UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 12
November 21, 1996
Faculty and Staff
BOOKS
Ronet Bachman, sociology and criminal justice, with Raymond
Paternoster, Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal
Justice, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Margaret Andersen, sociology and criminal justice, with F.
Scarpitti, sociology and criminal justice, and L. O'Toole, Social
Problems, 3rd edition, Addison Wesley-Longman.
PUBLICATIONS
Susan Miller, sociology and criminal justice, "The Fatal
Flaw: Inadequacies in Social Support and Criminal Justice
Responses," in I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic
Violence, Sage, 1996; and "Boundary Pushing: Toward A More
Inclusive and Integrated Study of Intimate Violence," in Domestic
Partner Violence, Springer, 1996.
Carroll E. Izard, Unidel Professor of Psychology, with Eric
A. Youngstrom, "The Activation and Regulation of Fear and
Anxiety," in Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Perspectives in
Anxiety, Panic and Fear, vol. 43, University of Nebraska Press,
Lincoln; with Linda M. Dougherty of Virginia Commonwealth
University and JoAnn Abe of Southern Connecticut State
University, "Differential Emotions Theory and Emotional
Development in Adulthood and Later Life," in Handbook of Emotion,
Adult Development and Aging, Academic Press, San Diego.
Ronet Bachman, sociology and criminal justice, "Victims'
Perceptions of Initial Police Responses to Robbery and Aggravated
Assault: Does Race Matter?," in Journal of Quantitative
Criminology, vol. 12, no. 4, pages 363-390.
J.A. Hough-Goldstein, entomology and applied ecology, and
J.M. Whalen, Cooperative Extension, "Relationship Between Crop
Rotation Distance From Previous Potatoes and Colonization and
Population Density of Colorado Potato Beetle," in Journal of
Agricultural Entomology, vol. 13, no. 4, pages 293-300; and Hough-
Goldstein with D. McPherson, "Comparison of Perillus bioculatus
and Podisus maculiventris (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) as Potential
Control Agents of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae)," in Journal of Economic Entomology, vol. 89, no.
5, pages 1116-1123.
Russell Dynes, Disaster Research Center, with E.L.
Quarantelli, Disaster Research Center, and Dennis Wenger of Texas
A&M University, "Respuetas Indiciduales E Institucionales ante El
Sismo de 1985 En La Ciudad de Mexico," Pentro Naciional de
Prevencion de Desasters, Mexico; and "Forward," in Earth, Wind,
Fire and Water: Perspectives on National Disaster, Open Door/Gene
Jeffers Publishers, Pasadena, Calif.
Karen. W. Bauer, institutional research and planning, with
Kelly Green of Temple University, "Graduate Student Sexual
Harassment: Do Personal Perceptions Make A Difference?," in
Initiatives: Journal of the National Association for Women in
Education, vol. 57, no. 4, pages 43-50.
PRESENTATIONS
Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, "Processing-Microstructure-Property Relationship of
Textile Structure Composites," at third international symposium
on textile composites in building construction, Nov. 7-9, Seoul.
Faculty, staff and students in the Department of Plant and
Soil Sciences made presentations at the American Society of
Agronomy annual meeting, Nov. 3-8, Indianapolis: Donald L.
Sparks, Distinguished Professor of Soil Science, with
postdoctoral associate Andre M. Scheidegger and Gerry M. Lamble
of Brookhaven National Lab, "Effect of Residence Time or Ni-
Sorption Mechanisms on Clay and Oxide Minerals: An X-Ray
Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) Study"; with Scheidegger and
students Daniel G. Strawn and Amy M. Brennan, "Mechanisms of Slow
Metal Sorption on Soils: An Overview"; with student Kirk G.
Scheckel and Scheidegger, "Use of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
in Assessing Polynuclear Ni Surface Complexation on Clay
Minerals"; with Brennan, "Aging Effects on the Kinetics of Cesium
Desorption from Vermiculite and Contaminated Soil"; with students
Jean C. McCarthy and Strawn, "Residence Time Effects on Metal
Sorption Reversibility on Soil"; with students Min Zhou and R.K.
