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Faculty and staff
Publications
Elizabeth M. Bertera, individual and family studies,
"Consumption and Generation of Social Support Scale: Its
Psychometric Properties in Low Socioeconomic Status
Elderly," in Journal of Clinical Geropsychology, vol. 3, no.
2, April 1997.
Ramiro Martinez Jr., sociology and criminal justice,
with Don Sherman Grant II of University of Arizona, "Crime
and Restructuring of the U.S. Economy: A Reconsideration of
the Class Linkage," in Social Forces, vol. 75, no. 3, pages
769-798.
Paul T. Durbin, philosophy, "In Defense of a Social-
Work Philosophy of Technology," in Research in Philosophy
and Technology, Vol. 16: Technology and Social Action, Carl
Mitcham, editor, JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn., and "Activist
Philosophy of Technology, STS Programs and Sustainable
Development," in Transformacje, vol. 3-4, pages 73-75.
Monika Shafi, foreign languages and literatures,
"Gazing at India: Representations of Alterity in Travelogues
by Ingeborg Drewitz, Guenter Grass and Hubert Fichte," in
The German Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 1, pages 39-56.
Daniel van der Weide, electrical engineering,
"Localized Picosecond Resolution with a Near-Field
Microwave/Scanning-Force Microscope," in Applied Physics
Letters, Feb. 10, 1997, pages 677-679; "Picosecond/Nanometer
Resolution with a Near-Field Microwave/Scanning-force
Microscope," in 1997 Ultrafast Electronics and
Optoelectronics Topical Meeting Digest, pages 178-180,
Optical Society of America; and "Combined Topography and AC
Field Probing with a Micromachined SFM Tip for Building in
Reliability," in 1996 International Integrated Reliability
Workshop Final Report, pages 27-30, Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers.
Paul R. Berger, electrical engineering, with graduate
student Sean L. Rommel, undergraduate student David N. Erby,
Wei Gao, Delaware '95, of Lasertron Inc., and G. Zydzik,
W.W. Rhodes, H.M. O'Bryan, D. Sivco and A.Y. Cho of Lucent
Technologies, "Equivalent Circuit Modeling of MSM
Photodiodes with Transparent Conductor Electrodes," in
Proceedings of SPIE's Optoelectronics '97:
Photodetectors-Materials and Devices II, vol. 2999, pages 86-
91; and with J. Kolodzey, electical engineering, and
graduate students Xiaoping Shao, Rommel, B.A. Orner, H. Feng
and M. Dashiell, "GeC/Si Heterojunction Photodiodes," in
Proceedings of SPIE's Optoelectronics '87: Silicon-Based
Monolithic and Hybrid Optoelectronic Devices, vol. 3007,
pages 162-169.
Raelene E. Maser, medical technology, with Kim Forrest,
Georgia Pambiano, Dorothy Becker and Trevor Orchard of
University of Pittsburg, "Hypertension as a Risk Factor for
Diabetic Neuropathy: A Prospective Study," in Diabetes, vol.
46, pages 665-670.
Lian-Ping Wang, mechanical engineering, with M.R. Maxey
and B.K. Patel of Brown University and E.J. Chang of Naval
Research Lab, "Simulations of Dispersed Turbulent Multiphase
Flow," in Fluid Dynamics Research, vol. 20, pages 143-156.
Valerie Hans, sociology and criminal justice, "Who's to
Blame?," review of Justice, Liability and Blame: Community
Views and the Criminal Law by P. Robinson and J. Darley, in
Contemporary Psychology, vol. 42, no. 2, pages 111-112.
Sally Bould, sociology and criminal justice, with Mark
H. Smith and Charles F. Longino Jr., "Ability, Disability
and the Oldest Old," in Journal of Aging and Social Policy,
vol. 9, no. 1; with Longino and Angela Worley, "Oldest Old
Women: Endangered by Government Cutbacks," in International
Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 17, no. 9/10.
Susan Miller, sociology and criminal justice, "Patterns
and Correlates of Interpersonal Violence," in Violence
Between Intimate Partners: Patterns, Causes and Effects,
pages 16-28; and, book review of From Social Worker to
Crimefighter: Women In United States Municipal Policing,
Dorothy Moses Schulz, editor, in Criminal Justice Review,
vol. 21, no. 2, pages 277-279.
