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University of New Orleans Research Professors
Name
Department
College
Fall 2005 - Spring 2008
Chemistry Sciences
Fine Arts Liberal Arts
Management Business
 
Fall 2004 - Spring 2007
Mathematics Sciences
English Liberal Arts
Geology Sciences
 
Fall 2003 - Spring 2006
George Ioup Physics Sciences
Electrical Engineering Engineering
Chemistry Sciences
 
Fall 2002 - Spring 2005
English Liberal Arts
Psychology Sciences
Chemistry Sciences
 
Fall 2001 - Spring 2004
Ida Altman History Liberal Arts
English Liberal Arts
Physics Sciences
     
Fall 2000 - Spring 2003
John Gery English Liberal Arts
William Simmons Geology Sciences
Mark Trudell Chemistry Sciences
     
Fall 1999 - Spring 2002
Gary Gundersen Mathematics Sciences
Mickey Lauria

 

Urban & Public Affairs
Carl Malmgren English Liberal Arts
Steve Nolan Chemistry Sciences
     
Fall 1998 - Spring 2001
Peggy Kirby Educational Leadership Education
Steve Kroll-Smith Sociology Liberal Arts
Ashok Puri Physics Sciences
     
Fall 1997 - Spring 2000
Arnold Hirsch History Liberal Arts
James S. Rogers Biological Sciences Sciences
     
Fall 1996 - Spring 1999
Bruce King Psychology Sciences
Terry Pavlis Geology & Geophysics Sciences
Milton Slaughter Physics Sciences
     
Fall 1995 - Spring 1998
David Hui Mechanical Engineering Engineering
Joseph Logsdon History Liberal Arts
Martha Ward Anthropology Liberal Arts
     
Fall 1994 - Spring 1997
Joan Gipe Curriculum & Instruction Education
Michael Poirrier Biological Sciences Sciences
Alan Soble Philosophy Liberal Arts
     
Fall 1993 - Spring 1996
Cameron Camp Psychology Sciences
Robert C. Cashner Biological Sciences Sciences
Ralph D. Kern Chemistry Sciences
David Sexton Special Education Education
James May Psychology Sciences
     
Fall 1991 - Spring 1994
Sherwood Githens, III Biological Sciences Sciences
Jerry C. Nash Foreign Languages Liberal Arts
Gayle A. Olson Psychology Sciences
     
Fall 1990 - Spring 1993
Ronald L. Greene Physics Sciences
Charles D. Hadley Political Science Liberal Arts
W. Kenneth Holditch English Liberal Arts
     
Fall 1989 - Spring 1992
Carol W. Gelderman English Liberal Arts
Andrew S. Horton English Liberal Arts
Chemistry Sciences
Steven A. Shull Political Science Liberal Arts
Bruce Thompson Education Education
     
Fall 1988 - Spring 1991
Warren M. Billings History Liberal Arts
Philip J. Harmelink Accounting Business Administration
Robert S. Jordan Political Science Liberal Arts
Richard D. Olson Psychology Sciences
Rima D. Reck Comparative Literature Liberal Arts
Edwin D. Stevens Chemistry Sciences
     
Fall 1987 - Spring 1990
John G. Barnitz Education Education
Joseph H. Boyer Chemistry Sciences
Richard L. Engstrom Political Science Liberal Arts
George G. Guilbault Chemistry Sciences
Edward M. Miller Economics & Finance Business Administration
Saad E. Moustafa Civil Engineering Engineering

UNO Alumni Association Awards
 
Early Career Awards
2005 Amanda Morris Psychology Sciences
2005 Marc Rosenblum Political Science Liberal Arts
2004 Carl Weems Psychology Sciences
2003 Brandon Prins Political Science Liberal Arts
2002 T.R. Johnson English Liberal Arts
2001 Carsie Hall Mechanical Engineering Engineering
2000 Patrice Boily Biological Sciences Sciences
1999 Sudha Krishnaswami Economics & Finance Business Administration
1998 Bhaskar Kura Civil & Environmental Engineering Engineering
1996 X. Rong Li Electrical Engineering Engineering
1995 Mark Packard Psychology Sciences
1994 Mark Trudell Chemistry Sciences
1993 Christine Day Political Science Liberal Arts
Career Awards
2005 Paul Frick Psychology Sciences
2005 Gunther Bischof History Liberal Arts
2004 Susan Howell Sociology Liberal Arts
2003 William Stiebing History Liberal Arts
2002 Michael Paulsen Educational Leadership Education
2001 Steve Nolan Chemistry Sciences
2000 Ida Altman History Liberal Arts
1999 Paul Chirlian Electrical Engineering Engineering
1998 Alan Soble Philosophy Liberal Arts
1996 Joe Logsdon History Liberal Arts
1995 Jerry Nash Foreign Languages Liberal Arts
1994 David Hui Mechanical Engineering Engineering
1993 Charles O'Connor Chemistry Sciences

