Vol. 18, No. 4Sept. 24, 1998

Books

Lawrence Nees, art history, editor, Approaches to Early-Medieval Art, Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, Mass.

Publications

Nancy Nelson, library, "Circulation Services," in Technical Services Today and Tomorrow, second edition, pages 157-164, Libraries Unlimited Inc.

Steven Dentel, civil and environmental engineering, with postdoctoral fellow Mohammad Abu-Orf, EG '94PhD, and graduate student Christopher A. Walker, EG '97M, "Fundamental Methods for Optimizing Residuals Dewatering," in Chemical Water and Wastewater Treatment V, Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Presentations

Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, foreign languages and literatures, "De Buenos Aires a Paris: Los Cuentos de Julio Cortazar y la Reformulacion de su Identidad Cultura," at 13th Congress of the Asociacion Internacional de Hispanistas, July 6-11, Madrid.

Steven Dentel, civil and environmental engineering, "Use of Electrokinetic and Rheological Phenomena for Control of Sludge Conditioning and Dewatering," at Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, Sept. 10, and at Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, Sept. 11; and, with postdoctral fellow Mohammad Abu-Orf, EG '94PhD, and graduate student Christopher A. Walker, EG '97M, "Fundamental Methods for Optimizing Residuals Dewatering," at eighth international Gothenburg Symposium on Chemical Treatments, Sept. 9, Prague.

Rudi Matthee, history, "The Coinage of Late Safavid Iran: The Mint of Huwayza," at third International Roundtable on Safavid Persia, Aug. 18-22, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Lawrence Nees, art history, "The Illustrated Manuscript of the Viso Baronti in St. Petersburg (Russian State Library, cod. Oct. v.I.5)," at Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages: The First York Alcuin Conference, July 17-19, York, U.K.

Marian Lief Palley, political science and international relations, "Women's Health in the 21st Century," at American Political Science Association annual meeting, Sept. 3, Boston.

J.T. Sims, plant and soil sciences, "Nutrient Management for Water Quality Protection: Integrating Research into Environmental Policy," at third international association of water quality conference on diffuse pollution, Sept. 1-4, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Joyce Hill Stoner, art conservation, "Reading Wyeths: Conservation Interpretations in Tandem with Living Artists," at National Gallery, Sept. 12, Dublin, Ireland.

Chandra L. Reedy, museum studies, "History of Tehnology and Materials Science of Glass Artifacts," at two-day workshop, Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center, July 26-27, Omaha, Neb.

D.W. van der Weide, electrical and computer engineering, with visiting scholar V. Agrawal and graduate students T. Bork and S. Kee, "Electronic THz Reflection Spectroscopy for Detecting Energetic Materials" and, with Agrawal, postdoctoral student J. Murakowski and F. Keilmann, "Gas Absorption Spectroscopy with Electronic Terahertz Techniques," at sixth annual IEEE conference on terahertz electronics, Sept. 3-4, Leeds, U.K.

Xiang-Gen Xia, electrical and computer engineering, "ISI Mitigation Using Nonmaximally Decimated Multirate Filterbanks as Precoders," an invited presentation, at the 1998 symposium on image, speech, signal processing and robotics, Sept. 3-4, Hong Kong.

Cecily Sawyer Harmon, labor relations, and Larry Thornton, Public Safety, "Public Safety and Faculty/Staff Assistance: A Partnership to ReduceViolence in the Workplace," at CUPA regional conference, June 2, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Service

Marian Lief Palley, political science and international relations, was appointed to the editorial board of PS: Political Science and Politics, and to the Women's Studies Editorial Advisory Committee of Dushkin/McGraw-Hill publishers.

Happy anniversary

30 Years

Catheryn Kay Guhl, Facilities Management, building services, Sept. 24, 1968

20 Years

Thelma S. Flewelling, accounting, Sept. 20, 1978

Marilee H. Mullett, Center for Science and Culture, Sept. 18, 1978

15 Years

Rector Bowlin, Facilities Management, grounds and mover services, Sept. 19, 1983

Karen M. Kral, Instructional Technology, User Services, Sept. 19, 1983

10 Years

James K. Broomall, continuing education, professional and noncredit program, Sept. 19, 1988

James L. Pragg, Facilities Management, building services, Sept. 19, 1988

Michael W. White, Dining Services, Sept. 22, 1988