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Named Professors
Named Professors
Mark A. Barteau
Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Professor of Chemical Engineering, has
been a member of the University faculty since 1982. He has jointly
held the position of associate director of the Center for Catalytic
Science and Technology, and from 1981-82, was a National Science
Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Institut fur Festkorperphysik at
the Technische Universitat Munchen.
In 1991, he held a visiting professorship at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Barteau's research is in the area of catalysis, and he has won
awards for his original work on reactions on metal oxide surfaces and
metal single crystal surfaces.
Recipient of an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award in
1985, he also received the Canadian Catalysis Lecture Tour Award from
the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Emmett Award from the Catalysis
Society, the Allan P. Colburn Award from the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Ipatieff Prize and the Victor La
Mer Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Barteau, associate editor of Topics in Chemical Engineering, has
published more than 110 articles in professional journals. He also is
a member of the Catalysis Society, AIChE and ACS.
Barteau received his bachelor's degree from Washington University
and his master's and doctorate from Stanford University.
Kenneth B. Bischoff
Bischoff joined the Delaware faculty in 1976 as Unidel Professor
of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and he served as
chairperson of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1978 to
1982.
He was educated at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and was
a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the State
University of Ghent in Belgium.
Bischoff was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in
1988, and is the recipient of the 1972 Ebert Prize of the Academy of
Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as the 1976 Professional Progress
Award, the 1982 Annual Institute Lecturer and the 1982 Food,
Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award.
In 1987, he received the R. H. Wilhelm award of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers and, in 1992, the Chemical Industry
Institute of Toxicology Founders Award.
A fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Bischoff, a
pioneer in the field of pharmacokinetics, is internationally
recognized for his work in chemical reaction- and bio-engineering.
He has served on several National Academy of Engineering
committees, and recently has completed service on a Hazardous Air
Pollution and Risk Assessment Study.
John S. Boyer
Boyer, E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine Biochemistry/Biophysics
in the College of Marine Studies, joined the UD faculty in 1987.
He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a master's
degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate from Duke
University.
Boyer conducts research on the growth of marine and terrestrial
plants with limited water, especially emphasizing investigations of
cell enlargement, photosynthesis and reproduction.
He also is a fellow of the Crop Science Society of America and
the American Society of Agronomy, and he has been a fellow of the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Department of
Scientific and Industrial Research in New Zealand and the Australian
National University.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Boyer received the
Shull Award from the American Society of Plant Physiologists, serving
as president of the society, and he earned an Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Senior Scientist Award from Germany.
Hilton Brown
Brown is Harriet T. Baily Professor of Art, Art Conservation and
Art History. He joined the UD faculty in 1974. From 1984-88, he was
the Ralph and Bena Mayer Professor of Artists' Techniques when the
Mayer Center was located at the University.
A visual artist, art technologist, writer and gay rights
advocate, he is a specialist in the history of the technology of art,
specifically of the materials, tools and techniques of Western
painting, drawing, printmaking and color.
Brown has been the recipient of numerous scholarships,
fellowships and awards from such institutions as the Art Institute of
Chicago, the City Art Museum of St. Louis and the Baltimore Museum of
Art. His work has been exhibited in 25 one-person shows and has been
included in 125 invitational and juried group shows throughout the
U.S., Canada and Europe. His work also can be found in the permanent
collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Art Institute of
Chicago, among others.
Brown published a monograph on the late art technologist Ralph
Mayer and was a contributing editor of American Artist.
As a technologist, he was actively involved with the American
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), writing voluntary standards
on physical properties, consumer evaluation and on the labeling of
artists' paints for quality, health and safety.
Since 1990, Brown has been a consultant to the Education
Department of the National Gallery of Art, where he has presented
lectures, demonstrations and workshops.
He studied theatrical design at the Goodman Theatre School of
Drama, liberal arts at the universities of Chicago and Illinois and
visual arts at such institutions as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts,
the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculptures in Maine and at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his
Professional Certificate in Fine Arts, BFA and MFA degrees.
John L. Burmeister
Burmeister, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, was the first inorganic chemist to be hired by the
University and, in 1974, was appointed the chemistry department's
first and only associate chairperson.
Burmeister pioneered "self-paced" learning at UD and advocated
the use of video technology. He is chairperson of the University's
Athletic Governing Board, where he represents the University as its
voting member before the NCAA. Burmeister also serves on the Trustee
Visiting Committee on Athletics.
He has presented nearly 300 lectures at over 200 schools and has
published 111 research articles and reviews, primarily on the
coordination chemistry of ambidentate ligands.
Burmeister received University excellence-in-teaching awards in
1968 and 1978, and, in 1981, he earned a national excellence-in-
teaching award from the Chemical Manufacturers Association.
In 1994, he was named Delaware's Professor of the Year by the
Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of
Education, and was selected as the Distinguished Delaware Scientist by
the Delaware Academy of Science.
He is investigating cooperative learning work groups and actively
publishing the results of his self-paced teaching methods.
Burmeister received his bachelor's degree from Franklin and
Marshall College and his doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry from
Northwestern University.
L. Leon Campbell
Campbell is Hugh M. Morris Research Professor of Molecular
Biosciences and a continuing fellow in the Center for Advanced Study.
He has served as the AAUP Contract Maintenance Officer since 1994.
Campbell was provost and vice president for academic affairs from 1972-
1988.
The author of three books, a laboratory manual and more than 100
scientific papers, his research involves the use of computers in
exploring artificial neural networks in studying microbial phylogeny,
secondary structure of ribosomal RNA and developing computer software.
Long active in the American Society for Microbiology, Campbell
has served as president, editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Bacteriology and chairperson of the Publications Board. In 1983, he
was elected to honorary membership, the highest recognition conferred
by the society.
Campbell is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and was a fellow of the American Academy of
Microbiology from 1963 until his resignation in 1980. He served on the
board of eirectors of the Center for Research Libraries from 1988-
1994.
Campbell holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in
microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin.
Tsu-Wei Chou
Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
joined the Delaware faculty in 1969.
Chou earned a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University,
a master's degree from Northwestern University and a doctorate from
Stanford University.
He has made significant contributions to the fields of fiber
composite materials, applied mechanics and materials science. Chou
also has served as a visiting professor at such institutions as the
Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Surrey in England, the
University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, the National Commission
for the Investigation of Space in Buenos Aires, the German Aerospace
Research Establishment in Cologne, the Office of Naval Research at the
London Branch Office, Tongji University in China and Tokyo Science
University in Japan. Chou is an honorary professor of the Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China.