Ida Altman

Ph.D., History, The Johns Hopkins University, 1982

Publications
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo; new abridged translation, with notes and introduction (under contract with Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.).
Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620, Stanford University Press, 2000.
The Early History of Greater Mexico, co-author with Sarah L. Cline and Juan Javier Pescador (under contract with Prentice Hall).

Awards/Honors
UNO National Alumni Association Career Achievement Award for Excellence in Research, 2000
Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, University of New Orleans, Travel and Research Grant, Summer 2000

Grants/Patents
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, 1995

John Barnitz

Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978

Publications
Reading Development on Nonnative Speakers of English: Research and Instruction. In the Language in Education: Theory and Practice series, No. 63, 1985. E.R.I.C. Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich International, ED 256 182. Republished by Prentice Hall Regents.
"Commentaries on Linguistic Diversity Issues in Literacy Instruction", Elementary Literacy Lessons: Cases and Commentaries from the Field, Chapter 10. Edited by J. Richards and J. Gipe, Erlbaum, 2000.
"Linguistic Perspectives in Literacy Education: Electronic and Linguistic Connections in One Diverse Twenty-First Century Classroom", with R.B. Speaker, The Reading Teacher, 52, 1999.

Awards/Honors
University of New Orleans Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1988.
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1976.

Grants/Patents
University of New Orleans Research Council, 1990-91
Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, 1991

Warren M. Billings

Ph.D., History, Northern Illinois University, 1968

Publications
Editor, A Law Unto Itself: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History, 2001.
Councils, Assemblies, and Courts of Judicature: The General Assembly of Virginia, 1619-1700, in press at the Library of Virginia, 2002.
The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1606-1677, in press at the Library of Virginia.

Awards/Honors
Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana

Grants/Patents
Archie K. Davis Research Fellow, 1995-96
Virginia Historical Society Mellon Research Fellow, 1992, 1989
Grant-in-aid of Research, American Philosophical Society, 1992, 1975
Travel to Collection Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989

Richard L. Engstrom

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Kentucky, 1971

Awards/Honors
Fulbright-Hays Professor, 1981-82; 1985-86
Senior Research Fellow, Queen's University of Belfast, 1990
David Bruce Fellow, University of Keele, England, 1993
Visiting Fellow, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 1998
UNO Alumni Association's Career Distinction Award for Excellence in Research, 1985
George W. Lucas Community Service Award, 1993

Grants/Patents
Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, Georgia; conduct exit poll of cumulative voting election in Chilton County, Alabama
Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, Fellowship Funding for Superior Graduate Students, 1992 (1993-1997); 1996 (1997-2001); 1997 (1998-2002); 1998 (1999-2003)

Paul J. Frick

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Georgia, 1990

Publications
Frick, P.J., Cornell, A.H., Bodin, S.D., Dane, H.A., Barry, C.T., & Loney, B.R. (2003). Callous-Unemotional traits and developmental pathways to severe aggressive and antisocial behavior. Developmental Psychology, 39, 246-260.
Frick, P.J. & Loney, B.R. (2002). Understanding the association between parent and child antisocial behavior. In R.J. McMahon & R. Dev. Peters (Eds.), The effects of parental dysfunction on children (pp. 105-126). New York: Plenum.
Frick, P.J. (2001). Effective interventions for children and adolescents with conduct disorder. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 46, 26-37.
Frick, P.J. & Ellis, M.L. ( 1999). Callous-unemotional traits and subtypes of conduct disorder. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2, 149-168.
Frick, P.J. (1998). Conduct disorders and severe antisocial behavior. New York: Plenum.

