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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).
Awards/Honors
TERESA CHRISTENSEN, assistant professor of counseling, the 2006 Best Group Research Article award from the American Counseling Association’s Association for Specialists in Group Work. Her article was titled “Facilitation of Reminiscence Groups: Perceptions of Group Leaders.”
PETER EUDENBACH, lecturer of art, an $8,000 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, professional artists category.
JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, named a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science at the academy’s annual conference in Coral Gables, Fla. This distinction recognizes exemplary service to the academy and scholarly contributions to the advancement of marketing thought over a sustained period. No more than 3 percent of the 1,600 active academy members can receive this honor.
DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, selected as one of five Fellows nationally for the semi-annual 2007 University of Houston College of Law Higher Education Roundtable in Houston.
CYNTHIA KRATZKE, adjunct assistant professor of community and environmental health, the 2007 Distinguished Service Award from the Virginia Public Health Association. The honor recognizes a health professional for service and significant VPHA contributions.
MURRAY RUDISILL, men’s golf coach, named Coach of the Year by the Virginia State Golf Coaches Association.
ROSEANN RUNTE, president, a Toast of the Town award from Upsilon Omicron Omega chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., for community service and professional achievement.
MELVINA SUMTER, associate professor of sociology and criminal justice, the 2007 President’s Diversity Champion Award for her exemplary accomplishments in the areas of diversity, leadership and programmatic support at ODU.
Books
ROD EVANS, adjunct assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: The Book of Mnemonic Devices” (New York: Penguin Group, 2007).
CARL BOYD, Louis I. Jaffe Professor Emeritus of History, has had his book, “The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II” (co-authored with Akihiko Yoshida), translated and published in the Czech language.
Papers/Presentations
JOHN ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “Mathematical Patterns in Nature” for the University of Virginia Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Series.
KATE BRODERICK, learning coordinator for disability services, and DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “AHEAD and CAS: The Basics of Program Self-evaluation in Disability Services” at the Virginia Ahead Conference in Norfolk.
DENNIS DARBY, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “The Role of the Arctic Ocean in Global Climate Change,” keynote address at the Iowa Academy of Sciences 119th annual meeting in Pella, Iowa. Also, “Recent Expeditions in the Arctic Ocean” to high school students and science majors at Central College in Pella, Iowa.
THOMAS FLETCHER, graduate of the industrial/organizational psychology doctoral program, DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, and D. Nusbaum, “Demographic Differences in Competition at Work: Implications on P-E Fit,” a poster, at the 19th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, D.C.
JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, “AACSB Mission-driven Strategy and Ethics in the Business Curriculum” at the Academy of Marketing Science National Conference in Coral Gables, Fla.
ANDREW GORDUS, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, “Regional Responses to the Center: The PCF and Sonoran Cultural Production in the 1980s” at the 11th Annual International Reunion at La Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico. Also, “National and Literary Transformation in Martínez de Castro’s ‘A sol pleno’” at the VI Congreso Internacional de la Literatura Hispánica in Maya Riviera, México. Also (in Spanish), “From the Margins: Regional Struggle and Protest in the Work of Oscar Monroy Rivera” at the XII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas, El Paso.
DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “What Is Leadership?” at the Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake campus, leadership forum.
ANDREA HARRELL, assistant director for student employment, and HEIDI MCFERRON, assistant director and liaison to distance sites, Career Management Center, “5 Star Marketing Plan Takes Career Services to New Heights” at the Virginia Association for Colleges and Employers Annual Conference in Roanoke.
ALICE JONES, director of student and alumni programs, Career Management Center, “The Changing Face of Advising Services” at the National Academic Advising Association Regional Conference in McLean, Va. Also at the conference, with MATILDA COX, director of advising, College of Arts and Letters, and JANE BOURHILL, academic adviser/instructor and student success adviser, College of Arts and Letters, “Collaboration in Advising Academic, Career and Student Success,” part of a poster session.
MOHAMMED KARIM, vice president for research, “Realigning Economic Development and Higher Education Do’s and Don’ts,” a keynote address, at the Higher Education for Development Symposium, University of Bahrain.
JANET LAUGHLIN, 2006 graduate of the doctoral program in community college leadership, and DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, “Bridging Academic and Student Affairs to Enhance Student Learning and Success” at the 2007 NASPA Conference, Orlando, Fla.
FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “Switzerland as Magic Mountain and Paradise in the Literary Oeuvre of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse” at the Embassy of Switzerland, Washington, D.C. Also, “Kleszmer Revival in Contemporary Germany” at the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater.
DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, THOMAS FLETCHER, graduate of the industrial/organizational psychology doctoral program, and DONALD DAVIS, associate professor of psychology, “Antecedents and Consequences of Inclusive Climate” for a symposium chaired by Major on “Advancing Diversity Research: Understanding Inclusion and Exclusion in Organizations” at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in New York City.
JONI MCFELEA, May 2007 graduate of the doctoral program in health services research, “Quality of Life of Families with Children Who Have Severe Developmental Disabilities” at the International Conference for the Council for Exceptional Children in Louisville, Ky. Co-authors are STACEY PLICHTA, associate professor of community and environmental health; CLARE HOUSEMAN, chair of community and environmental health; GEORGE MAIHAFER, associate professor of physical therapy; and SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of early childhood special education.
TAJ MOHIELDIN, professor of mechanical engineering technology, “Reshaping Engineering, Science and Information Technology Education for Development,” a keynote address, at the Higher Education for Development Symposium, University of Bahrain.
