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, Certifications, 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 Koch Hall), faxed (683-5501) or e-mailed (sdaniel@odu.edu).

DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professor of psychology, appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior for a three-year term.

SUSAN KENT, eminent professor of anthropology, a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for summer 2002 to continue her excavations at a Middle Stone Age archaeological site located in the eastern Free State of South Africa.

LEONARD I. RUCHELMAN, eminent scholar of urban studies and public administration, designated as a Distinguished Scholar in Public Administration by the Virginia Social Science Association.

JOHN A. FAHEY, associate professor emeritus of foreign languages and literatures, "Licensed to Spy" (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2002).

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, "Working With Troubled Youth in Schools - A Guide for All School Staff" (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002). Co-authors include: ROBERT GABLE, eminent scholar of early childhood, speech-language pathology and special education; LYNN H. DOYLE and DENNIS GREGORY, assistant professors of educational leadership and counseling; MARK BLAGEN, adjunct instructor of educational leadership and counseling; Mary Ann Clark, formerly of the counseling program and now at the University of Florida; Rivers Taylor of Blair Middle School; and alumnus FRANK SCARINGELLO of Portsmouth Public Schools.

DAVID J. BURDIGE, professor of chemical oceanography and biogeochemistry, "Shallow Water Carbonate Sediment-Seagrass Interactions and Their Impact on Atmospheric CO2 at the Seagrass Ecosystem Ecoengineering and Carbon Sequestration Workshop at the University of Tokyo.

KYM BUSTER-WILLIAMS, assistant director of admissions for special events, "Out of Hibernation" at the 2002 Virginia Humanities Conference, "Explorations: Crossing Boundaries, Discovering New Frontiers," at Christopher Newport University.

WILLIAM B. JONES, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, "Mere Technology? Writing, Counting and the Aristotelian Categories" at the 13th Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and Culture in Frankfort, Ky.

SUSAN KENT, eminent professor of anthropology, "Activity Areas at a South African Open-air Middle Stone Age Site" at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver. Also, "The Geology of a Middle Stone Age Landscape in the Eastern Free State, South Africa" at the annual conference of the Paleoanthropology Society in Denver. Co-authors are Nicolaas Scholtz and Johan Loock of the geology department, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

DALE E. MILLER, assistant professor of philosophy, "Mill's Socialism" at a group meeting of the International Economics and Philosophy Society held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association's Pacific Division meeting in Seattle. Also, "Sympathy, Unity and Individuality: A Tension in Mill's Conception of Perfection" at the annual meeting of the UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

PETER SCHULMAN, assistant professor of French, "Jouer le jeu: Jacques Reda's Jazz Criticism" at the 20th Century French Studies Conference in Hartford, Conn. He also chaired a panel on "The Influence of Jazz on French Culture."

GLEN SUSSMAN, chair of political science and geography, "International Environmental Cooperation, the American Presidency and Global Climate Change" at the 2001 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change in Berlin, Germany. Also, with Byron W. Daynes, "The United States and Global Environmental Policy, Kennedy-Clinton" at the International Studies Association meeting in New Orleans and "A First-year Assessment of George W. Bush and the Environment" at the Southwestern Political Science Association meeting in New Orleans.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, "Images Have Consequences: A Call for Media Literacy," the keynote address at Norfolk Academy's Fine Arts and Humanities Day. He later gave a talk on his latest book, "Ken Burns's America."

JOHN J. KIEFER, adjunct assistant professor of urban studies and public administration, "Domestic Urban Terrorism Protection Strategies" at the U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Symposium, hosted by the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and SIROJ TUNGKAHOTARA, a doctoral student, "Parallel-Vector/Cache Algorithms/Software for Large-scale Computation" at the 2002 Space Radiation Shielding Technology Workshop at NASA Langley Research Center.

SCOTT R. SECHRIST, associate professor of nuclear medicine technology, the keynote speech at the graduation ceremony for the Surgical Assistant Program at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

DON STANSBERRY, director of student activities and leadership, "Advising Student Organizations: Helping You Help Students," "Student Involvement Incentive Programs: Success Stories and Wisdom to Share" and "More Than a Place to Park: Best Practices for Commuter Students" at the American College Personnel Association Conference in Long Beach, Calif.

