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Appointments/Elections
FRANK DAY, professor of biological sciences, elected vice president of the Society of Wetland Scientists for 2001-02. SWS is the largest professional organization in the world dedicated to the promotion of wetland research, conservation and education.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, appointed to the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of American Culture and the Journal of Popular Culture.

FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, elected to a two-year term as a member of the Governing Board of the American Culture Association. She will also serve as recording secretary.

JAMES G. SANDERS, chair of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, elected president-elect of the Southern Association of Marine Laboratories for 2001-03 (he will serve as president from 2003-05).

Awards/Honors
CHRISTINA L. DRYDEN, doctoral student of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, Best Student Presentation Award for "Water Column Trace Metal Concentrations and Speciation in the Elizabeth River, Virginia" at the spring meeting of the Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, in Solomons, Md. Co-author is JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

Books
GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, "Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age." Co-author is Peter C. Rollins. (University Press of Kentucky. 2001)

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, physical education and recreation, has had his book "The Ergogenics Edge: Pushing the Limits of Sports performance" translated into Japanese by Katsumi Sugiura, Dr. Mitsuru Higuchi and Eiyu Yamaguchi and released as "The Ergogenics Edge." (Japan UNI Agency. Tokyo)

Papers
GONZALO G. CARRASCO, master's student in ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Benthic Fluxes of Copper and Zinc and Their Complexing Ligands in the Elizabeth River, Virginia" at the spring meeting of the Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, in Solomons, Md. Co-authors are JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and DAVID J. BURDIGE, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences.

GUANGFENG CHENG, graduate student of aerospace engineering, "Nonlinear Vibration of a Cantilever Beam with Tip Mass Under Random Base Excitation" at the 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, in Seattle (also published in proceedings). Co-authors are CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, and RAYMOND LEE, doctoral graduate of aerospace engineering and current assistant professor of building and construction at City University of Hong Kong.

JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Water Column Complexation and Speciation of Copper, Zinc and Cadmium and Their Benthic Fluxes in the Elizabeth River, Virginia" at the 24th Annual Conference on Analysis of Pollutants in the Environment, in Norfolk. Co-authors are DAVID J. BURDIGE, professor, and GONZALO G. CARRASCO, master's student, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences.

CHRISTINA L. DRYDEN, doctoral student of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Microbial Response to Elevated Copper Concentrations in Naval Harbor" at the spring meeting of the Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, in Solomons, Md. Co-authors are JOHN A. CONSOLVO '00, master's graduate of environmental chemistry; ANDREW S. GORDON, chair of biological sciences; and JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

BUAN DUAN, graduate student of aerospace engineering, "Nonlinear Response of Thermal Protection System at Supersonic Speeds" at the 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, in Seattle (also published in proceedings). Co-authors are CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, and Jeng-Jong Ro, associate professor of mechanical engineering, Dayeh University, Taiwan.

FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, "Architectural Preservation in Yemen" at the joint meeting of the Popular/American Culture Association, in Philadelphia.

JACK KALPAKIAN '00, a graduate of international studies and adjunct assistant professor of political science and geography, "An Examination of Yemen's Efforts at Portraying Modernization" at the joint meeting of the Popular/American Culture Association, in Philadelphia.

SUSAN KENT, eminent scholar of anthropology, "Are All Households Equal? Household Archaeology in the 21st Century" at the Society for American Archaeology National Annual Conference, in New Orleans. She also chaired a roundtable discussion on publishing for recent doctoral graduates sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology, and was a panel discussant for a symposium sponsored by the Student Section of the Society for American Archaeology. The theme was on publishing in the journal American Antiquity, for which Kent serves as associate editor for book reviews.

CAROLE KIEHL, head of bibliographic services, "Ovid's Metamorphoses and Christine's Shape-shifting in the Mutacion de Fortune" at Western Michigan University's 36th Medieval Congress, in Kalamazoo.

DONALD KUNZ, associate professor of aerospace engineering, "Multimode Control of a Rotating Uniform Cantilever Beam" and "Multibody System Analysis Based on Hamilton's Weak Principle" at the 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, in Seattle (also published in proceedings). He also chaired a technical session.

AHMED K. NOOR, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, "Nonlinear Thermomechanical Response of Composite Panels with Continuous and Terminated Stiffeners" at the 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, in Seattle (also published in proceedings). Co-authors are J. Starnes Jr. of NASA Langley Research Center and JEANNE PETERS, senior programmer at the Center for Advanced Engineering Environments.

PETER SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French, "Eccentricity as Clinamen: Jules Verne's Error-Driven Geniuses" at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky.

R.L. WILLIAMS, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, four papers at the 79th meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science's Chemistry Section: with SALLY ELLIOTT, "The Synthesis of Analogs of 2-Aminoethoxydiphenyl Borate as Potential Modulators of Store-Operated Calcium Channels in Human Platelets"; with RICHARD SEITZ, "Potential Entactogenic Analogs of Indole Amines"; with LAURA FAUNTLEROY, "Phytoestrogens in Cranberry Juice: Potential Health Benefits"; and with PAUL KAZAS, "Photochemistry of Biologically Active Cis-Trans Stilbenes." All of the co-authors are chemistry/biochemistry undergraduate students.

Presentations
MAURICE R. BERUBE, eminent scholar of educational leadership and counseling, "Howard Gardner and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences" to the Tidewater MENSA Society.

WAYNE BURTON, interlibrary loan librarian, "Serving the Unseen Population: Using Innovative in Distance Learning Programs" at the Innovative Users Group Ninth Annual Conference, in Santa Clara, Calif.

JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and AMBER J. ERICSSON, senior lab specialist, "Chemical Oceanography" to the four fifth-grade classes at Larchmont Elementary School in Norfolk.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, "Legal Issues for Mid-Managers" at the SACSA/NASPA Mid-Managers Institute at the College of William and Mary. Also, "Establishing Academic Credibility" with Michael Sutton, assistant professor of higher education at Appalachian State University. Also, with Brett Sokolow, "Title IX and Sexual Misconduct: Policies and Practices to Avoid Liability" at the 2001 NASPA Conference, in Seattle.

HIROYUKI HAMADA, associate professor of exercise science, physical education and recreation, "Storm of Internationalization and emerging New Globalism" at the U.S.-Japan Educational Symposium in Hiroshima, Japan, and the International Education Forum in Kitakyushu, Japan.

CAROLE KIEHL, head of bibliographic services, a panel presentation, "Innovate Interfaces Inc./Integrated Library System Functions" at the joint meeting of the Virginia Library Association's Academic Section and Technical Services and Technology Forum, in Richmond. Also, "Turbo-Charged Downloading" at the Innovative Users Group Annual Conference, in Santa Clara, Calif.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, "Deutscher Expressionismus: Visionen der Zukunft in Dichtung und Malerei" at the Argentinischer Deutschlehrerkongress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also, "From the Weimar Republic to the Berlin Republic: Decadence and Renaissance of the German Capital" at the Goethe Institute & Inter Nationes, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Also, "Popular Music from Contemporary German Speaking Europe" at the Goethe Institute & Inter Nationes in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande du Sul in Porto Alegre, and the Universidade Do Vale Do Rio Dos Sinos in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil. Also, "Cabaret Culture: Parise - Berlin - New York" at George Mason University and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, D.C.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, "Parallel Computational Mechanics: Research, Opportunities and Needs" at the University of Mississippi College of Engineering.

REGINA ROOT, assistant professor of Spanish, "Latin American Women Authors and the Legacy of Authoritarianism" to the American Association of University Women, in Virginia Beach.

PETER SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French and Hillel adviser, "From New York to Norfolk: Hillel's Spiritual Meaning" to the congregation of Beth Chaverim in Virginia Beach.

LORI M. SCHULTZ, assistant director of undergraduate advising in the College of Business and Public Administration, "Effective First Year Advising Will Last a Lifetime: A Collective Overture to Student Success" at the National Academic Advising Association's Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in State College, Pa.

ARACELI SUZARA, director of the Filipino-American Student Cultural Center, "Food and Filipino Culture" to the Tidewater Nutrition Council and at a Tidewater Community College Conference, "Celebrating Cultural Diversity in Nutrition Education," in Chesapeake.

CYNTHIA WRIGHT SWAINE, instruction services librarian, "Moving to a Team Approach: A Library Instruction Success Story" at the 29th Annual Library Orientation Exchange Conference in Ypsilanti, Mich.

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, physical education and recreation, "Sports Nutrition: Where We've Been, Where We Are and Where We're Going" at the Sports and Cardiovascular Nutritionists National Convention, in Washington, D.C. Also, "Ergogenic Aids, Vitamins, Amino Acids and Sports Drinks" and "Creatine as an Ergogenic Aid for Sports Performance" at the 1st Scientific Congress on Sports Nutrition, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

R.L. WILLIAMS, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "High Pressure Liquid Chromatography of Phytochemicals in Wine" at the 18th Research Triangle Chromatography Symposium, in Raleigh, N.C.

Publications
WILLIAM G. CUNNINGHAM, professor of educational leadership and counseling, and J. Brent Sperry, "The Underpaid Educator" in the April 2001 issue of American School Board Journal.

J. MARK DORREPAAL, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, "Is Two-Dimensional Oblique Stagnation-Point Flow Unique?" in vol. 8, no. 1 of Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly.

TONIA GRAVES, electronic resources cataloger, "A Review of the 2000 North American Serials Interest Group Conference" in vol. 27, no. 1 of Serials Review.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, and Henry W. Robison, "First Record of the Subterranean Amphipod Crustacean Allocrangonyx hubrichti (Allocrangonyctidae) in Arkansas" in vol. 54 of Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science.

GILBERT R. HOY, eminent scholar of physics, "The Coherent-Path Approach to Forward Scattering of Recoil-Free Resonant Gamma Radiation" in "Directions in Quantum Optics," H.J. Carmichael, R.J. Glauber and M.O. Scully, editors. (Springer)

MICHELLE L. KELLEY, professor of psychology, "Navy Mothers Experiencing and Not Experiencing Deployment: Reasons for Staying in or Leaving the Military" in vol. 13, no. 1 of Military Psychology and "Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior of Children with Enlisted Navy Mothers Experiencing Military-Inducted Separation" in vol. 40, no. 4 of Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry. Co-authors for both articles are Ellen Hock, Department of Family Relations and Human Development, Ohio State University, and former students JENNIFER F. BONNEY, MELINDA S. JARVIS, KATHLEEN M. SMITH and MONICA A. GAFFNEY.

PETER SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French, "Le vent, le bus, le regard: La poetique du quotidien de J. Reda et L. Herlin" in La Poesie Francaise, Aujourd'hui, a special edition of Litterature et Nation, no. 23.

R.L. WILLIAMS, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "The Analysis of Penicillin in Wine" in a recent edition of Journal of Chromatographic Science. Co-authors are JAMES YUAN, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and GARY MORRIS, a graduate student in the department. (Would you like your picture to appear in ProFacts? Call university photographer Chuck Thomas at 683-3124 to schedule an appointment.)