Awards/Honors
2001-2005 Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
1998 -2000 Chair, American Psychological Association Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Task Force on Upgrading the Science and Technology of Assessment
and Diagnosis.
1998-1999 College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Fellow, University of Alabama

Grants/Contracts
Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund Graduate Fellows Program ( 8/15/03 - 8/14/07)
State of Louisiana Office of Mental Health (8/01/02 - 6/30/03) (5/01/03 - 4/30/04)
National Institute of Mental Health (8/1/97 – 1/31/03)

Carol Gelderman

Ph.D., English, Northwestern University

Publications
All the President's Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency, Walker and Co., 1997.
Louis Auchincloss: A Writer's Life,
Crown Publishers, 1993.
Henry Ford, The Wayward Capitalist,
Dial Press, 1981; Paperback, St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Awards/Honors
Outstanding Book of 1988, New York Times Book Review
Best Literary Biography of Great Britain, Bookseller, 1989

Grants/Patents
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship, 2001
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1975, 1979, 1997
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1993
American Council for Learned Societies Grant, 1985

John Gery

A.M., Creative Writing, Stanford University, 1978

Publications
Americki Duh: Izabrane Pesme, American Ghost: Selected Poems, Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness

Awards/Honors
Poet in Residence, Bucknell University, 2001

Grants/Patents
Translation Grant, with Vahe Baladouni, Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund, 1999

Ronald L. Greene

Ph.D., Physics, University of Colorado, 1974

Publications
Classical Mechanics with Maple™, New York, Springer, 1995

Awards/Honors
"Binding Energies of Wannier Excitons in GaAs-Ga1-xAlx As Quantum Well Structures," [Solid State Communications, 45, 831-5 (1983)] selected as one of the most influential papers in the first 30 years of Solid State Communications

Grants/Patents
"Web-Based, Out-of-Class Learning of Conceptual Physics: A Kinematics and Dynamics Prototype," Ronald L. Greene, National Science Foundation, 2001 - 2003
"Revitalizing Undergraduate Physics at the University of New Orleans," Ronald L. Greene and C. Gregory Seab; Board of Regents Support Fund, 1999 - 2001
"Louisiana Balloon-Borne Experiment Cluster," M. L. Cherry, T. G. Guzik, R. C. Svoboda, K. Johnston, A. Fazeley, R. L. Greene, M. Abdelguerfi; NASA and Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, 1994 - 1997

Gary G. Gundersen

Ph.D., Mathematics, Rutgers University, 1975

Publications
"Complex Functional Equations", University of Joensuu Department of Mathematics Report Series (in press)
"Solutions of f"+ P(z)f = 0 that have almost all real zeros", Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Series A.I. Math (in press)

Charles D. Hadley, Jr.

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Connecticut, 1971

Publications
Party Activists in Southern Politics: Mirrors and Makers of Change. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998 (Edited with Lewis Bowman)
Party Organization and Activism in the American South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998 (Edited with Robert P. Steed, John A. Clark and Lewis Bowman)

Awards/Honors
1999 V.O. Key Book Award from the Southern Political Science Association

Philip J. Harmelink

Ph.D., Accounting, University of Iowa, 1972

Publications
E. Smith, P. Harmelink, J. Hasselback, Coordinating and Technical Review Authors, CCH Federal Taxation, Basic Principles, Chicago: Commerce Clearing House, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 editions, 2003 (19th) edition in progress.
E. Smith, P. Harmelink, J. Hasselback, R. Auster, T. Englebrecht, E. Foth, L. Kreiser, T. Porcano, CCH Federal Taxation, Advanced Topics, Chicago: Commerce Clearing House, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995 editions.
E. Smith, P. Harmelink, J. Hasselback, Coordinating and Technical Review Authors, CCH Federal Taxation, Comprehensive Topics, Chicago: Commerce Clearing House, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 editions, 2003 (11th) edition in progress.

Arnold R. Hirsch

Ph. D., History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1978
Ethel and Herman Midlo Professor of New Orleans Studies

Publications
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960, 2nd ed., With a New Foreword; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Urban Policy in Twentieth-Century America (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993), Edited with Raymond A. Mohl.
Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992), Edited with Joseph Logsdon.

