ProFacts

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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, Compositions/Arrange-ments, Degrees, Exhibitions, Performances, Papers/
Presentations and Publications. Announcements will appear on a space-available basis in the order received. Submissions may be e-mailed (sdaniel@odu.edu), mailed (Courier Editor, 100 Koch Hall) or faxed (683-5501).


Appointments/Elections
BETTY ROSE FACER, lecturer of foreign languages and literatures, elected representative to the Joint National Committee for Languages in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the International Association for Language Learning Technology. Also, elected president of the Mid Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology.

ALAN B. FLANDERS, adjunct associate professor of history, elected for membership in the Modern History Faculty, The University of Oxford. He is also a fellow by special election at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.

WENDY LARRY, women’s basketball coach, selected to the 2005-08 USA Basketball Women’s Collegiate Committee by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. The committee is responsible for the selection of players and coaches who compete in collegiate-aged international competitions.


Awards
IRENE CONNOLLY, senior lecturer of dental hygiene, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association 2005 Distinguished Service Award for outstanding achievement and dedication to the profession.

JOHN A. DOUKAS, eminent scholar of finance, the 2004 Graham and Dodd Award for Excellence for an article published in the November/December 2004 issue of Financial Analysts Journal. The article, “Divergent Opinions and the Performance of Value Stocks,” was co-authored with C. Kim and C. Pantzalis.

HIROYUKI HAMADA, martial artist in-residence, the highest award, bestowed for the first time, of Sosai Sho, The Cup of His Excellency, at the 43rd All Japan Butoku Sai, national martial art exposition in Kyoto, Japan. Hamada performed at the event.

LEONARD I. RUCHELMAN, eminent scholar of urban studies and public administration, the Dr. Wolfgang Pindur Award for Distinguished Public Service in Academia and Practice by the Hampton Roads chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.


Books
BRIAN K. PAYNE, professor, and RANDY R. GAINEY, associate professor, criminal justice, “Drugs and Policing: A Scientific Perspective” (Charles C. Thomas).


Compositions/Arrangements
BRIAN K. PAYNE, professor, and RANDY R. GAINEY, associate professor, criminal justice, “Drugs and Policing: A Scient


Papers/Presentations
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “Mathematical Patterns in Nature: Some General Notions” and “Mathematical Patterns in Nature: Some Theoretical Concepts” at the Elizabeth City State University Spring Arts Festival. Also, “Mathematical Models in Cancer Biology: Philosophy, Methodology, Utility and Limitations” at the National Cancer Institute’s Integrative Cancer Biology Program Mini-Symposium in Berkeley, Calif. Also, “Modeling Nature’s Patterns” at the Peninsula Council of Teachers of Mathematics Banquet at Christopher Newport University.

ROBERT L. ASH, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Wind Tunnel Testing of the Wright Flyer” to approximately 400 engineering students at the SAE Aero Design West competition in Fort Worth, Texas. Also, “Challenges of Building a Human Outpost on Mars” as the NASA Colloquium Speaker at NASA Langley Research Center, as the Sigma Lecturer at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton and as a guest speaker at the University of Padova in Italy.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, “‘This Could Be the Start of Something Big’: Steve Allen and the Legacy of ‘Tonight!’” at the annual conference of the American Culture Association in San Diego.

ALAN B. FLANDERS, adjunct associate professor of history, “Lord Nelson’s Influence on U.S. Navy Proponent Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Development of the Modern U.S. Navy,” in cooperation with the Britannia Naval Research Association, at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

WILLIAM B. JONES, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, “The Technology of Science: Some Implications” at the 15th Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and Culture in Frankfort, Ky.

DEBRA A. MAJOR, professor of psychology; THOMAS D. FLETCHER, an industrial/organizational psychology doctoral graduate; DONALD D. DAVIS, associate professor of psychology; and LISA M. GERMANO, I/O psychology doctoral student, “The Influence of Culture and Workplace Relationships on Work-Family Conflict: A Multilevel Model of Mediated Effects” for the “Understanding Organizational Support and Its Influence on Work-Family Outcomes” symposium at the 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in Los Angeles. Major and Germano convened the symposium.

