Profacts Received Through August 2014
August 23, 2014
ProFacts welcomes post-announcements from faculty and staff regarding professional achievements. Items may be submitted for: Appointments/Elections, Awards, Books, Certifications, Commissions, Compositions/Arrangements, Degrees, Exhibitions, Papers/Presentations, Patents, Performances and Publications. Send submissions to Leanna Caplan at lcaplan@odu.edu.
The following announcements were received through August 2014.
APPOINTMENTS/ELECTIONS
BETTY ROSE FACER, senior lecturer and director of the Language Learning Center, has been elected to the Joint National Committee for Languages (JNCL) - National Council for Languages and International Studies (NCLIS) Board of Directors beginning January 2015. As an Official Delegate, she represents the International Association for Language Learning Technology and the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium.
INGO HEIDBRINK, professor of history, has been appointed Honorary Research Fellow by the Maritime Historical Studies Centre (MHSC) at the University of Hull (United Kingdom). MHSC is one of the few research centers at European universities exclusively dedicated to maritime history research.
INGO HEIDBRINK, professor of history, has been elected as an associate member of the International Polar Heritage Committee (IPHC). The IPHC is an international scientific committee within the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). It was founded on Nov. 1, 2000, and it focuses on the preservation and protection of polar (Arctic and Antarctic) heritage. It is a non-political organization made up of ICOMOS members from countries with active polar interests.
INGO HEIDBRINK, professor of history, has been invited to become a member of the editorial board of the journal National Maritime Research published by the China Maritime Museum in Shanghai. National Maritime Research is a scholarly journal on maritime history and research. It was established in 2011 and is published quarterly by the China Maritime Museum in Shanghai.
BOOKS
PATRICK T. HESTER, associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering, and KEVIN ADAMS, principal research scientist at the National Centers for System of Systems Engineering, "Systemic Thinking: Fundamentals for Understanding Problems and Messes" (New York City: Springer-Verlag).
LUISA A. IGLORIA, professor of English and creative writing, "Ode to the Heart Smaller Than a Pencil Eraser" (selected by Mark Doty for the 2014 May Swenson Book Prize; Utah State University Press). http://www.usupress.com/book/USU_Swenson_Award_Series/9524
LUISA A. IGLORIA, professor of English and creative writing, "Night Willow: Prose Poems" (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal; June 2014). http://www.phoeniciapublishing.com/night-willow.html
PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS
JOHN A. ADAM, professor of mathematics, was the keynote speaker at the Tidewater Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference with the speech entitled, "Natural Mathematics: Can We 'Use' Nature to Interest Students in Mathematical Patterns?" at Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach.
JOHN R. HOLSINGER, Eminent Emeritus Professor of biological sciences, gave an invited "Luminary Series" presentation entitled, "A Look Back at 60 Years of Caves, Caving, Cave Biology and Conservation in the NSS Virginia Region and Elsewhere" on July 16 at the 2014 Convention of the National Speleological Society in Huntsville, Alabama.
RACHAWAN WONGTRIRAT, assistant director for international initiatives in the Office of Intercultural Relations, and CHRIS R. GLASS, assistant professor for the higher education graduate program in the Darden College of Education, presented "Major Factors Impacting Academic Success and Social Adjustment of International Students" at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators Annual Conference in San Diego, California.
PUBLICATIONS
JOHN A. ADAM, professor of mathematics, "Scattering of Electromagnetic Plane Waves in Radially Inhomogeneous Media: Ray Theory, Exact Solutions and Connections with Potential Scattering Theory," in chapter 3, vol. 9 of Light Scattering Reviews.
POLINPAPILINHO F. KATINA and JOSEPH M. BRADLEY, researchers in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, C. ARIEL PINTO and PATRICK T. HESTER, associate professors in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, "Interdependency-Induced Risk with Applications to Healthcare" in vol. 7, no. 1, March 2014, pages 12-26, in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection.
C. ARIEL PINTO, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, PAUL R. GARVEY, chief scientist at the Center for Acquisition and Systems Analysis, The MITRE Corporation, "Modeling and Measuring the Operability of Interdependent Systems and Systems of Systems Advances in Methods and Applications" in vol. 5, no. 1 of the International Journal of System of Systems Engineering. Co-author is Joost R. Santos, assistant professor of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering at George Washington University.
ADELA S. ROXAS, clinical psychologist, educational and athletic support specialist and assistant professor for Educational Accessibility/Athletics, "The Relationship of Psychological Mindedness and General Coping to Psychological Adjustment and Distress in High-School Adolescents" in vol. 12, pages 38-49 of Individual Differences Research. Co-author is David S. Glenwick, professor of psychology at Fordham University.
