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May 2, 1996
Faculty and staff
PUBLICATIONS
Sunil K. Agrawal, mechanical engineering, with M.Y. Chen and M.
Annapragada, "Modeling and Simulation of Assembly in a Free-
floating Work Environment by a Free-floating Robot," in Journal
of Mechanical Design, Transactions of American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, vol. 118, no. 1, 1996; with R.
Schwertassek, "Efficient Simulation of a Tree-Structured, Free-
floating Multibody Systems Using Momentum Integrals," in
Mechanics of Structures and Machines, vol. 24, no. 1, pages 89-
103, 1996; and with R. Garimella and G. Desmier, "Free-floating
Closed-Chain Planar Robots: Kinematics and Path Planning," in
Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 9, pages 1-19, 1996.
Robert R. Jordan, Delaware Geological Survey, with R. Petrossian
and W.J. Murphy, Careers in Environmental Geoscience, 54 pages,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, division of
environmental geosciences, Tulsa.
Douglas W. Tallamy, entomology and applied ecology, with
undergraduate Timothy B. Frick, "Density and Diversity of
Nontarget Insects Killed by Suburban Electric Insect Traps," in
Entomological News, vol. 107, no. 2, pages 77-82.
R.M. Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies,
with A. Alioto, "Infant-directed Speech Facilitates Lexical
Learning in Adults Hearing Chinese: Implications for Language
Acquisition," in Journal of Child Language, vol. 22, pages 703-
726.
PRESENTATIONS
James K. Broomall, continuing education, "Faculty and
Accreditation Issues Affecting Distance Learning," at National
University Continuing Education Association telecommunications
conference, March 28, Boston, and "Growth Issues for Learning in
Retirement Programs," at Elderhostel Institute conference, March
25, Washington, D.C.
William I. Homer, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Art History,
"Homer, Eakins and Ryder: Public Taste and the Shaping of an
American Canon," at a symposium on "Expanding Horizons: American
Painting, 1865-1930," April 25, New York University.
Paul R. Berger and James Kolodzey, electrical engineering, with
graduate students Al-Sameen T. Khan and Brad A. Orner, Fernando
J. Guarin of IBM and Subramanian S. Iyer of SiBond,
"Photoluminescence of GeC Alloys Grown on (100) Si Substrates"
and Berger, Kolodzey, Guarin and Iyer with graduate students
Xiaoping Shao, B. Orner and F. Chen and undergraduate student S.
Rommel, "Structural and Electrical Characterization of GeC Cubic
Heterostructures on Si," at Materials Research Society spring
meeting, April 8-12, San Francisco.
Hilton Brown, Harriet T. Bally Professor of Art, Art Conservation
and Art History, "Sexual Desire: A Gay Male Painter Looks at Art
History," April 18, Towson State University; and, participant,
visiting artists exhibition, March 29-April 27, Towson State
University.
Ramiro Martinez Jr., sociology and criminal justice, "Expanding
Notions of Latino Homicide," at Julian Samora Research Institute,
April 15, Michigan State University.
John C. Kraft, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Geology,
"Archaeological Sites in Greece: Athens, Delphi, Mycenae, Tigress
and Olympia and Ephesus in Anatolia," at Henry du Pont Middle
School, March 22, Hockessin, and "The Impact of Sea-Level Rise
and Coastal Transgression on the Peoples of Delmarva: 16,000 B.C.
to 5,000 A.D.," at Kent County Archaeological Society meeting,
April 20.
R.M. Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies,
with K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Reeves and M. Shuff-Bailey, "Changes in
the Young Child's Construal of the Meaning of Object Words" and
Golinkoff, J.L. Rehill, J.F. Herble and Hirsh-Pasek, "Don't Throw
Out Directives! Reinterpreting the Relationship Between Language
Input and Output," at International Conference for Infant
Studies, April, Providence, R.I.
Richard N. Benson, Delaware Geological Survey, "Petroleum Systems
of the United States Middle Atlantic Continental Margin", at
Department of Geology, Temple University, April 5, Philadelphia.
