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UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 28, April 24


                           Faculty and staff
     
     
     
Books
     Robert A. Day, English, How to Write and Publish a
Scientific Paper, fourth edition, Japanese translation,
Maruzen, Tokyo.
     
     
Publications
     Belinda T. Orzada, textiles, design and consumer
economics, with Mary Ann More, "Learning to Avoid Marker
Mishaps," in Bobbin, vol. 38, no. 7, pages 84-86.
     Sheldon D. Pollack, accounting, "Revenge of the
Muckrakers," in Tax Notes, pages 255-265, April 14, 1997.
     Herbert E. Allen, civil and environmental engineering,
with Yujun Yin, research associate, C.P. Huang,
Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering, and
Paul F. Sanders, New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection, "Interaction of Hg(II) with Soil-Derived Humic
Substances," in Analytica Chimica Acta, vol. 341, pages 73-
82, 1997.
     Nancy Schweda-Nicholson, linguistics, "Court
Interpretation in Denmark," in The Critical Link:
Interpreters in the Community, pages 259-270, John
Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia; and "Perspectives on the
Role of Memory in Interpretation: A Critical Review of
Recent Literature," in Proceedings of the 1996 American
Translators Association Conference, pages 99-111,
Information Today Inc., Medford, N.J.
     Jinfa Cai, mathematical sciences, "Beyond Computation
and Correctness: Contributions of Open-ended Tasks in
Examining U.S. and Chinese Students' Mathematical
Performance," in Educational Measurement: Issues and
Practice, vol. 16, no. 1, pages 5-11.
     Rivers Singleton Jr., biology, "Heterotrophic CO2-
Fixation, Mentors and Students: The Wood-Werkman Reactions,"
in Journal of History of Biology, vol. 30, pages 91-120.
     George Watson, physics and astronomy, with graduate
student Ranjit Pradhan and undergraduate student John
Bloodgood, "Photonic Band Structure of BCC Colloidal
Crystals," in Physical Review B, vol. 55, no. 15, pages 9503-
9507.
     Alexander H-D. Cheng, civil and environmental
engineering, with L. Cui of University of Oklahoma and Y.
Abousleiman of Lebanese American University, "Poroelastic
Solution for an Inclined Borehole," in Journal of Applied
Mechanics, vol. 64, no. 1, pages 32-38, 1997; and with B.
Ennaciri, D. Quazar, K. ElHarrouni and D. Esselaoui of
University Mohammed V., "Boundary Inverse Problem of
Helmholtz Operator by Genetic Algorithms and Boundary
Elements," in Boundary Element Technology XII, pages 131-
139, April 9-11, Knoxville, Tenn.

