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
RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN-COLEMAN, chair of nursing, appointed to a two-year term on the board of commissioners of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology, appointed as the founding editor in chief of the new peer-reviewed scientific journal, Body Image: An International Journal of Research, to be published quarterly by Elsevier starting in 2004.

JOHN L. ECHTERNACH, eminent scholar of physical therapy, appointed by the American Physical Therapy Association board to membership on the APA’s Catherine Worthingham Fellows Review Committee.

JOHN B. FORD, professor of marketing and international business, elected president of the board of directors of the Virginia Children’s Chorus. He was also appointed to the editorial review board of International Journal of Advertising.

Awards
THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology, awarded Fellow status in the American Psychological Society in spring 2003.

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of creative writing, was a finalist in the 2003 Arts & Letters Poetry Award Competition, Georgia College and State University (Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture). She also received a partial fellowship award to attend the poetry program, 2003 Summer Literary Seminars, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

PHILIP A. REED, assistant professor of occupational and technical studies, a $10,000 contract by the Virginia Department of Education to develop a Bioengineering Instructional Framework Guide. The guide will provide student activities for high school technology education teachers who are implementing the newly adopted bioengineering course.

Books
A. OSMAN AKAN, chair of civil and environmental engineering, a textbook, “Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics and Stormwater Quality” (John Wiley and Sons, 2003). Co-author is Robert J. Houghtalen of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

JOSEPH P. COSCO, assistant professor of English, “Imagining Italians: The Clash of Romance and Race in American Perceptions, 1880-1910” (Ithica, N.Y: State University of New York Press, 2003).

EARL D. HONEYCUTT, former associate professor of marketing; JOHN B. FORD, professor of marketing and international business; and Antonis C. Simintiras, “Sales Management: A Global Perspective” (London: Routledge, 2003).

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of creative writing, editor of “Not Home but Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora” (Anvil, 2003).

CHARLES E. WILSON JR., chair of English, “Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion” (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003).

Papers/Presentations
ABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, “Are Stock Options a Bliss or a Curse to Stockholders?” at the 2003 Conference on Competition in a Dynamic World in Falls Church, Va.

DWIGHT W. ALLEN, eminent professor of education reform, a presentation as the only U.S. scholar to speak at the “Three Fors” Conference in Beijing, China. The conference is part of China’s commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s landmark “Three Fors” speech, in which the former Chinese leader said education is for modernization, globalization and the future.

ROBERT L. ASH, interim vice president for research, “Uncovering the Secrets of the Wright Brothers” at West Virginia University.

JOHN B. FORD, professor of marketing and international business,“Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Ethnocentrism Across Russia’s Three Sub-Cultures” at the American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference in Orlando, Fla.

AUSTIN T. JERSILD, associate professor of history, “The Soviet Pavilion at International Exhibits: Contrasting American and Soviet Ideas About Culture and Consumption, 1937-1967” at the Maryland-Harvard Workshop on Russian History. Also, “The Chechen Wars in Historical Perspective,” the University of Illinois Russian Center Summer Research Lab Noontime Lecture, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Also, “The War on Terror and the Flight from History: Russian-Chechen Relations” at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, in Washington, D.C., and at the College of William and Mary.

HAROLD G. MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, “Long-term Monitoring Relationships Between Phytoplankton Populations and Water Quality Parameters in Three Estuarine Rivers of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia” at the fifth International Symposium on the Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers, in Cracow, Poland. Co-author is Lubomira Burchardt, chair of hydrobiology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. They also presented “Comparative Relationships Associated with the Phytoplankton in the Neuston Sub-surface Layer and Water Column from a Lake and Pond in Virginia” at the 19th Hydrobiology Congress in Warsaw, Poland. Also at the congress, Marshall presented “The Toxic Dinoflagellate Dinophysis acuminata: Unique Bloom Concentrations in Virginia Sub-estuaries of Chesapeake Bay.” Co-authors are graduate assistants TODD EGERTON, TODD STEM, JEREMY HICKS and MIKOLAJ KOKOCINSKI.

CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Large Amplitude Response of Shallow Shell Panels to Acoustic Ecitations” at the Eighth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Co-authors are ADAM PRZEKOP, XINYUN GUO and M. SALIM AZZOUZ, doctoral candidates in aerospace engineering. The paper was published in the conference proceedings. Mei also chaired the technical session on “Finite Element Methods.”

ELIZABETH C. AUSTIN-MINOR, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “What Is the ‘Dead’ POM? A Preliminary Study Using Fluorescent Stains, Flow Cytometry and Mass Spectrometry” at the Symposium on New Approaches in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry: A Tribute to the Life and Sciences of John I. Hedges, at Friday Harbor, Wash. Co-author is graduate student PRASHANTH S. NALLATHAMBY.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, a research seminar, “Scalable Sparse Finite Element MPI Implementation for Large-scale Structural/Acoustics Applications” at the Livermore Software Technology Corp. in Livermore, Calif.