George E. Ioup

Ph.D., Physics, University of Florida, 1968

Publications
Proceedings of the Fourth Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Conference (University of New Orleans, 1977)
Deconvolution II (Society of Exploration Geophysicists Reprint Series), Enders Robinson and Osman Osman, editors.
"Known Source Detection Predictions for Higher Order Correlators", Pflug, L.A., Ioup, G.E., and Ioup, J.W., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 2469-2477 (1998).

Awards/Honors
Acoustical Society of America Fellow
Louisiana State University System Distinguished Undergraduate Educator

Robert S. Jordan

Ph.D., Political Science, Oxford University, 1960

Publications
Norstad: Cold War NATO Supreme Commander, Airman, Strategist, Diplomat, St. Martin's Press/Palgrave and Macmillan, 2000.
Europe and the Superpowers: Essays in European International Politics,
St. Martin's Press and Pinter Publishers, 1991
Alliance Strategy and Navies: The Evolution and Scope of NATO's Maritime Dimension,
St. Martin's Press and Pinter Publishers, 1991.
Maritime Strategy and the Balance of Power: Britain and America in the 20th Century,
St. Martin's Press and Macmillan, 1989.

Awards/Honors
E.I. DuBois Fellow, Princeton University
NATO Research Fellow
Seraphia D. Leyda University Teaching Fellow (UNO)

Bruce M. King

Ph.D., Psychology, University of Chicago, 1978
Director, Institutional Effectiveness

Publications
King, B. M., & Camp, C. J. (1986, revised 1988). Human Sexuality: A Louisiana Perspective New Orleans: Pontchartrain Press
King, B. M., Camp, C. J., & Downey, A. M. (1991). Human Sexuality Today Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall
King, B. M. (1996). Human Sexuality Today (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
King, B.M. (1999). Human Sexuality Today (3rded.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
King, B.M. (2002). Human Sexuality Today (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
Minium, E. W., King, B. M., & Bear, G. (1993). Statistical Reasoning in Psychology and Education (3rd ed.) New York: John Wiley & Sons. Under revision for 4th edition; expected date of completion Spring 2002

Grants/Patents
UNO Graduate Research Council, "Effects of subdiaphragmatic vagotomy on hypothalamic obesity and hyperinsulinemia." Principal investigator 1980 - 1981
UNO Graduate Research Council, "Preference of vagotomized rats for fresh or predigested milk." Principal investigator 1982 Whitehall Foundation, Inc., "Glucocorticoid receptor sites mediating hypothalamic lesion obesity in rats." Principal investigator 1989 - 1993

Xiao-Rong Li

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1992

Publications
Estimation and Tracking: Principles, Techniques, and Software, with Y. Bar-Shalom, Artech House, Boston, MA, 1993
Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Principles and Techniques, with Y. Bar-Shalom, YBS, Storrs, CT, 1995
Probability, Random Signals, and Statistics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1999
Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation, with Y. Bar-Shalom and T. Kirubarajan, Wiley, New York, 2001

Awards/Honors
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1997
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
University of New Orleans Faculty Early Career Achievement Award for Excellence in Research, 1996
Chief Scientist, Research Center for Information Fusion, Xian Jiaotong University

Carl Darryl Malmgren

Ph.D., English Literature, University of Oregon, 1979

Publications
Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective and Crime Fiction, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 2001.
Worlds Apart: Narratology of Science Fiction, Indiana University Press, 1991.
Fictional Space in the Modernist and Postmodernist American Novel, Bucknell University Press, 1985.

Awards/Honors
Eccles Fellow to Eastern Europe, British Library, 1995
Fulbright Exchange Fellow, Keele University, 1994-95
Senior Fulbright Lecturer, University of Uppsala, 1990-91

Edward M. Miller

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards/Honors
Distinguished Fulbright Lectureship, Renmin University, Beijing, China

Steven P. Nolan

Ph.D., Chemistry , University of Miami

Publications
"Synthesis and Thermochemistry of HMo(CO)3C5Me5: Comparison of Cyclopentadienyl and Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Ligand", Journal of Organometallics Chemistry, 1985.
"The Heats of Reaction of Phosphines and Phosphites with TolueneMo(CO)3, Importance of Both Steric and Electronic Factors in Determining the Mo-PR3 Bond Strength", Journal of Organometallics Chemistry, 1985.
"The Heats of Reaction of (toluene)Mo(CO)3 with Substituted Arenes, Sodium Cyclopentadienyl, Nitriles, and Other Ligands, Solution Thermodynamic Study of the Mo-L Bond in the Complexes fac -L3Mo(CO)3",
Organometallics, 1986

