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ABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, appointed to the editorial board of The Multinational Business Review for a three-year period, starting in October 1998.

MARGARET E. ARMSTRONG, director of the undergraduate program, School of Nursing, elected president of the National Navy Nurse Corps Association.

EILEEN E. HOFMANN, professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, appointed to the editorial board of Polar Biology.

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, named national coordinator of the Social Constructionist Counselor Education Network listserv for the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

LINDSAY L. RETTIE, dean of the College of Health Sciences, was made a Fellow of the Association of Schools of Allied Health at its national meeting in San Diego.

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus, and J. DAVID BRANCH, assistant professor, exercise science, physical education and recreation, the 1998 Best Review Paper Award from the American College of Nutrition for their paper, “Creatine Supplementation and Exercise Performance: An Update,” published in the June 1998 issue of The Journal of the American College of Nutrition. The award carries a $2,000 unrestricted educational grant.

SCOTT CAIRNS, associate professor of English, “Recovered Body,” a poetry collection (New York: George Braziller Publishers, 1998).

ELIZABETH MONK-TURNER, chair of sociology and criminal justice, “Community College Education and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Status Attainment” (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998).

ABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, “An Evaluation of the New Standards on Segmental Reporting” at the 10th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues” in Maui, Hawaii. Co-author is Karen Cascini. Also, “Impact of the Euro on the Competitiveness of U.S. Corporations in the Global Marketplace” at the 1998 Annual Conference on Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace, in Boston.

CARL BOYD, eminent scholar of history, “How NOT to Cooperate: National Socialist Germany and Imperial Japan” at the U.S. Air Force Academy 18th Military History Symposium on Future War: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

DUNCAN G. BYERS, master’s student in environmental chemistry; JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and DAVID J. BURDIGE, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences; “Zinc Concentrations, Complexation and Speciation in Sediment Pore Waters of the Chesapeake Bay and Elizabeth River, Va.” at the fall meeting of the Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, at George Mason University.

FREDERICK G. FREEMAN, professor, MARK W. SCERBO, associate professor;,and PETER J. MIKULKA, professor, psychology, “An Assessment of the Efficacy of Event-related Potentials for Adaptive Automation” at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, in Chicago (co-authors are Lawrence J. Prinzel, principal co-author, and Alan T. Pope).

W. STEPHEN GRAY, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, “Energy Functions and Algebraic Gramians for Bilinear Systems” at the 4th IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Design Symposium in Enschede, The Netherlands. Co-author is J. Mesko of Boeing Helicopter Co. in Philadelphia.

SUSAN KENT, professor of sociology, “Fact or Fiction: The Presence of Oscillating Economies Among Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa” at the international Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, in Osaka, Japan.

A. WARREN MATTHEWS, professor of philosophy and religious studies, “Whose Rule?: Augustine’s Experiments in Non-Christian Disciplines (Confessions 3.1)” at the 23rd International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, at Villanova University, Villanova, Pa.

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Social Construction and Counselor Education: Directions and Practices” at a recent meeting of the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, in Montgomery, Ala.

BRETT NEWMAN, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, two papers at the 1998 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference in Boston: “Symbolic Analysis of Linear Quadratic Control Numerator and Denominator Factors” (co-author is AYMAN KASSEM, research associate, aerospace engineering) and “Formation of Sketching Rules for a Multivariable Evans Design Technique” (co-author is DONGYU FU, doctoral student, aerospace engineering).

RAMAMURTHY PRABHAKARAN, eminent professor of mechanical engineering, “Stress Gradient Effects on Pultruded Composite Strength” at the 5th International Conference on Composites Engineering, in Las Vegas (with co-author

M. SAHA, a graduate student). He also organized and chaired a session on Experimental Techniques.

ROBERT K. ROSE, professor of biological sciences, “Reevaluating the Population Substructure Model” at the Euro-American Mammal Congress in Santiago de Campostela, Spain. He also presented a poster, with graduate student THOMAS DOLAN, titled “Body Mass Dynamics of Meadow Voles in Virginia, USA.”

MARK W. SCERBO, associate professor of psychology, four presentations at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, in Chicago: “Sources of Stress and Boredom in Vigilance”; “The Effects of Task Partitioning and Computer Skill on Engagement and Performance with an Adaptive, Biocybernetic System” (co-authors are Todd M. Eischeid, principal co-author, and FREDERICK G. FREEMAN, professor of psychology); “Skill Acquisition with Human and Computer Teammates: Don’t Sit So Close to Me” (with principal author Jamie L. LoVerde); and “The Effects of Complacency Potential and Boredom Proneness on Perceived Workload and Task Performance in an Automated Environment” (with principal author Julie M. Stark). Also, “System Dynamics Training: How Robust are the Mental Models?” at the 19th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Management, in Virginia Beach (co-authors are Jennifer M. Sing, principal co-author, and Jeffrey S. Sinn).

PETER L. SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French, “Paris au XXeme au XIXeme: Eccentricity and Revolt in Jules Verne’s Vision of the Nineteenth Century” at the 24th Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, at Penn State University.

JOHN A. ADAM, professor of mathematics and statistics, “The Mathematical Physics of Rainbows” at the Tidewater Council of Teachers of Mathematics meeting, at Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake.

