Professional Achievements

Some of the national and international professional achievements of our faculty and graduate students since the last Scire edition:

John A. Adam, University Professor of Mathematics, presented "Mathematics in Nature: Some Thoughts on Course Development" at the "Atmospheric Optics" workshop of the 327th WE-Heraeus Seminar in Bonn, Germany.

Natasha Milkewicz Annis (Psy.D '01); Thomas F. Cash, professor of psychology; and Joshua I. Hrabosky, a Psy.D student. Published "Body Image and Psychosocial Differences Among Stable Average Weight, Currently Overweight and Formerly Overweight Women: the Role of Stigmatizing Experiences" in vol. 1, no. 2 of Body Image: An International Journal of Research.

Keith A. Carson, associate professor, and Robert K. Rose, professor emeritus, biological sciences, presented "Least Shrew (Cryptotis parva) Submandibular Gland Fine Structure" at the 84th annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA.

Slawomir Cerbvin, postdoctoral member of the biological sciences research program, Todd Stem and Todd Egerton, graduate students of biological sciences; and Harold Marshall, professor emeritus of biological sciences, presented "Morphology and Physiology of a Novel Pfiesteria-like Dinoflagellate from Chesapeake Bay" at the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America in Willliamsburg.

Fred C. Dobbs, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, and Andrew Rogerson of Nova University, presented "Can We Ever Remove, Kill or Inactivate All the Microorganisms from Ships' Ballast Water, and Should We Try?" at the 2nd International Conference on Ballast Water Management in Singpore.

Martina A. Doblin, research assistant professor, Fred C. Dobbs, associate professor, and Lisa A. Drake, research assistant professor, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, published "Multiplex PCR Allows Simultaneous Detection of Aureococcus anophagefferens and Primate Calcivirus" in vol. 48 of Marine Pollution Bulletin. Co-authors are Laura Aridgides (lead author), Tamas Berke and David Matson, who were at the Center for Pediatric Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School, at the time of the research.

J. Mark Dorrepaal, chair of mathematics and statistics, presented "How Many Traveling Tournament 6-Team Schedules Are There?" at the 2004 joint CORS/INFORMS Conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Todd Egerton, graduate student and Harold Marshall, professor emeritus, biological sciences, presented "Feeding Behavior and Conditioning in Three Pfiesteria-like Dinoflagellates" at the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America in Williamsburg.

Thomas D. Fletcher, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology, and Debra A. Major, associate professor of psychology, published "Medical Students' Motivations to Volunteer: An Examination of the Nature of Gender Differences" in vol. 51 of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. Also, Fletcher and Major with Donald D. Davis, associate professor of psychology, presented "Congruence in Personality and Climate Perceptions of Competitiveness in the Workplace" at the 64th Annual Conference of the Academy of Management in New Orleans.

Ann Gargett, professor of oceanography, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, presented "Beyond Correlations: The Search for Mechanisms Underlying Coupled Climate/Ecosystem Variability in the Oceans" as the 2004 Rachel Carson Lecturer at the AGU-CGU-I Joint Assembly.

Richard V. Gregory, dean of the College of Sciences, was awarded the International Fiber Society's Founders Award.

N. Deborah Hewlett (undergraduate chemistry student), Jeffrey Aubé (collaborator at University of Kansas), and Jennifer L. Radkiewicz-Poutsma, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, recently published "Ab Initio Approach to Understanding the Stereoselectivity of the Boyer Reaction" in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2004, vol. 69.

Eileen Hofmann and John Klinck, professors, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, published "Physical Forcing of Phytoplankton Community Structure and Primary Production in Continental Shelf Waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula" in vol. 62 of Journal of Marine Research. Co-authors are B. B. Prézelin (lead author), University of California, Santa Barbara, and M. Moline, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Gilbert R. Hoy, eminent scholar of physics, was appointed as a visiting fellow for spring 2004 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Also, presented "Stimulated Emission of Gamma-Radiation: A Proposed Experiment" at Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics 2004, an international conference in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Cynthia Jones, eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, presented "Science and the Chesapeake Bay," the Mathias Medal Award keynote speech at the University of Maryland. The Mathias Medal Ceremonies were sponsored by the Maryland and Virginia Sea Grant Programs, and Johns Hopkins University.

Robin J. Lewis, professor of psychology, presented the poster "Writing as a Way to Cope with Lesbian-related Stress," at the 112th convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu (co-authors are Eva G. Clarke, lecturer of psychology; Valerian J. Derlega, professor of psychology; and M. D. McElligott and A. M. Jacobs, graduate students with the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology). Also at the convention, a poster on "Stigma Consciousness, Social Constraints and Lesbian Well-being" (co-authors are Derlega, Clark, McElligott, Jacobs and J. Kuang, graduate student of psychology).

Debra A. Major, associate professor of psychology; Thomas D. Fletcher, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology; and Janis Sanchez-Hucles, professor of psychology; presented "The Experience of Tokenism in the Information Technology Workforce" at the 112th convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu.

Harold Marshall, professor emeritus of biological sciences, was elected as a fellow to the Virginia Academy of Science. Also, with Lubomira Burchardt of Adam Michiewicz University in Posnana, Poland, presented "A Reappraisal of the Neuston Community in Freshwater and Marine Habitats" at the Virginia Academy of Sciences annual meeting in Richmond. Also, at the same meeting, with Slawomir Cerbin from AMU, presented a poster, "Comparison of Scanning Electron Microscopic Preparations Used in the Examination of Pfiesteria-like Dinoflagellates."

Harold Marshall and Lubomira Burchardt of Adam Michiewicz University of Poznan, Poland, published "Monitoring Phytoplankton Populations and Water Quality Relationships in Estuarine Rivers of Chesapeake Bay" in a recent edition of Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies.

Thomas C. Royer, Slover professor and eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Arctic Research Commission for the remainder of a four-year term expiring February 26, 2008.

Mark W. Scerbo, professor of psychology, presented "An Examination of Surgical Skill Performance Under Combat Conditions Using a Mannequin-based Simulator in a Virtual Environment" at the 2004 NATO RTO on Human Factors in Medicine at St. Pete Beach, Fla. Co-authors are James P. Bliss, associate professor of psychology; Elizabeth A. Schmidt, doctoral student of human factors psychology; Hope S. Hanner, doctoral student of industrial/organizational psychology; and Leonard J. Weireter, professor of surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Elizabeth A. Schmidt, doctoral student of human factors psychology, and Mark W. Scerbo, professor of psychology, presented "Field Independence and Spatial Ability in the Search for the Presence and Absence of Features" at the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in New Orleans.

Jonathan E. Turner, graduate of the industrial/organizational psychology program; Debra A. Major, associate professor of psychology; and Thomas D. Fletcher, doctoral student of I/O psychology, presented "Personality Predictors of Motivation to Learn" at the 112th convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu.

Brian K. Wells (Ph.D. '00), Bruce E. Reiman, Jan L. Clayton, Donna L. Horan and Cynthia M. Jones, eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, was awarded Best Paper 2004 by the American Fisheries Society for "Variation of Water, Otolith and Scale Chemistries Within a River Basin" in vol. 132 of Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

Coln T. Whelan, professor of physics, has been designated as an eminent scholar.

Other stories in Faculty Section..
Cynthia Jones named Virginia Professor of the Year .
ODU Oceanography Professor Appointed to Presidential Commission on Arctic Research .
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