FACULTY/STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS
WINTER 2003-04
KEVIN BRIEN, professor of philosophy, has presented four papers
at conferences in recent months. He presented a paper titled
"To Believe? Or Not to Believe?: A Dialogue Concerning Religion,
Politics, and Suffering," at the Fifth World Congress of The
International Society for Universal Dialogue in Greece in May.
The paper was just published in Dialogue and Universalism, a
journal published jointly by the Polish Academy of Sciences
and Warsaw University. His second paper, titled "Spiritual Transformations
and Agape Love," was given at a conference of the Metanexus
Institute on Religion and Science held at Villanova University
in June. A third paper, titled "Humanistic- Marxism, Christianity,
Buddhism: Converging Currents," was presented at the  Twenty-First
World Congress of Philosophy held in Istanbul, Turkey in August.
A fourth paper, "Marx and Buddhism: Ironic Affinities," was
delivered at the Third European Congress of Universalism held
in Poland in August.
KATHERINE CAMERON, assistant professor of psychology, gave a
research presentation, titled "Investigating the physiological
basis of human memory: Systems and stages," to the Functional
and Stereotactic Neurosurgical Unit at the General Hospital
in Mexico City.
MARTIN CONNAUGHTON, assistant professor of biology, received
$48,385 from the National Science Foundation for his research
on the acoustic behavior of fish. He also published three articles:
one, co-authored with three students, titled "Variability in
Sonic Muscle size and Innervation among three Ciaenids: Spot,
Atlantic Croaker, and Weakfish"; the second titled "Weakfish
Sonic Muscle: Influence of Size, Temperature, and Season"; and
the third titled "Use of Sound for Localization of Spawning
Weakfish in Delaware Bay and Effect of Fish Size, Temperature,
and Season on Sound Parameters."
Professor of English TOM COUSINEAU read a paper on the Austrian
writer Thomas Bernhard at the annual meeting of the Colloquium
on Violence and Religion in Innsbruck. His essay, " En attendant
Godot: pour finir encore avec des rites sacrificiels," was published
in Cahiers de la Maison Beckett. He also joined a group of French
theater professionals for a roundtable discussion in celebration
of the 50th anniversary of the Paris premiere of Godot.
LISA DANIELS, assistant professor of economics, had a paper
accepted for publication as a chapter in the African Development
Perspectives Yearbook. In September, she traveled to Bangladesh
to present the final report on a survey of the private sector.
The survey, funded by Britain, the United States, Sweden and
Switzerland, visited 56,000 households and business sites to
identify their constraints, business associations and the general
characteristics of the private sector in that nation.
ROBERT DAWSON, instructor in economics, completed his Ph.D.
in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University.
KEES DE MOOY, Program Manager for the C. V. Starr Center for
the Study of the American Experience, has just released The
Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson (Citadel, 2003), his second addition
to Citadel Press' popular Philosophical Library series. His
first book, The Wisdom of John Adams, was released in February
2003.
MELISSA DECKMAN, assistant professor of political science, has
signed a contract with Prentice Hall to publish a new textbook
on women and American politics. The book will be a co-authored
with professors from Macalester College and Georgetown University.
IRV DEGRAW, assistant professor of business management, co-authored
a paper titled "Why do Firms Go Public? Theory Meets Practice,"
presented at the annual Academy of Financial Services conference
in Denver, CO.
This summer, MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY M'96, vice president for
college relations, completed her Master of Fine Arts degree
in Writing at Vermont College of Union Institute & University.
MICHAEL HARVEY, assistant professor of business management,
has just released a new book, The Nuts & Bolts of College Writing,
published by Hackett Publishing. The book presents a how-to
approach for college writers, identifying the qualities that
distinguish good writing from bad and providing practical measures
for avoiding the potholes on the road to effective writing.
The Nuts & Bolts Guide to College Writing is available online
from Amazon.com, and a companion website can be found at http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu.
 ERIN
MURPHY '90, lecturer in English, recently received second place
honors in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards competition. She
was also a finalist for this year's Pablo Neruda Prize and for
the River Styx Poetry Prize, and her poem "Not Yet Named" took
second place in the Literal Latte poetry contest. In October
she attended a poetry conference at the University of Tulsa.
KARL KEHM, assistant professor of physics, co-authored an article,
"High Precision Iron Isotope Measurements of Meteoritic Material
by Cold Plasma ICP-MS," which was published in Geochimica et
Cosmochimica Acta.
JUAN LIN, professor of physics, published an article titled
"Traveling waves in a model of influenza A drift," with V. Andreasen,
R. Casagrandi and S. A. Levin, in the Journal of Theoretical
Biology.
AUSTIN LOBO, assistant professor of mathematics and computer
science, gave a poster presentation on "Structured Matrices
in LinBox" at the East Coast Computer Algebra Day at Clemson
University. He gave a talk titled "Rank and Smith Form of Extremely
Sparse Matrices" at the Applications of Computer Algebra conference
at North Carolina State University. Lobo also has received a
grant from the National Science Foundation to provide computer
science research experience for undergraduates who will work
with him on a project related to developing a library of programs
for solving large systems of equations using modern algorithms
and programming techniques.
KEVIN MCKILLOP, associate professor of psychology, presented
four papers, coauthored with undergraduate students, at the
74th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association.
The papers were titled "Questing for Enemies: Religion and Enmity,"
"How to Create an EnemyŠ Or not?," "My Dorm is Better than Your
Dorm: Intergroup Bias in College Dormitories" and "Perfectionism
and Religion." He also presented a paper co-authored with a
student at the  15th
Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, titled
"Do Interpersonal Enemies Accumulate, Dissipate or Remain Constant
over Time?"
KATE MONCRIEF, assistant professor of English, presented a paper
"Reading the Signs: Pregnancy, Paternity and the Question of
Evidence in Shakespeare," at the Group for Early Modern Studies
Annual Conference in Newport Beach, CA.
ANDREW OROS, assistant professor of political science, presented
a poster, "Godzilla's Return: The New Nuclear Politics in an
Insecure Japan," at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association in Philadelphia and delivered several lectures
on American foreign policy at Washington College's American
Studies Institute, a five-week summer program for 21 Muslim
students from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
RUTH SHOGE, acting director of the Miller Library, presented
a paper titled "The Library as Place in the Lives of African
Americans" at the 11th National Conference of the Association
of College and Research Libraries.
KAREN SMITH, professor of physical education, presented the
report "The Spiritual Foundations of Dance" and gave a demonstration
of the Pilates method at the 17th Annual World Conference on
Dance Research in Naxos, Greece.
SUSAN VOWELS, assistant professor of business management, is
busy preparing with her fellow members of the Delaware Choral
Society to sing at Carnegie Hall on Memorial Day 2004. This
concert will bring several American choirs together to perform
under the direction of John Rutter, a well-known composer of
choral works. The Choral Society will perform in Rutter's "Requiem."
The website of the Choral Society is www.delawarechoralsociety.org.
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