UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 26, Page 13
April 6, 1995
Faculty and staff
PUBLICATIONS
Monika Shafi, foreign languages and literatures, "The Myth of Psn
Bettina Bretano-von Arnim's Epistolary Novels," in Bettina
Brentano-von Arnim: Gender and Politics, pages 95-114, Wayne
State University Press, Detroit.
Limin Kung Jr., animal science and agricultural biochemistry,
"Silage Additives: Profit Makers or Profit Takers?," in Advances
in Dairy Technology, vol. 7, pages 159-165, 1995.
David Kaplan, educational studies, "The Impact of BIB Spiraling-
Induced Missing Data Patterns on Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Factor
Analysis," in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics,
vol. 20, pages 69-82.
Clinton E. White Jr., accounting, with Mark F. Asman of Bowling
Green State University and Roger Debreceny of Southern Cross
University, Australia, "A Guide to Educational Resources for
Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems on the Internet," in
Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems Update, American
Accounting Association, vol. 4, no. 2, winter, 1995.
Deborah Allen, life and health sciences, "Role of the Renin-
Angiotensin (RAS) and Sympathetic Nervous (SNS) Systems in the
Pressor-Response to Acute Cold Exposure," in Federation of
American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal, vol. 8, no.
4, page A-67, 1994.
William Cain, life and health sciences, with D. Rader, I.
Katsunori, G. Talley, L. Zech, H. Brewer and D. Usher, life and
health sciences, "The Inverse Association of Plasma
Lipoprotein(a) Concentrations with Aplipoprotein(a) Isoform Is
Not Due to Differences in LP(a) Catabolism But to Differences in
Production Rate," in Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 93,
pages 2758-2763, 1994.
H.V. Cornell, life and health sciences, "Maximum Parasitism Rates
and Successful Biological-Control," in Science, vol. 266, page
1886, Dec. 16, 1994; with B.A. Hawkins, "Patterns of Parasitoid
Accumulation on Introduced Herbivores," in Parasitoid Community
Ecology, Oxford University Press, 1994; and with Hawkins,
"Survivorship Patterns and Mortality Sources of Herbivorous
Insects: Some Demographic Rules of Thumb," in American
Naturalist, vol. 145, pages 562-592, 1995.
PRESENTATIONS
Peter G. Roe, anthropology, "Caribbean Archaeology," ChemVets,
American Chemical Society, March 21, Wilmington; abstract
published in DelChem Bulletin, page 4, March 1995.
James E. Swasey, Longwood Graduate Program, keynote speaker, Mid-
America Collegiate Horticultural Society annual meeting, March 15-
18, Colorado State University.
Carolyn Fisher, food science, "Phenolics in Spices: Flavorants
and Anticarcinogens," at American Chemical Society, Central New
Mexico section, Feb. 16, Sante Fe.
Farley Grubb, economics, "Withering Heights: Did Indentured
Servants Shrink from their Encounter with Malthus?," at Queens
University, March 2, Kingston Ontario, Canada; and "The End of
European Indentured Immigration to North America: An Economic
Analysis of Market Collapse, 1680-1820," at University of
Toronto, March 3.
William Browning, theatre, scene designer for Droussen Voe der
Tur for Theatre Trier, Germany.
Ken Koford, economics, with Mark Penno of University of Chicago,
"Equilibrium in Markets and Organizations When Agents Vary in
Ethical Standards," at Eastern Economic Association meetings,
March 17-19, New York City.
Peter Brakhage, theatre, "AutoCAD + 12 to Determine Compound
Angle Problems in Scenic Construction" and "Organizing the Scene
Shop," at United States Institute for Theatre Technology,
Chesapeake section, regional conference, Jan. 21, University of
Maryland.
Catherine Fitzmaurice, theatre, vocal coach for Hartford State
production of Richard III; and voice workshops for Musical
Theatre Works and Phoenix Ensemble and Shakespeare workshop at
Circle-in-the Square Theatre, New York.
Susan Sweeney, theatre, panelist, "What the Actors Tell Us," at
Shakespeare Theatre Association of America national meeting,
January, Portland, Ore.; and dialect coach for Baltimore Centre
Stage production of The Cherry Orchard and Philadelphia Drama
Guild production of Holiday Memories.
William S. Schenck, Delaware Geological Survey, presentation on
vertical control data in Delaware and services of the survey's
cartographic information center, at floodplain management
workshop, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Control and Federal Emergency Management Agency, Feb. 22, Clayton
Hall.
Electrical engineering faculty and students presented papers at
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 22-24,
Johns Hopkins University: Gonzalo R. Arce with graduate student
David W. Griffith Jr., "Order Statistic Quadrature Mirror
Filters" and, with graduate student Edwin A. Heredia,
"Approximation Networks Based on Shape-Adaptive Kernels Using
Localized Threshold Decomposition"; Ali S. Khayralla, "A DPCM
Scheme with Good Channel Response" and, with David L. Neuhoff of
University of Michigan, "A New Construction for Shaping Codes";
and John G. Elias with David P.M. Northmore, psychology,
"Information Processing in Artificial Dendritic Trees."