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Study Abroad as a Multicultural Learning Experience” to the International Interest Group of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision at the Annual Convention of the American Counseling Association in Atlanta.

JAMES MCNALLY, professor emeritus of English, “Seamus Heaney: Beyond the Boundaries” to the Torch Club of Tidewater and “Poetry and Flowers” to the Meadowbrook Forest Garden Club at Norfolk Botanical Gardens. He also read his poetry of a visit to Ireland to the Poetry Guild of Williamsburg.

CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Recent Advances in Nonlinear Structural Dynamics and Smart Structures and Their Aerospace Applications” to the graduate students and faculty of the College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fla. Also, three papers at the 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference in Austin Texas: “Active Control of Nonlinear Free Vibration of a Beam and a Composite Plate Using Piezoelectric Self-sensing Actuators” (with JEN-KUANG HUANG, chair of mechanical engineering; QINQIN LI, master’s student of aerospace engineering; and THONGCHAI PHAIRO, doctoral student of mechanical engineering); “Supersonic Nonlinear Panel Flutter Suppression Using Aeroelastic Modes and Shape Memory Alloy” (with XINYIN GUO, doctoral student of aerospace engineering, and alumnus ADAM PRZEKOP, a staff scientist at the National Institute of Aerospace in Hampton); and “Nonlinear Flutter of Cylindrical Panels Under Yawed Supersonic Flow Using Finite Elements” (with SALIM AZZOUZ, doctoral student of aerospace engineering).

WILLIAM A. OWINGS, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, and Leslie Kaplan, assistant principal at Dozier Middle School in Newport News, “Principal Quality, Student Achievement and ISLLC Standards: A Virginia Study” at the International ASCD Conference.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Wandering the Sepulchres of the World: Lee Miller’s Haunting Surrealism” at the 20th-Century French Colloquium at the University of Florida. He also chaired a panel on “Surrealist Love Triangles: Man Ray, Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose.” Also, “The Bachelor’s Narrative Space in Jules Verne’s ‘Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz’” at the Jules Verne Mondiale - International Centenary Conference in Amiens, France, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Jules Verne’s death. He also addressed the members of the Societe Jules Verne and the North American Jules Verne Society on the forthcoming edition of Verne’s “Begum’s Millions,” which Schulman edited and wrote the introduction for.

MELVINA SUMTER, assistant professor of criminal justice, “The Importance of Place” at the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice annual meeting in Jacksonville, Fla.

TOM WUNDERLICH, executive director of the Career Management Center, “Community Service Internships: Providing Funding for Those Unpaid Intern-ships” at the Cooperative Education and Internship Association national conference in Anaheim, Calif.


Publications
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, two photographs on the Earth Science Picture of the Day Web site: “Ice Polygons and Other Follygons” on April 1 and “Old Dominion Sunset” on April 29.

DAVID J. BURDIGE, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “The Cycling of Fluorescent Dis-solved Organic Matter in Contrasting Marine Sedi-ments” in vol. 89 of Marine Chemistry. Co-authors are SCOTT A. KLINE, a doctoral student in oceanography, and WENHAO CHEN, a former post-doc now at the University of Miami. Also, “The Modern Calcifying Sponge Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamark, 1815), Great Bahama Bank: Implications for Ancient Sponge Mud Mounds” in vol. 175 of Sedimentary Geology. Lead author is Fritz Neuweiler, a former visiting scientist and now a professor of geology at Laval University in Quebec.

THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology, “Our First Body Image Birthday: A Year in Review” in vol. 2 of Body Image. Also in this issue, “Women’s Exposure to Thin-and-Beautiful Media Images: Body Image Effects of Media-ideal Internalization and Impact-reduction Interventions.” Co-authors include lead author Yuko Yamamiya of the University of South Florida and SUSAN E. MELNYK (M.S. ’03).

