ProFacts

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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
NINA W. BROWN, eminent scholar of educational leadership and counseling, reappointed to a three-year term on the editorial review board for the Journal for Specialists in Group Work. She was also appointed to the Publications Committee for the American Counseling Association.

GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, appointed general editor of the television, film and cultural studies book series from the University Press of Kentucky.

WILLIAM H. GRAVES, dean of the Darden College of Education, appointed to the board of directors of Young Audiences of Virginia and to the Norfolk Community Services Board.

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

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, elected to a third two-year term on the Council of the International Society for Subterranean Biology.

THOMAS ISENHOUR, provost, elected to a three-year term on the College Board’s Southern Regional Council.

GEORGE MAIHAFER, associate professor of physical therapy, elected president of the Virginia State Board of Physical Therapy.

MARGARET R. MULHOLLAND, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, elected to the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee.

VIRGINIA S. O’HERRON, university librarian, elected chair of the Library Organization and Management Section of the Library Administration and Management Association, a division of the American Libraries Association, for 2006-07.


Awards/Honors
MDENNIS E. GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, the Betty Harrah Manuscript of the Year award from The Journal of College and University Student Housing for his article, “The Views of Senior Residence Life and Housing Administrators on the Clery Act and Campus Safety.”

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of English, the 2006 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize for “Kierkegaard’s Fable,” published in words+images literary journal, University of Southern Maine; also, the first Sylvia Clare Brown Fellowship, from the Ragdale Foundation, to attend the Residency for Writers Program in Lake Forest, Ill.

JIM JARRETT, athletic director, the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the NCAA Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association.

DEBBIE WHITE, associate athletic director, the 2006 Trailblazer Award from the College Sports Information Directors of America.


Papers/Presentations
JOHN A. ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “Mathematics – Its Beauty, Power and Applicability; Elementary Examples from Nature and Life” at the Anja S. Greer Conference on Mathematics, Science & Technology at Phillips Exeter (N.H.) Academy. The annual conference is held for about 300 high school mathematics and science teachers.

BETTY ROSE FACER, senior lecturer of foreign languages and literatures, “Advocacy for the Cause of Languages on Capitol Hill: A Report from JNCL” at the 2006 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

BEVERLY FORBES, director of experiential education, Career Management Center, and BONITA ANTHONY, assistant director of the engineering fundamentals division, “Engineering Early Advantage Program for Women” at the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network’s 2006 national conference in Pittsburgh.

TONIA GRAVES, electronic resources cataloger, and Michael Arthur, now at the University of Central Florida as head of acquisitions and collection development, “Developing a Crystal Clear Future for the Serials Unit in a Electronic Environment: Results of a Workflow Analysis” at the 15th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference.

TIM GROTHAUS, assistant professor, and TAMMI MILLIKEN, visiting assistant professor, educational leadership and counseling, “Helping School Counselors Successfully Broach the Subject of Race, Ethnicity and Culture During the Counseling Process” at the American School Counselor Association national conference in Chicago. Lead author is N.L. Day-Vines.

K. 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.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences “Biogeographic Significance of the Rediscovery of a Poorly Known Crangonyctid Amphipod Crustacean from Subterranean Waters in the Russian Far East” at the 18th International Symposium of Biospeleology in Cluj, Romania. Co-author is Dmitry A. Sidorov of the Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Vladivostok. Also at the symposium, “Biogeographic Significance of Recently Discovered Bogidiellid Amphipod Crustaceans from Subterranean Groundwaters in Southeastern India.” Co-authors are Y. Ranga Reddy of Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, and Mohammed Messouli of the University of Cadi, Morocco.

RADHA HORTON-PARKER, associate professor, and CHARLIE FAWCETT, adjunct instructor, educational leadership and counseling, “Spirituality as a Key in the Healing Process: Implementation of the FACE-SPIRIT Model at the American Mental Health Counselors Association annual conference in St. Louis.

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of English, a panel presentation, “Writing Within/From/Beyond Community: Filipino American Writers Speak,” at the 2006 National Association of Ethnic Studies annual conference in San Francisco. She also did poetry readings for the Featured Author in Creative Writers’ Series at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, Calif.

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Goethe and Thomas Mann: Elective Affinities Across the Centuries” (in German) at Goethe Institute Weimar, Germany, Goethe Institute Munich, Germany, Cafe Auszeit, Kurhaus Reha-Klinik, Bad Boll, Germany.

JUAN M. MONTERO II, M.D., F.A.C.S., vice chair of the Educational Foundation board, “Surgical Volunteerism” to the surgery department at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center of Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City.

JOHN NUNNERY, assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling, “The Effect of School Renaissance on Student Achievement in Two Mississippi School Districts” at the 2006 AERA Meeting in San Francisco.

ANASTASIA RAYMER, associate professor of early childhood, speech pathology and special education, “Swallowing 101” and, with lead presenters SHERYL ANDERSON and JENNIFER LEHNEN, graduate students, “Conversational Outcomes of Word Retrieval Training in Aphasia: Nouns and Verbs” at the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia annual meeting in Williamsburg. Also, “Aphasia Treatment: Who, What and Where” at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Brainerd.

JEFFREY H. RICHARDS, professor of English, “An ‘American’ Fiction? ‘The Adventures of Emmera’ and the Transatlantic Novel” at the American Literature Association annual conference in San Francisco.

JAMES R. SWEENEY, associate professor of history, “The Transition from High School to College” for the Leadership Cohort in Science and Engineering at Norview High School in Norfolk.

SUZAN THOMPSON, adjunct assistant professor, and RADHA HORTON-PARKER, associate professor, educational leadership and counseling, “Facilitating Healing Through Creative Counseling at the American Mental Health Counselors Association annual conference in St. Louis.

TOM WUNDERLICH, executive director, and LAURA CZERNIAK, associate director for information technology, Career Management Center, “Cyber Career Center – Putting High Tech & High Touch Together” for the National Association of Colleges and Employers conference in Anaheim, Calif.


Publications
GARY R. EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, reviews of “Chronicles: Volume One,
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Reading Sex and the City, Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die For” and “Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History” in vol. 36, no. 4 of Communication Booknotes Quarterly.

K. 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 Encyclo-pedia of Literature by and About Women of Color” (Greenwood Press), Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, editor.

JOHN R. HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, “New Species and New Records of Weckeliid Amphipod Crustaceans (Hadziidae) from Caves in Northern Mexico, with Descriptions of the New Genera Paraholsingerius and Tamaweckelia” in vol. 118 of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Co-author is THOMAS R. SAWICKI (Ph.D. ’04), biological sciences. Also, “Nubigidiella theresiae n. sp. from Abd al Kuri Island, Yemen (Crustacea Amphipoda, Bogidiellidae) with Descrip-tions of a New Maxillipedal Structure” in vol. 29 of Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. Co-authors are Valentina Iannilli and Sandro Ruffo of the Civic Museum of Natural History, Verona. Also, “Bactrurus speleopolis, a New Species of Subterranean Amphipod Crustacean (Crangonyctidae) from Caves in Northern Arkansas” in vol. 119 of Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Co-authors are SAWICKI and G.O. Graening of the Arkansas Field Office of The Nature Conservancy.

RADHA HORTON-PARKER, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “The Story of Payne” in vol. 20, no. 3 of Association for Adult Development and Aging Newsletter.

LUISA A. IGLORIA, associate professor of English, the following creative writing/poetry: “Six Fragments (after Carlos Bulosan)” in the spring issue of Our Own Voice, a literary e-zine; “Wanting” and “Sediment” in the spring issue of Smartish Pace; and “Rice” in Crab Orchard Review's “Defining Family” summer/fall issue. Also, the following poems in anthologies: “The Oral Tradition: Or, The Oracle Admonishes the President Though It Might Really Be Too Late” in “Truth and Consequence: An Anthology of Poems for the Removal of [Philippine President] Gloria Macapagal Arroyo,” edited by Danton Remoto, Joi Barrios and Jaime Dasca Doble (Alliance of Concerned Teachers, and Congress of Teachers for Nationalism and Democracy; Manila, October 2005); and “On Any Given Day” in “We Are What We Watch: Poets Respond to Movies, TV, and Media,” edited by Todd Pierce and Ryan G. Van Cleave (Syracuse University Press, 2006).

JEFFREY P. JONES, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, “A Cultural Approach of the Study of Mediated Citizenship” in the journal Social Semiotics. The article was designated a “Top Four Paper in Political Communication” at the International Communication Association’s annual meeting in Dresden, Germany. It will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming volume, “Mediated Citizenship” (Routledge, 2007).

FREDERICK A. LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, two publications in German: “A Preserver and Bridge Builder: Josef Medek’s Engagement for the Reconciliation Between Czechs and Germans” in “Neue Württembergische Zeitung,” Germany, June 27, 2006, and “The Fragility of Civilization: Roberto Schopflocher’s New Volume of Short Stories ‘Mirror of the World’” in “Argentinisches Tageblatt,” Argentina, June 3, 2006.

DEBRA A. MAJOR, professor of psychology, and JONATHAN E. TURNER and THOMAS D. FLETCHER, graduates of the doctoral program in industrial/organizational psychology, “Linking Proactive Personality and the Big Five to Motivation to Learn and Development Activity” in vol. 91, no. 4 of Journal of Applied Psychology.

GARRETT MCAULIFFE, professor, and CHRISTOPHER LOVELL, associate professor, educational leadership and counseling, “The Influence of Counselor Epistemology on the Helping Interview: A Qualitative Study” in vol. 84 of Journal of Counseling and Development.

DUC T. NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, “Multiphysics CAD-Based Design Optimization” in vol. 34, no. 2 of Journal of Mechanical Based Design of Structures and Machines.

Co authors are A. Vaidya, S. Yu and J. St. Ville, engineers with HYI Inc. in Phoenix, and S.D. Rajan, professor of civil engineering at Arizona State University. Also, “Unsymmetrical and Symmetrical Sparse Iterative Algorithm with Multiple Right-Hand-Side Strategies” in issue 8, vol. 5 of WSEAS Transactions on Computers. Co-authors are: A.P. HONRAO, former mechanical engineering graduate student; GENE HOU, professor of mechanical engineering; OSMAN AKAN, professor of civil and environmental engineering; and OKTAY BAYSAL, dean of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology.

WILLIAM OWINGS, professor of educational leadership and counseling (with lead author L. Kaplan), “Spending and Student Achievement: Policy & Spending Implications for School Boards” in vol. 5, no. 1 of Journal for Effective Schools. Also, as lead author, with JOHN NUNNERY, assistant professor of ELC, and four other co-authors, “Troops to Teachers’ Classroom Effectiveness: Implications for Principals” in vol. 90, no. 2 of NASSP Bulletin.

ANASTASIA RAYMER, associate professor of early childhood, speech pathology and special education, “Computerized Training for Impairments of Word Comprehension and Retrieval in Aphasia” in vol. 20 of Aphasiology (with Francine Kohen and DIANE SAFFELL, graduate student). Also in this volume, with Amy Rodriguez (lead author) and Leslie Gonzalez Rothi, “Effects of Gesture and Semantic-Phonologic Treatments for Verb Retrieval.”

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international affairs, “Alfred Hitchcock and France: A Love Affair” in an anniversary issue (July/August) of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

ALAN SCHWITZER, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, and four co-authors, “Clinical Supervision and Professional Development Using Clients from Literature, Popular Fiction and Entertainment Media” in vol. 1 of Journal of Creativity in Mental Health.