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April 28, 1994
Faculty and staff

PUBLICATIONS

     Robert Taggart, educational studies, "Everett C. Johnson (1879-1926):
     Political Visionary and Eternal Optimist," in Delaware History, vol.
     25, pages 215-236, fall/winter 1993-94.

     Rudi Matthee, history, "Coffee in Safavid Iran: Commerce and
     Consumption," in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the
     Orient, vol. 37, pages 1-32, 1994.

     Raelene E. Maser, life and health sciences, with Margaret A. Butler
     and G. Stephen DeCherney of the Medical Center of Delaware, "Use of
     Arterial Blood with Bedside Glucose Reflectance Meters in an Intensive
     Care Unit: Are They Accurate?" in Critical Care Medicine, vol. 22,
     pages 595-599, 1994.

     Hans-Jorg Busch, foreign languages and literatures, a review of Birte
     Stengaard, "Vida y Muerte de un Campo Semantico. Un Estudio de la
     Evolucion Semantica de los Verbos Latinos stare, sedere e iacere del
     Latin al Romance del s XIII," in Romanistisches Jahrbuch, Band 43,
     pages 336-341, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1993.

     Larry Peterson, music, co-author, "The Information Highway: Computer
     Networking for Choral Musicians," in Choral Journal, April 1994.

     Nancy Signorielli and Douglas McLeod, both communication, and former
     graduate student Elaine Healy, "Gender Stereotypes in MTV Commercials:
     The Beat Goes On," in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media,
     vol. 38, no. 1, pages 91-101, winter 1994; and Signorielli, "Sex Roles
     and Stereotyping on Television," in Adolescent Medicine: Adolescents
     and the Media, vol 4, no. 3, 1993.

     Elizabeth M. Perse, communication, and Douglas F. Ferguson of Bowling
     Green State University, "The Impact of the Newer Television
     Technologies on Television Satisfaction," in Journalism Quarterly,
     vol. 70, no. 4, pages 843-853, winter 1993.

     Frank B. Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educationasl Studies and
     Psychology, "Why Understanding the Theoretical Basis of Cooperative
     Learning Enhances Teaching Success," in Creativity and Collaborative
     Learning: A Practical Guide to Empowering Students and Teachers, pages
     3-11, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Baltimore 1994.

PRESENTATIONS

     Vistasp M. Karbhari, composite materials and civil engineering,
     "Applications of Composite Materials to Civil Construction and
     Infrastructure Rehabilitation," at invited seminar, Center for
     Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems, April 13, Lehigh
     University.

     Ivo Dominguez, foreign languages and literatures, "La Novela
     Hispanoamericana de la Primera Parte del Siglo XX," at 15th annual
     meeting, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, April 8-9,
     Kean College of New Jersey. He also served as chairperson of the panel
     on Contemporary Perspectives on Latin American Literature.

     Theodore E.D. Braun, foreign languages and literatures, invited
     lecture, "Madame Bovary: An Anti-Romantic Novel?" at Wesley College,
     April 5, Dover.

     Ronald E. Martin, English, "Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and the
     20th-Century Re-invention of Literary Language," at 18th annual Hans
     Hartvigson Symposium, March 17, Odense University, Denmark; and
     "American Writers in the Midst of 10th- Century Redefinitions of
     Nature," at Science and the Arts Symposium, at Man and Nature
     Humanities Research Center, Odense.

     Dennis Jackson, English, "D.H. Lawrence-'Priest of Love' for Our
     Century," at Hinds Community College, Raymond campus, Jackson, Miss.
     He also took part in a conference on "The European Phase of World War
     II: A 50-Year Perspective," April 6-8, at Hinds Community College,
     Rankin campus, and led journalism workshops at Jackson State
     University and the Raymond campus.

     Rudi Matthee, history, "Unwalled Cities and Restless Nomads: Fire Arms
     and Artillery in Safavid Iran," April 11, Center for Middle Eastern
     Studies, Harvard University.

