College of Science and Liberal Arts

Kathy Turner, Evans Library, presented “Science research initiative” at the 2004 Florida Association for Media in Education conference in Tampa. The session detailed an Academic Information Technology Committee-funded project, directed by Turner and Dr. Debra Blenis. The project resulted in the creation of an Internet site designed to support Brevard County secondary-school science research. Blenis was also asked by the Florida Dept. of Education’s Institute for Instructional Research and Practice to conduct a literature review and serve as a content consultant for the Florida Teacher Certification Examination Middle Grades General Science Development Committee. Graduate student, Jayne Park, assisted with the literature review, which was presented to the DOE committee in Tampa.

Dr. Mark Bush, graduate student Jennifer Hanselman, and post-doc William Gosling, presented “Transglacial histories of Andean grasslands” at the American Quaternary Association Annual Meeting at the University of Kansas. Bush and post-doc Chengyu Weng published “2004 Holocene changes of Andean alder in highland Ecuador and Peru” in the Journal of Quaternary Science.

Dr. Michael Grace and graduate student Adam Safer published “Infrared imaging in vipers: Differential responses of crotaline and viperine snakes to paired thermal targets” in the journal, Behavioral Brain Research.

A review by Alan Leonard and Julia Grimwade was accepted for the journal, Molecular Microbiology. The review is titled, “Building a bacterial orisome: Emergence of new regulatory features in replication origin unwinding.”

Dr. Junda Lin coordinated scientists from Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Maryland, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Wales and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources in a study of a Suminoe oyster reef in Laizhou Bay, China. The scientists were evaluating the possible introduction of the oyster to the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Dr. Tom Marcinkowski served in a variety of positions at the 33rd Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education in Biloxi, Miss. Among his tasks, he was a co-presenter in a pre-conference workshop, “Using logic modeling to design your program’s evaluation,” and served as organizer and moderator for the panel presentations, “Theory and practice in environmental service-learning,” and “Research and evaluation in environmental service-learning.” Graduate student Yulia Malikova made a presentation at the latter panel.

Dr. Terry Oswalt is the co-author of a renewal grant of $77,880 for three years, received from the National Science Foundation, to fund the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair scholarships for high school students who present outstanding astronomical research projects. Oswalt also was
co-author of the initial successful proposal in 2001.

Dr. Virender Sharma published “Atmospheric deposition of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in moss in Hungary” in The Science of Total Environment.

Dr. Jonathan Shenker and Dr. Junda Lin published “Fisheries of two tropical lagoons in Ghana, West Africa” in Fisheries Management and Ecology. Lin also published “Cryopreservation of embryos and larvae of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannemei” in Aquaculture.

Dr. Rudy Stoeckel, published “Machiavelli as Satirist” and Dr. Peter-Otto Uhr published “Opera and Society” in the National Social Science Perspectives Journal. Both papers were delivered at the National Social Science Association conference in Las Vegas, Nev.

Dr. Richard van Woesik presented “Coral gametogenesis and broadcast spawning are driven by solar insolation” at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Okinawa. He will chair the symposium’s science program at the 2008 conference, to be held in Florida. Two graduate students, Erinn Muller and Peter Houk, also gave well-received talks at the symposium.

Dr. Niescja Turner was appointed to serve on the Space Studies Board Committee on Solar and Space Physics. This committee of the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council’s Space Studies Board, monitors implementation of strategies and the formulation of assessments for NASA, NSF, NOAA and other government agencies.

Dr. Richard Turner presented a seminar on fossil crabs at the annual meeting of the Space Coast Audubon Society in Rockledge, Fla. and at the Sea Bean Festival in Cocoa Beach.

College of Engineering

Dr. Bill Allen’s and Dr. Gerald Marin’s “MAGNA: Modeling and generating network attacks,” will be published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks. They also will publish, “Modeling network traffic and attacks for security testing” in Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks.

Dr. Michael Andrews presented the keynote address, “Gotcha! ... Security Testing Appli-cations,” at the International Conference on Software Testing Analysis in Anaheim, Calif.

Dr. Walter (Pat) Bond and Dr. Cem Kaner presented the paper, “Software engineering metrics: What do they measure and how do we know?” which was published for the 10th International Software Metrics Symposium Conference in Chicago.

Dr. Philip Chan and graduate student Hyoung Kim presented “Identifying variable-length meaningful phrases with correlation functions” at the 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, held in Boca Raton, Fla.

