2001-02 Annual Report - College of Humanities and Sciences ...

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V i r g i n i a C o m m o n w e a l t h U n i v e r s i t y
The College of Humanities & Sciences
2001-02 Annual Report

The College of Humanities & Sciences
2001-02 Annual Report
Mission Statement
The faculty and staff of the College of Humanities and Sciences are dedicated to excellence in our
teaching, research, and public service. The mission of Virginia Commonwealth University provides the
framework for our pursuit of excellence.
Teaching and learning are central to the College, and the College is central to the educational and
intellectual life of Virginia Commonwealth University. The College meets the educational needs of a
diverse student body, provides general education for all undergraduate students of the university, preparatory
programs for the health sciences, engineering, law, and education in the liberal arts and sciences for future
teachers. We offer comprehensive undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs of study which link
a foundation of understanding and knowledge with skills on which students can build careers, become
responsible citizens, and continue lifelong learning.
Scholarship, creative work, and professional accomplishment are essential to teaching and learning.
We are responsible for advancing understanding and increasing knowledge for its own sake, for the educational
benefit of our students, and for the good of the larger community.
In both teaching and research, the College of Humanities and Sciences takes seriously the responsibilities
of being part of a public, urban university. Through service and public teaching, we meet the challenges and
opportunities afforded by our metropolitan environment and by our location in the capital of the Commonwealth.
The College achieves national and international recognition through the success of its students, through
the advancement of the disciplines and professions represented by its programs, and through the individual
and collaborative research of its faculty.

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Departments, Centers, Programs and School
African American Studies Program
Dr. M. Njeri Jackson - Director
Department of Biology
Dr. Leonard A. Smock - Chair
Department of Chemistry
Dr. Fred M. Hawkridge - Chair
Department of Criminal Justice
Dr. Jay S. Albanese - Chair
Department of English
Dr. Marcel Cornis-Pope - Chair
Center for Environmental Studies
Dr. Greg C. Garman - Director
Department of Foreign Languages
Dr. Margaret T. Peischl - Chair*
Department of History
Dr. Susan E. Kennedy - Chair
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary
Studies Program
Ms. Sherry B. Mikuta - Director
International and Area Studies
Dr. R. McKenna Brown - Director
Judaic Studies Program
Dr. Jack D. Spiro - Director
Life Skills Center
Dr. Steven J. Danish - Director
School of Mass Communications
and VCU Adcenter
Dr. Judy VanSlyke Turk - Director**
Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Dr. Andrew M. Lewis - Chair
Department of Military Science
Lt. Col. Kennneth C. Woodburn - Chair
Division of Philosophy
Dr. Anthony J. Ellis - Director
Department of Physics
Dr. Robert H. Gowdy - Chair
Department of Political Science
and Public Administration
Dr. Russell A. Cargo - Chair
Department of Psychology
Dr. Everett L. Worthington - Chair
Center for Psychological Services
and Development
Dr. Hellen A. Streicher - Interim Director
Division of Religious Studies
Dr. Clifford W. Edwards - Director
Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
Dr. Jimmie S. Williams - Chair
Department of Statistical Sciences
and Operations Research
Dr. D’Arcy Mays III- Chair
Department of Urban Studies
and Planning
Dr. John J. Accordino - Chair
Women’s Studies Program
Dr. Diana H. Scully - Director
* Dr. Paul F. Dvorak is Chair effective
7-1-02
** Dr. L. Terry Oggel served as Acting
Director until 2-28-02

Table of Contents
Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Academic and Administrative Activities
Office of the Dean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Changes Around the College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Academic Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Undergraduate Program Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Graduate Program Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Enrollment Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Technology Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Faculty Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Student Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Office of Academic Advising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Office of Student-Athlete Advising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Faculty Council Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Staff Council Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Faculty Development Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Advancement Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Alumni Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Department Highlights
Department of Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Department of Criminal Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Department of English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Department of Foreign Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Department of History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
School of Mass Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Department of Military Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Division of Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Department of Physics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Department of Political Science and Public Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Department of Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Division of Religious Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Department of Sociology and Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Department of Urban Studies and Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Program Highlights
African American Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Interdisciplinary Studies Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
International Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Judaic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Women’s Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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Centers and Institute Highlights
Center for Environmental Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Center for Psychological Services and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Life Skills Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Faculty Publications
African American Studies Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Department of Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Department of Criminal Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Department of English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Department of Foreign Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Department of History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
School of Mass Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Division of Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Department of Physics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Department of Political Science and Public Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Department of Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Division of Religious Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Department of Sociology and Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Department of Urban Studies and Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Sponsored Research
New Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Continuing Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
New Awards by Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Adjunct Faculty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Executive Summary
The past five years has been a period of extraordinary achievement in the
College of Humanities & Sciences. We have:
• Increased undergraduate credit hour production by 26%. While growth has
occurred elsewhere as well, the College is responsible for 58% of all undergraduate
credit hours produced on the Academic Campus, and for 56% of
the undergraduate credit hours produced by the entire university;
• Increased graduate credit hour production by 13%;
• Increased undergraduate majors by 8%, and graduate majors by 15%;
• Increased the number of undergraduate and graduate degrees awarded by 6%
and 42% respectively;
• Increased support staffing in 13 of our departments and programs;
• Increased operating support to the departments and programs every year;
• Successfully integrated three university-wide programs – the Center for Environmental Studies, Military Science, and the
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies – into the College’s administrative structure;
• Made major advances in the provision of technology for faculty research and instructional use, including the construction of a
world-class 100+ seat computer laboratory and classroom facility in the Hibbs Building, a Mass Spectrometry Resource Center
in Oliver Hall, and a Core Scanning Electron Microscopy Facility in the Temple Building;
• Increased the number of full-time instructional faculty,
• Distributed over $2.7 million in start-up funds and instrumentation obligations just in the sciences alone, and;
• More than doubled new sponsored research dollars, from under $6 million five years ago to over $12.3 million in the year just
past. College faculty and staff now conduct research with over $17.5 million in new and continuing sponsorship yearly.
Academic year 2001-2002 was uniquely challenging because of the hardships imposed by the Commonwealth of Virginia’s fiscal
crises. While all components of the university suffered severe impacts as a result of required mid-year budget reversions, the impact
on the College was especially damaging since about 94% of our budget consists of salaries, wages, and benefits. While we were
able to avoid faculty and staff layoffs, almost all faculty and staff hiring was frozen and several important initiatives were cancelled.
Still, we are proud of the fact that despite a 2% mid-year reversion, the College remained within budget – just as it has in each of
the past five years.
We are determined that financial uncertainties cannot be allowed to derail the development of new and important programs.
The College received SCHEV approval for a new undergraduate B.S. in Forensic Science degree program, the first in the Commonwealth
and one of only a handful in the nation. A unique collaboration between the departments of chemistry, biology, and criminal
justice in the College, and between the College and the Commonwealth’s Division of Forensic Science, the curriculum is being
touted as a model for national curriculum development. As we anticipated, the program is wildly successful. As of this writing,
there are 223 undergraduate students with a declared major in forensic science, making it larger (by this measure) than 11 of the
College’s existing departments.
Other program development activities included the preparation and successful defense through the Board of Visitors of a
proposal to offer the B.A. degree in International Studies. This proposal will be submitted to the State Council in September.
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Continuing our commitment to on-going program review and assessment, reviews of the departments of psychology and history
were completed. As a result of internal review, those components of the Department of Mathematical Sciences remaining in the
College after the program in computer science was moved to the School of Engineering were separated into two departments; the
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, and the Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research.
The year saw continued success with respect to the out-of-state enrollment initiative, with revenues of $531,241 resulting from
increased enrollments. Unfortunately, this entire amount – originally earmarked for continued faculty growth – became part of
the year’s mid-term recession. During the two years that this incentive-based initiative has been in place, the College has gained
almost three-quarters of a million dollars through our vigorous recruitment efforts.
Building upon the successful models of the French Film Festival and African Literature conference co-sponsored with the
University of Richmond, the College hosted the First Annual First Novelist Festival and a conference on the topic “Increasing
the Reasoning Abilities of College Students.” Both are likely to become annual events.
Finally, we are very pleased to report that the School of Mass Communications is well poised to achieve its full potential under
the superb leadership of its new director, Dr. Judy Turk. The school has developed an exciting new Strategic Plan, is developing
partnerships with the local communications industry, and is engaged in curricular reforms that promise to cement its national
reputation for excellence.
In short, the College had another outstanding year.
Objectives and Outcomes
Our President, Provost, and Board of Visitors have outlined an ambitious agenda for Virginia Commonwealth University
as developed through the Strategic Plan and articulated in the Institutional Performance Agreement submitted to officials of
the Commonwealth:
• Substantial enrollment growth, particularly of out-of-state students;
• Increases in undergraduate retention and graduation rates;
• Improved U.S. News and World Report rankings;
• Decreased student/faculty ratios;
• An increased focus on the life sciences, on doctoral education, and on academic technology;
• A striving for academic excellence; and
• Substantial growth in sponsored research awards.
The College of Humanities and Sciences is critical to the successful attainment of each of these university-wide goals.
And of course, the university’s agenda has been instrumental in determining the priorities that we have set for ourselves:
• Increase the number of full-time instructional faculty and decrease reliance on adjunct faculty, while also improving
student/faculty ratios;
• Increase the sponsored research budget;
• Increase efforts in the life sciences;
• Increase out-of-state enrollments;
• Increase retention and graduation rates;
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• Increase departmental operating budgets;
• Increase private support and enhance relations with alumni;
• Continue strategic planning, program review, and resource allocation planning;
• Rebuild support staff and other vital components of departmental infrastructures; and
• Enhance instrumentation and technology needed for teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Despite the harshness of the current fiscal climate, a great deal of progress has been made with respect to each goal. While
required budget recessions have stalled the filling of many tenure track faculty lines, we have been able to retain an even greater
number of full-time non-tenure track instructional faculty, thereby actually increasing instructional capacity. Further, by substantially
increasing class sizes and decreasing the number of upper division specialized electives, we have substantially reduced reliance on
part-time faculty.
As noted earlier, we have doubled the sponsored research budget in only five years, and we project that this growth will
continue. We have made, and will continue to make, the financial commitments that are required to achieve this. These have
included not only the substantial investments in instrumentation previously mentioned, but the expenditure of significant amounts
of salary dollars to retain faculty for whom there is great competition, and the development of an incentive structure that rewards
faculty for seeking sponsorship for their scholarship.
While we have been able to increase departmental operating budgets each year (essentially doubling this funding over the
past five years), we did suffer a setback to this goal with the recent budgetary actions at the state level. We were, unfortunately,
unsuccessful in achieving approval for the imposition of a laboratory fee to provide support for consumable teaching supplies
in the sciences, but will seek such approval again next year.
The College has been an aggressive partner in Vice President Messmer’s image, marketing, and enrollment efforts. We have
developed new programs and curricula in forensic science and in international studies, and are participating in the development
of others; we have been very active in out-of-state student recruitment, and have developed materials for dissemination to counselors,
students and parents; and we developed a magazine describing our general education program for dissemination to colleagues
throughout the country (and a second publication describing student involvement in faculty research will be completed this summer).
The year saw continued success with respect to the out-of-state enrollment initiative, with revenues of $531,241 resulting from
increased enrollments. During the two years that this incentive-based initiative has been in place, the College has gained almost
three-quarters of a million dollars through our vigorous recruitment efforts. Projected growth for the coming year is strong.
The College’s commitment in the life sciences also is strong. We are significantly advantaged by the movement of the Department
of Biology to the Trani Center for Life Sciences, which provides faculty and students with state-of-the-art facilities to support
their teaching and scholarship. The departments of Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Psychology, Statistical Sciences and Operations
Research, and Philosophy all are involved in curricular reform intended to advantage our undergraduate life sciences programs,
and faculty throughout the College have played a major role in the development and instruction of Life Sciences 101. We have
developed the first new undergraduate life science major – in forensic science – and are intimately involved in the creation of
new doctoral programs in integrative life science and in medical physics.
Private support continues to grow under the very able direction of Ms. Jamie Stillman; this year alumni, faculty, friends, and
corporations provided $624,000 in support. With the addition of Ms. Shirley McDaniel to the dean’s staff, contact with alumni
has advanced considerably. Two very successful alumni reunions were held (Biology and Interdisciplinary Studies).
The College has taken the process of program review and assessment very seriously (and indeed, it forms the basis for all of
our strategic and resource allocation planning). To date, internal and external reviews have been completed for the departments
of Biology, Criminal Justice, English, Foreign Languages, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Physics, Sociology and Anthropology,
Chemistry, Political Science and Public Administration, History, Psychology, and the School of Mass Communications. During
the coming year, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning will be subject to review. Because of the strong emphasis on
student assessment inherent in these reviews, the College will be well placed with respect to SACS accreditation requirements.
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Retention of our students is every bit as important as recruitment, and here the College has been active as well. Associate
Dean Borgard has been instrumental to the development of the new degree audit system and, in partnership with the Center for
Teaching Excellence, an “early alert system” for students in large classes. With the assistance of a university-wide task force and
faculty from the Department of English, we redesigned and re-staffed our freshman and sophomore writing courses, and have
developed both a placement testing program for students and a series of coordinating and training programs for faculty teaching
these courses. Similar efforts are underway with respect to the first-level mathematics courses. Finally, we have sought and been
given approval to incorporate the staff and programs of the Academic Success Center into the College, where it is believed that
these resources may be optimized to support student retention initiatives across the university.
Assessment of Outcomes
The College of Humanities and Sciences is the established leader in assessment at Virginia Commonwealth University. As
delineated previously, we have made a strong commitment to systematic program review, and the Provost has been provided with
an eight page matrix that summarizes the results of these assessments and of recommendations made and actions taken as a result.
Each review contains detailed assessment of student satisfaction and, as possible, learning outcomes. All program reviews are on
file with the Provost, and those conducted this year are detailed in the appropriate departmental report.
The College also provides leadership with respect to the SCHEV-mandated competency assessments. Faculty in the Department
of English prepared the writing competency assessment plan and report of outcomes; the Dean worked with Dr. Marolla and the
Center for Teaching Excellence in developing and implementing the technology competency assessment plan; faculty of the
Department of Biology have been instrumental in initiating the development of the science competency assessment plan; and
faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics are developing the quantitative competency assessment plan.
Unique Contributions
The College’s principal unique contribution lies in its commitment to general education at Virginia Commonwealth
University. We deliver over 80% of the general education curriculum to VCU’s students, irrespective of school enrollment.
This will increase substantially with the advent of a true university-wide general education curriculum.
The College’s second unique contribution is the enormous service teaching commitment it has made to the other schools: we
teach 43% of the first two years of the School of Business’ curriculum, 62% of the first two years of the School of Engineering’s
curriculum, 85% of the first two years of the School of Social Work’s curriculum, 30% of the entire curriculum for the School of
the Arts, and 32% of the entire curriculum for the School of Education.
The College also is unique with respect to much of the Tier 3 to Tier 2 initiative. We have the most alumni, and thus are
instrumental to the goal of increasing alumni participation. We have the most students, and thus are instrumental to the goal of
increasing retention. We are most in need of additional faculty resources, and thus are instrumental to the goal of decreasing student/
faculty ratios. And, as noted before, we have taken the lead in attempting to ensure an “informed electorate” by preparing magazines
extolling our achievements for dissemination by the President, Provost, and Director of Admissions.
The College is further unique in that its faculty delivers virtually all of the undergraduate life sciences instruction at the university.
Finally, we are uniquely positioned to assist President Trani in achieving his priority of “rebuilding the School of Mass Communications.”
Important Challenges
Our important challenges are identified by our objectives, the most important of which is reversing the erosion of the tenuretrack
faculty base. We need to ensure that this remains an important university priority.
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Executive Summary
Reflections and Directions
The College of Humanities and Sciences has several programs of nationally-ranked excellence: in psychology, in public policy
and administration, in creative writing, and in graduate advertising. We are committed to ensuring that each not only retains its
current national standing, but in fact increases in repute.
When Dr. Turk feels that the School of Mass Communications is ready, we will again seek accreditation for their programs.
Successful accreditation reviews have been completed for clinical and counseling psychology and for urban studies and planning,
and preparation for a re-accreditation review in public administration has begun.
Future directions for the College are identified in our objectives.
Objectives for Next Year
These remain as before. We will continue to work to:
• Increase the number of full-time instructional faculty and decrease reliance on adjunct faculty, while also improving
student/faculty ratios;
• Increase the sponsored research budget;
• Increase efforts in the life sciences;
• Increase out-of-state enrollments;
• Increase retention and graduation rates;
• Increase departmental operating budgets;
• Increase private support and enhance relations with alumni;
• Continue strategic planning, program review, and resource allocation planning;
• Rebuild support staff and other vital components of departmental infrastructures; and
• Enhance instrumentation and technology needed for teaching, learning, and scholarship.
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Academic &
Administrative
Activities

