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).

• Appointments/Elections
• Awards
• Books
• Papers/Presentations
• Publications

Appointments/Elections
TRISHA L. BEZMEN, assistant professor of economics, selected to serve a four-year term on the Academy of Economics and Finance board of directors.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, selected for a five-year term on the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education executive board.

BETSY KENNEDY, senior lecturer of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, elected vice chair of the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification board of directors. She will become chair in April 2005.

SALLIE MARCHELLO, director of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, elected vice president for information technology for the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. She will serve until February 2006.

Awards
GARY EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, the 2004 Scholarly Award from the governing board of the American Culture Association for Outstanding Contributions to American Cultural Studies.

ANDREW JACOBS, a student in the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, the William Applegate Award for Best Graduate Paper in an Applied Area at the Virginia Psychological Association convention. The paper is titled “Differences in Depression and Gay-related Stress for Gay/Lesbian vs. Bisexual Individuals.” Co-authors are ROBIN J. LEWIS and VALERIAN J. DERLEGA, professors of psychology.

JEFFREY H. RICHARDS, professor of English, the William M.E. Rachal Award from the Virginia Historical Society in recognition of the best overall article in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2003: “Samuel Davies and the Transatlantic Campaign for Slave Literacy in Virginia.”

G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST, Kaufman Lecturer in Public Affairs, the Alumni Recognition Award from West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. He earned his doctorate in American diplomatic history in 1962 from WVU.

Book Translation
MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, has had his book “Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport,” sixth edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers), translated into Korean and distributed in that country by Life Science Publishing Co.

Degrees
ALICE R. MCADORY, director of admissions, a doctorate in educational policy, planning and leadership, with a concentration in higher education, from the College of William and Mary. Her dissertation is titled “Transactional and Transformational Leadership: Differences Between Representative and Peer-nominated Effective University Presidents and as a Function of Gender and Institution Type.”

Papers/Presentations
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of Mathematics, “Developing Mathematical Models in Cancer Biology: Some Personal Reflections” at a workshop on Mathematical Oncology at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto.

SALIM AZZOUZ and XINYUN GUO, doctoral candidates; ADAM PRZEKOP (Ph.D. ’03), staff scientist, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton; and CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Nonlinear Flutter of Cylindrical Shell Panels Under Yawed Supersonic Flow Using Finite Elements” at the 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Mei also chaired the technical session on Nonlinear Modeling Methods.

THOMAS D. FLETCHER, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology, and DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professor of psychology, “Motivating Medical Students to Volunteer: Implications for Recruitment and Training” at the 19th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in Chicago.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Student Safety at the Crossroads: What Does the Research Say About the Effectiveness of the Clery Act?” at the 2004 NASPA Conference in Denver. Also at the conference, with Peggy Jablonski and Mary Beth Cooper, Brown University, “Scholarship in Student Affairs: The Future of the NASPA Journal.” Also, with JANET LAUGHLIN, a Ph.D. student in community college leadership and a staff member at Danville Community College, at the 2004 VCCS New Horizons Conference in Roanoke, “Completing Your Ph.D. on Your Campus: The Old Dominion University Model.”

XINYUN GUO, doctoral candidate; ADAM PRZEKOP (Ph.D. ’03), staff scientist, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton; and CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Nonlinear Random Response of Shallow Shells at Elevated Temperatures Using Finite Element Modal Method” and “Reduction of Random Response of Composite Plates Using Shape Memory Alloy in Thermal Environments” at the 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference in Palm Springs, Calif.

JANE HAGER, associate dean of the Darden College of Education, “IRA/NCATE: A Partnership for Teacher Quality and Performance” at the annual meeting of the International Reading Association in Reno.

FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, “Kerouac and Pamuk: In Search of Breasts, Bliss and the Beatific Vision in Turkey and in America” at the annual joint meeting of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association in San Antonio. She also chaired a panel, “Public Opinion, Money and Special Interests in the Political Mix,” and serves on the governing board of the American Culture Association.

GENE HOU, professor, and YANG WANG, doctoral candidate, mechanical engineering, “A Substructuring Technique for Design Modifications of Interface Conditions” at the 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Mei also chaired the technical session on Nonlinear Modeling Methods.

ANGELICA J. HUIZAR, assistant professor of Spanish, “Octavio Paz’s Blanco: The Performativity of Word, Space, Form” at the 57th annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky. She also chaired a session titled “My Own Private Mexico.”

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “From the Weimar Republic to the Berlin Republic: Decadence and Renaissance of the German Capital” at James Madison University. Also, at the Virginia Humanities Conference at Bridgewater College, “The Cradels of Cabaret: Paris - Vienna - Berlin” and “Reisebilder: Berlin - Buenos Aires,” poetry reading, translations by Elizabeth Koch Janik. Also, “Di Grine Kuzine & Co: Dancing on Hitler’s Busted Berlin Bunker” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky.

DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professor of psychology, “Creating Inclusion for Men and Women: Gender Differences and Similarities” at the 19th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in Chicago. Co-authors are THOMAS D. FLETCHER, REBEKAH A. CARDENAS and SUZANNE M. CLARKE, doctoral students in industrial/organizational psychology, and DONALD D. DAVIS, associate professor of psychology. Also at the conference, “Understanding the Work-Life Interface: Why Race Matters.” Co-authors are Fletcher and TONYA A. MILLER, a graduate of the I/O psychology doctoral program. Major also gave a panel presentation on “Gaps and Bridges Between Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Medical Practice.”

SALLIE MARCHELLO, director of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, “Implementing Technology: Tips for Success” at the 2004 annual conference of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers in Las Vegas.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, “Parallel-Vector/Cache Algorithms/Software for Large-scale Computation” at the 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference in Palm Springs, Calif.

GEORGE OERTEL, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “High-energy Modification to Landscapes by Hurricane Isabel at Fisherman Island, Va.” at the Northeastern and Southeastern Geological Society of America meeting in Tysons Corner, Va.

ADAM PRZEKOP (Ph.D. ’03), staff scientist, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, “Reinvestigation of Nonlinear Random Response of Shallow Shells Using Finite Element Modal Formulation” at the 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Co-authors are XINYUN GUO and SALIM AZZOUZ , doctoral candidates, and CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering. Also at the conference, with Guo, Azzouz, Mei and Lahcen Azrar, professor of mathematics, Universite Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco, and a Fulbright Fellow in aerospace engineering at ODU, “Nonlinear Stiffness Estimation for Modal Finite Element Approach to Free Vibrations of Shallow Shells.”

MATTHEW R. RISSER, graduate student of psychology, “Implementing Voice and Datalink Commands Under Task Interference During Simulated Flight” at the second conference on Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation in Daytona Beach, Fla. Co-authors are MARK W. SCERBO, associate professor of psychology, CARRYL L. BALDWIN, assistant professor of psychology, and Danielle S. McNamara, University of Memphis.

MARK W. SCERBO, associate professor of psychology, “The Role of Experimental Psychology in High Technology” at the 96th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in New Orleans. Also, “Event Rate Changes and Monitoring Performance Using a Biocybernetic Adaptive system” at the second conference on Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation in Daytona Beach, Fla. Co-authors are FREDERICK G. FREEMAN and PETER J. MIKULKA, professors of psychology.

ELIZABETH A. SCHMIDT, graduate student of psychology, “Skill Acquisition with a VR Simulator for Phlebotomy” at the second conference on Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation in Daytona Beach, Fla. Co-authors are MARK W. SCERBO and JAMES P. BLISS, associate professors of psychology, and SOMMER N. THOMPSON ’04.

JOANNE SCHEIBMAN, assistant professor of English linguistics, “The Subjective and Interactive Character of Generalization in English Conversation” at the 10th biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium (“Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity in Interaction”) in Houston.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Mémoire empêchée, mémoire obligée: Marie di Lola - Une Enfance Corse en 1900” at the 20th-century French Studies Conference at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He also chaired the panel called “Le Journal Intime.”

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

RICHARD WHITTECAR, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences; ALI NOWROOZI, professor emeritus of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and JAMES HALL, former graduate student of OEAS, “Delineation of Saline Groundwater Intrusion Through a Coastal Borrow Pit by Resistivity Survey” at the Northeastern and Southeastern Geological Society of America meeting in Tysons Corner, Va.

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, What Price Victory? Ergogenic Aids and Performance Enhancement in Sport,” the 23rd annual Alderson Lecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

R.L. WILLIAMS, professor emeritus, and DAVID MCGINNIS, graduate student, chemistry and biochemistry, “Black Goo and Young Vine Decline” at the 2004 Wineries Unlimited Seminar in Lancaster, Pa.

HAROLD WILSON, professor of history, “Abraham Charles Myers and the Women of the Confederacy” to the women’s group of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Virginia Beach. Also, “Technology in the Civil War” to Camp Tom Smith of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Suffolk, at Borders Books & Music in Virginia Beach and at Suffolk’s Civil War Days.

TOM WUNDERLICH, interim executive director, JUDY WHITE, associate director, and MEAGAN MINVIELLE THRIFT, assistant director, Career Management Center, “Taming Technology” at the Cooperative Education and Internship Association national conference in Arlington, Va.

Publications
JOHN FAHEY, associate professor emeritus of foreign languages and literatures, “Communicating with the Enemy” for the publication “Mission Accomplished,” produced for the opening celebration of the Allied Museum in Berlin, Germany. He also gave a panel presentation.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, and Steve Janosik, Virginia Tech, “The Clery Act: How Effective Is It: Perceptions from the Field (Part Three)” in vol. 5, no. 4 of Campus Safety and Student Development. Also, with Janosik as lead author, “Crime on Virginia’s College and University Campuses: Annual Report 2002,” EPI Policy Paper No. 14, Blacksburg, Va.: Virginia Tech.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar, and THOMAS R. SAWICKI, doctoral student, biological sciences, “Systematics of the Subterranean Amphipod Genus Bahadzia (Hadziidae), with Description of a New Species, Redescription of B. yagerae, and Analysis of Phylogeny and Biogeography” in vol. 38 of Journal of Natural History.

DALE E. MILLER, assistant professor of philosophy, “On Millgram on Mill” in vol. 16, no. 1 of Utilitas.

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