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UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 22, March 6, 1997

     

Faculty and staff

Publications
     Xiang-Gen Xia, electrical engineering, "Fractional
Delay Filter Design When Sampling Rate Higher Than Nyquist
Rate," in Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 3, pages 199-
201.
     David Pong, history, "China's First Modern Naval
Officers: Training and Deployment at Mawei, 1866-1875," in
Marine History Research, no. 10, pages 213-232, December
1996.
     Herbert E. Allen, civil and environmental engineering,
with research associate Yujun Yin, C.P. Huang, Distinguished
Professor of Environmental Engineering, Donald Sparks,
Distinguished Professor of Soil Science, and Paul F. Sanders
of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,
"Kinetics of Mercury (II) Adsorption and Desorption by
Soil," in Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 31,
pages 496-503; and, Allen, "Importance of Speciation of
Metals in Natural Waters and Soils to Risk Assessment," in
Proceedings of International Workshop on Risk Assessment of
Metals and Their Inorganic Compounds, International Council
on Metals and the Environment, Ottawa, Canada, pages 141-
157, 1997.
     Kevin N. Waninger, Student Health Services, "Stress
Fracture of the Clavicle in a Collegiate Diver," in Clinical
Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 7, no. 1, pages 66-68,
1997.
     Ajay K. Prasad, mechanical engineering, "Derivation of
Rayleigh Number for Nonpenetrative Thermal Convection," in
Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 119, pages 180-183.
     Roberta M. Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of
Educational Studies, with D. Molfese, L. Burger-Judisch, L.
Gill and K. Hirsh-Pasek, "Electrophysiological Correlates of
Noun-Verb Processing in Adults," in Brain and Language, vol.
54, pages 338-413; and, Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek, "The
Preferential Looking Paradigm Reveals Emerging Language
Comprehension," in Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax,
pages 105-124, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
     
Presentations
     Paul R. Berger, electrical engineering, with Wei Gao,
Delaware '95PhD, of Lasertron Inc., graduate student Sean
Rommel and G. Zydzik, W.W. Rhodes, H.M. O'Bryan, D. Sivco
and A.Y. Cho of Lucent Technologies, at SPIE's
Optoelectronics '97 conference on photodetectors; and,
Berger, with J. Kolodzey, electrical engineering, with
graduate students Xiaoping Shao, Rommel, B.A. Orner, H. Feng
and M. Dashiell, "GeC/Si Heterojunction Photodiodes," at
SPIE's Optoelectronics '97 conference on silicon-based
monolith and hybrid optoelectronic devices, Feb. 8-14, San
Jose, Calif.
     Several members of the Department of Entomology and
Applied Ecology made presentations at the Entomological
Society of America, Eastern Branch meeting, Feb. 23-25,
Burlington, Vt.: Dewey M. Caron, "Africanized Bees and
Tropical Pollination"; Judith A. Hough-Goldstein,
"Biological Control of the Colorado Potato Beetle,
Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
in Delaware"; Clifford B.O. Keil, "Biological Control in
Mushroom Production"; Charles E. Mason, "Potential New
Introductions for Biocontrol of European Corn Borer,"
"Getting the Most Out of Pheromone Trapping in Sweet Corn,"
"Performance of Three Commercial Pheromone Sources for
Trapping European Corn Borer," with visiting scholar K.L.
He, "Oviposition Response of European Corn Borer, Ostrinia
nubilalis (Hubner), (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) To Certain
Green Leaf Plant Volatiles," with research specialist
Anthony S. Italia, "Reduction in Frequency of Mating
Justifies Continuation of Investigations on Pheromone
Distruption of European Corn Borer Ostrinia nubilalis," with
graduate student Nathan P. Ehresman, "The Effect of Eight
Flavonoids on the Ovipositional Preference of European Corn
Borer Ostrinia nubilalis" and with undergraduate student
Robyn M. McLain, "Sex Pheromone Production During the
Ovipositional Period in European Corn Borer Ostrinia
nubilalis"; Douglas W. Tallamy, with undergraduate student
Erin L. Monaco, "The Environmental Regulation of Egg Dumping
Gargaphia solani Heideman (Hemiptera: Tingidae)"; and Joanne
Whalen and Martin R. Spellman, Cooperative Extension,
"Dectes Management in Soybeans."
     Kristin A. Antelman and Mark H. Grabowski, library,
"The Library's Role and Participation in a Campus-Wide
Secure Information Environment," at Library Information
Technology Association meeting, Feb. 17, Washington, D.C.
     Mark McLeod, history, "A River Runs Through It: Daily
Life in the Mekong Delta," a photographic exhibit
coordinated with a concert of Vietnamese classical music, at
Wilmington Friends School, March 2, Wilmington.
     Lawrence G. Duggan, history, "'For Force Is Not of
God'? Compulsion and Conversion from Yahweh to Charlemagne,"
at Program in Medieval Studies, Feb. 19, Princeton
University.
     Alexander Rosello Selimov, foreign languages and
literatures, "Tecnicas Novelisticas en Eusebio de
Montengon," at Modern Languages Association convention, Dec.
28.
     David Pong, history, "Religion and Religious Life in
China," "Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future," "Why Did
China Turn Communist?," "The Great Leap Forward, 1958" and
"The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-76,"
presented during Winterthur Museum Guild trip to China,
September-October; a paper at the International Conference
to Celebrate the 130th Anniversary of the Founding of the
Fuzhou Navy Yard, Mawei, China, December-January; and "Hong
Kong On the Eve of Its Retrocession to China," to Wilmington
Rotarians, Jan. 23, Wilmington.
     
Service
     Adarshpal Sethi, computer and information sciences, and
graduate student Mike Markowski received an outstanding
paper citation in the OPNET Modeling Award Contest,
sponsored by MIL 3 Inc., for their paper, "Blocked and Free
Access Real-Time Splitting Protocols."
     
Happy anniversary
25 Years
     Doris M. Manship, marine studies, March 13, 1972
20 Years
     Jean I. Coleman, Dining Services, March 7, 1977
     Thomas Howard Lyons, Facilities Management, grounds and
movers, March 7, 1977
15 Years
     Vickie Lee Lucas, education, March 8, 1982
10 Years
     Shirley A. Dawson, marine studies, March 9, 1987
     Susan C. Dippold, Cooperative Extension, March 10, 1987
5 Years
     Gweneth B. Brown, educational development, March 7,
1992
     Leanore Louise Groeber, American Philosophical
Association, March 9, 1992
     
Service
     Dallas G. Hoover, animal and food sciences, was elected
associate editor, Journal of Food Safety, and chairperson of
the annual meeting committee for the 1998 Institute of Food
Technologists meeting and food expo that will be held in
Atlanta.
     Richard Gordon, Information Technologies, writes a
weekly column, "Computer Life," in the Saturday editions of
the Wilmington News   Journal.