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October 8, 1992
Faculty and staff
BOOKS
Janice Selekman, advanced nursing science, Pediatric Nursing,
second edition, Springhouse Corp., Springhouse, Pa., 1993.
PUBLICATIONS
Herbert E. Allen, civil engineering, with graduate student Andrew
F. Kingery, and Spyros P. Pavlou of Ebasco Environmental, "The
Role of Metal Speciation in Reducing Bioavailability and
Environmental Risk in the Aquatic Environment: Case Studies of
Copper and Arsenic," in Risk Assessment/Management Issues in the
Environmental Planning of Mines, pages 103-106.
Ellen Pifer, English, "The Fifth Child: Lessing's Subversion of
Pastoral," in The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers
from the 10th Anniversary International Conference on the
Fantastic in the Arts, Donald E. Morse, Marshall B. Tymn and
Csilla Bertha, editors, pages 121-132, Greenwood Press, Westport,
Conn., 1992.
Barbara Gaal Lutz, writing center, "Not Just Another Pretty
Face," in Delaware Today, October 1992.
James M. Merrill, history emeritus, "Fleet Admiral William F.
Halsey," in Men of War: Great Naval Leaders of World War II,
Stephen Howarth, editor, Weiderfeld & Nicolson, London, 1992.
Raj Varma, finance, with Wayne Marr of Clemson University and
John Trimble of Washington State University, "On the Integration
of International Capital Markets: Evidence from Euroequity
Offerings," in Financial Management, vol. 20, pages 11-21;
abstract published in Browne Review for CFOs & Investment
Bankers, vol. 3, page 4, 1992.
PRESENTATIONS
Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, invited lectures, "Microstructural Design of Fiber
Composites" and "Recent Advances in Fiber Composites Research,"
at Symposium for 25th Anniversary of the Institute of Material
Research, Aug. 20-21, Mexico National University.
Leonard W. Schwartz, mechanical engineering and mathematical
sciences, "Numerical Simulation of Coating Flows," at ICI
Research Laboratories, Sept. 11, Runcorn Heath, England; and
"Coating Flows on Curved Substrates," at European Community
Workshop on Filtration and Nonlinear Diffusion Processes, Sept.
3-5, The University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Ellen Pifer, English, "The Literary Kinship of Misses Welty and
O'Connor," at International Colloquium on Eudora Welty, March
26-28, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France; "Nabokov's
Discovery of America," at Biennial Conference of European
Association of American Studies, April 3-7, University of
Seville; "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Twain's Mississippi
Recollected and Rewritten," at International Colloquium on The
River and Its Metamorphoses, May 13-15, University of Lyon;
"Lolita: From Novel to Screenplay to Film," at annual
International Conference of French Association of American
Studies, May 22-24, University of Grenoble; "Innocence and
Experience Replayed: From Speak, Memory to Ada," at International
Colloquium on Vladimir Nabokov, June 24-26, University of Nice;
and "From Parody to Comedy in Nabokov's Lolita," at 10th
International Humor Congress, July 6-9, University of Paris.
Several of the above papers were delivered under the auspices of
a Fulbright award.
Nancy Signorielli, communication, "Children, Media and
Health/Nutrition," at second international Interdisciplinary
Media Ecology Conference, Sept. 23-26, Mainz, Germany.
Robert H. Wood, chemistry and biochemistry, "Aqueous Solutions at
High Temperatures"; with graduate student Gregory Zimmerman, "An
Electrical Conductance Cell for Aqueous Solutions Near the
Critical Point of Water"; and with graduate student Lubomir
Hnedkovsky, "Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Solutions of
CH4, CO2, H2S, NH3 and B3BO3 at High Temperatures and High
Pressures," at 12th International Union for the Properties of
Steam meeting and 47th Calorimetry Conference, Aug. 16-21,
Snowbird, Utah.
John C. Kraft, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Geology,
"Geological Research Applied to the Archaeological Excavations at
Ancient Ephesus and the Artemisian," to Hay Creek Historical
Society, Sept. 20, Joanna Furnace, Pa.
Janice Selekman, advanced nursing science, "Hepatitis, AIDS, TB
and Opportunistic Infections," at Epidemics of Today Conference,
Health Care Consultants, New Hope, Pa.
Dorothy Fischer, advanced nursing science, "Stories, Styles and
Perceptions of Intensive Care Nursery Nurses," at American
Association of Colleges of Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau Scientific
Congress on Research, Washington, D.C.
PRESENTATIONS
Ellen Pifer, English, invited guest lecturer at University of
Madeira, Portugal, June 2-6.
Henry R. Glyde, physics and astronomy, presented a brief prepared
by the Neutron Scattering Society of America to the Panel of the
Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of
Energy, Sept. 10 in Chicago. The brief summarized views of the
scientific community on the current state and future needs for
neutron scattering facilities in the U.S.