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Named Professors
Thirty-six members of the University of Delaware faculty are
named professors-a designation honoring distinguished teaching and
scholarship. Seventeen retired members of the faculty are named
professors emeritus.
Kenneth B. Bischoff joined the Delaware faculty in 1976 as Unidel
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and he
served as Chairperson of the Department of Chemical Engineering from
1978 to 1982. He was educated at the Illinois Institute of Technology,
and was a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the
State University of Ghent in Belgium. He was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering in 1988, and is the recipient of the 1972 Ebert
Prize of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as the 1976
Professional Progress, the 1982 Annual Institute Lecturer, the 1982
Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division and the 1987 R.H.
Wilhelm awards of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the
1992 Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology Founders Award. A
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Bischoff is a
pioneer in the field of pharmacokinetics and he is internationally
recognized for his work in chemical reaction- and bio-engineering. He
has served on several National Academy Committees, and is just
completing a term on the new Hazardous Air Pollution and Risk
Assessment Study.
John S. Boyer, E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine
Biochemistry/Biophysics in the College of Marine Studies, is a
graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a master's degree from the
University of Wisconsin and a doctorate from Duke University. Dr.
Boyer conducts research on the growth of marine and terrestrial plants
with limited water, especially emphasizing investigations of cell
enlargement, photosynthesis and reproduction. A Fellow of the Crop
Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy, he
has been a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in New
Zealand. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Boyer
received the Shull Award from the American Society of Plant
Physiologists, serving as President of the Society, and he earned a
Von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award from Germany.
William W. Boyer Jr. has been Charles P. Messick Professor of
Public Administration since 1969, when he joined the Delaware faculty
as Chairperson of the Department of Political Science and
International Relations. An internationally recognized consultant,
lecturer and scholar on development in less-developed countries, Dr.
Boyer is a graduate of the College of Wooster, and he received his
doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. Widely traveled, he is the
author of numerous articles and books, particularly on bureaucracy,
democratization, human rights and development. Dr. Boyer wrote
Buraucracy On Trial , America's Virgin Islands, is co-author of Rural
Development in South Korea ,recently published by the University of
Delaware Press, and is currently co-authoring a book on the higher
civil service in the United States. One of the founders of the
University's Winter Session program in Geneva, Dr. Boyer directed the
Costa Rica program in 1992.
Hilton Brown is Harriet Baily Professor of Art Conservation, and
has been a member of the University's faculty since 1978. Professor
Brown was named the first Harriet Baily Professor this year. A
specialist in the history of the materials and techniques of Western
painting, drawing and printmaking, Professor Brown is an active
artist. Professor Brown has also been the recipient of numerous
scholarships, fellowships and awards from such institutions as the Art
Institute of Chicago and the Baltimore Museum of Art. His work have
been exhibited in 23 one-person shows in several large cities
including New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C. and his work can
be found in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art
and the Art Institute of Chicago, among many other cities in this
country and abroad. Between 1981 and 1988 Professor Brown was a
contributing editor to American Artist and wrote a column. He received
his Certificate in Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine
Arts degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
L. Leon Campbell is Hugh M. Morris Research Professor of
Molecular Biosciences, and he served as Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs from 1972 to 1988. The author of three books, a
laboratory manual and more than 100 scientific papers, Dr. Campbell
researches microbial taxonomy, the structure and function of enzymes
from microorganisms and artificial neural networks. Long active in the
American Society for Microbiology, he has served as President,
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bacteriology, and Chairperson of the
Publications Board. In 1983, he was elected to honorary membership,
the highest membership recognition conferred by the society. A Fellow
of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, he has twice been elected to
three-year terms on the board of directors of the Center for Research
Libraries. Dr. Campbell holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral
degrees in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Texas
at Austin.
Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, joined the University of Delaware faculty in 1969. Dr.
Chou earned a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University, a
master's degree from Northwestern University, and a doctorate from
Stanford University. He has made significant contributions to the
fields of fiber composite materials, applied mechanics and materials
science. Dr. Chou has also served as a visiting professor at such
institutions as the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of
Surrey in England, the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa,
the National Commission for the Investigation of Space in Buenos
Aires, the German Aerospace Research Establishment in Cologne, the
Office of Naval Research at the London Branch Office, Tongji
University in China, and Tokyo Science University in Japan. Author of
260 papers, Dr. Chou wrote Microstructural Design of Fiber Composites,
published by the Cambridge University Press, is co-author of Composite
Materials and Their Use in Structures published by Elsevier-Applied
Science, and is editor of Textile Structural Composites and Structure
and Properties of Composites in the Materials Science and Technology
Series published by VCH Publishers. Dr. Chou serves on the
International Editorial Advisory Board of ACTA Materiae Compositae
Sinica and Encyclopedia of Composites and is the North American editor
of the international journal, Composites Science and Technology.