SERVICE
Several members of the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures were elected in April to two-year terms on the
executive board of the Alliance Francaise of Wilmington: Lysette
Hall, president; Theodore Braun, vice president; Alice Cataldi,
chairperson of pedagogy committee. They join Bonnie Robb, who
remains on the board.
Sunil K. Agrawal, mechanical engineering, has been appointed an
advisory editor of Multibody System Dynamics Journal, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
R.M, Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies,
was elected treasurer of the International Society for Infant
Studies.
David Onn, physics and astronomy, with Neel Beard of Hampden-
Sydney College, coordinated a workshop April 20 for high school
physics teachers from Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Titled
"A New High Speed Digital Time for Kinematics and Related
Laboratory Experiments and Demonstrations," the workshop was
sponsored by the UD Department of Physics and Astronomy.
John Brook, government and public relations, has been elected to
the board of directors of the Committee of 100, a nonprofit
business organization that promotes responsible economic
development and addresses issues that affect Delaware's economic
health. The Commitee of 100 was organized in response to problems
in land-use planning and state and local finance.
AWARDS
Ramiro Martinez Jr., sociology and criminal justice, was awarded
a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for 1996-1997,
administered by the National Research Council, and was selected
to be a visiting scholar at Michigan State University and at the
Immigration and Ethnicity Institute at Florida International
University.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
15 YEARS
Anna Marie Brown, provost's office, May 4, 1981
5 YEARS
Taurence Chisholm, financial aid, May 6, 1991
GRANTS
Limin Kong Jr., animal and food sciences, $18,350 from Finnfeeds
International for "Effect of Two Enzyme Mixtures on the Nutritive
Value of Corn Silage for Lactating Cows."
Seymour Levine, psychology, $208,173 from National Institute of
Mental Health for "Maternal Regulation of Infant Physiology and
Behavior."
James B. O'Neill, economics, from Delaware Department of Public
Instruction $83,727 for "Field Support 1996" and $47,473 for
"Secondary Training 1996.'
Donald L. Peters, Amy Rextrew Professor of Individual and Family
Studies, $2,000 from Delaware Developmental Disabilities Planning
Council for "Legislative Dispatch" and $20,746 from Delaware
Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families,
Division of Management Services, for "Parent Education
Partnership Evaluation Implementation Assistance."
Joachim Piprek, materials science, $22,500 from Kungliga Tekniska
Hogskolan, for "Modeling and Simulation of Long-Wavelength
Vertical-Cavity Laser."
Marina A. Piscolish, educational leadership and policy, $42,444
from Delaware Department of Public Instruction for "Special
Education Partnership for the Amicable Resolution of Conflict
(S.P.A.R.C.)."
Michael H. Santare, mechanical engineering, $46,628 from
University of Illinois for "Science Base for Precision
Fabrication of Thermoplastic Composites Using Laser-assisted
Consolidation: Mechanical Characterization and Analysis of
Residual Stresses."
Susan T. Shoemaker, history, $500 from Organization of American
Historians for "In-service Program on National History
Standards."
J. Thomas Sims and Bruce L. Vasilas, plant and soil sciences, an
additional $5,110 from Delmarva Power & Light Co. for "Landscape
Restoration Programs Using Coal Ash as a Soil Amendment."
Patricia H. Sine, instructional technology, $36,180 from
Christina School District for "Christina Internet and E-mail
Training."
Ulrich C. Toensmeyer and James R. Bacon, food and resource
economics, and Carl L. German, Cooperative Extension, $5,000 from
Delaware Department of Agriculture for "Assessment of Delaware
Direct Market Operations Customer Needs Opinions."
Xiao-Hai Yan, marine studies, $42,500 from Jet Propulsion
Laboratory for "Application of the Scatterometer Data to the
Studies of the Dynamics in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean."
Andrew L. Zydney, chemical engineering, $50,000 from Baxter
Healthcare Corp. and $50,000 from state under Delaware Research
Partnership program for "Membrane Transport in the Artificial
Kidney."