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

Appointments/Elections
DENNIS GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, appointed co-editor of a special issue of NASPA Journal. The issue will concentrate on higher education legal issues and issues related to student judicial affairs.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, elected to a second two-year term on the Council of the International Society of Subterranean Biology. Also, appointed by Gov. Mark Warner to the Virginia Cave Board for a four-year term.

KELLY JO KARNES, assistant director of student activities and leadership, selected as the 2006 conference coordinator for the Association of Fraternity Advisors Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Calif. She will serve as the conference coordinator-elect for 2005.

NICOLE KIGER, coordinator of activities and programs, Office of Student Activities and Leadership, selected as the showcase selection coordinator for the National Association of Campus Activities 2005 South Regional Conference in Chatanooga, Tenn.

KEISHA PHELPS, senior admissions counselor, appointed vice president of professional development at the Virginia Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Conference.

JERRY ROBERTSON, director of applied technology, elected to a two-year term on the Executive Com-mittee of the Tidewater Government Industry Council.

MARTHA SMITH SHARPE, assistant vice president for institutional research and assessment, re-elected for a second three-year term as vice chair and public commissioner on the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education, Commission on Accreditation. She also chairs the Research and Evaluation Committee.

TOM WUNDERLICH, interim executive director of the Career Management Center, named as a reviewer for the Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships in the area of theory and practice by the Cooperative Education and Internship Association.

Awards
DENNIS GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, selected as a Southern Association of College Student Affairs Scholar. He was one of three higher education professionals from the southeastern U.S. selected for this honor in 2004.

KEISHA PHELPS, senior admissions counselor, the Outstanding Young Professional of the Year award at the Virginia Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Conference.

Papers/Presentations
JOHN ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “A Simple Mathematical Model of the Rainbow” to Norfolk Public School mathematics teachers.

HOLLY BEARD and ANN MARIE KOPITZKE, doctoral students, and STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor, community and environmental health, “Does the Level of Cultural Competence Influence Positive Attitudes Towards the Elderly?” at the 132nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C. Co-authors are: RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN, chair, and CAROLYN RUTLEDGE and LAUREL GARZON, associate professors, nursing. Also at the conference: BEARD, Marie Jackson and PLICHTA, “Do American Indian/Alaska Native Home Delivered and Congregate Meal Accurately Report Their Height and Weight?” and BEARD, Cheryl Samuels, former dean of health sciences, PLICHTA and JACKSON, “Elderly Nutrition Program: Policy Implications of Self-reported and Measured Height and Weight.”

RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN, chair of nursing, “Focus Groups: A Grassroots Approach to Addressing Cultural Competence and Disparities in Health Care” at the 132nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C. Co-authors are LAUREL GARZON and CAROLYN RUTLEDGE, associate professors of nursing, and STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts “Michael Moore’s Wild Ride: A Brief Production History of ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’” at the Third Biennial Film & History Conference on “War in Film, Television and History” in Dallas. He also moderated a special town meeting: “‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and the (Culture) War at Home.”

HONGYUN FU, doctoral student, and CLARE HOUSEMAN, chair, community and environmental health, “American Dream: A Qualitative Study on Illegal Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.” at the 132nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C. Also at the conference, with STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health, “Potential Contribution of Temporary Migration to High Risk Environments for HIV/STDs in China.”

JEWEL GOODMAN, KOFI AMANIN and HOLLY BEARD, doctoral students, and STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor, community and environmental health, “Watchdogs for Children: Examining Judges? Perceptions of CASA Volunteers’ Effectiveness in Juvenile Abuse and Neglect Cases” at the 132nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C.

FRAN HASSENCAHL and WILLIAM B. HART III, assistant professors of communication and theatre arts, “Framing the State of the Union: Editorial Cartoons and George W. Bush” at the National Communication Association meeting in Chicago.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, “An Overview of the Remarkable Subterranean Amphipod Diversity in Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico” at the 17th International Symposium on Biospeleology in Raipur, India.

CYNTHIA KRATZKE, doctoral candidate, community and environmental health, “Developing Effective Breast Cancer Training Programs for Community Health Workers” at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education in Washington, D.C. Co-authors are LAUREL GARZON, associate professor of nursing; KAREN KARLOWICZ, assistant professor of nursing; and JOHN LOMBARD, assistant professor of urban studies and public administration.

ANN MARIE KOPITZKE and SUE TWEED, doctoral students, and STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor, community and environmental health, and Susan Nasca, “Stay on Track Daycare Initiative Improves Children’s Immunization Rates”at the 132nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Cabaret Culture: Paris, Berlin, New York” in German and English to the German and English departments of the University of Poznan, Poland. Also, “Max Frisch’s Zuercher Trilogy: Journey into the Realm of the Mothers” in German to the German department.

PAUL MAGNANT, HOLLY BEARD and JEWEL GOODMAN, doctoral students, and STACEY B. PLICHTA, associate professor, community and environmental health, “Public Housing Community Health Fairs – Teaching Food Safety to Seniors” at the 132nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C.

PHILIP RAISOR, professor of English, “The Art of Memoir” at the annual Small Cities Conference at Ball State University.

JEFFREY H. RICHARDS, professor of English, “The Mysteries of Signior Falconi” at the Charles Brockden Brown Society international conference in New York. Also, “Texts, Performances and Transnational Identities in ‘The Widow(s) of Malabar’” and “Intended, if Not Always Seen: Political Drama in Pre-Jacksonian Philadelphia” at the Modern Language Association annual convention in Philadelphia.