Author of more than 300 papers, he wrote Microstructural Design
of Fiber Composites, published by the Cambridge University Press, is
co-author of Composite Materials and Their Use in Structures,
published by Elsevier-Applied Science, and is editor of Textile
Structural Composites and Structure and Properties of Composites in
the Materials Science and Technology Series, published by VCH
Publishers.
Chou serves on the international editorial advisory board of ACTA
Materiae Compositae Sinica and Encyclopedia of Composites and is the
North American editor of the international journal, Composites Science
and Technology.
David Colton
Colton, Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences, who joined the
University faculty in 1978, specializes in research in the inverse
scattering theory-the problem of determining the physical properties
of an unknown object from its effect on acoustic, elastic or
electromagnetic waves.
Recently, in collaboration with Peter Monk, UD professor of
mathematical sciences, Colton has been investigating the use of
inverse scattering theory in detecting leukemia using electromagnetic
imaging. This research is being sponsored by the Air Force Office of
Scientific Research.
Colton is the author of Analytic Theory of Partial Differential
Equations and Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction. He is
coauthor with Ranier Kress of Integral Equation Methods in Scattering
Theory and Inverse Acoustic and Electromagnetic Scattering Theory.
He has authored or coauthored more than 150 research papers and
serves on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal of Applied
Mathematics. He also currently serves on the organizing committee of
SIAM's Inverse Problems Conference Series.
Colton earned his bachelor's degree from the California Institute
of Technology, his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin
and Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh.
Stuart L. Cooper
Cooper, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Chemical Engineering, was
named dean of the College of Engineering in 1992.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of California
at Berkeley, Technion University in Israel and Universite Paris-Nord.
Cooper's research interests include polymer science and
engineering, structure-property relations of polyurethanes, ionomers
and block polymers. He has presented invited research seminars at
universities and industrial centers around the world.
He holds three patents and has served as a consultant to numerous
companies, including DuPont, Dow Chemical and Cellular Transplants
Inc. His research has been supported by the National Science
Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart
Association, the Army Research Office, the Navy and the Department of
Energy, as well as several corporations.
His several honors include the Materials Engineering and Sciences
Division Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and
the Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society for
Biomaterials.
Cooper is active in the American Chemical Society, the American
Physical Society, of which he is a fellow, the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Society of Plastics Engineers, the American Society for
Artificial and Internal Organs and the Society for Biomaterials, of
which he is president-elect.
Co-founding editor of the Journal of Biomaterials Science,
Polymer Edition, he currently serves on five editorial advisory boards
and is the author or co-author of more than 300 articles in
professional journals and 40 review articles and book chapters. The co-
author of Polyurethanes in Medicine, Cooper also is co-editor of four
books.
He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his doctorate in
chemical engineering from Princeton University.
Wayne Craven
Craven, H. F. du Pont Winterthur Professor of Art History, joined
the Delaware faculty in 1960 and is an authority on American painting
and sculpture. He studied at the John Herron Art School, earned
bachelor's and master's degrees at Indiana University and received a
doctorate from Columbia University.
In 1964, Craven created The Index of American Sculpture, which is
the basis for a computerized research archive at the National Museum
of American Art. He served as coordinator of the Winterthur Program in
Early American Culture for five years.
Craven is a member of the editorial boards of Smithsonian Studies
in American Art, The American Art Journal, The Daniel Chester French
Papers, the University of Delaware Press and The Peale Family Papers,
being published by the Yale University Press and the National Portrait
Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
A winner of the excellence-in-teaching award in 1987, he was
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in the College of Arts and Science in
1982. Craven also received the Francis Alison Faculty Award in 1984.
A member of the College of Fellows of the Philadelphia Athenaeum,
Craven is a member of the American Antiquarian Society and the
National Sculpture Society.
He is author of Sculpture in America, Colonial American
Portraiture, and has completed American Art in its Cultural Context.
He recently was asked to serve as one of the editors of the multi-
volume American National Biography, which is being published by the
Oxford University Press and the American Council of Learned Societies.
William B. Daniels
Daniels is Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy. He joined
the Delaware faculty in 1972. An international authority on high
pressure physics, Daniels is a graduate of the University of Buffalo,
and he earned his advanced degree from the Case Institute of
Technology. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Humboldt
Senior Awards, Daniels has been a visiting professor at the Technische
Hochscule at Munchen, University of Amsterdam, College de France,
University of Paris, Riso, Denmark, IBM Laboratories in Zurich, the
Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart and the University of Groningen.
From 1977 to 1980, he served as chairperson of the Department of
Physics. He has done collaborative research at a number of
institutions, including the Brookhaven National and Bell Telephone
Laboratories. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Daniels
currently is working on the application of nonlinear optics techniques
to the study of matter at extreme conditions.
Robert B. Denhardt
Denhardt, Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration,
has served on the faculties of the universities of Central Florida,
Colorado, Missouri, Kansas and New Orleans.
A recent president of the American Society of Public
Administration (ASPA), he was founder and first chairperson of the
ASPA's National Campaign for Public Service.
In 1992, Denhardt was elected a fellow of the National Academy
of Public Administration and was a Fulbright scholar in Australia in
1990.
He has published 12 books, including The Pursuit of Significance,
In the Shadow of Organization and Theories of Public Organization.
Denhardt also has been a consultant to various public and private
organizations, including public universities, primarily in the areas
of strategic planning and strategic management, organization
development, productivity improvement and total quality management.
He was appointed by Missouri Gov. Kit Bond to chair the
Governor's Advisory Council on Productivity and was re-appointed by
Gov. John Ashcroft.
Denhardt received his bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky
University and his master's and doctorate from the University of
Kentucky.
Jean H. Futrell
Futrell is the Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry. He joined the University in 1986, and has been a
visiting professor at numerous universities.
Futrell is internationally recognized for his pioneering research
in ion-molecule reaction kinetics and dynamics and the development of
important experimental methods in mass spectrometry. His invention of
tandem mass spectrometry is one of the important developments in
instrumentation for chemical analysis.
A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and a member of the American Chemical Society, the American
Physical Society, the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and Sigma
Xi, Futrell is the author of more than 300 research articles. He
serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of the American
Society for Mass Spectrometry, European Mass Spectrometry and Advances
in Chemical Physics.
Futrell also is a member of the governing board and executive
committee of the Council for Chemical Research.
Futrell graduated from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute summa cum
laude in chemical engineering and received a doctorate in physical
chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
Neal C. Gallagher
Gallagher, Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical
Engineering, joined the UD faculty in 1994 as chairperson of the
Department of Electrical Engineering, after 18 years at Purdue
University.
