Vol. 18, No. 3Sept. 17, 1998

Books

Howard Johnson, Black American Studies Program, and Karl Watson of University of West Indies, editors, The White Minority in the Caribbean, James Currey Publishers, Oxford, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, and Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston.

Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, with Hasan Orbey, Modeling of Vapor-Liquid Equilibria, Cambridge University Press; and Sandler, Chemical and Engineering Thermodynamics, third edition, J. Wiley & Sons.

Publications

Michael Arnold, economics, with Steven Lippman of University of California, Los Angeles, "Posted Prices Versus Bargaining in Markets with Asymmetric Information," in Economic Inquiry, vol. 36, pages 450-457.

Herbert E. Allen, civil and environmental engineering, with Christopher M. Lee of Environmental Programs, International Copper Association, "The Ecological Risk Assessment of Copper Differs from that of Hydrophobic Organic Chemicals," in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, vol. 4, pages 605-617.

Jian Qiao Sun, mechanical engineering, with V. Jayachandran and S.M. Hirsch, "On the Numerical Modeling of Interior Sound Fields by the Modal Function Expansion Approach," in Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 210, no 2, pages 243-254; with Jayachandran, "Unconditional Stability Domains of Structural Control Systems Using Dual Actuator-Sensor Pairs," in Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 208, no. 1, pages 159-166; with Jayachandran, "Modeling Shallow Spherical Shell Piezoelectric Actuators as Acoustic Boundary Control Elements," in Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 7, no. 1, pages 72-84; with Jayachandran, "Impedance Characteristics of Active Interior Noise Control Systems," in Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 211, no. 4, pages 716-727; with Jayachandran, M.A. Westervelt and N.E. Meyer, "Experimental Studies of Shallow Spherical Shell Piezoceramic Actuators as Acoustic Boundary Control Elements," in Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 7, pages 467-471; with W. Bao and R.N. Miles, "Fatigue Life Prediction of Nonlinear Plates under Random Excitations," in Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, vol. 120, no. 2, pages 353-360; with S.M. Hirsch and Jayachandran, "Sensor Systems for Global Vibration and Noise Control," in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 103, no. 3, pages 1504-1509; and, with Q. Xu, "Response Variance Reduction of a Nonlinear Mechanical System via Sliding Mode Control," in Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, vol. 120, no. 3, pages 901-905.

Howard Johnson, Black American Studies Program, "Barbadian Migrants in the Putumayo District of the Amazon, 1904-1911," in Caribbean Migration: Globalised Identities, pages 177-187, Routledge; "The 'Jamaica 300' Celebrations of 1955: Commemoration in a Colonial Polity," in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 26, no. 2, pages 120-137, and in Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honor of David Fieldhouse, Frank Cass, 1998.

Presentations

Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, three lectures: on receipt of the E.V. Murphree Award, American Chemical Society, April 1, Dallas; on receipt of the Thomas H. Chilton Award, Wilmington Section, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, May 7, Wilmington, Del.; and on receipt of the F.D. Rossini Award, Commission 1.2-Thermodynamics, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, July, Porto, Portugal.

Martha Carothers, art, "Shape-Shifting: Transformation in the Art of the Book," juried exhibition, Kamin Gallery of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, July 9-31, Philadelphia; "From Foundation to Ornamentation," invitational exhibition, ARC Gallery, Sept. 1-26, Chicago; "The Next Word," invitational exhibition, Neuberger Museum of Art, Sept. 19, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999, Purchase, N.Y.; and "Book/Art/Book: A National Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Books," Houston Public Library, Oct. 5-30, Houston.

Rita Kingery, accounting, "Accounting for the Small Business," Sept. 9, Small Business Resource and Information Center, Wilmington, Del.

Leslie F. Goldstein, Unidel Professor of Political Science and International Relations, "Cantonal Resistance to the Swiss Federal Executive and Legislative Branches 1848-1898," at International Society for the Study of European Ideas biannual meeting, Aug. 16-20, and "Aristotle's Theory of Revolution: An Exhumation of the Buried Roots of Lockean Thought," at American Political Science Association annual meeting, Sept. 3-6.

Patricia A. Martin-DeLeon, biological sciences, with graduate students Ying Zheng and Xiangning Deng, "Compartmentalization of Span1(PH-20)RNA in Spermatids Leads to Transmission Ratio Distortion (TRD)," at eighth international symposium on spermatology, Aug. 17-22, Montreal.

Happy anniversary

30 Years

Robert Arthur Wilson, urban affairs, Sept. 15, 1968

25 Years

Anna M. Conkey, Residence Conference Facilities shops, Sept. 16, 1973

Judy T. Hahn, health and nursing, Sept. 17, 1973

Deborah Sue Lyall, English, Sept. 10, 1973

20 Years

Carolyn M. Boyer, Dining Services, Sept. 11, 1978

Patricia E. Davis, Instructional Technologies, Management Information Services, Sept. 16, 1978

James M. Falk, marine studies, Sept. 16, 1978

Rita P. Girardi, Faculty Senate, Sept. 11, 1978

Gloria Jane Ray, Dining Services, Sept. 11, 1978

15 Years

Christine M. Vitale, Instructional Technologies, Network and Systems Services, Sept. 12, 1983

10 Years

Catherine Kavanagh, financial aid, Sept. 15, 1988

Linda M. McCormick, intercollegiate athletics, Sept. 12, 1988

L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, library, Sept. 12, 1988

Robert F. Wieland, materials science, Sept. 16, 1988