Wayne Craven, H.F. du Pont Winterthur Professor of Art History,
joined the Delaware faculty in 1960 and is an authority on American
painting and sculpture. He studied at the John Herron Art School,
earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Indiana University and
received a doctorate from Columbia University. In 1964, Dr. Craven
created The Index of American Sculpture, which is the basis for a
computerized research archive at the National Museum of American Art.
He served as Coordinator of the Winterthur Program in Early American
Culture for five years. He is a member of the editorial boards of
Smithsonian Studies in American Art, The American Art Journal, The
Daniel Chester French Papers, the University of Delaware Press, and
The Peale Family Papers, being published by the Yale University Press
and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. A
winner of the excellence -in-teaching award in 1987, Dr. Craven was
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in the College of Arts and Science. He
has also received the Francis Alison Faculty Award. A member of the
American Antiquarian Society and the National Sculpture Society, he is
author of Sculpture in America, Colonial American Portraiture, and has
completed, American Art in its Cultural Context. He has recently been
asked to serve as one of the editors of the multi-volume American
National Biography, which is being published by the Oxford University
Press and the American Council of Learned Societies.
J. Barry Cullingworth, Unidel Professor of Urban Affairs and
Public Policy, was educated in Great Britain and has held a number of
academic and advisory positions in government there and in Canada,
serving over the years as a researcher and consultant. A Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts and an honorary member of the Royal Town
Planning Institute, Professor Cullingworth serves on a number of
editorial boards of journals in his field, and he is author, co-author
or editor of numerous publications, including the classic, Town and
Country Planning in Great Britain, which was originally published in
1964 and is now in its 10th edition. His latest book, The Political
Culture of Planning is to be published by Routledge in 1993. He is now
working on a book on American planning law.
William B. Daniels is Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
He joined the Delaware faculty in 1972. An international authority on
high pressure physics, Dr. Daniels is a graduate of the University of
Buffalo, and he earned his advanced degree from the Case Institute of
Technology. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Humboldt
Senior Award, Dr. Daniels has been a visiting professor at the
Technische Hochscule at Munchen, University of Amsterdam, College de
France, University of Paris, Riso, Denmark, IBM Laboratories in
Zurich, the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, and the University of
Groningen. From 1977 to 1980, he served as Chairperson of the
Department of Physics. He has done collaborative research at a number
of institutions, including the Brookhaven National and Bell Telephone
Laboratories. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Dr. Daniels
currently is working on the application of non-linear optics
techniques to the study of matter at extreme conditions. Dr. Daniels
recently received a second Humboldt Award and will leave next month
for another visit at the Max Planck Institute where he will work until
January 1993 before returning to the University.
Jean H. Futrell is the Willis F. Harrington Professor of
Chemistry and Biochemistry. He joined the University in 1986, moving
from the University of Utah where he was Professor of Chemistry. He
has been a visting professor at numerous universities including the
University of Paris (Orsay), the University of Warwick (Coventry,
England), and Northwestern University (Xian, People's Republic of
China). Dr. Futrell is internationally recognized for his pioneering
research in ion-molecule reaction kinetics and dynamics and the
development of important experimental methods in mass spectrometry.
His invention of tandem mass spectrometry is one of the important
developments in instrumentation for chemical analysis. A Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and member of the
American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, Dr.
Futrell is the author of over 300 research articles. He serves on the
editorial advisory boards of the Journal of the American Society for
Mass Spectrometry and Advances in Chemical Physics. Dr. Futrell
graduated from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute summa cum laude in
chemical engineering and received a doctorate in physical chemistry
from the University of California at Berkeley.
Richard W. Garvine, Maxwell P. and Mildred Harrington Professor
of Marine Studies, joined the faculty in 1977. Dr. Garvine has made
valuable contributions in physical oceanography, particularly in the
dynamics of the coastal ocean and estuaries. Recently, he assisted in
the discovery of the Delaware Coastal Current. In 1991 he received a
grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct mathematical
modeling studies of this current. In 1992 he received another grant
from NSF to do a field study of the current using research ships,
aircraft, and satellite-tracked buoys. A recipient of the University's
excellence-in-teaching award, Dr. Garvine holds a bachelor's degree in
aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a doctorate in mechanical and aerospace science from Princeton
University.