Grants/Patents
"Instrument Specialist"(Co-PI) Board of Regents Support Fund-Enhancement (1999-2002)
"Thermochemistry and Catalysis of Organometallic Complexes" National Science Foundation (2000-2003)
"Palladium Mediated Cross-Couplings: An Industrial-Academic Collaboration."Board of Regents Support Fund-Industrial Ties (2000-2003)
"Polymer-Supported Olefin Metathesis Catalysts." Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. (2000-2001)

Charles J. O'Connor

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1976

Publications

"Synthesis and Characterization of Ni Magnetic Nanoparticles in AlMCM41 Host," J.-S. Jung, K.-H. Choi, W.-S. Chae, Y.-R. Kim, J.-H. Jun, L. Malkinski, T. Kodenkandath, W. Zhou, J.B. Wiley, and C.J. O'Connor, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 64, 2003, 385-390.

"Electrodeposition of Metallic Nanowire Thin Films using Mesoporous Silica Templates," D. Wang, W.L. Zhou, B.F. McCaughy, J.E. Hampsey, X. Ji, Y.-B. Jiang, H. Xu, J. Tang, R.H. Schmehl, C. O'Connor, C.J. Brinker, Y. Lu, Advanced Materials, 15(2), 2003, 130-133.

"Synthesis of One-Dimensional Magnetic Co Nanoparticles in a Novel Solution System," C. Wang, J. Fang, J. He, and C.J. O'Connor, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 259(2), 2003, 411-413.

"Convenient Arc-Electrodeposition Technique to Synthesize CdS Nanotubes at Room Temperature," C. Wang, J. Fang, J. He, and C.J O'Connor, J. Mater. Sci Lett., 22(6), 2003, 413-415.

"Magnetic and Structural Properties of Nonstoichiometric Ni2MnGa Alloys with Ni and Ga Excess," V.O. Golub, A.Ya. Vovk, C.J. O'Connor, V.V. Kotov, P.G. Yakovenko, and K. Ullakko, J. Appl. Phys., 93, 2003, 8504-8506.

Grants/Patents

"Nano-Sized Powder Development and Processing for Use in Unique Low Voltage Tunable Thick Film Devices," DARPA, 7/01/02-6/30/05, $1,002,897

"Nanotechnology Research for Energy Conservation, and Biological and Environmental Applications," U.S. Department of Energy, 7/01/02-12/31/03, $485,000

"A Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) for UNO: Promoting Strategies that Lead to Superior Materials," LA Board of Regents Enhancement Program, 7/01/02-12/31/03, $451,600

"REU Site: Summer Research Program in Materials Science and Nanotechnology," National Science Foundation, 3/15/03-3/15/04, $195,000

C.J. O'Connor, E.E. Carpenter, and J.A. Sims, "Sequential Synthesis of Core-Shell Magnetic Nanoparticles for Nanocomposites using Reverse Micelles," U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ., US 20020068187, A1, 12 pp., (2002).

Oluwaniyi Osundare

Ph.D., English, York University, 1976

Publications
The Word is an Egg, Ibadan: Kraftgriots, 2000.
Horses of Memory, Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books, 1998.
Seize the Day, Ibadan: Agbo areo Publishers, 1995.

Awards/Honors
Fonlon/Nichols Prize for Excellence in Literary Creativity and Significant Contributions to Human Rights in Africa, 1998
Cadbury/Ana Poetry Prize, 1994
Noma Award, 1991

Terry L. Pavlis

Ph.D., Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 1982

Publications
Jaeger, John; Hallet, B., Pavlis, T; Sauber, J.; Lawson, D.; Milliman, J.; Anderson, S.; and Anderson, R.:"Orogenic and Glacial Research in Pristine Southern Alaska", EOS, 2001.
Pavlis, T.; Serpa, L.; Troxel, Bennie; Dean, M.; Hartman, T.; and Rodosta, T.: "Late Cenozoic deformation in eastern Fort Irwin and its significance for the tectonic history of the Garlock fault system" in Finding Faults in the Mojave, edited by James P. Calzia and Robert E. Reynolds, 1998 Mojave Desert Quaternary Research Center Field Trip Guide and Volume, San Bernardino County Museum Assoc. Quarterly, 1998.
Pavlis, T; Hamburger, M.W.; and Pavlis, G.L.: "Erosional processes as a control on the structural evolution of an actively deforming fold and thrust belt: An example from the Pamir-Tien Shan region, central Asia,
Tectonics, 1997.