Presentations
Larry Purnell, nursing, "Delivering Culturally
Congruent Mental Health Services to Psychiatric Mental
Health Nursing Conference," a keynote address, March 16,
Williamsburg, Va.
Bryant F. Tolles Jr., museum studies, history and art
history, "The History of Museum Studies Programs," at
American Association of Museums annual meeting, April 28,
Atlanta.
Mary P. Richards, English, "The Dictionary of Old
English: Old English Legal Terminology," at Medieval Academy
of America annual meeting, April 18, Toronto.
Paul T. Durbin, philosophy, "Philosophy and Sociology
of Science and Technology: Comparative Perspectives," at
National Association for Science, Technology and Society
national meeting, March 8, Worcester, Mass.
Several members of the Department of Sociology and
Criminal Justice made presentations at Eastern Sociological
Society meetings, April 10-13, Baltimore: Kim Logio-Rau,
"Smoke and Mirrors: Adolescent Body Image and Smoking
Behavior"; Taj Carson, "Discourse Analysis and the War on
Drugs" and, with William J. Letts, "Queering Up the
Sciences"; and Susan Miller, workshop, "Teaching About
Violence Against Women" and presider, panel on crime and
deviance.
Valerie Hans, sociology and criminal justice, "Blaming
the Victim in Jury Decision Making," at Department of
Clinical and Health Psychology, Allegheny University of the
Health Sciences, March 5, Philadelphia; and, participant,
"Watching What Makes Jurors Tick: CBS and the Jury
Deliberations Project," at American Bar Association Section
of Litigation annual meeting, April 17, Washington, D.C.
Deborah Steinberger, foreign lanauges and literatures,
"Spectacles of Intimacy: A New Look at the comedie
larmoyante," at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April
17-19, University of Kentucky at Lexington.
Helene Intraub, psychology, "Remembering Things That
Weren't There" and, with graduate student Jennifer Sable, a
poster, "The Role of Sensory Information and Decision
Criteria in Reality Monitoring," at Eastern Psychological
Association annual meeting, April, Washington, D.C.
Faculty and graduate students of the Department of
Geology made presentations at the 23rd Assateague Island
Shelf and Shore Workshop, April 26 and 27, Towson State
University: John F. Wehmiller, "Chesapeake-Delmarva
Quaternary Geochronology Based on Racemization Analyses of
Fossil Mollusks"; Julia Daly, graduate student, "Ground-
Penetrating Radar Investigation of Cape Henlopen, Del."; Md.
Khalequzzaman, graduate student, "Late Holocene Rapid Sea-
Level Change as Revealed by the Ravinement Surface Along
Delaware Coasts"; Daria Nikitina, graduate student,
"Environmental Changes and Paleogeography of the Leipsic
River"; and Reed Schwimmer, graduate student, "Salt Marsh
Transgression and Shoreline Erosion: The Evolution of Horse
Island Marsh, Southeastern Delaware."
Daniel van der Weide, electrical engineering, "Scanning-
Force Near-Field Microwave Microscopy," at Department of
Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Feb. 24; "The
Nanoscilloscope: High Frequency Localized Spectroscopy with
Near-Field/Scanning-Force Techniques," at Topometrix Inc.,
March 13; "Applications of a Combined Scanning-Force/Near-
Field Microwave Microscope," at Department of Applied
Physics, Stanford University, March 14; "The
Mamoscilloscope: High Frequencey Localized Spectroscopy With
Near-Field/Scanning-Force Techniques," at Center for Applied
Super-Conductivity, April 14, University of Maryland,
College Park; and "Measurements with a Near-Field
Microwave/Scanning-Force Microscope," at Industrial
Applications of Scanned Probe Microscopy meeting, May 7-9,
Gaithersburg, Md.
Douglas Tuttle, urban affairs and public policy,
panelist, "Impact of Crime and Violence on Today's Campuses"
and "Impact of Recent Legislation on Reporting of Crime," on
international videoconference, "How Safe Are Our Students?
