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November 5, 1992
Faculty and staff
BOOKS
Willett Kempton, urban affairs and public policy, with L.
Lutzenhiser of Washington State University, editors, Air
Conditioning: The Interplay of Technology, Culture and Comfort,
special issue of Energy and Buildings, vol. 18, no. 3-4. 1992.
PUBLICATIONS
John M. Byrne and Young-Doo Wang, urban affairs and public
policy, with graduate student Kyunghee Ham and Jong-dall Kim of
Korea Energy Economics Institute, "The Political Economy of
Energy, Environment and Development," in (Korean) Journal of
Environmental Studies, vol. 20, pages 278-312, 1992; Byrne, with
Steven M. Hoffman of University of St. Thomas and Cecilia
Martinez of Macalester College and Hamline University,
"Environmental Commodification and the Industrialization of
Native American Lands," pages 170-181, and, with graduate student
In-Whan Jung, "The Politics of Nuclear Development in South
Korea," pages 132-152, in Proceedings of the Seventh Annual
Technological Literacy Conference, National Association of
Science, Technology and Society, 1992.
John H. Antil, business administration, "Are You Committing
Marketcide?" in Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 6, no. 2,
pages 45-53, spring 1992; and with James Munch, "Who Buys What
Where?" in Marketing Pharmaceutical Services: Patron Loyalty,
Satisfaction and Preferences, Harry A. Smith and Stephen Joel
Coons, editors, pages 71-97, Pharmaceutical Products Press,
1992.
Paul L. Solano and Francis X. Tannian, urban affairs and public
policy, "A Comparison of Wilmington Parking Policy and DELDOT
Transit Policy," for Delaware Transportation Center, June 1992.
Frederick M. Swain, geology emeritus, "Bottom Sediments and
Organic Geochemical Residues of Some Minnesota Lakes," in
Minnesota Geological Survey, Report of Investigations 41.
Peter G. Roe, anthropology, "Marginal Men: Male Artists Among the
Shipibo Indians of Peru," in Art in Small-Scale Societies: A
Contemporary Reader, Richard L. Anderson and Karen L. Fields,
editors, pages 247-266, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
PRESENTATIONS
Carl Jacobson, Management Information Services, "Getting Started
with Client-Server Computing," at Cooperative ADABAS Users with
College and University Systems Conference, Oct. 5-7, Newport.
Kathleen J. Tierney, sociology, "Long-Term Recovery From
Disasters: Panel Presentation," at Natural Hazards Workshop, July
12-15, Boulder, Colo.; and course instructor for Coast Guard
On-Scene Coordinator Workshop for Oil Spill Management, June
15-18, Yorktown, Va.
Robert F. Brown, philosophy, "Is Much of Schelling's
Freiheitsschrift (1809) Already Present in his Philosophy und
Religion (1804)?" at Internationale Schelling-Gesellschaft
conference, Oct. 14-17, Leonberg, Germany.
Papers by the following members of the Institute of Energy
Conversion were presented at the 11th European Photovoltaic Solar
Energy Conference, Oct. 12-17, Montreux, Switzerland: R.W.
Birkmire, B.E. McCandless and T.W.F. Russell, Allan P. Colburn
Professor of Chemical Engineering, with graduate student S. Verma
and post doctoral student S. Yamanaka, "Reaction Pathways to
CuInSe2 Formation by Selenization"; and Birkmire with Takashi
Yoshida, visiting scientist, "Fabrication of CuInSe2 Solar Cells
in a Superstrate Configuration."
Lucia Palmer, philosophy, "Is Kant's Copernican Revolution
Copernican" at Society for Literature and Science conference,
Oct. 8-11, Atlanta; and "Paradigms of Reason and Theories of
Emotions in the 18th Century," at Northeast American Society for
18th-Century Studies, Oct. 15-18, Stonybrook, N.Y.
Jan Blits, educational studies, "Macbeth's 'Appalling Duty.' " at
American Political Science Association annual convention,
September, Chicago.
