschel has been named assistant professor, Air Force
ROTC.

Edith V. Corron, Dottie Lynn Huff, Violet R. Pennington, Deborah J.
Smith and John F. Stinson have been hired as custodians A, plant
operations custodial services.

Lois F. Black, Julie Brewer, L. Rebecca Johnson and E. Elizabeth
Weston have been promoted to senior assistant librarians.

Michele C. Campbell has been promoted to administrator of
intellectual property, research office.

Demaris Hollembeak has been promoted to associate librarian.

Angela Mizenko has been promoted to director, Billing and
Collection.

B. R. Tschirschnitz has been promoted to staff assistant, Center
for Teaching Effectiveness.

Lynece Andrews has been promoted to service specialist, Network
Services.

Laura A. Brown has been promoted to executive secretary, Housing
and Residence Life.

Lloyd W. Burke has been promoted to senior maintenance mechanic,
Agricultural Rresearch and Education Center.

Lorraine M. Conrad has been promoted to administrative assistant,
arts and science.

Patricia K. Musa has been promoted to technical secretary, physics
and astronomy.

Eileen R. Prybolsky has been promoted to administrative assistant,
art history.

Ellen M. Lilley has been promoted to senior secretary, textiles,
design and consumer economics.

Thomas R. Crampton has been promoted to caretaker/gardener, plant
operations, grounds division.

Benny P. Iglesias has been promoted to driver, campus delivery.

Charles R. Woodrum has been promoted to stock controller, Central
Stores.

Samuel P. Jackson has been promoted to senior painter, student
housing.

Sheila M. Chandler, Ida A. Downes, Crystal Hair, Debbie L.
Hendrickson, Frances L. Langley and Stacia M. Wilson have been
promoted to custodian A, student housing.

Joyce E. Murphy has been promoted to custodian A, plant operations,
custodial services.

Linda K. Abrantes has transferred to technical secretary, physics
and astronomy.

Charles W. Fort has transferred to service specialist, public
safety.

Regina Lewis has transferred to records analyst, plant operations,
budget and cost control.

Julia R. Lloyd has transferred to office coordinator, geology.

Mary S. Honaker and Donald L. Osborne have transferred to custodian
A, plant operations, custodial services.

Nancy Jo Huff has transferred to custodian A, student housing.

Susan M. Sharkey has been reclassified manager, Dining Services.

Otto L. Kneidinger has been reclassified assistant coach II,
Intercollegiate Athletics Program.

Alicia A. Jefferson has been reclassified staff assistant,
Conferences and Centers, Goodstay.

Terri Lynn Lineback has been promoted/reclassified senior
secretary, occupational health and safety.

Shirley G. Wesley has been promoted/reclassified administrative
assistant, art conservation.

J. Sharon Hoffecker has been promoted/reclassified supervisor,
chemistry and biochemistry.

George J. Rutynowski and Donald W. Snider have been
promoted/reclassified managers, chemistry and biochemistry.

Robert F. Sabol has been promoted/reclassified assistant coach I,
Intercollegiate Athletics Program.

Robbie L. Dougherty has been promoted/reclassified records
specialist, chemistry and biochemistry.

Wayne C. R. Jarrell and Joseph E. Napolski have been promoted/
reclassified service coordinators, Intercollegiate Athletics
Program.

Sandra Margerison has been promoted/reclassified service
coordinator, Graphic Communications Center.

Shirley S. McFadden and Marie H. Severns have been
promoted/reclassified records specialists, Graphic Communications
Center.

Patricia A. Woodlin has been promoted/reclassified staff assistant,
business and economics.

Nancy F. McMillan has been promoted/reclassified executive
secretary, government and public relations.

Norma E. Shackleton has been promoted/reclassified records
technician, personnel records.