Grants/Patents
"Constraints on the genesis of continental crust via arc magmatism: Geology, Geochemistry, Structure and Physical Properties of the Talkeetna Arc", NSF, Collaborative research with P. Kelleman et al., Woods Hole. 2000-2004.
"The Fairweather-St Elias Orogenic System: A Slip-partitioned Transpressional Orogen?"; NSF,Collaborative research with L. Serpa (UNO), R. L. Bruhn (Univ. of Utah), and G. Plafker (USGS), 1998-2001.
"The role of Transtension vs. extension: Crustal deformation in the Death Valley system"; NSF, (collaborative work with Drs. L. F. Serpa and K. Webber, UNO), 1997-2000.
Graduate Fellowships in Geodynamics, LEQSF (collaborative with L. Serpa), 1997-2001
"Establishing the link between science and technology in early undergraduate geoscience education at UNO", Board of Regents Support Fund (co-PI with Laura Serpa, P. Shea Penland, and William Craig)

Pratap Puri

Ph.D., Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,India, 1965

Publications

P. K. Kythe, P. Puri: Computational methods for linear Integral Equations, Birkhauser. ISBN # 0-8176-4192-0, 3-7643-4192-0.
2002.

P. K. Kythe , P. Puri and M.R. Schaferkotter : Partial Differential Equations and Mathematica, CRC Press (Boca Raton, Florida) 1997

P. K. Kythe , P. Puri and M.R. Schaferkotter : Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems with Mathematica, Second edition, Chapman&Hall/ CRC Press (Boca Raton, Florida), 2002. ISBN 1-58488-314-6

P. Puri and P.M. Jordan: "On the propagation of plane waves in Type III thermoelastic media" has been accepted by the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. (October or November issue, currently available on the Royal Society website known as FirstCite)

P. Puri, J. Hinestroza and D. De Kee, " Transport of small molecules through mechanically elongated polymeric membranes", accepted for publication by Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Grants/Patents

NASA, Graduate Student Research Program, 1995 - 1996.
NASA, Graduate Student Research Program, 1996 - 1999.
NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, 1998.

Zhaoming Qian

Ph.D., English, Tulane University, 1991
Research Professor of English

Grants/Patents
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1998-1999
Franklin Research Fellow of the the American Philosophical Society, 2003-2004; 2004-2005

Awards/Honors
Yale Beinecke Fellow, 1992-1993
Director of the 18th International Ezra Pound Conference, 1999
Speaker/Keynoter at Yale (1996), Salamanca, Spain  (2000), Cambridge, UK (2004)

Selected Publications
Annotated Shakespeare: The Sonnets (Beijing: Commercial Press, 1990). 2nd printing 1995, 3rd printing 1999
Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995)
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003).
Ezra Pound and China (Ann Arbor and London: University of Michigan Press, 2003)
Annotated Shakespeare: The Narrative Poems (Beijing: Commercial Press, forthcoming)

James S. Rogers

Ph.D., Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1971
Research Professor of Biological Sciences

Grants/Patents
Rogers, J.S. "Facilitating maximum likelihood estimation of phylogenetic trees from nucleotide sequences". National Science Foundation, 1996 - 1999
Cashner, R.C. and J.S. Rogers. "Evolutionary genetics of the genus Fundulus". National Science Foundation, 1987-90
Cashner, R.C. and J.S. Rogers. "Systematic studies of the genus Fundulus". National Science Foundation (REU supplement program), 1989-90
Cashner, R.C. and J.S. Rogers. "Systematic studies of the genus Fundulus". National Science Foundation (REU supplement program), 1990-91
Rogers, J. S. and R.C. Cashner. Subcontract to conduct electrophoretic analysis of genetic variation in red drum for Poss, S. G. (Gulf Coast Research Laboratory) Identification of red drum fishery stocks and establishment of a multivariate model for growth and body condition. National Marine Fishery Service. Amount of subcontract, 1987-89