WILLIAM BROWNLOW, graduate student, and X. NANCY XU, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "The Study of Gold Nanoparticles Using a Unique Molecular Probe" in the proceedings of the 2002 Pittsburgh Conference.

VALERIAN J. DERLEGA, professor of psychology, "Interpersonalizing AIDS: Attending to the Personal and Social Relationships of Individuals Living With HIV and/or AIDS" in vol. 19, no. 1 of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Co-authors are Kathryn Greene of the Rutgers University communication department and Lawrence R. Frey of the University of Memphis communication department.

LISA A. DRAKE, research assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Global Redistribution of Bacterioplankton and Virioplankton Communities" in vol. 3 of Biological Invasions. Co-authors are Keun-Hyung Choi of the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies in Tiburon, Calif.; Greg Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md.; and FRED D. DOBBS, associate professor of OEAS.

PERRY M. DUNCAN, associate professor of psychology, and MONICA A. GAFFNEY (M.S. '98), who will enter the University of Minnesota Medical School in the fall, "The Effects of Hypoglycemia and Ethanol on Rat Performance in the Radial-arm Maze" in vol. 75 of Physiology & Behavior.'

ABHA GUPTA, director of the Reading Center, and HASSAN NDAHI, assistant professor of occupational and technical studies, "Meeting the Digital Literacy Needs of Growing Workforce" in vol. 2, no. 1 of the international online journal The Reading Matrix.

SUSAN KENT, eminent professor of anthropology, "Reviewing Reviews" in vol. 67, no. 1 of American Antiquity. Also, "The Plight of the Former Kutse Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers" in vol. 31 of Cultural Survival International.

SOPHIA KYRIACOU, graduate student, and X. NANCY XU, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Probing of the Efflux Pump Machinery in Psudomonas Aeruginosa" in the proceedings of the 2002 Pittsburgh Conference.

DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professor of psychology, "Equal Opportunity Climate: A Conceptual Model" in vol. 12 of Human Resource Management Review. Co-authors are doctoral candidate BRYAN C. HAYES and alumnus SIMON BARTLE.

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, a chapter, "Strategies for Counseling Family Three: The Robinson Family" in K. Evans' (editor) "Synthesizing Family, Career, and Culture" (Alexandria, Va.: American Counseling Association). Co-authors are V. Foster and K. Eriksen.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, "Algorithms and Application of Sparse Matrix Assembly and Equation Solvers for Aeroacoustics" in vol. 40, no. 4 of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal. Co-authors are W.R. Watson and V.N. Vatsa, senior research scientists at NASA Langley Research Center; C.J. Reddy, president of EM Inc. in Hampton; and W.H. Tang, chair of civil engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

DON STANSBERRY, director of student activities and leadership, and Maggi Stevens of the University of Cincinnati, "Getting the Job Done: Simple Tips for Managing Volunteers" in the March issue of Campus Activities Program.

SONDRA FORD SWIFT, instructor of English, "Pierce Moffat the Ass: Apuleian and Brunonian Themes in John Crowley's 'Daemonomania'" in vol. 14, no. 1 of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

QIAN WAN, graduate student, and X. NANCY XU, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Real-time in Vivo Study of Single-molecule Biological Events of Bid" in the proceedings of the 2002 Pittsburgh Conference.

X. NANCY XU, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, "Direct Measurement of Sizes and Dynamics of Single Living Membrane Transporters Using Nano-optics" in vol. 2 of Nano Letters. Co-authors are JUN CHEN, a postdoctoral assistant; and ROBERT JEFFERS and SOPHIA KYRIACOU, graduate students. Also, "Single-molecule Studies of Single Living Cells" in the proceedings of the 222nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago. Co-authors are Jeffers, graduate student SHUANG HUANG and Chen. Also, "Single-molecule Studies of Membrane Pump Machinery" in the proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering /BiOS 2002 meeting in San Jose, Calif. Co-authors are Chen and Kyriacou. Also, "Single Molecule Probes of Single Ligand-Receptor Interaction on Living Cell Surfaces" in the same proceedings. Also, "Real-time Study of Membrane Transporters on Living Cells" in the proceedings of the 2002 Pittsburgh Conference. Co-authors are Chen, Jeffers and Kyriacou.