VALERIE MORGANSON, industrial/organizational psychology doctoral student, and DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, “Third Party Sexual Harassment,” a poster, at the 28th Annual Industrial Organizational and Organizational Behavior Conference in Indianapolis. Also, “Third Party Sexual Harassment: A Special Case of Harassment Perpetration” at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science in Harrisonburg, Va. Also, with KURT OSBORN, industrial/organizational psychology doctoral student, J.M. Verive and M.P. Heelan, “Location, Location, Location: Differences in Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Satisfaction Among Teleworkers,” a poster, at the 19th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, D.C.
SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of early childhood special education, “University Students with Disabilities: Perceptions Between Ukraine and the United States” at the International Conference for Exceptional Children in Louisville, Ky. Also, “Strategies for Embedding Monitoring into Classroom Routines” at the International Conference on Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families in Little Rock, Ark.
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 Management Center, “Virtual Career Fairs The Next Frontier” at the Virginia Association for Colleges and Employers Annual Conference in Roanoke.
GAIL TAYLOR, associate professor of educational curriculum and instruction, “The African American Read-In Chain: Celebrating Literacy Through African American Children’s and Young Adult Poetry” to the Virginia State Reading Association in Roanoke. Also, “M.S.Ed. in Elementary/Middle Education” at a graduate education open house at the ODU Northern Virginia Center. Also “Till Victory Is Won: Closing the Literacy Gap with African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature” to the Virginia State Reading Association in Roanoke, with co-authors KAAVONIA HINTON, assistant professor of ECI. Also, “Career Choices and Decision-making of African American Female Participants of an Afterschool Science, Technically Related, Engineering and Math (STEM) Enrichment Program” to the American Educational Research Association in Chicago, with co-authors WENDY FRAZIER, assistant professor of science education, and DANA BURNETT, chair of educational leadership and counseling.
Publications
M’HAMMED ABDOUS, director, and WU HE, instructional technology specialist, Center for Learning Technology, “Streamlining Forms Management Process in a Distance Learning Unit” in the 2007 edition of Journal of Distance Learning Administration. Also, “A Design Framework for Syllabus Generator” in the 2007 edition of Journal of Interactive Learning Research.
FRED DOBBS, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and Y.Z. Tang (lead author), a former postdoc, “Green Autofluorescence in Dinoflagellates, Diatoms and Other Microalgae and Its Implications for Vital Staining and Morphological Study” in vol. 73 of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Also, “Green Autofluorescence of Dinoflagellate Cysts Can Be Used Instead of Primuline Staining for Cyst Visualization and Enumeration in Sediments” in vol. 43 of Journal of Phycology.
FRED DOBBS, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Dynamics and Short-term Survival of Cyanobacteria Species in Ballast Water Implications for HAB Invasions” in vol. 6 of Harmful Algae. Lead author is Martina Doblin, a former research professor, and other co-authors are K.J. Coyne, J.M. Rinta-Kanto and S.W. Wilhelm. Also, “Potential Microbial Bioinvasions Via Ships’ Ballast Water, Sediment and Biofilm” in vol. 55 of Marine Pollution Bulletin. Lead authors are former research professors Lisa Drake and Doblin.
JOHN DOUKAS, eminent scholar of finance, “Acquisitions, Overconfident Managers and Self-Attribution Bias” in vol. 13, no. 3 of European Financial Management. Co-author is Dimitris Petmezas.
JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, and lead author Adrian Sargeant of Bristol Business School, “Charity Brand Personality: Distinguishing Sector, Cause and Organization” in vol. 5, no. 1 of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, and Steven Janosik, “The influence of the Clery Act and Crime Reporting on Student Affairs Practice” in “Campus Crime,” 2nd edition (Springfield. Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd.), by J.J. Sloan III and B.S. Fisher.
WU HE, instructional technology specialist, and M’HAMMED ABDOUS, director, Center for Learning Technology, and ROBERT HOLDEN, associate professor of history, “An Online Searchable Bilingual Database for Learning About Central American Political History” in the 2007 edition of Journal of the Association for History and Computing.
FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, three German poems in the spring 2007 edition of Trans-Lit2, Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. Also, a book review of Klaus L. Berghahn and Jost Hermand’s (editors) “Unmasking Hitler: Cultural Representations of Hitler from the Weimar Republic to the Present” (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005) in the May 2007 edition of German Studies Review. Also in the issue, a review of Christina Caemmerer, Walter Delabar and Helga Meise’s (editors) “Fräuleinwunder literarisch. Literatur von Frauen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts” (Frankfurt: Lang, 2005).
VINCENT MAGNINI, Ph.D. ’04, marketing; JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business; EDWARD MARKOWSKI, professor of information technology/decision sciences; and Earl Honeycutt Jr., former faculty member; “The Service Recovery Paradox: Justifiable Theory or Smoldering Myth?” in vol. 21, not. 3 of Journal of Services Marketing.
RENEE OLANDER, director of the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, two poems, “How Pigeon Got Name” in the spring 2007 edition of Dogwood A Journal of Poetry & Prose and “Ode” in the spring 2007 edition of 5AM.
SHARON RAVER-LAMPMAN, professor of early childhood special education, and K. Kolchenko, “Comparison of Perceptions of Inclusion Between University Instructors and Students with Disabilities in Ukraine” in vol. 8, no. 1 of The Journal of the International Association of Special Education.
GAIL TAYLOR, associate professor of educational curriculum and instruction, a book review of “Fish for the Grand Lady” in vol. 16, no. 2 of MultiCultural Review.
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