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A. OSMAN AKAN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

CARL O. HELVIE, professor of nursing, selected as a peer reviewer of special-project grant proposals at the Division of Nursing, HHS, HRSA, in Silver Springs, Md.

BRETT NEWMAN, associate professor of aerospace engineering, appointed technical program chair for the 2000 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference in Denver.

BRETT NEWMAN, associate professor of aerospace engineering, a certificate of appreciation for significant contributions to the High-Speed Research Program at NASA Langley Research Center.

M. LEE MANNING, professor of educational curriculum and instruction, and Leroy G. Baruth of Appalachian State University, “Teaching Learners At-Risk” (Christopher-Gordon Publishers. 2000).

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, Karen Eriksen and associates, “Preparing Counselors and Therapists: Creating Constructivist and Developmental Programs” (Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and Donning Publishers. March 2000).

WILLIAM D. STANLEY, chair of engineering technology, new editions of two of his books: “Transform Circuit Analysis for Engineering Technology” (fourth edition. Prentice-Hall. 2000) and “Network Analysis with Applications” (third edition. Prentice-Hall. 2000). The latter book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing a collection of 92 Electronic Workbench examples prepared by Interactive Image Technologies of Toronto, Canada.

GREGORY CUTTER, professor of oceanography, two papers at the 2000 American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas: “The Biogeochemistry of Selenium in San Francisco Bay: Water Column Trends” (with co-authors LYNDA CUTTER, lab manager, and Sam Luoma, USGS, Menlo Park) and “Production of Carbonyl Sulfide in the Sargasso Sea” (with co-authors LYNDA CUTTER and ALISON FEATHERSTONE, a postdoctoral researcher).

MARTINA DOBLIN, postdoctoral researcher, “The Biogeochemistry of Selenium in San Francisco Bay: Seston and Phytoplankton” at the 2000 American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Co-authors are LYNDA CUTTER, lab manager; GREGORY CUTTER, professor of oceanography; and Nick Fisher and Stephen Baines of SUNY-Stony Brook.

JOHN KROLL, associate professor of mathematics, “Surface Intensified Rossby Waves from Wave-Wave Interactions with Topography” at the 2000 American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

SHANNON MESECK, doctoral student in oceanography, “The Biogeochemistry of Selenium in San Francisco Bay: Sediment Cycling” at the 2000 American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Co-authors are LYNDA CUTTER, lab manager, and GREGORY CUTTER, professor of oceanography.

BRETT NEWMAN, associate professor of aerospace engineering, two government reports at NASA Langley Research Center: “Investigation of Inner Loop Flight Control Strategies for High-Speed Research,” NASA-CR-1999-209522 (co-author is Ayman Kassem of Cairo University), and “Multivariable Techniques for High-Speed Research Flight Control Systems,” NASA-CR-1999-209528.

REGINA A. ROOT, assistant professor of Spanish, “Roaming Beauties and the Spirit of Independence” at the Poetics of Space Conference at SUNY-Binghamton.

KARL H. SCHOENBACH, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, “High Pressure Hollow Cathode Discharges” at the Center for Plasma Aided Manufacturing Annual Meeting/Workshop in Madison, Wis. Also, “Microhollow Cathode Discharge Excimer Lamps” at the Gaseous Electronics Conference in Norfolk and the American Physical Society’s 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics in Seattle. Also, “Microhollow Cathode Discharges” to the mechanical engineering department at the University of Minnesota.

DONALD J. P. SWIFT, eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Event and Systems Stratigraphy on Continental Margins” at the 35th annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America in New Brunswick, N.J.

VAL DERLEGA, professor of psychology, “The Importance of Building a Gay Community Network for Promoting Social and Personal Identity” to the Prime Timers of Southeastern Virginia.

CARL O. HELVIE, professor of nursing, “The Old Dominion University Nursing Center and the Efficacy of Primary Care in That Setting” at the Eastern Virginia Medical School Community Day.

KEVIN H. JOHANNESSON, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Rare Earth Elements in Studies of Groundwater Hydrology” at Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.

FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Berlin-Babylon 2000: Die Ballade von der gefallenen und wiederauferstandenen Stadt” and “Thomas Mann’s ‘Felix Krull’: Confidence Man of the ‘Belle Epoque’ and Poster Boy of Postmodernity” at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference in Louisville, Ky. Also, “Moving Toward the Millennium: The Second Coming of the ‘Eternal Feminine’” at Virginia Wesleyan College.

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, “Laboratory Studies with Pfiesteria and Related Organisms” at the Third Annual Pfiesteria Technical Workshop in Annapolis, Md. Also, a poster presentation, “Comparing Life Stages and Growth Studies Between Pfiesteria Piscicida and Two Pfiesteria-like Dinoflagellates,” at a meeting of the Southeastern Estuarine Research Society in Wilmington, N.C. Co-authors are DAVE SEABORN, postdoctoral researcher (lead author), MICHELLE SEABORN, doctoral student, and WILLIAM DUNSTAN, eminent scholar, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences; and ANDREW GORDON, chair, and BRIAN DYER, adjunct instructor, biological sciences.

SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of early childhood, special education and speech pathology, “Tips for Becoming Better Students” to students at Rogers Hall.

CHARLIE RODDY, assistant vice president for institutional advancement, session chair and presenter for “Partnering for Events that Are Truly Special” at the Council for Advancement and Support of of Education District III Annual Conference in Atlanta.

ABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, “Impact of Accounting Rules on Competitiveness of U.S. Corporations in Business Acquisition Decisions” in the spring issue of Multinational Business Review.

A. OSMAN AKAN, professor, GARY C. SCHAFRAN, associate professor, PETER POMMERENK, graduate research assistant, and LAURA J. HARRELL, assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering, “Modeling Storm-water Runoff Quantity and Quality from Marine Drydocks” in the January issue of Journal of Environmental Engineering.

KATHERINE BUCHER, associate professor, and M. LEE MANNING, professor, educational curriculum and instruction, “A Boys’ Alternative to Bodice Rippers” in vol. 89 of English Journal.

THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology, “The Psychosocial Consequences of Androgenetic Alopecia: A Review of the Research Literature” in vol. 141 of British Journal of Dermatology.

GREGORY CUTTER, professor of oceanography, “The Cycling of Particulate Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur and Sulfur Species (Iron Monosulfide, Greigite, Pyrite and Organic Sulfur) in the Water Columns of Framvaren Fjord and the Black Sea” in vol. 67 of Marine Chemistry.

JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “Intercomparison of Voltammetric Techniques to Determine the Chemical Speciation of Dissolved Copper in a Coastal Seawater Sample” in vol. 405 of Analytica Chimica Acta. Co-authors are K. W. Bruland and E. L. Rue of UC-Santa Cruz, S. A. Skrabal of UNC-Wilmington and J. W. Moffett of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

GILBERT R. HOY, eminent scholar of physics, “Enhanced Resolution in Mössbauer Spectroscopy” in vol. 12 of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Co-authors are J. Odeurs and Caroline L’abbé of the Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. (Hoy has been invited to spend one month this summer at the Catholic University of Leuven to continue research on quantum nucleonics with colleagues in the physics department there.)

KATHERINE HUNTOON, director of the University Gallery, an essay, “Anderson Johnson,” in “Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South,” volume one, edited by Paul Arnett and William Arnett (Tinwood Books, in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library. Atlanta, Ga. 2000).

KEVIN H. JOHANNESSON, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Origin of Rare Earth Element Signatures in Groundwaters of Circumneutral pH from Southern Nevada and Eastern California” in vol. 164 of Chemical Geology and “Oxyanion Concentrations in Eastern Sierra Nevada Rivers – 3. Boron, Molybdenum, Vanadium and Tungsten” in vol. 6 of Aquatic Geochemistry.

FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “A German Jewish Double Bind: Anja Lundholm’s ‘Ein ehrenwerter Bürger’ or How a Jewish Daughter (Barely) Survives Her Nazi Father” in vol. 24, no. 3 and 4 of Dialectical Anthropology (Special Issue: “Poetry and Ethics After the Holocaust – A Millennium Memorial”). Also, a book review of Gerd Gemünden’s “Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination” (Michigan University Press. 1998) in vol. 91, no. 4 of Monatshefte.

M. LEE MANNING, professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “Understanding Diversity; Respecting Others – Realities and Directions” in vol. 78 of Educational Horizons. Also, “The Child-centered Middle School” (the Association for Childhood Education International position paper on child-centered middle schools) in vol. 76 of Childhood Education. Also, “A Brief Historical Perspective of the Middle School” in vol. 73 of The Clearing House. Also, “Strategies for Improving Student Behavior” in “Professional Reference for Teachers” (Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 2000). Also, with Leroy G. Baruth of Appalachian State University, “A Call for Multicultural Counseling in Middle Schools” in vol. 73 of The Clearing House.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil engineering, et al., “Sparse Algorithms for Indefinite Systems of Linear Equations” in vol. 25, no. 1 of Computational Mechanics Journal.

RENEE OLANDER, lecturer in the College of Arts and Letters, “An Interview with Reginald McKnight” in vol. 32, no. 4 of The Writer’s Chronicle.

REGINA A. ROOT, assistant professor of Spanish, “Tailoring the Nation: Fashion Writing in Nineteenth-Century Argentina” in vol. 4, no. 1 of Fashion Theory.

SONDRA FORD SWIFT, adjunct instructor of English, “Toward the Vampire as Savior; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s ‘Saint- Germain’ Series Compared with Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni” in “Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature,” by L. Heldreth and M. Pharr, editors (Bowling Green State University Popular Press. Bowling Green, Ohio. 2000).

CHARLIE G. TURNER, associate professor of economics, and ELIZABETH MONK-TURNER, chair of sociology and criminal justice, “The Relative Pay of Men and Women in South Korea” in vol. 11, no. 2 of Journal of Asian Economics.

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus, and BRIAN C. LEUTHOLTZ, assistant professor, exercise science, physical education and recreation, “Nutritional Aids” in “Nutrition in Sport: The International Olympic Committee Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine,” edited by Ronald J. Maughan (Blackwell Science. Oxford. 2000).