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Appointments
Edward R. Trubac, associate dean of the College of Business and associate professor of finance, was recently appointed the Thomas A. and James J. Bruder Chair for Administrative Leadership.
Honors
Katharina J. Blackstead, librarian, has been elected vice-chair, chair -elect of the Public Relations Section of the Library Administration and Management Association, serving a three-year term. She has been reappointed to chair the Publications Committee of LAMA/PRS for a one-year term.
Mark J. McCready, chair and professor of chemical engineering, has been selected to be an associate editor of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow.
Mihir Sen, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has been elected to the grade Fellow of the professional society, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME).
David A. Smith, assistant professor of psychology and the director of the Marital Therapy and Research Clinic, was appointed Editor-in-Chief of .A p-
I plied and Preventive Psychology: Current Scientific Perspectives, the journal of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, Cambridge University Press.
Rev. D. Reginald Whitt, O.P., associate professor of law, has been appointed by Bishop John M. D'Arcy to serve as a judge on the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. In addition, he is among those recently selected to represent the Catholic bishops in the forthcoming United Methodist-Roman Catholic Dialogue, "The Church in Each Place and in All Places."
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Activities
Joseph P. Bauer, professor oflaw, testified at a hearing of the Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs of the House Committee on Government Reform on "The Economic Effects of the Proposed BFGoodrich/ Coltec Merger", in Cleveland, Ohio, July 7.
Katharina J. Blackstead, librarian, presented "Academic Library Friends' Groups: Shifting Paradigms," and chaired the session "Grantsmanship Structures in Academic Libraries," at the annual conference of Development Officers of Research and Academic Libraries, at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, in Cambridge Massachusetts, May 7-8.
Austin I. Collins, C.S.C., associate professor and chairperson of the art, art history, and design, presented the invited lecture "The University of Notre Dame Public Sculpture Project, 1995-1997" at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, April 7.
Edmundo Corona, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, presented the paper "Buckling of Cracked Plates Under Biaxial Loading" at the 1999 AMSE Mechanics and Materials Conference in Blacksburg, Virginia, June 27-30.
Daniel J. Costello Jr., professor of electrical engineering, presented the invited lecture "On the Packet Error rate Performance of Convolutional Codes" at the IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Metsovo, Greece, June 27-July 1. He presented the papers "Optimization of Transition Diagram Weights for Sequential Lossless Coding of Piecewise Stationary Sources" and "Asymptomatically Optimal Low Complexity Sequential Lossless Coding for Regular Piecewise Stationary Memoryless Sources" at the IEEE Informational Theory Workshop in Kruger Park, South Africa, June 20-25. He presented the paper "Asymptotically Optimal Threshold Based Low Complexity Sequential Lossless Coding for Piecewise Stationary Memoryless
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Sources," with G. Shamir, at the IEEE Information Theory Workshop in Metsovo, Greece June27-July 1.
Micheal J. Crowe, professor in the program of liberal studies and the graduate program in history and philosophy of science, organized the symposim "Perspectives on the Question of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life" at the University of Notre Dame, July 1. At the symposium, he gave the talk "The Extraterrestrial Life Debate and Its Place in the History of Astronomy."
Julia Douthwaite, associate professor of French, presented the paper "From the Laboratory to the Home: Experimentation in Popular Culture, Rousseau's Emile and the Edgeworths' Practical Education," at the International Congress on the Enlightenment in Dublin, Ireland on July 30.
Nai-Chien Huang, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, presented the paper "Damage Arrest Assessment of Supersonic Transport Composite Sandwich Panels with Integral Tear Strap Reinforcements" at the 12th International Conference on Composite Materials, in Paris, France, July 5-9. He presented the paper "Interfacial Debonding of a Spherical Inclusion Embedded in an Infinite Medium Under Remote Stress" coauthored with M.Y. Korobeinik, at the 12th International Conference o Mathematical and Computer Modeling and Scientific Computing in Chicago, Illinois, August 2-4.