His research interests include signal and image processing,
optics and holography. He has been the principal or co-principal
investigator on research projects totaling in excess of $3.5 million.
Gallagher, who has authored more than 70 articles in professional
journals, is associate editor of Optic Letters, the IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing and Applied Optics and also serves as a consultant
to Honeywell and to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where
he spent a sabbatical year in 1983.
Gallagher co-designed a computer-generated microwave hologram for
the laboratory that was on tour as part of an exhibition sponsored by
the National Canadian Technical Museum.
A fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, he is a member of the Society of
Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
Gallagher received an undergraduate degree from Loyola College in
Baltimore and two master's degrees and a doctorate from Princeton
University.
Howard Garland
Garland, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business, has been
chairperson of the Department of Business Administration since 1988.
Garland taught at the University of Texas at Arlington, and has been a
visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana/ Champaign
and Upsala College.
Garland's research focuses on behavioral decision making, sunk-
cost and escalation effects, motivational and human performance, goal
setting and other cognitive phenomena and employee/employer rights.
He has received several grants to conduct studies in these areas,
including a 30-month grant from the Army Research Institute for the
Behavioral and Social Sciences.
He has published numerous papers and articles on decision making,
motivation and leadership and is on the editorial boards of several
major journals in his field of research.
Garland received his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and
his master's and doctoral degrees from the Industrial and Labor
Relations School of Cornell University.
Richard W. Garvine
Garvine, Maxwell P. and Mildred Harrington Professor of Marine
Studies, joined the faculty in 1977.
Garvine has made valuable contributions in physical oceanography,
particularly in the dynamics of the coastal ocean and estuaries.
Recently, he assisted in the discovery of the Delaware Coastal
Current.
He has received grants from the National Science Foundation to
conduct mathematical modeling studies of this current and to do a
field study of the current using research ships, aircraft and
satellite-tracked buoys.
Garvine was named the Kirby Laing Fellow for 1995 at the School
of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, U.K., during a six-month visit
there.
A recipient of the University's excellence-in-teaching award, he
holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in mechanical
and aerospace science from Princeton University.
Barbara Gates
Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, has been
teaching at the University since 1971. She is the first woman and UD
alumna to be named an Alumni Distinguished Professor.
A leader in the development of the UD Women's Studies
Interdisciplinary Program, Gates taught the first course in women's
studies in 1971, and she was the first professor to introduce Native
American writing into the curriculum.
Gates is now working on three new books: one on Victorian women
writers and nature; another a volume of essays on how women through
various centuries have popularized science; and a third on
ecofeminism, a selection of literary texts.
Her previous books include Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad
Histories; Critical Essays on Charlotte Bronte; and Journal of Emily
Shore.
She also has published numerous articles and given many lectures
on topics ranging from Wordsworth to landscape and literature,
cultural attitudes toward suicide and the Brontes.
Gates has received the University's excellence-in-teaching award
and the E.A. Trabant Award for Women's Equity, and was selected as
1995 Delaware Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
She has served on numerous committees at the University and has
been a consultant in teaching excellence and distinguished academic
service for the Department of Education of Pennsylvania. Gates has
been a visiting professor at Monash University in Melbourne,
Australia, and at the University of California at Davis.
She halds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, a
master's from Delaware and her doctorate as a Danforth Fellow from
Bryn Mawr College.
Robert P. Gilbert
Gilbert joined the faculty in 1975 as Unidel Professor of
Mathematical Sciences. A two-time recipient of the Alexander von
Humboldt Award, Gilbert has been a guest professor at numerous
European universities, including the Universities of Glasgow, Dortmund
and Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the Technical University of
Denmark, St. Etienne and Karlsruhe University.
He completed his undergraduate work at Brooklyn College and
earned advanced degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Gilbert is founding editor of Complex Variables and Applicable
Analysis and is an associate editor of 12 mathematical journals,
including Applicata Mathematica of the Academica Sinica (The Chinese
Academy of Sciences).
He has recently co-authored a two-volume treatise titled
Transformations, Transmutations and Kernel Functions. Gilbert recently
became the editor for the book series, Computation in Education:
Mathematics, Science, Technology. His text book Calculus with DERIVE
(co-authored with A. Ben Israel and W. Koepf) will appear in this
series in 1996.
His recent research, funded by several National Science
Foundation grants, has involved underwater acoustics, injection
molding and elastoplastic plates.
Leslie F. Goldstein
Goldstein, Unidel Professor of Political Science and
International Relations, joined the University faculty in 1973.
Goldstein has taught numerous courses on American government,
political theory and on American judiciary. Her fields of
specialization include American constitutional law, American political
thought, the history of political theory and gender and law.
She served as president-elect and president and of the UD Faculty
Senate from 1989-91.
Among her many honors are a fellowship from the UD Center for
Advanced Study, a UD Research Grant-in-Aid and a research fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Goldstein is author of five books, including Federal Unions and
Sovereignty (in progress), In Defense of the Text: An Introduction to
Constitutional Theory, Contemporary Cases in Women's Rights and The
Constitutional Rights of Women: A Case Study in Law and Social Change.
She edited Feminist Jurisprudence: The Difference Debate and co-
authored Women in the Judicial Process. Additionally, she has written
numerous articles, chapters, review essays and book reviews for
scholarly publications.
A former president of the law and courts section of the American
Political Science Association, she served on the editorial boards of
Polity and Women and Politics.
Goldstein is a popular lecturer and frequent participant in
conferences and workshops.
She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from the
University of Chicago and her doctorate from Cornell University.
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies,
holds joint appointments in the departments of Psychology and
Linguistics. She joined the Delaware faculty in 1974. In 1980, she
spent a sabbatical leave at the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored
by the Sloan Foundation Program in Cognitive Science.
Golinkoff's research has focused on how children learn their
native language, and she developed a new method to test children's
knowledge of language before they can speak.
She studies how adults address infants who are learning language
and whether this "baby talk" assists in language learning. Golinkoff
also derived a set of principles children use to help them acquire the
vocabulary of their language.
Golinkoff, who has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow,
received a James McKeen Cattell Supplemental Sabbatical Award for
Psychologists; a Distinguished Faculty Graduate TeachingAward from the
College of Education and a research fellowship from the UD Center for
Advanced Study.
A fellow in both the developmental psychology and educational
psychology divisions of the American Psychological Association,
Golinkoff is a member of the Society for Research in Child
Development, the American Psychological Association, the Jean Piaget
Society and the Mid-Atlantic Language Union.