E.L. Quarantelli, sociology, "The NAS Bond Board," at American
Sociological Association meeting, Aug. 22, Pittsburgh; "The
Environmental Disasters of the Future Will Be More and Worse But
the Prospect Is Not Hopeless," at Conference on European and
International Dimensions of Environmental Disasters, Sept. 8,
University of Bradford, England; "Future Disasters and Planning
for Them: The Effects of Current Social Change Trends," at German
Sociological Association meeting, Sept. 30, Dusseldorf, Germany;
"Community Crises: A Comparison of the Characteristics and
Consequences of Disasters and Riots," at Disaster Management
third national conference, Oct. 22, Hamilton, Canada; and
discussant, Assessment of Research and Applications on Natural
Hazards Workshop, July 9, Estes Park, Colo.
Frank Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies
and Psychology, "Coherence Within the University: Who Prepares
Teachers," at Building Systemic Reform Through School-Based
Management and Professional Development conference, September,
Arlington, Va.
Two members of the Department of Art Conservation made
presentations at the Restoration 92 Conference, Oct. 20-22,
Amsterdam: Richard Wolbers, "Recent Developments in the Use of
Gel Formulations for the Cleaning of Paintings" and Joyce Hill
Stoner, "The University of Delaware's Ph.D. Program in Art
Conservation Research."
John M. Byrne, urban affairs and public policy, "Applying
Photovoltaics as a Demand-Side Tool," at Delmarva Photovoltaics
Conference, Oct. 8, Wilmington; and with Young-Doo Wang, urban
affairs and public policy, graduate student Constantine
Hadjilambrinos and Ralph M. Nigro of Delmarva Power & Light Co.,
"An Evaluation of Photovoltaics as a Utility Demand-Side Option
in the U.S. Buildings Sector," at NASTS Technological Literacy
Conference, Febl. 6-9, Alexandria, Va.
Willett Kempton, urban affairs and public policy, "The
Anthropology of Comfort," at fifth annual Members' Forum of E
Source Inc., Sept. 30, Boulder.
Edmunds V. Bunkse, geography, "Small Cities in Postmodern
Cultural Contexts, or the Human Being, Place and Landscape in a
Global Market Economy," at symposium on problems of development
of small Baltic towns, Oct. 17-18, Riga, Latvia.
Frederick M. Swain, emeritus geology, "Some Nonmarine to Paralic
Rocks and Associated Hydrocarbons in the United States," at
International Symposium on Hydrocarbons in Nonmarine Rocks, Sept.
6-10, Lanzhou, China.
Peter G. Roe, anthropology, "A View From the Jungle: The Amazon
and Contact," an illustrated presentation, at Finding the
Americas, 1492-1992 conference, Oct. 12, Clayton Hall, Delaware
Heritage Commission; and "The Creation of a New World:
Pre-Columbian Culture in Cuba and the Neighboring Greater
Antilles," an illustrated presentation, at Cuba: Past, Present
and Future series, Oct. 13, St. Mary's College, St. Mary City,
Md.
Raymond Callahan, history, chaired session on "Program Evaluation
and Review," at Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
annual meeting, Oct. 23, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn.
Thomas E. Pickett, geology, "The Flowering of Geologic Art in
W.P. Blake's 1858 Report of Geological Reconnaissance in
California," at Geological Society of America meeting, Oct. 27,
Cincinnati.
Barbara Gates, English, "Revisioning Darwin, With Sympathy," at
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aug. 28,
Aalborg, Denmark; and "Tea, Sympathy and Natural History," at
Society for Science and Culture meeting, Oct. 11, Atlanta.
James E. Swasey, Longwood Program, "Improving Communications," at
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretum,
Mid-Atlantic regional meting, Sept. 15, Kensington, Md.
Dean C. Lomis, International Center emeritus, "Macedonia: The
Tinderbox of the Balkans," at Columbia University Faculty Club,
Oct. 10, New York City, and "The Armenian Genocide: Hitler's
Direction to the Jewish Holocaust," at Diaspora Conference, Oct.
17, Atlanta.
Katharine Young, science and culture, "Perceptual Modalities of
the Medical Body: The Disposition of Pain, Propriety and
Pleasure," at American Folklore Society meetings, Oct. 15,
Jacksonville.