AMINIA M. BRUEGGEMANN, assistant professor of German, “The Role of the Canon in German Departments from 1945 to the Present” at the German Studies Workshop, Cornell University.

GREGORY A CUTTER, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Hydrogen Sulfide in Surface Waters: A Phytoplanktonic Control on Trace Metal Activity?” at the Marine Sciences Research Center Oceans and Atmospheres Colloquium, SUNY-Stony Brook.

LISA A. ECKENWILER, assistant professor of philosophy, “Promoting Justice in Health Care for African-American Women: Storytelling, the ‘Moral Point of View’ and Ideals of Democracy” at the 2nd International Conference on African Women and the African Diaspora: Health and Human Rights, in Indianapolis. Also, “Justice in Research with Humans: Lessons from Women’s Experiences” at the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, in Boston.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, “The Television Documentary as Popular History: Constructing Collective Memories on American Public Television,” a visiting lecture at the University of Aalborg, Denmark.

STUART FRAZER, social sciences reference librarian, and JANET JUSTIS, government information reference librarian, University Library, “Public Documents, the Web and the Non-Documents Librarian” at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, in Virginia Beach.

EILEEN E. HOFMANN, professor, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, “Environmental and Biological Interactions and Consequence for Larval Transport” at the Oceanography Department Seminar, Texas A&M University.

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, a panel presentation on “Affirmative Action: Where Are We Now?” sponsored by Mundo Hispano, the Hispanic student group at Old Dominion. Other panelists were MAURICE R. BERUBE, eminent scholar of educational leadership and counseling, and LESLIE G. CARR, associate professor of sociology.

THERESA TYUS MITCHELL, assistant director of student activities and leadership, a workshop titled “Orchestrating Commuter Success” at James Madison University’s Student Success Conference. Also, a workshop titled “Keys to Student Success: Organizational Skills and Time Management” at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil engineering, four presentations: “Parallel-Vector Equation and Eigen-Solvers” at the NEC Sys. Int., Woodlands, Texas; “New Out-of-Core Capability for Large-Scale STAGS” to the Structural Mechanics branch at NASA Langley Research Center; “Large-Scale Out-of-Core Sparse Lanczos and Revised Simplex for Industrial Applications” at CSAR, Agoura Hill, Calif.; and “Computational Issues in the Revised Simplex Method” to the Thermal-Structures branch at NASA.

RENEE E. OLANDER, lecturer in arts and letters, read poems at the National Arts Club in New York City for the publication of “Verse and Universe, Poems About Science and Mathematics,” Kurt Brown, editor (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions).

CHARLIE G. TURNER, associate professor of economics, “The Relative Pay of Men and Women in South Korea” at the International Atlantic Economic Conference, in Boston.

KAREN VAUGHAN, digital services coordinator for the University Library, “Digital Training for Library Staff” at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, in Virginia Beach. Also at the conference, with ANN PETTINGILL, head of Reference and Research Services, “Separate but Equal: Serving Distant Users.”

SCOTT CAIRNS, associate professor of English, two poems, “Tesserae” and “The Forest of the Stylites,” in the current issue of The Paris Review.

DONALD D. DAVIS, professor of psychology, “Change Management and Consulting in Chinese Organizations” in vol. 49, no. 2 of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

GILBERT R. HOY, eminent scholar of physics (with eight co-authors), “Time-integrated Energy Domain Measurements with Synchrotron Radiation” in vol. 113 of Hyperfine Interactions.

RAVINDRA P. JOSHI, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, “Effects of Transverse Doping Variations on the Transient Response of Silicon Avalanche Shaper Devices” in vol. 45 of IEEE Trans. Elec. Dev. (co-author is J . Gaudet). Also, “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Grain Boundary Electron Transport in n-Silicon” in vol. 84 of Journal of Applied Physics (co-author is R.F. Wood).

CLAIR T. NEWBOLD, graduate teaching assistant and doctoral student in urban services/urban education, a poem, “Transitions,” in the fall 1998 issue of The Powhatan Review.

RENEE E. OLANDER, lecturer in arts and letters, a poem, “Universe: Alter-Egos, a Meditation on Strange Attractors,” in “Verse and Universe, Poems About Science and Mathematics,” Kurt Brown, editor (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions).

KARL H. SCHOENBACH, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, “Generation of Intense Excimer Radiation from High-pressure Hollow Cathode Discharges” in vol. 73 of Applied Physics Letters (co-author is A. El-Habachi). Also, two publications in the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Light Sources, in Greifswald, Germany: “VUV-Radiance of High Pressure Hollow Cathode Discharges in Xenon” (co-authors are H. Lange and El-Habachi) and “Microhollow Cathode Discharge Excimer Lamps” (co-authors are R.H. Stark, El-Habachi and W. Shi).

PETER L. SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French, “Deracinement et gommages de l’identite: Le passe entre parentheses dans Europa, Europa et La Statue de Sel d’Albert Memmi” in vol. 39, no. 1 of Romance Notes.

JAMES R. SWEENEY, associate professor of history, “Southern Strategies: The 1970 Election for the United States Senate in Virginia” in the spring 1998 issue of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.