David R. Hyde, associate professor of biological sciences, presented the seminar "Molecular Genetic Analysis of Drosophila RdgB Function" at University College Dublin, Ireland, March 21. He presented the invited seminar "A Family of Vertebrate RdgB Homologs that Sheds Some Light on the Function of the RdgB Protein in the Drosophila Photoreceptor Cells" at the First International Workshop on Invertebrate Phototransduction in Jerusalem, Israel, July 12-19.
Prashant V. Kamat, professional specialist in the radiation laboratory, presented "Photo and Radiation Induced Charge Transfer Process in Nanoscopic
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Materials" at the 11th International Radiation Research Conference in Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23.
Yahya C. Kurama, assistant professor of civil engineering and geological sciences, presented the paper "Seismic Design and Parametric Response Evaluation of Unbonded PostTensioned Hybrid Coupled Walls" at the Sixth Joint Technical Coordinating Committee Meeting, U.S.-Japan Cooperative Earthquake Research Program on Composite and Hybrid Structures in San Francisco, California, August 1-3.
Jay A. Laverne, professional specialist in the radiation laboratory, presented "Fundamental Aspects of Heavy Ion Radiolysis" at the 11th International Congress of Radiation Research in Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23.
Keith Madden, associate professional specialist in the Radiation Laboratory, presented the poster "The RCDC Solution Kinetics Database, Version 3.0. A PC-Based Resource of Free-Radical Chemistry," at the Gordon Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry at Holderness School, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, June 27-July 2, and at the 41st Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry in Denver, Colorado, August 1-5.
Mary Ann Mahony, assistant professor of history, presented "Formando e reformando o passado: Representao hist6rica e politica das elites na zona cacaueira da Bahia" and "Pequenos productores e mobilidade social na regiao do cacao na Bahia, 1850-1929" at the inviation of the Graduate Program in History of the University of Brasilia, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 10-11. She presented "0 Mundo que Criou o CacauSociedade Politica e Mitos Hist6ricos no Sul da Bahia" at the Public Archive of the state of Bahia at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the state of Bahia, Brazil, June 16. She presented "Uma nova visao da hist6ria do sul da Bahia, 1820-1930" at the History Department, Universidade Esadoal da Santa Cruz, Ilheus, in Bahia, Brazil, July 5.
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Dan Meisel, director of the radiation laboratory and professor of chemistry and biochemistry, presented "Radiation Induced Charge Carriers in Nanoparticle Suspensions" at the 11th International Congress of Radiation Research in Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23.
Anthony N. Michel, Frank M. Freimann professor of electrical engineering, presented the paper "A Comparison Theory for the Stability Analysis of General Hybrid Dynamical Systems" at the 14th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control in Beijing, July 5-9. He presented the seminar "Modeling and Stability Analysis of Hybrid Dynamical Systems" at the Universite de Technologic Belfort-Montbeliard, France, July 12. He presented the seminar "Recent Trends in the Qualitative Analysis of Hybrid and Discontinuous Dynamical Systems" at the University of Strathclyde in Blasbow, Scotland, United Kingdom, July 30.
Samuel Paolucci, associate professor aerospace and mechanical engineering, presented the papers "The Use of Wavelets in Computational Fluid Mechanics" and "Design of Permanent Mold Castings" at the 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference held in San Francisco, California, July 18-22.
Simon M. Pimblott, associate professional specialist in the radiation laboratory, presented the talk "Chemical Consequences of Radiation Tracks in Water and DNA" and the poster "Effect of Electron Energy on OJ-I Yield and on the Fricke Dosimeter" at the 11th International Congress on Radiation Research in Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23,
Wolfgang Porod, professor of electrical engineering, presented the invited talk "Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata: Review and Perspective" at the 4th MEL-ARIINID Workshop (Nanoscale Information Devices cluster within the European ESPRIT Microelectronics Advanced Research Initiative), in Duisburg, Germany, July 7-9.