She is editor or co-editor of three books and co-author of The
Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension. She
also has written many book chapters and articles, as well as reviews
for more than 20 journals, and has served on the editorial boards of
Child Development, the Journal of Educational Psychology,
Developmental Psychology and Society for Research and Child
Development Monographs.
Golinkoff received her bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College
and her doctorate in developmental psychology from Cornell University.
She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh's
Learning, Research and Development Center.
Tamara K. Hareven
Hareven is Unidel Professor of Family Studies and History. A
social historian and one of the foremost leaders in the field of
family history, Hareven has organized international conferences and
workshops, and she founded The Journal of Family History, for which
she is completing her second decade as editor.
In 1996, Hareven launched a new journal entitled The History of
the Family: an International Quarterly. She also has edited various
collections of essays and has published numerous articles in the areas
of the historical study of the family, the life course and aging.
Besides publishing her doctoral dissertation as a book, Eleanor
Roosevelt: An American Conscience, Hareven wrote two books based on
her research on the effects of industrialization on individuals and
families in the United States, entitled Amoskeag: Life and Work in an
American Factory City (1978), and Family Time and Industrial Time
(1982). She has completed a new book, The Silk Weavers of Kyoto:
Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry, based on her
recurring research trips to Japan.
Hareven developed the University's multidisciplinary Group for
Family Research. In 1984, she went to China as the National Academy of
Science's Distinguished Visiting Professor on a lecture tour and to
conduct comparative research on the family.
In spring 1992 and in the fall 1994, she was a visiting professor
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Hareven
also has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow to India and Japan. In 1992,
she won the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal for her leadership in the
development of the field of family history. In 1994, she was elected a
fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Hareven serves
currently as president of the Social Science History Association.
She is a graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, with a
master's degree from the University of Cincinnati and a doctorate from
Ohio State University.
James Hiebert
Hiebert, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Development,
has a joint appointment in the Department of Educational Studies. He
joined the UD faculty in 1982.
He is a recipient of numerous grants from the National Science
Foundation, the Department of Education and the Office of Educational
Research and Improvement through the National Center for Research in
Mathematical Sciences Education. He is co-chairperson of the Special
Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education for the American
Educational Research and is an affiliated scholar with the National
Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Hiebert also serves on an advisory panel for the Third
International Mathematics and Science Study for the Office of
Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education
Statistics.
He is a member of the editorial boards of the American
Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Educational Psychology,
Cognition and Instruction, the Elementary School Journal and the
Journal of Mathematical Behavior. The author of numerous publications
and editor of several books, he currently is working on a new book,
Designing Classrooms for Learning Mathematics with Understanding.
Hiebert holds a bachelor's degree from Fresno Pacific College, a
master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana and his
doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Carol Hoffecker
Hoffecker was named Richards Professor of History in 1982. A
member of the Delaware faculty since 1973, she is the author of
several books on Delaware history, including most recently Federal
Justice in the First State: A History of the United States District
Court for Delaware (1994), Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A History of
Women at the University of Delaware (1994), New Sweden in America,
editor, (1995), and Unidel, A Foundation for University Enrichment
(1995).
Hoffecker, an honors graduate of the University of Delaware,
earned her master's degree from Radcliffe College and a doctorate from
Harvard University.
She served two terms as president of the University Faculty
Senate, was chairperson of the Department of History, and was, for
seven years, associate provost for graduate studies.
William I. Homer
Homer is H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Art History. He came to the
University as chairperson of the Department of Art Hisotry in 1966 and
served in that capacity for 20 years.
He received the University's Francis Alison Faculty Award in 1980
and, in 1981, was selected as the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in
the College of Arts and Science.
Homer is a member of the editorial board of The American Art
Journal, senior editor of The American Art Review and a member of the
advisory board of the Archives of American Art and the Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, among
others.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, he has held
fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the
Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and
the University's Center for Advanced Study.
A specialist in late 19th- and 20th-century American and European
art, Homer is the author of six books, as well as numerous exhibition
catalogs and articles in professional journals. His book, Thomas
Eakins: His Life and Art, was published in 1992 and was named by
Choice as one of the best academic books of the year.
He received a bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Princeton
University and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.
C. P. Huang
Huang, the Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering,
earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.
A member of the University's faculty since 1974, Huang has
published more than 150 scientific research papers. He is the editor
of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes, published by Technomics Publisher,
and co-editor of Aquatic Chemistry, an American Chemical Society
Advances in Chemistry Series publication.
He has received the Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award and
the Outstanding Environmental Service Award from the Overseas Chinese
Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association and he received the
Excellence in Service Award from the American Society of Civil
Engineers.
He serves on the advisory board of the Pollution Control
Technology Center, the Industrial Technology Research Institute and
the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, at National Chao
Tung University in Taiwan, Republic of China.
Huang is a life member of the Chinese Institute of Environmental
Engineering and member of several other professional and named
societies. Currently, he serves at the editorial boards of the Journal
of Environmental Engineering, Industrial Park News and Pollution
Prevention for Sustainable Development.
Carroll Izard
Izard, Unidel Professor of Psychology since 1976, was educated at
Mississippi College and Yale and Syracuse Universities.
He is a recipient of the American Psychological Association's G.
Stanley Hall Award for research on emotional development, and the
Elliot Memorial Award for his book, The Face of Emotion.
Izard was a National Academy of Sciences exchange fellow in the
emotions laboratory of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and his book,
Human Emotions, has been published in German by Beltz Verlag and in
Russian by the University of Moscow Press. His most recent book, The
Psychology of Emotions (1991) has been translated into Japanese.
Izard's research on the role of emotions in human development,
funded by the National Science Foundation and the William T. Grant
Foundation, has been featured on the PBS television series Nova, and
in other science-education media such as Smithsonian magazine.
He is series editor for the Plenum Press books on emotions and a
consulting editor for several psychological journals. In 1986, he was
awarded the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Faculty
lectureship and, in 1989, he received the Francis Alison Faculty
Award.
Michael T. Klein
Klein, Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering,
joined the UD faculty in 1981. He was appointed chairperson of the
Department of Chemical Engineering in 1991 and has served as associate
dean of the college and director of the Center for Catalytic Science
and Technology.
Klein has been recognized for his research in chemical reaction
kinetics and reaction engineering. He won the National Science
Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award in 1985, and is a
former recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Delaware
Section Award.
A member of the advisory board of the McGraw-Hill Book Series in
chemical engineering, he is associate editor of Energy and Fuels and a
consulting editor to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Journal.
Klein has published more than 115 articles in professional
journals, and is a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
and the ACS.
