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Appointments/Elections
KEITH CARSON, associate professor emeritus of biological sciences, elected president of the Bath Highland Bird Club and vice president of the Allegheny Highlands chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalist Program. He works for Allegheny Mountain Radio in Monterey, Va., has a radio program featuring blues and roots rock music, and writes a column on birds for the Bath-Highland Recorder. His wife, POLLY NEWLON, who previously worked in the ODU Office of Research, is director of the Cowpasture River Preservation Association.

ANGELICA HUIZAR, assistant professor of Spanish, elected as advisory counsel for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., to serve on the Institute for Mexicans Abroad for 2009-11. She will represent the districts of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and D.C.

Awards
SARITA BROWN, Board of Visitors member, and the president of Exelencia in Education, an honorary doctorate from North Carolina State University.

DECLAN DE PAOR, research professor of physics, winner of the annual international Keyhole MarkUp Language in Research competition, sponsored by Google Inc. KML is a computer programming dialect of Extensible MarkUp Language, designed for virtual globes such as Google Earth and NASA World Wind. He invented a way to use KML to create 3-D data visualizations and models of the Earth’s geology and geophysics.

HARVEY LOGAN, manager of support services and recycling, a certificate of appreciation from the ODU Greek community for his work with the fraternities and sororities in their recycling efforts.

CHRIS PLATSOUCAS, dean of he College of Sciences, an honorary doctorate from the Democritus University of Thrace in Alexandroupolis, Greece. He also gave a talk during his visit.

JEFFREY RICHARDS, chair of English, Foerster Prize Honorable Mention, awarded by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association for the best article to appear in the journal American Literature during 2008.

MICHAEL SEILER, Robert M. Stanton Chair of real estate and economic development, the American Real Estate Society William N. Kinnard Young Scholar Award “in recognition of high-quality research contributions to the real estate discipline achieved by someone under the age of 40.” He conducts research primarily in the areas of behavioral real estate, portfolio management, brokerage and real estate investments.

Books
GARY EDGERTON, chair of communication and theatre arts, a new paperback edition of “The Columbia History of American Television” (Columbia University Press, 2009).

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, a translation of and introduction to French poet Jacques Reda’s book of poetry “Suburban Beauty” (“Beauté Suburbaine”) (Halifax: VVV editions, 2009).

WAYNE TALLEY, eminent scholar and Frederick W. Beazley professor of economics, and executive director of the ODU Maritime Institute, editor of “Maritime Safety, Security and Piracy” (Informa Law). He co-authored three chapters: “U.S. Ship Accident Research,” “Piracy in Shipping” and “U.S. Port Security.”

SONIA YACO, special collections librarian and university archivist, “Hampton Roads: Remembering Our Schools,” a history of public education in the region before the official start of the Jim Crow system (Charleston, SC: The History Press). Lead co-authors are Cassandra Newby-Alexander, associate professor of history at Norfolk State University; Jeffrey Littlejohn, assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University; and Charles Ford, chair of history at NSU.

Papers/Presentations
JOHN ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, and LARRY WEINSTEIN, professor of physics, announce that their book, “Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin,” has been published in Chinese. Also, Adam’s “Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural World” has appeared in a Japanese edition as part of the Springer Readings in Mathematics.

JEFFREY JONES, associate professor of communication and theatre arts, co-editor of “Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era” (NYU Press, 2009).

JENNIFER KIDD, lecturer of educational curriculum and instruction, one of 19 winners of the 2009 Digital Media and Learning Competition sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She was awarded $88,000 for her project using Wikipedia-style templates to transform instructional environments.

EDWARD NEUKRUG, professor of counseling, and R.C. Fawcett, “Essentials of Testing and Assessment: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Social Workers and Psychologists,” second edition (Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole).

JEFFREY RICHARDS, chair of English, and Sharon Harris, University of Connecticut, editors of “Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters” (University of Georgia Press, 2009), with introduction and notes by the editors.

MELVIN WILLIAMS, eminent scholar emeritus of exercise science, sport, physical education and recreation, “Nutrition for Health, Fitness & Sport,” 9th edition (Boston: McGraw-Hill).