Joseph M. Powers, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, gave a talk entitled "Simulations of Viscous Detonations with Detailed Kinetics using Manifold and Wavelet Techniques" at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 15. He presented the papers "Modeling Gas Phase RDX Combustion with Intrinsic Low Dimensional Manifolds" and "Multidimensional Detonation Solutions from Reactive Navier-Stokes Equations" and chaired the session "Propellant Combustion" at the 17th International Colloquium on Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems in Heidelberg, Germany, July 25-30.
Irwin Press, professor of anthropology, delivered the keynote address "The Role of Patient Satisfaction in the New Millennium" to both the Connecticut and Maine Hospital Associations' annual meetings in June.
Terrence W. Rettig, associate professor of physics, presented the papers: "CO Emission in Comets C/1995 01 (Hale-Bopp) and C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)"; "Spatial Spectral Mapping of Ethan Emission in Comet Hyakutake: Determination of Producation Rates, CO Emission in Comets C/1995 01 (Hale-Bopp) and C/ 1996 B2 (Hyakutake)"; and "Infared Spectroscopy of Comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake Near 2 Microns" at the 1999 Asteroids, Comets and Meteorites Conference at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, July 26-30.
Steven Ruggiero, associate professor of physics, presented the paper "Wavelength-Dependent Photoresponse in YBCO Systems," at the 1999 International Workshop on Superconductivity (ISTEC/MRS), in Kauai Island, Hawaii, June 28.
Jonathan Sapirstein, professor of physics, presented the talk "Binding effects on electroweak radiative corrections in atoms" at the Workshop on Fundamental Symmetries, National Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle, Washington, July 6-9.
Peter Schiffer, assistant professor of physics, gave the invited talk "Spin liquid and analog to the helium-4 melting curve in a geometrically frustrated magnet" at the 22nd International Conference on Low Temperature Physics in Helsinki, Finland, August 7. He gave the seminar "Physics of Wetting and Drag Force in Granular Media" at the Laboratory of Physics at the Helsinki University of Technology, in Helsinki, Finland, August 10.
Patrick J. Schiltz, associate professor oflaw, was interviewed by Morley Safer about a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the Jesuits on the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes May 9.
Andrew Sommese, Vincent J. Duncan and Annamarie Micus Duncan professor of mathematics, gave the invited talk "The Numerical Study of Algebraic Varieties" at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics 99 conference, Oxford University, England, July 18-28.
Arvind Varma, Arthur J. Schmitt professor of chemical engineering, presented the plenary lecture "Combustion Synthesis of Advance Materials" and an invited lecture titled "Future Directions in Chemical Reaction Engineering" at the Asia-Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposium, held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in Hong Kong, June 13-17. He presented an invited seminar entitled "Ethylene Expoxidation in a Catalytic Packed-Bed Membrane Reactor" at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, in Singapore, June 21. He presented the Kuloor Memorial Lecture titled "Combustion Synthesis of Advanced Materials" at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, June 23 and presented an invited seminar with the same title at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, in Delhi, June 28.
Raimo Vayrynen, professor of government and international studies, presented "Cities and Regional Cooperation: The Case ofthe Baltic Rim" to the Conference of the Major Baltic Rim
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Cities in Helsinki, Finland, June 22-23. He presented "Globalization and Human Development" to a seminar organized by the UNDP and the Finnish Foreign Ministry to publicize The Human Development Report 1999 in Helsinki, Finland, July 12.
Erhard Winkler, professor emeritus of civil engineering and geological sciences, presented "Simplified Testing of Durability of Stone" as an invited speaker at symposium on Durability of Building Stone, in Carrara, Italy, May 25-28.
Publications
Panos J. Antsaklis, professor of electrical engineering, and X. Xu coauthored "On the Reachability of a Class of Second-Order Switched Systems," in Proc. of the American Co"ntrol Conference, in San Diego, California, June 2-4. He also wrote with, Bei Hu, associate professor of mathematics, Anthony Michel, Frank M. Freimann professor of engineering, and X. Xu "Robust Stabilizing Control Law for a Class of Second-order S·witched Systems" in Proceedings of the An1eJican Control Conference, in SanDiego, California, June 2-4. He coauthored with X.D. Koutsoukos "Hybrid Control of a Robotic Manufacturing Systems" in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE ivlediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, in Haifa, Israel, June 28-30. He co-authored with X. Xu "Design of a Stabilizing Control Laws for Second-Order Switched Systems," in Proceedings of the IFAC 14th World Congress, vol. C, pp. 181-186, P.R. China, July 5-9.