WILLIAM S. RODNER, editor of Scotia – Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies, “Romantic Artists and the Modern Urban Landscape: J.M.W. Turner and Yoshio Markino” at the Impressionism and the Aesthetics of Pollution Symposium, in conjunction with the Turner, Whistler, Monet: Impressionist Visions exhibition, at The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French, and DAVID METZGER, professor of English, “Living in the Golem State: Julien Duvivier’s Le Golem” at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia. They also co-chaired a special session, “The Golems of Paris: Translation, Immigration, Citizenship.

Publications
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, three of his nature photographs, “Scarlet Billows,” “Iridescence on a Summer Afternoon” and “Fractal Oak,” on the Earth Science Picture of the Day Web site.

REBEKAH CARDENAS, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology; DEBRA MAJOR, associate professor of psychology; and KARYN BERNAS, graduate of the I/O psychology doctoral program; “Exploring Work and Family Distractions: Antecedents and Outcomes” in vol. 11 of International Journal of Stress Management.

THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology; JENNIFER A. MOROW, assistant professor of psychology; JOSHUA I. HRABOSKY, Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology; and APRIL A. PERRY, graduate of the psychology master’s program, “How Has Body Image Changed? A Cross-sectional Investigation of College Women and Men from 1983 to 2001” in vol. 72, no. 6 of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology; TEJAL A. JAKATDAR, master’s student of psychology; and EMILY FLEMING WILLIAMS, Psy.D. student in clinical psychology; “The Body Image Quality of Life Inventory: Further Validation with College Men and Women” in vol. 1 (2004) of Body Image.

ANDREW R. CASIELLO, assistant vice president, Academic Technology Services, and David Whalen of Artel Inc., “TELETECHNET: Distance Education at Old Dominion University” in vol. 8, no. 2 of ACUTA Journal of Communications Technology in Higher Education.

VALERIAN J. DERLEGA and BARBARA A. WINSTEAD, professors of psychology, “Reasons for HIV Disclosure/Nondisclosure in Close Relationships: Testing a Model of HIV-Disclosure Decision Making” in vol. 23, no. 6 of Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. Co-authors are Kathryn Greene of Rutgers University, Julianne Serovich of Ohio State University and William N. Elwood of the Center for Public Health and Evaluation Research.

FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, “American and European Political Cartoonists Pen/Pin Saddam Hussein: An Analysis of U.S.-Iraq War Editorial Cartoons” in “Mass Media in Transition: An International Compendium,” edited by Yorgo Passadeos and published by Atiner, Athens. Greece. Also, “Jane Addams” in “American Radical and Reform Writers,” edited by Steven Rosendale and published by Bruccoli Clark Layman. Also, with WILLIAM B. HART III, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, “Justification of War Through Visual Metaphor: An Analysis of U.S./Iraq War Editorial Cartoons” in “Bring ’Em On: Media and Politics in the Iraq War,” edited by Lee Artz and Yahya R. Kamalipour and published by Roman Littlefield.

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

MICHELLE L. KELLEY, professor of psychology, “Parental Alcoholism: Relationships to Adult Attach-ment in College Women and Men” in vol. 29 of Addic-tive Behaviors. Co-authors are THOMAS F. CASH, professor of psychology; AMESHEIA R. GRANT, a graduate of the psychology bachelor’s program; and DENISE L. MILES and MELANIE T. SANTOS of the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, book reviews of Wolfgang K. Hünig’s “British and German Cartoons as Weapons in World War I” (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002) and “All of It Just Pop? Studies on Popular Literature Since 1990,” edited by Thomas Jung (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002). Both were published in vol. 27 of German Studies Review.

DEBRA A. MAJOR, associate professor of psychology; REBEKAH CARDENAS, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology; and Carolyn Allard, University of Oregon; “Child Health: A Legitimate Business Concern: in vol. 9 of Journal of Occupational health Psychology.

GARRETT MCAULIFFE, professor, educational leadership and counseling, “What Have We Lost? The Decline of Experiential Counselor Education” in vol. 65 of ACES Spectrum; “Turning Ethnicity On and Off: An Option for Whites Only” in vol. 5 of Counselors for Social Justice Activist; and “The Constructive-Developmental Internship Seminar: A Hothouse for Powerful Student Learning”in vol. 24 of Human Service Education. Also, with K.P. Eriksen and V. Kress, “A Developmental, Constructivist Model for Ethical Assessment” in Eriksen and Kress’ “Alternatives to Psychological Diagnosis: Developmental and Health-oriented Assessment” (New York: Sage).

CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Finite Element Multiple-mode Approach to Non-linear Free Vibrations of Shallow Shells” in Vol. 42, no. 11 of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astro-nautics Journal. Co-authors include ADAM PRZEKOP, research assistant of aerospace engineering. Also with XINYUN GUO, graduate research assistant of aerospace engineering, PRZEKOP and Raymond Lee of City University of Hong Kong, “Thermal Buckling Suppres-sion of Supersonic Vehicle Surface Panels Using Shape Memory Alloy” in vol. 41, no. 6 of Journal of Aircraft.

SUSAN E. MELNYK, master’s student, THOMAS F. CASH, professor, and LOUIS H. JANDA, associate professor, psychology, “Body Image Ups and Downs: Prediction of Intra-individual Level and Variability of Women’s Daily Body Image Experiences” in vol. 1 (2004) of Body Image.

ELIZABETH C. MINOR, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and PRASHANTH S. NALLATHAMBY, master’s student, “What is the ‘Dead’ POM? An Illustrative Preliminary Study Using Fluorescent Stains, Flow Cytometry and Mass Spectrometry” in vol. 92 (1-4) of Marine Chemistry.

JOANNE SCHEIBMMAN, assistant professor of English, “Inclusive and exclusive Patterning of the English First Person Plural: Evidence from Conversa-tion” in “Language, Culture and Mind,” Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer, editors (Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications).