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September 17, 1992
Faculty and staff
BOOKS
Margaret L. Andersen, vice provost, Thinking About Women, third
edition, Macmillan, 1993.
PUBLICATIONS
Kenneth J. Campbell, political science and international
relations, with Elliott Meyrowitz, "Vietnam Veterans and War
Crimes Hearings," in Give Peace A Chance: Exploring the Vietnam
Antiwar Movement, Melvin Small and William D. Hoover, editors,
Syracuse University Press, 1992.
Nancy King, Honors Program, with Marianne Nikolov, "Storymaking
and Drama With Two Groups of Hungarian Children," in New Modern
English Teacher, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1992.
Robert H. Wood, chemistry, with Rosa Crovetto of Pennsylvania
State University, "Solubility of CO2 in Water and Density of
Aqueous CO2 Near the Solvent Critical Temperature," in Fluid
Phase Equilibria, vol. 72, pages 271-288, 1992.
Ellen Pifer, English, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting:
Kundera's Narration Against Narration," in Journal of Narrative
Technique, vol. 22, no. 2, pages 84-96, spring 1992.
William W. Boyer, Charles P. Messick Professor of Public
Administration, "Reflections on Democratization," in PS:
Political Science and Politics, vol. 25, no. 3, pages 519-522,
September 1992.
Richard N. Benson, Delaware Geological Survey, "Map of Exposed
and Buried Early Mesozoic Rift Basins/Synrift Rocks of the U.S.
Middle Atlantic Continental Margin," Delaware Geological Survey
Miscellaneous Map Series No. 5, Scale 1:1,000,000, with
discussion, 1992.
PRESENTATIONS
Florence L. Geis, psychology, "How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying: Same-Sex Authority Models," poster, American
Psychological Society annual meeting, June 20-21, San Diego,
Calif.
Suresh G. Advani, mechanical engineering, "A Coupled Solution of
Flow and Fiber Orientation in Radial Geometrics," at ninth
International Rheology Congress, Aug. 17-21, Brussels.
W. Gary Smith, plant and soil sciences, "The New American Garden:
A Place for Native Plants?" at Native Plants Conference, July 24,
Western Carolina University.
Lucia M. Palmer, philosophy, "The End of the End of Ideology," at
International Society for the Study of European Ideas conference,
Aug. 26, Aolborg, Denmark. The paper is one of 50 chosen to be
published in the Journal of the History of European Ideas.
Dean C. Lomis, international center emeritus, "Henry Kissinger's
'Caribbean Initiative': Why It Failed," St. John's Businessmen's
Association, March 26, Antigua; "Hellenism in the 1990s:
Prospects for the Future," Hellenic University Club of
Wilmington, April 5; "Europe's and America's Responsibilities in
the Yugoslavian Tragedy," at Military Officers Association, May
26, Frankfurt; "The Historical Perspective of Kosovo in the
'Macedonia' Enigma," at University of Salonica, June 1,
Macedonia; "Confronting Turkish Propaganda with Facts," at
Mediterranean College, July 4, Athens; "The Coup in Moscow One
Year Ago: What Could Have Been Done, What Might We Do," at
Baltimore University Club, Aug. 29; and "The Pontian Genocide by
the Turks: Another Act of Shape," at Pontian Federation of North
America, Sept. 7, University of Toronto.
Robert R. Jordan, geology and Delaware Geological Survey, "Notes
on the Geology of Delaware," to Delaware Academy of Science,
Sept. 9.
Philip Goldstein, parallel program, "Telling the Ugly Truth:
Communism, Spies, Art," at International Society for the Study of
European Ideas conference, Aug. 25, Aolborg, Denmark.
Herbert E. Allen, civil engineering, with graduate student Andrew
F. Kingery, "A New Ion Chromatographic Method for Alkyl
Methylphosphonates Using a Solvent Compatible Column," a poster
presentation, at 204th national American Chemical Society
meeting, Division of Analytical Chemistry, Aug. 23, Washington,
D.C.