Bruce A. Bunker, chair and professor of physics, co-authored "A bent Laue analyzer for fluorescence XAFS detection" with G.B.Bunker, D. Chapman, R. Fischetti, C. Segre, and Z. Zhong, published in the.foumal of Synchrotron Radiation, vol. 6, 1999, pp. 370-372. He co-authored "XAFS Studies of Interfaces in MnSe/ZnTe Superlattices" with Jacek K Furdyna, professor of physics, and A.J. Kropf, published in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, vol. 6, 1999, pp. 212-214.
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Francis J. Castellino, dean of science, Kleiderer-Pezold professor ofbiochemistry and director of the Center for Transgene Research, co-authored "Functional and structural consequences of aromatic residue substitution within that kringle-2 domain of tissue-type plasminogen activator" withY. Chang and S.L. Nilsen, published in Journal of Peptide Research, val. 53, 1999, pp. 656-664.
Hsueh-Chia Chang, professor of chemical engineering, co-authored "Unusual Contact-line Dynamics of Thick Films and Drops" with A. Argarwal, A. lndeikina, and I. Veretennikov, published in the Joumal of Colloid and Interface Science, val. 215, 1999, p. 425.
Kevin J. Christiano, associate professor of sociology, wrote "Religion and the Family in Modern American Culture," published in S.K. Houseknecht and J.G. Pankhurst, eels., Family, Religion and Social Change in Divase Societies. New York and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 43-78.
Austin I. Collins, C.S.C., chair and associate professor of art, art history and design, exhibited sculpture in the following exhibitions: Pier Walk '99, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, May 12-0ctober 30; Marquette Show, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, January 12-February 9; 13th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, April 15-July 15, 2000; 1st Annual Sculpture Exhibition, White River State Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 1-0ctober 30; Riverfront Sculpture Walk '99, Peoria, Illinois, June 30-Novemeber 30; Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood '99, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Jupe 2- October 12.
Daniel J. Costello, Jr., professor of electrical engineering, co-authored "On the Weight Distribution of Terminated Convolutional Codes," with M.P.C. Fossorier and S. Lin, published in IEEE Transactions on Infomwtion Theory, val. 45, no. 5, 1999, pp. 1646-1648.
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J .. Michael Crant, associate professor of management, and T.S. Bateman coauthored "Proactive behavior: Meaning, impact, and recommendations," published in Business 1-Imizons, 1999, pp.63-70.
Xavier Creary, Charles L. Huisking Sr. professor of chemistry and biochemistry, co-authored "Methylenecyclopropane Rearrangement as a Probe for Free Radical Substituent Effects. ·Values for Potent Radical-Stabalizing Nitrogen-Containing Substituents" with P.S. Engel, N. Kavaluskas, L. Pan, and A. Wolf, published in Journal of Organic Chemistry, val. 64, 1999, pp. 5634-5643.
!vlichael J. Crowe, professor in the program ofliberal studies, wrote The Extraterreshial Life Debate 1750-1900. New York: Dover reprinting, with new preface, of the 1986 original, 704 pages. He wrote "Pierre Duhem, the History and Philosophy of Physics, and the Teaching of Physics," pulJlished in Physics in Perspective, val. 1, 1999, pp. 54-64. He wrote a review of "Sara Schechner Genuth, Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology," published in Physics Today, val. 51,1998, p. 61.
Julia Douthwaite, associate professor of French, published entries on "Marguerite de Lussan" and "Marie Josephine de Monbart" in Eva Martin Satori, ed., The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Westport, Connecticutt and London: Greenwood Press, 1999, pp. 331-332, 372-373.
Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, Walther Cancer Institute assistant professor ofbiological sciences, co-authored "EFA6, a sex 7 domain-containing exchange factor for ARF6, coordinates membrane recycling and actin cytoskeleton organization" with M. Franco, P.J. Peters, J. Boretto, E. vanDonselaar, A. Neri, and P. Chavrier, published in The EMBO Journal, val. 18, no. 6, pp. 1480-1491.
Thomas P. Fehlner, Grace-Rupley professor of chemistry, co-authored "Early versus late transition metals. Electronic structure of nido-2-CpMLnB4H8, CpML11 = CpTaClz,
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CpWh3 and CpCo," with A.S. Weller, and S. Aldridge, published in Inorganic Chimica Acta, val. 289, 1999, pp. 85-94. He also co-authored "Designer clusters: synthesis and characterization of CP*zRhzCo3(CO)aB3HCl (Cp* = _5-C5Mes)," with lVIaoyu Shang, adjunct professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and X. Lei, published in Chemical Communications, 1999, pp.933-934. They wrote "2,2'-commo-Bis[2-ruthenanido-1-(ll5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ruthenahexaborane(12)]: An Unusual Ruthenaborane Related to Ruthenocene and Exhibiting a Linear Triruthenium Fragment," published in lwgewandte Chemic International Edition, val. 38, 1999, pp. 1986-1989.
Stephan A. Fredman, professor of English, wrote '"And All Now is War': George Oppen, Charles Olson, and the Problem of Literary Generations," published in Rachel Blau Du Plessis and Peter Quartermain, eels., The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, p. 286-293.
Richard I. Fremgen, professional specialist in the department of accountancy, co-authored "What's in a Name Change" with L.S. Pethley, published in the Journal of Accountancy, val. 188, no. 2, 1999, pp. 71-74.
Davide A. Hill, associate professor of chemical engineering, Yi~nnis N. Kaznesis, graduate student, and Edward J. Maginn, assistant professor of chemical engineering, co-authored "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Dielectric Relaxation of Concentrated Polymer Solutions" published in Journal of Chemical Physics, val. 111, 1999, pp. 1325-1334.
Nai-Chien Huang, professor of aeropsace and mechanical engineering, co-authored "Damage Arrest Assessment of Supersonic Transport Composite Sandwich Panels with Integral Tear Strap Reinforcements" with Y.-C. Li and S.G. Russell, published in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Composite Materials, 1999, CD-ROM, Paris, France.
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David R. Hyde, associate professor of biological sciences. co-authored "Cloning and Characterization of Six Zebrafish Photoreceptor Opsin cDNAs and Immunolocalization of their Corresponding Proteins," with T.S. Vihtelic and C.J. Doro, published in Visual Neuroscience, vol. 16, pp. 571-585. He coauthored "Isolation and Characterization of Drosophila retinal degeneration B Suppressors," with D.W. Paetkau, V.A. Elagin, and L.M. Sendi, published in Genetics, vol. 151, pp. 713-724. He co-authored "The UV Visual World of Fishes: a Review," with G.S. Losey, T.W. Cronin, T.H. Goldsmith, N.J. Marshall, and W.N. McFarland, published in the Journal of Fish Biology, vol. 54, pp. 921-943.
Alan L. Johnson, professor ofbiological sciences, co-authored "Chemotherapy and Apoptosis in the Ovary -Cancer Treatment Comes with a Price" with Jonathan L. Tilly, published in Apoptosis and Cancer Chemotherapy, eel. J.A. Hickman and C. Dive, Humana Press Inc., Totowa, New Jersey, pp. 257-273.
A. Eugene Livingston, professor of physics, co-authored "Higher Order Photon Transitions in H-like and Helike Ions" with H. Gordon Berry, professor of physics, R.W. Dunford, E.P. Kanter, H.W. Schaffer, P.H. Molder, S. Cheng, and L.J.Curtis, published in Physica Scripta, vol. T80, 1999, pp. 143-144. He co-authored "Measurement of 2s-2p Transition Energies in Few Electron Heavy Ions" with P. Bosselmann, K.-H. Schartner, U. Staude, F. Folkmann, P.H. Molder, and T. Ludziejewski, published in Physica Scripta, vol. T80, 1999, pp. 145-147.
