Profacts
ProFacts welcomes post-announcements from faculty and staff on matters relating to professional achievements. Items may be submitted for the following categories: Appointments/Elections, Awards, Books, Certification, Commissions, Degrees, Exhibitions, Papers, Performances, Presentations and Publications. Announcements will appear on a space-available basis in the order they are received. Submissions may be mailed (Courier Editor, 100 New Administration Bldg.), faxed (683-5501) or e-mailed: sdaniel@blue.cc.odu.edu. For a copy of a ProFacts form, call 683-3093.
Appointments/Elections
CARRETTA COOKE, director of multicultural student services, appointed to the executive board of the National Black Student Leadership Conference, sponsored by the Stuart Educational Leadership Group of Williamsburg, Va.
MAGGI CURRY-WILLIAMS, associate dean of students, appointed to the American College Personnel Association Core Council for the Generation and Dissemination of Knowledge. She represents ACPA's 16 commissions, whose purpose is "the creation and publication of quality literature in the field of college student affairs."
JOHN DOUKAS, professor of finance and international finance, appointed visiting honorary professor of finance and international finance at the business school of the City University of London, United Kingdom.
CAROL F. HINES, associate professor of art, was appointed and served on the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowship Panel in Visual Arts, Dec. 8-9, 1997, in Columbus.
OSAMA A. KANDIL, chair of aerospace engineering, appointed general chair of the Applied Aerodynamics Program and session chair of Vortex-Wake Flows at the AIAA 36th Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nev.
ROBIN J. LEWIS, associate professor of psychology, appointed to the editorial boards of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and Clinical Psychology Review.
OTTO B. MARTINSON, chair of accounting, elected vice president of the Institute of Management Accountants for 1997-98. IMA is the world's largest organization of management accountants and financial managers.
BRETT NEWMAN, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, appointed technical program chair for the 1998 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference in Boston.
KAREN SITTON VAUGHAN, formerly electronic resources librarian at the University Library, selected as the library's new digital services coordinator.
Awards/Honors
CRAIG M. CAMERON, associate professor of history, a Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Beginning Aug. 1, he will have a year's release time to research his history project, "Arbitrating Social Discord: The Negotiation of Military Authority in Vietnam, 1963-1973."
CHRISTINE DRAKE, professor of geography, a "Best Article" award from the National Council for Geographic Education for "Water Resource Conflict in the Middle East," which appeared in vol. 96, no. 1 of Journal of Geography.
CHARLES RODDY, assistant vice president for institutional advancement and director of alumni relations, rated as a "Top Speaker" following his presentation at a workshop on "How to Manage Your Alumni Chapters, Clubs and Branches With Success." It was sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Books
JOHN DOUKAS, professor of finance and international finance, "Privatization and Financial Sector Reform in Transition Economies (Elsevier Science/
North Holland).
Papers
ABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, "Core Accounting Standards for Global Capital Markets" at the 1997 Conference of the Association for Global Business, in Washington, D.C. He also served as a session chair. Also, "An Evaluation of the Bases for Cross-Border Offerings of Securities" at the 9th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, in Bangkok, Thailand. Co-author is Karen Cascini.
NANCY TOPPING BAZIN, eminent scholar of English, "Nadine Gordimer's Fictional Selves: Can a White Woman Be 'At Home' in Black South Africa?" at the 1998 Modern Language Association Convention, in Toronto.
GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, "Mediating 'Thomas Jefferson' (1997): Ken Burns and the Documentary Tradition" at the 112th Annual American Historical Association Conference, in Seattle.
KAREN L. GOULD, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, "Geographies of Death and Desire in Marie-Claire Blais's 'Soifs'" at the biennial meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, in Minneapolis.
OSAMA A. KANDIL, chair of aerospace engineering, four papers at the AIAA 36th Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nev.: "Effect of Reduced Frequency on Super-maneuver Delta Wing," with YAHIA ABDEL-HAMID, doctoral research assistant; "Effect of Configuration Pitching Motion on Twin Tail Buffet Response," with ESSAM F. SHETA, doctoral research assistant; "Investigation of Three-dimensional Vortex-Wake Interaction With Ground," with IHAB ADAM, doctoral research assistant; and "Effect of Apex Flap Deflection on Vertical Tail Buffet," with STEVEN J. MASSEY, a former doctoral research assistant now with AS&M-NASA in Dryden, Calif.