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Office of the Dean
Administrative Faculty
Dr. Stephen D. Gottfredson - Dean Dr. Arthur J. Seidenberg - Assistant Dean Ms. Jamie M. Stillman - Director
for Undergraduate Academic Affairs of Development
Dr. Albert T. Sneden - Senior Associate
Dean & Interim Dean, School of Dr. S. Jon Steingass - Director of Ms. Shirley R. McDaniel -
Graduate Studies Undergraduate Academic Advising Development Associate
Dr. John H. Borgard - Associate Dean Ms. Sherry B. Mikuta - Director of Ms. Amy J. Unger - Assistant to the
for Undergraduate Programs Academic Program Development Dean: Administration
Dr. Laura J. Moriarty - Assistant Dean
for Faculty Affairs
Ms. Sherry L. Stanbach - Director of
Financial Operations
Staff
Ms. Vicki B. Byrd - Business Manager Mr. John S. Geerdes - Television Mr. James D. Spivey - Director of
Systems Engineer
Technology and Computer Support
Ms. Patsy A. Connors - Business Manager
Ms. Tama B. Hynson - Administrative Ms. India D. Urbach - Program
Ms. Marilyn G. Covington - Assistant for Finance Support Technician
Administrative Assistant to the Dean
Ms. Katherine L. Mangum -
Ms. J. Michelle Wilde - Human
Ms. Sharon Dawson - Associate Director for Academic Resource Assistant
Grants Administrator
Program Marketing
Ms. Jennifer K. Wilkerson - Financial
Mr. James M. Dunham - Mr. John Seo - Systems Analyst Operations Manager
Network Administrator
Office of Student Academic Affairs
Dr. John H. Borgard - Associate Dean Ms. Suzanne S. Spivey - Student Ms. Kelly M. Coldiron - Program &
for Undergraduate Programs Services Specialist Data Support Specialist
Dr. Arthur J. Seidenberg - Assistant Dean
for Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Ms. Jean A. Clark - Academic Advisor
Office of Academic Advising
Dr. S. Jon Steingass - Director of Ms. Camilla C. Jones - Academic Advisor Ms. Linda L. Spinelli - Academic Advisor
Undergraduate Academic Advising
Mr. Mark T. Bassard - Academic Advisor Dr. Seth Sykes - Academic Advisor
Ms. Melanie K. McCarthy - Student
Services Specialist
Dr. Sandra B. Nutall - Academic Advisor
Office of Student Athlete Advising
Ms. Bridget E. Lyons - Coordinator, Ms. Julie E. Carney - Student Ms. Sophia T. Hiort - Student
Student Athlete Advising Athlete Advisor Athlete Advisor
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Changes around the College
• Effective December 29, 2001, the Division of Computer Science was transfered to the School of Engineering, and the remainder
of the Department of Mathematical Sciences was reorganized into two separate departments – the Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research. While both departments
remain in the College, this reorganization follows the trend of our peer institutions. Dr. Andrew M. Lewis was named Chair
of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Dr. D’Arcy P. Mays III was named Chair of the Department
of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research.
• In the past, Interdisciplinary Studies has acted as an incubator for potential new programs. Over the past year and a half,
Forensic Science has been a track within Interdisciplinary Studies. During this time, student enrollment increased from 14
to 114 students and in March, the College received SCHEV approval to offer Forensic Science as a separate degree program,
a B.S. in Forensic Science.
• Dr. L. Terry Oggel has provided strong leadership for the School of Mass Communications since May of 1999. Dr. Oggel
stepped down as Acting Director when Dr. Judy V. Turk assumed the Directorship of the School on March 1, 2002. We thank
Dr. Oggel for all of his efforts on behalf of the School and wish him continued success as he returns to teaching in the Department
of English. Dr. Judy V. Turk came to the University after completing her tenure as the founding Dean of the College of Communication
and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. She also served as Dean and Professor of the College
of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina from 1991-1999.
• Dr. Russell Cargo, who has been serving as the Acting Chair, has been appointed as Chair of the Department of Political
Science and Public Administration, effective July 1, 2002.
• Dr. Margaret T. Peischl stepped down as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages after completing a very successful sixyear
term. Dr. Paul F. Dvorak was appointed as Chair effective July 1, 2002.
• Major Trent Cuthbert completed his term as Chair of the Department of Military Science and Major Ken Woodburn was
appointed as Chair effective July 1, 2001. On May 23, 2002, Major Woodburn was promoted to Lt. Colonel.
• The College acknowledges with great appreciation five faculty members who retired during the 2001-02 academic year.
Several of these faculty members have served the College and University at large for over 3o years. Each of these faculty have
had outstanding careers and are well respected in their disciplines. We would like to extend our grateful appreciation for their
accomplishments and contributions to the College:
Dr. George C. Longest - Associate Professor, English
Dr. Sara M. McCowen - Associate Professor, Biology
Dr. Joseph (Dick) Morris - Associate Professor, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Dr. L. Daniel Mouer - Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. J. John Palen - Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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New Faculty 2001-2002
Ms. Talvikki E. Ansel - Assistant Professor, English
Mr. Jon C. Baker - Instructor, Chemistry
Dr. Amber Bennett - Instructor, Sociology & Anthropology
Dr. Deborah M. Brock - Instructor, Political Science & Public Administration
Dr. Sharon K. Bullock - Instructor, Biology
Mr. James M. Burke - Research Associate, Psychology
Mr. Patrick H. Burnham - Associate Professor, Adcenter
Ms. Shawn P. Burton - Instructor, Statistical Sciences & Operations Research
Ms. Julie E. Carney - Student Athlete Advisor, Student Athlete Advising
Ms. Gretchen C. Comba - Instructor, English
Ms. Casey A. Cornelius - Instructor, English
* Dr. Patricia W. Cummins - Professor, Foreign Languages
Dr. Aimee J. Ellington - Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Ms. Alexina R. Fagan - Instructor, English
Dr. Pamela W. Garner - Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mr. Supad K. Ghose - Instructor, Political Science & Public Administration
Ms. Anne Y. Greene - Research Assistant, Psychology
Dr. Jill R. Hardin - Assistant Professor, Statistical Sciences & Operations Research
Ms. Jane G. Hastings - Instructor, Physics
Dr. Uri Henig - Instructor, Philosophy
Dr. Kathryn L. Kleypas - Instructor, English
Dr. Gina Kovarsky - Instructor, Foreign Languages/International Studies
Dr. Darius Kuciauskus - Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ms. Rose M. Landrum-Lee - Instructor, African American Studies/Women’s Studies
Dr. Kendra L. Lawrence - Instructor, Biology
Dr. Durig E Lewis - Instructor, Physics
Ms. Vivian M. Lucas - Research Associate, Psychology
Dr. Mar Martinez-Gongora - Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages
*Ms. Shirley R.McDaniel - Development Associate, Office of the Dean
Ms. Faye O. Prichard - Instructor, English
Dr. Charles B. Raymond - Research Associate, Biology
Ms. Margaret B. Reynolds - Instructor, Psychology
Dr. David W. Routt - Assistant Professor, History
Dr. Lorraine G. Schuyler - Assistant Professor, History
Mr. William L. Sims - Assistant Professor, Mass Communications
Dr. Brian N. Smith - Instructor, Psychology
Dr. Michael A. Southam-Gerow - Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ms. Yvette Stepanian-Holst - Instructor, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Dr. Marilyn Stern, Professor - Psychology
Dr. Kristin M. Swenson-Mendez - Instructor, Religious Studies
Ms. Elizabeth Talerman - Interim Director of Executive Education, Adcenter
Dr. Rebecca R. Tews - Instructor, Psychology
Dr. James M. Turbeville - Assistant Professor, Biology
Dr. Judy V. Turk - Professor and Director, School of Mass Communications
Dr. Michael R. Van Slyck - Associate Professor, Psychology
Dr. Grace Vuoto - Assistant Professor, History
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Dr. Marsha Wadkins - Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
Dr. Wai-hung Wong - Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Ms. Anne B. Wright - Instructor, Biology
Mr. Yucel Yanikdag - Assistant Professor, History
*Faculty who transferred from other departments at VCU
New Faculty 2002-2003
Dr. Alexander J. Auerbach - Assistant Professor, History
Dr. Sonia R. Banks - Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mr. Edward R. Crawford - Instructor, Biology
Dr. Myrtle D. Fultz - Instructor, Criminal Justice
Ms. Sara Geigel - Instructor, Mass Communications
Dr. Mary E. Loos - Assistant Professor, Psychology
Dr. Neil A. Manson - Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Dr. Lambert C. M. Ngoka - Research Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ms. Michelle R. Peace - Instructor, Forensic Science
Dr. M. Christine Porter - Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ms. Julie K. Raye - Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Dr. Tracy T. Ryan - Assistant Professor, Mass Communications
Mr. Christopher Saladino - Instructor, Political Science and Public Administration
Ms. Debora H. Wenger - Associate Professor, Mass Communications
Ms. Marion N. Winship - Instructor, History
Dr. Quibing Zhou - Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ms. Linda E. Zyzniewski - Assistant Professor, Psychology
Promotion and Tenure
During Academic Year 2001-02, the following members of the College faculty were awarded promotion and/or tenure:
Dr. Thomas E. Eissenberg (Psychology) was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
Dr. Carolyn L. Funk (Political Science and Public Administration) was tenured.
Dr. John E. Herman (History) was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
Dr. James E. Mays (Statistical Sciences and Operations Research) was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
Dr. Gregory M. Plunkett (Biology) was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
Dr. David Primeaux (formerly of Mathematical Sciences and now in School of Engineering) was tenured and promoted to the
rank of Associate Professor.
Ms. Daphne L. Rankin (Sociology & Anthropology) was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor.
Dr. William Tester (English) was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
Dr. Judy V. Turk (School of Mass Communications) was tenured.
Dr. Mark D. Wood (Religious Studies and African American Studies) was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
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The College of Humanities & Sciences
Academic Programs
Undergraduate Degree Programs
Biology – BS Mass Communications – BS Religious Studies – BA
Chemistry – BS Advertising Science – BS
Criminal Justice – BS Electronic Media Environmental Studies
Economics – BS News-Editorial General Science
English – BA Public Relations Biology
Foreign Languages – BA Mathematical Sciences – BS Chemistry
French Applied Mathematics Mathematical Sciences
German Mathematics Sociology & Anthropology – BS
Spanish Operations Research Urban Studies & Planning – BS
Forensic Science – BS Statistics Environment
History – BA Philosophy – BA Information Systems
Interdisciplinary Studies – BIS Ethics & Public Policy Planning
Individualized Physics – BS Public Management
Women’s Studies Political Science – BA Public Policy & Social Change
Psychology – BS
Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Minors
African American Studies German Public Affairs & Administration
American Studies History Religious Studies
Anthropology International Studies Russian Area Studies
Biology International Mgmt. Studies Sociology
Chemistry Judaic Studies Spanish
Computer Science Latin American Studies Statistics
Criminal Justice Mathematical Sciences Substance Abuse Service
Economics Philosophy Urban Studies
English Philosophy of Law Women’s Studies
Environmental Studies Physics Writing (see English)
French
Political Science
Geography
Psychology
Preparation for Professional Studies
Pre-clinical laboratory sciences Pre-medicine Pre-pharmacy
Pre-dental hygiene Pre-nursing Pre-physical therapy
Pre-dentistry Pre-occupational therapy Pre-radiation sciences
Pre-law Pre-optometry Pre-veterinary medicine
Graduate Degree Programs
Biology – MS Mass Communications – MS Psychology – MS, Ph.D.
Chemistry – MS, Ph.D. Advertising Clinical
Creative Writing – MFA Mass Communications Counseling
Criminal Justice – MS Mathematical Sciences – MS General
Justice Applied Mathematics Public Administration – MPA
Forensic Science Mathematics Sociology – MS
English – MA Operation Research Urban Studies and Regional
History – MA Statistics Planning - MURP
Physics – MS
Post-Baccalaureate Certificates
Applied Social Research Environmental Studies Statistics
Computer Science Planning Information Systems Urban Revitalization
Criminal Justice
Public Management
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Academic and Administrative Activities
Undergraduate Program Highlights
Undergraduate Academic Committee
• The 2001-2002 Undergraduate Academic Committee (UAC) was composed of McKenna Brown, Chairman, Irma Bateman,
Mark Wood, Joe Topich, Rhoda Perozzi, Tamson Six, Nick Frankel, Sachi Shimomura, Michael Messmer, David Kennamer,
Bill Terrell, James Mays, Marilyn Bishop, Amin Alimard, Tom Leahey, John Mahoney, Michael Brooks, Boyd Berry and John
Borgard as the liaison from the Dean’s Office. UAC met on average about every three weeks during the academic year.
• In addition to the general curricular housekeeping such as minor course revisions, renumbering, deletions, etc, the committee
reviewed several sizable curriculum revisions and new courses that reflected departmental program review suggestions and
regular curriculum updating. The following are the major items that were considered.
1. Transfer of the program and major in Computer Science to School of Engineering.
2. Creation of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Statistical Sciences
and Operations Research.
3. Creation of the accelerated BA/MPA Program in Political Science and Public Administration. The unique program
permits qualified undergraduate students to earn a BA in Political Science and a Master’s in Public Administration in
five years by the “sharing” of 12 credits of graduate courses in both programs..
4. Media Studies minor in Mass Communications .
5. Revised minor in English.
6. Chemistry added new concentrations within the major in Chemical Modeling, Biochemistry, and Professional Chemist
with Honors to go along with the current Chemical Science and Professional Chemist concentrations..
7. Psychology added new concentrations within the major in pre-graduate studies, life sciences, applied psychology, and
urban psychology to go along with their standard psychology concentration.
8. Deletion of the Comparative Literature track in Foreign Languages. Little or no interest has been expressed by students
in this concentration in the last five years.
9. Curriculum outline revisions in the tracks in Biology, the Bachelor of Science in Science program, and in Military Science.
10. Mass Communications changed the number of credits needed by students to qualify for admission to the upper-level
program in the major.
11. Revision of the International Studies program into three minors — Global Studies, Areas Studies, and Native
American Studies.
• Many new courses were approved that signal new programs or existing programs keeping pace with broader changes in the
academic world and beyond, and the increasing links across programs:
1. PHYS 307/MHIS 307 The Physics of Sound and Music
2. SOCY/AFAM/WMNS 206 African-American Family Relationships
3. FRSC 493 Forensic Sciences Internship
4. URSP 350/FRLG/INTL 345 Great Cities of the World
5. The College sponsored a new second semester University retention course - VCU1 102 Turning point: Discover
a New Direction for students on warning or probation after the end of the fall semester.
6. CHEM 498 Honors Thesis
• The Forensic Science program, initially a concentration within the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, was approved as
a free-standing Bachelor of Science major during the Spring 2002 semester.
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Pre-Medical Advisory Committee
• The Pre-Medical Advisory Committee is a standing Committee of the College. The purpose of the Committee is to assist
VCU students during the application process for medical school. Five teams of two faculty members each interview the
students and a “Committee letter” rating each student is composed for each student. The Pre-Health Sciences Coordinator
collects letters of recommendation. After all the interviews have been completed (early May), the Committee meets (late
May) to discuss each student, and finalize their medical school letter. Based on the interview, grades in key courses, and the
committee discussion, the Committee provides one of the following ratings in the letter — Highly recommend, Recommend with
confidence, Recommend, Recommend with reservation, or Not Recommend. The committee recommendation letters, along
with individual faculty recommendation letters, are sent to the Medical School Admissions Directors of the student’s choice.
The Pre-Medical Advisory Committee was formed in 1975. During its twenty-seven years, more than 1500 VCU students
have been evaluated for medical school admission.
• In the spring of 2001, the College’s Pre-Medical Advisory Committee met for two afternoons in late May. The meetings were
convened by Dr. Arthur J. Seidenberg, Coordinator of Pre-Health Sciences Advising. The members of the Committee for
2001-2002 were Drs. Charles R. Blem, Carolyn M. Conway and Mrs. Leann B. Blem, Department of Biology; Drs. Charlene
D. Crawley and Fred M. Hawkridge, Department of Chemistry; Drs. Marguerite Harkness and Catherine E. Ingrassia,
Department of English; Dr. Julie A. Honnold and Ms. Daphne L. Rankin, Department of Sociology; and Dr. Wendy L. Kliewer,
Department of Psychology.
• Sixty-three VCU students were interviewed and evaluated for medical school admission. Their “committee letters” were read,
discussed, and approved by the committee. At the time of this writing, approximately 40% of the students who were evaluated
and applied have been accepted to medical schools for the fall 2002 term.
OnTrack @VCU – Degree Audit
• Through project co-chairman, Dr. John H. Borgard, Associate Dean, the College continues to play an important role in the
development of the computerized degree audit. The audit has finished its second year of operation showing increasing use by
new students. Audits for students entering in Fall 2002 have been developed. The “What If?” function where students and
advisors can see, at a moment’s glance how a student’s past coursework will fit into a new major is receiving increasing use.
Work on Web for Faculty, as developed by Student Systems of AIT, is now almost complete. When activated, faculty will be
able to access degree audits for their advisees over the web rather than having to use SIS+. Printing degree audits will be vastly
simplified through this application.
The College and the School of Education
• The College continues to cooperate with the School of Education in the Extended Teacher Preparation program. Dr. John
Borgard, Associate Dean, has participated with Dr. Alan McLeod, School of Education, in the Virginia Community College
Task Force on Teacher Preparation and made a presentation at the April VCCS Teacher Preparation Program Regional
Meeting. Dr. Borgard continues to work with Dr. McLeod in the preparation of the Extended Teacher Preparation Program
Handbook, a publication which outlines for faculty and students, in detail, the academic and administrative steps necessary to
fulfill the requirements of the Extended Program. Due to budget cuts this year and next, the Handbook will not be available
in paper format, only on-line. A four-page “summary” has been produced for distribution to students explaining key steps and
directing the students to the School of Education website for the full publication. Mrs. Kelly Coldiron in the College office
is commended for her hard work over the past years to make each year’s corrections and compose larger changes in the
QuarkXpress publishing format.
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Academic and Administrative Activities
Chief Transfer Student Activities
• In his role as Chief Transfer Officer, Dr. John Borgard, Associate Dean, convened two meetings in the fall semester of faculty
and staff who have responsibility in their units for evaluation of transfer credit. The articulation agreement with the Virginia
Community College was reviewed, as well as the General Rules for Acceptance and Evaluation of Transfer Credit document.
Dr. Borgard continues to update the University Counselor Edition of the VCCS/RBC/VCU Transfer Guide and the individual
transfer guides used by the Admissions Office.
Graduate Program Highlights
• The graduate programs of the College play a major role in fulfilling the mission of the College and University, offering both
full and part-time students the opportunity to continue their education beyond the bachelor degree. Most programs offer
graduate classes in the evening hours and several offer off-campus courses to provide increased opportunities for graduate
education to non-traditional students. Enrollment in graduate programs in the College again remained relatively steady in
2001-2002. There were 18 Ph.D. degrees awarded from the College in 2001-2002, over 205 Masters degrees, and 16 postbaccalaureate
certificates.
• The work of graduate students from several departments was showcased at the Watts Day and Forbes Day activities on the MCV
campus and at the Fifth Annual Graduate Research Symposium and Exhibit sponsored by the Graduate Student Organization.
Students presented posters and talks on their research efforts at these activities. Presentations by graduate students were also
made at numerous regional, national and international meetings of professional organizations.
• Graduate students from many departments were also honored in several venues. The College Award Night activities saw
several departments honor graduate students with outstanding teaching assistant awards, as well as academic performance
awards. Two graduate students in Psychology were awarded Phi Kappa Phi scholarships, one at the doctoral level and one at
the masters level, for 2002-2003. A graduate student in chemistry was awarded a Jesse Hibbs scholarship for 2002-2003.
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Enrollment Data
Department/Program Credit Hours* Majors** Degrees***
Undergrad Graduate Undergrad Graduate Bacc. Certificate Master’s PhD
African-American Studies 1,226
Applied Social Research 1
American Studies 72
Biology 23,778 844 725 46 89 8
Chemistry 14,796 1,007 110 50 37 2 7
Criminal Justice 8,546 1,326 497 105 123 4 34
Economics 26 7
English/Creative Writing 32,377 1,464 456 81 91 26
Environmental Studies 514 400 1 38 7
European Cultures 6
Foreign Languages 17,466 69 89 23
Forensic Science 424
Geography 1,647 3
History 14,849 458 248 32 37 9
Interdisciplinary Studies 1,595 49 208 61
International Studies 2,304
Life Sciences 1,023
Linguistics 84
Mass Communications/Advert 7,077 2,422 729 117 114 56
Mathematical Sciences 24,390 947 103 22 30 5
Military Sciences 346
Philosophy/Religious Studies 15,100 41 95 25
Physics 12,053 339 34 7 7 5
Political Science/Public Admin. 10,024 2,625 229 86 53 32
Pre-Health Sciences 613
Psychology 22,844 2,104 993 113 245 16 14
Science 94 20
Social Science 4,257
Sociology/Anthropology 13,121 502 185 28 44 9
Statistics 6,207 830
Urban Revitalization 8
Urban Studies & Planning 1,872 1,047 65 39 23 13
Women's Studies 792
Undeclared 1,487
Other (non-degree seeking) 2,290 1,509
Total - College of
Humanities & Sciences 238,790 16,477 9,277 2,281 1,029 5 222 21
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Total - Academic Campus 408,345 63,517 16,473 5,120 2,083 138 1,010 74
Total - University 424,137 139,030 17,148 7,853 2,335 200 1,410 119
* Summer 2001, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002
** Fall 2001
*** 2001-2002; not final numbers; actual final numbers will be slightly different.