     Several members of the Department of Electrical Engineering made
     presentations at the 1994 Conference on Information Sciences and
     Systems, March 16-18, Princeton, N.J.: Gonzalo R. Arce with graduate
     student Edwin A. Heredia, "Nonlinear Modeling Using Threshold
     Decomposition Filters," with graduate student Timothy A. Hall,
     "Combination Weighted Order Statistic Filters" and with Kenneth E.
     Barner of the A.I. duPont Institute and Russell C. Hardie of the
     University of Dayton, "On the Permutation and Optimal Quantization of
     RN and the Filtering Problem"; Charles G. Boncelet Jr., "On
     Multi-Access Schemes for High Speed Broadcast Channels with Erasures";
     Ali S. Khayrallah, "Encoder Structure and Bit Error Rate" and "On
     Unequal Protection in Linear Codes"; and Peter J. Warter with graduate
     student S. Sureshchandran, "Image Sequence Coding Using Feature
     Visibility Criterion." Also, Arce with graduate student Martin Muller,
     "A Universal Fan Beam Reconstruction Algorithm and Its Applications,"
     at third meeting of Brite-Euram Concerted Action on Process
     Tomography, March 24-26, Oporto, Portugal.

     Nancy King, honors, with students Robert Banks and Kathryn Byrd,
     "Exploring Spirituality," at Conference on Honors Education workshop,
     April 9, Baltimore.

     W. Lawrence Gulick, psychology, "Cochlear Mechanics: The Coding of
     Pitch," March 31, Hamilton College; "The Nature of Intelligence and
     Its Measurement," April 1, Colgate University; and "Common Pitfalls in
     Research Design," April 1, Hamilton College.

     Robert Taggart, educational studies, "Newark's Nottingham
     Neighborhood," Feb. 24, at Newark Historical Society meeting.

     Richard A. Zipser, foreign languages and literatures, "Scissors in
     Hands, Scissors in Heads: Literary Censorship in East Germany," at
     symposium on Power and the Word: The Role of the Writer in Repressive
     Societies, April 14, Loyola College, Baltimore.

     Stacie Beck, economics, "The Option Value of Money" and discussant for
     two papers, at Eastern Finance Association meeting, April 14-16,
     Boston.

     Nancy Signorielli, communication, "Television Violence: The Punch in
     Programming," at 31st annual public affairs symposium, Feb. 23,
     Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., and "Health and Nutrition on
     Television: Messages and Impact," at fourth Kentucky conference on
     health communication, April 14-15, University of Kentucky, Lexington.

     Karl W. Boer, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Solar Energy,
     with Joachim Piprek, material science, "Inverse-Delta-Doping for GaAs
     Solar Cell Improvement," at 12th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy
     Conference, April 13, Amsterdam.

     College of Education faculty and graduate students presented papers at
     the American Educational Research Association annual meeting April 4-8
     in New Orleans: Nancy A. Brickhouse, educational development, "Between
     a Rock and a Hard Place: Evidence and Authority in Teaching Science
     and Claims of the Universality of Science," "How Concepts of
     Multiculturalism Might Have Implications for Science Education" and
     discussant in a symposium on feminist theory and science education;
     James Crouse, educational studies, "How Much Do American Students
     Know? What We Learn From NAEP's Longitudinal Data"; James Davis,
     educational studies, panelist for symposium on "Same-Sex, Cross Race
     Mentoring Among Doctoral Candidates"; Pamela Elliott, educational
     studies, "An Overview of Current Practice in Structural Equation
     Modeling"; James Hiebert and Diana Wearne, educational development,
     "Instruction, Understanding and Performance in Elementary Mathematics"
     and Hiebert chaired a symposium on designing classrooms for learning
     with understanding; Jaana Juvonen, educational studies, "Age-Related
     Change in Peer Attitudes, Perceived Social Support and Loneliness of
     Bullies and Victims" and chairperson of symposium on motivation in
     education business; David W. Kaplan, educational studies, "The Utility
     of Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Building and
     Educational Buidance System," "A Policy Guidance System for Science
     Achievement: An Application of Multilevel Structural Equation
     Modeling" and discussant at symposium on theoretical developments and
     educational applications of covariance structure modeling; Paul
     LeMahieu, educational studies, "Implications in Teaching and Learning
     From the Reauthorization of Chapter I" and participant in symposium on
     "What Do We Know from Research and Practical Wisdom About Improving
     Schools?"; Charles A. MacArthur, educational studies, "Effects of Goal
     Setting and Procedural Facilitation on Revising by Students with
     Learning Disabilities," "The Influences of Teachers' Beliefs and
     Knowledge on Strategy Instruction," "Mentoring: An Approach to
     Technology Education for Teachers" and "SALT: Student Assistant for
     Learning from Text"; Frank B. Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of
     Educational Studies and Psychology, participated in a symposium on a
     knowledge base for teacher educators; Susan B. Taber, educational
     development, "When Worlds Collide: Extending Students' Knowledge of
     Partitioning to Multiplication of Fractions" and "Contexts,
     Representations and Procedures: Constructing Meaning for the
     Multiplication Symbol"; Richard Venezky, Unidel Professor of
     Educational Studies, "Reconsidering Functional Literacy," headed
     symposiums on national adult literacy survey and on knowledge,
     learning and reading and participated in symposiums on reading and
     literacy and cross-linguistic reading research; James Witson,
     educational development, "The Lack of Agreement on the Meaning of
     'Postmodernism' and Its Promise, Risks and Dangers"; James Raths,
     educational studies, "The Reflective Practitioner as an Inadequate
     Program Theme"; and Douglas Archbald, educational development, "A
     Longitudinal Cohort Analysis of Student Achievement in Magnet
     Schools." Graduate students Rodney McNair, James A. Riedel, John P.
     Sabatini and David Slavit also presented papers.

