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Faculty/Staff Achievements
LOUIS AMICK, associate professor of mathematics, presented the paper "Writing and Learning Mathematics by Rewriting the Text" at the meeting of the National Council of Mathematics held in Las Vegas.
FERNANDO BARROSO, lecturer in Spanish, traveled to Granada, Spain, to deliver the paper "Coloma and the true Don Carlos" to a meeting of the AsociaciŰn de Licenciados y Doctores EspaŇoles en los Estados Unidos.
Professor TOM COUSINEAU's new book, Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction, was accepted for publication by the University of Delaware Press. Professor Cousineau also was invited to read a paper titled "From Ritual to Modernism" at the Washington-area Modernism Symposium
Chemistry Professor FRANK CREEGAN is the co-recipient of a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to be used for a study to develop, disseminate and assess classroom and laboratory materials in chemistry.
LISA DANIELS, assistant professor of economics, co-authored a paper titled "The Impact of Falling Cotton Prices on Rural Poverty in Benin," to be published as a World Bank report. It was also delivered at the Northeast Universities Development Conference held at Williams College.
Assistant professor of biology, DOUG DARNOWSKI, reviewed a paper on the genetic transformation of the mung bean for Plant Cell Reports, and contributed to the book Plant Cell Biology, Second Edition, for Plant Science Bulletin of the Botanical Society of America. His poster for the International Horticulture Congress in Toronto has been selected for oral presentation and discussion at a special meeting of the Congress.
MELISSA DECKMAN, assistant professor of political science, delivered the paper "A Christian Right Takeover? Testing whether Conservative Christians are Advantaged in School Board Elections," at the Midwest Political Science Association's annual meeting. She co-authored a paper titled "Culture Wars, Family Wars: Clergy Mobilization and Family Politics," presented at the same meeting. She also co-authored the following papers for the Symposium on Religion and Politics at Calvin College: "The Political Attitudes and Activities of the Disciples of Christ Clergy in the Election of 2000" and "The Political Attitude and Activities of Mainline Protestant Clergy in the Election of 2000: A Study of Five Denominations." Professor Deckman has been named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 7th edition.
Assistant professor of education, PEGGY DONNELLY, presented on "Cooperative Learning Groups and Portfolio Evaluation in Teacher Education" at the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education in Manchester, England; "Portfolios, Pre-Service Teachers and Reading: An Alternative Assessment Approach" at the Widener University Reading Conference"; and "Collaborative Efforts in PDS Action Research" for the Maryland State Department of Education Action Research Conference. Her article "Challenges Met" was published in Successes in Teacher Education.
JIM FALTER, Jim Falter, assistant professor of business management, has had his article "An Analysis of CEO Compensation and Shareholder Wealth for the Largest Publicly Traded Corporations" accepted by the Southern Finance Association for inclusion in its Annual Conference Proceedings. He also has been appointed to serve on the program committee for the Midwest Finance Association for 2003.
 The C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience appointed ADAM GOODHEART, a Washington-based writer working on the history of slavery in America, as the first C. V. Starr Fellow.
MICHAEL HARVEY, assistant professor of business management, has been invited to write several articles for the upcoming Berkshire Encyclopedia of Leadership.
TOWNSEND HOOPES, a foreign policy and national security analyst, has been named Senior Fellow for the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. He is author of the award-winning books The Limits of Intervention (Vietnam War), The Devil and John Foster Dulles and Driven Patriot: the Life and Times of James Forrestal (co-authored with Douglas Brinkley).
Professor of physics, JUAN LIN, published a co-authored article titled "The Dynamics of Logical Decisions: A Neural Network Approach" in the journal Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena.
DONALD MCCOLL, assistant professor of art, presented the paper "Seeing the Samaritan Woman in Reformation Europe" in connection with a graduate seminar being held at the Graduate Theological Union and the Department of History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley. His essay "'Through a Glass Darkly': D¸rer and the Reform of Art" will appear in Reformation and Renaissance Review as well as in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to D¸rer.
KELLY MEYER, assistant professor of German, has two forthcoming publications: "Cosmopolitanism and the 'Austrian Idea' in Adalbert Stifter's 'Brigitta,'" to appear in the journal Genre; and "'Sohn, Abdias, gehe nun in die Welt': Oedepalization, Gender Construction, and the Desire to Consume," to appear in Modern Austrian Literature.
ROBERT MOONEY, director of the creative writing program, celebrated the release of his debut novel Father of the Man (Pantheon Books, 2002) with a public reading on campus in October. The reading was the first in a seven-city book tour through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Washington, DC. Set in post-Vietnam America, Father of the Man explores the desperation of a proud WWII veteran seeking answers to his missing son's fate in Vietnam. Novelist Larry Woiwode observed that "very few novels reach, in the way Mooney's does, for understanding and reconciliation between generations--specifically the gap that widened over the war in Vietnam."
Creative writing instructor ERIN MURPHY has published in recent issues of Kalliope and Crab Orchard Review. Her poem "Nietzsche's Sister" was named first runner-up for the Sue Saniel Elkin Award.
SEˇN O CONNOR, professor of education, presented at the 19th International Conference World Association for Case Method Research and Case Method Application in Mannheim, Germany June 30 to July 3, 2002. He also served as Plenary Session Moderator and Discussion Leader for the roundtable "National and International Large Scale Assessments: What to Do and What to Avoid."
ROSETTE ROAT-MALONE, adjunct professor of chemistry, authored the textbook Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. It was published this fall by John Wiley & Sons.
JOHN SEIDEL, assistant professor of anthropology and environmental science, has received a grant of $64,000 from the Department of Housing and Community Development for archeological survey and research work at the Fishing Bay and Fairmount State Wildlife Management Areas on the Eastern Shore, and a grant of $300,000 from Eastern Shore Heritage, Inc., for creation of a heritage tourism management plan for Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot and Caroline counties. His archaeological work on the Harriet Tubman birth site in Dorchester County is featured Maryland Public Television's "Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad" web site designed to teach students in grades 4 to 8 Maryland's role in the Underground Railroad.
KAREN SMITH, professor of physical education, delivered the paper "Dancing Healthy" at the ICHPERSD World Congress in Taipei, Taiwan.
Assistant professor of English, KATHY WAGNER, served as a juror for the Visiting Artists Program, a Fellowship Competition for graduate creative writing students at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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