Academic and Administrative Activities
Technology Highlights
• Technology services in the College benefit from a very capable technical staff. The Technology Services group is located in
the basement of the Hibbs Building, and this space includes the College server farm as well as a complete repair facility for
College computers. The Technology Services web site, http://support.has.vcu.edu/, was upgraded to facilitate on-line problem
reporting and service requests. Jim Spivey, Director of Technology Services, continues to coordinate the efforts of the College
Technology Services Group, as well as facilitating scientific instrument repair and maintenance. Mike Dunham is the Network
Administrator for the College and continues to direct the efforts to upgrade server software, install and upgrade servers, and
reorganize the network tree. Mike also directs much of the hardware maintenance and installation efforts. John Seo serves
as the Systems Analyst with emphasis on hardware maintenance and installations, in addition to serving as backup Network
Administrator. Stuart Long served as the Systems Integrator until March, providing help desk and repair services, as well as
bringing video and web experience to the College. Stuart left the College in March to pursue other interests. We wish him
well. John Geerdes serves as the College’s broadcast engineer. Valuable help throughout the year has been provided by the
student assistants, David Bland, Steve DeLeon, Waverly Jones, and Brian Warshawsky. John Geerdes provided video production
talents to produce a short video of award winners and VCU locations that was a major enhancement of the College Award
Night festivities.
• The Technology Services Group is currently responsible for the maintenance and networking of approximately 2000 computers
throughout the College. John Seo is certified as a Dell service provider, allowing the Technology Services group to provide
Dell warranty repairs for College computers. John Geerdes is certified by Apple for Macintosh warranty repairs, overcoming
a long-standing problem with Macintosh service requirements.
• The Shafer Court Computer Laboratory opened in January, 2000 in the renovated basement of the Hibbs Building, and use
of this facility by College courses and students continues to grow. The Laboratory, with 100 workstations in four separate rooms,
has been open five days a week from 7:30 am to 10:00 pm during the academic year, with more selected hours during the
summer and holidays. During the Spring semester, hours were cut back somewhat to accommodate budget reversions, but this
cutback was coordinated with other open labs around the campus such that availability of computers to students has not been
dramatically compromised. David Long served as the Lab Manager, assisted by Alan Aranas, James Archer, Holly Christian,
Amanda Holmes, Roman Otten, Amar Patel, Bereniece Ponce, and Yueh Mai Wong. The laboratory is equipped with computers
with Celeron 500 MHz processors. Also available are two multimedia stations with scanners and video editing equipment.
The Technology Services office also has computer projectors, laptops, digital cameras, and video cameras available for checkout
to faculty for limited use. A CD mass duplicator was installed, allowing faculty to rapidly produce multiple CD’s for
distribution of course material.
• Instructional computer laboratories in Urban Studies, the Center for Environmental Studies, Physics, History, Psychology,
Chemistry, Statistics, and Mass Communications were upgraded to handle new software, using funds from the Higher
Education Equipment Trust Fund, Student Technology Fee, and other equipment funds. The acquisition and installation of
computers for the new Life Sciences Building was coordinated by the College Technology Services group. More than 50 new
computers were provided to faculty members to improve delivery of instruction and facilitate research. Memory was upgraded
and Office 2000 was installed on over 1500 computers in the College, and the Corporate Edition of Norton Anti-virus was
also installed. This latter action stopped the infection by over 9800 viruses during April and May. The Departments of Biology,
Chemistry, and Physics used HEETF, Student Technology Fee, and College funds to purchase new laboratory equipment for
use by undergraduate and graduate students. The new electron microscopy laboratory in the Temple Building was installed
with two newly reconditioned and upgraded electron microscopes.
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Faculty Awards
Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Sara R. McCowen - Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Distinguished Teaching Award
Dr. R. McKenna Brown - Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Director
of International Studies Program
Excellence in Scholarship Award
Dr. Thomas E. Eissenberg - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
and Director of the Clinical Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory
Distinguished Career Service Award
Dr. Arthur J. Seidenberg - Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Department
of Biology and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Distinguished Advisor Award
Dr. Harold E. Greer - Associate Professor, Department of History
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Distinguished Scholar Award
Dr. Joseph W. Bendersky - Professor, Department of History
Distinguished Adjunct Faculty
Humanities
Ms. Elizabeth Canfield - English
Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Mr. John G. Brooks - Statistical Sciences
Social Sciences
Ms. R. Kirby Worthington - Psychology
Elske v.P. Smith Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Micah L. McCreary - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Distinguished Alumnus Award
Mr. John C. Christian, Jr. - Department of Public Administration
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Student Awards
African-American Studies
Outstanding Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Demetria D. Logan
Biology
Miles F. Johnson Award of Excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angie Duong
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joyce W. Yue
Outstanding Graduate Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jill D. Reid
Lewis C. Goldstein Award of Excellence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nnaemeka Anyadike
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Ayala
Chemistry
C.R.C. Press Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brandon T. Jennings
Ruth Ann Redbird
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Sanders
Mary E. Kapp Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah E. McKinnon
Ingraham Scholarship, Established by the Richmond Chromatography Group . . . . . . Laura T. George
American Institute of Chemists Outstanding Senior Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimberly A. Scott
American Chemical Society, Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry. . . . . . . Peyman Kabolizadeh
Gerald and Susan Bass Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raymundo Sanchez-Ponce
Deborah A. Thiem
American Chemical Society, Virginia Section,
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jozef Bledowski
Sarah E. Mackinnon
John W. Williams
Cooperative Education Program
Outstanding Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Takiya J. Ahmed
Criminal Justice
Outstanding Senior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patricia A. Labbate
Elizabeth N. Lloyd
Outstanding Junior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert W. Lentner
Angelina B. McCarthy
Outstanding Graduate Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry A. Giordano
A. Daniela Kaufman
Leadership Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy J. Berberich
Ryan Nixon
Economics
Outstanding Senior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shabaz A. Malik
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English
Outstanding English Major Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rita E. Botts
Judith Topich
Undergraduate Fiction Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Bryan
Undergraduate Poetry Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Ramsey
Graduate Fiction Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamie Fueglein
Graduate Poetry Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian Horlick
Graduate Nonfiction Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Anderson Ellis
Jean Roy Riely Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharon May
E. Allan Brown Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bethany L. Shaffer
Whitesell Undergraduate Essay Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cory McLauchlin
Whitesell Graduate Essay Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Settlemyre Williams
Mary Frances Minton Tutor Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christy Williams
Melinda Johnson
Foreign Languages
Excellence in Spanish Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristin L. Mikkelson
Excellence in German Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dragan Jerkic
Excellence in French Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard W. Haselwood
French Film Festival Achievement Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard W. Haselwood
History
F. Edward Lund Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan Conway
Alden G. Bigelow Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Rusk
Albert A. Rogers Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth Seward
James Tice Moore Graduate Essay Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John M. McClure
Thelma Sara Biddle Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah S. Haymes
William E. Blake Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Bishop
Interdisciplinary Studies Program
Outstanding Senior Award, Forensic Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ruth Ann Redbird
Outstanding Senior Award, Individualized Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessamyn L. Miller
International Studies Program
Excellence in International Studies Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin J. O’Brien
Excellence in Latin American Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erica Noelle Duncan
Excellence in Russian Area Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Cargos Henson
Excellence in International Experiential Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard W. Haselwood
International Studies, Student Research Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura F. Minnich
Mass Communications
George T. Crutchfield Journalism Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holly Clark
Ed and Polly Temple Writing Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Reynolds Edwards
Geoffrey A. Rowland
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Robert Beverly Orndorff Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holly K. Clark
Virginia Communications Hall of Fame Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holly K. Clark
Alden Aaroe Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Porter Brown, IV
Emily M. Sempsey
Martin Agency Endowed Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Darby
Gene B. Creasy Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard B. Denzler
Joseph S. Mason Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John D. Humphreys, Jr.
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Outstanding Student in Mathematics Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lee-Anne Boyd
Outstanding Student in Applied Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mackenzie B. Smith
Outstanding Student in Pure Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brent M. Cody
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Outstanding Philosophy Major Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua A. Small
Outstanding Religious Studies Major Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juliana E. Rasnic
George W. Koffa, Sr. Scholarship Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toni L. Jackson
American Bible Study Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James C. Crooke
Physics
Undergraduate Academic Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brent M. Cody
Undergraduate Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Wes Hitt
Graduate Academic Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sucheta Akhikara
James Chris Moore
Political Science and Public Administration
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica M. Blackburn
William M. Flanik
Richard W. Haselwood
Outstanding Master of Public Administration Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tami A. Bean
Michele Mixner Dewitt
Psychology
Outstanding Psychology Junior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raymond H. Tademy, Jr.
Outstanding Psychology Senior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cynthia L. Atiyeh
Karen Mitchell
Demetria Logan
Outstanding Biopsychology Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret S. Wilson
Outstanding Social Psychology Student Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda E. Zyzniewski
Outstanding Counseling Psychology Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nathaniel G. Wade
Outstanding Developmental Psychology Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina S. Hogan
Outstanding Clinical Psychology Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip O. Pegg
Psychology Scholarship Award for Master's Level Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bridget B. Leonhardt
Deborah Braffman Schroeder Award for Outstanding Clinical Psychology Student. . . . . Joanna E. Strong
John P. Hill Award for Adolescent Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher J. Hogan
Graduate Student Teaching Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda E. Zyzniewski
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Sociology and Anthropology
Outstanding Anthropology Undergraduate Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James E. Quinn
Laura F. Minnich
Outstanding Graduate Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael J. Stern
John H. McGrath Award for Outstanding Sociology Undergraduate Student . . . . . . . Jessica L. Hacker
Adrian Lakey
Statistical Sciences and Operations Research
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelly Mooney
Kara Norman
Urban Studies and Planning
Marijean Hawthorne Award in Geography for Excellence in Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda Malone
T. Edward Temple Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lance S. Loethen
American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . Kostas S. Skordas
Laura B. Aspaas Memorial Award for Excellence in Geography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona E. Powell
Lindsay A. Velasco
Peter Schulz Urban Studies Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gregory L. Will
VAPA Outstanding Planning Student Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer B. Wickham
Women’s Studies Program
Outstanding Women's Studies Student Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melissa Butcher
Other Student Recognition
Dean’s Award for Excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debraj Mukherjee
Board of Visitors Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shivani Gupta
School of Graduate Studies Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lori A. Keyser-Marcus
Colleen A. Quinn
Wayne C. Hall Undergraduate Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristine Austgulen
Humanities and Sciences Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shakun Gupta
Leigh C. Thompson
Humanities and Sciences Distinguished Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica L. Hacker
VCU Alumni Association Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joyce Yue
University Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aakash Desai
Richard W. Haselwood
LaToya Taylor
Joyce Yue
University Leadership Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanessa Debrew
Shahriar Firouzabadian
Roxanne George
Debraj Mukherjee
LaToya Taylor
Emerging Student Leader Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel A. Childress
Jay and Sondra Weinberg Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mobin Ahmed
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Rosina Hengstenberg Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashmi Doshi
James Thompson
Thomas O. Hall Honors Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angie Duong
Sanjay Iyer
Ali Khan
Division of Student Affairs Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harlan “Ben” Harvey
Mireille Truong
Lauren A. Woods Fellowship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joyce Yue
Top 1% Freshman Class
Tareq Al-Ali Nadia T. Hyder Debraj Mukherjee
Fahad Al-Saad Sanjay Iyer Diana C. Ocampo
Sabina P. Amin Rebecca I. Johnson Joshua J. Powell
Marilyn C. Batan Kunal R. Karia Neil M. Sheth
Danielle L. Chan Thanh-Truc T. Lieng Stephen W. Smith
Iming Chen Irina Manelis Leigh C. Thompson
Mary A. DePeralta Lyubov Matveyeva Ryan F. Trull
Amy N. Disharoon Monica L. Miles Meredith J. Walsh
Julie Gebhardt Carrie E. Miller Kenneth M. Wong
Cari M. George
Top 1% Sophomore Class
Heather L. Acey Ilia Brusilovsky Shilpa Pandey
Kristine Austgulen Aaron S. Burdick Rachael R. Taft
Amy C. Berry Angie Duong Michael A. Thurston
Priya K. Bhatia Ashley L. Engel Jennifer L. Trainor
Robin R. Bhavsar Tamsen B. Heckel Stephen M. West
Meghan L. Brinson
Peyman Kabolizadeh
Top 1% Junior Class
Salwa A. Abdullah Andrew M. Farland Kelly M. Orrell
Matthew D. Bardeen William M. Flanik Yekaterina Rabkin
Jozef Bledowski Kristin L. Mikkelson David Shepherd
Trevena L. Booker Gordon A. Myers Holly B. Slonaker
Janet T. Brot Allegra Newman Jennifer M. Vittum
Lauren M. Eadie
Top 1% Senior Class
Seyra Z. Ahmed Ann J. Elacate Rebecca A. Moon
Sumanth Atluri Misty D. Evans Jay Pahade
William G. Blair Jonathan D. Ha David R. Rock
Naomi L. Bradshaw Harlan Harvey Michael B. Separ
Kavitha Chunchu Richard Haselwood Veronica Sikka
Danielle F. Cornell Mary A. Hepp Joyce W. Yue
Larissa G. Duncan
Sonia Jain
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Office of Academic Advising
Activities and Accomplishments
• The College of Humanities and Sciences Advising Office staff provided advising for all CHS freshmen except psychology
freshmen and some pre-health sciences majors advised by selected faculty in the biology department. All Undeclared students,
freshmen or transfer students, were also advised through the Office. Per usual procedure, after students have attained sophomore
standing and declared a major, they were reassigned to a faculty advisor in their major program of study. During the Fall 2002
semester, the College enrolled almost 1,500 first-admit degree level students and nearly 1,200 of these students were assigned
an advisor in the College’s Advising Office. An additional 1,168 students (comprised mainly of continuing freshmen and
undeclared students) continued to be served by the office because they had not either declared a major or achieved sophomore
status. With 4.5 full-time equivalent advisors in the office, the student-to-advisor ratio was slightly over 525 to 1.
• During the 2001-2001 academic year, a total of 2,438 incoming CHS students participated in a Student Testing, Advising,
and Registration (STAR) program during the summer, and in the weeks prior to the beginning of the semesters in August,
and January and received a general orientation to the university, an overview of the college and the curriculum, placement
testing, academic advising, and a first semester schedule. The June, July, and August STAR programs were held on 23 different
days. Throughout STAR, 37 faculty, academic advisors, and specially-trained graduate assistants from the College met individually
with the new students in their initial advising appointments. A total of 1,430 freshmen and 685 transfer students entering a
major in the College attended a one-day STAR program during the summer. For comparison purposes, the Schools of Arts,
Business, Social Work, Education, and Engineering advised 1,456 students combined during the STAR program. For students
who began at VCU in the Spring 2002 semester, a similar STAR program was offered over three days in January with 323
freshmen and transfer students attending.
• The Office of Academic Advising held over 7,500 individual advising sessions from August 2001 through May 2002. This
represents an increase of 80% over the same period the previous year.
Fall semester advising activities included:
1. First advising appointments during the first seven weeks of the semester with students who attended STAR to discuss
transition issues, classes, and major and to review the graduation worksheet and OnTrack @VCU, the degree audit;
2. Outreach to 974 CHS freshmen who received early alert notices during the midterm period in one or more of their
100-level classes;
3. Mandatory advising for students during the registration period; and
4. Follow-up with advisees who did not register during the registration period.
Spring semester advising activities involved targeted advising programs, as well as general advising activities, including:
1. Assisting freshmen who were placed on academic warning after their first semester to return to good standing by
encouraging their participation in either VCU 102 or WIN (a special intrusive advising program);
2. Teaming up with the University Career Center to offer career workshops to assist undeclared students to select a major;
3. Following-up with 164 CHS freshmen who received early alert notices in at least one of their 100-level classes;
4. Advising students during the registration period for summer and fall semesters; and
5. Contacting advisees who did not register for fall semester during the registration period. Extensive outreach programs
implemented in the residence halls, via e-mail, and over the phone resulted in large number of students being advised
at times other than registration.
• The CHS Advising Office also serves as a point of contact for student appeals to the Academic Regulations Appeal Committee
(ARAC). A total of 274 such appeals were heard last year for students in the College, and 62% of the appeals were approved
by ARAC. The total number of appeals presented represents an 11% decrease from the number of CHS appeals heard in the
previous year. The 274 ARAC appeals, combined with the 7,500 individual advising sessions held, and the 2,438 students
advised during STAR resulted in the busiest year in the history of the CHS Advising Office.
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• The personnel in the College Undergraduate Affairs Office continued to play a key role in the planning and organization for
the Freshman Interest Group (FIG) program for new freshmen. Since most of the FIG classes are CHS courses, the College
works closely with the Office of Student Affairs to put the program together each year.
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• Academic advising is an integral part of the programming in the College of Humanities and Sciences. Academic advising
is an on-going planning process that helps students to develop, pursue, and achieve their personal and educational goals.
Academic advisors empower students to become increasingly self-directed in their educational and career planning.
• Academic advising in the College supports the University in its mission to educate full-time and part-time students of all
ages and backgrounds in an atmosphere of free inquiry and scholarship so that the students may realize their full potential
as informed, productive citizens with a life-long commitment to learning and service.
• The value added from a quality academic advising program for students is that it results in a higher degree of self-directedness
within students, leads to higher levels of personal and educational success within students, increases students’ involvement
with the institution, improves the development and pursuit of students’ educational and personal goals enhances students’
persistence to graduation.
• There are nine objectives and outcomes directly related to academic advising in the College of Humanities and Sciences.
These objectives and outcomes relate directly to recommendations of the University Retention Committee report Retention
2000 Recommendations.
1. To establish on-going advising relationships with all CHS freshmen and undeclared students and with continuing
students enrolled in pre-health sciences programs. Outcome of Objective 1: Almost 75% of students advised by the
CHS Advising Office met with their advisor twice during the 2001-02 academic year. Slightly over 50% met with their
advisor three or more times, and one-quarter met with their advisor four or more times during the academic year.
2. To assist undeclared students to define their educational goals and to select appropriate fields of study. Outcome of
Objective 2: One-third of the 617 undeclared first-time full-time freshmen who began in Fall 2001 had officially selected
a major by the end of Spring 2002. No data are available on the number of undeclared students who have not submitted
a change a major with the University despite having chosen a major.
3. To consistently provide exceptional customer service to all students and respond to their needs satisfactorily. Outcome
of Objective 3: Over 90% of students who received advising during the Spring 2002 semester agreed or strongly agreed
that their advisor showed concern for their academic progress and was well prepared for each meeting. At least 75%
of students were satisfied with the assistance received by their advisor on helping cut through red tape and responding
to e-mail or phone messages in a timely manner.
4. To be informational experts about general education curriculum, academic policies and procedures, freshman and
sophomore level major requirements, and career direction ideas. Outcome of Objective 4: Over 90% of students who
received advising services agreed or strongly agreed to advising survey questions that related to advisor knowledge of
academic information such as: advisor is knowledgeable about major requirements; advisor gives accurate and complete
information; advisor helps with educational planning; and advisor helps with registration procedures and questions.
5. To assist each CHS freshman to become fully conversant with general education and major requirements before being
assigned to a faculty advisor. Outcome of Objective 5: During the advising period that occurred from March through
May 2002, all of the approximately 800 students who completed a CHS Advising Checkout sheet confirmed that they
understood their general education and major requirements before leaving the advising session.
6. To provide quality academic orientation for new and transfer students. Outcomes for Objective 6: At least 90% of
students who complete a STAR evaluation will answer Agree or Strongly Agree to survey questions related to academic
orientation and advising and at least 90% of STAR advisors will rate overall academic advising portion of the STAR
program as Effective or Highly Effective. Data for this outcome will be collected during the Summer STAR program
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7. To assist CHS freshmen in academic difficulty to return to good standing before attaining sophomore standing.
Outcomes of Objective 7: Approximately one-quarter of the first-time full-time freshmen who entered in Fall 2001 and
were advised by the CHS Advising Office were placed on academic warning after their first semester. Of these, 58%
participated in either VCU 102 or the CHS WIN (Warning Intervention) Advising Program during Spring semester.
Students who participated in one or more WIN sessions raised their cumulative GPAs an average of 0.089 points by the
end of Spring semester. VCU 102 participants raised their cumulative GPAs by a mean of 0.431. Students on warning
who did not participate in either program saw very little change in their cumulative GPA after Spring semester.
8. To ensure that CHS students have academic due process by assisting them to make petitions to the Academic Regulations
Appeal Committee (ARAC). Outcome of Objective 8: All 274 ARAC petitions presented from May 2001 to April
2002 were 100% complete prior to being presented and students were apprised of their outcome in writing after the meeting.
9. To raise the freshman to sophomore retention rate for majors in the College and those who change from Undeclared to
a major in another School to 78%. Outcome of Objective 9: Data will not be available until after the fourteenth day of
the fall 2002 semester.
Assessment
• The College of Humanities and Sciences Advising Office evaluates academic advising by using three different measures:
utilization of advising programs and services, satisfaction with advising and the impact of advising programs and services.
Monthly reports summarizing utilization of advising services are generated and shared with the advising staff and dean’s office.
The reports summarize the number of individual advising sessions held during the month and compare this with the previous
two years. The monthly utilization report also provides breakdowns of individual advising sessions held according to advisor.
• Students’ satisfaction with advising was assessed during the spring 2002 semester. More than 800 students completed a survey
instrument on their level of satisfaction with specific advising assistance they received from the CHS Advising Office during
the 2001-2002 academic year. According to their responses, advisees were most satisfied with the help received with registration
procedures and questions, assistance with course selection and help with understanding curricular requirements. On the whole,
students were more satisfied overall with the advising they received this year compared to the previous year when the survey
was first implemented. Improvements are largely attributed to the use of advising agendas, increased interaction with students,
and the significant amount of time spent by the advisors on planning and training. Individual reports were also generated for
advisors to compare their satisfaction ratings with other advisors, and this feedback will be used to develop plans for self-improvement.
• The impact of advising programs and services will be assessed by statistical analysis involving computing correlations between
student-outcome variables (such as student retention and academic performance) with student input variables (including
entering students’ SAT scores, financial aid received, and placement testing scores) and college experience variables (including
the number of advising sessions attended and participation in various types of first-year student programming). An extensive
database with 28 different variables from pre-college characteristics to college performance measures for each CHS first-time,
full-time freshman who matriculated in Fall 2001 has been created to carry out the statistical analysis. This level of evaluation is
rare in academic advising, and the assessment will help determine the value advising adds to a student’s overall educational experience.
• The statistical analysis of data base variables against individual student performance to finish this year’s assessment will be
completed during summer 2002 and after the official number of returning 2001 freshmen is available in the third week of the
fall 2002 semester.
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Unique Contributions
• Throughout the year, the emphasis of the CHS Advising Office has been on implementing deliberate and continuous advising
interactions that respond to students’ educational needs during periods of greatest relevancy to students. Consequently, a
dramatic improvement in the quality and quantity of advising provided by the Office has been documented on the annual
advising survey and monthly utilization reports. Historically, it has been unclear about which methods of advising are effective
or what advisor skills result in student success. An extensive evaluation system was instituted over the past year, and it will
provide information that did not previously exist. The move to a more data-driven, rather than anecdotal, assessment model
will help determine if programs and services are producing the desired effects and suggest the extent that specific advising
interactions contribute to the overall objectives of the advising program.
• At the campus-wide level, the CHS Office of Academic Advising contributed to the University’s retention targets by assuming
leadership on the “Advising for Retention” Taskforce of the University Retention Committee. The Taskforce, comprised of
representatives from across the University, developed and recommended 12 strategies designed to improve freshman persistence
and academic performance in addition to increase graduation rates of undergraduate students across schools/college. The CHS
Advising Office implemented three of the strategies recommended by the Taskforce over the past year, including making
academic advising mandatory for all students with freshman standing, targeting first-admit, degree-level freshmen who have not
registered for the subsequent semester and providing intrusive advising to assist undeclared freshmen to select majors by the
end of their freshman year. The remaining strategies submitted to the Provost by way of the University Retention Committee’s
Advising for Retention Taskforce will be phased-in across the University according to the availability of resources.
Important Challenges
The following is a list of the major challenges facing the CHS Advising Office. Responses to the challenges are offered.
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• High advisor workloads affect the type and quality of advising provided. As enrollments increase, it will become increasingly
important to develop ways to serve so many students without sacrificing the quality of advising. Use of a variety of methods
to deliver advising such as reallocation of current staff within the University, increased use of group advising sessions, use of
peer advisors, expanding the role of technology in advising, and increased reliance on graduate students are possible solutions
to this conundrum.
• Limited resources currently exist for advisors to refer students who are experiencing academic difficulty. By establishing a
campus learning assistance service and expanding the supplemental instruction program, advisors could refer students who
are experiencing academic difficulty and are most at-risk of not returning.
• Students needing advising the most are often the least likely to seek it. Expanding and coordinating targeted advising programs
for students with unique needs (i.e., undeclared, students on probation, minority students) and intensifying outreach efforts to
encourage the students to participate in the advising activities will address this challenge.
• Other than the minimal information obtained from the Early Alert process, advisors have no way of identifying early-on
freshmen most at-risk of dropping out or not performing well academically. The adoption of an at-risk prediction scale to identify
freshmen who are the most educationally at-risk would allow advisors to target these students throughout their first semester.
In this way, intervention strategies could be recommended to improve students’ social and academic integration into the
VCU community.
• Less than adequate assistance exists for assisting undeclared students to choose a major. Currently, the most popular major for
incoming students in undeclared, and this population is advised through the CHS Advising Office until they declare a major
and attain sophomore status. Despite several training programs held throughout the year introducing advisors on strategies for
assisting students to choose majors compatible with their interests, skills, abilities, and educational and careers goals, additional
training is needed to increase the confidence and competence of advisors in this area.