Robert P. Gilbert joined the faculty in 1975 as Unidel Professor
of Mathematical Sciences. A two-time recipient of the Alexander von
Humboldt Award, Dr. Gilbert has been a guest professor at numerous
European universities, including the Universities of Glasgow, Dortmund
and Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the Technical University of
Denmark and Karlsruhe University. He completed his undergraduate work
at Brooklyn College and earned advanced degrees from Carnegie-Mellon
University. He is founding editor of Complex Variables and Applicable
Analysis, and an associate editor of numerous mathematical journals
including Applicata Mathematica of the Academica Sinica (The Chinese
Academy of Sciences). Dr. Gilbert's research is currently funded by
several National Science Foundation grants. Dr. Gilbert's recent
research has involved underwater acoustics, injection molding, and
elasto-plastic plates. Dr. Gilbert has coauthored a two-volume
treatise titled Transformations, Transmutations, and Kernel Functions,
which appears in autumn 1992.
Tamara K. Hareven is Unidel Professor of Family Studies. A social
historian and one of the foremost leaders in the field of family
history, Dr. Hareven has organized international conferences and
workshops, and she founded The Journal of Family History, which she
edits. She has also edited various collections of essays and has
published numerous articles in the areas of the historical study of
the family, the life course and aging. Besides publishing her doctoral
dissertation as a book, Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience, she
wrote two books based on her research on the effects of
industrialization on individuals and families. Dr. Hareven developed
the University's multidisciplinary Center for Family Research. In
1984, she went to China as the National Academy of Science's
Distinguished Visiting Professor on a lecture tour and to conduct
research on the family. In Spring 1992, she was appointed Visiting
Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Sociales in
Paris. Dr. Hareven has also been a Senior Fulbright Fellow to India
and Japan. In 1992, Hareven won the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal
for her scholarship and for her leadership in the development of the
field of Family History. Dr. Hareven is a graduate of Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, with a master's degree from the University of
Cincinnati and a doctorate from Ohio State University.
Carol Hoffecker, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, was
named Richards Professor of History in 1982. A member of the Delaware
faculty since 1970, she is the author of several books on Delaware
history, including Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait of an Industrial
City, 1830-1910; Delaware: A Bicentennial History; Wilmington: A
Pictorial History; and Corporate Capital, Wilmington in the Twentieth
Century, and she is coauthor, with Dr. John A. Munroe, of Books,
Bricks and Bibliophiles: The University of Delaware Library. Dr.
Hoffecker served two consecutive terms as President of the University
Faculty Senate. An honors graduate of the University of Delaware, she
received a master's degree from Radcliffe College and a doctorate from
Harvard University. She has recently completed a forthcoming book
called Federal Justice in the First State: A History of the United
States District Court for Delaware, and a manuscript on the History of
Women at the University of Delaware.
William I. Homer, Chairperson of the Art History Department, is
H. Rodney Sharp Professor. Dr. Homer received the University's Francis
Alison Faculty Award in 1980 and in 1981 was selected as the
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in the College of Arts and Science. He
is a member of the editorial boards of The American Art Journal and
The American Art Review and a member of the advisory committee of
Archives of American Art. Editor of The Association of Historians of
American Art Newsletter, he has held fellowships from the American
Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. A specialist in late 19th- and
20th-century American and European art, Dr. Homer is the author of six
books, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs and articles in
professional journals. His book, Thomas Eakins: Art and Life, was
published in 1992. He received a bachelor's degree magna cum laude
from Princeton University and master's and doctoral degrees from
Harvard University.
C.P. Huang, the Distinguished Professor of Environmental
Engineering, earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard
University. A member of the University's faculty since 1974, Dr. Huang
has published nearly 150 articles, book chapters and technical
reports. Dr. Huang is the winner of the Outstanding Researcher of the
Year Award from the Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and
Scientists Association. He is also a winner of the Excellence in
Service Award from the Environmental Protection Bureau in Taiwan. Dr.
Huang has served on the planning committee of the Graduate Institute
of Environmental Engineering at the National Chao-Tung University in
the Republic of China. Dr. Huang is a member of a variety of
professional societies including the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the American Chemical Society and the International
Association of Water Pollution Research.
