College of Sciences Newsletter Edition 15 September 20, 2002 
Faculty Awards, Appointments or Elections
Fall is a time of new beginnings – at least around a college campus. With the start of every new academic year, new full-time and part-time faculty are hired. Where faculty are the root for building educational excitement in students, it is this same wonderful, diverse population of young (and sometimes not so young) minds that inhabit the classrooms and laboratories at Old Dominion University that greatly enrich the teaching and research of faculty. It is a wonderful place to mesh intellect, ability and undiscovered possibilities!
The College of Sciences would like to extend a warm welcome to the following new assistant professors:
Johan Bollen, Assistant Professor
Bollen joins the Department of Computer Science fall 2002. Prior to coming to Old Dominion, he worked at the Free University of Brussels for the Principia Cybernetica project as an assistant editor and researcher from 1994 to 1999 then joined the Active Recommendations Project of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. His work focuses on the development of algorithms for adaptive information linking from temporal patterns of user retrievals. His research has found applications in the prediction of human hypertext navigation paths, the construction of large document networks, novel digital library recommendation systems and the evaluation of document and journal impact.
Roland Cooper, Assistant Professor
Cooper joins the Department of Biological Sciences after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the malaria genetics section, focusing on mechanisms and genetics of drug resistance in falciparum malaria. Cooper received his doctorate in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Arizona in 1996 and a second Master's of Science in tropical public health from Harvard University School of Public Health in 1997.
Michael L. Nelson, Assistant Professor
Nelson joins the Department of Computer Science fall 2002 after spending 11 years at NASA Langley Research Center and one year on a fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill. His area of research is digital libraries, specifically in the area of digital preservation, intelligent data objects and archival interoperability. Nelson is co-editor of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and (co-)author of over 60 publications. Nelson is a graduate of Old Dominion University having received his Ph.D. in 2000 and his M.S. in 1997.
Glenn Williams, Assistant Professor
Williams joins the Department of Mathematics and Statistics after a four-year stint as a Research Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford Medical Center in Stanford, California. He earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina in 1998. His dissertation examined the “Mathematical Modeling of Multiphase Flow Phenomena in Porous Media.” His experience at Stanford has stimulated new interests in 3D molecular structure modeling and biomedical computation.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all the part-time, adjunct and one-year appointed faculty (some who are retired from ODU) who fill an integral gap in the College by teaching many course and lab sections that otherwise would not be available to students.
Department of Biological Sciences
Mary Ann Birsch
Brian Dyer
David SeabornDepartment of Chemistry
Roy Williams (retiree)Department of Computer Science
Ayman Abdel-Hamid
John Bayless
Ajay Gupta
Jay Morris
Scott SpencerDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics
Steven Atiyah (retiree)
Yvonne Aucoin
Heather Beck
Bonnie Burke
Francis Carroll
James Cass
George Chackman
Robert Crumpler
Shari Davis
Sue Doviak
Emily Geil
Penny Hix
Hutson Lindner
Becky Melrose
Shahrooz Moosavizadeh
Mario Scribner
Kenrick Waithe
John WallerDepartment of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Jay Austin
Jens Bischof
Kimberly Johnson
Cathy McConaugha
Steve ParsonsDepartment of Physics
Alexander Godunov
Mary Hing-Hickman
Peter RocheDepartment of Psychology
Gerald Augustin
James Comstock
Cathy Cooke
Kristie Hebert
Jonina Moskowitz
Susan Scerbo
Mona Tiernan
Ruth Wienclaw
Jennifer Younkin
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the new classified employees in the College of Sciences.Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cheri Elrahhal, Program Support Technician
Toni Mason, Fiscal Technician