Presentations
     Ivo Dominguez, foreign languages and literatures, "Jose
Maria Heredia: Primer Romantico Hispanoamericano," at Middle
Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies, 18th annual
meeting, April 3, Annapolis.
     Dennis Jackson, English, "Rhythm's Cousin, Cadence," at
Virginia Press Association Statewide Writers' Workshop,
April 11, Williamsburg, Va.
     Several members of the Department of Communication
participated in the Eastern Communication Association
Conference April 10-13, Baltimore: Nancy Signorielli and
Elizabeth M. Perse, panelists, "Images on Prime Time: The
'90s"; Signorielli and Susan Kahlenberg of Temple
University, "Television's World of Work"; Aaron Bascue,
graduate student, "Men and Women of '90s Television";
Rebecca Churilla, graduate student, "Health and Sexual
Images in Prime Time"; Jennifer Bevan, undergraduate, "The
World of Television"; Beth Haslett, "Gender Issues: So
What's the Big Deal?"; Walid Afifi and Wendy Samter,
"Individual vs. Relational Goals in Close Relationships";
Charles Pavitt, "Tension Cycles in Structured and
Unstructured Group Discussions"; Ben Detenber, "Is Content
King? The Significance of Non-Content Attributes of Media";
and Douglas McLeod, panelist, "What is 'Real' Communication?
Challenging Assumptions in Different Contexts."
     M. Zuhair Nashed, mathematical sciences, and Xiang-Gen
Xia, electrical engineering, "A Regularization Method with
Error Estimates for Bandlimited Signal Extrapolation," at
American Mathematical Society Meeting, April 12-13,
University of Maryland, College Park.
     Roberta M. Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of
Educational Studies, with M. Schweisguth and K. Hirsh-Pasek,
"Dancelu? Dancing? Children Are Sensitive to Verb Morphology
Before They Produce It," at Society for Research in Child
Development conference, April 3-6, Washington, D.C.; with
Hirsh-Pasek, J. Rehill, J. Wiley and R. Brand, "Mapping
Words to Referents: Multiple Cues for Word Learning," at
symposium, "What's A Word Worth: Multiple Paths to Word
Learning," April; with Hirsh-Pasek and G. Hollich,
"Introducing the 3-D Intermodal Preferential Looking
Paradigm: A Bird in the Hand can be Worth Two in the Video,"
at Australian conference on methods to study language
acquisition, December; "Language Comprehension Made Easy:
Tracing Young Children's Early Language Competencies," at
undergraduate psychology conference, Rowan University, April
16; and with Hirsh-Pasek, "Emerging Cues for Early Word
Learning," at conference on emergentist views of language
acquisition, Carnegie Mellon University, May.
     Y. Martin Lo, animal and food sciences, "Process
Development of Xanthan Gum Production from Agricultural
Byproducts," at USDA Agricultural Research Service, Eastern
Regional Research Center, April 16, Wydmoor, Pa.
     Monika Shafi, foreign languages and literatures,
"Discovery and Displacement: Ingeborg Drewitz's Travelogue
My Indian Diary," at symposium on postcolonial German
literature (1970-1990), March 28-30, Washington University,
St. Louis.
     Farley Grubb, economics, "The Transatlantic Market for
British Convict Labor: An Economic Analysis," at Lehigh
University, April 11, Bethlehem, Pa.
     Saul Hoffman, economics, "Could It Be True After All?
AFDC Benefits and Non-Marital Childbearing," at Population
Association of America annual meeting, March 29, Washington,
D.C.
     Thomas Costello, communication, "Religious Conversion
and Television: Conceptualizing Conversion as Media Effect
from a Psychological Perspective," at Mid-Atlantic graduate
communication conference, March 8, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick.
     James K. Oliver, Unidel Professor of Political Science
and International Relations, and graduate student Joann
Kingsley, "Multilateralism Abandoned? The U.S. and U.N.
after the Cold War," at International Studies Association
annual meeting, March 18, Toronto.
     Rajarao Surampudy, information technology, "Graduate
Admissions on the World Wide Web," at SISU conference, March
10, Atlanta.
     Paul R. Berger, James Kolodzey and Daniel van der
Weide, electrical engineering, Mark Barteau, chemical
engineering, Karl Unruh, physics and astronomy, with
graduate students X. Shao, M. Dashiell, D. Hits, B.A. Orner,
K. Roe, M. Kaba, R. Jonczyk, postdoctoral student L. Kulik
and A-S. Khan of Delaware State University, "Ordering of Si1-
x-y Gex Cy Islands Grown on (100) and (311) Si Substrates,"
at Materials Research Society spring meeting, March 31-April
4, San Francisco.
     Rudi Matthee, history, "Between Aloofness and
Fascination: Safavid Iranian Views of the West," March 31,
Yale University.
     Mary Dozier, psychology, "Coping with Disruptions in
Early Caregiving" and chairperson of symposium, "Effects of
Early Deprivation," at Society for Research in Child
Development meeting, April 2-6, Washington, D.C.
     Nancy Schweda-Nicholson, linquistics, "Perspectives on
the Role of Memory in Interpretation: A Critical Review of
Recent Literature," at American Translators Association
annual conference, November, Colorado Springs; workshop on
consecutive interpretation strategies for visiting
interpreters from the Agricultural Bank of China, September,
University of Delaware; and workshop on consecutive
interpretation techniques in law enforcement, by invitation
from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Aug. 28, San
Diego.
     Herbert E. Allen, civil and environmental engineering,
"Metal Speciation: The Key to Bioavailability and Site
Specific Assessment," April 2, London; "Water Quality
Criteria for Metals: A New Paradigm," at Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry annual meeting, April
8, Amsterdam; and "Metal Speciation: Role in Bioavailability
and Site Specific Assessment," at Wageningen Agricultural
University, April 9, The Netherlands.
     George C. Hadjipanayis, physics and astronomy, with
postdoctoral students Zhongmin Chen and Celso Prados,
"Effects of Cr Substitution on the Formation, Structure and
Magnetic Properties of Sm2 (Fe,Cr) 17Cx Alloys" and "High
Magnetostriction in Low Applied Magnetic Fields in Amorphous
Tb-Fe(Hard)/Fe-B(soft) Multilayers Ga-12," and with graduate
student Wayne Manrakan, "Melt-Spun Sm(CoFeCuZr)z Mx(M=B or
C) Nanocomposite Magnets," at MMM Intermag 97 Conference,
April 1-5, New Orleans. He also was chairperson of a
conference session.
     
Awards
     Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Professor of
Chemical Engineering, has been elected by members of the
Commision 1.2 on Thermodynamics of the International Union
of Pure and Applied Chemistry to be Frederick Rossini
Lecturer for 1998. He will deliver the plenary lecture at
the 15th International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics
at University of Porto, Portugal, in July and prepare a
written version of the lecture for publication.
     
Services
     Karl W. Ber, Distinguished Professor of Physics and
Solar Energy, participated as a board member in a meeting of
the Photonic Center, the Innovation Center of Optics,
Optoelectronics, Photovoltaics and Laser Technology, March
25 in Berlin-Adlershof. He also participated as management
adviser in meetings of WISTA, the science and technology
center in Berlin-Adlershof and initiated the establishment
of a joint university, institutes and industry committee on
surface science there.
     John Knarr, physical therapy, recently returned from a
training camp for the U.S. Soccer Under 17 National Team in
San Diego, where he assisted the team in preparations for
World Championships in Egypt in September.
     Mike Brey, athletics, was a guest panelist on the WTXF
Fox 29 television news program, Newsprobe April 13, during
which he discussed "College Sports-Education or Big
Business?"
     Herbert E. Allen, civil and environmental engineering,
has been appointed to the National Research Council's
committee on environmental management technologies,
subcommittee on subsurface contaminants.
     Nancy Schweda-Nicholson, linguistics, has been named to
the editorial board of the international journal Language
Problems and Language Planning.
     
Happy anniversary
30 Years
     Leslie G. Eklund, student housing, custodial, May 1,
1967

25 Years
     Edward C. Ratledge, urban affairs and public policy,
May 1, 1972

15 Years
     Pamela Flockerzi, Information Technologies Network and
Systems Services, April 26, 1982
     Charles Jubenville, student housing, upholstery, April
26, 1982

10 Years
     Geraldine M. Lear, Accounts Payable, April 27, 1987
     Donald W. Shenkle, Publications, May 1, 1987
     Charles T. Smith, Delaware Geological Survey, April 27,
1987
     Gregory W. Waters, Facilities Management, building
services, April 27, 1987