Carroll Izard, Unidel Professor of Psychology since 1976, was
educated at Mississippi College and Yale and Syracuse Universities. A
recipient of the American Psychological Association's G. Stanley Hall
Award for research on emotional development and the Elliot Memorial
Award for his book, The Face of Emotion, Dr. Izard was a National
Academy of Sciences Exchange Fellow in the emotions laboratory of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences, and his book, Human Emotions, has been
published in German by Beltz Verlag and in Russian by the University
of Moscow Press. His newest book, The Psychology of Emotions (1991) is
now being translated into Japanese. His research on the role of
emotions in human development, funded by the National Science
Foundation, has been featured on the PBS television series, "Nova,"
and in other science-education media such as Smithsonian magazine. Dr.
Izard is series editor for the Plenum Press books on emotions and a
consulting editor for several psychological journals. In 1986 he was
awarded the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Faculty
lectureship and in 1989 he received the Francis Alison Faculty Award.
John C. Kraft, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Geology, earned a
bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University and advanced
degrees at the University of Minnesota. The former Chairperson of the
Department of Geology from 1969 to 1983, he is a recipient of numerous
grants and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Explorer
Club. He has authored or co-authored many articles on such topics as
coastal processes, rates of shoreline change and relative sea level
rise, and coastal geomorphologic changes related to archaeology and
historic events. He has received awards and honors from the Geological
Society of America, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the
Society of Economic Paleontogists and Mineralogists. Dr. Kraft
received the Francis Alison Faculty Award in 1987. A member of the
German/American/Turkish Archaeological Expedition to Troy, the
Osterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut Expedition to Ephesus, and
the American Archaeological Expedition at NiKopolis in Greece, Dr.
Kraft analyzes in his research the nature of changes that have
occurred in the past 10,000 years to ancient coastal landscapes, as
well as the potential destruction of present and future coastal
environments as a result of coastal processes and sea level rise
caused by the Greenhouse effect.
J.A. Leo Lemay joined the faculty in 1977 as the Winterthur
Professor of English. The nationally recognized specialist in early
American literature has been awarded Guggenheim and National Endowment
for the Humanities fellowships, among other grants. He earned his
bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Maryland and
his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He has written
several books on Benjamin Franklin and has recently begun a six-volume
biography of Franklin. The University Press of Virginia published his
recent books, Robert Bolling Woos Anne Miller (1990) and The American
Dream of Captain John Smith (1991).
William Markell, Chairperson of the Department of Accounting
since 1976 and former chairperson of the Department of Business
Administration, is the first Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of
Accounting at Delaware. He has been appointed to the Academic and
Career Development Executive Committee of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and to the Accounting Accreditation
Committee of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.
A member of the Delaware faculty since 1958, Dr. Markell has served as
a visiting professor at such institutions as the University of
Manchester in England, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and
the American College in Paris, and was a Fulbright Lecturer at the
University of Botswana. Dr. Markell has also been an active member of
the American Accounting Association and the Federation of Schools of
Accountancy, to which he was recently named to the board of directors.
He was also recently appointed to the Arsht Committee of the
University of Delaware. He has been Vice President for Administration
and Finance of the United Way and a member of the Board of Directors.
The Certified Public Accountant holds a bachelor's degree in
accounting from City College of New York, a maaster's degree from the
University of Denver and an Ed.D. from Teacher's College, Columbia
University.
Frank B. Murray is H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the Departments
of Educational Studies and Psychology at the University of Delaware
and has been Dean of the College of Education since 1980. Dr. Murray
received a bachelor's degree from St. John's College in Annapolis,
Maryland, and he earned advanced degrees from the Johns Hopkins
University. He has published more than 100 articles in his research
interest, children's cognitive and intellectual development, and he
serves on the editorial boards of several journals. A Fellow of the
American Psychological Association, Dr. Murray currently chairs the
National Board of the Holmes Group, a consortium of 100 research
universities working to reform teacher education. He is co-director of
Project 30, a Carnegie Foundation-funded consortium of arts and
science and education leaders from 30 colleges and universities in the
United States that are reworking and extending the components of their
teaching education programs. Dr. Murray is editing a handbook on the
knowledge base for teacher education for the American Association of
Colleges of Teacher Education and serves on the Teacher Program
Council of the Educational Testing Service, which is developing the
new National Teacher Examination, Praxis.