STACEY PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health, a plenary paper, “Intimate Partner Violence and Physical Health Consequences,” at “Toward a National Research Agenda on Violence Against Women,” a national research conference at the University of Kentucky’s Center for Research on Violence Against Women.

JOANNE SCHEIBMAN, assistant professor of linguistics, “Covert Subjectivity: Expression of Point of View in Relational Clauses in English Conversation” at the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Logroño, Spain.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French, “No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Birth of the Cool” at a conference titled “Jazz Hot and Cool: Adventures in French Culture” in Seysses, France. Schulman also chaired a panel on “Jacques Reda and Boris Vian.”

HAROLD WILSON, professor of history, a presentation on his recent book, “Confederate Industry,” to the Civil War Roundtable of Portsmouth, and one on “Abraham Myers and the Women of the Confederacy” to the Woman’s Club of Norfolk.

Publications
ABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, “Using Internet Resources in Teaching Financial Reporting and Analysis of Multinational Enterprises” in vol. 14, no. 2/3 of The Journal of Teaching in International Business.

WILLIAM S. BARTOLOTTA, associate professor of music, six pieces for brass instruments, published by Solid Brass Music Co.: “A Jubilee Fanfare,” an original fanfare for two trumpets and trombone; a brass quintet arrangement of Holst’s “Mars” from “The Planets”; and four arrangements for brass choir, Meyerbeers’ “Coronation March” from “La Prophète”; Wagner’s “Pilgrims’ Chorus” from “Tannhäuser”; Stravinsky’s “Berceuse” and “Finale” from “Firebird.” Also, two piano pieces, Schumann’s “Träumerei” and MacDowell’s “To a Wild Rose.”

JOHN B. FORD, professor of marketing and international business, and Sandra Mottner, “Retailing in the Non-profit Sector: An Exploratory Analysis of Church-connected Retailing Ventures” in vol. 8, no. 4 of International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. Also, with lead author Mahesh N. Shankarmahesh and Michael S. Latour, “Cultural Dimensions of Switching Behavior in Importer-Exporter Relationships” in vol. 3 of Academy of Marketing Science Review. Also, with lead author Shawn Thelen and EARL D. HONEYCUTT, former associate professor of marketing, “Marketing Theory and Applications” in vol. 14 of Proceedings of the American Marketing Association Annual Winter Educators’ Conference. It was chosen as the Best Paper of the Global Marketing Track.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, and Steven M. Janosik, associate professor of ELC at Virginia Tech, findings from their research on the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act in vol. 6, issue 6 of Student Affairs Today.

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of creative writing, a chapter, “Some Poems I Love Best,” in “7 x 10: World Poetry Choices by Seven Filipino Poets,” Alfred Yuson, editor (Libris Books, 2003). Also, “More Fun Than a Turkey Shoot” in “Screaming Monkeys,” EVALINA GALANG, former assistant professor of English, and Eileen Tabios, editors (Coffee House Press, 2003).

AUSTIN T. JERSILD, associate professor of history, a review of “The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: From Secession to Republic” (London: Palgrave, 2001), Levon Chorbajian, editor, in vol. 9, no. 1 of Slavonica.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Der Künstler und sein Zauberberg. Der Dichter, Liedpoet und Maler Harald Immig: 25 Jahre zwischen Minnesang und Moderne” in the Aug. 1 edition of the newspaper Neue Württembergische Zeitung. Also, “Zwischen Novalischer Romantik und Frankensteinscher Phantastik, Robert Schopflochers Fernes Beben: lateinamerikanische Erzählungen” appeared in The Sept. 13 edition of Argentinisches Tageblatt.

CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Nonlinear Random Response of panels in an Elevated Thermal-Acoustic Environment” in vol. 40, no. 4 of Journal of Aircraft. Co-authors are alumnus JEAN-MICHEL DHAINAUT, assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; aerospace engineering doctoral candidate XINYUN GUO; and Stephen M. Spottswood and Howard F. Wolfe, aerospace engineers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

RENEE OLANDER, director of interdisciplinary studies, a poem, “Rhinos Got No Luck,” in Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Vol. 2, St. Louis Poetry Center.

SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of early childhood special education, “Keeping Track: Using Routine-based Instruction and Monitoring” in vol. 6, no. 3 of Young Exceptional Children.

PHILIP A. REED, assistant professor of occupational and technical studies, a chapter, “Inquiry in Technology Education,” in “Instructional Strategies for Technology Education: 52nd Yearbook of the Council on Technology Teacher Education” (New York: Glencoe, McGraw-Hill), edited by A.E. Schwaller and K. Helgeson.

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