For the Record

Carol Henderson, associate professor of English, Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African-American Literature, University of Missouri Press.

Publications

Amalia Amaki, assistant professor in the Black American Studies Program, “The Unfulfilled Promise of Elizabeth Prophet,” in International Review of African-American Art, vol. 18, no. 3, pages 23-31.

Daniel D. Carson, Trustees Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, and Mary C. Farach-Carson, professor of biological sciences, with research assistant Benjamin Rohe and Riting Liu, “A Rapid and Simple Nonradioactive Method for In Vitro Testing of Ribozyme Activity,” in Antisense and Nucleic Acid Drug Development, vol. 12, pages 283-288.

Kelvin W. Ramsey, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, with Kimberly K. McKenna, “An Evaluation of Sand Resources, Atlantic Offshore, Delaware,” in Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigation No. 63, 37 pages; and with M.K. Reilly, “The Hurricane of Oct. 21-24, 1878,” in Delaware Geological Survey Special Publication No. 22, 44 pages.

Jay Halio, professor of English, an essay, “The Introduction as Clue to The Taming of the Shrew,” in A Certain Text, edited by Linda Anderson and Janis Lull, University of Delaware Press, pages 94-106; and “Singing Chords: Performing Shylock and Other Characters in The Merchant of Venice,” in The Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays, Routledge Press, pages 369-373.

Eric B. Kmiec, professor of biological sciences, “Toward the Mechanism of Chimera-Directed Gene Repair,” in Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, Nature Publishing Group, and “Targeted Gene Repair in the Arena,” in Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2002; with Hetal Parekh-Olmedo, research assistant, and D. Krainc, “Targeted Gene Repair and Its Application to Neurodegenerative Disorders,” in Neuron, vol. 33, pages 495-498 and with Parekh-Olmedo and Miya Drury, “Targeted Nucleotide Exchange in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Directed by Short Oligonucleotides Containing Locked Nucleic Acids,” in Chemistry and Biology, 2002; with graduate student Erin L. Brachman, “The Evolution and Maturation of Targeted Gene Repair,” a review in Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics, vol. 4, no. 2, pages 171-176; and Kmiec et al, “Targeted Beta-Globin Gene Conversion in Human Hematopoietic CD34(+) and Lin(-) Cells,” in Gene Therapy, vol. 9, pages 118-126, “Strand Bias in Targeted Gene Repair Is Influenced by Transcriptional Activity,” in Molecular and Cellular Biology, vol. 22, no. 11, pages 3852-3863, “Rad51p and Rad54p, but not Rad52p, Elevate Gene Repair in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Directed By Modified Single-Stranded Oligonucleotide Vectors,” in Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 30, no. 13, pages 2742-2750, and “Nucleotide Replacement at Two Sites Can Be Directed by Modified Single-Stranded Oligonucleotides in vitro and in vivo,” in Biomolecular Engineering, 2002.

Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, introduction to a 2003 reissue of Arabela Buckley’s Fairyland of Science, first published in 1879.

Alvina Quintana, associate professor of English, an essay, “Performing Tricksters: From Gomez Pena’s Border Brujo to Yamashita’s El Gran Mojado,” in Amerasia Journal, October 2002.

A. Scott Andres, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, with William J. Ullman, professor of marine studies, Joseph R. Scudlark, laboratory technical coordinator, marine studies, and Karen B. Savidge, research associate, marine studies, “Storm Water and Base-Flow Sampling and Analysis in the Delaware Inland Bays: Preliminary Report of Findings 1998-2000,” Delaware Geological Survey Open File Report No. 44, 40 pages and “Delaware Inland Bays Total Maximum Daily Load Water-Quality Database,” Delaware Geological Survey Digital Product 02-02 ; and Andres with C. Scott Howard, research assistant Todd A. Keyser and research specialist Lillian T. Wang, “Ground Water Recharge Potential Map Data for Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware,” in Delaware Geological Survey Digital Product 02-01.

Lois Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor of English, “Introduction and Notes,” Hamlet, French edition, translated by Jean-Michel Deprats, vol. 1, Pleiade edition, Gallimard, Paris, 2002; “The 2001 Globe Season: Celts and Greenery,” in Shakespeare Quarterly 53, pages 95-105; “Showing Some Respect,” a review, in Around the Globe, vol. 21, summer 2002; “Plays in Performance: Othello,” in University of Manchester Press; “Rising from One’s Own Depths: Reactions To and Against First Encounters with Shakespeare,” a review, in Times Literary Supplement, May 31, 2002; “Bestially Bewildered,” a review in Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 30, 2002; and a reprint, “A Stage Where Every Man Must Play a Part?” in Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 66, Gale Group.