Frederic M. Stiner Jr. with Ichiro Shiina, visiting scholar from
Chuo-Gakuin University, and M. Susan Stiner of Villanova
University, "Using Bitnet for International Accounting Education:
A Japan-USA Study," at Seventh International Conference on
Accounting Education, Oct. 10, Arlington, Va.
Richard T. Sylves, political science and international relations,
"Emergency Preparedness and Response on the Delaware: The Cast of
the Presidente Rivera Oil Spill," at 17th annual Hazards Research
and Applications Workshop, July 12-15, University of Colorado,
Boulder.
Veronica Eid, foreign languages and literatures, "Language,
Customs and Children in an International Move," at Delaware
Valley Relocation Council Fall Forum, Oct. 27, Greenville, Del.,
and "Jean Anouilh's Antigone: Its Classical Heritages," at
Delaware Theatre Company's fall seminar, Sept. 19, Wilmington.
Kenneth Koford, economics and political science, "A Competitive
Equilibrium Model of Legislatures," at Center in Political
Economy, Washington University, Oct. 15, St. Louis.
Joanna Moore, arts and science advisement center, and student
advisers Robin Beads and Eleesha Lewis, "Building Bridges:
Advising Minority Students on Predominantly White Campuses," at
16th national conference, National Academic Advising Association,
Oct. 11-14, Alanta.
Lalita A. Manrai, Carter Broach and Ajay K. Manrai, business
administration, "Program Induced Contextual Effects in Processing
of Embedded Commercials: An Integrated Conceptual Model," at
American Psychological Association annual convention, August,
Washington, D.C.
Marcia Peoples Halio, English, "Helping Users Navigate in
Multimedia Documents: The Affective Domain," at Association of
Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Documentation,
Oct. 14, Ottawa. The article will be published in the
proceedings.
MISCELLANEOUS
Kathleen Hollowell, mathematical sciences, chosen president-elect
of Delaware Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She assumes her
duties next October.
An edited book by Bernard L. Herman, urban affairs and public
policy, and Thomas Carter of the University of Utah, Perspectives
in Vernacular Architecture IV, was awarded the Fred Kniffen Prize
for best edited book of 1992 by the Pioneer Society of America, a
national material culture organization.
Bob Taggart, educational studies, completed a Marine Corps
Marathon Oct. 25 in Washington, D.C., coming in 285th of 11,000
finishing and third of 556 in the age 50 division.
John B. Bishop, counseling and student development, elected to a
two-year term on the governing board, Association of University
and College Counseling Center Directors.
Gordon J. DiRenzo, sociology, appointed by Gov. Michael Castle to
a three-year term as a professional member of the Board of
Examiners of Psychologists.
Nancy Signorielli and Elizabeth Perse, communication, were ranked
among the top 20 prolific female scholars in communication from
1915-1990 in a recent study by M. Hickson, D.W. Stacks and J.H.
Amsary in the fall 1992 Communication Quarterly.
Several members of the University community were among volunteers
participating Sept. 19 in a clean-up of the Brandywine Creek in
Pennsylvania: Dennis Schaff, plant and soil sciences, and Suzanne
Nanis, Ruth Heckert and Janet DeVry, computing and network
services.
Richard S. Hester, public safety, was elected vice president of
the Middle Atlantic Parking Association.
Edmunds V. Bunkse, geography, participated in a special
television program on U.S. culture, filmed in Riga, Latvia, by
Latvian television crews and aired on "Prime Time," Sept. 27.
Richard A. Zipser, foreign languages and literatures, appointed
visiting humanities fellow at American Institute for Contemporary
German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, through May 1993.
Steven W. Peuquet, urban affairs and public policy, elected to
board of directors of the National Housing Conference, a national
organization concerned about the development of sound and
effective national housing policy.
GRANTS
Moshen Badiey, marine studies, an additional $85,000 from U.S.
Office of Naval Research, for "Stochastic and Deterministic
Analysis of Acoustic Plane Wave Reflection from a Random
Inhomogeneous, Anisotropic Porous Seafloor," bringing total funds
awarded to $168,200.
