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Four faculty members join ranks of named professors
11:47 a.m., Dec. 8, 2006--Two members of the UD faculty have been appointed named professors, and two new faculty members are named professors, Provost Dan Rich has announced. “Being appointed a named professor is one of the highest honors a faculty member can achieve. For those who have served on the UD faculty, the honor recognizes outstanding scholarship and teaching and distinguished service to the University and community. For new professors joining the UD faculty, the appointment recognizes exceptional academic accomplishments and a distinguished career in their chosen field,” Rich said. Thomas Church has been named E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine Studies and Dennis Prather has been named the first College of Engineering Alumni Professor, both effective Jan. 1. Sharron Lennon has been named Irma Ayers Professor of Fashion and Apparel Studies and Veronica Rempusheski the Jeanne K. Buxbaum Chair of Nursing Science, both effective with the beginning of the academic year. Thomas Church Church's research focuses on the transport of land emissions to the ocean, trace metal transport and cycling in salt marsh, estuarine and coastal waters, sedimentary geochemistry involving metals, sulfur and nutrients, and sea water precipitates and oceanic mineralization. Current research projects involve iron inputs to the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda and metals found between the Potomac River basin and the Chesapeake Bay. Church also is involved in research on acid rain and associated metal pollutants. His current research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A graduate of Colgate University, Church received his doctorate from the University of San Diego in chemistry and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Paris before coming to the University of Delaware in 1972. He has published more than 150 papers in his field and is the author of Marine Chemistry in the Coastal Environment. Dennis Prather A member of the nanoelectronics, electromagnetics and photonics research group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prather is involved in the development of micro-, meso- and nano-photonic devices, applied optics and electromagnetic research, developing imaging technologies in the millimeter-wave (mmW) part of the spectrum so that they can be seen and interpreted by the human eye. This has applications for helicopter pilots, for example, who are flying though thick cloud cover or landing in whirling sand. Prather also has been awarded a grant from the Department of Defense for a project that will help enable computers to get closer to operating at the speed of light. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Laboratory and industrial sponsors. The author or coauthor of 24 U.S. patents and more than 250 publications, Prather is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Society for Photo-Instrumentation Engineers. He received the Outstanding Junior Faculty of Engineering Award in 2000-01, a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and the W.J. Kastner Technical Achievement Award. Prather received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland and joined the UD faculty in 1997. Sharron Lennon
Her research interests include online visual merchandising, women's images in the media, extreme consumption, body image, changing attitudes about fashion counterfeit products, dress and the law, customer service in the multi-channel context and social perception as a function of dress. Lennon has consulted on legal cases involving dress in Wisconsin and Canada. She has published more than 90 research articles and book chapters. The coeditor of Appearance and Social Power, she serves as a member of the editorial board for Fashion Marketing and Management. She also has served as president of the International Textiles and Apparel Association. Among her honors, she was named Consumer Sciences Faculty of the Year and received the Dean's Faculty Award while at Ohio State University and was the Prentice Hall Distinguished Lecturer at the International Textiles and Apparel Association's annual meeting in 2002. A graduate of St. Joseph's College in Indiana, Lennon received her master's degree from Miami University in Ohio and her doctorate from Purdue University. Veronica Rempusheski Rempusheski's research involves elder care within a family context, including elders with dementia, family caregiving and grandparent-grandchild relationships, three and four-generation families and ethnicity/ethnic identity. Rempusheski has taught at the Clemson University College of Nursing, was an associate at Harvard's Geriatric Education Center of Harvard Medical School and was a lecturer at Boston College. She served as associate dean for research and as director of the Center for Nursing Science and Scholarly Practice at the University of Rochester School of Nursing and was a faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Nursing before joining the UD faculty this fall. Her career as a research consultant has taken her to China, Finland and 11 other countries. Among her honors she was named to the Seton Hall University Hall of Honor, received the Phyllis Keeney Lawrence Teaching Award in Nursing from the School of Nursing at the University of Kansas and the Geraldine Newell Lectureship as a distinguished alumna from the University of Arizona's College of Nursing. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and Gerontological Society of America and has served as president of the Eastern Nursing Research Society.
Professorship namesakes E.I. du Pont immigrated to America from France, arriving in 1800, and broke ground for his first powder mills in 1802. He is credited as the founder of the DuPont Co. Noted also for his charitable concerns, du Pont died in 1834. Dr. Irma Ayers served as dean of UD's School of Home Economics from 1948-72, after serving on the faculty of the University of Tennessee. A graduate of the West Virginia University, she earned her master's degree from Pennsylvania State College and doctorate from Columbia University. During her career, she taught at Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh and later at a private school in the West Indies. She died in 1998. Dr. Jean Kitenplon Buxbaum earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science and her MBA from UD. She was employed by the DuPont Co. until her retirement in the late 1980s and was a generous friend of the University until her death in 2003. Her husband was the late Dr. Edwin C. Buxbaum, professor emeritus of anthropology. The College of Engineering Alumni Professorship is supported by an endowment fund established by alumni in 2004 to assist in attracting and retaining the best and brightest talent in engineering education and research. Article by Sue Moncure
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