Papers/Presentations
JOHN ADAM, University Professor of mathematics, “Mathematical Models of Bird Eggs: A Case Study for Calculus III Students” at the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics 30th Annual Mathematics Conference in Virginia Beach. Also, talks on “Guesstimation” for the Christopher Newport University math department Pi Mu Epsilon induction ceremony and to faculty and students at Broward College in Davie, Fla., during Math Awareness Week. Also, “Fermi Problems, Guesstimation and the Goldilocks Principle” to managers at the Amerigroup Corp. in Virginia Beach.

JOHN BRODERICK, president, “Leadership for the Future” to the Lead Hampton Roads organization.

ROBERT BRUSSO, master’s student of psychology, and KARIN ORVIS, assistant professor of psychology, “Learner Control and Learning: A Theoretical Review of the Moderating Role of Personality in e-Learning Environments” at the 30th Annual Industrial Organizational/Organizational Behavior Conference.

DONALD DAVIS, associate professor of psychology; KURT OBORN and VALERIE MORGANSON, doctoral candidates in industrial/organizational psychology; and DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology; “Enhancing Career Self-Efficacy and Career Commitment with Realistic Career Previews” at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in New Orleans.

ANGELICA HUIZAR, assistant professor of Spanish, “Digital Echoing and Coded Reverberations of the Metropolis: Reiteration of Sounds as a Poetic Enterprise” at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Charlotte, N.C. Also, “Urban Noise, Sound Poetics: Intersections in the Metropolis” at the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 30th Annual Conference; and “Latin America and the World: Challenges and Opportunities” at the College of William and Mary. Also, via teleconference from ODU, “Towards a Poetic Interpretation of the Digital Project: The Mexican Production as a Model” to the Autonomous University of Mexico - Azcapotzalco in Mexico City for the 10th Biennial Exhibition of Visual and Experimental Poetry conference.

LUISA IGLORIA, associate professor of English, a reading at the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize Series Reading, University of Notre Dame. Also, a featured reading at Molly Malone’s in Forest Park, Ill. Also, a member of two poetry panels at the 2009 AWP in Chicago: “Lyric Selves and Global Imperatives” and “Archipelagoes of Dust, Habitations of Language: Reiterating Landscape, History and Origin.” Also, poetry and prose readings at Ekphrasis: Art in Form at the Courthouse Galleries in Portsmouth.

DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, chair of the symposium “Retention in IT and Computer Science: Repairing the Pipeline” at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in New Orleans. Also, she and VALERIE MORGANSON, doctoral candidate in industrial/organizational psychology, co-chaired the symposium “Over-reacting or Underreporting? Exploring Individual and Contextual Sexual Harassment Factors,” which included their paper, “Understanding Customer Sexual Harassment Through a Psychological Contract Framework.”

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, “Population Trends Among the Harmful and Major Bloom Producing Algae in the Virginia Waters of Chesapeake Bay and Its Major Tributaries” at the Chesapeake Research Consortium Ecosystem Based Management Conference in Baltimore.

VALERIE MORGANSON and MEGHAN JONES, doctoral candidates in industrial/organizational psychology, and DEBRA MAJOR, professor of psychology, “Gender Disparate Retention: Exploring the Role of Social Coping” at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in New Orleans. Morganson also co-chaired a symposium with Nancy DeLay (Kenexa), titled “Leveraging Telework Sustainability: Examining the Impact of Program Characteristics,” in which her paper with Major and Jennifer Verive (White Rabbit Consulting) was presented: “Exploring the Affective Outcomes of Telework Program Formality.”

KARIN ORVIS, assistant professor of psychology, with Amanuel Tekleab and Susan Taylor, “Behavioral and Attitudinal Consequences of Change in Newcomers' Psychological Contracts” at the 2009 Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology Conference. The paper was presented in a session chaired by Orvis and Tekleab, titled “Examining Development and Change in Psychological Contracts: Antecedents and Conse-quences.” Orvis also co-authored a paper with Krista Langkamer, “Strategically Evaluating Leader Self-Development: Methodologies, Practical Considerations, and Organizational Implications,” and presented as part of a panel on “Performance Management Technology: Advantages, Limitations and Possibilities.”