MICHELE L. DARBY, eminent scholar of dental hygiene, “Effects of Ultrasonic Scaling and Hand-activated Scaling on Tactile Sensitivity in Dental Hygiene Students” in vol. 79, no. 1 of Journal of Dental Hygiene. Co-authors are lead author Danielle L. Ryan, assistant professor of dental hygiene at the University of Nebraska (formerly at ODU); DEBORAH BAUMAN, associate professor of dental hygiene; LYNN S. TOLLE, professor of dental hygiene; and DAYANAND N. NAIK, professor of mathematics and statistics.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, “New Species of Amphipod Crustaceans in the Genera Tegano and Melita (Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from Subterranean Groundwaters in Guam, Palau and the Philippines” in vol. 25 of Journal of Crustacean Biology. Also, “Four New Species of the Subterranean Amphipod Genus Hadzia (Hadziidae) from Caves in the Western Pacific, with a Re-evaluation of the Taxonomic Status of the Genus” in vol. 2 of Subterranean Biology. Co-authors of both are THOMAS R. SAWICKI (Ph.D. ’04) and Thomas M. Iliffe of Texas A&M University.

MICHELLE L. KELLEY, professor of psychology, “An Evaluation of a Sexual Assault Prevention and Advocacy Program for U.S. Navy Personnel” in vol. 170, no. 4 of Military Medicine. Co-authors are Michael J. Schwerin of Navy Personnel Research, Studies and Technology, Navy Personnel Command, Millington, Tenn., and Kara L. Farrar and Marian E. Lane of the University of Memphis psychology department.

LUCIEN X. LOMBARDO, professor of criminal justice, “Prisonography: Sources of Knowledge and Perspectives About Prisons” in “Correctional Criminology,” edited by Sean O’Toole. Also, with KAREN A. POLONKO, professor of sociology, “American and Human Rights Approaches to Corporal Punishment: An Exploration of Human Rights and ‘United States’ Law” in vol. 29, no. 2 of Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Surviving to Excel: The Last German Jewish Autobiographies of Holocaust Survivors Ruth Klüger, Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Paul Spiegel” in vol. 25, no. 2 of Modern Judaism.

SARA L. MARCHELLO, director of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, two sessions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers: “Student Service Models at Off-campus Centers” and, with Louise Phillips of the Round Rock Higher Education Center in Texas, “Higher Education Centers for the 21st Century.”

CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Active Control of Nonlinear Panel Flutter Under Yawed Supersonic Flow” in vol. 43, no. 3 of Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Co-authors are alumnus KHALED ABDEL-MOTAGALY, an engineer/scientist at Boeing Phantom Works in Seattle; XINYUN GUO, doctoral student of aerospace engineering; and alumnus BIN DUAN, senior systems engineer at Claritas Inc. in Arlington, Va.

ELIZABETH MONK-TURNER, professor, and D. EDWARDS, undergraduate student, sociology, “Another Look at Handwashing Behavior” in vol. 33 of Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal.

JAMES OLESON, assistant professor of criminal justice, “You Make Me [sic]: Confessions of a Sadistic Law Review Editor” in vol. 37, no. 4 of U.C. Davis Law Review.

BRIAN K. PAYNE, professor of criminal justice, and ELIZABETH MONK-TURNER, professor of sociology, “Obstacles to Group Work” in the spring issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly.

PHILIP RAISOR, professor of English, “Landscaping: Five Contemporary Poets” in vol. 4, no. 2 of Tar River Poetry.

SHARON STULL, instructor of dental hygiene, “A Review of the Literature: The Economic Impact of Preventive Dental Hygiene Services” in vol. 79, no. 1 of Journal of Dental Hygiene. Co-authors are IRENE I. CONNOLLY, senior lecturer of dental hygiene, and Kellie R. Murphree, associate professor of dental hygiene at Austin Community College (formerly at ODU).

RUTH TRIPLETT, associate professor of criminal justice, “Neighborhood Characteristics and Crime: A Test of Sampson and Groves’ Model of Social Disorga-nization” in vol. 5, no. 1 of Western Criminology Review. Co-authors are lead author Ivan Sun and RANDY GAINEY, associate professor of criminal justice. Also, “Gender and Delinquency: Females Doing Crime” in “Controversies in Juvenile Justice and Delinquency” (Anderson Publishing Co.), edited by Alida Merlo and Peter Benekos. Co-authors are DIANNE CARMODY, associate professor of criminal justice, and Peggy Plass. Also, “Learning, Reinforcement and Self-reported Drug Use” in vol. 32 of Journal of Criminal Justice. Co-author is BRIAN K. PAYNE, professor of criminal justice.