UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 10
November 7, 1996
Faculty and Staff
     
     
BOOKS

     Richard S. Sharf, counseling and student development,
Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling, second edition,
Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, Calif.
     
     
PUBLICATIONS

     Jesus Cruz, history, "An Ambivalent Revolution: The Public
and the Private in the Construction of Liberal Spain," in Journal
of Social History, vol. 30, no. 1, pages 5-27.

     Charles E. Mason, entomology and applied ecology, with M.E.
Rice and W.B. Showers of Iowa State University, D.D. Calvin of
Pennsylvania State University, J.W. Van Duyn of North Carolina
State University, W.D. Hutchison of University of Minnesota, J.F.
Witkowski of University of Nebraska, R.A. Higgins of Kansas State
University, D.W. Onstad of University of Illinois and G.P. Dively
of University of Maryland, European Corn Borer. Ecology and
Management, North Central Regional Extension Publication No. 327,
Iowa State University.

     Kathy Brewer-Smyth, nursing, "Preventing Violence in the
Health-care Setting," in Nursing Spectrum, pages 12-14, Aug. 26,
1996.

     Jinfa Cai, mathematical sciences, with Ed Silver, "An
Analysis of Arithmetic Problem Posing by Middle School Students,"
in Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, vol. 27, no. 5,
pages 521-539.

     Patricia Drake, nursing, "Addressing Developmental Needs of
Pregnant Adolescent," in Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and
Neonatal Nursing, vol. 25, no. 6, pages 518-524.

     Scott Jones, accounting, "Cost Accounting," in Mark's
Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, 10th edition.

     Paula Klemm and Carol Guarnieri, nursing, "Cervical Cancer:
A Developmental Perspective," in Journal of Obstetric,
Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing," vol. 25, no. 7, pages 629-634.

     Sunil Agrawal, mechanical engineering, with S. Chang,
"Trajectory of a Multi-Segment Wheeled Vehicle," in Mechanics of
Structures and Machines, vol. 24, no. 3, pages 389-404; and with
G. Hirzinger, K. Landzettel and R. Schwertassek, "A New
Laboratory Simulator for Study of Motion of Free-floating Robots
Relative to Space Targets," in Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers Transactions of Robotics and Automation,
vol. 12, no. 4, pages 627-632.

     Mary Ann Miller, nursing, with Anne Marie Higley, "The
Development of Parenting: Nursing Resources," in Journal of
Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, vol. 25, no. 8,
pages 707-713.

     Lucille Pulliam, Lisa Plowfield and Susan Fuess, nursing,
"Developmental Care: The Key to the Emergence of the Vital Older
Woman," in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal
Nursing, vol. 25, no. 7, pages 623-628.

     Barbara Sheer, nursing, "Reaching Through Empowerment: A
Developmental Process," in Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and
Neonatal Nursing, vol. 26, no. 6, pages 513-517.
     
     
PRESENTATIONS
     
     Suresh G. Advani, mechanical engineering, "Flow in Fiber
Preforms," at workshop on manufacturing of composites, Oct. 24,
Michigan State University, East Lansing; and "Process Models for
Composites Fabrication," plenary lecture, conference on NDE
Applied to Process Control of Composite Fabrication, Oct. 1, St.
Louis.

     Donald E. Conlon, business administration, "The Organization
Giveth, The Organization Taketh Away: Reward Allocation Patterns
Used by U.S. and Singapore Managers," keynote address
inaugurating Fletcher Jones Chair of International Business and
Marketing, Chapman University, Oct. 18, Orange, Calif.

     Karl W. Boer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics
and Solar Energy,"Downsizing and Upgrading: Where are the Hot
Spots in Industry Today?," a plenary paper, at International
Photonics Workshop, Oct. 17, Albuquerque.

     Several staff members made presentations at the Mid-Atlantic
Association of College and University Housing Officers meeting,
Oct. 15-18, in Morgantown, W.Va.: Rob Longwell-Grice and Chuck
Shermeyer, residence life, "Ethical Dilemmas in Residence Life";
Jason Laker with Longwell-Grice, "Keep Your Distance: Images of
Male Friendships"; and Shermeyer, "Get Your Act Together: Using
Computers to Enhance Your Productivity." Members of the Office of
Housing and Conference Services who made presentations include
Ralph Johnson and Barbara Graham, "Practical Benchmarking";
Elizabeth Bolt and Mark Talmo, "Renovation vs. Replacement-The
Bottom Line of the Facilities Audit"; Cathy Skelley, "Creating
Rising Stars: Custodial and Maintenance Staff Involvement"; David
Butler, "A Professional Wake-up Call: Occupancy Management";
Graham and Tom Duetsch, "Running a Hotel in the Middle of a
Residence Hall: How We Do It"; and Linda Carey, Tim Miller and
Kirsten Boyd, "Riding the Wave-Are You Sinking or Surfing?"

     Cynthia Cummings, residence life, "Storm and Strife in
Residence Life: Residence Hall Legal Issues" and "Crisis
Management on Campus: An Interactive Role Play," at conference on
legal issues in higher education, Oct. 6-8, University of
Vermont.

     Larry Peterson, music, "Talk About Music: A Multimedia
Approach," to joint national meetings of College Music Society
and Association for Technology in Music Instruction, Oct. 25,
Atlanta.

     Toni Whited, economics, "Measure Error and the Relationship
Between Investment and Q," at University of Kentucky, Oct. 3, and
at Wesleyan University, Oct. 10.

     Saul D. Hoffman, economics, "Could It Be True? AFDC Benefits
and Non-Marital Births," at Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago, Oct. 24.

     David Butler, housing and conference services, "Occupancy
Management for the Millennium," a workshop at New York state
directors of housing retreat, Oct. 24-25, Hamilton, N.Y.

     Nancy King, honors program, "Entering Anthills of the
Savannah through the Eyes of a Doll," at conference on
translingual and transcultural creativity, Oct. 24-26, West
Chester University.

     David Pong, history, "The Transfer of Technology and
Scientific Knowledge to China in the 1860s and 1870s: The Case of
Fuzhou," at conference on the cultural interaction between China
and the West since Late Ming, May 2-4, at Chinese University of
Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University; and "War and China's
Communication Infrastructure: The Impact of Japan's Punitive
Expedition on Taiwan, 1874-75," at Association for Asian Studies,
Mid-Atlantic region, annual meeting, Oct. 25-27, Seton Hall
University.

     Herbert E. Allen, civil and environmental engineering, with
graduate student Bo Shi, "Copper Partitioning in the Aquatic
Environment: Its Change During the Mixing of Delaware River and
POTW Effluent" and with T. Grassi of Universidade Federal Do
Maranhao, Thomas Filslin of Delaware River Basin Committee and
Russel S. Kinerson of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
"Development of a Chemical Translator for Heavy Metals in
Receiving Water," at 69th annual conference and exposition, Water
Environment Federation, Oct. 8, Dallas. The first paper placed
second in the student paper competition and both papers have been
published in the conference proceedings. And, Allen with Daniel
T. Salvito, Public Service Electric & Gas Co. of New Jersey, "The
Sampling and Analysis of Trace Metals for Industrial and
Municipal Dischargers," at conference on social environment and
natural environment, Oct. 16, St. Petersburg, Russia.

     Robert A. Day, English, "Editing Scientific Manuscripts," a
three-day workshop, at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Oct. 16-18, Mexico City.

     Mary Ann Miller, "The Future of Nursing," June, Anaheim,
Calif; and, guest editor, "Symposium on Developmentally Based
Care," Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing,
August-October, 1996.

     Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, with B.M. Powers, Delaware '93, '96M, and
B. Scott and M.D. Warde of DuPont Co., "High Strain Rate Effects
of AS4/PEKK Graphite Fiber Thermoplastic Matrix Composites" and
with K.P.K. Potty, Delaware '96PhD, "Circumferential and Radial
Behavior of an Anisotropic Shell of Variable Cross-Section" and
with J.F. Newill, Delaware '96PhD, "A Simplified Method for
Predicting Interlaminar Stresses in Layer Materials."

     Jayne Fernsler, Mary Ann Miller and Paula Klemm, "Demands of
Illness and Spirituality," at ninth annual Oncology Nursing
Conference, August, Brighton, England.

     Barbara J. Duch, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, Deborah
Allen, biology, and Harold B. White, chemistry and biochemistry,
"Problem-Based Learning: Bringing the Real World into
Undergraduate Classrooms," and Judy Greene, Center for Teaching
Effectiveness, with White and Carol A. Weiss and Raymond F.
Orzechowski of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science,
"Faculty Advisory Committees: A Key to Success in Faculty
Development," at Professional and Organizational Development
Network in Higher Education conference, Oct. 17-20, Salt Lake
City.

     Kathy Brewer-Smyth, nursing, "Violence in Rehabilitation,"
at Association of Rehabilitation Nursing, Philadelphia chapter,
June 20, Magree Rehab, Philadelphia.

     Sunil Agrawal, mechanical engineering, with T. Veeraklaew,
"A New Procedure for Dynamic Optimization of a Class of Linear
Systems with Boundary Constraints," at third international
conference on motion and vibration control, Sept. 1-6, Chiba;
with Pandey, "Free-floating Prismatic-Jointed Manipulators:
Planning and Control," at international conference on theoretical
and applied mechanics, Aug. 24-28, Kyoto; and with N. Faiz, "A
New Efficient Method for Dynamic Optimization of a Class of
Nonlinear Dynamic Systems without Language Multipliers," at
Allerton Control Conference, Oct. 1-4, Urbana-Champaign.