Dr. Richard Ford published, “The future of virus detection” in Information Security Technical Report.

Dr. Cem Kaner gave the keynote address, “The ongoing revolution in software testing,” at the first Software Testing and Performance Conference, in Baltimore, Md. Kaner also recently founded the Journal of the Association for Software Testing.

Dr. Steven Lazarus spent four weeks at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction as a visiting scientist. He was working on a surface (temperature, relative humidity, winds) data assimilation project.

Dr. George Maul was installed as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society at the annual AMS meeting in Seattle, Wash. No more than 0.2 percent of the membership can be elected an AMS Fellow each year.

Dr. Ronald Menezes published “On the semantics of coordination models for distributed systems: The LogOp case study” in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science.

Dr. Debasis Mitra presented “Qualitative direction calculi with arbitrary granularity” at the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Auckland, New Zealand.

Dr. Jean-Paul Pinelli, civil engineering, was an author of “A probabilistic model of damage to residential structures from hurricane winds,” published in the proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineering Joint Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, which took place in Albuquerque, N.M.

Dr. Helayne Ray presented the tutorial, “How to break software,” at the International Conference on Software Testing Analysis in Anaheim, Calif.

Dr. Muzaffar Shaikh presented the seminar, “Introduction to engineering management,” at the Human Resources Development Institute at Korea University of Technology and Education in Seoul.

Dr. Marius Silaghi presented a “Tutorial on distributed constraint reasoning” and “Secure computation for market exchanges” at the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference in New York City.

Dr. Robert Sullivan, vice provost for research, was reappointed to another term on the board of the Florida Space Research Institute.

Two presentations by Dr. Scott Tilley were published in the Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. They are “Documenting software systems with views IV, etal,” and “Intellectual property aspects of web publishing.”

College of Business

Dr. Annie Becker published “Architectural accessibility and reading complexity of U.S. state E-Government for older adult users” in the Journal of Electronic Government. She also published “A usability study of Internet privacy policies for state and commercial Web sites,” in the International Journal of Systems and Standards.

Dr. Deborah Carstens’ paper, “Cultural barriers of human-computer interaction” was accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology.

Dr. Theresa Domagalski, with Dr. Lisa Steelman, School of Psychology, presented the paper, “The impact of work events and disposition on the experience and expression of workplace anger,” at the National Academy of Management Conference in New Orleans, La.

An article by Dr. Barbara Pierce, Dr. Michael Slotkin and Dr. Alex Vamosi was published in the Journal of Education for Business. It is, “Distance learning in an accounting principles course—student satisfaction and perceptions of efficacy.”

College of Aeronautics

Dr. Donna Forsyth Wilt was the chief judge for the National Intercollegiate Flying Association Region X Safety and Flight Evaluation (SAFECON) Conference, held in Lynchburg, Va.

College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

Dr. Philip Farber presented “Measured vs. self-reported personality traits: Testing for prediction bias utilizing the 16PF fifth edition” at the 2004 Annual Florida Psychological Association Convention in Naples, Fla.

Dr. William Gabrenya chaired the symposium session, “Culture and Sexuality: Quantitative and Qualitative Studies,” at the XVII Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology in Xi’an, China. At the symposium, he and doctoral student Angelia McCormack presented the paper, “Culture and personality predictors of cybersex and online pornography attitudes.”

Dr. Radhika Krishnamurthy was elected secretary of the board of trustees of the National Society for Personality Assessment.

Dr. Jose Martinez-Diaz was elected treasurer and member of the executive committee of the Behavior Analysis Certification Board.

Dr. Nabil Matar joined 14 scholars from Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College and several international universities for a five-day session in Florence, Italy. The group gathered to complete the draft of the multi-volume History of European Political Thought, 1453-1700.

Dr. Matthew Normand was elected to the executive committee of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis.

Dr. Frank Webbe was elected to Fellow status in the National Academy of Neuropsychology.

Dr. David Wilder, with graduate students Kelly Therrien and Manuel Rodriguez, and undergraduate Byron Wine, had a manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. The work describes a study that evaluated an assessment procedure to examine immediate environmental events that influence performance among employees in the restaurant industry.

University College

Dr. Richard Modjeski, Patuxent Graduate Center, presented his publication, “Networked military simulations: Measure of reliability and validity,” at the 2004 International Military Testing Association conference in Brussels, Belgium.