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JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, elected as president of the Academy of Marketing Science from May 2008 to May 2010, and appointed to the Editorial Review Board for the Interna-tional Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. JOHN HOLSINGER, eminent scholar of biological sciences, reappointed by Gov. Tim Kaine to a four-year term on the Virginia Cave Board, effective July 1, 2008. Also, his appointment as a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, was renewed for 2008-11. DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, appointed to the editorial board of Journal of Management. GARY MORRISON, professor of educational curriculum and instruction, named editor in chief of Journal of Computing in Higher Education. He also was appointed to the Army Education Advisory Committee. ROBERT SPINA, professor of exercise science, elected as an Active Fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. ALOK VERMA, Ray Ferrari Professor of engineering technology, appointed as president of the International Society of Agile Manufacturing and as chief editor of the International Journal of Agile Manufacturing.
ROSEANN RUNTE, past president, inducted into the Royal Canadian Legion, a veterans advocacy group, as an honorary associate member in recognition of her efforts in military initiatives. CHARLENE FLEENER, associate professor of educational curriculum and instruction, selected as an Alumni Ambassador by Texas A&M, Commerce. JESSE HUGHES, professor emeritus of accounting, the 2008 International Achievement Award from the Association of Government Accountants. SCOTT JOHNSON, assistant athletic trainer, Division I Assistant Athletic Trainer of the Year by the College and University Athletic Trainers Committee of the National Athletic Trainers Association. LISA MICHELE TEMPLE, associate director, and FRAN PUCHALSKI, director, Programs for Continued Learning, Darden College of Education, commendations of distinction from the Norfolk School Board for a radio campaign that promoted the schools’ mentor program. CECELIA TUCKER, director of community relations, a Friends of Health Sciences award from the ODU College of Health Sciences for her dedication to the college and her untiring community leadership, which has helped to open doors between the college and several community organizations. BONNIE VAN LUNEN, associate professor of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, the National Athletic Trainer Association Service Award for her contributions to the profession and the association. She chaired the post-professional graduate program accreditation committee for NATA.
REBEKAH CARDENAS, graduate of the industrial/organizational psychology doctoral program, “Examining Linkages Between Workplace Inclusion and Stress: Measurement and Model Testing” at the American Psy-chological Association’s Seventh International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health in Washington, D.C. Co-authors are DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, and KURT OBORN, I/O psychology doctoral student. Also, CARDENAS and MAJOR, “An Inclusive Environment’s Impact on the Work-Family Interface in the symposium, “Exploring Linkages Between Diversity and Work-Family Research,” chaired by Major, at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Francisco. STEPHANIE CROCKETT, internship/co-op coordinator for the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, HEIDI MCFERRON, assistant director and liaison to distance sites, and ANDREA HARRELL, assistant director for student employment, of the Career Management Center, a workshop session, “Navigating Students Through the Twists and Turns of Professional Communication,” at the Virginia Association of Colleges and Employers Annual Conference in Williamsburg. McFerron and Crockett also facilitated a roundtable session, “Dealing with Students Who Have Less than Perfect Records.” DENNIS DARBY, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, “Arctic Paleoceanography, Past, Present and Future” at the Second International Meeting of Arctic Paleoclimate and Its Extremes at the University of Durham, United Kingdom. GARY EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, “The Sopranos as Tipping Point in the Second Coming of HBO” at The Sopranos Symposium, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. DENNIS GREGORY, associate professor of educational leadership and counseling, a workshop on “Higher Education Legal Issues” for Rowan University. Also, a national audio conference, “Plagiarism 101: Keys to Preventing Academic Misconduct” for Progressive Business Audio Conferences to more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities. FRAN HASSENCAHL, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, “Radio Sawa: Promoting Democracy or Britney Spears and Erroneous Arabic” at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/Ameri-can Culture Association in San Francisco. She also chaired a panel, “Politics in a Mediated World: Media Constructions and Politics.” Also, “Framing the Arguments for the Success/Failure of Radio Sawa as a Vehicle of Public Diplomacy” at the 6th International Symposium on Communication in the Millennium in Istanbul, Turkey. ROBERT HOLDEN, professor of history, “A Culture of Impunity? Violent Conflict in Central America” and “By What Authority? Public Violence and the Rule of Law in Latin America Since Independence” at the University of Calgary. HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus, and TODD EGERTON, ROBERT JOHNSON, MATTHEW SEMCHESKI and NATHAN BOWMAN, graduate students, biological sciences, “Potentially Harmful Phytoplankton Within Virginia Tidal Tributaries” at the annual meeting of the Virginia Academy of Sciences. HEIDI MCFERRON, assistant director and liaison to distance sites, and LAURA CZERNIAK, director of information technology, of the Career Management Center, a webinar, “Turn Up Your Technology,” for the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers. CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering,“Reduced-Order Modeling and Suppression of Nonlinear Panel Flutter Using Piezoelectric Actuators and Shape Memory Alloys” at the NATO Research and Technology Agency, Applied Vehicle Technology Symposium, in