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12:05 p.m., Oct. 8, 2003--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

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Publications

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, “Contract Labor and the Indenture System,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, vol. 1, pages 535-538, Oxford University Press.

G.S. Hsiao, professor of mathematics, and P.B. Monk, Unidel Professor of Mathematics, and N. Nigam of University of Minnesota, “Error Analysis of a Finite Element-Integral Equation Scheme for Approximating the Time-Harmonic Maxwell System,” in SIAM Journal of Number Analysis, vol. 40, no. 1, pages 198-219.

Jeremy Firestone, assistant professor of marine studies, with graduate student R. Barber, “Fish as Pollutants: Limitations of and Crosscurrents in Law, Science, Management and Policy,” in Washington Law Review, vol. 78, no. 3, pages 693-756.

Ben Yagoda, professor of English, “Johnny Cash on Demand: Get Ready for Tribute Songs to the Man in Black. Lots of Them,” a Slate online article.

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, “Advice to a Young Poet,” a poem, in The Midwest Quarterly, special issue, Letters to a Young Poet, summer 2003; and “Whacky Gardener Weds Head of Lettuce,” reprinted in “Strongly Spent: 50 Years of Shenandoah Poetry,” 2002, Washington and Lee University, spring/summer 2003

Presentations

Roger J. Steiner, professor emeritus of linguistics, “Reversibility in Bilingual Dictionaries,” at 14th biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America, May 29-31, Durham, May 29-31.

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, “Two Theories of Money Reconciled: The Colonial Puzzle Revisited with New Evidence,” at Economic History Association annual meeting, Sept. 21, Nashville.

Valerie Hans, professor of sociology and criminal justice, “Jury Deliberations in Criminal Cases: An Empirical Study,” and Hans et al, “The Effect of Juror Characteristics on Case Outcomes” and “An Overview of the NIJ/NCSC Hung Jury Project,” at Law and Society Association annual meeting, June, Pittsburgh. She also was a panelist on “Legal Studies in the Academy in the 21st Century” at the same meeting.

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, poetry reading in Media, Pa., May 15; a poem in honor of Malcolm Muggeridge, at his Centenary Festival Celebration, May 23, Wheaton College; and poetry reading and lecture, Houghton College Spring Writing Festival, April 10-11.

Richard N. Benson, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, “Gulf of California Radiolaria,” at International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists 10th meeting, Sept. 8-12, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Thomas E. McKenna, associate scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, “Thermal Imaging of Ground Water Discharge in Delaware’s Inland Bays,” at College of Marine Studies oceanography seminar, Sept. 23.

Peter McLaughlin and Richard N. Benson, both senior scientists, Delaware Geological Survey, with K.G. Miller and J.V. Browning of Rutgers University, “Neogene Sequences from the East-Central Delmarva Peninsula: Results from Drilling at Bethany Beach, Del.,” a poster, at workshop sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the International Continental Drilling Program, Sept. 22-24, Reston, Va.

Service

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, with other panel members of the New Jersey State Arts Council, selected which applicants will teach poetry in New Jersey schools; conducted a script writing workshop for adults at Glen Writing Workshops, Aug. 1-8, Santa Fe, N.M.; served as an examiner for honor degrees at Swarthmore College; and served as a competition judge for Icarus 2003 Literary Competition, July 1-31, Kill Devil Hills, N.C.

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, was selected to serve as dissertation convener for the Economic History Association for 2003-04, which requires him to read, select and award the association’s “best dissertation” prize to the most worthy applicant.

David Hollowell, executive vice president, was elected to serve as a Commission of Higher Education(CHE) representative on the board of trustees of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools from January 2004 to December 2006.

Valerie Hans, professor of sociology and criminal justice, was named to the board of directors, Delaware Center for Justice, and president of the Consortium for Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs.

Michael Middaugh, assistant vice president for institutional research and planning, was one of three new commissioners appointed to fill out unfinished terms on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The term of his appointment ends in December, and he is on the ballot for a new term that begins in January.

Books

Susan Goodman, professor of English, “Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners 1880-1940,” Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ben Yagoda, professor of English, “The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College: The First 75 Years,” Donning Co. Publishers.

McKay Jenkins, associate professor of English, “The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler’s Europe,” Random House.

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