SUSAN KENT, professor of anthropology, "Correlation Does Not Equal Causation: Race and Hemoglobin Means Among North American Blacks" at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.
KARL H. SCHOENBACH, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, "Effect of Pulsed Electric Fields on Biofouling Organisms in Tidal Water" at the Environmental Symposium: Environmental Stewardship - Ships and Shorelines Conference in Virginia Beach. It was published in the proceedings.
JAMES R. SWEENEY, associate professor of history, "Neither Republican nor Democrat: Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., of Virginia, and the Politics of Independence, 1970-1983" at the biennial convention of the national history honors society, Phi Alpha Theta, in Albuquerque, N.M.
K. DENISE THRELFALL, assistant professor of occupational and technical studies, "A Study to Determine the Effects of Marketing Occupational Experience on Urban Secondary Marketing Teachers' Perceptions of Curriculum Priorities" at the American Vocational Association annual conference in Las Vegas.
Presentations
ROBERT L. ASH, associate vice president for research, economic development and graduate studies, "Prospects for Human Exploration of Mars" to the Ghent Methodist Fellowship and for the Joint Engineering Societies' "Legislative Night," both in Norfolk.
CARRETTA COOKE, director of multicultural student services, two workshops at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, in Orlando, Fla.: "Developing Partnerships" and "Creating a Student Institute on Diversity." Also, "Developing Culturally Proficient Organizations" at the International Conference on Volunteer Administration, in Norfolk.
AMIN N. DHARAMSI, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Resolution of Overlapping Lines by Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy Using Semiconductor Lasers" at the IEEE Lasers and Electrooptics Society Meeting in San Francisco.
JOHN DOUKAS, professor of finance and international finance, "Multifactor Asset Pricing Analysis of International Value Investment Strategies," an invited presentation to the American Finance Association.
W. STEVEN GRAY, research associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Sufficient Conditions for Minimality of a Nonlinear Realization via Controllability and Observability Functions" to the mathematics department at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, "Mitteleuropa in Transition" at the Multicultural Exchange Program at the Norfolk Naval Base.
BRETT NEWMAN, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, "Opportunities in Aerospace Engineering" at Coronado Middle and High School in Norfolk.
KEITH PARKINSON, manufacturing specialist with the Technology Applications Center, "Elements of a Marketing Plan" to the Virginia Recycling Markets Development Council, in Richmond.
JODY WOLFORD-TUCKER, assistant director of the Women's Center, a workshop titled "Third Party Reporting: Successes and Implementation" at the Campus Sexual Assault Conference at Virginia Commonwealth University. Co-presenters were D. Gay Cutchin of VCU Sexual Assault Services and LaVern D. Beaver of the Virginia Tech Police Department.
GEORGE T.F. WONG, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Photochemistry in Natural Waters: The Effect of the Spectral Characteristics of the Incident Light on the Photochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide in Natural Waters" at the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Also, an invited keynote speech, "A Conceptual Framework for a Time Series Study in the South China Sea," for a planning workshop on a time series study in the South China Sea sponsored by the Center for Ocean Research of the National Science Council of Taiwan, in Taipei. Also, two invited speeches to the 1997 Ocean Sciences Meeting of Taiwan, in Nantou: "An Evaluation of the Activities and Scientific Contributions of the Taiwanese LOICZ Program to the International Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Program" and "The Past, Present and Future of the Kuroshio Edge Exchange Process Program of Taiwan - An Evaluation of the Activities and Scientific Contributions of the KEEP Program from 1989 to 1997 to the International Joint Global Ocean Flux Study Program."
Publications
SACHARIA ALBIN, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposited Diamond Tips for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" in vol. 71 of Applied Physics Letters.
J.R. BULLINGTON, director of the Center for Global Business and Executive Education, "Italy's Meddling Should Remind Us of Our Own" in vol. 3, no. 1 of American Diplomacy.
JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Fluxes of Copper-complexing Ligands From Estuarine Sediments" in vol. 42, no. 5 of Limnology and Oceanography. Co-authors are DAVID J. BURDIGE, associate professor of oceanography, and Stephen Skrabal of UNC-Wilmington.
JOHN DOUKAS, professor of finance and international finance, "The Dimensions of International Style Investing" in the winter issue of Journal of Investing.
HANI E. ELSAYED-ALI, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "Time-Resolved Surface Electron Diffraction" in "Time-Resolved Diffraction," J.R. Helliwell and P.M. Rentzepis, editors, Oxford University Press, 1997.
KAREN L. GOULD, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, "Madeleine Monette and the Cultural Critique of 'Otherness'" in "Women by Women: The Treatment of Female Characters by Women Writers of Fiction in Quebec Since 1980," Roseanna Lewis Dufault, editor, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997.
EILEEN E. HOFMANN, professor, and CATHY M. LASCARA, research assistant professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Overview of Interdisciplinary Modeling for Marine Ecosystems" in "The Sea," K.H. Brink and A.R. Robinson, editors, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998.
SUSAN KENT, professor of anthropology, "Typologies of Spatial Relationships in Vernacular Architectures," "Nomadic and Sedentary Bushmen (Basarwa) Architecture" and "Navajo Hogans and Symbolism" in "Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World," Paul Oliver, editor, Cambridge University Press. Also, "Interpretations of Differences in Population Hemoglobin Means: A Critical Review of the Literature" in vol. 7 of Ethnicity & Disease.
A.D. KIRWAN JR., professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, "Remote Sensing of Dipole Rings" in vol. 35, no. 6 of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Co-authors are S.B. Hooker, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; R.P. Mied, Naval Research Laboratory; and J.W. Brown, RSMAS, University of Miami.
WU LI, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, "Abadie's Constraint Qualification, Metric Regularity and Error Bounds for Differentiable Convex Inequalities" in vol. 7 of SIAM Journal on Optimization.
BRETT NEWMAN, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, "Analytical Relationships for Linear Quadratic Aeroelastic Flight Control Eigenvalues" in vol. 20, no. 6 of Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics. Co-author is doctoral student AYMAN KASSEM.
MICHAEL P. PEARSON, associate professor of English, an excerpt from his recently completed manuscript, "Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx," in the winter 1997-98 issue of Culturefronts, a magazine published by the New York Council for the Humanities. The excerpt was titled "Shards From a Bronx Childhood."
ERIC POURCHOT, TELETECHNET site director at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, "From Bucharest to Broadway: Les Dana•des and Contemporary Romanian Theatre" in the fall 1997 issue of Slavic and East European Performance.
SUSAN D. SCHAFFER, associate professor of nursing, "Preventing Nursing Student Exposure Incidents: The Role of Personal Protective Equipment and Safety Engineered Devices" in vol. 36, no. 9 of Journal of Nursing Education.
KARL H. SCHOENBACH, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, "Effect of Pulsed Electric Fields on Aquatic Nuisance Species" in "Zebra Mussels and Aquatic Nuisance Species," Ann Arbor Press, 1997.
SIMON R. THORROLD, research associate professor, Applied Marine Research Laboratory, and
CYNTHIA M. JONES, associate professor of biological sciences, "Response of Otolith Microchemistry to Environmental Variations Experienced by Larval and Juvenile Atlantic Croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) in vol. 42, no. 1 of Limnology and Oceanography. Co-author is S.E. Campana of the Marine Fish Division, Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Also, with P.K. Swart of the Rosenstial School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, as a fourth co-author, "Factors Determining Delta13C and Delta 18O Fractionation in Aragonitic Otoliths of Marine Fish" in vol. 61, no. 14 of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
DONALD J. ZEIGLER, professor of geography, a slide set titled "Syria: The Land and Its People" in "NCGE Slide Presentations," Great Plains National, 1998. Also, "Rediscovering the Roots of Moroccan Geography in an Era of Interdependence" in vol. 39, no. 2 of The Geographical Bulletin. Co-author is Driss Fassi.
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