ProFacts

Adcock
 Branch
 Dowling Marbury


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/Arrangements, 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
TIM GROTHAUS, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, elected president-elect of the Virginia School Counseling Association.

K. ANGELA JOHNSON HINTON, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, appointed to the Committee on Racism and Bias for the National Council of Teachers of English.

THOMAS E. POULIN, adjunct instructor of urban services and public administration, appointed to the Virginia Social Science Association board of directors for 2006-07.

ALAN SCHWITZER, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, elected editor of Journal of College Counseling for a one-year interim term beginning in August 2006.

WHITNEY SHERMAN, assistant professor of educational leadership, appointed to the editorial review board for Journal of School Leadership.

ANUSORN SINGHAPAKDI, professor of marketing, appointed to the editorial review board of the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life. He is also the section editor on Corporate Performance and Quality of Work Life.

SANDRA M. WATERS, director of academic continuance, elected to a two-year term as Mid-Atlantic Region 2 chair within NACADA, the National Academic Advising Association.


Awards/Honors
MHANI E. ELSAYED-ALI, eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, an Excellence in Innovation Award from the Hampton Roads Technology Council.

MYRON GLASSMAN, professor of marketing, and BRUCE MCAFEE, professor of management, the Best Paper Award at the 2006 national conference of the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning in San Francisco.

RADHA HORTON-PARKER, associate professor of counselor education, winner of the 2006 Pathfinder Story competition through the Association for Adult Development and Aging.

KEVIN MARBURY, director of recreational sports, the Virginia Recreational Sports Association Award of Merit.

ALAN SCHWITZER, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, the American College Counseling Association Award for Outstand-ing Contribution to Professional Knowledge.

SUZAN THOMPSON, adjunct assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, included on the U.S. News & World Report and Psychology Today lists of best therapists.

CECELIA TUCKER, director of community relations, an award from the FBI, Norfolk Division, for contributions to advancing the awareness of women’s history.


Books
ALEXANDER GODUNOV, assistant professor of physics, and Andi Klein (lead author), of Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Introductory Compu-tational Physics” (Cambridge University Press).

K. ANGELA JOHNSON HINTON, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “Poetic Prose” (Scarecrow Press).

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, a textbook, “Finite Element Methods: Parallel-Sparse Statistics and Eigen-Solutions” (Springer).


Papers/Presentations
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “Nature’s Beauty: Some Reflections and Refractions” for St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium Series.STEVE TONELSON, professor of early childhood, speech-language pathology and special education, “The Commonwealth Special Education Endorsement Program: A Distance Learning Approach” at the Annual Conference of the National Center for Alternative Certification in San Diego. Co-authors are JANE HAGER, chair of educational curriculum and instruction; CHERYL BAKER, senior lecturer of ECSSE; ROBERT A. GABLE, eminent scholar of ECSSE; ANN MAYDOSZ, program coordinator for student services, CSEEP; and KIMBERLY HUGHES, research coordinator, Child Study Center.

AMY ADCOCK, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, and MOLLY DUGGAN, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Exploring the Use of Animated Pedagogical Agents in Distance Learning Human Services Courses” at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco.

J. DAVID BRANCH, associate professor of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Creatine Supplementation: Effect on Strength and Endurance” at the Sports Nutrition for Endurance and Strength-Power Athletes conference in Virginia Beach.

NINA BROWN, eminent scholar of educational leadership and counseling, “When It’s All About You: The Impact of the Group Therapist’s Destructive Narcissism” at the Mid Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society and Johns Hopkins University Spring Conference in Rockville, Md.

SHERI R. COLBERG-OCHS, associate professor of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Nutritional Considerations for the Diabetic Strength and Endurance Athlete” at the Sports Nutrition for Endurance and Strength-Power Athletes conference in Virginia Beach.

ELIZABETH A. DOWLING, associate professor of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Nutritional Considerations for the Female Strength and Endurance Athlete” at the Sports Nutrition for Endurance and Strength-Power Athletes conference in Virginia Beach.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, “Edward R. Murrow in Black and White: Resurrecting the Patron Saint of Broadcast Journalism for a New Generation” at the annual conference of the American Culture Association in Atlanta.

BETTY ROSE FACER, senior lecturer of foreign languages and literatures, “Discussion Panel: Current Issues that Affect the Future of Foreign Language Learning with Technology and Language Centers” at the Southeast Association for Language Learning Technology and the Mid Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology Joint Conference at the College of Charleston, S.C.

PAMELA A. GIBSON, assistant professor of public administration, “Respected Relevance: Creating a Class Experience to Honor the Strengths and Limitations of Theory and Practice” at the 67th American Society for Public Administration National Conference in Denver.

K. ANGELA JOHNSON HINTON, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “The Other Side as a Springboard for Writing” at the Children’s Literature Conference at the University of Georgia in Athens.

RADHA HORTON-PARKER, associate professor of counselor education, and C.R. Fawcett, “FACE-SPIRIT: A New Model for Integrating Spirituality into Counseling” at the Mental Health Counselors Association Conference.

ANGELICA J. HUIZAR, assistant professor of Spanish, “Cosmic Projections from the Avant-Garde to Cyber Space: Arturo Carrera’s and Stephanie Strickland’s Visual Poetry” at the Conference for the Center of Contemporary Poetry at City University of New York. Also, “Mexican Feminist Thought: Intersections of Post-Colonialism and Feminism?” at the Mid-Atlantic Latin American Studies Association in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Also, “Laboratorio panóptico: La carcel de mujeres de María Carolina Geel, microcosmos subalterno” at the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She also organized and chaired the panel “Del lápiz al medio digital: expresiones de lo subalterno y lo local” at the Latin American Studies Association.

WILLIAM B. JONES, associate professor, and CURTIS BROOKS, adjunct assistant professor, philosophy and religious studies, “The Origins of Modern Science Revisited” at the 16th Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and Culture in Frankfort, Ky.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Cabaret Culture: Paris - Berlin - New York” at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Also, “The Revival of Klezmer in Contemporary Germany” at Temple Israel in Norfolk. Also, “German Pop Culture” at the Grissom Library in Newport News.

THOMAS E. POULIN, adjunct instructor of urban services and public administration, “Property Rights and Disaster Preparedness: Balancing Private Development Rights with Public Goods in the Re-building of New Orleans” and “Neighborhood Support to Homeland Security: Shifting Disaster Policy Models in the United States from 1789 to 2006” at the 2006 Virginia Social Science Association meetings.

ANASTASIA RAYMER, associate professor of early childhood, speech pathology and special education, “Conversational Gesture Use Following Gestural Training in Aphasia” at the North American meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Boston. Among the six co-authors are graduate students ROSANNA APONTE, WENDI ATKINS and DANA TAYLOR. Also at the meeting, she gave a short course with Pelagie Beeson on “Language Recovery in Aphasia: Behavioral Outcomes and Neural Correlates” and a presentation with three co-authors, “Lesion Characteristics Related to Naming Improvement in Aphasic Stroke Patients: The Role of Anterior Cortex and the Basal Ganglia.”

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “The Weight of Secrets: Aki Shimazaki’s Quest of Identity” at the 20th-century French Studies Conference at the University of Miami. He also chaired a panel on “Destination Montreal: Correspondences Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo.” Also, “Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy Within Contemporary Quebecois-Asian Literature” at a special centenary conference in honor of Leopold Senghor for the SPFFA in New York City.

WHITNEY SHERMAN, assistant professor of educational leadership, “The Delivery of Leadership Preparation” to the American Educational Research Association.

BURTON ST. JOHN III, assistant professor of communications, “Newspapers’ Problems with Engaging the Public: Public Journalism Critiqued as Propaganda” at the 2006 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations in Atlanta.

DAVID P. SWAIN, professor of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Energy and Power Considerations for Strength and Endurance Athletes” at the Sports Nutrition for Endurance and Strength-Power Athletes conference in Virginia Beach.

SUZAN THOMPSON, adjunct assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, and RADHA HORTON-PARKER, associate professor of counselor education, “Facilitating Healing Through Creative Counseling” at the Mental Health Counselors Association Conference.