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Reflections and Directions
Over the next three to five years, the CHS Advising Office will strive to document and communicate the contributions advising
is making on students’ undergraduate experience at VCU. By continuously improving the quality and quantity of advising services,
effectively addressing the challenges enumerated above, and instituting an extensive evaluation and assessment program, the
CHS Advising Office will identify signature programs that have result in:
• A higher degree of self-directedness;
• Increased persistence to graduation;
• More clearly defined goals;
• More in-depth interaction with faculty;
• Greater overall satisfaction with college;
• Increased motivation to succeed in college; and
• Higher levels of personal and educational success.
Objectives for Next Year
Objectives for the 2002-03 academic year directly relate to the objectives enumerated above, including:
• To raise the freshman to sophomore retention rate for majors in the College and those who change from Undeclared to
a major in another School to 80%.
• To establish on-going advising relationships with all CHS freshmen and undeclared students and with continuing students
enrolled in pre-health sciences programs.
• To assist undeclared students to define their educational goals and to select appropriate fields of study.
• To consistently provide exceptional customer service to all students and respond to their needs satisfactorily.
• To be informational experts about general education curriculum, academic policies and procedures, freshman and sophomore
level major requirements, and career direction ideas.
• To assist each CHS freshman to become fully conversant with general education and major requirements before being
assigned to a faculty advisor.
• To provide quality academic orientation for new and transfer students.
• To assist CHS freshmen in academic difficulty to return to good standing before attaining sophomore standing.
• To ensure that CHS students have academic due process by assisting them to make petitions to the Academic Regulations
Appeal Committee (ARAC).
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Office of Student-Athlete Advising
Activities and Accomplishments
• The Office of Student-Athlete Advising works closely with 210 athletes to promote their academic success and ensure
compliance with University policies and NCAA rules and regulations regarding academics. Advisors meet regularly with all
first-year student-athletes and any student needing help with academic, athletic or personal development issues. The Sports
Medicine Building on West Broad Street is the new home of the Office of Student-Athlete Advising. The new facility includes
a computer lab for the athletes, as well as a study and tutorial room. The two-story building also houses other Student-Athlete
Support Services (Olympic Sport Coaches, Compliance, Training Room and Sports Information).
• During 2001-2002, several student-athletes were recognized for their academic achievement. The Athletic Director’s Honor
Roll included 85 students for the fall semester and 89 for the spring, who earned a semester GPA of 3.0 or higher. Fifty-seven
VCU student-athletes were named Colonial Athletic Association Scholar Athletes. This award is made to student-athletes
who earned a varsity letter and had a 3.2 cumulative GPA or a 3.2 GPA for the 2001-2002 year. Student-athletes on the
University Dean’s List included 45 for the fall term and 39 for the spring term.
• One junior student-athlete received the Humanities and Sciences Academic Award for having a GPA in the top 1% of her
class, received the Wayne C. Hall Undergraduate Scholarship and was named to the NCAA First Team Academic All-
American Team for women’s basketball. Four student-athletes received academic scholarships within the School of Nursing.
We had six individuals nominated to attend the NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference this summer; one candidate is
then selected to attend. Eighteen student-athletes from 12 teams were nominated for Academic All-American honors.
Mission
• To provide advising and counseling support to enhance the opportunities for academic and personal success for student-athletes
at Virginia Commonwealth University.
• To assist students in the development of educational plans, to ensure that University policies and NCAA rules and regulations
regarding academics are being followed, and to assist student-athletes to successfully complete all of the requirements for a
baccalaureate degree.
• The value added from a quality advising program for student-athletes is that it promotes ownership by the student-athlete
of their academic responsibilities, assists in building positive self-esteem and supports academic progress toward intellectual
development and graduation
Objectives and Outcomes
(Assessment for all of the objectives began with Spring 2002; therefore, no mention is made of results for the fall semester.)
• To establish an on-going advising relationship with all freshmen athletes. Seventy-five percent of all scholarship freshmen will
meet with their advisor three times per semester and at least 90% of all advisees will have met with their advisor a minimum
of once per semester. This objective was met for the Spring 2002 semester.
• Coordinate advance registration activities for all currently enrolled Division I athletic teams. Eighty percent of all studentathletes
who do not have holds on their records will be registered by the end of the semester. This objective was also met for
the Spring 2002 semester.
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• To identify new student-athletes and coordinate their orientation during summer STAR program and at alternative times.
Fifty percent of all identified and accepted student-athletes attend the Summer STAR program. At this time all accepted
American student-athletes have been sent a letter from the Office of Student-Athlete Advising encouraging them to register
for 2002 Summer STAR as soon as possible. Students unable to attend are directed to contact their Student-Athlete Advisor.
• To provide quality academic support for all student-athletes. Ninety percent of all exiting student-athletes will be satisfied with
the services they received from the Office of Student-Athlete Advising based on responses from the Student-Athlete Exit
Questionnaire. The results of this questionnaire have not yet been evaluated. The Questionnaire was changed this year and
used a likert scale to improve evaluation of services. There are also open-ended questions included which have not been evaluated.
Assessment
• The above-indicated findings show that the student-athlete advising program continues to move in the right direction.
However, the success of any student-athlete advising program rides on its ability to reach key individual athletes, as well as to
the whole group. All efforts will be made to raise the percentages shown earlier within the constraints of last minute recruiting
of new student-athletes, late arrival of international athletes, timely availability and evaluation of needed high school and
college records, and individual student attitudes toward proper completion of academic work. The inclusion of student-athlete
advising staff in the recent Athletic Department Strategic Planning Process bodes well for increased cooperation between
Student-Athlete Advising and Athletic Department coaches and administrative personnel.
Unique Contributions
• The Office of Student-Athlete Advising is committed to providing academic support services to our population and to refer
students to other support services on campus. We serve an ethnically diverse group of students that includes a large international
population. For some student-athletes, the office provides a “full-court press” of activities ranging from tutoring, to conferences
to review course objectives three times a week, to study sessions necessary to help the some student-athletes to focus more
directly on academic success as well as athletic success.
• The Student-Athlete Advising Office services contribute to University recruitment and retention goals. The Office staff meet
with students and parents as a regular part of student campus recruiting visits. These meetings play a significant role in student
decisions about attending VCU. The Office then monitors student progress in meeting University academic policies, NCAA
rules and regulations regarding academics progress, and the requirements for the successful completion of the baccalaureate
degree. Though students have academic advisors in their majors, the Student-Athlete Advising staff must monitor the overall
progress of the student in relation to completion of degree requirements and compliance with NCAA regulations.
Important Challenges
• International transfer student-athletes present a difficult challenge in balancing English language classes with academic credit
requirements for NCAA eligibility. As NCAA regulations change to require that a greater percentage of coursework be
accomplished by the student in an academic year, and fewer course choices are available because of University budget cuts,
finding manageable courses schedules that combine English Language Program courses with academic courses becomes
increasingly difficult.
• In general, class scheduling for athletes to work around practice and game schedules increases as fewer classes and sections offered.
• New NCAA requirements will impose program completion regulations earlier in a student’s academic career giving them a
shorter time to adjust to academic demands.
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Reflections and Directions
• We just completed our first academic year in the new Sport Medicine Building. This new facility has allowed us to expand
and monitor services in a better fashion. Luckily, the location has not hindered students making appointments and making
use of the services. We have students in degree programs within the College and in all schools on campus, reflecting their
diversity and varied ability. Student-athletes recognition for academic awards and scholarship keeps improving. In 2001-2002,
18 students were nominated for Academic All-American representing 12 different teams.
• Through the use of quality enhancement reporting, measurable objectives will be developed and refined. Assessment results
will be used to identify problem areas and determine necessary adjustments to promote the overall program mission.
Objectives for Next Year
• Improving our tutorial program, computer lab and evaluating study hall.
• Design new web page and make it user friendly.
• Promote and nominate students of academic honors
Faculty Council Highlights
Summary
The 2001-2002 academic year has proven a difficult and tumultuous year for the faculty of College of Humanities & Sciences.
The Faculty Council responded to momentous events in various manners all the while performing its more routine tasks.
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• Regarding the more typical functions, we are proud to report that the Council now has established official ties to the CHS
Staff Council. The two bodies have agreed to maintain a flow of information between the memberships through the presidents.
The Faculty Council revised its bylaws to respond to the increased number and importance of collateral and adjunct faculty, as
well as codifying certain de facto practices and streamlining other, once-laborious procedures. In particular, after running two
midterm elections, we promulgated a change to allow the Dean and the Council, together, to appoint faculty to vacated seats.
The CHS faculty overwhelmingly approved all changes. Elsewhere, once the Promotion and Tenure Committee responded
to specific faculty concerns, it passed its revisions of the CHS P&T Guidelines to the Council where we approved them.
Subsequently we submitted the changes to the entire faculty for a vote. These changes, too, passed with over 90% approval.
We have been reviewing departmental P&T revisions for Criminal Justice and the newly formed Statistical Sciences
/Operations Research department under the old guidelines for faculty who fall under the old version. Next year, the Council
will have to review all departmental guidelines in light of the approved changes.
• With respect to university-wide affairs, the Council has agreed to work with the Provost on his initiative to move VCU from
Tier III to Tier II status. To that effect, we heard from the Dean about what such a move might mean for the College. This
related, though somewhat conversely, to his call for departments to reduce their use of adjuncts for spring semester. I have
agreed to continue the Tier II discussions in the Council next year in my function as past-president. The Council also heard
from the Dean and Dr. Pat Cummins about the new, all-university General Education proposal. The Council took no action
as individual departments had been requested to send their remarks to the Dean’s office. Ms. Sonja Moore spoke to the

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Council about Distance Learning early in the fall, apprising us of the intern program to help faculty add distance elements to
their curricula. The Council voted to support the Faculty Senate objections to the University Honor Code changes. That
measure was sent back to the University Council.
• In response to the events of September 11, the Council supported the Teach-In that Dr. David Croteau and other CHS faculty
orchestrated. We sent Dr. Croteau a letter recognizing their efforts and the success of the event. We also sent a letter to Dr.
Peter Kirkpatrick and his team on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the French Film Festival. We addressed a letter to
the President, Provost and our Dean asking that the Honors Program be administratively directed through the Provost’s office
and that the students and the program have ‘honorable’ housing. The new location is scheduled to be refurbished early fall.
Our fourth letter supported our Dean for the many strides made before the budget axe fell and for his leadership throughout
the budget crises.
In this year of adverse conditions and events, the entire faculty of the College of Humanities and Sciences is to be commended
for its fortitude and perseverance. As President of the Faculty Council, I thank all the Council members for their participation
and thoughtful consideration of the many matters brought before us.
-Kathryn Murphy-Judy, President
Staff Council Highlights
Council Members
Nancy Campbell - History Department, President
Wanda Clary - History Department, Vice-President
Vicki Byrd - Office of the Dean, Secretary/Treasurer
Anita Nelson - Office of Student Advising
Nancy Shillady - School of Mass Communications
Patsy Connors - Office of the Dean
Marilyn Covington - Office of the Dean
Aphrodite Delios - Political Science Department
Gail Golding - Psychology Department
Sharon Dawson - Office of the Dean, Ex-Officio Member
Summary
• On October 9, 2002 new Staff Council officers began their term when Nancy Campbell, President, requested that Council
members introduce themselves. Sharon Dawson, ex-officio member reported on what took place at the monthly Staff Senate
meetings at each of the Staff Council Meetings.
• The Council discussed whether a faculty member from the College’s Faculty Council should attend each Staff Council meeting
and vice versa. The Council voted unanimously to have the President ask the Faculty Council if they would concur with that
type of collaboration.
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• College Performance Appraisals were discussed during this meeting. Only three people could be chosen as Extraordinary
Contributors from throughout the College and, if money for extraordinary performance became available, would receive a
larger portion than people rated as Contributors. This was not a decision made by the College. Staff Council considered one
possibility would be writing a letter to the Dean with a copy to Human Resources expressing concern regarding staff morale.
Council discussed asking the Dean to write a letter to be put in the personnel files of those individuals who would be rated
extraordinary but downgraded because of the limitation on the number of people to be selected. Dr. Gottfredson agreed to do
so. In addition, a letter was sent to Linda Harber in Human Resources regarding this issue. Copies of this letter were sent to
Paul Timmreck, and Drs. McDavis and Gottfredson.
• Other issues that were discussed include Staff Career Development Grants, Spring Classified Staff Meeting and the 2002-2003
Officers were elected.
• A Grant Proposal Committee was proposed which viewed Staff Career Development Grant Proposals for the Staff Council.
Tiffany France, Nicole Footen, Vicki Byrd, Patsy Connors, Gail Golding, and Sharon Dawson were each awarded a grant during
the year. The Staff Career Development Grants allowed staff to have the opportunity to take classes on or off-campus. After
the class, they would give a presentation to the Staff Council of what they had learned.
• President Nancy Campbell and Vice President Wanda Clary had their “semester” meeting with the Dean. At this meeting, Dr.
Gottfredson suggested that the Staff Council host a contest to see who would have the best idea for saving the college money
(Money Savings Contest). The winner, Evelyn Perham, was announced at the Spring Classified Staff Meeting which was held
on April 16, 2002. The winner was suppose to receive a gift certificate dinner for two valued up to $50, but Ms. Perham instead
asked for a certificate of recognition that was presented by Dean Gottfredson at the Spring Classified Staff Meeting.
• A Nominations Committee was appointed to conduct the tally of the Classified Staff Council’s Election ballots. The results
are as follows:
Staff Council 2002-03
Patsy Connors - President Aphrodite Delios - Vice President Gail Golding - Treasurer/Secretary
Council Members:
Anita Nelson John Geerdes Janice Guyer
Jeff Lodge India Urbach Michelle Wilde
Stephanie Millican - Alternate
Conclusion
• The Staff Council encourages classified staff to become more active in the College’s activities and decisions. One idea suggested
was to draw five classified staff names each month and deliver a “candy bag” to each person whose name was drawn just to say
“thank you” and remind them we’re here for them.
• Another staff recognition idea was to recognize staff who are not otherwise commended for their support. (Maintenance,
Housekeeping, etc.) It was suggested that a certificate and letter of appreciation be awarded to the individual with a copy
of the letter sent to their supervisor.
• The Staff Council provides a website for classified staff to make open suggestions regarding classified needs and to see what the
Council is doing to support the Staff of the College of Humanities & Sciences.
• The Staff Council would like to thank Dean Gofftredson for all the support he has shown our committee and the College’s
staff during the year.
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Faculty Development Highlights
During 2001-2002, faculty in the College took part in a variety of activities designed to enhance teaching, scholarship, and service
aspects of their careers. The College sponsored some activities, while others were offered by University offices. Many programs
that were recently initiated or reinstated had to be canceled because of the severe budget cuts.
• The College continued its orientation program for all newly hired faculty. The afternoon session included presentations on
academic advising (John Borgard, Art Seidenberg), student support systems (Jon Steingass), graduate programs, sponsored
research and technology (Al Sneden), faculty affairs (Laura Moriarty), personnel and financial matters (Amy Unger, Sherry
Stanbach, Jennifer Wilkerson, Patsy Connor), and faculty council (Kathy Murphy-Judy, President).
• The College continued the faculty mentoring luncheon series for untenured, first-year faculty members. There were seven
luncheon sessions on various topics including teaching, grants and sponsored programs, development and alumni relations,
promotion and tenure, college and university service, and administration/faculty governance. Panels of senior faculty made
presentations and responded to questions about the various topics. Those who participated in the luncheon sessions included
Jay Albanese, Charles Blem, Sharon Dawson, Margot Garcia, Robert Godwin-Jones, Dean Gottfredson, Gary Johnson,
Provost McDavis, Kathy Murphy-Judy, Barbara Myers, Phil Schwarz, Al Sneden, Jamie Stillman, Christina Turner, and Lida
Vallarino. The new faculty included Jason Byrd (Biology/Forensic Science), Russell Cargo (Political Science and Public
Administration), Aimee Ellington (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), Pamela Garner (Psychology), Jill Hardin
(Statistical Sciences and Operations Research), Mar Martinez-Gongora (Foreign Languages), A.J. Shriar (Urban Studies
and Planning), Michael Southam-Gerow (Psychology), and Darius Kuciauskas (Chemistry).
• The Community Service Associates Program represents a valuable University outreach of teaching and research functions
to the community. This year two members from the College were selected to participate in the program: Ralph Hambrick
(Political Science and Public Administration) working with the Virginia Department of Human Resources Management and
Mort Gulak (Urban Studies and Planning) working with the City of Richmond.
• The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute established the VCU Leadership Development Program to prepare the next generation
of leadership within the University. In its second year of operation, three faculty members from the College participated in
this program: Kathryn Murphy Judy (Foreign Languages), Kevin Allison (Psychology), and Carolyn Funk (Political Science
and Public Administration).
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Advancement Highlights
Development
• In fiscal year 2001-02, the College of Humanities & Sciences and the School of Mass Communications alumni, friends, faculty,
staff, corporations and foundations contributed $917,857 in cash gifts to the College, School, Departments and Programs. The
following chart indicates the gift amounts by source:
*All figures are preliminary. Final figures available
in September 2002.
• Each year in the fall and spring, alumni are asked to make an annual gift. Annual Giving contributions are used to support
graduate and undergraduate student scholarships, advanced classroom technology and materials, student research, and faculty
development. This year, Annual Giving new gifts and pledges totaled $32,722.50.
• In January 2002, the College launched The Dean’s Club. The Dean’s Club recognizes alumni and friends of the College of
Humanities & Sciences who annually support the unrestricted needs of the College and its mission to provide our students
with world-class educational opportunities, our faculty with the resources for strengthening their scholarship, and our community
with the knowledge and skills needed for continued growth and security. As of June 30, 2002 the Dean’s Club generated
$8,545 through the generous gifts of these alumni and friends:
1838 Club ($1,000+)
John H. and Peggy J. Borgard Fred M. Hawkridge Gregory B. Young
Stephen D. Gottfredson
Professor’s Guild ($500-$999)
Paul D. and Mary France Minton Ronald Lee Tillett Patricia A. Wilkerson
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Lecturer’s Circle ($250-$499)
Ronald E. Froede, Jr Quig J. Han Samantha W. Marrs
Carolyn L. Funk
Susan White Holsworth
Instructor’s Circle ($100-$249)
Robert H. Brawand, Jr. Rosalind B. Jennings Tuan Anh Nguyen and Yen H. Luc
Laurin L. and Kathleen J. Henry Kenneth M. Kiernan Claudia M. Phillips
James Hooker Margaret L. May Judy Van Slyke Turk
Betty Hutzler
Shirley R. McDaniel

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• Scholarship campaigns raised $175,810.41 for scholarships including new gifts, as well as pledge payments toward existing
scholarships in all areas of the College. Of this amount, $88,575 represents corporate scholarships in the VCU Adcenter.
Gift Highlights for 2001-02
• Before his death in 1993, Dr. David Manning White started the Mass Communications Development Fund to support faculty
development in the School of Mass Communications. His widow, Dr. Catherine White, continues to support this fund and this
year donated an additional $10,244.35. An additional $5,000 was given to support the School’s Virginia Communications Hall
of Fame.
• The Mary Lou Gibson Scholarship in Mathematical Sciences was established as an endowment fund through a $10,000 gift
made in February 2002 by Mr. Larry Gibson. The scholarship is named in memory of Mr. Gibson’s wife, a retired, adjunct professor
in VCU Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. Mrs. Gibson held a master’s degree in Mathematics from VCU.
Additional gifts have been made in Mrs. Gibson’s memory by family, friends and co-workers. The scholarship will be presented
each spring to a rising junior or rising senior Mathematics major with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 whom also has a
demonstrated intent to teach mathematics.
• Dr. Audrey Y. Smedley, professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies, established the endowed U. and M. Smedley
Family Merit Scholarship with a $20,000 gift. The scholarship is named in honor of her parents. The purpose of this scholarship
is to encourage serious study and research on the African-American experience and to support qualified students who have
an interest in Africa and/or the African American experience. The scholarship will be awarded based on merit to a full-time
undergraduate student in the African-American Studies Program. It is anticipated that students awarded the scholarship will
maintain a 3.0 grade point average, and will not be engaged in full-time work off campus.
• In summer 2001, the faculty, staff, students and alumni of the College mourned the loss of our friend and colleague, Dr. Ken
Stackhouse. In his nearly 30-year career at VCU, Ken brought much more than excellence in Spanish to the Department of
Foreign Languages. He introduced the study of Portuguese to VCU, as well as the summer study abroad program in Spain.
His love of Spanish theatre led him to expand the opportunities for local high school language students through competitions
held at VCU and through international group performances for VCU students and the greater Richmond community. In his
honor, the College established the Kenneth A. Stackhouse Scholarship in the Department of Foreign Languages at VCU.
This $500 scholarship will be awarded each spring to a rising Junior or Senior majoring in Spanish. The award is based on merit.
• The Board of Visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University named the following endowed accounts, which have reached
or exceeded $10,000:
U. and M. Smedley Family Merit Scholarship in African-American Studies
Department of Foreign Languages Merit Scholarship
Anne P. Satterfield Merit Scholarship
L. Douglas Wilder Merit Scholarship
Pambianchi-Musick Merit Scholarship
Mary Lou Gibson Scholarship in Mathematical Sciences
Thelma Sara Biddle Scholarship
Leigh E. Grosenick Scholarship in Public Administration
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Alumni Activities
Among our proudest moments as a College is the opportunity to recognize our alumni for their professional achievements. This
year, we were given the honor of recognizing two outstanding individuals:
• Alumni Star Janice Meck was a bit frightened when she showed up at VCU in the fall of 1979. She was determined to go
for an advanced degree in Biology, “But I had a small child to raise, and I hadn’t been in school for 11 years. “I had nightmares
that I would end up on the street.” She didn’t.
Janice found a strong, supportive academic environment. “The students were everything at VCU.” She found that the
university’s professors, “particularly my advisor Dr. C. R. Blem,” felt their primary job was to help students succeed. On the
way to her degree Janice worked with Dr. Blem on a project involving the physiology of the House Finch. The two later cowrote
a research paper on the project that was selected as the outstanding major publication in the Wilson Bulletin in 1984.
After receiving her Masters in 1982, Janice worked at MCV for nine years as a research assistant/associate in cardiovascular
physiology. Over that same period she began to work with NASA through a cardiovascular experiment aboard the space shuttle.
In 1991 she accepted a position as a NASA scientist at the Johnson Space Center. A year later she was named head of the
Center’s cardiovascular research lab and its 18 employees. She then set out to answer some novel questions about the effects of
space flight on the circulatory performance of astronauts. Papers published by Janice and her colleagues in the years since have
changed the way people think about the effects of extended space flight.
Janice received her Ph. D. from the University of Texas – Galveston in 2000. She has become widely known in her field
and has made presentations at schools ranging from M.I.T. and Johns Hopkins to Penn State, Case Western and the German
Space Agency. She also has more than 50 professional publications to her credit. In 2000 and 2001 Janice received two
national honors that recognize her remarkable achievements at NASA. She received the 2001 Rotary National Award for
Space Achievement, recognition considered “the Academy Awards of the space industry.” The previous year she was one of
59 young scientists named by President Bill Clinton for Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. That
award included $200,000 in research funds.
Janice reports her success at NASA has come from her perseverance – “some call it stubbornness” – in assembling
resources and focusing on specific goals. And she credits her lessons at VCU. “The basic lessons regarding personal and scientific
integrity, and irrefutable scientific technique that I learned studying birds in the basement of the biology building (at VCU)
were the basis of my success as I studied astronauts in the American space shuttle.”
In 1979, Janice Meck began her graduate education at VCU with some trepidation, but with remarkable abilities driven
by a tough determination. Today she holds both Masters and Doctorate, and a national reputation as an honored leader in her
field. Today her son is a student in VCU’s graduate school. She never ended up on the streets.
• Distinguished Alumnus Award Mr. John (Jack) C. Christian, Jr. earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Public
Administration degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, and has served on the adjunct faculty at VCU, teaching in
the area of government finance. Since 1988 he held the position of Controller, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles where
he directs all budgeting, accounting and financial management activities. Mr. Christian is actively involved in the Department
of Political Science and Public Administration. Last year, he spearheaded the campaign that successfully created and endowed
the Leigh E. Grosenick Scholarship in Public Administration.
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• After much discussion and research of peer programs, the College will not develop a formal Board of Directors. However,
planning is currently in progress for the development of a “volunteer corp” to recruit alumni to be active participants in
College events and activities. In addition, one alumnus will be selected as needed to serve on the University Alumni Board.
• Our goals of these activities remain to advance the cause of a liberal arts and sciences education and to stimulate continuing
interest and professional relationships between the College of Humanities & Sciences and its alumni, to further the awareness
and understanding of alumni with regard to the College’s goals, progress and opportunities.

