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Appointments/Elections
WILLIAM H. GRAVES III, dean, Darden College of Education, elected chair-elect of the Advisory Council of State Representatives to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. He will be chair in 2003.

WILLIAM B. HART, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, elected as a board member of the Tidewater chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice.

Awards
KARYN H. BERNAS, doctoral student of psychology, and DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professor of psychology, nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Their paper, "Contributors to Stress Resistance: Testing a Model of Women's Work-Family Conflict," was identified as one of the top 20 work-family research articles published in 2000 by the Center for Families at Purdue University and The Boston College Center for Work and Family. Their work appeared in Psychology of Women Quarterly.

DANA D. BURNETT, vice president for student services, on behalf of the efforts of the Alcohol and Drug Task Force, a 2001 John T. Hanna Award, recognizing Traffic Safety Excellence in Hampton Roads in the category of Education and Prevention.

LUCIEN X. LOMBARDO, professor of sociology and criminal justice, elected as a fellow in the Society for Values in Higher Education. This honor recognizes his commitment and work on behalf of justice in the criminal justice system and his commitment to bringing human dignity to the world of children through his teaching, research and community service.

Books
PETER SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French, with Mischa Zabotin, "Le Dernier Livre du Siecle" (Paris: Romillat, 2002).

Papers
GONZALO G. CARRASCO, doctoral student of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Benthic Fluxes of Copper, Zinc and Cadmium and Their Complexing Ligands in a Polluted Urban Estuary, the Elizabeth River, Virginia" at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Baltimore. Co-authors are JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and DAVID J. BURDIGE, professor of OEAS.

GREGORY A. CUTTER, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "The Marine Biogeochemistry of Arsenic: What Have We Learned in the Last 25 Years?" at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Baltimore.

JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Water Column Trace Metal Concentrations and Speciation in a Polluted Urban Estuary, the Elizabeth River, Virginia" at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Baltimore. Co-authors are GONZALO G. CARRASCO, doctoral student, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and JOHN A. CONSOLVO III, a master's graduate of environmental chemistry.

LISA DRAKE, research assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Microbial Bioinvasions Via Ballast Water: Abundance of Microorganisms and Delivery Patterns to Chesapeake Bay" at the Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. Co-authors are FRED DOBBS, associate professor of oceanography and physics; and KEUN-HYUNG CHOI, postdoctoral associate, LESLIE BALL, lab specialist, and KATHY MOREIRA, lab technician, OEAS. Other co-authors include Greg Ruiz and Tim Mullady of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

CHRISTINA L. DRYDEN, doctoral candidate, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Copper Complexing Ligand Production by Microorganisms in a Polluted Urban Estuary, the Elizabeth River, Virginia" at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Baltimore. Co-authors are ANDREW S. GORDON, chair of biological sciences;

JOHN R. DONAT, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and A.J. ERICSSON, lab specialist.

JOHN L. ECHTERNACH, eminent scholar of physical therapy, "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Geriatric Patients: A Series of 10 Cases" at the annual conference of the Virginia Physical Therapy Association in Williamsburg. Also, with GAIL C. GRISETTI, associate professor of physical therapy, "The Use of Simulated Patients in Teaching Patient Education Skills to Physical Therapy Students" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions in Norfolk.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond" and "The Clery Act: Expectations, Achievements and Perceptions of Effectiveness" at the 11th Annual University of Vermont Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference. Both were published in the proceedings.

WILLIAM B. HART, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, "Giants Standing on Giants: Franz Boas' Contributions to Intercultural Communication Study" at the 2001 National Communication Association Convention in Atlanta.

FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professor of communication, "You Don't Know What You've Got Until It's Gone: Preserving Yemen's Architectural Treasures" at the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar in Valle Crucis, N.C.

HOLLY LIU, lecturer of foreign languages and literatures, "Wühlen in Erinnerung zwischen Städten: Die 'Stadt als mnemotechnischer Behelf' in Helga Schütz' Vom Glanz der Elbe" at the Annual SEMLA Conference in Atlanta.

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, "Development of Season- and Salinity-based Reference Communities for Estuarine Phytoplankton" at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation in St. Petersburg, Fla. Co-authors are Claire Buchanan and Richard Lacouture. Also at the conference, he presented two posters, "Monitoring for Pfiesteria and Similar Pfiesteria Dinoflagellates in the Chesapeake Bay Estuaries of Virginia" and, with

KNEELAND NESIUS, associate professor of biological sciences, "The Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program: Long-term Phytoplankton Studies in the Southern Chesapeake Bay, 1985-2000."

PETER SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French, "The Jazz Critic as Flaneur: Jacques Reda's Jazz Criticism" for a panel he co-chaired at the MLA Convention in New Orleans. He also chaired a panel with HEIDI SCHLIPPHACKE, assistant professor of German, "Paris-Vienna: Topographies of Identity."

PAUL STEPANOVICH, assistant professor of community health professions, "Shifting Focus from Individuals to Systems" at the Institute for Behavioral and Applied Management national conference in Charleston, S.C.

WAYNE K. TALLEY, Beazley Professor of Economics, "Dockworker Earnings, Containerization and Shipping Deregulation" at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Also, "The Safety of Ferries: An Accident Injury Perspective" at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists in Hong Kong.