MISCELLANEOUS
Peter J. McCarthy, music, made his fifth appearance as music
director of Kirchenmusikalische Festtage, July 5-20, in Salzburg,
Austria, where combined choirs from Maryland, Massachusetts, New
York and Connecticut performed Beethoven's Mass in C, Op. 86.
McCarthy also conducted choirs from Illinois, New York,
Massachusetts, Iowa and Florida in the European premiere of
Horatio Parker's Hora Novissima.
Robert R. Jordan, geology and Delaware Geological Survey, will be
presented the 1992 Public Service Award by the American Institute
of Professional Geologists, Sept. 28.
Laura O'Toole, women's studies, received the 1992 Best
Dissertation Award from the Women in Management Division, Academy
of Management.
William H. Mitchell, agricultural sciences emeritus, received a
Career Service Award from the Northeastern Branch, American
Society of Agronomy, in recognition of his "personal devotion and
enthusiasm to his profession" and his "education and career
guidance for young people."
GRANTS
Suresh G. Advani, mechanical engineering, $48,349 from National
Science Foundation, for "Transport Phenomena and Microstructure
Development in Thermoplastic Composites Processing."
Beth G. Anderson, education resource center, $33,000 from
Christiana School District, for "Christiana District Media
Center."
Mohsen Badiey, marine studies, an additional $2,557 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 $174,477.
Steven D. Brown, chemistry and biochemistry, $24,900 from U.S.
Army, for "Signal Processing and Neural Networks for Real-Time
Detection."
Thomas M. Church, marine studies, $10,000 from U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, for "A Symposium on the Biogeochemical
Chemistry of Trace Elements in the Global Environment."
Larry A. Cogburn, animal science and agricultural biochemistry,
$17,000 from Pitman-Moore Inc., for "Pulsatile Delivery of
Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone in Drinking Water for Improved Body
Composition of Broiler Chickens."
Steven C. Dexter, marine studies, an additional $37,915 from U.S.
Office of Naval Research, for "Mechanisms of Passivity Breakdown
in Seawater," bringing total funds awarded to $239,957.
Richard A. Foulds, with William S. Harwin, applied science and
engineering, $127,546 from U.S. Department of Education, for
"Rehabilitation Engineering Training Program."
Jack Gelb, with Conrad Pope, animal science and agricultural
biochemistry, $12,000 from Pitman-Moore Inc., and $12,000 from
state under Delaware Research Partnership Program, for
"Evaluations of Compounds as Potential Enhancers of Immunity When
Given with Poultry Virus Vaccines."
James A. Inciardi, with Steven S. Martin, sociology, $908,322
from U.S. Public Health Service, for "Assertive Community
Treatment for High Risk Drug Users."
Dov L. Leshchinsky, civil engineering, $9,600 from U.S. Army
Engineers, for "Verification of Clay Ball Formation During
Dredging."
Edward C. Ratledge, urban affairs and public policy, $10,500 from
Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, for "Gathering
Data on Parents and Staff of Participating Child Care Centers
(FACET Project)."
Donald L. Sparks, plant and soil sciences, $66,000 from National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, for "Desorption and Redox
Behavior of Ni and Cr from Lunar Simulants Using Equilibrium and
Kinetic Approaches."
John E. Stapleford, Bureau of Economic Research, $6,944 from New
Castle County, for "Survey of Rental Properties in New Castle
County."
Ulrich C. Toensmeyer, food and resource economics, $12,500 from
U.S. Department of Agriculture, for "Evaluation of the
Distribution Aspect of Inventory and Losses Via the Use of
Scanner Data."
William J. Ullman, with David L. Kirchman, marine studies, an
additional $108,281 from U.S. Department of Energy, for "The
Effect of Bacteria and Microbial Metabolites on Mineral
Dissolution in the Subsurface Environment," bringing total funds
awarded to $235,696.
Ferris Webster, marine studies, an additional $188,388 from
National Science Foundation, for "WOCE Data Information Unit,"
bringing total funds awarded to $466,634.