SERVICE & AWARDS

     Thomas K. Gaisser, Barton Research Institute, is a member of the
     Universities Space Research Association Science Council.

     Ralph E. Kleinman, mathematical sciences, elected a fellow of the
     Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his
     contributions to low-frequency scattering as applied to radar,
     aerospace detection and design procedures.

     George Parsons, marine studies, participated in National Forum on
     Environmental and Natural Resources R&D sponsored by the president's
     new National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) March 28-30 at the
     National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. The forum was designed
     for representatives of the scientific community, the private sector,
     Congress and state and local governments to provide insight to
     executive branch agencies represented on the NSTC committee on
     environment and natural resources research.

GRANTS

     Thomas S. Angell and Ralph E. Kleinman, mathematical sciences, $73,353
     from U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research for "Optimization
     Methods for Direct and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics."

     Mark A. Barteau, chemical engineering, $63,000 from U.S. Department of
     Energy for "Synthetic Reactions of Oxametallacycles and Related
     Intermediates on Transition Metal Surfaces."

     Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
     and Azar Parvizi-Majidi, mechanical engineering, $50,023 from Research
     Center for Advanced Science and Technology for "The Effect of
     Interface on Microfracture Mechanism for Fiber Toughened Ceramic
     Matrix Composites."

     Teresa M. Cooney, individual and family studies, $49,234 from National
     Institute of Mental Health for "Consequences of Recent Parental
     Divorce for Young Adults."

     John E. Dohms, animal science and agricultural biochemistry, $8,894
     from Vineland Laboratories, Division of Immunogenetics, for
     "Evaluation of Attenuated Mycoplasma Gallisepticum Strains as Vaccines
     for the Prevention of Mycoplasmosis in Chickens."

     From National Science Foundation: Douglas J. Doren, chemistry and
     biochemistry, $100,000 for "Theory of Silicon Hydride Surface
     Chemistry"; Susan E. McGeary, geology, $43,518 for "Collaborative
     Research: Pacific to Bering Shelf Deep Seismic Reflection Experiment";
     Wadsworth Owen, marine studies, $121,961 for "Ship Technicians"; and
     George H. Watson, physics and astronomy, $58,000 for "Propagation of
     Light in Colloidal Crystals: Photonic Band Structure and
     Localization."

     Gary L. Ebert, mathematical sciences, $50,413 from National Security
     Agency for "Conics and Unitals in Finite Desarguesian Planes."

     From National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Alexander W.
     Fullerton, Bartol Research Institute, $11,000 for "HD 93521: Rosetta
     Stone for the Photospheric Connection"; and Abraham M. Lenhoff,
     chemical engineering, $96,614 for "Formation of Ordered Arrays of
     Proteins on Surfaces."

     Judith Y. Gibson, affirmative action and multicultural programs,
     $16,854 from Delaware Department of Public Instruction for "Summer
     Food Service Program--Department of Instruction."

     Vistasp M. Karbhari, composite materials, $10,000 from Dow Corning Co.
     for "Studies on Resin Transfer Molding."

     Michael T. Klein, chemical engineering, $25,000 from BP America and
     $25,000 from state under Delaware Research Partnership program for
     "Molecular Modeling of Cracking Chemistry."

     George W. Luther and Brent L. Lewis, marine studies, $5,200 from
     University of Maryland for "Salinity Effects on Metal Toxicity."

