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
CARL O. HELVIE, professor emeritus of nursing, as program chair of the Homeless Caucus of the American Public Health Association for 2004. He was also asked to serve as a reviewer in April for the Bureau of Health Professions’ Nursing Education, Practice and Retention Grant Review at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.

BETSY S. KENNEDY, senior lecturer of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, elected to the board of directors for the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation. She will serve a three-year term beginning in April.

STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health, appointed to a three-year term on the board of the Committee on Women’s Rights of the American Public Health Association.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, elected to a five-year term on the MLA’s Executive Committee of the Division on 20th-Century French Literature.

Awards
TOM SOCHA, associate professor of communication, the 2003 Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Serrvice in Family Communication from the National Communication Association.

ANDREAS TOLK, senior research scientist, and JAMES A. MUGUIRA, graduate research assistant, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, a Best Paper Award for “The Levels of Conceptual Interoperability Model” at the Simulation Interoperability Workshop.

Books
JIE CHEN, associate professor of political science, “Popular Political Support in Urban China” (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).

HIROYUKI HAMADA, associate professor of exercise science, sport, physical educationa nd recreation, the third edition of “Quintessence of Japanese Classical Martial Arts: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives” (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall and Hunt Publishing Co.).

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of English, an edited anthology, “Not Home, but Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora” (Anvil, 2003).

Papers/Presentations
JABDEL M. AGAMI, professor of accounting, “Toward the Convergence of Financial Reporting Standards” at the 15th Asican-Pacific Converence on International Accounting Issues in Bangkok, Thailand. Co-author is Karen T. Cascini, a professor at Sacred Heart University.

HOLLY BEARD, doctoral student of urban health services, “Predictors of Mental Health Status Among Women Over the Age of 55 Co-Residing with Children Under 18” at the 131st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. Co-authors are SUSAN PERKINS, a student in the College of Business and Public Administration, and STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health.

LINDA CARROLL, doctoral student of urban health services, “Helping Patients to Engage in Oral Health Maintenance” at the 131st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. Co-authors are STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health; LINDSAY RETTIE, dean emeritus of the College of Health Sciences; and COLIN E. BOX, chair of community and environmental health.

JEWELL GOODMAN, doctoral student of urban health services, “Filling the Tool Box: What Probation/Parole Personnel Require to Properly Manage and Treat Convicted Sex Offenders” at the 131st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. Co-authors are DONALD PARKER, doctoral student of urban health services, and STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health. Also at the conference, “Benefits of a Church-Sponsored Community Health Fair in an Urban Setting.” Co-authors are PARKER; KRYSTAL HILTON and HOLLY BEARD, doctoral students of urban health services; and J.E. Jones, a community agency member.

GILBERT R. HOY, eminent scholar of physics, “Stimulated Emissions of Gamma-Radiation: A Proposed Experiment” at the 34th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics in Snowbird, Utah.

JONI MCFELEA, doctoral student of urban health services, “Parent Satisfaction with Middle-School Special Education Services” at the 131st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. Co-authors are STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health; C. THOMAS SOMMA, chair of medical laboratory and radiation sciences; and S. Warren and P. Henry, community agency members.

DALE E. MILLER, assistant professor of philosophy, an invited commentary on Alastair Norcross’s “Torturing Puppies and Eating Meat: It’s All in Good Taste” at the Southwestern Philosophical Society Meeting in Memphis.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, a research seminar, “Large-Scale Parallel-Vector Finite Element Computation: From Inexpensive Clusters of PCs to Supercomputers” at the University of Louisville’s J.B. Speed School of Engineering.

NORA NOFFKE, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures – A New Window for the Understanding of Life and Life Conditions in the Precambrian” and “Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structues Indicating Climatological Conditions and Sedimentary Dynamics in Recent and Pleistocene Coastal Sabkhas of Tunisia” at the115th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Seattle. Also at the meeting, with four co-authors, “Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures – A New Window in Understanding Early Life: Examples from Archean Sandstones, South Africa.”

STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health, “Benefits of a Community Health Fair in a Medically Underserved Community” at the 131st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. Co-authors are BETTY ANN POWERS-LUHN, lecturer of nursing; C. THOMAS SOMMA, chair of medical laboratory and radiation sciences; KELLIE R. MURPHREE, assistant professor of dental hygiene; and JEWELL GOODMAN and SHREERAM KUMAR, doctoral students of urban health services. Also at the conference, “Training Elementary School Personnel to Detect and Prevent Child Sexual Abuse: What Do They Want to Know?” Co-authors are CLARE HOUSEMAN, associate professor of nursing; and GOODMAN and YAN ZHANG, doctoral students of urban health services. Also at the conference, “Women Surviving: A Study of the Effects of Short-Term Stay at a Domestic Violence Shelter.” Co-authors are ZHANG and Melissa Caldwell and Cheryl Marks, community agency members.

THOMAS POULIN, doctoral student and research assistant, urban services and public administration, “Defending the Homeland: A Comparison of State-mandated Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Training in the Southeast United States” at the 2004 Southern Political Science Association Conference in New Orleans.

DONALD J.P. SWIFT, eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Genetic Facies: An Approach Illustrated by Analysis of the Lower Mesaverde Group, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming” at the115th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Seattle. Co-authors are graduate students KIMBERLEY S. JOHNSON and MATTHEW M. LEARY, and Joep E.A. Storms of Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

SOPHIE K. THOMPSON, assistant professor of medical laboratory and radiation sciences, “Ergonomic Considerations for Microscopy” at the 131st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. Eileen Mason, a former ODU faculty member, is the lead author.

ALOK VERMA, associate professor of engineering technology, “An Integrated Lean Implementation Model for Fleet Maintenance and Repair” at the American Society of Naval Engineers’ Fleet Maintenance Symposium 2003 in Virginia Beach.

G. RICHARD WHITTECAR, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Use of Effective Monthly Recharge Calculations to Evaluate Mitigation Wetland Sites in Eastern Virginia” at the 15th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Seattle. Co-authors are graduate student ERIC A. SEAVEY and Melanie A. Frisch of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Suffolk.

HAROLD WILSON, professor of history, “Abraham Charles Myers and the Women of the Confederacy” at the annual luncheon meeting of the Pickett-Buchanan chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Publications
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of Mathematics, “Inside Mathematical Modeling: Building Models in the Context of Wound Healing in Bone” in series B, vol. 4, no. 1 of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems.

WILLIAM S. BARTOLOTTA, associate professor of music, a transcription for brass instruments and timpani of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture for Solid Brass Music Co.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, “Updating the Standard for the Next Generation of Electronic Media Historians” in vol. 3, no. 3 of The Review of Communication.

SHANGPING GUO, FENG WU and KHALID IKRAM, graduate students, and SACHARIA ALBIN, professor, electrical and computer engineering, “Analysis of Circular Fibers with an Arbitrary Index Profile by the Galerkin method” in vol. 29, no. 1 of Optics Letters.

SHANGPING GUO, graduate student, SACHARIA ALBIN, professor, and R.S. ROGOWSKI, graduate student, electrical and computer engineering, “Comparative Analysis of Bragg Fibers” in vol. 12 of Optics Express.

CARL O. HELVIE, professor emeritus of nursing, “Community Mobilization and Participation” and “Health Promotion in a Homeless Center” in “Health Promotion in the Community” (New York: Springer Publishing Co.), C.C. Clark, editor.

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of English, poems in the following literary journalsand anthologies: “Manifestations” in the winter 2003 edition of Crab Orchard Review; “Chinatown, Moon Festival” and “Longing” in “Going Home to a Landscape” (Calyx, 2003), Marianne Villanueva, editor; and “More Fun than a Turkey Shoot” in “Screaming Monkeys” (CoffeeHouse Press, 2003), Evelina Galang and Eileen Tabios, editors.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, a poem, “Buenos Aires – Endstation Sehnsucht,” in the Nov. 22, 2003, edition of the German-speaking Argentine newspaper Argentinisches Tageblatt.

HAROLD G. MARSHALL, Morgan Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, and Lubomira Burchardt, professor of hydrology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, “The Community of Epiphytes in Mesotrophic Lake Phytoplankton” in the journal Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Polonica.

LELAND PETERSON, professor emeritus of English and Latin, “Homosexuality and Same-Sex ‘Marriage’” in the January 2004 edition of New Oxford Review.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, a review-essay of Michele Cone’s “French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art Before, During and After Vichy” (Cambridge University Press, 2001) for a special issue, vol. 32, no. 3, of SubStance on the Politics of French Literary History.

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