Hershel Parker, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, came to
Delaware in 1979. A graduate of Lamar University, he received advanced
degrees from Northwestern University. He has held Woodrow Wilson and
Guggenheim Fellowships. Known first as a Melville scholar and editor,
he has worked on the relationships between textual evidence and
literary criticism and theory as well as between editorial theory and
creativity, the subject of a book he wrote while holding a University
of Delaware Center for Advanced Study fellowship: Flawed Texts and
Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction. He is Associate
General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of
Herman Melville, of which 13 volumes have appeared. Northwestern
University Press published his Reading "Billy Budd." In 1991, the
centennial of Melville's death, Dr. Parker served as President of the
Melville Society. His current projects are the third, three-volume
edition of The New Melville Log (with the late Jay Leyda) and a
full-scale narrative biography of Melville.
Donald L. Peters, Amy Rextrew Professor of Individual and Family
Studies, joined the Delaware faculty in 1985. Dr. Peters holds a
bachelor's degree in English literature from Brown University, a
master's degree in educational psychology from Northeastern
University, and a doctorate in educational psychology from Stanford
University. Recipient of numerous research and training grants, he is
author, co-author and co-editor of nearly 50 articles in scholarly
journals and more than 75 publications. He has authored, co-authored,
and edited nine books, including: The Development of Self-Regulatory
Mechanism, New Methods for Educating and Credentialing Professionals
in Child Care, Early Childhood Education: Theory and Practice,
Continuity and Discontinuity of Experience in Child Care, and
Professionalism and the Early Childhood Practitioner and his recently
published volume, Family Day Care: Current Research for Informed
Public Policy. Active in consultation and technical assistance to a
variety of agencies in Delaware, Dr. Peters currently serves on the
Interagency Coordinating Council of Infant and Toddler Programs as
well as on a number of other state-wide committees and task forces.
R. Byron Pipes, Robert L. Spencer Professor of Engineering, was
Dean of the College of Engineering from 1985-91, when he was named
University Provost. He is internationally known for his
interdisciplinary leadership in composite materials research and for
development of an exemplary model of university, industrial and
governmental interaction in research and education. In 1987, he was
elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest
recognition accorded an engineering professional or academic. His
national and international awards include the Chaire Francqui, the
highest award in Belgium for distinguished visiting faculty, and the
Gustus Larson Award of the mechanical engineering honorary, Pi Tau
Sigma. While a faculty member of the University of Delaware he
co-founded the Center for Composite Materials and served as its
director from 1978-85. The author and co-author of five books on
composite materials and numerous refereed publications, he holds a
bachelor's degree from Louisiana Polytechnic, a master's degree from
Princeton University and a doctorate from the University of Texas.
Graduate degrees granted under his supervision now number more than
50.
Lois D. Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor of English, joined the
University's faculty in 1991 after having taught at the University of
Aberdeen and the University of Leicester. Dr. Potter has a Diplome de
Degre Superieur from the Sorbonne, a bachelor's Bryn Mawr College, and
a PhD. from Girton College, Cambridge, where she held a Marshall
Scholarship. She is the author of A Preface to Milton, Twelfth Night:
Text and Performance and Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist
Literature, 1641-60, and the General Editor of The Revels History of
Drama in English, Vols. I and IV. After having edited some anonymous
plays of the mid-17th century, she is currently editing The Two Noble
Kinsmen by Shakespeare and Fletcher, for the Arden series. She was the
founder and, for three years, the editor of the Renaissance Drama
Newsletter. As well as publishing articles in, among others,
Shakespeare Quaterly, Shakespeare Survey, and English Studies, she has
extensive experience as a drama critic for BBC Radio Leicester and the
Times Literary Supplement. She has been a British Council lecturer in
France, Spain, and Czechoslovakia, and is on the editorial board of
Cahiers Elisabethains.
Donald J. Puglisi, MBNA America Business Professor and Professor
of Finance, has been a member of the University's faculty since 1971.
Dr. Puglisi earned a bachelor's and master's from Michigan State
University and a doctorate from Indiana University. A 1980 winner of
the university's excellence-in-teaching award, Dr. Puglisi has teaches
in the areas of corporate finance, securities analysis and portfolio
management and the management of financial institutions. He has
published extensively in those areas. He has worked as a visiting
research scholar with the Fderal Home Loan Bank Board, which gave him
an Outstanding Service Award, and as a Public Service Fellow at the
University. Since 1973, Dr. Puglisi has been a member of the boards of
directors and an officer of many Delaware holding companies and
corporations, which he serves as an investment manager and accountant.
His company, Puglisi and Associates, also prepares expert financial
testimony for the courts.
T.W. Fraser Russell, Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical
Engineering, is Director of the Institute of Energy Conversion, a
laboratory devoted to thin-film photovoltaic research. Dr. Russell
holds bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the
University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the
University of Delaware. His research efforts are directed toward
semiconductor reaction and reactor engineering and the study of
multi-phase fluid mechanics with application to the design of process
equipment. He is the author of numerous technical publications and
co-author of two chemical engineering texts. Dr. Russell has received
the University's excellence-in-teaching award and the Francis Alison
Faculty Award, the American Chemical Society's Leo Friend Award, the
American Society for Engineering Education Chemical Engineering
Division Lecture Award, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Award in Chemical Engineering Practice and the Thomas H. Chilton
Award. He also was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Stanley I. Sandler was named Henry Belin du Pont Professor of
Chemical Engineering in 1982 and has been a member of the Delaware
faculty since 1967. He is currently interim Dean of the College of
Engineering and Director of the Center for Molecular and Engineering
Thermodynamics. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical
engineering from the City College of New York and a doctorate from the
University of Minnesota. Dr. Sandler has received the prestigious
Professional Progress Award of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineering, the Chemical Engineering Division Award of the American
Society for Engineering Education and a U.S. Senior Scientist Award
from the Humboldt Foundation (Germany). He serves on editorial boards
of several journals and is a member of a number of professional
organizations. Dr. Sandler is author or co-author of numerous
scholarly publications and the author or editor of seven books. His
research interests include the thermodynamic properties of liquids and
liquid mixtures, applied thermodynamics and phase equilibrium,
computer-assisted engineering education and statistical mechanics.
W.D. Snodgrass, Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing and
Contemporary Poetry, is a well-known poet and the author of Heart's
Needle, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. His most
recent books include several illustrated by DeLoss McGraw: The
Midnight Carnival and an exclusive edition of the same; The Death of
Cock Robin; and To Shape a Song. In 1990, The Midnight Carnival was
staged by the Faustwork Mask Theatre at the American Place Theatre in
New York. His poems, translations, and essays have been anthologized
and published widely. His numerous awards include the Hudson Review
Fellowship in Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy of American
Poets Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant for study in the
theatre. In 1991, he received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree
from Allegheny College and was invited to visit the Batuz Foundation
in Berlin and Bad Ems, Germany, and the Romanian Writer's Union, who
conferred him an Award for Translation of Romanian Literature. The
Southern Review published a tribute to him in the summer 1991 issue,
entitled "W.D. Snodgrass: Poetry and Poetics." A member of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters, he received Bachelor of Arts,
Master of Arts, and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of
Iowa. He is currently on a year-long sabbatical.
James R. Soles, the University's first Distinguished Alumni
Professor, is chairperson of the political science department. Dr.
Soles, who specializes in American government and American civil
liberties, has been a faculty member at the University since 1968. Dr.
Soles was active in the lectures and forums marking the bicentenary
celebrations of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
He also helped organize a statewide project on The Federalist Papers
and is well-known for his scholarly portrayal of James Madison. Dr.
Soles co-produced a 39-episode television series on government and
society in Delaware for CBS-TV, Channel 10 in Philadelphia. A two-time
winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award, Dr. Soles is also the
recipient of the Liberty Bell Award (with Ada Leigh Soles) from the
Delaware Bar Association, the winner of a Salzburg Seminar Fellowship
and the del Tufo Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities. A
member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha and Omicron Delta Kappa honor
societies, Dr. Soles received his bachelor's and master's degrees from
Florida State University and his doctorate from the University of
Virginia. Dr. Soles is currently working on a book titled, The
Constitution of Delaware.
Damie Stillman, John W. Shirley Professor of Art History, was
Chairperson of the Department of Art History from 1980 to 1986. Dr.
Stillman is the author of The Decorative Work of Robert Adam, English
Painting: The Great Masters, 1730-1860 and English Neo-classical
Architecture, for which he received the 1988 Gottschalk Prize from the
American Society for 18th-Century Studies. A graduate of Northwestern
University, he received a master's degree in the University's
Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, a doctorate at Columbia
University, and he also studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art at
the University of London. In 1988, he received a fellowship from the
University's Center for Advanced Study to research a book on American
federal architecture. The former President of the Society of
Architectural Historians is twice a recipient of a National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellowship. Recently appointed the Associate Editor
of the Buildings of the United States series, he is currently at work
on a book on Neo-classical architecture in America during the era of
the Early Republic.