Edward J. Maginn, assistant professor of chemical engineering, coauthored "Rheology, dynamics, and structure of hydrocarbon blends: A molecular dynamics study of n-hexane/n-hexadecane mixtures," with L.I. Kioupis, published in The Chemical Engineeling Joumal, vol. 74, 1999, pp. 129-146. He co-authored "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Dielectric Relaxation of Concentrated Polymer Solutions" with Y.N. Kaznessis and Davide A. Hill, associate professor of chemi-
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Lawrence C. Marsh, associate professor of economics, and Kajal Mulrnopadhyay, assistant research professor in the Center for Contemporary Society, co-authored "Discrete Poisson Kernel Density Estimation with Application to Wildcat Coal Strikes," published in Applied Economics Letters, vol. 6, 1999, pp. 393-396.
Grant J. Mathews, professor of physics, co-authored "Relativistic Studies of Close Neutron Star Binaries," with P. Marronetti and J.R. Wilson, published in T. Piran and R. Ruffini, eels., Proceedings 8th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 1527-1529. He coauthored "Gamma-Ray Bursts from Close Neutron Star Binaries," with Wilson and J. Salmonson, published in T. Piran and R. Ruffini, eels., Proceedings 8th Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 1594-1896.
Khalil Matta, associate professor of management, Joseph Tama, assistant professor of management, and H.-Gee Chen wrote "The Information Requirements of Total Quality Management," published in Total Quality Magagement, vol. 9, no. 6, 1998, pp. 445-461.
John E. Matthias, professor of English, wrote "Mr. Ruskin and the Violet," published in Bellingham Review, vol. 21, no. 2, 1998/1999, pp.73-74. He wrote "Master Class," "Six or So in Petersburg," and "On Rereading a Friend's First Book," published in Salmagundi, no. 123, 1999, pp. 80-85. He wrote "Three From.Small Chimes," "Idiolect," "La mer," and "The Lake School," translations from the Swedish of Jesper Svenbro, with Lars-Hakan Svensson, published in Samizdat, no.3, 1999, pp. 5-6. He wrote "Pages from a Book of Years: Part Two" and "Easter 1912 and Christmas 1929: Blaise Cendrars and Garcia Lorca in New York," published in Chicago Review, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 1-12. He wrote "The Downfall of the Kingdom of Serbia," translation from the Serbian, with
Vladeta Vuckovic, published in Washington Post Book World, July 25, 1999, p. 12.
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Anthony N. Michel, Frank M. Freimann professor of engineering, and B. Hu, co-authored "A Comparison Theory for the Stability Analysis of General Hybrid Dynamical Systems," published in Proceedings of the 14th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, vol. D, Bejing, P.R.China, pp. 425-429.
Marvin J. Miller, George and Winifred Clark professor of chemistry and biochemistry, co-authored "Elucidation of Mechanism of Inhibition and X-ray Structure of the TEM-1 _Lactamase from Escherichia coli Inhibited by a N-Sulfonyloxy-_-lactam" with J.R. Bellettini, A. Bulychev, L.P. Kotra, I. Massova, L. Maveyraud, S. Mobashery, J.P. Semana, and P. Swan~n. published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, 1999, pp. 5353-5359.
Thomas J. Mueller, Roth-Gibson professor of aerospace engineering, coauthored "Polyvinylidene flouride film sensors for measurement of unsteady pressures on aerodynamic surfaces. Part I: Design, fabrication, calibration and demonstration" with C.J. Sullivan, published in Expe1iments in Fluids, vol. 27, no. 1, 1999, pp.79-84. They coauthored "Polyvinylidene flouride film sensors for measurement of unsteady pressures on aerodynamic surfaces. Part II: Application to a small-scale marine propeller in spatially distored mean flow," published in Experiments in Fluids, vol. 27, no. 1, 1999, pp. 85-91.
William O'Rourke, professor of English, published "What's making Hillary run?" in the Chicago Sun-Times, June 28, 1999, vol. 53, no. 123, p. 31.
