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May 16, 1996
Faculty and staff
PUBLICATIONS
Janet M. Todd, finance, with Insup Lee of Korea Securities
Research Institute, "A Cross Sectional Analysis of Joint Ventures
and Acquisitions in Developed and Developing Countries," in
Global Business & Finance Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pages 47-56,
spring 1996.
John H. McDonald, biology, "Detecting Non-Neutral Heterogeneity
Across a Region of DNA Sequence in the Ratio of Polymorphism to
Divergence," in Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 13, pages
253-260.
Pamela Smith, economics, "International Patterns of Intellectual
Property Protection and Commodity Trade: An Economic
Perspective," in Science Communication, vol. 17, pages 357-378,
March 1996.
Patricia Martin-DeLeon, biology, with I.P. Aranha, "Mouse
Chromosome 6 om Rb Translocations: Consequences in Singly and
Doubly Hetero-zygous Males," in Cytogen Cell Genetics, vol. 59,
pages 253-259; and with P. Janne, J. Rochelle, D. Stambolian, M.
Seldin and R. Nussbaum, "Mapping of the 75-kDa Inositol
Polyphosphate-f-Phosphatase to Distal Mouse Chromosome 4 and Its
Exclusion as a Candidate Gene for Dysgenetic Lens," in Genomics,
vol. 28, pages 28-285.
Francis Wimbush, nursing, with S. Thomas, "Psychosomatic
Illness," in Mental Health Nursing, edited by V. Carson and E.
Arnold, pages 949-975, Saunders, Philadelphia,1996.
James L. Morrison, textiles, design and consumer economics,
"Distance Learning: Extending Business Education Beyond
Electronic Walls," in Journal of Education for Business, vol. 71,
no. 4, pages 189-191.
Linda Gottfredson, educational studies, "Gottfredson's Theory of
Circumscription and Compromise," in Career Choice and
Development, third edition, pages 179-232, Jossey-Bass, San
Francisco.
Sheella Mierson, biology, with P.K. Rangachari, "A Checklist To
Help Students Analyze Published Articles in Basic Medical
Sciences," in Advanced Physiology Education, vol. 13, pages S21-
S25.
Patricia Valdata, English, "Short-Term Memory," a poem, in
Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship,
vol. 7, no. 1-2, April 1996.
PRESENTATIONS
Breck Robinson, finance, with Harold A. Black and M. Cary Collins
of the University of Tennessee, "The Impact of Regulatory Changes
on Operating Efficiency," at Eastern Finance Association meeting,
April 18, Charlotte, N.C.
Russell R. Dynes, Disaster Research Center, "Risk Communication"
and "Lessons From Disaster Research," at Distinguished Lecture
Series, Center for Risk Research, April 17-19, Stockholm School
of Economics, Sweden.
Frederic M. Stiner, accounting, "The Expectations Gap and the
Failure of Laventhol & Horwath," at Henley College, Brunel
University and Oxford Brookes University, England.
Three members of the Department of English spoke at the National
Writers' Workshop, April 27-28, in Wilmington, one of eight
workshops sponsored by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies:
Dennis Jackson, "Sentence Wizardry- Ways to Add Cadence, Clarity
and Clout to Your Stories"; Kevin Kerrane, "Heroes of
Storytelling"; and Ben Yagoda, "Writing Profiles."
Nadine Heim, individual and family studies, "Separation: It's
Hard on Mom and Dad Also" and Michael Gamel-McCormick, individual
and family studies, "Addressing the Needs of Young Children With
Disabilities," at Delaware Valley Association for the Education
of Young Children conference, April 26-27, Philadelphia.
Damie Stillman, John W. Shirley Professor of Art History,
"American Architecture in a Classical Vein," at sixth annual
Decorative Arts Institute, April 27, Royal Ontario Museum,
Toronto.
