Duly Noted provides information about University of Delaware faculty's and staff's recent professional activities, which include presentations, publications, public references, services, and awards.

David Pong, Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Studies Program, discussed the controversy concerning the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics on April 10 on WHYY-TV's Delaware Tonight news program.

Debra Hess Norris, Chairperson of the Department of Art Conservation and Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, Mark Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Patrick Harker, UD President, were quoted in an April 8 News Journal story about the new strategic plan.

Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Physical Therapy, was featured in the April issue of Orthopedics Today for her work in knee stability and bracing.

Judith Provencal, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was quoted in a widely distributed March 28 McClatchy-Tribune story about white dwarf stars. “Someday the sun will be a white dwarf,” she said. “It's forming the white dwarf in its core right now.” Provencal is coordinating some of the world's largest telescopes in a five-week-long international observing run, focusing on a white dwarf in the constellation Virgo. The story also was reported by the online magazines Innovations Report in Germany, Space Daily and Science Daily.

Marvin Zuckerman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, was quoted in a March 24 Time Magazine story about risk taking, in the wake of the resignation of Eliot Spitzer as governor of New York.

Arica Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies, was quoted in a March 24 Washington Post story about race and gender issues in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Ben Yagoda, Professor of English, wrote a commentary in the March 21 Chronicle of Higher Education about student internships and affordability.

Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities,and Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library, are featured in the April issue of Fine Art Connoisseur in an article titled “Facing the Late Victorians: The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection” by Peter Trippi. Samuels Lasner said he “is delighted with the attention his treasures have enjoyed at Delaware.”

Tammy Anderson, Associate Professor of Sociology, was quoted in a March 14 News Journal story about the resignation of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer after he was identified as a client of a prostitution ring. "It's the notion that because I'm in power, I can satisfy myself sexually, that I'm defined sexually and have needs and can get them met," Anderson told the newspaper. "That license is given with the more power you get. Women just don't get that license because we don't have that type of power."

Andrew Revkin, reporter with The New York Times, wrote about a recent visit to the University of Delaware, where he spoke as part of the Global Agenda series, and about the live video of his talk Webcast via UD's Second Life presence, in his March 13 Dot Earth blog on the newspaper's Web site. The Global Agenda program is directed by Ralph Begleiter, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication and distinguished journalist in residence.

Marvin Zuckerman, Professor Emeritus of pPsychology, was quoted in a March 13 Bloomberg News story about the behavior of Eliot Spitzer. An expert on sensation seeking, Zuckerman said such behavior is “related to assertiveness and masculine traits: aggression, assertiveness, and dominance and competitiveness. They love the challenge. They like the fight.”

H. Perry Chapman, Professor of Art History, was quoted in a widely distributed March 8 Associated Press story about a Rembrandt masterpiece on loan from the Louvre that is making its first appearance in the United States as part of an exhibition of three self-portraits at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Chapman, an expert in the artist's self-portraits, said, “Rembrandt painted more self-portraits than anyone before him and practically anyone since. And just from viewing the three in the Cincinnati exhibit, one can see how intensely he studied himself and worked to convey something of his character and the strength of his intellect through his self-portraits.”

Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, was quoted in a March 6 Associated Press story about Imam Yahya Hendi, who he said “has been on the forefront of advancing Muslim-Jewish dialogue and Muslim-Christian dialogue.”

Eric Youngstrom, who earned a doctorate from UD in psychology and is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, was featured March 5 in a North Carolina Public Radio program and a WRAL-TV news broadcast about bipolar disorder. Youngstrom is Associate Director of UNC's Center of Excellence for Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder.

Julio Carrion, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, was quoted in a March 5 Dow Jones Newswires story about the Colombian incursion into Ecuador and the potential for polarization among Latin American nations.

Michelle Barger, a graduate of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation now working as conservator of objects as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, was featured in a March 2 San Francisco Chronicle story about acquisitions and conservation.

David Legates, Associate Professor of Geography, was featured in a March 1 News Journal story in advance of a presentation at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change held in New York City.

 

Joseph Pika, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Politics of the Presidency, seventh edition, CQ Press.

Richard T. Sylves, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, “U.S. Disaster Policy and Management in an Era of Homeland Security,” pages 142-160, in Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management, David A. McEntire, editor Charles C. Thomas Publishers; “Presidential Disaster Declaration Decisions, 1953-2003: What Influences Odds of Approval?” with Zoltan Buzas, in State and Local Government Review, vol. 39, no. 1, pages 3-15; “Budgeting for Local Emergency Management and Homeland Security,” pages 299-318, in Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, second edition, Kathleen Tierney and William L. Waugh Jr., editors, International Management Association, Washington, D.C. 2007; symposium editor for special issue, “Emergency Preparedness of State and Local Governments,” in State and Local Government Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2007; and “Federal Emergency Management Comes of Age: 1979 to 2001,” pages 111-160, in Emergency Management: The American Experience, edited by Claire B. Rubin, Public Entity Risk Institute, 2007.

Mark J. Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations, “International Migration to Europe: Past, Present and Future,” at U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute, Feb. 27, Washington, D.C.; and “International Migration and Development: Continuing the Dialogue, Legal and Policy Perspectives,” at conference sponsored by the International Organization for Migration and the Center for Migration Studies, Jan. 17, New York City.

Frederick “Fritz” Nelson, Professor of Geography, and Yda Schreuder, Associate Professor of Geography, and John Byrne, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, were quoted in a Feb. 28 News Journal story about the first presentation in the Global Agenda series titled “Boiling Point: International Politics of Climate Change.”

Eric Kmiec, Professor of Biological Sciences with a laboratory at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, was featured in a Feb. 25 News Journal story about work on a novel technique for correcting DNA code to repair the defective gene that causes spinal muscular atrophy. Kmiec likens the technique to a “spell-checker” to correct a misspelling in the DNA code. Darlise DiMatteo, a researcher, also was featured in the story. The researchers also were scheduled to be interviewed Feb. 29 on WHYY-TV's Delaware Tonight program.

Cole Galloway, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, and Sunil Agrawal, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, were featured in a Feb. 19 News Journal story about their UD1 robot that enables infants with disabilities to explore the world around them. Associated Press print and television stories on the research have appeared recently in the Louisville Courier-Journal.and on television stations WHOI-TV in Peoria, Ill., and WJBF-TV in Augusta, Ga.

Paul Quinn, Professor of Psychology, was quoted in a story about face recognition in the February issue of the Association for Psychological Science Observer.

Work by several faculty members was cited in a Feb. 29 News Journal story on polar research in this, the International Polar Year. The story cited work by Frederick “Fritz” Nelson, Professor of Geography; Thomas K. Gaisser, Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy; David Kirchman, Professor of Marine and Earth Studies; and Craig Cary, Professor of Marine and Earth Studies. For more on UD polar research, see [www.udel.edu/research/polar/].

Ann Ardis, Professor of English and Associate Dean, review of Robert Scholes' Paradoxy of Modernism, in James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3, pages 607-610.

Suzanne Burton, Associate Professor of Music, was quoted in a Feb. 17 Chicago Southtown Star story regarding online early childhood music programs. She was quoted, "What we know about music aptitude is that its development continues until age 8 or 9, so anything that's being done that is worthwhile musically will help a child maintain their music aptitude, which will serve them in the future," Burton said.

Tammy Anderson, Associate Professor of Sociology, was cited in a Feb. 16 News Journal story about the auction of a single-digit Delaware license plate.

Susan Strasser, Professor of History, had her book Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash, quoted in a Jan. 14 New Yorker story, “American Scrap,” by John Seabrook.

Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Physical Therapy, was quoted in a Jan. 10 United Press International story about women who delay knee surgery too long.

Alan Fox, Associate Professor of Philosophy, was quoted in a Jan. 5 News Journal story about college textbooks.

Carla Guerron-Montero, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was appointed 2008 Chairperson of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology for the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the largest association of anthropologists in the country. She also was appointed secretary for the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, also a society of the AAA.

James (Cole) Galloway, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, and Sunil Agrawal, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, were featured in a Dec. 11 Washington Post story about their work on robots that help children with disabilities explore the world. The story featured a large photograph taken by Kathy Atkinson of UD Public Relations.

Beth Morling, Associate Professor of Psychology, was quoted in a Dec. 10 Washington Post column about self-esteem.

Jean Pfaelzer, Professor of English, was featured in a book review in the Dec. 8 Chicago Tribune. Pfaelzer is author of the work Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans,which recently was named one of the 100 notable books of the year by The New York Times.

David C. Wilson, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, with Derek R. Avery, Patrick F. McKay and Scott Tonidandel, “Unequal Attendance: The Relationships Between Race, Organizational Diversity Cues and Absenteeism,” in Personnel Psychology, vol. 60, pages 875-902; and Wilson with Avery and McKay, “What are the Odds? How Demographic Similarity Affects the Prevalence of Perceived Employment Discrimination,” in Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 92, pages 1542-1556.