     Larry Purnell, nursing, "Cultural Competence in a Global
Society," at 20th biennial Caribbean Nurses' Association, Aug. 8,
Belize, Central America; "Cultural Competence for Healthcare
Providers Working with Hispanic, Native American and Arab
Clients," Aug. 22, Erie, Pa.; and "Cultural Competence for
Healthcare Providers Working with African Americans, Amish and
Chinese Clients," Aug. 23, Jamestown, N.Y.

     Barbara Sheer, nursing, "Collaboration: A Developmental
Model" and "Mentorship: A Workshop for Leadership," at American
Academy of Nurse Practitioners national conference, June 9-10,
Washington, D.C.; and "Collaboration A Global Perspective," at
International Nurse Practitioner Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.

     Several members of the finance department participated in
the Financial Management Association meeting in October in New
Orleans. Daniel Deli, "On the Organizational Form of NYSE
Specialist Firms," session chairperson on relationship between
ownership structure and firm performance and discussant on
conflicts of interest between managers and shareholders; Breck
Robinson, discussant, "Do Markets and Regulators View Bank Risk
Similarly? An Empirical Investigation of Market-Based Risk
Measure and Regulators' BOPEC Scores for Bank Holding Companies";
and Raj Varma, discussant, "Financial Policy."
     
     
SERVICE
     
     Ralph R. Johnson, housing and conference facilities, was
elected vice president/president-elect of the Mid-Atlantic
Association of College and University Housing Officers.

     Ron Martin, geology, was appointed associate editor for
Palaios, international Earth science journal published by the
Society for Sedimentary Geology.

     Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering, named vice president/president-elect
of the American Society for Composites.

     Donald E. Conlon, business administration, is a member of
the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly.

     Judy Hendricks, nursing, has been appointed to the APN
coordinating task force of the National Council of State Boards
of Nursing and has been elected vice president of the Board of
Nursing.
     
     
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
     
     10 Years
     Joanne C. Zamesnik, library, Nov. 10, 1986

     5 Years
     Carol L. Eveland, student housing, custodial, Nov. 11, 1991
     Maria M. Garbayo, art, Nov. 11, 1991
     Karen K. Guzman, student housing, custodial, Nov. 11, 1991
     Barie K. White, Conferences, Wilmington, Nov. 11, 1991
     
     
GRANTS
 
     From Delaware Soybean Board: Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, Bruce L.
Vasilas and Robert P. Mulrooney, plant and soil sciences, $9,000
for "Effect of SCN Infection on Nitrogen Fixation and Soybean
Growth"; Quintin Johnson, Cooperative Extension, and Vasilas,
$9,080 for "Effect of Poultry Manure on the Efficacy of Soybean
Herbicides"; Mulrooney, $3,400 for "Nematode Assay Program";
Richard W. Taylor, Robert Uniatowski, Mulrooney, Thomas A. Evans,
plant and soil sciences, and John D. Pesek, food and resource
economics, $13,390 for "Soybean Variety Evaluation for Site and
Cropping System Adaption, and Cyst Nematode Resistance"; Taylor,
Vasilas, Uniatowski and Mark A. Isaacs, Agricultural Sciences
Research and Education Center, $5,328 for "Continuing Grower-
Extension-Research Communication"; Mark VanGessel and Isaacs,
Agricultural Sciences Research and Education Center, $33,240 for
"Weed Management Programs for Delaware Soybean Production"; and
Joanne M. Whalen, entomology and applied ecology, and Uniatowski,
$4,916 for "An Evaluation of Cultural Practices to Manage Dectes
Stem Borer in Soybean."

     From National Science Foundation: Peter Cole and Christine
Tortora, linguistics, $5,942 for "Dissertation: Two Types of
Unaccusatives: Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects"; Stuart
L. Cooper, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Chemical Engineering,
$89,871 for "Interrelations between Bacterial Infection,
Inflammation and Thrombosis on Biomedical Devices"; Jean H.
Futrell, Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, Murray V. Johnston, Burnaby Munson and Douglas P.
Ridge, chemistry and biochemistry, $355,000 for "Multisite
University-Industry Collaboration: A New Paradigm for Graduate
Education"; George C. Hadjipanayis, physics and astronomy,
$26,722 for "Magnetic Hysteresis in Granular and Exchange-coupled
Thin Films"; Arnold L. Rheingold, chemistry and biochemistry,
$209,000 for "Upgrade of Departmental X-ray Facility"; Renate
Scheidler, mathematical sciences, $17,995 for "Regulator and
Class Number Computation in Cubic Congruence Function Fields";
Jonathan H. Sharp, marine studies, $84,988 for "Analytically
Correct Measurements of Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater" and
an additional $5,000 for "Marine Sciences Summer Intern Program";
Kathleen J. Tierney and Joanne M. Nigg, Disaster Research Center,
$43,402 for "Businesses and Disasters: Consequences of Disaster
Victimization for Businesses and Business Districts"; and John F.
Wehmiller, geology, and David E. Krantz, marine studies, $79,259
for "Geochemical Integrity, Geochronology and Paleoclimatology of
Late Pleistocene Molluscan Specimens, U.S. Middle and
Southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain."