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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
VINOD AGARWAL, professor of economics, appointed to the Governor’s Advisory Board of Economists.

GARY EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, appointed to the editorial advisory board of “Film: The Annual Editions Series” by McGraw-Hall publishers

JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, elected president-elect for the Academy of Marketing Science for 2006-08.

GARRETT MCAULIFFE, professor of educational leadership and counseling, elected to the editorial board of Journal of Counseling and Development.

STACEY PLICHTA, professor of community and environmental health, appointed to the Governor’s Commission on Sexual Violence.

GREG WANG, associate professor of human resource development, appointed to the editorial review board for Advances in Developing Human Resources.

GILBERT YOCHUM, University Professor of economics, reappointed to the Governor’s Advisory Board of Economists.


Awards/Honors
SUE FARRAR, receptionist, Office of the President, the L.D. Britt, M.D. Community Service Award for her “legacy of community service.” She founded and served as president of the Norfolk Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse and of the Virginia chapter of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse. She is the past executive director of Child Abuse Prevention Services in Norfolk. Her current volunteer service includes the Stephen Ministry.

LUISA IGLORIA, associate professor of English, finalist in the 2006 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Prize competition, Comstock Review, for her poem “Marine Layer.”


Books
CATHERINE M. BANKS, director of academic and student affairs, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, and adjunct assistant professor of political science, “The Commonwealth: A History of the Government and Politics of Virginia” (Pearson Publishing, 2007).

MAURICE BERUBE, eminent scholar emeritus of educational leadership, and CLAIR BERUBE (M.S.Ed. ’97, Ph.D. ’01), “The End of School Reform” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, “Strategic Marketing: Creating Competitive Advantage,” with lead author Douglas West and Essam Ibrahim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

DANA HELLER, professor of English and director of the Humanities Institute, “The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).


Papers/Presentations
JOHN ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “Mathematics in Nature” at the fall meeting of the Tidewater Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

TERRY CHRISTENSEN, visiting assistant professor, and GARRETT MCAULIFFE, professor, educational leadership and counseling, “Counseling Lesbian and Gay Youth in Schools” to the Hampton Roads Counselors Association in Norfolk.

BETTY ROSE FACER, senior lecturer of foreign languages and literatures, “E-Books, iPods and What Else? Supporting New Technologies for Language Instruction” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention in Nashville.

MARK HAVEY, professor of physics, “Time Dependent Population and Polarization Dynamics in Ultra Cold Atomic Rb” at the 36th Winter Collo-quium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics in Snowbird, Utah. Also, “Time-Dependent Light Dynamics in Dense, Ultracold Atomic Rb” at the Frontiers in Optics 2006 conference in Rochester, N.Y. Co-authors are SALIM BALIK and OGUZ ER, graduate students of physics, and CHARLES SUKENIK, associate professor of physics.

LUISA IGLORIA, associate professor of English, “Paintings of Words,” a poetry reading curated for the Courthouse Galleries in Portsmouth with participating poets and alumni from the undergraduate and graduate creative writing program.

FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “The Singer-Songwriter Harald Immig: Descendant of Romantic Poets and Medieval Minstrels,” in German, at the 30th annual German Studies Association conference in Pittsburgh. Also, “Europe, A Ship of Fools. Caricatures in the Visual Arts from the Renaissance to Romanticism” at the 56th annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference.

SUEANNE MCKINNEY, assistant professor of elementary education, and Stacy Lyle, mathematics teacher at Maury High School, “Preparing ‘Highly Qualified’ Mathematics Teachers Online” to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Atlanta.

NANCY TAYLOR MINGUEZ, senior lecturer of foreign languages and literatures, “The Interpre-tive Mode of Communication: Strategies for Better Reading and Listening Comprehension” at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in Salamanca, Spain.

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, “Status of Potentially Harmful Algae in the Chesapeake Bay Estuarine System” at the 12th International Conference on Harmful Algae in Copenhagen, Denmark. Co-authors are Lubomira Burchardt of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland; TODD EGERTON, doctoral student; and MICHAEL LANE, data analyst, biological sciences.

DUC NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, the following research seminars: “Numerical Methods for the Analysis and Design of Large-scale Problems” at the University of Miami and “Multidisciplinary Parallel Computing Activities at ODU” at the University of South Florida.

STACEY PLICHTA, professor of community and environmental health, “Challenges in Pregnancy Prevention Programs for Girls in High-risk Urban Areas” at the 5th annual meeting of the International Conference on Urban Health at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the 134th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Boston. Co-authors are JEWEL GOODMAN, doctoral student in health services research; KOREN GOODMAN, an assistant director at the Career Management Center; Kimberly Adams-Tufts; and Mary Ann Notarianni.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Stealth Destruction: Jules Verne’s Invisible [Bachelor] Machines” at Indiana University in Bloomington for the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference on the theme of “Invention in 19th-century Literature.” Also, “Jules Verne: The Utopist and His Double” for a conference on Discourses of Power at the University of Cairo and “Melancholy and Dystopia in Jules Verne’s ‘The Begum's Millions’ for the Eclipse Lecture Series in the Department of Comparative Literature at the American University of Cairo.

RANDY SHABRO, director of employer programs and liaison to the colleges of Education and Health Sciences, and HEIDI MCFERRON, assistant director and liaison to distance sites, Career Manage-ment Center, a workshop on “Virtual Career Fairs – The Next Frontier” at the American Association for Employment in Education Annual Conference in Minneapolis.

JEFFREY STECKROTH, instructor of mathematics and statistics, “Function Composition: Clearing Up the FoG” at the 2006 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Eastern Regional Conference in Atlantic City, N.J.

STEVE TONELSON, professor of early childhood, speech-language pathology and special education, “The Commonwealth Special Education Endorsement Programs: Alternative Licensure Through Distance Education” at the 29th annual Teacher Education Division/2nd annual Technology and Media Division Conference (Council for Exceptional Children) in San Diego. Co-authors are JANE HAGER, chair of educational curriculum and instruction; CHERYL BAKER, senior lecturer of ECSSE; ROBERT GABLE, eminent scholar of ECSSE; ANN MAYDOSZ, program coordinator for student services, CSEEP; and KIMBERLY HUGHES, research coordinator, Child Study Center.

TOM WUNDERLICH, assistant dean for career management; LAURA CZERNIAK, associate director for information technology; and HEIDI MCFERRON, Cyber Career Center supervisor; “Cyber Career Center – Putting High Tech and High Touch Together,” a Webinar broadcast sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and Employers to 35 national and international universities.


Publications
JEAN-PAUL ARNAOUT (M.E.M. ’03), “Dynamic Heuristic for the Stochastic Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem” in a special issue on Scheduling in Manufacturing Information and Service Industries, vol. 3, no. 2 of International Journal of Operations Research. Co-authors are GHAITH RABADI and JI HYON MUN, assistant professors of engineering management and systems engineering.

TAMI CRAFT AL-HAZZA, assistant professor, and ABHA GUPTA, associate professor, educational curriculum and instruction, “Reading Tutor Checklist: A Guide for Volunteer Reading Tutors” in vol. 50, no. 4 of Preventing School Failure.

JOHN ECHTERNACH, eminent scholar emeritus of physical therapy, “Nerve Entrapments of the Elbow and Forearm” in “Orthopedic Physical Therapy Secrets,” 2nd edition (Mosby/Elsevier), edited by Jeffery Placzek and David Boyce. He was also co-author of “Electromyography and Nerve Conduction Tests” in “Physical Rehabilitation,” 5th edition (F.A. Davis), edited by Patricia O’Sullivan and Thomas Schmitz. Co-authors are Leslie Portney of Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and Serge Roy of Boston University.

BETTY ROSE FACER, senior lecturer of foreign languages and literatures, a book review for Thomson Heinle, “Séquences: Intermediate French Through Film” in fall 2006.

JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, “The Impact of Regional Affilia-tion on Consumer Perceptions of Relationships Among Behavioral Constructs” in vol. 59, no. 9 of Journal of Business Research and “Assessing Russian Consumers’ Imported vs. Domestic Product Bias” in vol. 48, no. 5 of Thunderbird International Business Review. Co-authors for both are Shawn Thelen (lead) and Earl Honeycutt Jr.

