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- For the Record, March 25, 2011
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11:25 a.m., Sept. 11, 2009----For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.
Presentations
Lawrence Nees, professor of art history, presented a paper, “Notes on the Evidence from Latin and Other Christian Manuscripts for the Dating of the Earliest Qur'an Manuscripts,” at an international and interdisciplinary Seminar on the Evidence for the Early History of the Qur'an, which was held July 30-31. The seminar was organized by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University, and was restricted to 11 scholars from religious studies, history, palaeography and epigraphy, as well as art history, and included contributors from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Iran, South Africa and South Korea.
Sheldon D. Pollack, professor of law and legal studies, was a participant on a panel at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 6. The panel was entitled "Author Meets Readers: Sheldon Pollack's War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State,” and was devoted to a discussion of Pollack's new book. The moderator of the panel was Leslie F. Goldstein, professor of political science and international relations at UD.
Publications
Jennifer Lambe, associate professor of communication, has two new publications, “Public Attitudes About Government Involvement in Expressive Controversies,” with Jason B. Reineke, Journal of Communication, 59 (2009) 225, and “The Structure of Censorship Attitudes,” Communication Law and Policy, 13:4, 485, (2008).
Scott Caplan, associate professor of communication, "Problematic Internet Use and Psychosocial Well-being Among MMO Players," by Caplan, D. Williams and N. Yee, Computers in Human Behavior.
Brian Dzwonkowski, postdoctoral researcher in oceanography, Edward J. Kohut, supplemental faculty in geological sciences, and Xiao-Hai Yan, Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Marine Studies, “Seasonal Differences in Wind-Driven Across-Shelf Forcing and Response Relationships in the Shelf Surface Layer of the Central Mid-Atlantic Bight,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Res., 114, 2009. Also, “Sub-Inertial Characteristics of the Surface Flow Field Over the Shelf of the Central Mid-Atlantic Bight,” Continental Shelf Research, July 25, 2009.
Lide Jiang, doctoral student, Xiao-Hai Yan, Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Marine Studies, and Victor Klemas, professor emeritus of marine studies, “Remote Sensing for the Identification of Coastal Plumes: Case Studies of Delaware Bay,” International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30:8, 2033-2048.
Xiao-Hai Yan, Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Marine Studies, Young-Heon Jo, research associate, W.T Liu and M. Dai, “Salinity Variations in Water Column Due to Couflows Estimated by Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing,” Advances in Geosciences.
Laurence C. Breaker, William W. Broenko, William E. Watson and Young-Heon Jo, research associate, “Tidal and Non-Tidal Oscillations in Elkhorn Slough, California,” Estuaries and Coasts.
Matthew S. Weinert, assistant professor of political science and international relations, "Popularizing International Politics: Human Agency and the Politics of World Order," Perspectives: Review of International Affairs, spring 2009.
Books
Sheldon D. Pollack, professor of law and legal studies, is author of the book War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State, Cornell University Press, September 2009.
Service
David E. Hollowell, executive vice president and treasurer emeritus, has been elected for a two-year term as president of the Boston University Alumni Association effective July 1, 2009.
Awards
David E. Hollowell, executive vice president and treasurer emeritus, received the Founders' Award for distinguished achievement in higher education from the Society for College and University Planning at its annual conference in Portland, Ore., in July.