He received his bachelor's degree from the University and his
doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ralph E. Kleinman
Kleinman, Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences, is director
of the Center for the Mathematics of Waves at UD, and his recent
research is concerned with problems in inverse scattering and error
estimation.
In inverse scattering, the shape, location and interior makeup of
an object is determined by measuring how the object "scatters" known
incident waves, either acoustic, electromagnetic or elastic. Recent
projects have been directed toward locating buried objects.
He currently is the principal investigator on a Multidisciplinary
Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) grant
from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Author and co-author of more than 100 publications in books and
journals, he is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE), past chairperson of the U.S. Commission B,
International Scientific Radio Union, associate editor of The SIAM
Journal of Applied Mathematics and former associate editor of Inverse
Problems and Radio Science.
A doctoral graduate of the Technische Hogeschool Delft (now the
Delft University of Technology) in The Netherlands, Kleinman received
his bachelor's degree from New York University and his master's degree
from the University of Michigan.
Peter R. Kolchin
Kolchin, Henry Clay Reed Professor of History, has been a member
of the UD faculty since 1985. He has taught at the universities of New
Mexico, Wisconsin at Madison and California at Davis, and was a
visiting professor of history at Harvard University.
An authority on American slavery and comparative history, Kolchin
is the author of three books: American Slavery: 1619-1877, which
received an award for outstanding book on the subject of human rights
in North America from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human
Rights in North America; First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's
Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction and Unfree Labor: American
Slavery and Russian Serfdom, which won the Avery O. Craven Award of
the Organization of American Historians, the Bancroft Prize in
American History from Columbia University and the Charles S. Sydnor
Award of the Southern Historical Association.
Kolchin currently is working on a sequel to Unfree Labor, a
comparative study of emancipation in Russia and the United States. He
is the author of many articles and review essays in professional
journals and is often invited to lecture on his research.
His teaching interests include 19th-century U.S. history; the
South, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction; and the comparative
history of slavery, forced labor and emancipation.
Kolchin has received fellowships from the UD Center for Advanced
Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in
American History at Harvard University and the Institute for Southern
History at Johns Hopkins University.
A scholar-consultant to KTCA-TV for a historical series on the
American Revolution, Kolchin currently serves on the executive council
of the Southern Historical Association.
A graduate of Columbia University, he received his doctorate from
Johns Hopkins University.
John C. Kraft
Kraft, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Geology, earned a
bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University and advanced
degrees at the University of Minnesota.
The former chairperson of the UD Department of Geology from 1969
to 1983, he is a recipient of numerous grants and is a fellow of the
Geological Society of America, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the Explorers Club.
Kraft has authored or co-authored many articles on such topics as
coastal processes, rates of shoreline change and relative sea level
rise and the coastal geomorphologic changes related to archaeology and
historic events.
He has received awards and honors from the Geological Society of
America, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Society of
Economic Paleontogists and Mineralogists. Kraft received the Francis
Alison Faculty Award in 1987.
A member of the German/American/Turkish Archaeological
Expedition to Troy and the Osterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut
Expedition to Ephesus, Kraft analyzes in his research the nature of
changes that have occurred in the past 10,000 years to ancient coastal
landscapes, as well as the potential destruction of present and future
coastal environments as a result of coastal processes and sea level
rise caused by the Greenhouse Effect.
J. A. Leo Lemay
Lemay joined the faculty in 1977 as the Winterthur Professor of
English.
The nationally recognized specialist in early American literature
has been awarded Guggenheim and two National Endowment for the
Humanities fellowships, among other grants.
He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University
of Maryland and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lemay has written several books on Benjamin Franklin and has
recently begun a six-volume biography of Franklin.
The University Press of Virginia published his recent books,
Robert Bolling Woos Anne Miller (1990) and The American Dream of
Captain John Smith (1991).
The University of Georgia Press published his Did Pocahontas Save
Captain John Smith? in 1992.
Kenneth A. Lewis
Lewis, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business, joined the University
faculty in 1973, and served as acting chairperson of economics in 1981-
1982 and during several Winter Sessions.
Lewis specializes in the areas of money and banking, mathematical
economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, econometrics and
econometric modeling.
In 1977, he received a University excellence-in-teaching award,
and he received outstanding teaching awards from the Business and
Economics Council in 1974, 1980, 1986 and 1992.
Co-director of the Delaware Econometric Model since 1974, he has
served on the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council and
chaired its Revenue Forecasting Committee since 1977.
Lewis also chaired the state's Committee on Fiscal Impact of 1986
Federal Tax Act on Delaware and served as a consultant to the Delaware
Transportation Authority from 1984-85.
He is a member of the American Economics Association, the
Econometric Society, the American Finance Association and the American
Statistical Association, and has made several presentations at
professional meetings.
Author or co-author of more than 25 articles in professional
journals, he also has written or co-written research reports on such
topics as "Economic Impact of the Financial Center Development Act of
1981 on the State of Delaware: Employment and General Fund Revenue"
and "Estimation of Gross State Product for the State of Delaware and
Its Relationship to State Expenditures."
Lewis is a cum laude graduate of Amherst College and received his
doctorate from Princeton University.
Frank B. Murray
Murray is H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the Departments of
Educational Studies and Psychology and served as dean of the College
of Education between 1979 and 1995.
Murray has served in various capacities on the editorial boards
of several journals in educational and developmental psychology and is
a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American
Psychological Society.
Currently, he is serving as interim president of the Holmes
Partnership, a recently formed consortium of research universities,
public school districts and organizations that represent professional
educators.
He chaired the National Board of the Holmes Group and was
president and cofounder of the Project 30 Alliance, a national
consortium of faculty in education and the liberal arts.
Since 1994, he has been co-editor of the Review of Educational
Research for the American Educational Research Association and has
just completed the Teacher Educator's Handbook for the American
Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.
For his contributions to the fields of child development and
teacher education reform, Murray was awarded an honorary doctorate
from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1994. Since
1991, he has been appointed by Delaware's governors as a commissioner
in the Education Commission of the States.
He received his B.A. degree from St. John's College in Annapolis
and his M.A.T. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
James K. Oliver
Oliver, Unidel Professor of Political Science and International
Relations and director of the International Relations Program, also
holds a joint appointment in the College of Marine Studies.
He joined the University faculty in 1969, after completing his
doctorate in international studies at American University's School of
International Service.
His research and teaching fields include international relations
and organization, American foreign and defense policy and
international relations theory.
In addition to publishing numerous articles in these fields. he
has co-authored three books, The Future of United States Naval Power,
United States Foreign Policy and World Order and Foreign Policy Making
and the American Political System.
