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 "Patterns in Nature" to the Institute for Learning in Retirement in Virginia Beach.

John A. Adam published "Flowers of Ice - Beauty, Symmetry, Complexity: A Review of 'The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty' by Kenneth Libbrecht" in vol. 52, no. 4 of Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Also, his photograph "Kelvin-Helmhotlz Contrail Above Norfolk, Virginia" appeared on the March 3rd Earth Science Picture of the Day Web site.

James P. Bliss, associate professor, Hope S. Hanner-Bailey, doctoral student, and Mark W. Scerbo, professor, psychology, presented "Determining the Efficacy of an Immersive Trainer for Arthroscopy Skills" at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13, in Long Beach, Calif.

James P. Bliss was granted tenure effective fall 2005.

Alex Pothen, professor of computer science, was appointed to the following editorial boards: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing; SIAM Monographs in Computational Science and Engineering; Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis; and the International Journal on Computational Science and Engineering. He was also elected co-chair of the organizing committee for the Second International Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, to be held at the European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation in Toulouse, France, June 2005.

Mark W. Scerbo, professor of psychology, presented "Human Factors and Medical Simulation" at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13 in Long Beach, Calif. Also, at the conference, with James P. Bliss; Elizabeth A. Schmidt, doctoral student of psychology; and Hope S. Hanner-Bailey; and Leonard J. Weireter Jr., M.D., FACS, Eastern Virginia Medical School, presented "Assessing Surgical Skill Training Under Hazardous Conditions in a Virtual Environment."

Other stories in Faculty News Section..
Computer Science Associate Professor Retires
John Adam is a Popular Speaker Around Campus
Adam Book Receives Award from A.L.A magazine
Research Expo Award Winners Named
Two Emeriti Professors Announce $100,000 Gifts in support of Biology
Top Guns of The College of Sciences
Quotes in the News
Service Milestones

Phyllis Brown, Editor
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