James J. Rakowski, associate professor of economics, wrote "Coping with a Paradoxical Theorem in Macroeconomics, Report on a Survey," published in The American Economist,· vol. 43, no. 1, 1999, pp. 52-56.
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TeiTence W. Rettig, associate professor of physics, co-authored "Identification of two sources for carbon-monoxide in comet Hale-Bopp" with M. DiSanti, M. Mumma, N. Della-Russo, R. Novak, and K. Magee-Saner, published in Nature, vol. 399, 1999, pp. 662-665.
Patrick J. Schiltz, associate professor oflaw, wrote "On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession," published in the Vanderbilt Law Review vol. 52, no. 4, 1999, pp. 871-951. He wrote "Provoking Introspection: A Reply to Galanter and Palay, Hjull, Kelly, Lesnick, McLaughlin, Pepper, and Traynor," published in the Vanderbilt
· Law Review, vol. 52, no. 4, 1999, pp. 1033-1050.
Andrew Sommese, Vincent J. Duncan and Annamarie Miens Duncan professor of mathematics, co-authored "On generation of jets for vector bundles" with M.C. Beltrametti and S. Di Rocco, published in Revista Mathematica Complutense, vol. 12, 1999, pp. 27-45.
B.F. Spencer Jr., professor of civil engineering and geological sciences, wrote "Smart Damping Strategies for Civil Infrastructure Systems," published in F. Casciati, F. Maceri, M.P. Singh, and P. Spanos, eds., Civil Infrastructure Systems: Intelligent Renewal (Proceedings of the Third Intemational Symposium, September 24-26, 1997). New Jersey: World Scientific, pp. 357-366.
Arvind Varma, Arthur J. Schmitt professor of chemical engineering, co-authored "Palladium composite membranes by electroless plating technique. Relationships between plating kinetics, film microstructure and membrane performance" with S.C.Christiansen and K.L.Yeung, published in the Joumal of Membrane Science, vol. 159, 1999, pp. 107-122. He coauthored "Study of structure formation during electroless plating of thin metal-composite membranes" with A.S. Mukasyan and R.S. Souleimanova, published in Chemical Engineering Science,
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vol. 54, 1999, pp. 3369-3377. He coauthored "Mechanisms of reaction wave propagation during combustion synthesis of advanced materials" with A.S. Mukasyan ai1d A.S. Rogachev, published in Chemical Engineering SCience, vol. 54, 1999, pp. 3357-3367.
Chris R. Vanden Bossche, chairperson and professor of English, coauthored "Revising The Prelude: Aurora Leigh as Laureate" with L.E. Haigwood, published in Studies in Browning and His Circle, vol. 22, 1999, pp. 29-42.
Raimo Vayrynen, professor of government and international studies, wrote "The Enlargement of NATO: Shaping Europe in the Post-Cold War World," published in C. Arvanitopoulos, ed., Security Dilemmas in Eurasia. Athens, Greece: Nereus Editions, 1999, pp. 75-113.
Michael C.F. Wiescher, Frank M. Freimann professor of physics, coauthored "Measurements of proton radiative capture cross sections relevant to the astrophysical rp- and _-processes" with F.R. Chloupek, A.St.J. Murphy, R.N. Boyd, A.L. Cole, J. Gorres, R.T. Guray, G. Raimann, J.J. Zach, T. Rauscher, J.V. Schwarzenberg, and P. Tischhauser, published in Nuclear Physics A, vol. 652, 1999, pp. 391-405.
Olaf Wiest, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, coauthored "Ab Initio Studies of the Radical Cation Diels-Alder Reaction" with U. Haberl and E. Steckhan, published in the Joumal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, 1999, pp. 6730-6736.
Deaths
James E. Robinson, professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, died yesterday (Aug. 10) at St. Joseph's Medical Center in South Bend after a brief illness. He was 71 years old.
A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1957, Robinson was born Feb. 10, 1928 in Kansas City, Mo. He was
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graduated from Rockhurst College there in 1947 and received a master's degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., in 1949. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Ilinois in 1959.