Trubey, T.M. Priester and Theodore H. Carski of DuPont Co.,
"Sorption/Desorption Kinetics and Equilibria of Atrazine, Diuron
and Bensulfuron Methyl on Selected Soils"; with student Timothy
E. Alcacio and Gerry M. Lamble of Brookhaven National Laboratory,
"Lead Speciation in Single and Mixed Mineral Systems Using X-Ray
Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy (XAFS)"; and with student
Yujun Yin, P.F. Sanders of NJDEP-DSR and Herbert E. Allen and
Chin-Pao Huang of civil and environmental engineering, "Kinetics
of Hg(II) Adsorption and Desorption on Soil." J. Thomas Sims,
"Nutrient Management for Poultry-Grain Agriculture: Reality or
Illusion?"; with Brad C. Joern of Purdue University and Regis R.
Simard of Agriculture Canada, "Phosphorus Losses in Agricultural
Drainage: Historical Perspective and Current Research"; with
postdoctoral associate Blake M. Onkey, and William R. Berti and
Scott D. Cunningham of the DuPont Co., "Remediation of Lead
Contaminated Soils with Chemical Amendments"; with research
associate William J. Gangloff, A. Scott Andres of Delaware
Geological Survey and Judith M. Denver of U.S. Geological Survey,
"Predicting Phosphorus Saturation of Atlantic Coastal Plain Soils
Using Easily Measurable Soil Parameters" and "Influence of
Agricultural Drainage Practices on Phosphorus and Nitrogen
Concentrations in Groundwater in the Atlantic Coastal Plain" and
with Ellen M. Cooper, Delaware '96M, Cunningham, Berti and J.
Huang of the DuPont Co., "Chelate Assisted Phytoremediation of
Lead Contaminated Soils." Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, with Alexandre J.
Cattelan and Peter G. Hartel of University of Georgia, "Selection
for Rhizosphere Bacteria by Nodulating and Non-Nodulating
Soybean"; with Bruce L. Vasilas and student R. Jiang,
"Rhizobitoxine Effects on the Soybean Symbiosis under Field
Conditions"; with student W. Homhaul, "Root Colonization of
Diverse Plant Genera by Genetically Engineered Pseudomonads";
with Mary E. Schutter, Delaware '96M, "Characterization of
Bacterial Isolates and Whole-Soil Microbial Communities in
Response to Fly Ash Amendment." Mark Radosevick with Fuhrmann and
student Chengwei Fang, "Phenanthrene and Altrazine Degration by
Microbial Communities from Grass Rhizosphere"; and with student
Charles E. Meredith, "Atrazine Bioavailability in Innoculated
Soil Microcosms Amended with Dissolved and Colloidal
OrganicCarbon." Yan Jin with students Yanjie Chu and Yunsheng Li,
"Adsorption and Inactivation of Viruses through Soil Columns
under Saturated and Unsaturated Flow Conditions."
Robert Taggart, educational studies, "Literature and Culture
in Education," session chairperson, Midwest History of Education
Society, Oct. 26.
Karl W. Boer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics
and Solar Energy, "Advantages of Using a CdS-Layer in
Heterojunction- or Heterostructure-Solar Cells to Achieve a
Substantially Increased Conversion Efficiency," at Hahn Meitner
Institute, Nov. 11, Berlin.
Joseph L. Fitzpatrick, educational studies and educational
development, "Public Policy: Working Within It, Without It and
Around It," at Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum, Nov.
15, Albuquerque.
Marian Lief Palley, political science and international
relations, "The Intergovernmentalization of Health-Care Reform,"
at Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, Nov. 8,
Atlanta.
Farley Grubb, economics, "Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians,
Stature in British Colonial America: Evidence From Servants,
Convicts and Apprentices," at Northwestern University, Nov. 7,
Evanston, Ill.
Dennis Jackson, English, "Reviving Mr. Lawrence Yet Again,"
at South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention, Nov. 8,
Savannah.