A. Julian Valbuena, Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish, is an
internationally known expert on the theatre of the Spanish Golden Age,
the contemporary novel and Spanish American literature. He has served
as a visiting professor at New York University, the Universities of
Madrid and Mexico (Aragon) and the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogota,
Columbia. He received a Licenciatura from the University of Murcia, a
Maestria Nacional from the School of Pedagogy and a doctorate from the
University of Madrid. The author of 14 books and over 100 articles,
Dr. Valbuena has lectured extensively in Europe, Canada, Latin
America, and the U.S., and serves on several editorial boards in the
U.S., Germany, and Spain. He has been on the Fulbright Screening Board
and was a Division Chair of the Modern Language Association of America
and an evaluator for NEH research projects. He founded the Valbuena
Institute of Spanish Literature, Inc. which donates funds to
supplement guest honoraria, student book awards and activities that
promote scholarship. His recent activities include lectures and
publications in Britain, Germany, Italy and Mexico. Dr. Valbuena
received the University's excellence-in-teaching award in 1988 and was
made an honorary member of Phi Kappa Phi in 1975.
Richard L. Venezky, Unidel Professor of Educational Studies since
1977, is also Professor of Computer and Information Sciences. He is
internationally known for his work on English orthography and computer
applications to education and lexicography and is co-director for
research and development for the National Center on Adult Literacy.
Dr. Venezky chairs the Advisory Panel for the Office of Technology
Assessment's study of technology and adult literacy. Among his recent
publications are The Intelligent Design of Computer-Assisted
Instruction, a book on computer-assisted instruction, a microfiche
collection on the history of American primers, and chapters on the
history of literacy in the industrialized nations of the West and on
English orthography. Dr. Venezky holds a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering and a master's in linguistics from Cornell
University and a doctorate from Stanford University.
Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, joined the Delaware faculty in 1964. He served as
Chairperson of the then Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering from 1965 to 1979 and was the first Director of the Center
for Composite Materials from 1974 to 1978. A graduate of Cornell
University, he received his doctorate from the University of
Pennsylvania after spending a year in graduate study at Cambridge
University. Dr. Vinson has authored or co-authored four textbooks and
numerous research papers, as well as edited seven books. Active in
various professional organizations, he was the U.S. organizer of the
first four U.S.-Japan Conferences on Composite Materials. He was the
recipient of a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science and was a guest professor at the University of Tokyo in 1985.
Donald B. Wetlaufer is E.I. du Pont de Nemours Professor of
Chemistry and Biochemistry and he chaired the Department of Chemistry
from 1975 to 1985. He has been a visiting investigator at the
Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen and at the Max-Planck Institut fuer
Ernaehrungsphysiologie. His research has focused on understanding how
proteins acquire their three-dimensional structures, and relationships
between protein structure, stability and biological function. The
National Science Foundation and industrial biotechnology firms have
supported his recent research on high performance protein
chromatography. He is a member of several professional societies and
has served several times as councilor in the American Chemical
Society. Dr. Wetlaufer, who has received numerous awards and honors,
has served on panels of the National Science Foundation, the National
Institutes of Health and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He
holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a doctorate in biochemistry
from the University of Wisconsin.
Jin Wu, who was named H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Marine
Studies and Civil Engineering in 1980, joined the Delaware faculty in
1974. Dr. Wu established and directs the Air-Sea Interaction
Laboratory in the Graduate College of Marine Studies. Active in
promoting science in China, he received an honorary professorship
awarded by China's Ministry of Education. Under the sponsorship of the
National Science Foundation, he also led a national delegation of
distinguished professors to Taiwan to establish a large-scale research
program in ocean science. Dr. Wu is a recipient of the Ocean Science
Educator Award from the Office of Naval Research. A member of the
Academia Sinica (The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of China),
Dr. Wu earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the
National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan and master's and doctoral
degrees in mechanics and hydraulics from the University of Iowa. The
author of nearly 200 articles, Dr. Wu is internationally known for his
work on environmental and oceanographic fluid dynamics. This year, Dr.
Wu has received the prestigious Ocean Science Education Award from the
Office of Naval Research.