ProFacts

Richards Pribesh Gregory Schulman


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
RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN, chair of nursing, elected to the Southern Regional Education Board’s board of directors for 2006-08.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, selected to participate in the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Summit on Scholarship in Student Affairs in Washington, D.C.

ALAN SCHWITZER, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, selected as a national program reviewer for the American College Personnel Association’s 2006 annual convention.


Awards
JIE CHEN, Louis I. Jaffe Professor of political science, and QIU JIN, associate professor of history, a grant of $25,000 from the Chiang Ching-kuo Founda-tion for International Scholarly Exchange for International and Domestic Implications of the Rise of China: An International Conference.

GARY SCHAFRAN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, the American Water Works Associa-tion’s Fuller Award, a national honor that recognizes distinguished service in the water supply field.


Books
WILLIAM G. CUNNINGHAM, eminent scholar of educational leadership and counseling, and P. Cordeiro, “Educational Leadership: A Problem Based Approach” (Boston: Allyn & Bacon).

EDWARD S. NEUKRUG, professor, and ALAN SCHWITZER, associate professor, educational leadership and counseling, “Skills and Tools for Today’s Professional Counselors and Psychotherapists: From Natural Helping to Professional Counseling” (Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole). Also, with KYLE NICHOLAS, assistant professor of communication, a DVD to accompany the book.

SHANA PRIBESH, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time: Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools” (Santa Monica: RAND Corp.), with six co-authors, including lead author Brian T. Gill.

JEFFREY H. RICHARDS, professor of English, “Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic” (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, edited (notes and introduction) an English translation of Jules Verne’s “The Begum’s Millions” (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press).


Papers/Presentations
PJOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “The Calculus of Rainbows, Halos and Glories” to Mu Alpha Theta, the mathematics club at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach.

AMY ADCOCK, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, and MOLLY DUGGAN, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Exploring the Use of Pedagogical Agents in Distance Learning Human Service Courses” for the AERA in San Francisco.

FRED C. DOBBS, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Can Microorganisms Be Invasive and if so, What Are Their Ecological Impacts?” at the Fourth International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions in Wellington, New Zealand. Also, with former research assistant professors Lisa Drake (lead author) and Martina Doblin, “Case Study in Chesapeake Bay: Invasion Pathways for Microorganisms Via Ships’ Ballast Water, Biofilms and Ballast-tank Residuals” at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation in Norfolk.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, the following presentations to the Southern Association of College Student Affairs: “The Basics of Legal Issues: What’s New This Fall?” (with John Lowery, University of South Carolina, and Margaret Jablonski, UNC-Chapel Hill); “SACSA and CAS – Back to the Basics of Program Self-Evaluation” (with Phyllis McClusky-Titus, Illinois State Univer-sity, and Michael Sutton, Winston-Salem State University); “Interested in Getting Published: Strategies for Success (with Tony Cawthon, Clemson University, as lead author, and Steven Janosik, Virginia Tech); and “Crime on Virginia’s College and University Campuses, Annual Report 2003,” EPI Policy Paper No. 15 (with Janosik as lead author, and Terrell Strayhorn, University of Tennessee).

ALAN FLANDERS, adjunct associate professor of history, “The Battle of Trafalgar” at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Bath, England.

KERRY D. HEAFNER, former graduate student, now at the University of Louisiana, Monroe, and REBECCA D. BRAY, adjunct associate professor of biological sciences, “Taxonomic Reassessment of North American Granite Outcrop Isoetes Species with Emphasis on Vegetative Morphology and I. piedmontana (Pfeiffer) Reed sensu lato.”

S.A. HEINEMANN and F.T. THOMPSON, graduate students, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences; WAYNE L. HYNES, associate professor of biological sciences; and FRED C. DOBBS, associate professor of OEAS; “Assessing the Potential for Horizontal Gene Transfer of Plasmid-borne Antibiotic Resistance in Vibrio cholerae Isolated from Ships’ Ballast” at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federa-tion in Norfolk.

S. JÖNSSON, student; Martina Doblin, former research assistant professor, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences; G.R. DiTullio, College of Charleston; and FRED C. DOBBS, associate professor of OEAS; “Phytoplankton Dynamics in Ships’ Ballast Tanks: Comparison of Fluorometric, HPLC and Species Analyses” at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation in Norfolk.

LUCIEN X. LOMBARDO, professor of criminal justice, and KAREN A. POLONKO, professor of sociology, “Implications of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child for Pedagogical Practice Targeting Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect” at the 10th International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect European Regional Conference, Berlin, Germany.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Moorish Andalusia: A Medieval Model for a Post-Modern Europe” at the Medieval-Renaissance Conference XIX, University of Virginia’s College at Wise; “Goethe and Thomas Mann: An Elective Affinity Between Classicism and Modernity” (in German) at the German Studies Association Conference in Milwaukee; “Where Orient Meets Occident: From Roman Ruins and Morrocan Medinas to Granada’s Alhambra” at the Atria retirement community in Virginia Beach; “Klezmer Revival in Contemporary Germany” at Beth Sholom Village in Virginia Beach; “Switzerland: The Magic Mountain of European Culture” at Atria; “Goethe and Thomas Mann: Elective Affinities Across the Centuries” (in German) at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wash-ington, D.C.; and “German Satire in the Visual Arts, from Martin Luther to Tomi Ungerer” at Virginia Wesleyan College. Also, “European Orientalism: Remembering and Re-envisioning the Cultural Other in 19th and 20th Century Paintings” at Memory and Medievalism: The 20th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, Towson University.

HAROLD G. MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, “ Harmful Marine Phytoplankton: Representative Toxic Species and Their Toxins,” “Auto-trophic Picoplankton: Their Composition, Characteris-tics and Importance” and “Wetlands: Ecologically Unique and Diverse Habitats” at the Collegium Biologi-cum at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Also, with TODD EGERTON, graduate student, biological sciences, and Lubomira Burchardt of AMU, “A Review of the Harmful Algal Populations in Chesapeake Bay” at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation in Norfolk. Also at the conference, with MICHAEL LANE, data analyst with the Benthic Ecology Laboratory, and Egerton, a poster, “Phyto-plankton Biomass and Water Quality Trends Within Chesapeake Bay.”

GARRETT J. MCAULIFFE, professor of educational leadership and counseling, “The Decline of Experiential Counselor Education: A Roundtable Discussion” and “The Internationalizing of Counselor Education: Why and What” at the Triennial Meeting of the Associa-tion for Counselor Education and Supervision in Pittsburgh.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, a seminar, “Parallel-Sparse Finite Element Symmetrical/Unsymmetrical Domain Decompo-sition” for the Configuration Aerodynamics Branch at NASA Langley Research Center.

KAREN A. POLONKO, professor of sociology, and LUCIEN X. LOMBARDO, professor of criminal justice, “The Pedagogy of Child Welfare: A Need for Reflection” at the 10th International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect European Regional Conference in Berlin, Germany.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Valentin Bru as Clinamen: The Eccentric Sage” at a symposium on Raymond Queneau at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. Also, “Jules Verne’s Invisible Man: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz” in Ottawa.

ALAN SCHWITZER, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Skills and Tools for Today’s Counselors and Psychotherapists: From Natural Helping to Professional Counseling” at the 23rd annual meeting of Bachelors Social Work Program Directors in Austin, Texas.

WHITNEY SHERMAN, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, “No Child Left Behind: A Catalyst for Superintendent Action to Eliminate Test-score Gaps? A Preliminary Look” at the annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration in Nashville.

F. THOMSON III and S.A. HEINEMANN, graduate students, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences; WAYNE L. HYNES, associate professor of biological sciences; and FRED C. DOBBS, associate professor of OEAS; “Ships’ Ballast as a Potential Vector for the Transfer of Antibiotic-resistance Genes of Vibrio cholerae at Vibrio2005 in Gent, Belgium

DICK WHALEN, director of military activities, “The Art and Science of Leadership” to Hampton Roads MSC officers.


Publications
CRAIG A. BAYSE, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “Considerations for Reliable Calculation of 77-Se Chemical Shifts” in vol. 1 of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

RICHARDEAN BENJAMIN, chair of nursing, and M. Smith, “The Teaching Role of Faculty” and “The Service/Practice Role of Faculty” in a book edited by Smith, “Professional, Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Higher Education” (Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins). Also, with V. Sheppard, “Competence Across the Life Span: A Response to the HIV and AIDS Dilem-ma” in vol. 1, no. 1 of The Journal of Race and Policy.

DESMOND C. COOK, professor of physics, “Spectroscopic Identification of Protective and Non-protective Corrosion Coatings on Steel Structures in Marine Environments” in vol. 47 of Corrosion Science.

DANIEL L. DICKERSON, assistant professor of educational curriculum and instruction, and three co-authors, “Students’ Conceptions of Scale Regarding Groundwater” in vol. 53, no. 4 of Journal of Geoscience Education.

MOLLY DUGGAN, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, and JILL JURGENS, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Career Counseling in Women’s Groups: A Rela-tional Approach” in vol. 28 of Virginia Counselors Journal.

DENNIS E. GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, and lead author P. Lehmuller, “Affirmative Action: From Before Bakke to After Grutter” in vol. 42, no. 4 of NASPA Journal.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, “Redescription of the Subterranean Amphipod Crustacean Flagitopisa philippensis (Hazioidea: Melitidae), with Notes on Its Unique Morphology and Clarification of the Taxonomic Status of Psammogammarus fluviatilis” in vol. 53 of Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Co-authors are THOMAS R. SAWICKI (Ph.D. ’04), biological sciences, and Boris Sket of the University of Ljubljana.

MICHELLE L. KELLEY, professor, VEENA NAIR ’03 and TANAYA RAWLINGS (M.S. ’04), and THOMAS F. CASH, professor, psychology, and two-co-authors, “Retrospective Reports of Parenting Received in Their Families of Origin: Relationships to Adult Attachment in Adult Children of Alcoholics” in vol. 30 of Addictive Behaviors.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Hermann Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund or ‘To the Mother.’' From the Anima Mundi to the Magna Mater and Madonna (Ciccone),” in German, in Ingo Cornils and Osman Durrani’s, editors, “Hermann Hesse Today” (New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi).

DAVID SELOVER, associate professor of economics, JOHN KROLL, associate professor of mathematics, and Roderick Jenson of Weslyan University, “Mode-locking and Regional Business Cycle Synchronization” in vol. 45, no. 4 of Journal of Regional Science.

ALAN SCHWITZER, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, and two co-authors, “Disseminating College Counseling Knowledge Through Research Articles” in vol. 8 of Journal of College Counseling.

RESIT UNAL, chair, and CHARLES B. KEATING, associate professor, engineering management and systems engineering, “Calibration of Expert Judgments Applied to Uncertainty Assessment” in vol. 17, no. 2 of Engineering Management Journal. Co-authors are TRINA M. CHYTKA (Ph.D. ’03) of NASA Langley Research Center and BRUCE A. CONWAY (Ph.D. ’03) of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.