Faculty and graduate students in the Department of Geology
made presentations at the Geological Society of America annual
meeting, Oct. 28-31, Denver: John C. Kraft, H. Fletcher Brown
Professor of Geology, with Ilhan Kayan of Ege University, George
Rapp Jr. of University of Minnesota at Duluth and Helmut Bruckner
of University of Marburg, "Late Holocene Epoch Sedimentary
Processes: Evolution of the Harbors of Ephesus and the Artemision
in Antiquity"; Susan McGeary with Nathan L. Bangs of University
of Texas, John B. Diebold of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Simon L. Klemperer and Moritz Fliedner of Stanford University and
W. Steven Holbrook and Dan Lizarralde of Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, "Deep Structure of the Aleutian Arc and Bering
Shelf: Overview of the 1994 Deep Seismic Experiment"; John F.
Wehmiller with David E. Krantz and Hilmar A. Stecher III, marine
studies, Aron Kaufman of Weizmann Institute of Science, Charles
J. Lord III of Phillips Petroleum and Stephen A. Macko of
University of Virginia, "Diagenesis of Pleistocene Mollusk Shells
from the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain: Processes and Scales";
Wehmiller with Irving I. Friedman of U.S. Geological Survey,
Denver, and Stecher, "Latitudinal Gradients of Effective Ground
Temperatures, U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain: Geochronological
Implications"; Wehmiller with McGeary and graduate student
Michael L. O'Neal, "Ground Penetrating Radar and Amino Acid
Geochronologic Analysis of Composite Quaternary Coastal Terraces
on the Northern Margin of the Delaware Bay"; Wehmiller with
Krantz and graduate student Michael S. Harris, Paul T. Gayes of
Coastal Carolina University, Jack L. Kindinger and James Flocks
of U.S. Geological Survey, Florida, "High Resolution Stratigraphy
and Paleogeography of the Upper Cenozoic System Beneath the
Coastal Plain and Continental Shelf, Charleston, S.C." John A.
Madsen and McGeary with graduate students Denise J. Hills and
James D. Black, and Mark Noll of Applied Research Associates,
"Using 100 MHZ Ground Penetrating Radar at the Dover Air Force
Base Groundwater Remediation Field Laboratory," and graduate
student Thomas J. Fitz, "Petrology of the Chickwolnepy Intrusions
of Northern New Hamsphire.
Monika Shafi, foreign languages and literatures, "Penelope
in Sri Lanka: Reading Jeannette Lander's Jahrhundert der Herren
as a Postcolonial Novel," at German Studies Association meeting,
Oct. 10-13, Seattle; "Reise und Eros: Zu Gertrud Kolmars
Gedichtfolge German Sea," at University of Osnabruck, Oct. 31-
Nov. 1, Germany; "'Leider binich nur fassungslos.' Annaherungen
an Christa Wolfs Roman Medea," at South Atlantic Modern Language
Association, Nov. 8-10, Savannah.
Robert B. Carroll, A.L. Morehart and D.P. Whittington, plant
and soil sciences, with graduate fellow M. Sedegui and A. Arafi
and A. El Ismaili of Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture,
"Characterization of Moroccan Isolates of Phytophthora infestans
for Mating Type, Genotype and Metalaxyl Sensitivity," an invited
presentation, at Mediterranean colloquium on plant protection,
Oct. 6-9, Agadir, Morocco. Sedegui also presented "A Model for
Forecasting Potato Late Blight," at Moroccan Agribusiness
Marketing Investments Association meeting, Oct. 17.
Linda S. Gottfredson, education, "Perspectives on
Multiculturalism," at George Washington University, Nov. 7,
Washington, D.C.
Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, foreign languages and literatures,
"The Mother's Desire/the Mother's Despair in La salud de los
enfermos and Cartas de mama by Julio Cortazar," at International
Conference on Despair and Desire in Literature and the Visual
Arts, University of West Georgia, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, Atlanta.
Timothy Detwiler, finance, "Basic Small Business
Accounting," to participants in city of Wilmington's Starting Out
in Business Micro-Loan program, Nov. 13.
Adarshpal S. Sethi, computer and information sciences, with
graduate student Andrea Lobo, "A Cooperative Congestion
Management Scheme for Switches High-Speed Networks," at
International Conference on Network Protocols, Oct. 29-Nov. 1,
Columbus, Ohio; and with graduate student Pramod Kalyanasundaram,
and undergraduate Christopher Sherwin, "Design of a Spreadsheet
Paradigm for Network Management," at seventh International
Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management," Oct.