     Michael E. Paulaitis, Abraham M. Lenhoff and Norman J.Wagner, chemical
     engineering, and Robert H. Wood, chemistry and biochemistry, $50,000
     from Dow Chemical Co. and $50,000 from state under Delaware Research
     Partnership program for "The Prediction of Ion Solvation and
     Mobilities in Hydrated Polymer Membranes from Molecular Simulations."

     Anthony S. Wexler, mechanical engineering, $30,100 from California
     Institute of Technology for "Computational Analysis of Urban and
     Regional Air Quality."

     Alan S. Andres, Delaware Geological Survey, $35,000 from Delaware
     Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control for "Ground
     Water Recharge Mapping--Year 4."

     From National Science Foundation: Bobby F. Caviness, computer and
     information sciences, $44,200 from for "Post-Doctoral Associate in
     Experimental Symbolic Computation"; Ruth Horowitz, sociology, $17,994
     for "The Public Interest or Protecting the Profession?: Public Members
     and Boards of Medical Practice"; John D. Morgan, physics and
     astronomy, $62,000 for "High-Precision Calculation of Properties of
     Small Atoms and Molecules"; Lori L. Pollock, computer and information
     sciences, $5,000 for "Cooperative Software Pipelining and Register
     Allocation"; Fadil Santosa, mathematical sciences, $30,000 for
     "Analysis and Numerical Modeling of Wave Phenomena in Composite
     Materials"; and Mary J. Wirth, chemistry and biochemistry, $39,000 for
     "Surface Architecture to Control Guest Behavior in Monolayers for
     Sensors."

     Henry C. Foley, catalytic science and technology, and Douglass F.
     Taber, chemistry and biochemistry, $35,000 from University of Delaware
     Research Foundation for "Low Temperature Synthesis of Carbon
     Microstructures Guided by Theory."

     John W. Gillespie and Don Roderic, composite materials, $23,947 from
     U.S. Army Armament Research, Development & Engineering Center for
     "Proposal to U.S. Army ARDEC in response to request for quotations."

     Charles S. Ih, electrical engineering, $31,000 from U.S. Army Space
     and Strategic Defense Command for "All Optical High Density WDM
     Communication System for High-Speed Computer Networks" and $11,000 for
     "Versatile AMD Power Multi-Channel Data Links for Satellite Laser
     Communications."

     Harry L. Shipman, physics and astronomy, $5,155 from Space Telescope
     Science Institute for "The Bright, Mysterious White Dwarf Star Procyon
     B."

     Scott G. Stevens and Katharine Schneider, English Language Institute,
     $79,056 from Georgetown University for "Central American Peace
     Scholarship Program."

     Richard L. Venezky, Unidel Professor of Educational Studies, $280,000
     from University of Pennsylvania for "Studies of Adult Literacy Skills
     and Assessment."

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

     20 years

          Lorraine Holton, chemical engineering, May 1, 1974

          Margie Lowe, Plant Operations- custodial service, April 29, 1974

          Harvey Bruce Pyle, recreation and intramurals, May 1, 1974

     10 years

          Sandra Jamison, continuing education, April 30, 1984

          Patricia Ann Rinehart, Plant Operations-fire alarm inspection,
     April 30, 1984

     5 years

          Judith Brown, CNS User Services, May 1, 1989

          Anne Camasso, individual and family studies, May 1, 1989

          Wanda Moore, Academic Services Center, May 1, 1989

          Edward Murray, public safety, May 1, 1989

NEW ASSIGNMENTS

     Aaron Ferguson has been appointed research associate IV, education.

     Eileen Garland has been named senior consultant/analyst, CNS User
     Services.

     Mary Ann Poling has been appointed extension agent III, Cooperative
     Extension.

     Marlene G. Emara has been appointed assistant professor, animal
     science and agricultural biochemistry.

     Donna L. Dasaro has been named senior secretary, occupational health
     and safety.

     Shawn A. Flanagan has been appointed library technician.

     Joan F. Higgins has been named secretary, University Media Services.

     Theresa Elswick and Pamela L. Franklin have been appointed custodians
     A, student housing.

     Diane M. Gatrell has been appointed custodian A, Plant Operations
     custodial services.

     Michael J. Weaver has been named horticulturist, Plant
     Operations-grounds.

     Matthew J. Hawkins has been promoted to senior vessel captain, marine
     studies.

     James D. Warrington has been promoted to chief mate, marine studies.

     Scarlett A. Swayne has been promoted to executive secretary, Plant
     Operations-administrative services.

     Robert S. Fitzwater has been promoted to senior HVAC mechanic, Plant
     Operations.