Khayrallah also served as session chairperson on modulation.
Billy P. Glass, geology, "Ablated Tektite from the Central Indian
Ocean," at Lunar and Planetary Science conference, March 16,
Houston.
Timothy F. Brooks, dean of students, "Disabilities: An Update on
the Office of Civil Rights Findings," at national conference,
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, March
23-26, San Diego.
Members of the Department of Entomology and Applied Ecology made
presentations at the Entomological Society of America, Eastern
Branch meeting, Feb. 26-March 1, Harrisburg, Pa.: Dewey M. Caron,
"A Tail of Killer Bees"; Sujaya Udayagiri, postdoctoral fellow,
"Will You Oviposit In My Habitat? Said the Plant to the
Hymenopteran Parasite"; Charles E. Mason with Udayagiri, "Host
Plant Constituents and Oviposition in a Generalist Herbivore:
Ostrinia nubilalis," with graduate student Yansong Ni, "Genetic
Variation of Natural Populations of European Corn Borer, Ostrinia
nubilalis (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Delaware" and,
with graduate student Ellen Y. Stromdahl, "Refining Pheromone
Trapping for European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis: Trap
Placement in Plant Canopy"; Richard G. Weber, "Oviposition in the
Field by Culex restuans and C. pipiens"; William Klein, graduate
student, "Cucurbitacins and Mating Behavior in the Spotted
Cucumber Beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi"; Judith
Hough-Goldstein with undergraduates J.A. Janis and C.E. Ellers,
"Release Methods for Perillus bioculatus (F>) (Hemiptera:
Pentatomidae), a Predator of the Colorado Potato Beetle,
Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)"; and
Douglas W. Tallamy, "Implications of Variation in Disbroticite
Responses to Cucurbitacins." Susan P. Whitney, Cooperative
Extension, served as program co-chairperson and display
presentation organizer.
SERVICE AND AWARDS
Kevin Kerrane, English, as a visiting scholar at the Poynter
Institute for Media Studies, March 4-18, in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
participated in a seminar on "Ethics in the Media" with reporters
from NBC, CNN, Canadian Public Radio and a dozen major
newspapers.
Jerry Huber and Kimberly Koronik, public safety, graduated March
23 from the State Police Academy, with Huber receiving the
Superintendent's Award as an outstanding member of the 46th
municipal police class.
Robert R. Jordan, Delaware Geological Survey, appointed to
American Geological Institute's strategic planning committee.
William Browning, theatre, appointed to electronic communications
committee, United States Institute for Theatre Technology.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
25 years
James A. Mullen, agriculture, Newark farm, April 13, 1970
10 years
Carmine C. Balascio, agricultural engineering, April 8, 1985
5 years
Joyce O. Huggins, Dining Services, April 10, 1990
GRANTS
From National Science Foundation: Robert H. Allen, mechanical
engineering, $33,463 for "Design Aids for Handicapped
Individuals"; Stephen C. Cary, marine studies, $23,214 for
"Mechanisms of Vertical Transmission of Bacterial Symbionts in
Marine Bivalves: Molecular Analyses of Development and
Settlement" and $19,447 for "Collaborative Research: Molecular
Dissection of Epibiotic Symbiosis in a Highly Thermotolerant
Metazoan"; Michael J. Chajes, civil engineering, $29,876 for
"Research Initiation Award: Development and Evaluation of
Composite Beams"; Phillip Christie, electrical engineering,
$49,999 for "Statistical Analysis of Interconnect-Limited
Systems"; L. Pamela Cook-Ioannidis and Gilberto Schleiniger,
mathematical sciences, $40,000 for "Some Mathematical Problems in
Transonic Aerodynamics and in Flows with Vorticity"; Jean H.
Futrell, Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, and Anil K. Shukla, chemistry and biochemistry,
$136,000 for "Dynamics Studies of Collision-Induced Dissociation
of Polyatomic Ions"; Timothy F. Pfeiffer, marine studies,
$116,518 for "Ship Technicians"; B. David Saunders and Bobby F.
Caviness, computer and information sciences, $9,880 for "East
Coast Computer Algebra Day, UD, Newark, Delaware, April 8";
Jonathan H. Sharp, marine studies, $112,500 for "Graduate
Research Traineeship Program in Ocean Processes"; Ferris Webster,
James Crease and Katherine A. Bouton, marine studies, $45,224 for
"Maintenance of a Database of Research Ship Schedules"; and John
F. Wehmiller, geology, and David E. Krantz, marine studies,
$48,810 for "Geochemical Integrity, Geochronology, and
Paleoclimatology of Late Pleistocene Molluscan Specimens, U.S.
Middle and Southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain."