He has presented papers at the Council on Foreign Relations, the
National Defense University, the Advanced Research Program of the U.S.
Naval War College and the Army War College.
Oliver has traveled in Europe for the U.S. Information Agency and
lectured on American foreign and defense policy.
For UD and the Winterthur Museum, he has traveled in central
Europe, the Soviet Union and Russia.
A fellow of the Salzburg Seminar on European-American relations
and a participant in the State Department's scholar-diplomat seminar,
he has served as a consultant to the Department of State, the U.S.
Information Agency and the Department of the Navy.
Former associate chairperson and chairperson of the UD Department
of Political Science and International Relations, he has received
awards for teaching excellence from the University and the Mortar
Board honor society.
Hershel Parker
Parker, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, came to Delaware
in 1979. A graduate of Lamar University, he received advanced degrees
from Northwestern University.
Parker has held Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim fellowships.
He has worked on the relationships between textual evidence and
literary criticism and theory as well as between editorial theory and
creativity.
The latter is the subject of a book he wrote while holding a
University of Delaware Center for Advanced Study fellowship entitled
Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction.
Parker is associate general editor of the Northwestern-Newberry
Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, of which 13 volumes have
appeared. Northwestern University Press published his Reading 'Billy
Budd.'
In 1991, the centennial of Melville's death, Parker served as
president of the Melville Society.
He has recently published Melville: The Contemporary Reviews
(Cambridge University Press, 1995), with Brian Higgins, and an edition
of Melville's Pierre illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Harper Collins,
1995). Parker's current projects are the third, three-volume edition
of The New Melville Log (with the late Jay Leyda) and a narrative
biography of Melville, the first volume of which will be published by
the Johns Hopkins University Press late in 1996.
Donald L. Peters
Peters, Amy Rextrew Professor of Individual and Family Studies
and of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, joined the Delaware faculty in
1985. Peters holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from
Brown University, a master's degree in educational psychology from
Northeastern University and a doctorate in educational psychology from
Stanford University.
Recipient of numerous research and training grants, he is author,
co-author and co-editor of nearly 50 articles in scholarly journals
and more than 75 publications. Peters has authored, co-authored and
edited nine books.
He currently is the director of the University Affiliated Program
for Families and Developmental Disabilities.
Active in consultation and technical assistance to a variety of
agencies in Delaware, Peters serves on the Interagency Coordinating
Council of Infant and Toddler Programs, the Developmental Disabilities
Planing Council and a number of other statewide committees and task
forces.
Lois D. Potter
Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor of English, joined the
University's faculty in 1991 after having taught at the University of
Aberdeen and the University of Leicester.
Potter has a bachelor's degree from Bryan Mawr College and a
doctorate from Girton College, Cambridge, where she held a Marshall
Scholarship.
She is the author of A Preface to Milton, Twelfth Night: Text and
Performance and Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature,
1641-60 and was the general editor of The Revels History of Drama in
English, Vols. I and IV.
After having edited some anonymous plays of the mid-17th century,
Potter recently completed an edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen by
Shakespeare and Fletcher, for the Arden series.
She was the founder and, for three years, the editor of the
Renaissance Drama Newsletter. As well as publishing articles in, among
others, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey and English Studies,
Potter has extensive experience as a drama critic for BBC Radio
Leicester and the Times Literary Supplement.
She has been a British Council lecturer in France, Spain and
Czechoslovakia and a visiting professor at Paris III - Sorbonne
Nouvelle, and she serves on the editorial board of Cahiers
Elisabehains.
Donald J. Puglisi
Puglisi, MBNA America Business Professor of Finance, has been a
member of the University's faculty since 1971.
Puglisi earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Michigan
State University and a doctorate from Indiana University.
A 1980 winner of the University's excellence-in-teaching award,
he also has been a recipient of six outstanding teaching awards from
the College of Business and Economics.
Puglisi teaches in the areas of securities analysis and portfolio
management, corporate finance and the management of financial
institutions, all areas in which he has published extensively.
He has served as a visiting research scholar with the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board and as a University Public Service Fellow.
Puglisi is a member of the boards of directors of a number of
corporations.
He also has served as a consultant on finance-related issues for
the U.S. Department of Justice, other government and nongovernment
entities and a variety of law firms.
His expert testimony on financial issues has been presented to
both state and federal courts, including a case heard by the U.S.
Supreme Court by original jurisdiction.
T. W. Fraser Russell
Russell, Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering,
served for 16 years as director of the Institute of Energy Conversion,
a laboratory devoted to thin-film photovoltaic research.
Russell, who is chief engineer of the institute, holds bachelor's
and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the University of
Alberta and his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University
of Delaware.
His research efforts are directed toward semiconductor reaction
and reactor engineering and the study of multiphase fluid mechanics
with application to the design of process equipment.
Russell is the author of numerous technical publications and co-
author of two chemical engineering texts.
He was chairperson of the Department of Chemical Engineering and
has received the University's excellence-in-teaching award and the
Francis Alison Faculty Award, the American Chemical Society's Leo
Friend Award, the American Society for Engineering Education Chemical
Engineering Division Lecture Award, the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers Award in Chemical Engineering Practice and the Thomas H.
Chilton Award.
Russell is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a
fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
E. Kent St. Pierre
St. Pierre, Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor, became chairperson
of the Department of Accounting in 1993, coming from James Madison
University.
St. Pierre was elected national vice chairperson-academic for
1994-95 of the American Accounting Association's teaching and
curriculum section.
The following year, he served as the organization's national
chairperson. He also has been its national meeting education
coordinator, secretary of the teaching/curricula section and a a
member of various committees and subcommittees.
St. Pierre is a member of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, the Executive Council of the American Accounting
Association and the Executive Committee of the International
Association for Accounting Education and Research.
He is editor of the Journal of Accounting Education and is the
author or co-author of numerous articles in professional journals.
St. Pierre received a bachelor's and an M.B.A. degree from
Eastern Illinois University and a doctorate from Washington University
in St. Louis.
Stanley I. Sandler
Sandler was named Henry Belin du Pont Professor of Chemical
Engineering in 1982 and has been a member of the Delaware faculty
since 1967.
He currently is director of the Center for Molecular and
Engineering Thermodynamics and served previously as interim dean of
the College of Engineering and chairperson of the Department of
Chemical Engineering.
Sandler received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from
the City College of New York and a doctorate from the University of
Minnesota.