Steven A. Shull

Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1974

Publications
American Civil Rights Policy From Truman to Clinton: A Presidency Perspective, M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Explaining Congressional-Presidential Interactions, State University of New York Press, 1999.
Presidential Policymaking: An Assessment at the Millennium, edited., M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Awards/Honors
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 1999 -
Presidential Policymaking: An Assessment at the Millennium
Fulbright Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2001

Grants/Patents
Principal Co-Investigator, Graduate Student Enhancement Grant, Louisiana Board of Regents, l990
Seed Grant from UNO College of Urban and Regional Studies, l990

William Bruce Simmons, Jr.

Ph.D., Mineralogy, University of Michigan, 1973

Web site: http://www.uno.edu/~wsimmons

Publications
NYF-Type Pegmatites of the Pikes Peak Batholith, Field Trip Guidebook, Eugene E. Foord Memorial Symposium Publication, (Simmons, Wm. B., K. L. Webber and A. U. Falster editors, 1999)
Simmons, Wm. B. and E. Wm. Heinrich, (1980). Rare-Earth Pegmatites of the South Platte District, Colorado, Colorado Geological Survey, Resource Series #11

Awards/Honors
Simmonsite: New Mineral named in his honor The American Mineralogist, 1999.
Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, 1989
Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Earth Sciences, American Federation Scholarship Award, 1986

Grants/Patents
"Products of Apatite-Forming Systems", Wm. B. Simmons, with A. U. Falster and T. Nakamoto; Patent Number: 5,919,426. July 6, 1999
"Apatite-Forming Systems: Methods and Products", Wm. B. Simmons, with A. U. Falster and T. Nakamoto; Patent Number: 6,183,711. Feb. 6, 2001

Alan Soble

Ph. D. State University of New York at Buffalo

Web site: http://www.uno.edu/~phil/soble.htm

Publications
Pornography, Sex, and Feminism, Prometheus Books, forthcoming
The Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Introduction, Paragon House, 1998
Sexual Investigations, New York University Press, 1996

Ronald K. Stoessell
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1977

Web site: http://www.uno.edu/~gege/Stoessell/rombo.htm

Publications
"Localized thermal anamolies in naloclines of coastal Yucatan sinkholes," Stoessell, R.K., Coke, J.G., Easley, D.H., Ground Water, 40, 416-424, 2002

"Denitrification and phosphate removal in experiments using Al stearate," Stoessell, R.K. , D.H. Easley, and G.P. Yamazaki, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 21, 89-95, 2001.

"Predicted retardations of concentration fronts using a mass-balance approach," Stoessell, R.K., Ground Water, 37, 701-705, 1999.

"Binary Cation-Exchange Reactions," Stoessell, R.K., Clays and Clay Minerals, 46, 215-218, 1998.

"Delineating the chemical composition of the salinity source for saline ground waters: An example from east-central Concordia Parish, Louisiana," Stoessell, R.K., Ground Water, 35, 409-417, 1997.

Awards/Honors
American Chemical Society Fellow at State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1992

Grants/Patents
LEQSF/8(g) Grant (2004-2005; $39,000) "Enhancement of geochemical research and education at UNO with an updated ion chromatograph system" awarded to Ronald K. Stoessell (p.i.) with Enrique Reyes and James Sickman.

Sea Grant (2002-2004, $38,591) "Field test of denitrification cell using aluminum stearate."

LEQSF/8(g) Grant (2001-2002; $59,000) "Acquisition of a N Element Analyzer for Fluids and a C, H, N, S, and O Element Analyzer for Sediments at UNO for Geochemical Research and Teaching" awarded to Ronald K. Stoessell (p.i.) with William H. Busch, Denise J. Reed, Frank R. Hall, and Shea Penland as co-principal investigators.

Metal Stearate Denitrification System , #09/861,462, patent filed by UNO on 5/18/02 and is presently being field-tested.

Robert S. Sturges

Ph.D. Brown University, 1979

Publications

The Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies and its Anti-Wycliffite Commentary: A Critical Edition. Middle English Texts series. Heidelberg: Carl
Winter Universitätsverlag. Forthcoming.