Robinson chaired the Notre Dame English department from 1968-72, and served as resident director of the University's London program during the spring semester of 1984. He also served his department as director of undergraduate studies in 1988 and 1991 and associate chair from 1987-92.
A specialist in Renaissance literature , Robinson taught popular undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare, Elizabethan-Stuartpoetry, the plays of Samuel Beckett, and the Theatre of the Absurd. In addition to his book, "The Scope of Rhetoric: A Handbook for Composition and Literature," Robinson wrote numerous articles and reviews for scholarly publications in this country, Canada, England and Ireland. He also wrote several poems. Last year he gave lectures on Shakespeare and Beckett to audiences in Strasbourg, France, and Brisbane, Australia. He was at work on a book about space and time representation in Shakespeare's later plays.
As notable for his kind and congenial manner as for his lively imagination and powerful intellect, Robinson enjoyed not only the respect but also the affection of his students and colleagues during his 42 years on the Notre Dame faculty. He could be as articulate, and passionate, about the fortunes of the Kansas City Royals as about the metaphors of decomposition in Beckett's drama.
Robinson married Margaret Ann Cherek on June 24, 1950. She and their children, James, Katherine, Stephen and Ann all survive.
Activities
Alan S. Bigger, director ofbuilding services, addressed the Florida International District Convention of the International Executive Housekeepers' Association at a seminar entitled "Where's the beef? Developing measurable cleaning standards," in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 24-25.
Publications
Alan S. Bigger, director ofbuilding services, co-authored "Carpet Cleaning: A Matter of Simple Steps" with Linda M. Bigger, published in Executive Housekeeping Today, val. 20, no. 8, July 1999, pp. 5-7, 14. They wrote "Spit Shine in Less Time - the Effective Use of Floor Care Chemicals," published in Total Maintenance Review, July! August 1999, pp. 34-36. They wrote "Factors to Consider in the Design of Washrooms," published in Executive Housekeeping Today, August 1999, pp. ll-13.
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Academic Year Calendar 1999-2000
Fall 1999 Semester
August 20, Friday Orientation, enrollment and registration for new upperclass and graduate students
August 23, Monday Enrollment for all continuing students and freshmen
August 24, Tuesday Classes begin at 8 a.m.
September 1, Wednesday Last date for all class changes
September 6, Monday Labor Day - Classes are in session
October 15, Friday Midsemester Deficiency Reports due in Registrar's Office by 3 p.m.
October 16-24, Saturday-Sunday Midsemester break
October 25, Monday Classes resume at 8 a.m.
October 29, Friday Last day for course discontinuance
November 25-28, Thursday-Sunday Thanksgiving holiday
November 29, Monday Classes resume at 8 a.m.
December 8, Wednesday Last class day
December 9-12, Thursday-Sunday Study Days (no examinations)
December 13-17, Monday-Friday Final examinations
December 21, Tuesday All grades due in the Registrar's Office by 3 p.m.
Spring 2000 Setnester
January 17, Monday Orientation, enrollment and registration
January 18, Tuesday Classes begin at 8 a.m.
January 26, Wednesday Last date for all class changes
March 10, Friday Midsemester Deficiency Reports due in Registrar's Office by 3 p.m.
March 11-19, Saturday-Sunday Midsemester break
March 20, Monday Classes resume at 8 a.m.
March 24, Friday Last day for course discontinuance
April 21-24, Friday-Monday Easter holiday
April 25, Tuesday Classes resume at 8 a.m.
May 3, Wednesday Last class day
May 4-7, Thursday-Sunday Study days (no examinations)
May 8-12, Monday-Friday Final examinations
May 16, Tuesday All grades are due in the Registrar's Office by 3 p.m.
May 19.:..21, Friday-Sunday Commencement weekend
2000 Summer Session
June 19, Monday Enrollment
June 20, Tuesday Classes being at 8 a.m.
August 1, Tuesday Last class day
August 2, Wednesday Final examinations
August 4, Friday Commencement
Notre Dame Report Publication Schedule
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