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
NANCY BAGRANOFF, dean of the College of Business and Public Administration, elected vice president of education for the American Accounting Association. She will be the representative on accounting education to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and other organizations.

GILBERT R. HOY, eminent scholar of physics, appointed as a visiting fellow for the spring 2004 semester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

R. KEVIN MARBURY, director of recreational sports, appointed to serve on the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association’s National Services Corp. board of directors.

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, elected as a fellow to the Virginia Academy of Science.

JERRY ROBERTSON, director of applied technology in the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, appointed by the Norfolk City Council to a four-year term on the Norfolk Economic development Authority board of directors.

CHUCK THOMAS, university photographer, elected to a two-year term on the ODU Credit Union board.

Awards
JIM JARRETT, director of athletics, named the 2004 recipient of the Virginia Sports Information Directors Distinguished Service Award.

Books
MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Nutrition for Health, Fitness & Sport,” seventh edition (Boston: McGraw-Hill Publishers). He received a citation from the publisher.

Papers/Presentations
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of Mathematics, “Mathematics in Nature: Some Thoughts on Course Development” at the “Atmospheric Optics” workshop of the 327th WE-Heraeus Seminar in Bonn, Germany.

RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN, LAUREL GARZON and CAROLYN RUTLEDGE associate professors of nursing, and STACEY PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health, “Focus Groups: a Grassroots Approach to Addressing Health Disparities in Healthcare” at the Howard University 10th Annual Research Conference.

DAVE BLACKBURN, director of the Darden College of Education’s Program for Research and Evaluation in Public Schools, “Paired Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap” at the 2004 National Association of State Boards of Education in Orlando.

KEITH A. CARSON, associate professor, and ROBERT K. ROSE, professor emeritus, biological sciences, “Least Shrew (Cryptotis parva) Submandibular Gland Fine Structure” at the 84th annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.

FRED C. DOBBS, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and Andrew Rogerson of Nova University, “Can We Ever Remove, Kill or Inactivate All the Microorganisms from Ships’ Ballast Water, and Should We Try?” at the 2nd International Conference on Ballast Water Management in Singapore.

J. MARK DORREPAAL, chair of mathematics and statistics, “How Many Traveling Tournament 6-Team Schedules Are There?” at the 2004 joint CORS/INFORMS Conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

JOHN ECHTERNACH, eminent scholar of physical therapy, and Robert Dyer, assistant professor of health care management at Regent University, “Relationships of Clinical Reasoning, Autonomous Health Care Practice and Business Understanding: Taking It to the Next Level” at the American Physical Therapy Association’s annual conference in Chicago.

LAUREL GARZON, associate professor of nursing, “Using Standardized Patients to Educate Nurse Practitioner Students About Diverse Communities” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Graduate Masters Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., and “Educating Culturally Competent Nurse Practitioners for Rural Virginia” at the National Association of Hispanic Nurses annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Co-authors of both papers are CAROLYN RUTLEDGE and RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN, associate professors of nursing, and STACEY PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health. Also, “Efficacy of Standardized Patient Case Methodology” at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty national meeting in Philadelphia. Co-authors are CINDY LITTLE, senior lecturer, MICAH SCOTT, lecturer, nursing; RUTLEDGE; and PLICHTA.

GILBERT R. HOY, eminent scholar of physics, “Stimulated Emission of Gamma-Radiation: A Proposed Experiment” at Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics 2004, an international conference in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Berlin - Berlin: From the Weimar Republic to the Berliner Republic: Deca-dence and Renaissance of the German Capital” at L’Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Morocco. Also, “The Return of the ‘Eternal Feminin’ in the Visual Arts of the 20th Century” at the Goethe Institute Rabat/Casablanca, in Rabat. Both presentations were given in German. Also, “Germans and Jews After the Shoah: The Future of an Illusion?” at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, and Lubomira Burchardt of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznana, Poland, “A Reappraisal of the Neuston Community in Freshwater and Marine Habitats” at the Virginia Academy of Sciences annual meeting in Richmond. Also at the meeting, Slawomir Cerbin from AMU and Marshall presented a poster, “Comparison of Scanning Electron Microscopic Preparations Used in the Examination of Pfiesteria-like Dinoflagellates.”

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor of counseling, “Dualists and Relativists’ Helping Interviews: A Qualitative Comparison” at the Annual Research Conference of the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy in London.

JAMES J. MCNALLY, professor emeritus of English, “Dibs and Dabs in ‘Dubliners’” at Bloomsday 100: 19th International James Joyce Symposium, the National College of Ireland.

STACEY PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health; CINDY LITTLE and MICAH SCOTT, lecturers of nursing; and CAROLYN RUTLEDGE and LAUREL GARZON, associate professors of nursing; “Using Standardized Patients to Teach Nurse Practitioners About Patients Harmed by Domestic Violence: Student Responses” at the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Conference in New Orleans.

SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of early childhood special education, “Practical Strategies for Supporting the Development of Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities” at Encuentro: Fourth International Conference for Preschool Education in Monterrey, Mexico. Also, “Routine-based Instruction and Monitoring in the Early Childhood Special Education Classroom” at the Virginia Council for Exceptional Children Conference in Charlottesville.

CAROLYN RUTLEDGE, LAUREL GARZON and RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN, associate professors of nursing, and STACEY PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health, “Cultural Competence and Nurse Practitioner Students” to the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties in San Diego.

LEOREY N. SALIGAN, lecturer of nursing, a poster, “Educating Culturally Competent Nurse Practitioners in Virginia” at the Community-based Primary Care in Underserved Populations ... Innovations in Practice conference at Hilton Head, S.C. The presentation was part of an ongoing grant, whose project directors include LAUREL GARZON and CAROLYN RUTLEDGE, associate professors of nursing. The poster presentation received first-place honors.

CHERYL SAMUELS, former dean of the College of Health Sciences, and LAUREL GARZON and GAIL GRISETTI, associate professors of nursing, “An International Coalition to Prepare Community Health Nurses and Physical Therapists in the Dominican Republic” at the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions International Conference in Toronto.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Jules Verne’s Peculiar Utopias” at the Utopian Imagination ... conference in Haifa, Israel.

Publications
NATASHA MILKEWICZ ANNIS (Psy.D. ’01); THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology; and JOSHUA I. HRABOSKY, a Psy.D. student; “Body Image and Psychosocial Differences Among Stable Average Weight, Currently Overweight and Formerly Overweight Women: the Role of Stigmatizing Experiences” in vol. 1, no. 2 of Body Image: An International Journal of Research.

MARTINA A. DOBLIN, research assistant professor, FRED C. DOBBS, associate professor, and LISA A. DRAKE, research assistant professor, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Multiplex PCR Allows Simultaneous Detection of Aureococcus anophagefferens and Primate Calcivirus” in vol. 48 of Marine Pollution Bulletin. Co-authors are Laura Aridgides (lead author), Tamas Berke and David Matson, who were at the Center for Pediatric Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School, at the time of the research.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, “Discussing Documentary’s Dominion: Excerpts from a Radio Roundtable” in vol. 23, no. 8 of International Documentary (with Gabriel M. Paletz, College of William and Mary).

THOMAS D. FLETCHER, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology, and DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professor of psychology, “Medical Students' Motivations to Volunteer: An Examination of the Nature of Gender Differences” in vol. 51 of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.

LAUREL GARZON, associate professor of nursing,; STACEY PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health; and Denise Korniewicz of the University of Miami (lead author); “Health Care Workers: Risk Factors for Non-latex and Latex Gloves During Surgery” in vol. 64, no. 6 of American Journal of Industrial Hygiene.

JOHN D. HEYL, executive director of international programs, “For Real Security, America Must Shrink the Global Gap,” a review of Thomas P.M. Barnett’s “The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the 21st Century” (Putnam, 2004), in the Aug. 10 issue of the Christian Science Monitor.

JILL C. JURGENS, assistant professor, and GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, associate professor, counseling, “Integrating a Short-term Abroad Experience in Ireland into a Diversity Course” in vol. 26 of International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Family Romances of Daughters in Contemporary German Literature” in Laurence Rickels and Thomas Kniesche’s (eds.) “Surviving One’s Childhood,” Festschrift for Ursula Mahlendorf (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004). Also, “‘Adolf Eichmann Offered Us a Million for Our Castle’: Hanna Kunz’s Memories of Expulsion from Her Moravian Homeland,” an interview in “Old Homeland - Kuhländchen” (Wiesenbach, Germany, May/June 2004). Also, “Rafael Seligmann’s Der Musterjude: A Master Parody of German-Jewish Führer Phantasies” in vol. 27, no. 2 of German Studies Review. Also, a book review of Florian Krobb and Jeff Morrsion’s (eds.) “Poetry Project: Irish Germanists Interpret German Verse” (Oxford: Lang, 2003) in vol. 27, no. 2 of German Studies Review. Both of the articles were written and published in German.

DALE E. MILLER, assistant professor of philosophy, “Terminating Employees for Their Political Speech” in vol. 109, no. 2 of Business and Society Review.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor, and LAURA HARRELL, assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering, “Optimal Design of Engineering Systems Using MPI-enabled Genetic Algorithm” in vol. 2-3 of Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences Journal. Co-authors are S.D. Rajan of Arizona State University and M.D. Deshpande of NASA Langley Research Center.

RENEE OLANDER, director of interdisciplinary studies, a review of “The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove” (UTP, 2002) in vol. 23, no. 1 of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “No Room for Squares: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jazz and the French Bachelor” in Nottingham French Studies. Also, his translation of Paul Halter’s “The Call of the Lorelei” appeared in the July issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

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