JEFFREY RICHARDS, chair of English, “Seeing the Unseen: Servitude and Stage in the Early Republic” at the Society of Early Americanists biennial conference in Hamilton, Bermuda.

RANDY SHABRO, director of employer programs for the Career Management Center, George Whitted of Northrop Grumman Newport News and TOM WUNDERLICH, CMC director, “Are You Giving Your On-Campus Recruiters an Advantage? Really?” an international webinar presentation sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Zen and the Art of Celine Zins” at the 20th-century French Studies conference at the University of Minnesota.

Publications
CRAIG BAYSE, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, “Density-Functional Theory Models of Xanthine Oxidoreductase Activity: Comparison of Substrate Tautomerization and Protonation” in the 2009 volume of Dalton Transactions.

KAAVONIA HINTON, assistant professor educational curriculum and instruction, “Sharon M. Draper: Reaching Reluctant Readers” in vol. 36, no. 2 of The ALAN Review. Also, “Carole Boston Weatherford: Mining the Past” in vol. 27, no. 1 of The Dragon Lode.

GILBERT HOY, eminent scholar emeritus of physics, and Jos Odeurs, “Comment on ‘On the Theory of Nuclear Resonant Forward Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation’” in vol. 79 of Physical Review B.

LUISA IGLORIA, associate professor of English, “Fear Factor” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) and “Email to the Tender Committee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation” in the Pop Culture issue (winter 2008) of the literary journal Umbrella. Also, “The Gods Must Be Crazy” in the Humor issue (winter 2008) of poemeleon. Also, “The Wives of Chang and Eng” and “Garment” in http://marnescriptspage1.blogspot.com. Also, “Yo Yu” and “Christopher Reeve’s Filipino Nurse” in the inaugural issue of Sweet. Also, “Mangkik” in the December 2008 issue of The Poet’s Picturebook.

JEFFREY JONES, associate professor of communication and theatre arts, “With All Due Respect: Satirizing Presidents from Saturday Night Live to Lil’ Bush” and, with Jonathan Gray and Ethan Thompson, “The State of Satire, the Satire of State” in “Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era” (NYU Press, 2009), edited by Gray, Jones and Thompson.

HAROLD MARSHALL, professor emeritus of biological sciences, “Status of Potentially Harmful Algae in the Chesapeake Bay Estuarine System” in O. Moestrup et al, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Harmful Algae, Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Copenhagen, 2008. Co-authors are L. Burchardt of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland; TODD EGERTON, graduate student of biological sciences; and MICHAEL LANE, technical assistant, biological sciences. Also, “Assessment and Significance of Phytoplankton Species Composition Within Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Tributaries Through a Long-term Monitoring Program” in vol. 150 of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Co-authors are Lane and

KNEELAND NESIUS, associate professor of biological sciences, and Burchardt. Also, with E. Wilk-Wozniak (lead author) of the Polish Academy of Science, “Diel Changes in Phytoplankton Composition and Abundance in the Surface and Sub-Surface Strata from a Shallow Eutrophic Pond” in vol. 94, no. 1 of International Review of Hydrobiology.

JEFFREY RICHARDS, chair of English, “Sati in Philadelphia: The Widow(s) of Malabar” in vol. 80, no. 4 of American Literature. Also, a review of Tice L. Miller’s “Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) in vol. 42, no. 4 of Comparative Drama. Also, a review of Eliza Richards’ “Gender and the Politics of Reception in Poe’s Circle” (2004) in vol. 72, no. 1 of South Atlantic Review. Also, a review of Jill Lane’s “Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895” (2005) in vol. 1, no. 1 of Ecumenica: Journal of Theatre and Performance [formerly Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance].

PETER SCHULMAN, associate professor of French and international studies, “Christian Oster: Flight, Disappearance and the Modern Bachelor” in vol. 55 of Francofonia.

MICHELE ZIMMERMAN, associate professor emerita of nursing, “The Client with an Eating Disorder” in “Psychiatric Nursing: Biological & Behavioral Concepts” (2008), second edition, edited by D. Antai-Otong.