Presentations
ABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, "Strategies for Business Acquisitions: A Case Study" at the 2001 Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

FRED DOBBS, associate professor of oceanography and physics, and LISA DRAKE, research assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, a poster presentation, "Crystalline Inclusions in Epidermal Cells of Turtlegrass Thalassia testudinum: What Is Their Significance?" at the Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. Co-author is Richard Zimmerman of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

JOHN L. ECHTERNACH, eminent scholar of physical therapy, the 7th Annual Endowed Scully Visiting Scholar Lecture, "Have No Fear (In Your Professional Life)" to the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Physical Therapy and the Southeastern District of the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association in Pittsburgh.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, "Student Affairs and Academic Affairs: What Do We Have to Do to Establish Academic Credibility?" at the VASPA/VACUHO 2001 Conference in Wintergreen. Also, with Steve Janosik of Virginia Tech, "The Clery Act: Is It Effective? A Law Enforcement Survey - Is There a Better Way to Make Campuses Safer?" at the 2001 SACSA Conference in Orlando, Fla.

ABHA GUPTA, director of the Reading Center, a workshop, "Word Identification Reading Strategies," to teachers and staff at Douglass Park Elementary School in Portsmouth. She also gave a report at the Governing Council Meeting of Virginia State Reading Association in Richmond. Also, with Bill Hammond of Dekalb County Schools, Ga., and Eileen Oboler of Spring Hill College, Ala., "Urban Diversity Initiatives" at the American Reading Forum in Sanibel Island, Fla.

WILLIAM B. HART and FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professors of communication and theatre arts, "Dehumanizing the Enemy in Media" at the 2001 National Communication Association in Atlanta.

JOHN HEYL, executive director of international programs, a workshop, "The Chief International Officer as Change Agent," at the annual meeting of the European Association for International Education in Tampere, Finland. He is the co-author of "The Chief International Education Administrator as an Agent for Organizational Change" (AIEA, 2001).

LUISA A. IGLORIA, visiting associate professor of English, "Women of the World," an intercultural training program sponsored by the Dragas Center.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, "Germany and the Holocaust" at the Holocaust Commission Book Club in Virginia Beach and the Virginia Festival of Jewish Film in Norfolk.

JOYCE MAGNOTTO NEFF, associate professor of English, a workshop, "Assigning and Evaluating Writing in the Disciplines" at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

REGINA A. ROOT, assistant professor of Spanish, "Representing Southern Cone Dictatorships: Classroom Pedagogy and Cultural Politics" at the 35th annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages conference in Washington, D.C.

Publications
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of Mathematics, "The Mathematical Physics of Rainbows and Glories" in vol. 356, no. 4-5 of Physics Reports. Also, "The Effect of Surface Curvature on Wound Healing in Bone" and "Healing Times for Circular Wounds on Plane and Spherical Bone Surfaces" in vol. 15 of Applied Mathematics Letters.

KATHERINE T. BUCHER, associate professor, and LEE MANNING, professor, educational curriculum and instruction, "Exploring the Foundations of Middle School Classroom Management in vol. 78, no. 2 of Childhood Education.

KYM BUSTER-WILLIAMS, assistant director of admissions for special events, a book review of "Guide to Colleges for African American Students" in the winter 2002 issue of Journal of College Admission.

GARY R. EDGERTON, "Mainstreaming 'Jazz' (2001) for a National Audience" in vol. 31, no. 2 of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies.

ROSS EDWARDS, assistant professor of biogeochemistry, and Peter Sedwick, "Iron in East Antarctic Snow: Implications for Atmospheric Iron Deposition and Algal Production in Antarctic Waters" in vol. 28, no. 20 of Geophysical Research Letters.

HELEN TAYLOR GREENE, associate professor of sociology and criminal justice, and Shaun L. Gabbidon, "The Presence of African American Scholarship in Early American Criminology Texts (1918-1960)" in vol. 12, no. 2 of Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, "Crime on Campus: Compliance, Liability and Safety" in vol. 31, no. 4 of Campus Law Enforcement Journal.

WILLIAM B. HART, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, "New Communication Technology and the Changing Nature of Conversation," a chapter in "The Changing Conversation in America" (Sage Publications, 2001). Lead co-author is Everett M. Rogers.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, "Systematics of the Subterranean Amphipod Genus Stygobromus (Crangonyctidae) in Western North America, With Emphasis on the hubbsi group" in vol. 3, no. 2 of Amphipacifica. Co-authors is DAQING WANG (Ph.D. '01). Also, "Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Subterranean Amphipod Genus Bactrurus (Crangonyctidae), Comparing Molecular and Morphological Data" in vol. 47, no. 3-4 of Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii. Co-author is STEFAN KONEMANN (PH.D. '00) of Amsterdam University.

LUISA A. IGLORIA, visiting associate professor of English, a poem, "When We First," in the fall 2001 issue of Smartish Pace.

GUANG LEA LEE, assistant professor, and LEE MANNING, professor, educational curriculum and instruction, "Treat Asian Parents and Families Right" in vol. 67, no. 4 of The Education Digest.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, a review of Wolfgang Natter's "Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the 'Time of Greatness' in Germany" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999) in vol. 34 of Colloquia Germanica, Internationale Zeitschrift füer Germanistik. Also, a book review of "Vom Zauberberg zum Doktor Faustus" (Thomas-Mann-Sutdien 23), Thomas Sprecher, editor (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2000) in vol. 24, no. 3 of German Studies Review.

LEE MANNING, professor, and KATHERINE T. BUCHER, associate professor, educational curriculum and instruction, "Interdisciplinary Teams: Ten Benchmarks of Effective Teams" in vol. 14 of New England Journal of Middle Level Schools.

WAYNE K. TALLEY, Beazley Professor of Economics, "Costing Theory and Processes in "Handbook of Logistics and Supply-Chain Management," A. Brewer, K. Button and D. Hensher, editors (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 2001). Also, "Wage Differentials of Transportation Industries: Deregulation Versus Regulation" in vol. 39, no. 3 of Economic Inquiry. Also, "Black-White Earnings Differentials: Privatization Versus Deregulation" in vol. 91, no. 2 of American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. Co-author is James Peoples of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.