28-30, L'Aquila, Italy.
David Northmore, psychology, "Spike Pattern Discrimination
by Networks of Silicon Neurons," at Sintral Workshop on
Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems, Nov.
8, Sintra, Portugal.
Lawrence Duggan, history, "The Clergy's Right to Bear Arms,"
at 10th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Aug. 14,
Syracuse University.
Ruth Horowitz, sociology and criminal justice, "Public
Participation on Medical Licensing Boards: Questioning Medical
Cultural Authority," at Law and Society Association meeting,
July, Glasgow, Scotland; "Changing the Boundaries of Sovereignty
of Medical Licensing and Discipline," at Stone Symposium, July,
University of Nottingham, England; and "Barriers and Bridges to
Class Mobility and Formation," at American Sociological
Association annual meeting, Aug. 16-20, New York City.
Ramiro Martinez Jr., sociology and criminal justice,
"Ethnicity, Poverty and Levels of Homicide: The Implication of
Immigration on Crime," at American Sociological Association
annual meeting, Aug. 16-20, New York City; and "Facing Violent
Crime Among Latinos," an invited lecture at Julian Samora
Research Institute, Sept. 15, Michigan State University.
Susan Miller, sociology and criminal justice, "Gender
Paradoxes: Reconciling Informal and Formal Social Control of
Battering in a Community Policing Context," at American Society
of Criminology annual meeting, November, Chicago.
John Burmeister, Alumni Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry, as part of the American Chemical Society speaking
tour, gave lectures at local section meetings in Idaho Falls,
Salt Lake City, Boulder and Laramie, Nov. 4-8.
SERVICE
Tish Szymurski, continuing education, was elected to the
National Professional Development Committee for the Association
for Continuing Higher Education.
Margaret Andersen, sociology and criminal justice, was
appointed to the editorial board of a new journal, Race and
Society.
E.L. Quarantelli, Disaster Research Center, was appointed to
the editorial advisory board for a series on natural hazards and
disasters to be published by Routledge Co. and was appointed to
the advisory committee to the Fourth International Emergency
Planning Conference to be held in October in Prague.
Karl W. Boer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics
and Solar Energy, attended a director's meeting of WISTA, the
science and technology center in Berlin-Adlershof, to discuss
four WISTA-related conferences he organized during October,
including the Photonics Delaware 2000 at UD, the Partnership in
Technology meeting at Philadelphia's German-American Chamber of
Commerce, the Berlin/WISTA Conference at the University of
Michigan and the International Photonics Workshop in New Mexico.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
25 Years
Brian E. Thompson, public safety, Dec. 3, 1971
20 Years
Lynda L. Ruggerio, Information Technologies, Nov. 22, 1976
15 Years
Melba C. Haynes, Facilities Management, building services,
Nov. 24, 1981
John W. Gillespie, materials science, Dec. 1, 1981
Walter R. Vannoy, student housing, pest control, Dec. 1,
1981
10 Years
Constance M. Benjamin, Dining Services, Nov. 24, 1986
Theodore V. Blackson, public safety, Nov. 26, 1986
John F. Kelso, Information Technologies, Management
Information Services, Dec. 1, 1986
Gail E. Manogue, physical education, Dec. 1, 1986
Jean Neff, Information Technologies, User Services, Dec. 1,
1986
Jane A. Reynolds, Center For Drug and Alcohol Studies, Dec.
4, 1986
5 Years
Stephanie A. Allen, student housing, custodial, Dec. 5, 1991
Nettie R. Fitzgerald, Facilities Management, electrical
service, Dec. 2, 1991
Irvin J. Halcomb, Facilities Management, building services,
Dec. 2, 1991
John J. Javorsky, student housing, Nov. 25, 1991
William A. Nix, animal and food sciences, Dec. 2, 1991
Susan Phipps, provost office, Nov. 25, 1991
John J. Pullella, Facilities Management, heating and
cooling, Nov. 25, 1991
James Shaw, education, Nov. 22, 1991