He has received the prestigious Professional Progress Award of
the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, the Chemical
Engineering Division Award for the American Society for Engineering
Education and a U.S. Senior Scientist Award from the Humboldt
Foundation (Germany). Sandler also has received the Francis Alison
Faculty Award from the University of Delaware. In 1996, he was elected
to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
He serves on editorial boards of several journals and is a member
of a number of professional organizations.
Sandler is author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications
and the author or editor of seven books.
His research interests include the thermodynamic properties of
liquids and liquid mixtures, applied thermodynamics and phase
equilibrium, computer-assisted engineering education and statistical
mechanics.
Jerold M. Schultz
Schultz, C. Ernest Birchenall Professor of Chemical Engineering,
has been a member of the UD faculty since 1964.
He researches semicrystalline polymers and has applied X-ray and
neutron scattering techniques to study the relationships among
processing, structure and properties of these materials.
Schultz has conducted research at Westinghouse Research
Laboratories, and he has held several visiting appointments at such
institutions as Stanford University, the universities of Mainz,
Saarland and Bochum in Germany, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
University of Sofia in Bulgaria and the National Chemical Laboratory
in India.
He is the author or editor of five books, including Polymer
Materials Science, Diffraction for Materials Scientists and Solid
State Behavior of Linear Polyesters and Polyamides. Schultz also has
published more than 150 articles in professional journals.
He won the Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist award in
1977 and in 1982. In 1986, he received the Kliment Ohridski Medal from
the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Polymer
Processing Society, and he also serves as a consultant to several
companies.
Schultz received bachelor's and master's degrees from the
University of California at Berkeley and a doctorate in metallurgical
engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.
James R. Soles
Soles, the University's first Alumni Distinguished Professor, is
former chairperson of the Department of Political Science and
International Relations. Soles, who specializes in American Government
and civil liberties, has been a faculty member at Delaware since 1968.
In 1993, he was named by the Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education as Delaware Professor of the Year.
Soles was active in the lectures and forums marking the
bicentenary celebrations of the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence. He also helped organize a statewide project on The
Federalist Papers and is well-known for his scholarly portrayal of
James Madison. Soles co-produced a 39-episode television series on
government and society in Delaware for the CBS-TV affiliate in
Philadelphia.
A two-time winner of the excellence-in-teaching award, he also is
the recipient of the Liberty Bell Award (with Ada Leigh Soles) from
the Delaware Bar Association, the winner of a Salzburg Seminar
fellowship, the del Tufo Award for Distinguished Service to the
Humanities and, in 1994, was guest of honor at the Delaware Day Dinner
held to honor a unique Delaware citizen.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha and Omicron Delta
Kappa honor societies, Soles received his bachelor's and master's
degrees from Florida State University and his doctorate from the
University of Virginia.
Donald L. Sparks
Sparks, Distinguished Professor of Soil Science, joined the UD
faculty in 1979, was assistant chairperson of the Department of Plant
and Soil Science from 1984-85 and was named chairperson in 1989. He
was a visiting professor at the University of California at Riverside.
His research includes studying reaction mechanisms of metals and
organic chemicals with soil components and soils and remediation and
specration of heavy-metal contaminated soils.
Since 1992, his work has been the focus of two Delaware Research
Partnership projects, which are jointly funded by private industry and
the state government. Sparks has received more than $3 million in
research grants and contracts from a number of governmental, academic
and industrial sources.
In 1994, he was one of the youngest recipients ever of the Soil
Science Research Award from the Soil Sciences Society of America.
Sparks served as chairperson of the Soil Chemistry Division of the
Soil Science Society of America and is chairperson-elect of Commission
II-Soil Chemistry of the International Soil Science Society.
He received the University of Delaware Sigma Xi Distinguished
Scientist Award in 1982 and, one year later, was cited by the
International Potash Institute for his outstanding research on soil
potassium. In 1985, he was recipient of the American Society of
Agronomy's Visiting Scientist Award and has also received the Research
Award from the Northeastern Branch of the American Society of
Agronomy.
A fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science
of America, he received, in 1991, the F.D. Chester Distinguished
Performance Award from the College of Agricultural Sciences and the
M.L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Soil Science Award from the Soil Science
Society of America.
Author or editor of 18 books, including two textbooks, and 25
chapters in books, Sparks also has had articles published in more than
77 scholarly journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of
five publications.
A consultant to several companies, he is a member of the American
Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, Clay Minerals
Society, American Association of or the Advancement of Science,
American Chemical Society and the honorary societies Gamma Sigma Delta
and Sigma Xi.
Sparks earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the
University of Kentucky and his doctoral degree from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Damie Stillman
Stillman, John W. Shirley Professor of Art History, is
chairperson of the Department of Art History.
Stillman is the author of The Decorative Work of Robert Adam;
English Painting: The Great Masters, 1730-1860, and English Neo-
classical Architecture, for which he received the 1988 Gottschalk
Prize from the American Society for 18th-Century Studies.
A graduate of Northwestern University, he received a master's
degree in the University's Winterthur Program in Early American
Culture and a doctorate from Columbia University. He also studied at
the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London.
In 1988, Stillman received a fellowship from the University's
Center for Advanced Study to research a book on American federal
architecture.
A former president of the Society of Architectural Historians and
the current president of the Northeast American Society for 18th-
Century Studies, he has twice been a recipient of National Endowment
for the Humanities fellowships.
Co-editor-in-chief of the Buildings of the United States series,
Stillman is currently at work on a book on neo-classical architecture
in America during the era of the Early Republic.
Andras Z. Szeri
Szeri, Robert L. Spencer Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
joined the University faculty in 1994 as professor and chairperson of
the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Szeri's research field is fluid mechanics and heat transfer with
special emphasis on tribology. He has received research grants from
the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific
Research, and the Department of Energy, as well as from private
industry.
Szeri has been British Council Professor of Aerodynamics at the
Universidad F. Santa Maria in Chile. A fellow of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), he has served on the executive board
of its Tribology Division and currently is a member of its Research
Committee on Triboloby. Associate editor of STLE Transactions and
technical editor of the Journal of Tribology, he serves on the
editorial board of the Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
He has published extensively in his field, including a book entitled
Tribology: Friction, Lubrication and Wear. He also is a member of
several technical societies.
Szeri was educated in England, and holds bachelor's and doctoral
degrees from the University of Leeds.
A. Julian Valbuena
Valbuena, Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish, is an internationally
known expert on the theatre of the Spanish Golden Age, the 20th-
century Spanish novel and Spanish American literature.
He received his Licenciatura from the University of Murcia and
doctorate from Madrid/ Compultense and postdoctoral fellowships from
the University of Wisconsin and the Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid).
Valbuena has been a visiting professor at Madrid, New York/
Washington Square, Mexico/ Aragon and the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in
Bogota.
A member of Sigma Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, he
received the University's excellence-in-teaching award in 1988. He has
served on the Fulbright national screening board and on the National
Endowment for the Humanities Research Projects.
Valbuena founded UD's Kappa Upsilon chapter of Sigma Delta Pi and
the Valbuena Institute of Spanish Literature Inc., which donates funds
to supplement guest honoraria, student book awards and activities that
promote scholarship. He is the author of 16 books, the latest the
revised El Alcalde de Zalamea, de Pedro Calderon de la Barca, 13th
edition 1995 and El mayor monstruo del mundo de Pedro Calderon de la
Barca. He has published more than 200 articles in refereed journals.
Valbuena's other books are on Latin American literature, contemporary
Peninsular Spanish literature and the comedias and dramas of Calderon.
He is a member of more than 20 professional organizations and
lectures extensively in Europe, Canada, Latin America and the U.S. His
book La Dama Duende, de Calderon has been used for presentations in
the Coolidge Auditorium of The Library of Congress and the National
Company of Classic Theatre in Madrid.
He serves on the editorial boards of professional journals and
publishers in Spain, the U.S. and Germany. Valbuena has been
chairperson of the Division of the 16th- and 17th-century Spanish
Drama Division of the Modern Language Association of America and
national vice president of Sigma Delta Pi.
He is a member of the editorial committee of Chadwyck-Healey,
Cambridge, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas,
Madrid, to advise on the selection of texts of the Spanish Golden Age
Theatre for the CD-ROM edition for 1997.
Valbuena also serves as an extramural evaluator and professional
consultant to numerous organizations and universities.
Richard L. Venezky
Venezky, Unidel Professor of Educational Studies since 1977, also
is professor of computer and information sciences. He is
internationally known for his work on English orthography, literacy
and computer applications to education and lexicography, and is co-
director for research and development for the National Center on Adult
Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Venezky chaired the advisory panel for the Office of Technology
Assessment's study of technology and adult literacy and currently
chairs the research advisory committee for the U. S. Secretary of
Education's American Initiative on Reading and Writing. He also is
director of computing for the Dictionary of Old English project at the
University of Toronto.
He has been a visiting faculty member at Tel Aviv University and
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. During the 1994-95
academic year, he was the Benton Scholar in Literacy in the Department
of Education at the University of Chicago.
Among his recent publications are a book, The Intelligent Design
of Computer-Assisted Instruction, a microfiche collection on the
history of American primers and several journal articles and book
chapters on adult literacy issues.
Venezky's research on literacy is currently funded by the
National Center on Adult Literacy, the U. S. Department of Education
and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Venezky holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a
master's in linguistics from Cornell University and a doctorate in
linguistics from Stanford University.
Jack R. Vinson
Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
joined the Delaware faculty in 1964. He served as chairperson of the
then Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 1965 to
1979 and was the first director of the Center for Composite Materials
from 1974 to 1978.
A graduate of Cornell University, Vinson received his doctorate
from the University of Pennsylvania, after spending a year in graduate
study at Cambridge University.
Vinson has authored or co-authored five textbooks and numerous
research papers, as well as edited seven books.
He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Vinson was
the U.S. organizer of the first four U.S.- Japan Conferences on
Composite Materials. He was the recipient of a fellowship from the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and was a guest professor
at the University of Tokyo in 1985.
Vinson currently is the vice president of the American Society
for Composites.
Donald B. Wetlaufer
Wetlaufer, E. I. du Pont de Nemours Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, chaired the Department of Chemistry from 1975 to 1985.
He has been a visiting investigator at the Carlsberg Laboratory in
Copenhagen and at the Max-Planck Institut fuer Ernaehrungsphysiologie.
Wetlaufer's research has focused on understanding how proteins
acquire their three-dimensional structures, and relationships between
protein structure, stability and biological function. The National
Science Foundation and industrial biotechnology firms have supported
his recent research on high performance protein chromatography.
Wetlaufer is a member of several professional societies and has
served several times as councilor in the American Chemical Society. He
has received numerous awards and and honors and has served on panels
of the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health
and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a doctorate in
biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin.
Raymond Wolters
Wolters, Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History, has been a
member of the history faculty since 1965.
A specialist in 20th-century American history, Wolters received
the American Bar Association's 1985 Silver Gavel Award for the best
book of the year on a legal topic for The Burden of Brown: 30 Years of
School Desegregation, which explained how school desegregation has
worked out in the five school districts involved in the Supreme
Court's landmark decision, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education.
His forthcoming book, Right Turn: William Bradford Reynolds, the
Reagan Administration and Black Civil Rights, is a biographical study
of the Delaware-born lawyer who became the chief architect of Reagan's
civil rights policies.
Wolters' other books are The New Negro on Campus, a study of the
"Negro Ivy League" in the 1920s; and Negroes and the Great Depression,
which describes how blacks were affected by, and responded to, some of
the major programs of Roosevelt's New Deal.
On the campus, Wolters regularly teaches courses at every level
from the introductory survey to the direction of doctoral
dissertations, and, with the help of teaching assistants, teaches an
average of 300-400 students each year.
Last year, in cooperation with Howard Johnson, Black American
Studies Program, he initiated a course on the American civil rights
movement.
He also has served as faculty adviser to the College Republicans
and the Young Americans for Freedom.
Wolters has received fellowships from the Earhart Foundation, the
UD Center for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as
well as grants-in-aid from the Crystal Trust, the Delaware Humanities
Forum, the American Philosophical Society and ACLS.
A graduate of Stanford University, he received his master's and
doctoral degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jin Wu
Wu, who was named H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Marine Studies
and Civil Engineering in 1980, joined the Delaware faculty in 1974.
Wu established and directs the Air-Sea Interaction Laboratory in
the College of Marine Studies.
Active in promoting science in China, he received an honorary
professorship awarded by China's Ministry of Education.
Under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Wu also
led a national delegation of distinguished professors to Taiwan to
establish a large-scale research program in ocean science.
Wu is a recipient of the Ocean Science Educator Award from the
Office of Naval Research. A member of the Academia Sinica (The
National Academy of Sciences, Republic of China), he earned a
bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Cheng-Kung
University in Taiwan and master's and doctoral degrees in mechanics
and hydraulics from the University of Iowa.
Wu is currently appointed as president of his Taiwan alma mater,
the National Cheng-Kung University.
The author of nearly 200 articles, he is internationally known
for his work on environmental and oceanographic fluid dynamics.
This year, Wu was elected a member of the National Academy of
Engineering.