From U.S. Army Research Office: Paul D. Amer, computer and
information sciences, $55,899 for "Formal Design of Communication
Protocols Based on the Estelle ISO Formal Description Technique";
and Thomas B. Brill, chemistry and biochemistry, and Michael T.
Klein, Elisabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering,
$525,230 for "Reactions and Reactor Analysis for High Temperature
Water."Also, Klein, $50,000 from UOP for "Graph Theory as a Basis
for Building Chemical Information Technology: Modeling of the
Kinetics of Catalytic Isomerization and Cracking."
Jerry C. Beasley, English, additional $1,707 from National
Endowment for the Humanities for "An Edition of the Works of
Tobias Smollett."
Robert W. Birkmire, energy conversion, and T. W. Fraser Russell,
Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering, $73,712 from
Martin Marietta for "Development of Physically-Based Models for
Intelligent Manufacturing of Layered Photovoltaics."
Theda M. Ellis and Lynn H. Wilson, united affiliated program,
$9,709 from Developmental Disabilities Planning Council for
"Practical Aspects of Inclusion" and $2,764 for "DDPC: Action
News II."
Joseph G. Farrell, marine studies, $34,700 from Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control for
"Inland Bays Citizen Monitoring Program."
Jack Gelb, animal science and agricultural biochemistry, and
Annette D. Shine, chemical engineering, $35,000 from Mallinckrodt
Veterinary Inc., for "Encapsulation of Poultry Vaccines Using
Biodegradable Polymers."
From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: John L.
Gallagher and Denise M. Seliskar, marine studies, $75,000 for
"Transgenic Marine Plants: The Key to Exploiting Saline Land and
Water Resources for Industrial and Food Products"; and Norman F.
Ness, Bartol, $24,999 for "Collaboration with NOAA in the
Development of Real-Time Analysis of ACE/MAG Measurements."
John W. Gillespie, composite materials, $514,886 from United
Defense LP for "Support of the Armor System of the Composite
Armored Vehicle Advanced Technology Demonstrator (CAV ATD)
Program"; $240,000 from Naval Surface Weapons Center for
"Methodology for Predicting Structural Adequacy of Composites in
the Presence of Trough-the-Thickness Loadings"; and $9,440 from
United Defense LP for "Benchmarking Composite Armored Vehicle
Candidate Composite Processes for Six Sigma Methodology."
Calvin L. Keeler, animal science and agricultural biochemistry,
$50,000 from Solvay Animal Health Inc. and $50,000 from state
under Delaware Research Partnership program for "Molecular
Biology of ILTV."
Abraham M. Lenhoff, chemical engineering, $117,000 from Mobil
Research and Development Corp. for "The Application of M41S
Materials as Bioseparations Media"; and, $66,000 from Mobil and
$53,000 from state under Delaware Research Partnership program
for "Pore Size Effects on Bioseparations."
From National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Dermott J.
Mullan, Bartol, $29,485 for "Spatial Structures in the
Atmospheres and Winds of Stars"; and Norman F. Ness, Bartol,
$205,000 for "National Space Grant College and Fellowship
Program."
Patricia T. Nelson, Cooperative Extension, $15,750 from Delaware
Department of Health and Social Services for "Parent Education
Project: Home Visiting Pilot."
Steven W. Peuquet, urban affairs and public policy, $30,130 from
Delaware State Housing Authority for "Homelessness in
Delaware-Revisited."
Maria Pippidis, Cooperative Extension, $1,000 from College for
Financial Planning, National Endowment for Financial Education,
for "High School Financial Planning Program."
Edward C. Ratledge, urban affairs and public policy, $88,800 from
Wilmington Metropolitan Area Planning Council for "Performance of
Selected Tasks and Activities within the WILMAPCO Fiscal Year
1995 Unified Planning Work Program (Task MEM 5.4) Local
Employment Reporting Improvements Program (LERIP) Project."
Evelyn Satinoff, psychology, $6,363 from National Institutes of
Health for "Thermoregulation: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in
Aging."
Donald L. Sparks, Distinguished Professor of Soil Sciences,
$50,000 from DuPont Co. and $33,000 from state under Delaware
Research Partnership program for "Use of X-Ray Absorption
Spectroscopy in Remediating Contaminated Soils."
Scott G. Stevens, English Language Institute, and Mir N. Islam,
food science, $288,500 from Georgetown University for "English as
a Second Language & Food Science Training Program for Nicaraguan
Students through the Nicaraguan Peace Scholarship Program."
Joyce H. Stoner, art conservation, $13,800 from Delaware
Humanities Council for "`First Vote': A Play With Music About
Woman's Suffrage in Delaware."
Richard W. Taylor and Robert Uniatowski, Cooperative Extension,
$2,000 from Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board for "Grain
Sorghum Variety Performance Trials on Loamy Sand Soils."
Barbara G. Van Dornick, education, $50,000 from Delaware
Department of Public Instruction for "Alternative Routes to
Teacher Certification."