Alexander H. Cheng, civil engineering, $10,000 from University of
Oklahoma, for "Poroelasticity in Rock Mechanics."
Siu-Tat Chui, Bartol Research Institute, $7,316 from North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, for "Correlation and Melting in the
Two Dimensional Electron Gas."
Martha A. Collins, international programs and special sessions,
$1,875 from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, for "Uptown String
Quartet Concert."
James M. Falk, with Tracey Bryant, marine studies, $26,393 from
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for "The Mid
Atlantic Sea Grant Network: Zebra Mussel Outreach Plan."
Conrado M. Gempesaw, food and resource economics, $3,000 from
Delaware Department of Agriculture, for "Status and Outlook:
Delaware Aquaculture Industry."
John W. Gillespie, composite materials, from the Du Pont Co.,
$55,000 for "Damage/Part Quality Assessment in Filament Wound
Composite Structures;" and $55,000 for "Residual Stress Analysis
for Design of Filament Wound Composite Structures."
Jay L. Halio, English, $89,863 from National Endowment for the
Humanities, for "Shakespeare: Enacting the Text-A Summer Seminar
for School Teachers."
James Hiebert, with Diana Wearne, educational development, an
additional $134,040 from National Science Foundation, for "Long
Term Effects of Conceptually-Based Instruction in Mathematics,"
bringing total funds awarded to $353,558.
Carroll E. Izard, Unidel Professor of Psychology, an additional
$100,410 from National Science Foundation, for "Emotion in Early
Development," bringing total funds awarded to $196,704.
Eric W. Kaler, chemical engineering, an additional $114,003 from
Du Pont Co., for "The Rational Design of Colloidal Dispersions:
Solid Particles in Microemulsions," bringing total funds awarded
to $326,533.
Michael T. Klein, chemical engineering, $25,000 from Mobil
Research and Development Corp. and $25,000 from the state, under
Delaware Research Partnership Program, for "New Chemical
Information Technology: Reaction Models With "On-the-Fly"
Computational Chemistry."
Vic V. Klemas, marine studies, $43,003 from National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, for "Remote Sensing of Wetland
Condition Indicators and Functional Health."
Daniel J. Leathers, geography, $12,420 from Cornell University,
for High Resolution Profile of Northeast United States
Temperature."
Kenneth M. Lomax, agricultural engineering, with Robert T. Allen,
entomology and applied ecology, $39,500 from University of
Maryland, for "HACCP Principles in Reducing Salmonella Hazards on
Broiler Grow-Out Farms."
George W. Luther III, marine studies, $289,023 from National
Science Foundation, for "Gaseous and Aqueous Sulfur
Intercomparison Experiment."
David M. Mason, mathematical sciences, $25,000 from National
Science Foundation, for "Selected Large Sample Theory Problems in
Probability and Statistics."
Dermott J. Mullan, Bartol Research Institute, $20,000 from
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for "Highly
Efficient Coronal Heating in Red Dwarfs."
Frank B. Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies
and Psychology, $296,800 from U.S. Department of Education, for
"Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act."
Patricia T. Nelson, Cooperative Extension, $9,217 from New Castle
County, for "In-Service Training for New Castle County Community
Partnerships Neighborhood Coalition Coordinators."
Norman F. Ness, Bartol Research Institute, an additional $52,000
from California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, for "Voyager Interstellar Mission," bringing total
funds awarded to $252,000.
John C. Nye, agricultural sciences, an additional $1,300 from E.
I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., for "DuPont Internship
Program," bringing total funds awarded to $20,560.
James B. O'Neill, economics, from Delaware Department of Public
Instruction, $51,086 for "Secondary Training 1993" and $75,662
for "Field Support 1993."
Donald L. Peters, Amy Rextrew Professor of Individual and Family
Studies, $127,803 from Delaware Department of Health and Social
Services, for "Adult Day Care Center."
Harry L. Shipman, physics and astronomy, an additional $130,000
from Space Telescope Science Institute, for "White Dwarf Stars,"
bringing total funds awarded to $150,000.