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, scripts, “Inventing Montana, A Play in Two Acts,” in Dramatic Publishing, no. 87, and “Tales From The Daily Tabloid, A Play in Two Acts,” Dramatic Publishing, no. 88.

Presentations

James L. Morrison, professor of consumer studies, “Electronic Cash in E-Commerce: Comparative Analysis of Views of Hispanic and African-American Business Owners,” at International Business and Economics Research Conference, Oct. 8, Las Vegas.

Stephen Bernhardt, Andrew Kirkpatrick Jr. Professor of Writing, “Review Practices in Industry and Academic Settings,” at Baruch College, Oct. 11, New York City.

Matt Kinservik, associate professor of English, “Samuel Foote’s Sodomy Trial and the Performance of Innocence,” at NEASECS meeting, Oct. 18.

Lois Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor of English, “William Shakespeare: Whose Life Is This Anyway?” at conference on early modern life, June, Middlesex University, London.

Martin Bruecker, assistant professor of English, “The Geographic Revolution in the Wilderness: Textbook Science and Social Practice in British America,” at eighth annual conference of Omohundro Institute of Early American English Culture, June, College Park, Md.; chairperson and panelist, “New World Landscapes,” at first Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit, May, Tucson.

Michael Cotsell, professor of English, “Bayard Taylor and ‘The Story of Kennett,’” at American Text Conference, summer, University of Virginia.

Richard Davidson, professor, “Hemingway and the Theatre,” at 10th International Hemingway Conference, July 2-7, Stresa, Italy.

Mary Jean Pfaelzer, professor of English, “American Utopian Fiction and the Trauma of Race,” at University of Nottingham international conference, summer.

Fleda Brown, professor of English, lecturer and contest judge, International Society of Poets, Washington, D.C., Aug. 23-24.

Paul Sestak, associate professor of hotel, restaurant and institutional management, “Autotecture Along the Lincoln Highway: Its Former Purpose and Current Day Value,” at Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor semiannual meeting, Sept. 25, Somerset, Pa.

Frank B. Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies and Psychology, “Teacher Preparation Issues,” at Pennsylvania Conference on Teacher Quality and Supply Issues, Sept. 25, Harrisburg, Pa.

Janet Johnson, associate professor of political science and international relations, “Environmental Value and Behavior: Understanding Motivations for Watershed Protection,” at Chesapeake Bay Watershed Restoration Conference, Sept. 25, Baltimore.

Peter P. McLaughlin Jr. and Richard N. Benson, both senior scientists, Delaware Geological Survey, and James V. Browning of Rutgers University, “Palynological Record of Miocene Sequences of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain: Initial Results from the Bethany Beach, Del., Borehole,” at joint international meeting of American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, the British Micropalaeontological Society and the North American Micropaleontology Section of SEPM, Sept. 12, London; and McLaughlin, Benson and Thomas E. McKenna, associate scientist, DGS, “Stratigraphy and Aquifer Architecture of the Mi-Cretaceous Potomac Formation, Northern Delaware,” at Geology Department Colloquium Series of Rutgers University, Oct. 2, New Brunswick.

William S. Schenck, scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, “The Delaware DataMIL: Implementation Through Partnership,” at Inner City/Council Management Association 2002 annual conference, Oct. 1, Philadelphia.

Rudi Matthee, associate professor of history, “Between Sympathy and Enmity: 19th-Century Iranian Views of England and Russia,” at “Looking at the Coloniser” conference, Sept. 27-28, Halle, Germany.

David Kaplan, professor of education, “Extensions of Linear Dynamic Multiplier Analysis to Multivariate Regression and Multilevel Modeling,” at Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology annual meeting, Oct. 17-19, University of Virginia.

Service

Mary C. Farach-Carson, professor of biological sciences, was invited to serve as a member of the oral biology and medicine study section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health (NIH) through June 30, 2004, during which she will assist in reviewing grant applications submitted to NIH, make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate national advisory council or board and survey the status research in their fields of science.

Susan Brynteson, May Morris Director of Libraries, has been elected recording secretary for the board of directors of the Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Yaddo, a private foundation for the perpetuation of the creative arts, supports writers, artists, sculptors, composers and others creating new work.