Academic and Administrative Activities
Staff and Training
• The College was fortunate to add Shirley R. McDaniel to the Development team as Development Associate. Ms. McDaniel
retired from VCU’s EEO Office in August 2001 after 30 years of distinguished service. She began her employment with the
College in September 2001.
• April Meyer, a senior in the School of the Arts, began working as the College’s Publications Designer in June 2001. Through
a cooperative agreement with the Division of Outreach Publications, Ms. Meyer keeps an office/design station in Founders
Hall and focuses on projects assigned by the College. Some of her projects for 2001-2002 include the 2001-02 Annual Report,
promotional materials for the First Novelist Festival, promotional materials for Biology and BIS Alumni Reunions, promotional
materials and program booklets for the Reasoning Conference, Graduation Posters, Faculty Authors Reception invitation and
poster, the Dean’s Club Brochure, the Scholarship Brochure, Alumni Luggage Tag and Window Decals, Department newsletters
for Mass Communications (IntraComm - Summer 2002), Psychology (Summer 2002), Chemistry (2002), Forensics (Spring
2002, Fall 2001 and Spring 2001) and Spanish (Fall 2001). In addition to being responsible for updating the content of the
H&S Web site, she built an entirely new section for the Office of Academic Advising and implemented an online calendar
featuring events hosted by the various departments.
• Fiscal support for Development and Alumni Relations is provided by Jennifer Wilkerson. Upon Mrs. Wilkerson’s departure for
maternity leave, Patsy Connors took on those responsibilities.
• The Development and Alumni Relations staff in the College maintain a close working relationship with the new Director of
Alumni Relations in the School of Mass Communications, Suzanne Horsley and with Sally Holzgrefe, Director of Development
of the VCU AdCenter. Income totals for the School of Mass Communications are included in the totals for the College.
• In August 2001, the first College of Humanities & Sciences Development and Alumni Relations Retreat was held for all
department chairs and fiscal administrators. In a three-hour program, each department was given a notebook of procedures
and practices in Development and Alumni Relations. In addition, each department received financial summaries of each of
their gift-based accounts. The main focus of the retreat was strategies for increasing alumni donations by increasing alumni
communications and participation.
Department/Program Support
• Shirley McDaniel assisted in the organization of the Department of Biology Reunion in April 2002 (100 attendees) and the
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Reunion in June 2002 (55 attendees).
• Jamie Stillman was a member of the planning committee for the First Novelist Festival in the Department of English, Master
of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. The Festival was held on April 27, 2002. Approximately 50 members of the public
and VCU communities attended.
• An events calendar was developed to showcase all department and College activities open to students, alumni and the general
public.
• Scholarship recipients participated in the annual Thank-a-thon in April 2000. Recipients signed contracts for their awards
and were provided detailed information for preparing acknowledgements to donors.
• Jamie Stillman continues to be a member of the committee to support the development of the Inger and Walter Rice Center
for Environmental Studies.
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Alumni Communications
• All CH&S and Mass Communications alumni received one issue of the alumni magazine, Exchange, in 2001-2002. In that
issue, alums were asked to send in a business card to update our files. The 103 individuals who responded received a laminated
College of Humanities & Sciences Alumni Luggage Tag.
• All donors to the alumni phone campaign received College of Humanities & Sciences Alumni Pride Window Decals.
• All recent grads received a letter of congratulations and a reply card for providing up-to-date information to the College
on their current endeavors.
Faculty Recognition
• In November 2001, 27 faculty authors throughout the College were honored at the Faculty Book Authors Reception. Those
recognized published a book between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001.
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Department of
Biology
Dr. Leonard A. Smock
Chair

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Ms. Irma B. Bateman - Instructor
Dr. Charles R. Blem - Professor
Ms. Leann B. Blem - Assistant Professor Dr. James E. Gates - Associate Chair
& Associate Professor
Dr. Bonnie L. Brown - Associate Professor
Dr. Karen M. Kester - Assistant Professor
Dr. Sharon K. Bullock - Instructor
Dr. Kendra L. Lawrence - Instructor
Dr. Jason H. Byrd - Assistant Professor
Dr. John F. Pagels - Professor
Dr. Joseph P. Chinnici - Associate Professor
Dr. Rhoda E. Perozzi -Assistant Professor
Dr. Carolyn M. Conway - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Gerald A. Peters - Professor
Dr. William B. Eggelston, Jr. - Associate
Professor
Dr. Gregory C. Garman - Director,
Center for Environmental Studies
& Associate Professor
Dr. Gregory M. Plunkett - Associate
Professor
Dr. John J. Ryan - Assistant Professor
Dr. Leonard A. Smock - Chair &
Professor
Dr. Jennifer K. Stewart - Associate
Professor
Dr. Robert M. Tombes - Assistant
Professor
Dr. James M. Turbeville - Assistant
Professor
Ms. Gail C. Turner - Assistant Professor
Dr. Stanley R. Webb - Associate Professor
Ms. Anne B. Wright - Instructor
Dr. Michael L. Fine - Professor
Dr. Robert W. Fisher - Associate Professor
Dr. Charles B. Raymond -Research
Associate
Dr. Fang-Sheng Wu - Associate Professor
Dr. Donald R. Young - Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Wayne C. Hall
Dr. Miles Johnson
Dr. T. Daniel Kimbrough
Mrs. Margaret May
Dr. Sara M. McCowen
Dr. Richard R. Mills
Mr. Walter L. Richards
Staff
Ms. Nicole Caran
Ms. Jean R. Dennis
Mr. Don M. Fritsch
Ms. Galina A. Kazanina
Mr. Mark A. King
Ms. Stephanie M. Millican
Ms. Cecial C. Patrick
Ms. Jill D. Reid
Ms. Bonnie B. VanDusen
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Department of Biology
Activities and Accomplishments
• The Department of Biology moved to the new Life Sciences Building at 1000 West Cary Street. The building provides modern
teaching and research facilities that have already greatly expanded our abilities to provide the best instructional opportunities
to students and a state-of-the-art research environment for faculty and students. The formal dedication of the building, held in
November, was a gala event that featured speeches by, among others, President Trani, Governor-elect Mark Warner, U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Roger Gregory, and the Rector of VCU’s Board of Visitors, Edward Flippen.
• The Department held its annual graduation ceremony on May 18 in the Student Commons following the University
Commencement, conferring nearly 100 B.S. degrees and 8 M.S. degrees. A reception was held following the ceremony for
the approximately 500 students, family members and friends who attended the event.
• The Department held a reunion for all Biology alums and former faculty members in April. The event was a rousing success,
featuring welcoming speeches by President Trani, Vice Provost Huff, and several former students. The alums were treated to
tours of the new building, a barbecue lunch, and a lot of time to talk with former instructors and old friends.
• The Department was the recipient of the second place award for greatest increase in federal research funding among all VCU
departments over the past three years. The award was presented at VCU’s First Research Banquet.
• Dr. Sara McCowen, who retired at the end of this academic year, was the recipient of the College of Humanities and Sciences’
Distinguished Service Award. Also, Dr. Arthur Seidenberg, who joined the Department in 1968 and who presently serves as
the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, was the recipient of the College’s Distinguished Career Service
Award. Congratulations to both of them.
• Dr. Janice Meck was named a VCU Alumni Star at the 2001 Alumni Stars Founders Day event. Dr. Meck (M.S. 1983)
presently is head of the cardiovascular research laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
• The research of Drs. Karen Kester, Stan Webb and John Anderson was featured in a segment on the PBS/Ward Television
Productions series Secrets of the Sequence. The feature was titled “Insects as Biohazard Sentinels.”
• Graduating senior Ms. Joyce Yue was the recipient of a number of departmental, College, and University awards, including the
VCU Alumni Association Award, University Service Award, Lauren A. Woods Fellowship, and the Outstanding Graduating
Senior in Biology Award. Congratulations to her.
• Ms. Chuckia Brown and Ms. Felicha Anders were recipients of an award at VCU’s Black History in the Making ceremony.
• Dr. Mary Beth Saffo of Arizona State University presented a lively seminar titled “Living and evolving together: the dynamics
and complexities of symbiotic interactions” to about 250 attendees of the Department’s annual Darwin’s Day Seminar.
Attendance also was strong for the 3nd Annual Joint Chemistry and Biology Seminar, presented this year by Dr. Robert
Kretsinger of the University of Virginia. The title of his presentation was “Overview of evolution of EF-hand proteins.”
• The Department was deeply saddened by the death of Mr. Tim Lohrman, who for many years had managed our stockroom.
We miss him.
Teaching
• Dr. Robert Fisher continued his collaborations with faculty at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College on a NIH Bridges to
the Baccalaureate grant, designed to better prepare community college students for matriculation in science degree programs
at four-year institutions. Dr. Fisher also continued his work, funded by the U.S. Department of Education through the School
of Education, on infusing technology into local K-12 education. His service learning course – HUMS 391 Science Education
in the Urban Environment – continues to attract many students who, as part of the course, are linked with local school systems
to provide them with insights into teaching biology in urban settings.
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• Ms. Anne Wright and Dr. Leonard Smock were awarded a grant from the Jesse Ball DuPont Foundation to develop outreach
education programs, especially to involve local school systems at the Walter and Inger Rice Center for Environmental Life
Sciences.
• Dr. Joe Chinnici, Coordinator of Undergraduate Life Science Education, developed and coordinated the teaching of the innovative
course LFSC 101 Introduction to Life Sciences during the fall and spring semesters. Dr. Chinnici also continued his
efforts in the development of scientific literacy through his work as a co-investigator on the NSF-funded Virginia Urban
Corridor Teacher Preparation grant.
• Dr. Rob Tombes placed 36 undergraduate students into research labs through the Department’s Undergraduate Biomedical
Research Program.
Research
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• The Department’s research funding continued to increase at a remarkable rate. As noted above, the Department was recognized
for its greatly increased level of federal funding over the past three years. The funding came from a variety of federal sources,
including NIH, NSF, USDA, and DOD. Funding from other sources also continued to rise.
• Dr. John Anderson continued his research efforts using multispectral remote sensing to detect environmental resources and
monitor impacts on those resources. Funding for those efforts came from the Department of Defense, Drug Enforcement
Agency, and the Virginia Department of Transportation.
• Dr. Charles Blem and Ms. Leann Blem completed the 16th consecutive year of research on nest site selection of Prothonotary
Warblers at sites along the James River. Their research shows potential implications of global warming on the breeding ecology
of these birds. They also were funded by the Earthwatch Institute to conduct research on osprey populations in the Flathead
Lake region of Montana.
• Dr. Bonnie Brown received funding for her research on mapping of the oyster genome from the Jeffress Memorial Trust.
• Dr. William Eggleston’s research on the molecular characterization of mobile gene elements in maize was funded by a grant
from the Jeffress Memorial Trust.
• Dr. Jeffrey Elhai, who joined us this year, was funded by the NSF for research on DNA modification and redulation associated
with patterned heterocyst differentiation in Cyanobacteria.
• Dr. Greg Garman, who also serves as the Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, conducted research on a variety of
aspects of fish ecology. Among these were projects on the age and growth of fish, the ecology of migratory fish, and research on
various water quality issues. This research was funded by a number of state agencies. The City of Richmond also has funded Dr.
Garman and Dr. Stan Webb for research focused on bioterrorism threats to the city’s water supply.
• Drs. Karen Kester, Stan Webb and John Anderson were funded on a large grant from the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, exploring the use of insects and fluorescence techniques to detect biohazards.
• Dr. John Pagels was funded by the U.S. Forest Service, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and the Virginia
Department of Conservation and Recreation for research on endangered small mammals, including especially the northern
flying squirrel and the rock vole.
• Dr. Gregory Plunkett continued his work on the biogeography and evolutionary relationships of the plant family Araliaceae
through his NSF grant and funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust. He and graduate student Taylor Sprenkle conducted
field work in the South Pacific islands of Fiji and New Caledonia this spring as part of their research.
• Dr. John Ryan’s research in the field of molecular immunology, and particularly on the function and neoplasia of mast cells,
was conducted through two grants from the NIH.

Department of Biology
• Dr. Leonard Smock received funding from the NSF and several state agencies for research on water quality issues related to
urban streams and on the effects of changing land use on the biota of streams. He also was funded by the U.S. Forest Service
for research on the biodiversity and habitat associations of dragonflies in North Carolina.
• Dr. Jennifer Stewart’s research on catecholamines in macrophages was funded by the NSF. She also continued her work on
phenylethanolamine N-methyl transferase in brain and lymphoid tissues through funding from the Jeffress Memorial Trust.
• Dr. Rob Tombes’ research on characterizing CaM kinase targeting domains continued to be funded by the NSF.
• Dr. Clint Turbeville, who joined us this year, received funding from the NSF for his research on the phylogenetic position
of acoelomate Bilateria using mitochondrial gene arrangements.
• Dr. Fang-Sheng Wu conducted research in the Republic of China through funding from the Taiwan National Seed Research
and Development Institute. Those funds and a Jeffress Memorial Trust grant provided funding for his research on plant genetics.
• Dr. Donald Young’s research on the ecology of barrier island plant communities, including studies on fluorescence remote sensing
of plant stress, was funded by the NSF, Department of Defense, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
Service
• Faculty members continued to influence their fields through editorial and review contributions. Dr. Greg Plunkett was named
Associate Editor for Systematic Botany and Dr. Charles Blem served as Associate Editor for the American Ornithologists’
Union journal The Auk. Dr. Young was on the editorial board of the Journal of Coastal Zone Research and Dr. Gerry Peters
continued serving on the editorial board of Symbiosis.
• Dr. Charles Blem was re-elected to serve as First Vice President of the Wilson Ornithological Society and as Vice President
of the Virginia Society of Ornithology.
• Dr. Bonnie Brown was the editor of the newsletter of the U.S. chapter of the World Aquaculture Society and continued to
serve as an appointed member of the U.S. Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee.
• Dr. Jason Byrd led or participated in a number of workshops for law enforcement agencies, focusing on the use of forensic
entomology in criminal investigations. He also served as Chairman of the American Board of Forensic Entomology.
• Dr. Michael Fine served on the Executive Board of the International BioAcoustics Council.
• Dr. John Pagels served on the Virginia Mammal Advisory Committee and led several recovery teams for endangered species of
mammals. He also led a workshop on mammals sponsored by the Wintergreen Nature Foundation and the Virginia Museum
of Natural History.
• Dr. Leonard Smock continued as a Council Member of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He also served on the
Science Advisory Board for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
Objectives and Outcomes
• The Department more than met the performance plan goals that it set for itself during the past year. Our primary goal was to
successfully move to the new building. Though it took far longer than expected, including much final work once we moved
in, we now have all aspects of the building fully functioning. This has greatly aided our teaching and research capabilities.
• The Department’s research efforts continued to grow in accordance with its performance plan. This is substantiated by the
award we received at the VCU Research Banquet acknowledging our great increase in federal research dollars received by a
number of our faculty. Overall, faculty research productivity and outside recognition of our scholarship is at an all-time high.
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• Another goal of the Department was to increase its outreach education activities. We have done so through a number of
venues. Besides the continuing efforts of Dr. Robert Fisher and others, the Jessie Ball DuPont grant received by Anne Wright
and Dr. Leonard Smock have greatly facilitated development of K-12 programs involving biology faculty both at the Rice
Environmental Life Science Center and on the Academic Campus.
Assessment
• Dr. James Gates is coordinating the program for assessing and reporting scientific reasoning competency of non-science majors.
This effort examines the effect of the general education courses in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics on non-science majors.
Program Review
• The Department continued to implement aspects of its Program Review conducted in 1998. Particular focus has been placed
on further developing our research productivity, as well as continuing development of curriculum and advancement activities.
New Faculty and Staff
• Dr. Kendra Lawrence joined the Department this year at the rank of Instructor. Dr. Lawrence, who received her Ph.D. from
the University of Kentucky in entomology, is teaching introductory biology, environmental science, and ecology lab courses.
We are very pleased to have her with us.
• Ms. Jill Reid assumed the position of Coordinator of Introductory Biology Laboratories. Ms. Reid received her M.S. from the
Department this past year, working in Dr. Greg Plunkett’s lab. She has been busy this year coordinating the many introductory
lab classes that we teach and developing new exercises for those classes.
Objectives for Next Year
• The Department will continue to focus on developing and implementing appropriate aspects of VCU Life Sciences. In particular,
we will continue development of our part of interdisciplinary programs such as biotechnology, bioinformatics and forensic
science. Another effort will be made to decrease class sizes in our introductory and core courses, although our ability to do so
will be limited by mandated budget cuts. We also will continue to increase our efforts in research, both in terms of funding
and numbers of papers published, and in the recruitment of graduate students. We also will place high priority on developing
a working plan for our use of the Rice Center.
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Department of
Chemistry
Dr. Fred M. Hawkridge
Chair

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Mr. Jon C. Baker - Instructor
Dr. Charlene D. Crawley - Assistant
Professor
Dr. M. Samy El-Shall - Professor
Dr. Nicholas P. Farrell - Professor
Dr. John B. Fenn - Affiliate Research
Professor
Dr. Fred M. Hawkridge - Chair
& Professor
Dr. Sally S. Hunnicutt - Assistant Chair
& Associate Professor
Dr. Darius Kuciauskas - Assistant
Professor
Dr. David C. Muddiman - Associate
Professor
Dr. Raphael M. Ottenbrite - Professor
Ms. Deborah L. Polo - Instructor
Dr. Yun Qu - Collateral Assistant
Professor
Dr. Suzanne M. Ruder - Associate
Professor
Dr. Sarah C. Rutan - Professor
Dr. Donald D. Shillady - Professor
Dr. Albert T. Sneden - Professor &
Senior Associate Dean
Dr. James Terner - Professor
Dr. Joseph Topich - Associate Professor
Ms. Ruth M. Topich - Instructor
Dr. Lidia M. Vallarino - Professor
Dr. Stephen P. Watton - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Michael E. Wright - Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. R.G. Bass
Dr. Billy L. Stump
Dr. Stuart J. Silvers
Dr. Lawrence Winters
Staff
Ms. Helen C. Brown
Ms. Wanda M. Hewlett
Ms. Diane M. Ruff
Ms. Amy C. Wheless
Ms. Rose M. Vaughan-Bookman
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Department of Chemistry
Activities and Accomplishments
• The Department has had a productive year in teaching, research, and service together with a number of events that were
or particular note. This year Professor Norman J. Dovichi presented the Twenty Sixth Mary E. Kapp Lecture in Chemistry
speaking on the Human Genome Project. Professor Dovichi is acknowledged to be one of the primary innovators in capillary
electrophoresis that has enabled to sequencing of the Human Genome. He recently moved to the University of Washington
where he is the Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in that department.
• Professor Samy El-Shall presented the Keynote address at the International Conference on New Trends in Chemistry at Cairo
University, Cairo, Egypt.
• Professor Nick Farrell is Chair of the Gordon Conference on Metals in Medicine to be held July 21-26, 2002. He is also Chair
of the International Symposium on Platinum Compounds in Cancer Chemotherapy to be held fall of 2003. A drug developed
in his research group is presently undergoing Phase II Clinical Trials after showing efficacy for a number of cancer cells.
• Professor John B. Fenn received the 2002 Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award for outstanding contributions
to biomolecular technologies and applications. He presented his Award address at the annual ABRF meting in Austin, Texas
in March 2002 and received the $10,000 award supported by Agilent Technologies.
• Professor Fred Hawkridge will receive the 2002 Benedetti-Pichler Award at the 2002 Eastern Analytical Symposium to be
held in November 2002 in Somerset, New Jersey.
• Professor Ray Ottenbrite presented a plenary address at the PolyMillennium International Conference held in Montpellier,
France in September 2001.
• Professor Sarah Rutan was the Keynote Speaker at the Royal Society of Chemistry Symposium on Chemometric Tools for
Universal Calibration held in London, England in December 2001. Her paper was entitled “Application of Hard Modeling
Constraints in Alternating Least Squares Analysis.”
• Professor James Terner was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
held in Okazaki, Japan in May 2001.
• Professor Lidia Vallarino was an invited Plenary Speaker at the International Rare Earth Research Conference held in
San Paulo, Brazil during September 2001. Following the events of September 2001 it was decided not to attend.
• Professor Steve Watton presented invited talks at the Metals in Biology Gordon Conference held in Ventura, California in
January 2002 and at the National American Chemical Society Meeting in Chicago Illinois during fall semester 2001 in the
ACS/Carnegie Program on “Preparing Future Faculty.”
• The Department of Chemistry has developed a Mass Spectrometry Resource Center with support from the College and from
the Life Sciences Initiative. A search for a Research Assistant Professor to operate and to more fully integrate this facility with
the initiative in Proteomics here at Virginia Commonwealth University is underway with excellent prospects of being successful.
• A new Instrumentation Resource facility has also been developed under its Director, Professor Sarah C. Rutan, and a new staff
person has been hired to manage and maintain this new asset that supports both our teaching and research efforts.
• Efforts have also been framed to hire a technical person to be the manager of the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry
facility that has been developed over the recent past. The addition of these facilities with personnel assigned to their management
constitutes a major step forward for this department.
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Teaching
• This year the Department graduated 31 students with the B.S. in Chemistry of which three received the American Chemical
Society Certified B.S. Degree. Two students received the M.S. in Chemistry and four received the Ph.D. in Chemistry. The
Department held its Graduation Ceremony at Pace Memorial Campus Ministries and hosted a luncheon reception for graduates,
their families and friends. Approximately 200 people attended this celebration.
• As noted earlier in this report Professors Ruder and Hunnicutt have obtained renewal of the NSF-REU-RET grant that brings
over a dozen undergraduates from around the country to the department each summer to conduct research as well as three area
high school chemistry teachers. This is a very valuable contribution to the teaching, research, and service efforts of the department.
• The Undergraduate Academic Committee has completed its evaluation of the undergraduate curriculum as noted earlier and
two new B.S. Degree Tracks are available to our students including Biochemistry and Molecular Modeling.
• In other areas the Department has enjoyed participating in some important new initiatives with the College and with the
University. The approval of a new B.S. in Forensic Sciences that includes tracks in biology and chemistry will move the
Department in a new direction. This new degree program is already drawing remarkable interest and application pressure and
should in the near future become a strong adjunct to the highly successful M.S. degree in Forensic Science offered in the
Department of Criminal Justice. Dr. Joseph Topich has instituted two new laboratory experiments in our General Chemistry
Laboratory sequence with focus on forensic science. All students taking these courses are involved in these new experiments
that further serve to educate our undergraduates about the opportunities and importance of forensic sciences.
• Faculty are increasingly incorporating technology in classroom and laboratory instruction, particularly in the use of Blackboard.
Drs. Hunnicutt, Shillady, Topich, Ruder, and Rutan have been particularly active in this area. Dr. Shillady has incorporated
a number of molecular modeling programs in Physical Chemistry and Chemistry in the News using support from the VCEPT
grant of Drs. Haver and Farely from the Mathematics Department.
• During September 2001 Dr. Shillady organized a PC-Spartan Workshop that brought 12 faculty from the region to VCU
to learn how to use SPARTAN Molecular Modeling software for use in classroom and laboratory instruction.
• Dr. Lidia Vallarino has written a desktop version of a textbook for Chemistry and Society, CHEM 110, one of the Department’s
General Education courses, in collaboration with Dr. James Quagliano, Dr. Joseph Topich, Ms. Ruth Topich and Ms. Debbie
Polo. This text will be used in it present form during the summer 2002 session and during the coming year national textbook
publishers will be approached to produce this book nationally. This project has focused on presenting chemistry to the nonscience
student in a manner that is relevant to their current lives and to society globally.
• Dr. Steve Watton implemented Calibrated Peer Review online writing software in his General Chemistry, CHEM 102 course,
during the spring 2002 semester. While all students did not respond positively to this new tool, it did show value for students
who took advantage of this option.
Research
• Much of the research productivity of the faculty in the Department is presented in the sections that list the grants and the
publications of the faculty. The productivity of the faculty continues at a high level with a total in grant support of $1,821,849.
In addition, faculty published over 40 peer reviewed papers with an additional six books chapters and one edited volume.
Over 60 presentations were given at international, national, and regional meetings by faculty and students in the Department.
The number of prestigious invited papers presented by the faculty, summarized earlier, attests to the quality of the work being
conducted in the Department and the visibility of this work internationally.
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Service
• Dr. Jerry Bass, Professor Emeritus, serves as Councilor to the American Chemical Society representing the Virginia Section
of the ACS. He is also a member of the ACS Meetings Committee.
• Dr. Charlene Crawley continues to serve as the Publicity Officer of the national Analytical Division of the American
Chemical Society.
• Professor El-Shall is working on the VCU Team to establish research collaborations with the Qatar Foundation and faculty
here at the University.
• Dr. Fred Hawkridge serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. He is also Chair of the Awards
Committee of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
• Dr. Sally Hunnicutt is the Chair of National Chemistry Week Activities for the Virginia Section of the American Chemical
Society. This year about 5,000 people visited the activities that she coordinated at the Virginia Science Museum and the
event was covered by local news media.
• Dr. Ray Ottenbrite serves as Chair of the Frontiers in Polymer Applications in Medicine Association, he Chairs the International
Committee of the Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society, and he is a member of the Industrial Committee of
the Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society. He also continues as Editor of the Journal of Bioactive and Compatible
Polymers and serves on the Editorial Board of Polymers for Advanced Technologies.
• Dr. Al Sneden continues to serve as Senior Associate Dean of the College of Humanities & Sciences and Interim Dean
of the School of Graduate Studies while maintaining a research program in the Department.
• Faculty in the department continue to actively contribute to the review of grants, papers submitted for publication and manuscripts.
Objectives and Outcomes
• A major objective during this year has included curriculum evaluation at the undergraduate and graduate level. Courses in
organic chemistry at the graduate level have been revised to provide additional 1.5 credit hour options to better conform to
the new curriculum guidelines approved during this year for the Ph.D. degree. At the undergraduate level, extensive revisions
have taken place and new options for chemistry majors have been implemented. The long-standing B.S. in Chemical Science
and B.S. Professional Chemist options have been extended to now include B.S. degrees with a Biochemistry concentration,
a Chemical Modeling concentration, and an American Chemical Society certified B.S. degree with Honors. Together with
these new options, as mentioned above, the chemistry track in the B.S. in Forensic Sciences degree program has also been
approved this year. The faculty have achieved these curriculum revisions through thoughtful hard work.
Assessment
• During the Departmental Review last year surveys were conducted for a number of different groups of students including: students
currently enrolled in chemistry course who are not chemistry majors, current undergraduate chemistry majors, current graduate
students, B.S. alumni, and M.S. and Ph.D. alumni. Quantitative data were included in the Self-Study Report of March 2001
for these surveys. The response for all of these groups was dominated (greater than 70% of respondents) by answers that were
Moderately satisfied or Strongly satisfied (the categories of answers were; No Opinion, Strongly Dissatisfied, Moderately
Dissatisfied, Roughly Neutral, Moderately Satisfied, Strongly Satisfied). These surveys provided strong support for the educational
experience of current and past students in chemistry courses spanning introductory course through upper level graduate courses.
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• The General Chemistry and the Organic Chemistry sequences in the freshman and sophomore years, respectively, continue to
use the American Chemical Society Standardized Examinations to assess the level of the students at the conclusion of these
yearlong courses. All courses also use the VCU Student Evaluation of Faculty reviews that provide student input into all of
the courses being taught in the department.
Program Review
• The Department of Chemistry began this academic year with the completion of its Program Review. The Dean reported on
the Program Review to the Provost on August 13, 2001 commenting on the internal self-study that was conducted in preparation
for the Program Review and on the findings of the Review Team (Dr. Kristin Bowman James, Professor and Chair, Department
of Chemistry, University of Kansas; Dr. Thomas L. Isenhour, Professor of Chemistry and Dean, College of Sciences, Old
Dominion University; Professor Peter M. A. Sherwood, University Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry,
Kansas State University; Dr. James F. Wolfe, Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of the Peters Center, Department of Chemistry,
Virginia Tech; Professor Jan F. Chlebowski, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University).
• Based on the Program Review the Dean stated that the Department of Chemistry “is one of the strongest in the college,” “its
faculty generates more sponsorship for its work on a per capita basis than does any other,” and “it is critically important to the
university’s life sciences initiatives (emphasis added).” The Action Plan proposed by the Dean included the need to raise
Graduate Teaching Assistant stipends, approval to recruit a faculty member in the area of Organic Chemistry with startup
funds provided, support for the plan to grow the faculty to 20 at a rate dependent on the availability of space and startup costs,
provision for additional space to support research, addition of technical support personnel, and the intention to continue
increases in the departmental operating support budget. Support for an instructional laboratory fee system to defray costs of
delivering quality undergraduate laboratory experience was noted with modest expectation that this could be accomplished.
It recently was learned that this would not be implemented during the coming year.
• Despite the problematic economic climate that arose across the entire country this academic year, and particularly here in the
State of Virginia, the Dean has taken a number of important steps to address the recommendations arising from this Program
Review. The Dean raised the GTA nine-month stipend by a substantial amount to bolster our graduate program. The Department
gained much needed space with the move of Biology laboratories from Temple Building to the new Trani Life Sciences Building.
Other space in Temple Building was given to the Department with the move of Computer Science to the School of Engineering.
Efforts to recruit a tenure track Organic Chemistry faculty member, although suspended for a period, are continuing.
New Faculty
• Dr. Darius Kuciauskas joined the faculty in August 2001 as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the area of Physical Chemistry.
Dr. Kuciauskas came to VCU from a Ph.D. at Arizona State University followed by a Postdoctoral appointment at the
California Institute of Technology. He has assembled a functional femtosecond laser spectroscopy instrument and will be
studying the optical and electronic properties of membrane models and of nonlinear optical materials.
Objectives for Next Year
• There are a number of critical objectives for the coming year that have been addressed in sections above. The major objectives
include recruitment of tenure track faculty in the areas of Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, increasing success in
recruitment of graduate students on a broader geographic scale, continuing the success in recruitment of out-of-state undergraduate
chemistry students and development of curricula that support the Chemistry Track in the Forensic Science B.S. Degree
Program. The objectives must be addressed this coming year while maintaining our quality teaching, research, and service missions.
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Dr. Jay S. Albanese
Chair
Department of
Criminal
Justice