MARK HAVEY, professor of physics, “Diffuse Light Scattering Dynamics Under Conditions of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency” in vol. 74 of Physical Review A. Co-authors are V.M. Datsuyk (lead), I.M. Sokolov and D.V. Kupriyanov of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University in Russia. Also, “Nonlinear Optical Approach to Matrix-Element Spectroscopy of the 5s 2S1/2 - 5p 2Pj - 5d 2Dj’ Transitions in 87Rb” in vol. 39 of Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. Co-authors: S.B. Bayram (lead) of Miami (Ohio) University, M.S. Safronova of the University of Delaware and A. Sieradzan of Central Michigan University. Also, “Coherent Backscattering of Light from Ultracold and Optically Dense Atomic Ensem-bles,” a review article in vol. 3 of Laser Physics Letters 3. Co-authors: Kupriyanov (lead), Sokolov and CHARLES SUKENIK, associate professor of physics.

LUISA IGLORIA, associate professor of English, “Rice” in Crab Orchard Review. summer 2006; “Dolorosa,” “Bypass,” “Rainy Day” and “Your Hand in My Side” in Crab Orchard Review, fall/winter 2006.

FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, the following book reviews in vol. 29, no. 3 of German Studies Review: “Counter-Cultures in German and Central Europe: From Sturm und Drang to Baader-Meinhof” (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003), edited by Steve Giles and Maike Oergel; “Pop and Poetry – Pleasure and Protest: Udo Lindenberg, Konstantin Wecker and the Tradition of German Cabaret” (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003), by Annette Blüdorn; and “Ausgewiesene Experten: Kunstfeindschaft in der Literaturtheorie des 20. Jahrhunderts” (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003), by Ulrich Horstmann.

DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, “Providing Asthma Care in Elementary Schools: Understanding Barriers to Determine Best Practices” in vol. 29, no. 4 of Family & Community Health. Co-authors are

SUZANNE CLARKE and REBEKAH CARDENAS, I/O psychology doctoral students, and Judith Taylor-Fishwick, Cynthia Kelly and Frances Butterfoss of EVMS.

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, “Dominance and Morphology of Two Acidophilic Diatoms from Lake Drummond, Located in Southeastern Virginia” in Proceedings of the 18th International Diatom Symposium. Co-author is Lubomira Burchardt of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. Also, “Phytoplankton Assemblages Associated with Water Quality and Salinity Regions in Chesapeake Bay” in the journal Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science. Co-authors are Richard Lacouture of Morgan State University, Claire Buchanan of the Potomac River Commission and J. Johnson of the Environmental Protection Agency.

SUEANNE MCKINNEY, assistant professor of elementary education, “A Review of Star Teachers: The Ideology and Best Practice of Effective Teachers of Diverse Children and Youth in Poverty” in Journal of Negro Education. Also, with Janet Finke of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, “A Com-parison of the Internship Experience for Student Interns Placed in Different Urban School Environments”in vol. 27, no. 1 and 2, of The Professional Educator. Also, “Responding to the Needs of At-risk Students in Poverty” in vol. 17 of Essays in Education. Co-authors are CHARLENE FLEENER, associate professor of reading education; W. Frazier of George Mason University; and L. Abrams of UNCC.

JOYCE NEFF, associate professor, and CARL WHITHAUS, assistant professor, English, “Contact and Interactivity: Social Constructionist Pedagogy in a Video-based Management Writing Course” in vol. 15 of Technical Communications Quarterly.

GHAITH RABADI, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering, “Heuristics for the Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem with Setup Times” in vol. 17 of Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. Co-authors are R. Moraga of Northern Illinois University and A. Al-Salem of Qatar University.

VALARIE SCHROEDER, master’s student of psychology; MICHELLE KELLEY, professor of psychology; and William Fals-Stewart of RTI International; “Effects of Parental Substance Abuse on Youth in Their Homes” in vol. 13, no. 4 of The Prevention Researcher.

GREG WANG, associate professor of human resource development, “Training Evaluation: Knowing More than Is Practiced” in vol. 8, issue 4 of Advances in Developing Human Resources. Co-author is Diane Wilcox of James Madison University.

ALLAN ZUCKERWAR, adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering, and ROBERT ASH, professor of aerospace engineering, “Response to Comment by Markus Scholle on the Article ‘Variational Approach to the Volume Viscosity of Fluids’” in vol. 18 of Physics of Fluids.