Sheella Mierson, biology, "Problem-based Learning: Excitement and
Challenges," a seminar at Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School, March 14, Piscataway, N.J.; "The Use of
Problem-Based Learning To Teach Undergraduate and Graduate Basic
Science," a seminar at University of British Columbia, March 22,
Vancouver; "The Use of Feedback to Enhance Learning in a Problem-
Based Setting," at American Physiological Society Symposium,
April 24, Washington, D.C.; and "A Problem-Based Learning Course
in Physiology," at Experimental Biology meeting, April 15,
Washington, D.C.
Mary Dozier, psychology, with graduate student Chase Stovall,
"Foster Parent Sensitivity and the Evoking Attachment
Relationship" and with graduate student Christine Tyrrell, "Case
Management Effectiveness: The Effects of Therapeutic Bond and
Challenge," at Orthopsychiatry Association conference, May 2-5,
Boston.
Daniel M. Green, political science and international relations,
"Development and the 'Internationalization' of the State: Lessons
for Africa from Latin America," at International Studies
Association conference, April 17-20, San Diego.
Mary E. Miele, medical technology, with J-H Lee, C.T. McGary and
D.R. Welch of Pennsylvania State University, G. Robertson, A.
Coleman and T.G. Lugo of University of California, Riverside, and
P.B. Fisher of Columbia University, "Metastasis Is Suppressed in
Human Melanoma Cell Line MelJuSo Following Introduction of
Chromosome 1 or 6, But Tumorigenicity and Local Invasiveness Are
Unaffected"; and with A. DeLaRosa and P.S. Steeg of National
Institutes of Health and Welch of Pennsylvania State University,
"NME1 (Nm23-H1) Levels Rise in Metastasis-Suppressed
Chromosome6/Human Melanoma Hybrids, But Transfections of NME1
Does Not Completely Suppress Metastasis," at 87th annual meeting,
American Association for Cancer Research, April 21, Washington,
D.C.
Jan H. Blits, educational studies, "Freedom and Responsibility in
Shakespeare's Comedies," an invited lecture, Liberty Fund
meeting, May 2-5, Newport, R.I.
Rhonda Aull Hyde, operations research, food and resource
economics, "A Generalization of the Temporary Price Discount
Problem," at Northeast Decision Sciences Institute annual
meeting, April 19, St. Croix.
Patricia Valdata, parallel program, "Writing Incognito: An E-mail
Exercise" and moderator of "E-mail In the Creative Writing
Classroom," at Associated Writing Programs annual conference,
April 25, Atlanta.
David Northmore, psychology, and John G. Elias, electrical
engineering, "Exploiting the Signal Processing Properties of
Dendritic Trees for Pattern Recognition by Networks of Silicon
Neuromorphs," at Neural Network Dynamics and Pattern Recognition
workshop, March 13, Toulouse, France.
Pamela Smith, economics, "International Patent Protection and
U.S. Exports: Evidence in the Data," at North American Economics
and Finance Association meetings, Jan. 7, San Francisco, and at
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, March 25; and, with J.
David Richardson of Syracuse University, "Sectoral Growth Across
U.S. States: Factor Content, Spillovers and Trade," at UD
economics seminar series, April 16.
Linda Gottfredson, education, "Affirmative Action: What Do We
Really Want?" and "Affirmative Action Via Test-Score Banding," at
National Conference of Christians and Jews, March 8, Omaha; "The
Meaning of Intelligence in Everyday Life," at Cornell University,
March 25; and "Evaluation of The Bell Curve," at American
Educational Research Association annual meeting, April 8.
SERVICE
Vic Klemas, marine studies, chaired a panel on Earth studies at
joint workshop of National Academy of Sciences Committee on
International Programs and the European Space Science Committee,
April 29-May 1, Strasbourg, France.
Dene G. Klinzing, human resources, elected representative to the
Child Life Council Vision to Action Prorgram to consider future
of child life profession.
Robert P. Mulrooney, plant and soil sciences, elected president
of Southern Soybean Disease Workers at annual meeting in Biloxi,
Miss., in March.
Paul Sestak, textiles, design and consumer economics, has been
appointed chairperson of a New Castle County (Del.) taskforce
committee to develop and write new deed restriction guidelines
based on historic preservation of property.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
10 years
Myrtle Werkheiser, business administration, May 19, 1986