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Jay S. Albanese - Professor & Chair
Dr. David P. Geary - Associate Professor
Dr. Jill A. Gordon - Assistant Professor
Dr. Stephen D. Gottfredson - Professor
& Dean
Dr. Patricia H. Grant - Instructor &
Assistant Chair
Mr. James L. Hague - Professor
Dr. Laura J. Moriarty - Professor &
Assistant Dean
Dr. William V. Pelfrey - Professor
Dr. Tamson L. Six - Instructor
Dr. Michael R. Smith - Associate
Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
James E. Hooker
Staff
Ms. Carrie R. Weedon
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Department of Criminal Justice
Activities and Accomplishments
• The Department of Criminal Justice enrolled a total of 599 student-majors this year, 494 undergraduates and 105 graduate students.
• The Department enrolled a record 2,715 undergraduate students in its courses during 2001-2002, an increase of 13 percent
over last year. 413 students enrolled in graduate classes in criminal justice.
• The Department’s majors enrolled in 13,604 credit hours during 2001-02, the third highest Department total in the College
of Humanities and Sciences and an increase over last year.
• The Department’s annual newsletter and alumni survey revealed that 71 percent of graduates entered careers in criminal justice
and another 7 percent immediately pursued post-graduate studies on a full-time basis.
• The Department’s web page (revised in August 2001) has received 1,000 hits per month since then.
• The Department received a record number of applications for both our Master’s programs in Forensic Science and Criminal
Justice for Fall 2001. More than 200 applications were received for our entering classes, and screened by James Hague, the
department’s graduate director. The entering graduate class totalled 32 students.
• The Department administered $182,736 in external funding in grants and contracts during 2001-02.
• The diversity of students in the Department continues to be impressive. Females comprise 57 percent of our undergraduate
and 64 percent of our graduate student populations. African-Americans constitute 33 percent of our undergraduates and nine
percent of our graduate students.
• Patricia H. Grant completed the Ph.D. degree in Public Policy & Administration in 2002.
• Dr. David P. Geary brought 3 Turkish police officers to VCU who completed the Post-Bachelor’s Certificate in Criminal Justice.
• Dr. Jay Albanese presented this year’s Elske v.P. Smith Distinguished Lecture, titled “Predicting Criminal Behavior: Where
Life Science, Social Science, and Humanities Meet.”
• In 2002, Criminal Justice faculty received many honors. Jay S.Albanese was selected as a Fellow to the Academy of Criminal
Justice Sciences, was recognized in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and elected vice-president of the International
Association for the Study of Organized Crime. David P. Geary was recognized in Who’s Who in the South and Southwest,
Who’s Who in the U.S. and Who’s Who in the World. Patricia H. Grant was nominated for the PACME Award, which
recognizes multicultural contributions by faculty. Laura J. Moriarty served as president of Phi Kappa Phi, VCU Chapter, and
Stephen Gottfredson was elected president for the coming year.
Teaching
• In addition to teaching a record number of students this year, the Department awarded 107 Bachelor’s degrees and 26 Master’s
degrees during 2000-2001. Trends in enrollment in CRJS classes over the last four years are summarized in the table below:
CRJS Course Enrollment 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02
Total undergraduate CRJ course enrollment 1,875 2,113 2,403 2,715
Graduate On-Campus enrollment 240 292 294 293
Graduate Forensic Science enrollment 122 115 124 120
Graduate Off-campus enrollment (by agency contract) 193 74 72 0
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• The Department has greatly expanded the number of web-assisted courses for both undergraduates and graduate students.
Most students are now required to complete assignments that are posted online. The following chart details this data for 2001-02.
Faculty Member Courses taught Total students Special Notes
Albanese (chair) 3 499 2 large lecture classes
Geary 6 156 2 summer classes
Gordon (1/2 year) 2 21 summer internships
Grant 8 196 1 Internet course, 3 writing intensive and 2 summer classes
Hague (graduate director) 6 221 1 writing intensive, 1 large lecture class and 2 summer classes
Pelfrey 6 431 2 large lecture classes
Six 8 261 1 service learning course and 1 summer course
Smith (1/2 year) 3 178 1 large lecture class and 1 summer class
Adjunct faculty 35 1,165 42% of all courses
• Master’s Thesis and Ph.D. Committee Service: in addition to regularly scheduled course teaching assignments, faculty of the
Department also participate in significant advisement of Master’s Thesis and Ph.D. students.
Jay S. Albanese: 3 M.S. committees, chairs 2
David P. Geary: 1 M.S. committee; 1 Ph.D. committee
Jill A. Gordon: 6 M.S. committees, chairs 5; 1 Ph.D. committee
Stephen D. Gottfredson: 2 Ph.D. committees, chairs 1
Patricia A. Grant: 1 M.S. committee
James L. Hague: 7 M.S. committees, chairs 4; 1 Ph.D. committee
Laura J. Moriarty: 2 M.S. committees, chairs 1; 1 Ph.D. committee, chairs 1
William V. Pelfrey: 4 M.S. committees, chairs 2
Tamson L. Six: 4 M.S. committees, chairs 1
Michael R. Smith: 2 M.S. committees, chairs 2; 1 Ph.D. committee
• The Department Chair held two meetings with the Department’s adjunct faculty this year. A model course outline and model
paper assignments were circulated to assist part-time faculty in their class preparations.
• Dr. Tamson Six served as faculty mentor for Project Tutor, a program sponsored by the VCU Office of Community Programs
in coordination with the City of Richmond Court Services Unit.
• Dr. Laura Moriarty serves as a member of the Citizen’s Advisory Board for the Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations
District Court. This is a three-year appointment.
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• The Department of Criminal Justice continues to produce scholarly output, as it has done over the past few years. Research
productivity is summarized in the table below.
Research Indicators 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02
Books, monographs, CDs 1 4 3 2 1
Articles, book chapters, reviews 11 15 17 18 7
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Department of Criminal Justice
• The Department of Criminal Justice had three external grants and contracts during 2001-02 totalling $182,736. Trends over
the last four years are summarized in the table below.
CRJS Dept. 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02
Total grant/contracts 5 5 4 3
Total dollars $118,407 $238,706 $211,799 $182,736
Principal Investigators Albanese, Albanese, Albanese, Gordon,
Gordon Gordon, Six Gordon Albanese
Research Grants and Contracts:
• Gordon, Jill A. “Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center: Is It Effective?” National Institute of Justice $99,380 (1999-2001)
• Albanese, Jay S. “A Descriptive and Predictive Model of Organized Crime: A United States-Ukraine Study,” National
Institute of Justice. $72,419 (2000-2002).
• Gordon, Jill A. and Albanese, Jay S. “Sloan Pre-Tenure Leave Fellowship,” Sloan Foundation. $10,973 (2002).
Presentations
• Albanese, Jay S. “The Future of Police Education.” Presentation at the New England Institute for Law Enforcement
Management. Wellesley, Massachusetts. June, 2001.
• Albanese, Jay S. “A Risk Assessment Instrument for Organized Crime.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Society of Criminology. Atlanta. November, 2001.
• Albanese, Jay S. “Intimidation and Bullying: Recognition and Remedies.” Presentation to the Parents Council of Richmond.
January, 2002.
• Albanese, Jay S. “Accreditation in Criminal Justice: Pros and Cons.” Presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences. Anaheim. March, 2002.
• Albanese, Jay S. “Casino Gambling, Law Enforcement, and Crime.” Presentation at the 6th annual Niagara University
Criminal Justice Conference. Niagara Falls. April, 2002.
• Albanese, Jay S. “The Causes of White Collar Crime.” Presentation to the Intelligence Community. Tysons Corners, Virginia.
April, 2002.
• Albanese, Jay S. “Transnational Organized Crime and Systematically Assessing Risk-Levels.” Presentation at a conference
co-sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.
Washington, D.C. May, 2002.
• Gordon, Jill A. and Robyn Diehl The Examination of the Impact of a Prevention Program for Middle-aged Youth Presented
at the Annual Meeting for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Anaheim, CA March 2002.
• Gordon, Jill A. and Robyn Diehl “An Examination of the Problem Oriented Severity Index (POSIT) on Incarcerated
Substance Using Youth” Presented at the Annual Meeting for the Southern Criminal Justice Association, Baton Rouge, LA
September 2001.
• Grant, Patricia H. “Cultural Diversity and the Future Criminal Justice Professional” presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Southern Criminal Justice Association in October 2001.
• Hague, James L. “Constitutional Privacy: The Supreme Court’s Inconsistent View of Children, Sex and Drugs.” Presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Washington, D.C. March, 2001.
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• Moriarty, Laura J. “Moving on up: From Department Head to Academic Dean and Beyond” – roundtable at annual meeting
of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Anaheim. March 2002.
• Moriarty, Laura J. “Women Leadership in Justice Education, Policy and Practice: Ascribed or Achieved Minority Statue” –
roundtable at annual meeting of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Anaheim. March 2002.
• Moriarty, Laura J. “Coming of Age: The Pros and Cons of Criminal Justice Curricula as Liberal Arts Core in the Social
Science” – roundtable at annual meeting of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Anaheim. March 2002.
• Six, Tamson L. National Research Institute of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NRI –
NASMHPD) Consensus Building Activities and Issues for Mental Health Consumers in Virginia Baltimore, MD February 2002.
• Six, Tamson L. Virginia COOL: Campus Compact Service Learning in a Criminal Justice Application: Lessons Learned.
University of Richmond, Summer 2001
• Petrocelli, M., and Smith, Michael R. “Measuring Citizen Satisfaction with Police Services: A Multivariate Analysis.’”
Presented at the meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia. 2001.
• Smith, Michael R. and Alpert, G. “Searching for Direction: Courts, Social Science and the Adjudication of Racial Profiling
Claims.” Presented at the 2002 meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Anaheim, California, 2002.
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• Jay S. Albanese: Member, President’s Council of Advisors, Virginia Commonwealth University, Member, Affirmative Action
Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University, member of Criminal Justice Advisory Board, J. Sergeant Reynolds Community
College, participated in a H&S faculty mentoring luncheon-2001, host for 2 VCU/H&S/Department of Criminal Justice
events for prospective students– (2001-2002), chaired academic department, served as Department representative to Ph.D.
program in Public Policy at VCU (and on urban concentration subcommittee). President of the White Collar Crime
Research Consortium (a group of researchers specializing in this area of research), 2001-02, Vice President of the International
Association for the Study of Organized Crime, 2002-03, Member, Budget, Finance, Audit Committee of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, 2001-02, Co-chair of Ad Hoc Committee on Accreditation in Criminal Justice, Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, 2001-02.
• David P. Geary: serves as an alternate on the University Council at VCU, and is a member of the Virginia Crime Commission’s
Nonpartisan Legislative Committee to Study Civil Rights: Restoration of Ex-Felons’ Voting Rights.
• Jill A. Gordon: member of the Humanities & Sciences Grade Appeal Committee, and served on Faculty Council. Member
of the Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Program Committee member for the
2002 meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
• Patricia H. Grant: served as assistant chair in the Department of Criminal Justice this year, performing tasks that included
identifying, interviewing and selecting new adjunct faculty; representing the Department at several University-sponsored
student recruitment fairs; meeting with students (and parents) interested in attending VCU; corresponding with accepted
out-of-state students; chairing the departmental awards committee; and other duties as defined by the Chair. Dr. Grant also
was a member of the Program Committee for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 2002 annual meeting.
• James L. Hague: chaired the Graduate Academic Committee of the College of Humanities & Sciences, and was a member
of the Library Committee and Faculty Council served as a member of the VCU Faculty Senate and its subcommittee on
mentoring, member of the planning committee for the National Police Command College, graduate director for the Department
of Criminal Justice, attended the 2001 Fall Conference of the Virginia Assessment Group – ‘Assessing Critical Thinking,’ at
Virginia Beach (Nov. 7-9, 2001), and the 2002 Spring Conference of the Virginia Assessment Group – ‘Spring Practitioner’s
Workshop: Why Accountability Requires Assessment’ at the University of Richmond (March 15). A member of Richmond

Department of Criminal Justice
Reach Out – Hope for Our City. Presented two one-day workshops ‘Recent Constitutional and Legislative Changes’ and
‘Recent Constitutional and Legislative Changes’ to in-service criminal justice professionals at the Northern Virginia Criminal
Justice Training Academy in Sterling, Virginia.
• Laura J. Moriarty: Program Chair for the annual meeting of the academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (2002), chair of the
‘Educator of the year Award Committee: for the Southern Criminal Justice Association, member of the ethics committee of
the American Society of Criminology, president of the VCU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, member, VCU AA504 Committee,
and faculty marshall, VCU commencement.
• William V. Pelfrey: completed responsibilities as Chair of the University Promotion and Tenure Policy Review Committee in
Summer 2001, served on the Graduate Admissions committee in the Department of Criminal Justice, agreed to participate in
VCU’s Great Cities’ Initiative in conjunction with other universities.
• Tamson L. Six: served as consultant to City of Richmond Department of Juvenile Justice Services and the Mental Health
Association of Virginia, a member of the Humanities & Sciences’ Undergraduate Academic Committee, periodic assistance to
the Office of Community Programs regarding service-learning courses, departmental committee to develop promotion guidelines
for collateral faculty, student awards committee in the Department of Criminal Justice.
• Michael R. Smith: author of a quarterly column on legal issues for the Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy (Virginia), chair of
the University Grievance Panel, developed and planned the program, curriculum, and format for a National Police Command
College for law enforcement supervisors, provided racial profiling training (six, 1-day seminars) to more than 300 police
executives from Virginia, New York, Texas, California, and South Carolina.
• The Department faculty also engage in significant consulting activity that shares their expertise with the professional community.
Consulting Agency Faculty Involved
U.S. DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance
Pelfrey
National National White Collar Crime Center Albanese
U.S. Office of Domestic Preparedness
Pelfrey
Northern Virginia CJ Training Academy
Hague
State Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy Smith
Mental Health Association of Virginia
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Massachusetts Council of Higher Education
Albanese
Local Richmond Dept. Juvenile Justice Services Six
Other University of Massachusetts at Lowell (external review) Albanese
• Criminal Justice faculty conducted 29 reviews of book and article manuscripts, peer reviews of grant proposals and personnel
files for those seeking promotion and tenure at other universities.
Faculty Journal manuscript reviews Book/grant proposal/ personnel reviews
Albanese 6 4
Geary 1
Gordon 2
Hague 1
Moriarty 7 2
Smith 5
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• Journals include: Justice Quarterly (3), Criminology (2), Crime & Delinquency (3), Police Practice & Research: An International
Journal (3), American Journal of Criminal Justice (4), Women & Criminal Justice (2), Journal of Research in Crime &
Delinquency (1), Criminal Justice Review (1), Criminology and Public Policy (1), Police Quarterly (1).
• Book publishers include: Anderson Publishing, Prentice Hall, Oxford University Press, Roxbury, Sage Publications.
Objectives and Outcomes
• The Department held its sixth annual day-long retreat off campus in January. It was a highly productive day, enabling Department
faculty to focus on long-term issues, such as enrollment trends and targets, program revisions, new program possibilities,
department outcome assessment, and reaching an appropriate balance of teaching, research, and service. Major statewide
budget cutbacks announced later in January will severely curtail program plans for growth and new initiatives.
• A proposed assessment plan has been submitted to the VCU committee coordinating the forthcoming SACS evaluation.
That plan will form the basis for outcomes assessment over the next few years.
Program Review
• In late Spring 1999 the Department of Criminal Justice was reviewed by outside experts to evaluate our work over the last five
years in the areas of teaching, research, and service. The external review team consisted of Leslie Kennedy, Dean of the Rutgers
University School of Criminal Justice, Brent Smith, chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science at the
University of Alabama, and Robert Holsworth, director of the Center for Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
• This review was preceded by the composition of a five-year self-study document detailing the Department’s teaching, research,
and service activity over the previous five years, and its goals for the future. It also compared the performance and resources of
the criminal justice program with similar programs at peer institutions.
• The reviewers held interviews with faculty and students and reported that the department “has become a collegial and pleasant
place to work.” In addition “the department has increased emphasis on sponsored research and scholarly productivity” and
“recent recruiting has added a strong cohort of productive, research oriented young scholars.” The external reviewers recommended
that additional full-time faculty be added to the department. This report was designed to help form the foundation
for the department in providing guidance for the department’s growth over the next five years.
Objectives for Next Year
• Given current and planned state budget reversions beginning in 2002, the Department will shrink in faculty size despite
increasing student enrollments. This will make implementation of new programs and courses difficult, given the need to
provide courses to existing students with fewer teaching resources. Despite these difficulties, the Department of Criminal
Justice has three major objectives for the coming year:
• Revise M.S. outcomes assessment: The Department has submitted a revision of its Master’s program in Criminal Justice to
the Humanities & Sciences curriculum committee in an effort to standardize its outcomes assessment and keep the program
competitive with other M.S. programs in the region.
• Large class management: The Department will make an effort to help faculty manage the large number of auditorium-size
undergraduate classes it will teach in 2002-03. Software and student-testing packages will be evaluated.
• Online courses: The Department will make an effort to develop some of its graduate courses for entirely on-line delivery for
working professionals.
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Department of
English
Dr. Marcel Cornis-Pope
Chair

