ProFacts

Brenner Raymer Giles Garrett


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
E. ANDREW BALAS, dean of the College of Health Sciences, invited to serve on the newly established Healthcare Information Technology Advisory Panel of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The panel will advise the commission on trends in the evolution of a national health care information technology infrastructure.

MICHELE L. DARBY, eminent scholar of dental hygiene, appointed to the Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner Task Force and the Research Grant Review Committee of the American Dental Hygienists' Association, and to the Dental Hygiene Education Committee of the American Academy of Periodontology.

ELIZABETH FRANCIS GILES, senior lecturer of physical therapy, “elected chair of the American Physical Therapy Association Committee on Cultural Competence for the term July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006. She was also appointed to serve on the APT Cultural Competence Subcommittee of the Annual Conference Program Committee from August 2005 through June 2008.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, selected as a reviewer for the College Student Affairs Journal; selected as a judge for the student case study competition at the 2006 ASJA Conference; and selected as an editorial board member of Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity Advisor.

CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, appointed to the National Research Council Ocean Studies Board for 2005-08.

GEORGE MAIHAFER, chair of physical therapy, appointed by Gov. Mark Warner to serve as a provider member of the Virginia State Board of Physical Therapy for August 2005 to August 2007.

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, professor of educational leadership and counseling, named co-coordinator for the International Counseling Interest Network of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

ROSEANN RUNTE, president, appointed by Gov. Mark Warner to the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority board of directors for 2005-10.


Awards
PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, $1,800 from the French American Cultural Exchange division of the French Cultural Services in support of the French component of ODU’s 2006 Film and Video Festival.


Books
WILLIAM H. BRENNER, professor of philosophy, co-editor of “Readings of Wittgenstein’s ‘On Certainty,” (Palgrave/MacMillan). Danièle Moyal-Sharrock is the lead co-author. Brenner contributed an article for the book, “Wittgenstein’s ‘Kantian Solution.’”

WILLIAM G. CUNNINGHAM, eminent scholar, and WILLIAM A. OWINGS JR., professor, educational leadership and counseling, and WILLIAM A. KING (Ph.D. ’95), “Principal/Administrator Orienta-tion and Preparation Study Guide: A Self-Paced Tutorial for the SLLA” (Norfolk: Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education), a guide to help students prepare for the School Leaders Licensure Assessment.

EDWARD S. NEUKRUG, professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Essentials of Testing and Assessment: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, and Others” (Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole). Co-author is Charlie Fawcett, a former lecturer of human services and currently a doctoral student in counselor education at the University of Virginia.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, co-editor of a volume of essays, “Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005)


Papers/Presentations
PERRY M. DUNCAN, associate professor, and SARAH SCHULTZ-ROBINSON, research associate professor, psychology, “The Effect of Pfiesteria Toxin on Anxiety and Spontaneous Motor Activity in Rats” at the annual convention of the Behavioral Toxicology Society in St. Petersburg, Fla.

LISA M. GERMANO, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology, and DEBRA A. MAJOR, professor of psychology, “Personality and Work-Family Conflict: Problem-focused Coping as a Potential Mediator” at the 113th Convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C.

DAVID R. HAGER, professor of political science and higher education administration and special assistant to the provost, “Improvement of Student Learning: The Quiet Revolution in Regional Accreditation” at the 2005 International College Teaching Methods & Styles Conference in Reno, Nev.

CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Breaking the Code: The Otolith – Key to a Fish’s Life History” at Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Oceanografia, in Lisbon, Portugal. Also, with NATHAN SMITH, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, “How Otolith Growth Affects Its Chemistry” at the 29th Larval Fish Conference, American Fisheries Society, in Barcelona, Spain.

RITA L. KLAHR, adjunct instructor of nursing, “New Frontiers – Psychology and Primary Care Medicine: Developing a Winning Team” at an American Psychological Association symposium in Washington, D.C. Co-presenters were Daniel Bluestein, M.D., Tom Lynch and Pat Bach.

HONGSHENG LIAO, laboratory manager for the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, and CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Evaluation of Tuning Indices in Application of ADAPT to Stock Assessment and Its Importance in Fisheries Management” to the Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, in Virginia Beach.

DEBRA A. MAJOR, professor of psychology, DONALD D. DAVIS, associate professor of psychology, and LISA M. GERMANO, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology, “Men and Women’s Experiences in IT: Differences in Perceptions of Climate and Workplace Relationships” for the symposium “The Under-Representation of Women in Information Technology: Four Theoretical Perspectives” at the 65th Annual Conference of the Academy of Management in Honolulu, Hawaii. Major convened the symposium, which received a “best symposium” nomination from the Careers Division.

HAROLD G. MARSHALL, professor emeritus, and TODD EGERTON, graduate student, biological sciences, “Potentially Toxic Cyanobacteria in Chesapeake Bay Estuaries and a Virginia Lake” at the Interagency International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms, in Durham, N.C. Also, Marshall was a co-author of the presentation “A 24-hour Study of Sub-surface Phytoplankton and Autotrophic Picoplankton from a Small Retention Pond in Southeastern Virginia” at the fourth Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences in Krakow, Poland. Other co-authors are Elzbieta Wilk-Wozniak of the Institute of Nature Conservation in Krakow and Lubomira Burchardt of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

STACIE RAYMER, associate professor of early childhood, speech pathology and special education, “Computerized Training for Impairments of Word Comprehension and Retrieval in Aphasia” at the 35th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Sanibel Island, Fla. Co-authors are Francine Kohen, a research speech pathologist, and DIANE SAFFELL ’00 (M.S.Ed. ’04). Also, with five co-authors from the University of Florida, “Gesture Training Effects for Noun and Verb Retrieval in Aphasia” at the European meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Dublin, Ireland.

ERIC M. ROBILLARD, lab supervisor for the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and Chris Reiss, a former postdoc at CQFE and now with the National Marine Fisheries Service, “Age Validation of Bluefish Pomotomus saltatrix Along the East Coast of the United States” to the Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, in Virginia Beach.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, two papers, in French: “The Aesthetics of Disappearance: Jules Verne, Solitude and the Fantastic” for a colloquium on Jules Vernes at Cluj-Narcopa, and “The Adventure of the Lonely: Bachelorhood and Horror in Jules Verne’s ‘The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz’” for the Jules Verne centenary in Amiens, France. He also served on a panel devoted to the influence of Ellery Queen around the world at the annual Bouchercon Mystery Conference in Chicago.

ROXANNE TORRES (M.S. ’05), biological sciences, HONGSHENG LIAO, laboratory manager for the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, and CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Comparison of Age Estimates Using Opercula Versus Otoliths for Tautog (Tautoga onitis)” to the Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, in Virginia Beach.

SERENA B. TURNER, laboratory technician for the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, CYNTHIA M. JONES, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and Chris Reiss, a former postdoc at CQFE and now with the National Marine Fisheries Service, “Larvae Age and Size Distribution and Effects on Recruitment Patterns of Atlantic Croaker in the Chesapeake Bay” to the Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, in Virginia Beach.

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Dietary Sports Supplements” at the International Society of Sport Nutrition Annual Conference in New Orleans. Also, “Nutrition and Exercise for the Elderly” at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. Also, “Nutrition and Sport Performance” at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. Also, “Sport Performance Enhancement” at the Korean Institute of Sport Science, Korean Olympic Training Center, in Seoul. Also, “Dietary Supplements in Sport: Past, Present and Future” at the International Sports Science Congress in Chuncheon, South Korea.


Publications
CRAIG A. BAYSE, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “Relative Strengths of Se-N,O Interactions: Implications for Glutathione Peroxidase Activity” in vol. 358 of Inorganica Chimica Acta. Co-authors are undergraduate RENEE A. BAKER and graduate student KRISTINE N. ORTWINE.

MICHAEL T. GARRETT, chair of educational leadership and counseling, “Beloved Women: Nurturing the Sacred Fire of Leadership from an American Indian Perspective” in the summer issue of Journal of Counseling and Development.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Crime on Virginia’s College and University Campuses: Annual Report 2003” (EPI Policy Paper No. 15, Blacksburg, Va.: Virginia Tech), with lead author Steven M. Janosik of Virginia Tech and Terrell Strayhorn of the University of Tennessee.

JEFFREY P. JONES, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, “The Shadow Campaign in Popular Culture” in “The 2004 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective” (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), edited by Robert E. Denton Jr.

ROBIN J. LEWIS and VALERIAN J. DERLEGA, professors, EVA G. CLARKE ’87 (M.S. ’91), adjunct instructor, and JENNY C. KUANG, doctoral student, psychology, “An Expressive Writing Intervention to Cope with Lesbian-related Stress: The Moderating Effects of Openness About Sexual Orientation” in vol. 29 of Psychology of Women Quarterly. Co-authors are Andrew M. Jacobs and Michelle D. McElligott of the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology.

CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering, “Flutter and Thermal Deflection Suppression of Composite Plates Using Shape Memory Alloy” in vol. 43, no. 9 of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal. Co-authors are Bin Duan, of Claritas Inc. in Arlington, Va., Khaled Abdel-Motagaly of Boeing Co. in Seattle and Xinyun Guo of Daniel Wester College, Nashua, N.H.

RENEE OLANDER, interim director of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, a poem, “The Apparatus of the Dark,” in vol. 19 of Hawai’i Pacific Review.

MELVIN H. WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Sports Nutrition” in “Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease” 10th edition (Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins), edited by Maurice Shils, M.D.