Loen, Norway. Co-authors are JEN-KUANG HUANG, chair of mechanical engineering, and Khaled Abdel-Motagaly, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle. Also, at the 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Confer-ence in Schaumburg, Ill., the following:“Nonlinear Response of Thin Shells to Unsynchronized Random Loads in Time,” with co-authors Jean-Michel Dhainaut of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Xinyun Guo of Daniel Webster College; and “Frequency Dominion Method for Flutter Analysis of Curved Panels Under Yawed Supersonic Flow at Elevated Temperatures,” with co-authors SATYAJIT GHOMAN, master’s student of aerospace engineering, and M. Salim Azzouz of Midwestern State University. VALERIE MORGANSON, doctoral student of I/O psychology, and DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, “Job Analysis: A Tool to Resolve Work-Family Conflict” at the American Psychological Association’s Seventh International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health in Washington, D.C. Also, “Exploring the Theoretical and Empirical Significance of Sexual Harassment from Third Parties” at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Francisco. DUC NGUYEN, professor of civil and environmental engineering, a keynote lecture, “Large-scale Parallel Computation for Engineering/Science Applications," at the International Conference on Adaptive Structures: Mathematical Modeling and Computation in Tangier, Morocco. KURT OBORN, doctoral student of I/O psychology, and DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, “LMX and Job Stress: A Multi-level Examination of Context Effect” at the American Psychological Association’s Seventh International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health in Washington, D.C. Also, “The Effect of Context: A Multi-level Model of LMX and Work-Family Conflict” in the symposium, “Exploring Linkages Between Diversity and Work-Family Research,” chaired by Major, at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Francisco. AHMED NOOR, William E. Lobeck Professor of aerospace engineering, “Visualizing the Future,” the keynote lecture at the 2008 ASME Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla. JEFFREY RICHARDS, professor of English, “Carabasset: Performance, Memory, and the Slaughter of the Norridgewocks” at Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies at Purdue University. JAMES SWEENEY, associate professor of history, “Two Gentlemen from Tidewater: Delegate Harry B. Davis, Mayor W. Fred Duckworth and Massive Resistance” at the annual meeting of the Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach Historical Society in Virginia Beach. ALOK VERMA, Ray Ferrari Professor of engineering technology, “Enhancing Student Learning – A Case for Physical Simulations” at the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Also, “Marine Kits – Promoting Inquiry Based Learning in Introduction to Engineering Class” at the LAI Ed Net Educators Conference in Boston. FRED WARREN, instructor of communication and theatre arts, “Women’s Voices in the Media: A New Middle East Reality” at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in San Francisco. He also chaired a panel, “Politics in a Mediated World: Recurring Themes in American Politics.” AMANDA WROTEN, adjunct instructor of communication and theatre arts, “Veiled Intentions: How American Television Frames the Veiling Practices of Afghani Women” at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in San Francisco. SONIA YACO, special collections librarian and university archivist, “Archivists and Technology” at the Conference of International Council on Archives in Dundee, Scotland.
JOHN FORD, professor of marketing and international business, and Altaf Merchant, “A Ten-Year Retro-spective of Advertising Research Productivity in the Top Three U.S. Advertising Journals: 1997-2006” in vol. 37, no. 3 of Journal of Advertising. JEN-KUANG HUANG, chair of mechanical engineering, “Active Control of Nonlinear Panel Flutter Using Aeroelastic Modes and Piezoelectric Actuators” in vol. 46, no. 3 of AIAA Journal. Co-authors are MYOUNGHEE KIM and QINQIN LI, master’s students of aerospace engineering, and CHUH MEI, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering. FREDERICK LUBICH, chair of foreign languages and literatures, “All My German-Jewish-American Dreams and Nightmares,” an interview with Michael Blumenthal, award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and memoirist, in vol. 46, no. 16 of Jewish News, Southeastern Virginia. Also, a book review of Karl Leydecker’s, editor, “German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics” (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006), in vol. 31, no. 2 of German Studies Review. DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, “Telework as a Dependent Care Solution: Examining Current Practice to Improve Telework Management Strategies” in vol. 11, no. 1 of The Psychologist-Manager Journal. Co-authors are Jennifer Verive of White Rabbit Virtual Inc. and Wendell Joice of the U.S. General Services Administration. PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Raymond Queneau's Eccentric Sage: Valentin Bru as Clinamen” in Rivista di Letterature Moderne et Comparate (Florence, Italy) and “Jacques Reda's Jazz Writings” in the journal Ex-Pronto (text/metatext). BURTON ST. JOHN III, assistant professor of communication, “Not Biting the Hand that Feeds Them: Hegemonic Expediency in the Newsroom and the Karen Ryan/Health and Human Services Department Video News Release” in vol. 23, no. 2 of Journal of Mass Media Ethics. JUDITH TRUMP, social sciences reference librarian, with lead authors H. Lafrance and L. Morrisey, “Creating Your Own Consortium in Less than Six Months: A True Story of Virtual Reference” in “Virtual Reference Service: From Competencies to Assessment,” edited by R.D. Lankes, N. Nickolson, et al (New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc.). SONIA YACO, special collections librarian and university archivist, “It’s Complicated: Barriers to EAD Implementation” in vol. 71, no. 2 of American Archivist. Also, “The Potential for Use of Voice Recognition Software in the Appraisal and Transcription of Oral History Tapes” in vol. 38, no. 2 of ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Journal. |