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December 7, 1995
Faculty and staff

BOOKS

     Hershel Parker, English, editor with Brian Higgins,  Herman
     Melville: The Contemporary Reviews, American Critical Archives,
     Cambridge University Press, New York; and, introduction, Pierre:
     Or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville, with 30 illustrations by
     Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins, New York, 1995.

PUBLICATIONS

     Edward H. Rosenberry, English emeritus, "Moby Dick, American
     Icon," in Quaderni del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature, no.
     8, pages 175-186, Universita di Genova.

     Larry Purnell, nursing, "Reducing Waiting Time in Emergency
     Department Triage," abstract, in Nursing Management, vol. 26, no.
     9, page 64.

     Janice Selekman and Barbara Snyder, nursing, "Nursing Perceptions
     of Using Physical Restraints on Hospitalized Children," in
     Pediatric Nursing, vol. 31, no. 5, pages 460-464.

     James L. Morrison, textiles, design and consumer economics,
     "Workforce Diversity: The Changing Workplace and Its Impact on
     Company Policies and Business," in Journal of Education for
     Business, vol. 71, no. 1, pages 5-8, September/October.

     Clinton E. White Jr., accounting, with Lynford Graham of Rutgers
     University, "The Internet as a Practical Tool: Serious Surfing
     for CPAs," in the CPA Journal, vol. 65, no. 11, November.

     Frederick M. Swain, geology emeritus, with S.W. Peters of
     University of Calabar, Nigeria, and Xie Chuanli of Petroleum
     University of China, "Some Cretaceous Ostracoda from Nigeria," in
     Revista Espanola de Micropaleontologia, vol. 27, pages 1-21; and
     "Ostracode Speciation Following Middle Ordovician Extinction
     Events, North Central United States," in Biotic Recovery From
     Mass Extinction Events, Geological Society Special Publication
     No. 102, pages 97-104, 1995.

     Ron Martin, geology, "The Once and Future Profession of
     Micropaleontology," in Journal of Foraminiferal Research, vol.
     25, pages 372-373.

PRESENTATIONS

     Jerome Siegel, psychology, "Locus of Origin of Augmenting and
     Reducing of Visual Evoked Potentials in the Rat Brain," a poster
     presentation, at Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Nov. 11-
     19, San Diego.

     Ajay K. Prasad, mechanical engineering, "Effect of Aspect Ratio
     on Mean Flows in Turbulent Thermal Convection," at 48th annual
     meeting APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Nov. 19-21, Irvine,
     Calif.

     John C. Kraft, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Geology, with
     graduate student William J. Chadwick, "Paleogeographies of
     Historic and Pre-Historic Archaeological Sites in the Coastal
     Zone: Delaware," at Eastern States Archaeological Federation
     annual meeting, Oct. 27, Wilmington.

SERVICE

     Robert B. Denhardt, Charles P. Messick Professor of Public
     Administration, named co-chairperson  of the American Society for
     Public Administration's committee on developing the profession.

     Martha Carothers, art, elected to the National Council of Art
     Administrators board, Nov. 11, in San Antonio.

     Vic Klemas, marine studies, appointed by the National Academy of
     Sciences to the Committee on Earth Studies, which will conduct a
     three-year study of space and earth observation missions using
     advanced sensors.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

   10 years
     Mary Braddy, Facilities Management, building services, Dec. 9,
        1985
     Ann Harvey, continuing education, Dec. 9, 1985
     Robert Keesee, student housing, Dec. 9, 1985
     Mary Kate Webster, User Services, Dec. 10, 1985

GRANTS

     A. Peter Allan and Andras Z. Szeri, mechanical engineering,
     $80,217 from National Aeronautics and Space Administration for
     "Aircraft Reduced Gravity Environment Optimization: Modeling,
     Analysis, and Design Support."

     Hilton Brown, Harriet T. Baily Professor of Art, Art Conservation
     and Art History, $6,085, from the Delaware Humanities Forum for
     the Lavender Scholars Lecture Series, September 1995-May 1996.

     John M. Byrne, urban affairs and public policy, $25,000 from
     Midwest Research Institute, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
     Division, for "Evaluation of DSM Incentive Opportunities for
     Photovoltaics."

     Linda G. Gordon and Marjorie Hingston, Academic Services Center,
     $236,802 from U.S. Department of Education for "Upward Bound
     Math/Science Initiative."

     George Hadjipanayis, physics, $15,000 from Electron Energy Corp.
     and $15,000 from state under Delaware Research Partnership
     program for "Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets"

     Chin-Pao Huang, Distinguished Professor of Environmental
     Engineering, $71,803 from state of Maryland Department of Natural
     Resources, Monitoring and Non-tidal Assessment Division, for
     "Recovery of EDTA from Power Plant Boiler Chemical Cleaning
     Wastewater."

     Marion C. Hyson, individual and family studies, $154,234 from
     Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Division of
     Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities for
     "Adult Day Care Center, 1996."

     Mahendra Jain, chemistry and biochemistry, $20,000 from National
     Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical
     Sciences, for "Interfacial Catalysis by Phospholipase A2."

     David L. Kirchman, marine studies, $60,000 from Office of Naval
     Research for "Coordination for Visiting Scientist, U.S.-Indo
     Program."

     Kelvin W. Ramsey, Delaware Geological Survey, $70,000 from U.S.
     Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, for
     "Assessment of Sand Resources Offshore Delaware."

     William B. Stanley, education, $75,000 from Delaware Department
     of Public Instruction for "Teacher Recruitment-Special
     Institute."

     Michael L. Vaughan, engineering, $15,000 from Junior Engineering
     Technical Society for "JETS Summer '95 Unite."