STEVE TONELSON, professor of early childhood, speech-language pathology and special education, “The Commonwealth Special Education Endorsement Program: Induction Year Mentoring and Tuition Support” at the 2006 Council for Exceptional Children Convention and Expo in Salt Lake City. Co-authors are JANE HAGER, chair of educational curriculum and instruction; CHERYL BAKER, senior lecturer of ECSSE; ROBERT A. GABLE, eminent scholar of ECSSE; ANN MAYDOSZ, program coordinator for student services, CSEEP; and KIMBERLY HUGHES, research coordinator, Child Study Center. The team also received an Exemplary Program Award from the American Council on Rural Special Education.

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, “Food Drugs: Effect on Strength and Endurance Performance” at the Sports Nutrition for Endurance and Strength-Power Athletes conference in Virginia Beach.


Publications
DANIEL L. DICKERSON, assistant professor of science education, and three co-authors, “Using Science Kits to Construct Content Understandings in Elementary Schools” in vol. 18, no. 1 of Journal of Elementary Science Education.

PAMELA A. GIBSON, assistant professor of public administration, and Gregory Stolcis, “Re-Enacting, Re-Tracing and Re-Discovering History: Making a Connection in the Public Administration Curriculum” in vol. 12, no. 1 of Journal of Public Affairs Education.

K. ANGELA JOHNSON HINTON, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, chapters and essays on Kathleen Collins, Elaine Jackson, Mae Jackson, Paulette Childress White and Jacqueline Woodson in “Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and About Women of Color” (Greenwood Press), Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, editor.

RADHA HORTON-PARKER, associate professor of counselor education, “Freedom” in vol. 45 of Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development.

ANGELICA J. HUIZAR, assistant professor of Spanish, a chapter, “Palabra, forma y espacio. 'Performance' y poesía en Blanco de Octavio Paz” in “Poesia visual, experimental y caligramatica en Mexico by Ediciones EON and the Universidad Iberoamericana.” Also, “Interweaving Aesthetics: Crossings Between Poetry and Music in the Work of Uruguayan Poet Alfredo Mario Ferreiro” in vol. 19 of MACLAS: Latin American Essays journal. Also, “Revolución y producción cultural del MST: inicios de su alegorización en la música de la telenovela O Rei do Gado” in vol. 25 of Studies in Latin American Popular Cultural journal.

JULIE N. JACOBS (M.S. ’04) and MICHELLE L. KELLEY, professor of psychology, “Predictors of Paternal Involvement in Childcare in Dual-Earner Families with Young Children” in vol. 4, no. 1 of Fathering.

LUCIEN X. LOMBARDO, professor of criminal justice, and KAREN A. POLONKO, professor of sociology, “The Enlightened Witness: Reasserting Humanity in the Face of Violence at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century” in vol. 2, no. 2 of International Journal of the Humanities.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, a poem (in German), “Moon-light Over Auschwitz,” in vol. 38, no. 2 of European Judaism. Also, an essay (in German), “Victor’s Secret (Viagra): Of the Pyrrhic Victory of the Sexual Revolution” in vol. 12 of Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German.

GARRETT MCAULIFFE, professor of educational leadership and counseling, a chapter, “The Evolution of Professional Competence” in “The Intersection of Adult Development and Learning: A Handbook of Theory, Research and Practice” (New York: Oxford University Press), C.H. Hoare, editor.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor, and SIROJ TUNGKAHOTARA, doctoral student, civil and environmental engineering, and two co-authors, “MPI Parallel FORTRAN Dynamic Programming Algorithms and Software for Comparisons of DNA Sequences” in vol. 3, no. 2 of Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine.

SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of special education, “Using Family-based Practices for Young Children with Special Needs in Preschool Programs” in vol. 82 of Childhood Education.

ALLAN J. ZUCKERWAR, adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering, and ROBERT L. ASH, professor of aerospace engineering, Variational Approach to the Volume Viscosity of Fluids” in vol. 18 of Physics of Fluids.