Crime and Violence on Campus," April 16.
Paul Thorson, military science, with Brig. Gen.
(retired) Art VandePoele, Delaware '54, "University of
Delaware's Hall of Heroes," on Radio Station WILM, May 2 and
May 4.
Georgia B. Pyrros, mathematical sciences, "Teaching
Mathematics: A Culture Sensitive Art," at ninth annual Lilly
Conference on College Teaching, March, Lake Arrowhead,
Calif.
Dennis Jackson, English, "The 'Psychological Geography'
of Sentences: Ways of Signaling Significance to Your
Readers," at National Writers' Workshop, April 26, Hartford,
Conn.
Several members of the Department of Individual and
Family Studies made presentations May 3 at the seventh
annual Delaware Association of Child Care Professionals
Training Conference: Ruth Bean, "Ensuring Diversity"; Nadine
Heim, "Child Observation and Development"; and Michael Gamel-
McCormick, "Recognizing Developmental Delays."
Elisa C. Diller, urban affairs and public policy, "The
Death of the Queen (City): Change and Mourning in an
American Community," at American Academy of Religion mid-
Atlantic regional meeting, March 21, Wilmington.
Sheella Mierson, biology, "Writing Problems for a PBL
Physiology Course for Seniors and Graduate Students," at
American Educational Research Association, March 27,
Chicago.
Ruth M. Jackson, English Language Institute, "ESL/EFL
Magic: Student Empowerment Through Strategic Interaction,"
at TESOL International Conference and Convention, March 10-
15, Orlando.
Ratna Nandakumar, educational studies, "Assessing
Multidimensionality of Polytomous Data," with F. Yu, "The
Impact of Second Ability Dimension on the Unidimensional
BILOG Estimation of Item and Ability Parameters" and with L.
Ross and B. Clauser, "A Simulation Study of the Use of
Mantel-Haenszel and Logistic Regression Procedures for
Assessing DIF in a Computerized Adaptive Testing
Environment," at National Council on Measurement in
Education symposium, March 24-28, Chicago; with L. Roussos,
"Validation of CATSIB To Investigate DIF of Computerized
Adaptive Test Data" and, with F. Yu, "Validation of Poly-
Detect Procedure To Assess the Degree of Multidimensionality
of Polytomous Data," at American Educational Research
Organization annual meeting, March 24-28, Chicago.
Members of the Office of Development made presentations
at the BSR National User Group meeting, March 23-26, New
Orleans: Herb Brunswick, "UD's Use of the WWW for Displaying
Administrative Data"; Stewart Stabley, "Informational Needs
of Major Donor Fund Raisers"; Joseph Bradley, "UD's
Telemarketing Technology and Interfacing the Technology with
the Advance System"; Emma Amuti, "WWW Informational
Resources for Prospect Research and Fund Raising"; and Pat
Davis,"Development of UD's WWW-Based Event Tracking System."
Jerome T. Posatko chaired the meeting.
Joachim Piprek, materials science, with S. Rapp, K.
Streubel and J. Andre of Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm, and J. Wallin of Ericson Components, "Temperature
Performance of 1.55-Micron Vertical-Cavity Lasers With
Integrated InP/InGaAsP Bragg Reflector," at ninth
international conference on indium phosphide and related
materials, May 12, Hyannis.
Service
Jayne Fernsler, nursing, was elected a trustee
representing the Delaware Council on the Mid-Atlantic
Division of the American Cancer Society.
Valerie Hans, sociology and criminal justice, appeared
on CBS Reports program, "Enter the Jury Room," April 16.
Susan Miller, sociology and criminal justice, was
elected a board member, National Clearinghouse for the
Defence of Battered Women, Philadelphia.
Happy anniversary
25 Years
Donald H. Paisley, Facilities Management, heating and
cooling, May 22, 1972
15 Years
Marianne B. Ambler, Information Technologies Help
Center, May 17, 1982
Donald S. Cox, Facilities Management, roofer/mason
shop, May 17, 1982
Grants
From National Science Foundation: Gonzalo R. Arce,
electrical engineering, and Neal C. Gallagher Jr., Charles
Black Evans Professor of Electrical Engineering, $10,000 for
"Weighted Myriad Filters and Their Applications in
Communications"; Roberta Colman, chemistry and biochemistry,
$90,000 for "Affinity Labeling of Nucleotide Sites in
Proteins"; Wenbo Li, mathematical sciences, $4,500 for
"Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship";
George W. Luther, marine studies, $109,999 for "Mn,Fe and I
Redox Chemistry and Their Role in Organic Matter
Decomposition in the Arabian Sea"; John A. Madsen, geology,
$16,454 for "A High-Resolution Bathymetric and Geophysical
Investigation of the Southwest Indian Ridge: Spatial
Characterization of an Ultra-Slow Spreading Center"; David
P. Northmore, psychology, and John G. Ellias, electrical
engineering, $69,788 for "Silicon Neuromorphs II: Activity-
Dependent Plasticity and Voltage-dependent Dendritic
Channels"; and Robert H. Wood, chemistry and biochemistry,
$125,000 for "Investigation of Aqueous Solutions at High
Temperature."
Herbert Allen, civil and environmental engineering,
$62,037 from HydroQual Inc. for "Development of a Framework
for Quantitative Risk Assessment for Metals."
Paul D. Amer and Errol L. Lloyd, computer and
information sciences, $208,923 from Lockheed Sanders Inc.
for "Advanced Telecommunications/ Information Distribution
Research Program."
Alan Scott Andres, Delaware Geological Survey, $30,340
from Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control, Division of Soil and Water
Conservation, for "Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural
Drainage on Ground and Surface Water Quality in Delaware:
Development and Evaluation of Best Management Practices."
Mark A. Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Professor of
Chemical Engineering, $85,000 from the U. S. Department of
Energy for "Chemistry of Oxygenates on Transition Metal
Surfaces: Activation of C-H, C-C, and C-O Bonds."
Thomas B. Brill, chemistry and biochemistry, $46,000
from Pennsylvania State University for "Fast Reaction
Kinetics and Modeling of Energetic Material Combustion" and
$74,274 from California Institute of Technology for "Novel
Energetic Materials to Stabilize Rockets."
D. Heyward Brock, arts and science, $5,300 from the
Academy of Applied Sciences for "Delaware Junior Science and
Humanities Symposium."
Michael J. Chajes, Dennis R. Mertz and Harry W. Shenton
III, civil and evironmental engineering, and John W.
Gillespie Jr., materials science, $100,000 from Delaware
Department of Transportation for "Program to Monitor the
Magazine Ditch and New Castle Avenue Bridges."
Theda M. Ellis, University affiliated programs for
families and developmental disabilities, $84,575 from The
Chimes Metro Inc. for "Welfare to Work Direct Staff
Training."
Joseph G. Farrell, marine studies, $34,700 from
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Control, Division of Water Resources, for "Inland Bays
Citizen Monitoring Program" and $10,257 from National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration for "Mid-Atlantic Weather
Reporting and Dissemination System for MAREP."
Patrick M. Gaffney, marine studies, from National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, $11,726 for "Cooperative
Regional Oyster Selective Breeding Project (Crossbreed)" and
$98,208 for "Evaluation of American Oyster Stocks for
Resource Rehabilation: Disease Resistance and Genetics."
Linda G. Gordon and Joseph P. Manley, Academic Services
Center, $179,308 from U.S. Department of Education for
"Academic Services Center Student Support Services Program."
Chin-Pao Huang, Distinguished Professor of
Environmental Engineering, $71,803 from Maryland Department
of Natural Resources, Monitoring and Non-tidal Assessment
Division, for "Recovery of EDTA from Power Plant Boiler
Chemical Cleaning Wastewater."
James Kolodzey, electrical engineering, $95,000 from
U.S. Army Research Office for "SiGeC Optoelectronic
Devices."
Robin W. Morgan, animal and food sciences, $213,995
from U.S. Department of Agriculture for "Marek's Disease
Virus Oncogenicity: Influential Viral Genes" and $75,000
from Intervet International BV and $75,000 from state under
Delaware Research Partnership program for "Molecular Basis
for Marek's Disease Virus Pathogenicity."
Giuseppe R. Palmese, composite materials, $87,500 from
Science Research Laboratory Inc. for "Advanced Thick-section
Composite Curing with High Energy Electron Beans-Phase II."
Donald L. Peters, Amy Rextrew Professor of Individual
and Family Studies, and Susan Epps, psychology, $82,620 from
U.S. Department of Education for "Transdisciplinary,
Interagency, and Family-Centered Model for Promoting Early
Childhood Specialization in Psychology" and $12,875 from Red
Clay Consolidated School District for "Transition
Partnership Project/Red Clay Consolidated School District
and the University of Delaware Affiliated Programs."
Steven W. Peuquet, urban affairs and public policy,
$314,603 from U. S. Department of Education for "The Housing
Capacity Building Program."
James E. Phillips and Robert W. Birkmire, energy
conversion, $45,000 from AstroPower Inc. and $30,000 from
Delaware Research Partnership program for "Passivation and
Texturing of Thin Polycrystalline Silicone."
Lucille W. Pulliam, nursing, $271,948 from Public
Health Service, Bureau of Health Professions, for "The Nurse-
Managed Health Center."
Michael H. Santare, mechanical engineering, $51,330
from Anatek Inc. for "Air Flow Characterization in the
Pharynx and Its Relation to Sleep Apnea."
Katherine Schultz, educational development, and James
E. Davis, educational studies, $12,000 from the Spencer
Foundation for "After Desegregation: Students and Teachers
Talk about 'Race' and Relations in Post-desegregated
Schools."
Leonard W. Schwartz, mechanical engineering, $49,694
from Sandia National Laboratories for "Development of a 2-D
Predictive Model of Drying, Deformable, Unsaturated, Porous
Media with Application to Drying of Sol-gel Films" and
$118,500 from ICI Americas and $79,000 from state under
Delaware Research Partnership program for "Studies of
Coating, Wetting and Spreading."
Thomas R. Scott, psychology, and Carlos Plata-Salaman,
biology, $30,000 from Hoffmann/Laroche Inc. for "Obesity
Protein (Leptin): Its Site of Action in the Rat Central
Nervous System."
Rebecca Siders, urban affairs and public policy,
$16,750 from Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural
Affairs, State Historic Preservation Office, for "Delaware
Threatened Buildings, Public Outreach, and Planning."
Andras Z. Szeri, Robert L. Spencer Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, and Richard A. Cairncross,
mechanical engineering, $25,000 from the Dupont Co. and
$25,000 from state under Delaware Research Partnership
program for "Characterization of Mechanisms Causing Diffuse
Spot Defects during Drying of Lithographic Printing Plate
Coatings."
Richard W. Taylor and Robert Uniatowski, plant and soil
sciences, $2,000 from Maryland Grain Producers Utilization
Board for "Grain Sorghum Variety Performance Trials on Loamy
Sand Soils."
Lawrence Thornton and William Katorkas, Public Safety,
$150,000 from U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Community Oriented Policing Services, for "COPS Universal
Hiring Program."
Primo V. Toccafondi, Center for Educational Leadership
and Policy, $68,957 from Delaware Department of Public
Instruction for "Vocational Education: Comprehensive Mentor
and Inservice Program."
Clinton Tymes, Small Business Development Center,
$303,073 from U.S. Small Business Administration for
"Delaware Small Business Development Center, Phase XV."
Daniel W. van der Weide, electrical engineering,
$55,223 from W.L. Gore and Associates Inc. and $55,000 from
state under Delaware Research Partnership program for "High-
frequency Field Scanning for 'Smart Shielding.'"
Barbara Van Dornick, education, $75,000 from Delaware
Department of Public Instruction for "Teacher
Recruitment-Special Institute."
Young-Doo Wang and John Byrne, urban affairs and public
policy, $68,286 from Artesian Water Co. Inc. for "Water
Conservation Impact Panel Study: Conservation Implications
of Artesian's Residential Demand-side Management Programs."
Ronald F. Whittington, affirmative action and
multicultural programs, $18,614 from Delaware Department of
Public Instruction for "Summer Food Service Program for
Children."