Eugene Smoley, education, $48,600 from Good Samaritan Inc., for
"Improving School Board Effectiveness."
Scott G. Stevens, with Katharine S. Schneider, English Language
Institute, $140,034 from U.S. Information Agency, for "Central
American Teacher Training Institute at the University of
Delaware."
Michael L. Vaughan, engineering, an additional $15,000 from
Junior Engineering Technical Society, for "JETS Summer 92 UNITE,"
bringing total funds awarded to $75,000.
Xiao-Hai Yan, marine studies, $40,400 from National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, for "NOAA Coastwatch- Feature
Tracking Automation."
Edward C. Ratledge and Phyllis M. Raab, urban affairs and public
policy, $15,000 from Aloysius, Butler & Clark to conduct a market
study for a clean air project; $5,000 from the Delaware Health
Care Commission for analysis of a population survey; $18,000 from
the Delaware Health Care Commission to estimate the number of
uninsured in Delaware; $20,000 from the Delaware Health Care
Commission to develop backcasts and forecasts; $13,500 from
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Control to conduct a study on Delaware Water Use Data System
accessibility; $8,200 from Delaware Department of Public
Instruction for a survey of special education students; $4,900
from the Wharton School for a survey of graduates; $13,902 from
Delaware Bureau of Vital Statistics to process first quarter 1992
data and $1,386 to process 1991 out-of-state data; $2,927 from
Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife for data entry; $1,400
from the Raskob Foundation for a survey of adult church members;
$4,225 from the Delaware Development Office for a teacher survey;
$12,000 from Delaware Department of Instruction for a public
attitude survey; $6,000 from Delaware's Department of Health and
Social Services to upgrade the Bureau of Health Planning data
processing system; $14,114 from the state Bureau of Vital
Statistics to process fourth quarter data and $4,600 from to
convert the bureau's data system to a NCHS format; $6,500 from
Delaware Division of Libraries for a study on service area
determination; $5,000 from city of Wilmington for a profile of
business activity of minority-owned firms; $450 from First State
Bank and Wilmington Trust Co. for master location indexes with
updates; $15,675 from state Bureau of Vital Statistics for
processing second quarter 1992 data; and $17,500 from Aloysius,
Butler and Clark for a market survey.
David L. Ames, Bernard L. Herman and Rebecca Siders, urban
affairs and public policy, $2,400 from city of Wilmington for
HABS photos and field notes on Ben's Shoe Store in Wilmington;
$3,954 from Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control for Kingston-Upon Hull HABS photographs and
scaled drawings; $12,100 from Watson & Henry Associates for
documentation of a cranberry packing and sorting house; $13,300
from Watson & Henry Associates for documentation of the
Rhea-Applegate House, Monmouth Battlefield Park, New Jersey;
$5,500 from Watson & Henry Associates for documentation of
Whitesbog Village, Lebanon State Park, Ocean and Burlington
counties, New Jersey; $9,984 from Delaware Department of Natural
Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to prepare a Port
Penn Historic Trail script; $2,200 from DNREC to provide HABS
documentation of a Port Penn muskrat shed; and $200 from New
Castle County for custom photographic prints for a historic
preservation grant.
Eric D. Jacobson, urban affairs and public policy, $5,500 from
city of Lewes, to develop a personnel manual and employee
handbook; $11,500 from Delaware Development Office to collect
travel data for Delaware's Travel Barometer project; $12,000 from
Delaware State Education Association for a salary survey; $15,400
and $16,200 from the Delaware Personnel Office for state
compensation studies.
Jerome R. Lewis, urban affairs and public policy, $6,900 from
Beebe Hospital for a parking study; $4,500 from state Personnel
Office to conduct a Delaware Management Fellows certificate
program; and $7,274 from New Castle County to conduct a
management certificate program.
John M. Byrne, urban affairs and public policy, $18,515 from the
Delaware Office of Community Services for a survey of state
weatherization programs.
Barry R. Morstain, urban affairs and public policy, $7,500 from
the Wilmington Fire Department and $7,500 from the Wilmington
Police Department to update their promotion systems.