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For the Record
 

For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Books

Publications

Presentations

Service

Awards

Books

Karl W. Böer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Solar Energy, “Survey of Semiconductor Physics, Vol. I and Vol. II,” updated and extended, John Wiley & Sons.

John Brockman, professor of English, “Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838,” Baywood Publishing Co.

Dewey M. Caron, professor of entomology and applied ecology, “Africanized Honey Bees in the Americas,” A.I. Root Co.

Dennis Jackson, professor of English, with John Sweeney, “The Journalist’s Craft: A Guide to Writing Better Stories,” Allworth Press.

Publications

Jonathan Grossman, assistant professor of English, a review of “British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830” by Miranda J. Burgess, in 19th-Century Literature, no. 56, pages 417-419.

Benigno Aguirre, professor of sociology and criminal justice, “A Test of Culture of Opposition’s Power Grid,” in Cuba in Transition, vol. 11, pages 404-417.

Elaine Safer, professor of English, “Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved,’” Festschrift in Honor of Javier Coy, editor, in Carme Manuel, University of Valencia Spain; and poems, “Revenge,” “Ground Zero,” “Analysis” and “After Terrorism,” in Image Magazine, special 9/11 issue, no. 32, pages 56-60.

Michael F. Middaugh, assistant vice president for institutional research and planning, “Faculty Productivity: Different Strategies for Different Audiences,” in Planning for Higher Education, vol. 30, no. 3.

Susan J. Foster, vice president for information technology, “Implementing an Institution-wide ICT Strategy for University Education,” in Educational Development Through Information and Communication Technologies, Kogan Page Limited, London.

Roland Roth, professor of entomology and applied ecology, with T. Underwood Jr., AG ‘97M, “Demographic Variables Are Poor Indicators of Wood Thrush Productivity,” in Condor, vol. 104, pages 92-102; and with William Brown, AG ‘99M, “Temporal Patterns of Fitness and Survival in the Wood Thrush,” in Ecology, vol. 83, no. 4, pages 958-969.

Margaret D. Stetz, visiting associate professor of women’s studies, “The New Woman and the British Periodical Press of the 1890s,” in Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 6, no. 2, pages 272-85.

Karen Rankin-Baransky, research associate in biological sciences, et al, “Origin of Loggerhead turtles Stranded in the Northeastern United States as Determined by Mitochondrial DNA Analysis,” in Journal of Herpetology, vol. 35, no. 4, pages 638-646.

Kenneth Koford, professor of economics, and Adrian E. Tschoegl, visiting assistant professor of finance, “Developing Credit Markets in Eastern Europe: Lessons from Banking History,” in Transition in Asia and Eastern Europe: A Closed Door or Two Open Windows?, Nova Science, Huntington, N.Y.

Ronald H. Karlson, professor of biological sciences, and Howard V. Cornell, professor of biological sciences, “Species Richness of Coral Assemblages: Detecting Regional Influences at Local Spatial Scales,” in Ecology, vol. 83, no. 2, pages 452-464; and Karlson, “Global, Regional and Local Patterns of Species Richness and Abundance of Butterflyfishes: Comment,” in Ecology, vol. 83, no. 2, pages 583-585.

Gerald Turkel, professor of sociology and criminal justice, “Sudden Solidarity and the Rush to Normalization: Toward an Alternative Approach,” in Sociological Focus, vol. 35, no. 1, pages 73-79.

Diane S. Herson, associate professor of biological sciences, Nathan A. Reed, research specialist in biological sciences, and Brady Redmond, graduate student in biological sciences, et al, “Effect of Oxidizing Disinfectants (chlorine, monochloramine and ozone) on Helicobacter pylori,” in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 68, pages 981-984.

Presentations

Debby Andrews, professor of English, panel moderator, “What Leadership, Goals and Policies Can Ensure that Students Communicate Well in Multicultural Environments and International Commerce?” at sixth National Writing Across the Curriculum conference, March 8, Houston.

Tom Leitch, professor of English, “Four Hitchcocks for a New Century,” at Mary Washington Film Series, February; and keynote address, “Literature vs. Literacy: Problems in Making, Watching and Teaching Film Adaptations,” at Pennsylvania College Educators’ Association, March.

Dewey M. Caron, professor of entomology and applied ecology, “IPM in Beekeeping Development,” at Mid-Atlantic Research and Extension Consortium spring meeting, March 6, Beltsville, Md., and “Protecting North American Pollinators,” at Maryland State Beekeepers Association meeting, Feb. 16, Friendship, Md.

Several members of the English department and the University Writing Center participated in the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 21-23, Chicago: Gilda Kelsey, instructor, University Writing Center, workshop leader, “ESL Tutoring in the Writing Center: Using Case Studies to Determine Effective Instruction” with Barbara Lutz, instructor, University Writing Center, as panelist; Clyde Moneyhun, assistant professor of English, panel chair, “Thinking About Thinking: Using Cognitive Research Findings to Re-imagine Argumentation” with panelists Kelsey and Lutz and Dee Baer, instructor, University Writing Center; and Lutz, “Cogito Ergo Sum: Research on Argumentative Thinking in College Students.”

Vivian Ymada and Jean Y. Lee, clinical psychologists in Center for Counseling and Student Development, with Joyce Dennis Henderson, assistant director of MBNA Career Services Center, a workshop, “Career Development with Asian American Students,” at American College Personnel Association conference, March 16-20, Long Beach, Calif.

Dave W. Smith, associate professor of biological sciences, invited panel member at SMART (Strengthening the Mid-Atlantic Region for Tomorrow) States Anti-Terrorism Workshop, April 3-4, Baltimore.

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, poetry reading at the Chrysostom Society meeting and panelist, “Shaping September’s Story,” Feb. 22, San Antonio, Texas.

Kristen Poole, associate professor of English, seminar leader, “Revenge,” at Shakespeare Association of America conference, March 22, Minneapolis.

Margaret D. Stetz, visiting associate professor of women’s studies, “Locating Comfort Women, Issues in Women’s Studies,” at Mid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Association conference, Feb. 16, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.; and “Organized and Chaired: Women, the Arts and Environmentalism,” at Women’s History Month panel, March 25, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Service

Gabriele Bauer, teaching consultant in Center for Teaching Effectiveness, was appointed chair, New Faculty Developers Committee, Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education for the 2002-2003 academic year.

Rhonda Aull Hyde, associate professor, food and resource economics and operations research, editor of 2002 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Proceedings, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dewey M. Caron, professor, entomology and applied ecology, served as chair of a three-member outside review teams for USDA, ARS Beltsville Bee Lab in February.

Awards

Dewey M. Caron, professor, entomology and applied ecology, was presented the 2002 Free State (Maryland) Beekeeping Citizenship Award for excellence in apiculture by Maryland State Beekeepers Association, Feb. 16.

May 1, 2002