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UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 30, May 8
Faculty and staff
Books
John F. Jebb, English, with J.K. Van Dover, Isn't
Justice Always Unfair? The Detective in Southern Literature,
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996.
Jay Halio, English, and Ben Siegel, editors, Daughters
of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers,
University of Delaware Press, Newark, Associated University
Presses, London, 1997.
Sara Horowitz, English, Voicing the Void: Muteness and
Memory in Holocaust Fiction, State University of New York,
1997.
Publications
Carroll E. Izard, Unidel Professor of Psychology,
"Emotions and Facial Expressions: A Perspective from
Differential Emotions Theory," in The Psychology of Facial
Expression, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Linda S. Gottfredson, educational studies, "Confronting
the New Particularism in Academe," in Journal of Management
Inquiry, vol. 5, pages 319-325; "Multiculturalism in the
Workplace," in The Psychologist-Manager, vol. 1, pages 7-17;
and a review of Byron Roth's Prescription for Failure: Race
Relations in the Age of Social Science, in Political
Psychology, vol. 18, pages 209-215.
Farley Grubb, economics, "Does Bound Labor Have To Be
Coerced Labor? The Case of Colonial Immigrant Servitude
Versus Craft Apprenticeship and Life-Cycle Servitude-in-
Husbandry," in Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas
History, vol. 21, no. 1, pages 28-51.
Donald L. Sparks, Distinguished Professor of Soil
Sciences, with postdoctoral associate Andre M. Scheidegger
and Geraldine M. Lamble of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
"Spectroscopic Evidence for the Formation of Mixed-Cation
Hydroxide Phases upon Metal Sorption on Clays and Aluminum
Oxides," in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol.
186, pages 118-128; with Scott E. Fendorf of University of
Idaho, Matthew J. Eick of Louisiana State University and
Paul R. Grossl of Utah State University, "Arsenate and
Chromate Retention Mechanisms on Coethite. 1. Surface
Structure," pages 315-320, and with Grossl, Eick, Sabine
Goldberg of U.S. Salinity Laboratory and Calvin C. Ainsworth
of Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, "Arsenate and
Chromate Retention Mechanisms on Goethite. 2. Kinetic
Evaluation Using a Pressure Jump Relaxation Technique,"
pages 321-326, in Environmental Science and Technology,
vol. 31, no. 2; and with John P. DiVincenzo of Middle
Tennessee State University, "Slow Sorption Kinetics of
Pentachlorophenol on Soil: Concentration Effects," in
Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 31, no. 4, pages
977-983.
Presentations
Limin Kung Jr., animal and food sciences, "Delaware:
Proposed Cooperative Dairy Research and Extension," at
Northeast American Daily Science Association and American
Society of Animal Science symposium, April 18, Storrs, Conn.
Several faculty and graduate students from the
Department of Psychology made presentations at the Eastern
Psychological Association annual meeting, April 10-13,
Washington, D.C.: James Jones, Samuel Gaertner and Audrey
Murrell with graduate students Hilda Speicher and Jason
Neir, "The Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology at the
University of Delaware: Training Social Psychologists for
the 21st Century" and graduate student Lisa Banicky,
"Affective Experience and Temporal Orientation."
Three members of the Center for Drug and Alcohol
Studies made presentations at the 67th annual meeting,
Eastern Sociological Society, April 10-13, Baltimore: Kim A.
Logio, "Smoke and Mirrors: Adolescent Body Image and Smoking
Behavior"; Christine A. Saum, "Drugs and Substance Abuse";
and David Oppold, "AIDS."
Sheella Mierson, biology, "Writing Problems for a
Problem-Based Learning Physiology Course for Seniors and
Graduate Students," at American Educational Research
Association meeting, March 27, Chicago.
Roger Kobak, psychology, "Clinical Implications of
Attachment Theory" and graduate student Sandra Suemmler,
"Contribution of Parental Attachment to Negotiating
Commitment and Intimacy in Dating," at the biennial meeting
of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2-6,
Washington, D.C.
Steven S. Martin, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies,
"From Delaware to Wall Street: Addressing Tobacco and the
Prevention of Substance Abuse in Our Communities," at
seventh annual Delaware Prevention Forum, April 21-23, Dewey
Beach.
Linda S. Gottfredson, educational studies, "Are Merit
Tests Being Used to Subvert Merit Hiring?" at Personnel
Testing Council of Northern California, March 14,
Sacramento; and "A Vacuous Defense of a Hollow Test: The
Nassau County Police Examination," at Society of Industrial
and Organizational Psychology meeting, April 12, St. Louis.
Lana D. Harrison, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies,
"Drug Use, Real Harms and Unintended Consequences in the
U.S.A.," and "A Female Condom Intervention Study with High
Risk Women," at eighth international conference on the
reduction of drug related harm, March 23-27, Paris.
Several members of Informational Technologies made
presentations at a CAUCUS97 meeting, April 20-23, Sandestin,
Fla.: Joy Lynam, "Introduction to HTML for Administrative
Systems"; John Fenimore, "Using Javascript with Natural and
ADABAS"; Bruce Raker, "Web Security"; and Carl Jacobson,
"Administrative Imaging on the Web."
David Oppold, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies,
"Prevention Issues for the Incarcerated Population" and
"Getting in the Door: Innovative Approaches to Prevention in
Schools," at ninth national AIDS update conference, March 18-
22, San Francisco.
Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, and his graduate students made five
presentations at the 38th AIAA/ASME/ ASCE/AHS/ASC conference
on structures, structural dynamics and materials, April 7-9,
Orlando: "Composite Shell Structures and Their Behavior";
with graduate student Eyassu Woldesenbet, "Effect of
Specimen Geometry in High Strain Rate Testing of
Graphite/Epoxy Composites"; with graduate student Robert J.
Greenfield and Harry K. Telegadas of the Naval Surface
Warfare Center, "High Strain Rate Tensile Properties of
Woven Glass Fabric Composites"; with Bhavani Sankar of
University of Florida and graduate student Alexander Dee,
"High Strain Rate Mechanical Properties of a Stitched, Woven
Composite"; and with graduate students Eric Preissner and
Woldesenbet, "High Strain Rate Compresssive Testing of
K49/3501-6 Kevlar/Epoxy Composites."
James E. Inciardi, sociology and criminal justice, "The
Effectiveness of the KEY/CREST Continuum of Treatment," at
U.S. Department of Justice, Jan. 14, Washington, D.C.; with
Steven S. Martin, sociology and criminal justice, "An
Effective Model of Prison-Based Drug Treatment," at Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 11-15, Louisville, Ky.;
with Hilary L. Surratt of University of Miami and Paulo R.
Telles of University of the State of Rio Grande do Sul,
"Efficacy of an HIV/AIDS Harm Reduction Program for Cocaine
Users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil," at eighth international
conference on the reduction of drug related harm, March 23-
27, Paris; "Substance Abuse, Crime and Treatment," at Dade
County commission symposium, April 18; and "Urine Testing
and Treatment Research," at National Corrections Conference
on Substance Abuse Testing, Sanctions and Treatment, April
23-25, New Orleans.
Dennis Jackson, English, "Damned in the U.S.A.:
Criminal Obscenity Law and Censorship in Our Century," at
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of
North Carolina, April 17, Chapel Hill.
James Cunningham, theatre, wrote, choreographed and
performed The Secret of the Missing Contact, at Dance
Theatre Workshop's Founders Celebration, April, New York
City.
Members of the finance department participated in the
Eastern Finance Association meeting, April 16-19, in Panama
City: Andrew Fields, discussant, "Constitutional and
Empirical Issues in State Takeover Law Litigation" and,
session chairperson, "Mutual Fund Determination"; and Breck
Robinson, discussant, "Mutual Fund Load Structures and
Adverse Dealer Incentives."
Saul Hoffman, economics, "Welfare Reform-Where Are We
Heading?" and "Could It Be True After All? AFDC Benefits and
Non-Marital Births to Young Women," April 24, Colby College.
Sridhar Iyer, economics, "The Relationship Between
Short-Term and Forward Interest Rates: A Structural Time
Series Analysis," at Eastern Economic Association meeting,
April 3-6, Crystal City, Va., and "The Relationship Between
Short-Term and Forward Interest Rates: A Structural Time
Series Analysis," at Eastern Finance Association meeting,
April 16-19, Panama City, Fla.
Donald L. Sparks, Distinguished Professor of Soil
Sciences, "Applications of Soft X-Ray Radiation to the Study
of Important Inorganic Species"' with postdoctoral associate
Andrew M. Scheidegger, graduate students Daniel G. Strawn
and Kirk G. Scheckel, "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Metal
Cation Sorption at the Mineral-Water Interface"; with
graduate student Strawn, "Kinetics and Mechanisms of Lead
Sorption and Desorption at the g-Al2O3-Water Interface";
with Scheidegger and Geraldine M. Lamble of Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory, "Monitoring the Growth of Secondary
Precipitates Upon Metal Sorption on Clay Minerals and
Aluminum Oxides Using X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS)
Spectroscopy"; with John P. DiVincenzo of Middle Tennessee
State University, "Evidence for Different Soil Sorption
Mechanisms for the Neutral and Charged Forms of
Pentachlorophenol"; with graduate student Christopher
Matocha, "Sorption Kinetics of Phthalate on Manganese
Oxides"; with graduate students Scheckel and Scheidegger,
"Ni(II) Precipitation and Dissolution Kinetics of
Pyrophyllite: An in situ Study"; with graduate student
Darryl R. Roberts, "Nickel Sorption Kinetics on the Clay
Fraction of a Soil"; with graduate student S. Erin O'Reilly,
"Effects of Residence Time on the Retention of Arsenate by
Goethite," at workshop on molecular environmental science in
the soft X-ray region, March 27-28, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.
Awards
Mary Ann McLane, medical technology, was presented the
Dolbey Award April 23 at the Pennsylvania Society for
Clinical Laboratory Science meeting. As the state's "Member
of the Year," she will be in competition for the national
Clinical Laboratory Scientist of the Year.
Service
A. Julian Valbuena, Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish,
attended a private reception of the Prime Minister of Spain,
J. Aznar, given by the Hispanic Society of America, April
28, New York City.
William I. Homer, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Art
History, has been named chairperson of the Board of
Advisers, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Happy anniversary
15 Years
Steven S. Hegedus, energy conversion, May 10, 1982
10 Years
John W. Clark, Information Technologies/Management
Information Services, May 15, 1987
5 Years
Anthony W. Chandler, Facilities Management, grounds and
mover services, May 11, 1992