Dialogue and Deviance: Male-Male Desire in the Philosophical Dialogue (Plato to Dante, Plato to Sade, Plato to the Postmodern). New York: Palgrave.
Forthcoming.

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narrative, 1100-1500. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

"Purgatory in the Marriage Bed: Conjugal Sodomy in The Gast of Gy." In Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early
Modern Periods
,_ ed. Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal. Medieval Texts and Studies. Tucson: ACMRS. Forthcoming.

"'So Was this Castle Laid Wide Open': Battles for the Phallus in Early Modern Responses to Chaucer's Pardoner." In Gender, Power, and Privilege in Early
Modern Europe, c. 1500-1700
, ed. Jessica Munns and Penny Richards. London: Longman, 2003. 40-55.

"The Cross-Dresser and the Iuventus in Silence." In Le Roman de Silence, ed. Regina Psaki. Special issue of "Arthuriana" 12.1 (Spring, 2002): 37-49.

"The Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies and Its Anti-Wycliffite Commentary" (introduction, translation, and Middle English text). In Cultures
of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation
, ed. Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas H. Bestul. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1999. 41-63 and
166-180 (appendix).

"The Construction of Heterosexual Desire in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan." "Exemplaria" 10 (1998): 243-269.

"Epistemology of the Bedchamber: Memory, Knowledge, and the Representation of Adultery in Malory and the Prose Lancelot." In Arthurian Adultery, ed. Mark Adderley. Special issue of "Arthuriana" 7.4 (Winter, 1997): 47-62.

"Medieval Authorship and the Polyphonic Text: From Manuscript Commentary to the Modern Novel." In Bakhtin and Medieval Voices, ed. Thomas J. Farrell.
University Press of Florida, 1995. 122-137.

"Textual Scholarship: Ideologies of Literary Production." In Reflections in the Frame: New Perspectives on the Study of Medieval
Literature
, ed. Peter Allen and Jeff Rider. Special issue of "Exemplaria" 3.1 (March, 1991): 109-131. 23 pages. Invited.

Awards

Winner. First Annual South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize (best book of 1991), for Medieval Interpretation, 1992.

Mellon Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1984-85.

Grant-in-Aid, American Council of Learned Societies, 1982.

Jinke Tang

Ph.D. Solid State Physics, Iowa State University, 1989

Publications
Co-Editor, Proceedings of the 7th & 8th Joint Magnetism and Magnetic Materials - Intermag Conferences, special issues of the Journal of Applied Physics, (AIP, Woodbury, NY, 1998&2001)
Co-Editor, Proceedings of the 43rd & 44th Annual Conferences on Magnetism & Magnetic Materials, special issues of the Journal of Applied Physics, (AIP,
Woodbury, NY, 1999&2000)
Magnetotransport in Nanogranular Materials, J. Tang, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ed. by H. S. Nalwa (American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, CA, 2003)
Nanostructured Magnetic Materials, C.J. O'Connor, J. Tang, and J.H. Zhang, Magnetism: Molecules to Materials III: Nanosized Magnetic Materials, ed. by J.S. Miller and M. Drillon, (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, 2002), 1. Magnetic nanostructures and materials in magnetic random access memory review), J. Dai, J. Tang, S. T. Hsu and W. Pan, J. Nanosci. Nanotech., 2 (3/4), (2002) 281.

Grants/Patents
"Colossal Magnetoresistive Resistance Random Access Memories", Sharp Laboratories of America (2000-2004)
"Radio-Frequency Properties of Novel Nanocomposite Ferrites", Board of Regents (2000-2003)

Awards/Honors
Iowa State University Professional Progress in Engineering Award, 2000
Teacher of the Year Award, SPS, UNO, 2000
K. C. Wong Science Research Prize, 1995

Scott Whittenburg

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Utah, 1979

Publications
Micromagnetics of Nanoparticles and Nanoshaped Magnetic Materials, H.S. Nalwa, Ed., American Scientific Publishing, 2002
Concentration Dependence of the Polymer Diffusion Coefficient, with W. Wan, Reversible Polymeric Gels and Related Systems, Paul Russo, Ed., ACS Symposium Series 350, 1987

Awards/Honors
University of Sheffield Award, 100 Top Biochemistry Papers, 1983