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Ms. Talvikki E. Ansel - Assistant Professor
Dr. Katherine C. Bassard - Associate
Professor
Dr. Boyd M. Berry - Associate Professor
Dr. John H. Brinegar - Instructor
Dr. Laura Browder - Associate Professor
Ms. Angier B. Caudle - Instructor
Ms. Gretchen C. Comba - Instructor
Dr. Elizabeth J. Cooper - Associate
Professor
Dr. Walter R. Coppedge - Professor
Ms. Casey A. Cornelius - Instructor
Dr. Marcel Cornis-Pope - Chair &
Professor
Mr. Thomas DeHaven - Professor
Dr. Gregory E. Donovan - Associate
Professor
Ms. Alexina R. Fagan - Instructor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Robert Amour
Dr. Daryl C. Dance
Dr. E. Anne Duke
Dr. Richard A. Fine - Professor
Dr. Nicholas R. Frankel - Assistant
Professor
Dr. C. William Griffin - Professor
Dr. Marguerite Harkness - Associate
Professor
Dr. Elizabeth S. Hodges - Associate
Professor
Dr. Catherine E. Ingrassia - Associate
Professor
Mr. Michael A. Keller - Computer
Coordinator & Instructor
Dr. James A. Kinney - Professor
Dr. Elisabeth D. Kuhn - Associate
Professor
Dr. Lawrence F. Laban - Assistant
Professor
Dr. David E. Latane, Jr. - Associate
Professor
Dr. A. Bryant Mangum - Professor
Dr. J. Maurice Duke
Dr. George C. Longest
Dr. Paule B. Marshall
Dr. Charlotte C. Morse - Professor
Dr. L. Terry Oggel - Professor
Dr. Patricia H. Perry - Associate Professor
Ms. Faye O. Prichard - Instructor
Dr. Richard K. Priebe - Professor
Mr. Gary R. Sange - Associate Professor
Ms. Margret V. Schuler - Assistant to
Chair & Instructor
Dr. Nicholas A. Sharp - Associate Chair
& Assistant Professor
Dr. Sachi Shimomura - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Jonathan T. Silverman - Instructor
Ms. Patricia R. Strong - Instructor
Mr. William Tester - Associate Professor
Dr. Janet M. Winston - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Annette M. Woodlief - Associate
Professor
Mr. James D. Pendleton
Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds
Staff
Ms. Sharon L. Laslie
Mr. Jeffrey Lodge
Ms. Virginia G. Schmitz
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Department of English
Activities and Accomplishments
• In September 2001, the English Department awarded its fourth National Levis Poetry Prize to Nick Flynn for his book Some
Ether. This prize is awarded in the name of the late Larry Levis, former director of the English M.F.A. program, for the best
first or second book of poetry published in the previous calendar year.
• In April 2002, the department opened a yearlong series of lectures, readings and performances co-sponsored by the VCU
Honors Program. Entitled “Literature, Crisis and Community,” this NEH-funded series began with a reading by acclaimed
poet and essayist Li-Young Lee. Other guests featured in the 2002-2003 program will include writers Toni Morrison (winner
of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature), Raymond Federman, John Kinsella, and possibly Chinua Achebe, scholars Margaret
Scanlon, Andrea Lunsford, Rey Chow, and Dennis Kezar, as well as MacArthur fellowship-winning photographer, Wendy
Ewald. The chair of the program is Dr. Richard Fine.
• Also in April 2002, the department launched Blackbird, an innovative online journal of literature and the arts published in
partnership with the nonprofit literary arts organization, New Virginia Review, Inc. Featuring fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and
multimedia work by some of the best writers and artists at work today, this journal is coedited by English faculty Gregory
Donovan and William Tester and by Mary Lynn, Executive Director of New Virginia Review, Inc. Its managing editors are
Michael Keller and Jeffrey A. Lodge.
• On April 26 and 27, 2002, the Inaugural First Novelist Festival was held in conjunction with the conclusion of the twosemester
novel workshop taught by Tom De Haven. This two-day event organized by Laura Browder, Director of the M.F.A.
program and Tom De Haven, featured readings, workshops, and panel discussions by selected authors, literary agents, and
literary editors. Two of the meetings were co-sponsored by the Richmond Public Library.
• Nicholas Frankel received the Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize awarded by the Society for Textual Scholarship for the best
bibliographic study in 2001. He was also awarded a prestigious fellowship at the National Humanities Center (Chapel Hill,
NC) for 2001-2002. More recently, Nick Frankel was nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the Society of
Textual Scholarship.
• Janet Winston, Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies, has been awarded a yearlong fellowship by the Center for
the Humanities at Oregon State University. She is one of only three visiting scholars to be awarded this prestigious fellowship.
She will be engaged in the research and writing of a book on twentieth century representations of Queen Victoria.
• Richmond Magazine awarded Tom De Haven its 2001 Teresa Pollock Award for Literature.
• Talvikki Ansel, visiting Assistant Professor in the English department, was awarded the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers.
This prize, established in 1960 by the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment at Washington & Lee University, includes
an award of $2,500 and publication of new work in the Shenandoah review.
• The Capital Writing Program, directed by Patricia Perry, was awarded $ 55,000 in federal and state grants. As a component of
the National Writing Project, the CWP prepares teachers to become leaders in improving the teaching of writing across the state.
• Richard Priebe received a VHF grant to organize a Secondary School Teacher Institute on African Literature and Culture
(Spring 2002).
• During the summer of 2001, Katherine Bassard taught at the University of Notre Dame, in the Pew Younger Scholar Program.
She worked with 12 Ph.D. students from some of the top programs around the country, engaging them in discussions on
“Created Identities: Christianity, Literature and Literary Theory.”
• Catherine Ingrassia has been appointed editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, the journal of the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Laura Browder’s play, “Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams,” written as part of the Carver Community project, was performed
at the Governor’s School in February 2002.
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• Elizabeth Canfield received the College of Humanities & Sciences Distinguished Adjunct Award for the Humanities Division.
• Margret Vopel Schluer was nominated last year for the Division of Academic Affairs Management Customer Service Award.
• Joshua Poteat (M.F.A. graduate, 1997) received a Virginia Commission for the Arts Grant in 2002. He also won poetry awards
from Marlboro Review, Columbia University, Bellingham Review and was the Summer Writer-in-Residence at the University
of Arizona’s Poetry Center.
• Dave McCormack (M.F.A. graduate, 1999) and Darren Morris (M.F.A. graduate, 1998) were awarded 2001 Individual Artist
Grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
• Jerrell Nickerson’s (M.F.A. student) play “Hammurabi 108” won the First Stage one-act national playwriting competition in
Hollywood. Mathias Svalina (M.F.A.) received a full fellowship to the most recent Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and was
named as winner in the 2001 AWP Intro Journals Project.
Teaching
• The department taught 418 classes to approximately 10,305 students during 2001-2002, including writing courses and general
education literature for students throughout the university, upper-level courses for our majors, courses offered in support of a
number of interdisciplinary programs (American Studies, African American Studies, Honors, Women’s Studies, Linguistics,
Environmental Studies, Medical Humanities and others), and graduate courses for both the M.A. in English and M.F.A. in
Creative Writing programs. Close to 100 students graduated with B.A. degrees in English. The Writing Center and Hibbs
Computer Lab, staffed by the department for the use of the entire university community, witnessed their typical heavy traffic,
with close to 4,000 individual tutoring consultations in the Writing Center alone.
• Eighteen students graduated from the M.A. program and eight from the M.F.A. program in 2001-2002, and faculty mounted
new graduate and undergraduate seminars on African Fiction — Art and Commitment, American Horror and the Graphic
Novel, Feminist Literary Theory, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Literary Editing, Medieval Visionary Women, Oscar Wilde and His
Circle, Women Writers of the African Diaspora, Writer in Her Own Time: Joan Didion.
• The Graduate Writers Association (GWA) continued its highly successful Friday reading-and-exhibition series, “The Moveable
Feast,” held at the ArtSpace Gallery in downtown Richmond. Undergraduate and graduate students in the department
published new issues of the Millennium magazine and Millennium Online, with help from William Tester as faculty advisor.
• Several faculty taught courses in VCU’s Commonwealth Society and other venues for continuing education. The English
department continued its successful association with the Shaqab College of Design Arts in Doha, Qatar (a program set up by
the VCU School of the Arts), teaching English composition through Joan Kalyan-Curtis and Randall Williams. In the summer
of 2002, the department mounted another Artists and Writers Workshop in Glasgow, UK, a summer study abroad program
organized by Richard Fine every other year in conjunction with the School of the Arts and the Glasgow School of Art. Also
this past summer, the Capital Writing Project’s Invitational Institute directed by Patricia Perry and co-taught by two highschool
teachers and an English M.A. graduate, brought together 18 teacher-fellows, representing the service areas of
Richmond City and the counties of Chesterfield, Henrico, Hanover and King William. In the spring 2002, Richard Priebe
organized an Institute for Secondary School Teachers entitled “Bringing Africa into the Classroom.” A grant from the
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities enabled VCU to offer a course on African Literature to area teachers of French,
English and Social Studies. Ann Woodlief and Elizabeth Cooper continued their work, under the DOE Tech Grant, on new
technologies in teaching literature and writing. The department as a whole made significant contributions to electronic, webbased
teaching. All freshman writing courses and a significant number of other classes have an electronic component (such as
Blackboard presence); Ann Woodlief has also developed two web-based, long-distance courses.
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Research
• The English faculty’s research takes many forms — from scholarly articles in a range of fields to novels and poems, and from
presentations at academic conferences to professional writing of many types. This year, English faculty published three books
and scores of scholarly articles, reviews and other publications. The department is now home to two professional journals,
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (edited by Catherine Ingrassia) and Victorians Institute Journal (edited by David Latané). Dr.
Latané also serves as Associate Editor of Stand Magazine, a literary journal headquartered in England. In addition, Charlotte
Morse holds the position of executive co-editor of the Chaucer Commentary Editions and Marcel Cornis-Pope co-edits A Comparative
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, a multi-volume work with more than 100 contributors sponsored by the
International Comparative Literature Association. Other faculty chaired sessions and presented papers at scholarly meetings,
including several at prominent national or international conferences.
• The Department also launched a new electronic journal of literature and the arts, Blackbird coedited by Gregory Donovan,
William Tester and Mary Flynn, and an NEH-funded series of lectures and readings on “Literature, Crisis, and Community,”
cosponsored by the VCU Honors Program.
• Two faculty members (Nick Frankel and Janet Winston) won prestigious research fellowships and two faculty (Patricia Perry
and Richard Priebe) received federal and regional grants in support of their teaching and research projects. Nicholas Frankel
was also awarded the Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for Textual Scholarship and Tom De Haven received Richmond
Magazine’s 2001 Teresa Pollock Award for Literature.
Service
• The department remained actively engaged in service to the institution, to the community and to its profession. One of our
faculty, Terry Oggel, served until recently as Acting Director of the School of Mass Communications. Bryant Mangum served
on the President’s Advisory Council and on the Provost’s General Education Task Force. The department continued its
involvement with the Capital Writing Project, which offered summer writing workshops for area secondary school teachers,
and with the Richard Wright/Zora Neale Hurston Foundation (directed by Marita Golden) that supports the creative work of
young African-American writers. Laura Browder received a VCU Community Service Associates award for her work with the
Carver Living Newspaper Project, and Elizabeth Kuhn and Jonathan Silverman taught Service Learning classes during last
year. Other service to the community included the department’s reading series, hosted on campus, and the Poetic Principles
series co-sponsored with the Virginia Art Museum. Many faculty continued to serve as officers of professional organizations,
most notably Laura Browder who was elected MLA regional delegate and Marcel Cornis-Pope who is member of the Coordinating
Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association.
Performance Plan Progress
• In response to the program review mentioned below and the Dean’s Task Force on Improving Undergraduate Writing, the
department implemented a set of initiatives and changes in all its programs: improving the structure and curriculum of the
freshman writing program; redistributing instructional tasks so that full-time faculty can teach also freshman composition;
streamlining requirements in the major and clustering courses into four “concentrations” meant to better advertise our strengths
to in-state and out-of-state students; providing graduate students with a common entry course and improving recruitment and
selectivity in the M.A. program; enhancing the use of roles and rewards. In the area of personnel, the department recruited new
collateral faculty to help with the teaching and changes brought to the freshman composition program and looked for ways to
better integrate adjunct faculty in its programs. Other initiatives included launching a new electronic journal of literature and
the arts and laying the base for a Humanities Consortium on campus. The department drafted a proposal for an interdisciplinary
Ph.D. program in the Humanities, involving other departments in the College and the School of the Arts, and planned a
yearlong program of lectures and readings on “Literature, Crisis, and Community” co-sponsored with the Honors Program.
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Program Review
• The department’s rigorous two-year review of all of its programs, culminating with the visit of an external review team in
April 2000, identified areas for improvement and enhancement. The initiatives described above grew out of this review process
and out of subsequent assessments of various components of our program carried out annually. A plan for a comprehensive
assessment of the writing competency was put in place. Similar assessment plans have been implemented for the English
major, minor, and the two graduate programs (M.A. and M.F.A.). In spite of certain difficulties experienced during 2001-2002
(the retirement/resignations of three senior faculty, the loss of several gta and adjunct positions against the background of a
significantly increased number of students in our lower division courses, significant budget cuts, etc.), the English department
has come out very well at the end of the year, a fact underscored recently by President Trani’s report on his department visits
during 2001. The faculty performed responsibly and well, showing new commitment to areas such as freshman composition
and the general education literature courses, in addition to fulfilling its teaching responsibilities towards the department’s
majors and graduate students. We conducted three national searches last year, one for collateral instructors, and two for senior
faculty in the M.F.A. program. We also successfully completed William Tester’s tenure and promotion review and a third-year
review for Janet Winston.
New Faculty
• Talvikki Ansel joined the department as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an
M.F.A. degree from Indiana University, and is the author of the collection My Shining Archipelago, winner of the Yale Series of
Younger Poets Award. She has also received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, a Virginia Commission for the
Arts Fellowship and the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers.
• Angier Brock Caudle joined our faculty as an Instructor of English and Faculty Development Coordinator. She holds an M.A.
from the Presbyterian School in Richmond and an M.F.A. from VCU, and has taught as a GTA and adjunct faculty in our
department since 1997. She also taught at the University of Richmond and served as co-director of the VCU Capital Writing
Program.
• Gretchen Comba joined the department as an Instructor of English. She holds an M.F.A. degree from the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro and an M.A. from VCU. She has taught composition and writing at the University of North
Carolina (1996-97) and at VCU since 1999.
• Casey Cornelius joined the department as an Instructor of English. She received her M.F.A. degree from VCU and her B.A.
from College of William and Mary. She taught composition at both places. In addition she has ESL experience, having
worked for the Refugee and Immigration Services in Richmond as advanced ESL/TOEFL preparation instructor.
• Alex Fagan returned to the department as an Instructor of English. She received her B.A. from Mary Washington College and
her M.A. from University of Richmond. She taught composition at VCU (1982-1998, and 2000-2001), the Shaqab College
of Design Arts in Qatar, John Tyler and Manchester High School. She has also worked as an education consultant for the
School of Engineering at VCU.
• Dr. Kathryn Kleypas joined the department as an Instructor of English. She earned her M.A. from San Francisco State
University and her Ph.D. from SUNY-Stony Brook. She taught composition at the City University of New York, the Suffolk
County Community College, Stony Brook and the University of Southern California in LA, as a lecturer in the Advanced
Writing Program.
• Faye Prichard was also appointed Instructor of English this past year. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from VCU.
She taught composition as a part-time instructor in our department between 1996 and 2001. She has also worked as a faculty
advisor for VCU Habitat for Humanity.
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Objectives for Next Year
• The English department will continue to implement those initiatives and opportunities identified in its self-study, strengthening
the department’s contributions to the University-wide general education program, raising the quality of its undergraduate and
graduate programs, especially in areas that can enhance the department’s visibility (new interdisciplinary courses and possibly
an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the humanities, a stronger African-American and ethnic literatures component, more varied
offerings in literature and theory), perfecting the faculty through new hires and faculty development, securing more support
for teaching, research and tutoring in the Writing Center. Special attention will be given to recruiting new faculty and promoting
a series of new initiatives meant to improve the national ranking of the M.F.A. program. The faculty will work with the
Director of Composition on implementing phase two of the projected changes in the lower division writing program. While
stressing excellence in the classroom, in publications, and in service as the basis on which to build our local and national
recognition, the chair and faculty will try to identify those resources that will make easier our job of representing the department
and College at national and regional conferences, in professional organizations and in the community. The yearlong
program on “Literature, Crisis, and Community,” will represent an ideal forum for showcasing the strengths of the department
and serving the needs of both the scholarly and the Richmond community.
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Dr. Margaret T. Peischl
Chair
Department of
Foreign
Languages

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Faculty
Dr. Robert McKenna Brown - Director,
International Studies Progam &
Associate Professor
Dr. Patricia W. Cummins - Professor
Ms. Sandy Darmagnac - Director of
Foreign Language Learning Center
& Instructor
Dr. Paul F. Dvorak - Professor
Dr. Robert Godwin-Jones - Professor
Dr. Peter S. Kirkpatrick - Associate
Professor
Dr. Gina Kovarsky - Instructor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. William Beck
Dr. Manuel Bejar
Dr. Chantal A. Maréchal - Associate
Professor
Dr. Mar Martinez-Gongora -Assistant
Professor
Dr. Antonio Masullo - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Eugenia Muñoz - Associate Professor
Dr. Kathryn A. Murphy-Judy - Associate
Professor
Ms. Nancy C. Mustafa - Instructor
Dr. Consuelo Navarro - Assistant
Professor
Dr. John Birmingham
Dr. Angelina E. Overvold - Assistant
Professor
Mr. Michael J. Panbehchi - Instructor
Dr. Margaret T. Peischl - Chair &
Associate Professor
Dr. Robert L. Sims - Professor
Ms. Linda Q. Sites - Instructor
Dr. Ann S. White - Assistant Professor
Dr. Cecile Noble
Staff
Ms. Natalee A. Wasiluk
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The Department of Foreign Languages has been very much saddened by the sudden death of one of its best known and beloved
members, Dr. Kenneth A. Stackhouse, Associate Professor of Spanish. Dr. Stackhouse died suddenly on June 16, 2001. He
had long been recognized at the University and in the community for his strong advocacy of foreign language study and for his
generous service to Spanish and Hispanic causes. An active participant in many professional organizations, he was President of
the Virginia Chapter of the Partners of the Americas. He was responsible for the introduction of Portuguese into the
curriculum and worked with the Federal University of Santa Caterina in Brazil in efforts to promote cooperative enterprises.
Dr. Stackhouse is very much missed by both students and colleagues. Dean Stephen D. Gottfredson has established the Kenneth
A. Stackhouse Scholarship in honor of our colleague. A memorial service, organized by Dr. Eugenia Munoz, was held in honor
of Dr. Stackhouse in October. Colleagues and students of Dr. Stackhouse spoke of their admiration and appreciation of his work.
• Dr. Margaret T. Peischl will complete her fifth year as Chair of the Department. Dr. Paul F. Dvorak will assume the chairmanship
on July 1.
• The Department has three new faculty members: Dr. Patricia W. Cummins, Professor of French, Dr. Mar Martinez-Gongora,
Assistant Professor of Spanish, and Dr. Gina Kovarsky, Instructor of Russian, who has a joint appointment with our department
and International Studies. Mrs. Saba Abed has joined us as an adjunct instructor of Arabic.
• Greatly involved in studying and teaching the role of France in the European Union, Dr. Cummins will be sharing her expertise
with her students this fall in a newly created course. Dr. Martinez-Gongora’s scholarly specialty is peninsular Spanish literature.
Dr. Kovarsky has team-taught a course on the city of St. Petersburg with a colleague in the History Department as well as our
Russian language courses.
• Several members of the Department have been recognized for their achievements and expertise in various fields. Dr. Cummins
has received a Fulbright Study Grant for work in Egypt this summer. Dr. Dvorak was the recipient of an NEH Summer
Institute Grant on “The People of Vienna from 1848-1945” in Vienna, Austria last summer. Dr. Robert Godwin-Jones will
participate this summer in a Goethe-Institute Grant in Germany focusing on Germany’s role in the European Union. Dr. Peter
Kirkpatrick has been lauded by the French Ambassador for the success of the Tenth Annual VCU French Film Festival and
has been accredited to represent the Festival at the International Film Festival in Cannes this May. Dr. Ann White was invited
by the Spanish Ministry of the Exterior, the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid, and the Cervantes Institute to tour university
and language institute facilities in Spain this spring.
• The VCU French Film Festival, directed by Dr. Kirkpatrick, celebrated an especially successful tenth year. The eight films
featured at the Festival were also premiered on the PBS Community Idea Stations. Dr. Kirkpatrick gave press and television
interviews on the films.
• Two additional summer study-abroad programs are being offered this year. Dr, Munoz will conduct a Spanish program in
Cuernavaca, Mexico, and Dr. Kovarsky will be the director of a program in St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Antonio Masullo will
again direct the Italian program at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy, Ms.Esperanza Soria-Nieto, adjunct instructor
of Spanish, will conduct the program in Seville, Spain, and Dr. Ann White will be accompanying students studying in
Antigua, Guatemala.
• Dr. Angelina Overvold will be participating in a VCU African Study Abroad Program in Uganda and Kenya. She will be
responsible for a portion of the curriculum together with two colleagues in other disciplines.
• Dr. Patricia Cummins accompanied a group of students on the Legends of China trip last August. She gave a VCU welcome
and participated in the events preceding the World University Games.
• “Foreign Languages on Stage,” the annual competition for high school students of foreign languages, was held in March under
the leadership of Dr. Consuelo Navarro. This was the 30th consecutive year for the event.
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• Many students and teachers in the Department participated in the International Studies Student Research Conference last
October. Dr. McKenna Brown, Director of International Studies, organized the increasingly successful event. The Department
was also well represented at the African Literature Association Conference held at VCU last spring. Dr. Angelina Overvold
was in charge of the French section of an accompanying institute for high school teachers.
• A Spanish major, Jennifer L. Craig, is this year’s recipient of the Janet D. Sheridan Scholarship. Three foreign languages students
received awards at the College’s Awards Ceremony in April. Richard Haselwood was given the French Award, Dragan
Jerkic was recognized for his achievements in German, and Kristine Mikkelson received the Spanish Award.
Teaching
• The Department offered courses in eleven foreign languages during the past academic year: Arabic, Chinese, French, German,
Classical Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. A teaching staff of 49 taught classes in these
languages. Members of the Department represent twenty different cultures.
• The Department is also responsible for FRLG 203, Language and Identity, and FRLG 204, Language Groups in the United
States. These courses focus on a variety of languages and cultures so that non-foreign language students have an opportunity
to become exposed to foreign cultures.
• Drs. Brown, Dvorak, Kirkpatrick, Marechal, and Murphy-Judy have been participating in thesis and dissertation committees
for graduate students in various disciplines. A variety of Independent Studies courses has also been conducted by professors in
the Department.
• Dr. Peischl taught a German Reading course to graduate students at Union Theological Seminary last June. Dr. Overvold will
teach the French course at the Seminary this summer. Dr. White teaches a Spanish course to executives at Capital One.
• The Internship Program in the Department has been highly successful and gives students an opportunity to utilize their
language skills in service to the community. Dr. Murphy-Judy has been in charge of the program.
• Drs. Cummins, Godwin-Jones, Murphy-Judy, and White are very actively involved in FLEX (Foreign Language Exchange
Program). This program involves the exchange of foreign language methodologies and materials with foreign language teachers
on all levels of instruction.
• The Language Learning Center continues to be heavily utilized and is being kept up-to-date with its hardware and software by
Sandy Darmagnac, its Director. Televised broadcasts from approximately sixty countries are shown in the lab each day.
• The Undergraduate Certificate Program in International Management Studies, for which Dr. Brown is in part responsible, was
approved by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
• A Francophone Literature course, French 450, created by Dr. Overvold, was also approved by the committee.
• Dr. Cummins taught an Honors module on France and the European Union. She is also preparing a course on the topic for
the French curriculum.
• Dr. Masullo has been doing on-line teaching with five students outside of the United States. He has also been directing weekly
conversation sessions between his American students of Italian and students in Italy who are learning English.
• Dr. Kirkpatrick has created film study guides to accompany the VCU French Film Festival Series on PBS. These guides are
used by students and teachers who view the films as part of their French curriculum.
• Dr. Kirkpatrick also continues to direct the French Film Festival Internship Program in cooperation with the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques in Rennes, Audencia Ecole Superieur de Commerce de Nantes, and the Universite de Lille, France.
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• Both Drs. Dvorak and Kovarsky taught new FLET (Foreign Literature in Translation) courses this year. Dr. Dvorak taught “Viennese
Voices: Dissent and Social Reform in Austrian Literature” and Dr. Kovarsky taught a course on “Dostoevsky and the West.”
Dr. Masullo created a course on “Women in Dante’s Comedia” which was taught by Ms. Cinzia Corubolo, an adjunct in Italian.
• Dr. Navarro continues to teach Medical Spanish to medical personnel on the MCV campus.
• Dr. Marechal created a Website with thematic links for French students and teachers. She also recorded a series of poems to
be used in conjunction with those on the Web.
• The Department administers an increasing number of placement tests to students enrolling in foreign language courses. The
purpose of these tests is to place students in courses on appropriate levels and thus better serve students’ needs. Mrs. Nancy
Mustafa is the coordinator of this program. In the past year approximately 1150 tests were given.
• A total number of 2,193 students were enrolled in foreign language courses this spring.
Research
• The Department has a total of eleven publications for the academic year. Three books, two book chapters and six articles have
appeared. Three chapters and thirteen articles are currently in press.
• Dr. Sims is presenting preparing a text on “The New World Plays of Lope de Vega,” written by the late Dr. Stackhouse, for
publication. Before his death Dr. Stackhouse signed a contract for his nearly completed monograph with Mellen Press.
• Faculty in the Department have made several presentations at professional conferences outside of the country. Thirteen
presentations were invited. Sessions were also chaired or organized by our faculty.
• Dr. White signed a contract with Prentice-Hall Publishers for a Spanish conversation text. Dr. Overvold is a co-editor of
“The Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, Translator: the Proceedings of the African Literature Association Conference,” recently
held at VCU. Dr. Munoz served as a reviewer for the Spanish text “Impresiones” for Prentice-Hall.
• The Department is well represented on the reviewing staffs of professional journals. Our professors are reviewers for such
periodicals as the CALICO Journal,
• The Comparatist, Le Cygne, French Review, German Quarterly, Global Business Languages, Journal of Language for
International Business, Modern Austrian Literature, Modern Language Journal, Revista de estudios colombianos, The
Southern Comparatist, Speculum,Tristiana, and Unterrichtspraxis. Dr. Sims is a contributing editor for Chasqui. Dr.
Marechal is an assistant bibliographer for Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society.
• Professors participate in a number of international organizations: the Academy of Mayan Languages of Guatemala, Foundation
for Endangered Languages, Guatemala Scholars Network, International Marie de France Society, Societe d’Etudes Jauresiennes,
• Theodor-Storm Gesellschaft, and the Yax Te Foundation. Dr. Cumins keeps active contact with the EU Headquarters in Paris
for her work in that field.
Service
• The faculty performs much service for the profession as officers in professional organizations or in advisory positions. Dr.
Marechal continues her work as the webmaster for the Homepage of the International Marie de France Society and is listserv
owner for the Society’s electronic conversation list, Le Cygne. Dr. Kovarsky served on an Awards Committee for the Southern
Conference on Slavic Studies. Dr. Cummins participates in the AATF Commission on French for Business. Dr. Kirkpatrick
serves as a representative for the French Embassy Exchange. Dr Masullo is the United States Representative for the University
for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy.
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• Several professors have prominent posts on university committees: Dr. Murphy-Judy has been the President of the Faculty
Council for the past year, and Dr. Kirkpatrick is the Secretary-elect of the Faculty Senate and a member of the OIE Advisory
Committee. Dr. Cummins also serves on the Senate. Dr. Dvorak has served as the Honors Code Coordinator for the College
and is a member of the University Honors Program Council. Dr. Brown has participated in the International Task Force
Committee, and Dr. Navarro is a member of the Library Advisory Committee and of the Education Committee for the VCU
Center for Women’s Health. Dr. Murphy-Judy is on the Applied Linguistics Committee.
• Dr. Murphy-Judy has been given the honor of participating in the Grace Harris Educational Leadership Institute. Having
designed the French BA and MBA in cooperation with the School of Business, she also maintains active contacts with the
ESCMP in France in conjunction with the School of Business agreement.
• Dr. Masullo has developed a study-abroad program for VCU students of the Arts at the Art Center Lorenzo de Medici in
Florence, Italy.
• Members of the Foreign Language Department faculty are likewise heavily involved in College committee work. Dr. Godwin-
Jones serves on the College Tenure and Promotion Committee and the International Studies Advisory Committee; Dr.
Overvold is a member of the Women’s Studies Advisory; Dr. Brown has participated in the Advisory Committee for General
Education and is Chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum committee. Drs. Brown and Marechal were members of the Russian
search committee; Dr. Marechal also served on two search committees for the History Department, a tenure and promotion
committee for the English Department, and on the Rice Scholarship Committee.
• Dr. Sims was responsible for the Spanish Newsletter and a Spanish Film Festival for the Department’s Spanish students.
• The Department is very strongly committed to community service, particularly to cooperative enterprises with area schools.
• Mr. Michael Panbehchi has served as an advisor to St. Benedict’s School with its development of a Spanish curriculum for
grades K-8. He has also taught Spanish culture courses there.
• Dr. Murphy-Judy was instrumental in the creation of a summer program for middle school students of foreign languages, which
is based on the model of the Governor’s School for high school students.
• The recently introduced FLEX Program with area foreign language teachers has been particularly successful. Having been
initiated by Drs. Murphy-Judy and White, it is now also being supported by the efforts of Drs. Cummins and Godwin-Jones. It
is building strong lines of communication among foreign language teachers and strengthening and enriching foreign language
instruction on all levels.
• Dr. Cummins organized a series of visits by members of the Department to area schools for recruiting purposes and also to
inform students of the value of foreign language studies. Drs. Brown, Dvorak, Kirkpatrick, Marechal, Munoz, and Peischl
participated in these day-long sessions with students in Chesterfield and Henrico schools.
• Dr. Munoz spoke to students in the Spanish Immersion Program at Tucker High School and gave a talk on Hispanic immigrants
to students of Spanish at James River High School. She also conducted a workshop on literature and poetry for Spanish
students in Chesterfield Schools. Dr. Munoz also holds monthly articulation meetings with Spanish teachers in Chesterfield.
• Dr. Murphy-Judy conducted a workshop for foreign language teachers in the Richmond City schools on pedagogical strategies,
and also organized one for Henrico County teachers on their newly networked classrooms. Dr. Murphy-Judy is also a member
of the Clover Hill French Immersion Program.
• Dr. Cummins gave the keynote address to the Honor Society for local foreign language students. She also spoke to students in
the Spanish Immersion Program at Manchester High School.
• Dr. Overvold gave a talk to French students at the Collegiate School on Francophone poetry.
• Dr. Navarro held a seminar on Theatre in Education with Jose Raymundo at Tucker High School.

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• The Department is very much involved in providing interpreting and translating services to the community. Through the
Language Bank, speakers of approximately thirty languages, some of which are otherwise not readily available, can be called
upon for their expertise. Dr. Marechal has translated for the Chesterfield County Library, and Dr.White has assisted MCV’s
Department of Biostatistics with the translation of documents for patient care surveys. She has also aided the Albemarle-
Charlottesville Regional Jail and the Greater Richmond Legal Aid Services with her expertise in Spanish. She is a member of
the Community Outreach Fellow Program. Dr. Navarro delivered a lecture for the VCU Department of Preventive Medicine
and Community Health and does medical translation work for the MCV Hospitals.
• For the sixth consecutive year Dr. Munoz has held her monthly Poetry Club meetings for students, teachers, and the community
at large.
• Other community services in which the Department engages include Dr. Masullo’s consulting work for McGuire, Woods, and
Battle International Legal Firm, Mrs. Mustafa’s church-related volunteer work such as reading for the blind, and Dr. Martinez-
Gongora’s work for the Campaign for Cancer Prevention for the American Institute for Cancer research.
Objectives for Next Year
• Dr. Paul F. Dvorak, the newly elected Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, has proposed the following goals:
1. The acquisition of computerized foreign language placement tests through the departmental budget and the use of funds
which the Admissions Office normally makes available for faculty administration of the tests. The possibility of receiving
a development grant will also be explored.
2. Application for at least one major grant to initiate credit courses in ESL (English as a Second Language) for foreign
students. In addition, the acquisition of funds for the development of distance learning materials for ESL.
3. Establishment of a departmental database and creation of a newsletter. The updating of the Department’s website and
the development of homepages for all full-time faculty in an effort to increase the visibility of the Department.
4. The development of individual faculty performance plans, including class scheduling and weighting of teaching,
research, and service activities. The establishment of a rating plan for measuring individual faculty contributions to
the Department’s efforts to recruit new students and to foster study abroad for students.
5. Articulation with all department chairs in the College and appropriate administrators to define the Department’s role
and program within the context of the University. The establishment of ten curricular plans for lessons or components
within non-major language courses in order to establish the relevance of foreign languages for other disciplines.
6. Investigation of the possibility of alternative scheduling of elementary- and intermediate-level classes so that pilot
studies can be made in Fall 2003.
7. The improvement of recruitment efforts in area schools and full use of the FLEX Program to enhance relationships
with area schools.
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Department of
History
Dr. Susan E. Kennedy
Chair

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Joseph W. Bendersky - Professor
Dr. Alan V. Briceland - Associate
Professor
Dr. Robert D. Cromey - Associate
Professor
Dr. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley - Associate
Professor
Dr. Harold E. Greer, Jr. - Associate
Professor
Dr John E. Herman - Associate Professor
Dr. Norrece T. Jones, Jr. - Associate
Professor
Dr. Susan E. Kennedy - Chair & Professor
Dr. Michael W. Messmer - Associate
Professor
Dr. Bernard Moitt - Associate Professor
Dr. George E. Munro - Professor
Mr. David W. Routt - Assistant Professor
Dr. Philip J. Schwartz - Professor
Dr. Edgar A. Toppin - Visiting Professor
Dr. Eugene P. Trani - President &
Professor
Dr. Ted Tunnell - Associate Professor
Dr. Melvin I. Urofsky - Director of the
Ph.D. Program in Public Policy &
Professor
Dr. Grace Vuoto - Assistant Professor
Dr. Yucel Yanikdag - Instructor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Alden G. Bigelow
Dr. William E. Blake, Jr.
Dr. James T. Moore
Dr. Robert M. Talbert
Staff
Ms. Nancy L. Campbell
Ms. Wanda P. Clary
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Activities and Accomplishments
The 2001-2002 academic year represented an exceptional period of achievement and the successful culmination of a number
of projects for the Department of History.
• The faculty completed its self-study and hosted a visiting team of reviewers as part of the evaluation of its programs. The selfstudy
documented and the reviewers commended “excellent graduate and undergraduate instruction by highly qualified faculty
who are active and productive scholars.” The reviewers’ report described the VCU history faculty as “excellent teachers,
productive scholars, and good University citizens.”
• Dr. Joseph W. Bendersky won the College of Humanities & Sciences Distinguished Scholarship Award. Dr. Harold E. Greer
was given the College’s Distinguished Adviser Award. This brings to 15 the total of College awards earned by members of the
History faculty.
• Dr. Susan E. Kennedy was named to Who’s Who among America’s Teachers.
• Dr. John Herman earned promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Herman was inducted as a member of the Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi and an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honor Society.
• Searches for four faculty positions elicited excellent pools of candidates. Productive interviews took place at the annual meeting
of the American Historical Association. Budgetary problems in the Commonwealth, however, forced suspension of the searches
before faculty could be hired.
• The Thelma Sara Biddle Scholarship fund reached endowment status. Ms. Sarah Haymes will receive the scholarship for the
coming year. The William E. Blake Scholarship was awarded for the first time, to Ms. Jennifer Bishop. Dr. Blake plans to work
toward endowing that scholarship over the next few years.
• The Graduate Essay Award was named in honor of Dr. James Tice Moore, Professor Emeritus.
• Dr. John Meier of Notre Dame University delivered the 2002 William E. and Miriam S. Blake Lecture on the History
of Christianity. Dr. Meier discussed “Jesus the Jew – But What Sort of Jew?”
• After completing two years as a continuing Collateral Assistant Professor, Dr. Maria Mazzenga will leave to join the staff
of National History Day, Inc., as an Outreach Coordinator and Program Manager.
• Staff members Ms. Nancy L. Campbell served this year as President and Ms. Wanda Clary as Vice President of the College
of Humanities & Sciences Staff Council.
Teaching
• Mr. Ryan Conway won the F. Edward Lund Award for the highest grade point average in seven or more History courses taken
at VCU by a graduating senior majoring in History.
• Ms. Emily Rusk earned the Alden G. Bigelow Award for the best paper in a History course other than Honors and
Independent Study during the previous calendar.
• Ms. Elizabeth Seward was given the Albert A. Rogers Award for the best paper in Honors in History or Independent Study
in History during the previous calendar.
• Mr. John McClure repeated his success of 2000-2001 by again winning the Graduate Essay Award for the best paper by a History
graduate student during the previous calendar. Mr. McClure also presented a chapter of his M.A. thesis at a session on Virginia
Reconstruction at the Douglas Southall Freeman and Southern Intellectual History Conference at the University of Richmond.
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• Mr. Michael Rawls, a current graduate student, and Mr. Joseph Possemato, who completed his M.A. in History at VCU, also
presented papers at the Freeman conference.
• Students continue to receive excellent advising from Dr. Greer in the undergraduate program and Dr. Bendersky in the
graduate program.
• The faculty participated in the Early Alert program and used its results to inform extensive discussions of student performance,
especially in general education courses.
• Again this year, Drs. Alan V. Briceland and Michael W. Messmer offered Honors sections of general education courses.
• Drs. John Herman and George Munro are taking the lead in developing a two-semester course in World History, projected
to become part of the general education curriculum. The Center for Teaching Excellence awarded them a course development
grant for this project.
• New topics courses included the History of Advertising and Consumer Culture in the United States, and the History of
St. Petersburg, which was cross-listed with Urban Studies and International Studies.
• New themes for senior seminars included “The Twelve Caesars” and “Southern Women’s History from Segregation to Civil Rights.”
• Independent study projects with graduate and undergraduate students included “Medieval Europe in Crisis,” “Fin de Siecle
German Intellectual History,” “Readings on Native Americans” and “Class, Ethnicity, Race and Gender in American Sports.”
• With a colleague in another department, Dr. Bendersky has developed a course on the Holocaust, to be offered to schoolteachers
through the Virginia Holocaust Museum beginning in the fall.
• Dr. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley planned a summer institute for teachers that will focus on Women in Virginia; it will be offered
at the Virginia Historical Society.
• Dr. Greer lectured to the Capital Region of the Virginia Geographic Alliance and to the Richmond City Teachers Institute.
• Dr. Herman conducted a workshop at St. Christopher’s School.
• Drs. Messmer and David Routt tutored the “We the People” team at the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for
Government and International Relations. And Dr. Philip J. Schwarz served as a judge in the “We the People” competition.
• Dr. Munro again served as a featured study leader for Smithsonian National Associates study tours, with travels this year
to the Norwegian coast, North Cape and Russia’s White Sea; a boat trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg; and two trips to
St. Petersburg and environs.
• Dr. Munro served as a question leader for the Advanced Placement test in European History; next year he will begin a fouryear
appointment as Chief Reader.
• Dr. Philip J. Schwarz’s highly successful Stratford Hall Plantation Seminar on Slavery continues to attract teachers and museum
professionals from across the country. Several members of the department lecture in the seminar.
• Dr. Schwarz also taught in the St. Catherine’s Minimester.
• Dr. Ted Tunnell revised a fifth-grade Virginia history textbook for Harcourt-Brace Publishers.
• Dr. Briceland offered a course for the Commonwealth Society on “Virginia’s role in the creation of the U.S. Constitution,”
and Dr. Ted Tunnell presented a Commonwealth Society course on “Pivotal Interpretations of the Civil War.”
• Dr. Schwarz and Dr. Edgar Toppin delivered lectures in the “Richmond’s African-American History” series sponsored
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• In addition, faculty were invited to comment on such topics as September 11, the conflict in the Middle East, China after
June 4, 1989 and bi-cultural perspectives of Southern culture. They lectured at Westminster Presbyterian Church, St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, the John Marshall House, the Library of Virginia, the Virginia Historical Society, Upham Watershed
Project and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• Faculty continue to augment their audio-visual and multi-media materials. Increasing numbers of courses benefit from Blackboard
and other technology applications. Dr. Robert M. Talbert, Associate Professor Emeritus, is completing a major project that will
make more than 5,000 images of the Ancient Near East available for teaching and research on the VCU web site.
• Faculty also support a variety of student organizations, such as Dr. Greer who serves as advisor to Phi Eta Sigma National
Honor Society as well as the Baptist Student Union and Dr. Fuller-Seeley, who sponsors the History student club and the
Alexandrian Society, had several meetings and programs during the year, including a successful fund-raising book sale.
Research
Faculty of the Department of History published seven books, nine chapters and articles, seven encyclopedia articles and 13
reviews this year, in addition to presenting their work at scholarly conferences:
• Dr. Bendersky’s recent book, The Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army has received a great deal of favorable
attention. A paperback edition appeared this year, and Dr. Bendersky has lectured on the book and related topics at the New
York Military Affairs Symposium, the Association of Genocide Scholars International Conference, the National Museum
of American Jewish Military History, the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania and “With Good Reason” on NPR.
• Dr. Robert Cromey delivered papers at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association and at the joint meeting
of the American Archaeological Association and American Philological Association.
• Dr. Fuller-Seeley wrote the text for Celebrate Richmond Theater, published by Dietz Press. The book led to many invitations
to present illustrated lectures to groups ranging from the Friends of the Richmond and Chesterfield County Public Libraries
to the Jewish Community Center and several assisted living and health care centers. Her earlier monograph, At the Picture Show:
Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture, previously published by the Smithsonian Institution was reissued
in paperback by the University Press of Virginia, and two portions of that book were reprinted in anthologies. She also edited
and wrote the introduction to “Spectatorship in Film and Television,” a special issue of the Journal of Popular Film and Television;
and she contributed the selected bibliography on sources for researching television history and cultural geography to an edited
volume, Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, published by the University of Kentucky Press.
• Dr. Herman’s study of the Mue’ge Kingdom was included in Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in
Chinese History, published by Curzon Press.
• Indiana University Press published Dr. Bernard Moitt’s Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. Dr. Moitt also
published an article, two chapters and a review.
• Dr. Lorraine Gates Schuyler’s dissertation on woman suffrage in the South has been nominated for the C. Vann Woodward
Dissertation Prize, given by the Southern Historical Association.
• Dr. Schwarz edited Slavery at the Home of George Washington, which was published by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.
• Dr. Ted Tunnell’s Edge of the Sword, published last year by LSU Press, was the subject of a radio interview on NPR. Dr. Tunell
also participated in book signings in Richmond and Williamsburg.
• Drs. Briceland, Schwarz and Urofsky contributed essays to the second volume of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography.
• The Thomas Jefferson Foundation published Dr. Urofsky’s book on The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas
Jefferson’s House. The book brought many invitations to Dr. Urofsky to lecture throughout the state, including the keynote
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address to the Southern Jewish Historical Society. ABC-Clio published Dr. Urofsky’s book, Religious Freedom: Rights and
Liberties under the Law.
• Dr. Yucel Yanikdag presented a paper on “Remembrance of the Ottoman Great War in Turkey” at the annual meeting of the
Middle east Studies Association.
Many other scholarly projects are under development.
• Dr. Bendersky continues to be one of the leading international scholars on Carl Schmitt. He is completing a translation and
scholarly edition of Carl Schmitt’s On the Three Types of Juristic Thought which will be published by Greenwood.
• Dr. Cromey plans to focus his long-term research into “A Chronology of Attic Vases” intended for CD publication. He is also
working on an article on an Athenian social institution’s relation to citizenship and continues to pursue his interest in
Thomas Jefferson’s reaction to the ancient world.
• Dr. Fuller-Seeley has an anthology on cinema in rural America as well as two chapters in press. She continues her work on the
Cook and Harris Moving Picture company. Her book on Richmond theaters has brought an invitation to write the history of
Richmond’s Loew’s theater.
• Dr. Greer continues work on his biography of Herbert and Marjorie Caudill, Baptist missionaries to Cuba.
• Now that Dr. Herman has his book manuscript under review by a publisher and a chapter on China’s political incorporation
of the southwest frontier forthcoming, he is editing the papers presented last year at an international conference at Lund
University and has begun a new book project, an examination of the life of a prominent Manchu official and advisor to the
Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors.
• When Dr. Norrece Jones completes final editorial work on Slavery and Antislavery: Race and Freedom Struggles in the Making of
America to be published by Blackwell, he will resume his study of race control and the dynamics of class in post-bellum America.
• Dr. Kennedy is working on a series of essays on Herbert Hoover’s later years and has begun a combined study of Herbert and
Lou Henry Hoover.
• Dr. Moitt is editing a collection of essays on the social and economic effects that sugar, slavery, and the plantation system had
on society in the Caribbean, India and the Mascarenes. He is also working on a book on slavery and guardianship in Senegal
in the second half of the nineteenth century.
• Dr. Munro is in the final stages of revising his book manuscript on St. Petersburg and continues to work on his book on the
relationship between Russia’s credit and banking and its commercial life, as well as a book about episodes in daily life in
eighteenth-century Russia.
• Dr. Schwarz is working on a documentary history of Gabriel’s Revolt and continues to develop materials for his study of
“Virginia: Mother of Slavery.”
• Dr. Tunnell is expanding his earlier work on Reconstruction with a new project on Carpetbaggers and Scalawags.
• Dr. Urofsky is working on a compilation of a thousand major Supreme Court cases, a book on “The Rights of the People” for the
State Department and an edition of the Brandeis family letters. He will soon start a new book on campaign finance and the courts.
Service
This has been a particularly heavy service year for the tenured and tenure-track faculty of the department who staffed four searches
and contributed to the self-study and other aspects of program review. Nevertheless, faculty members contribute their expertise
to many parts of the profession and the community:
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• Dr. Urofsky co-directs the Institute for Constitutional Studies sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society, with support
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Dr. Bendersky served as a referee for the Organization of American Historians’ David Thelen Article Prize for the best article
in American History published in a foreign language.
• Dr. Jones is a member of the community advisory board of the Tredegar National Civil War Center. In the fall, he joined
distinguished historian Charles Dew and Pulitzer Prize winner James McPherson as panelists at a symposium co-sponsored by
VCU and Tredegar. Dr. Jones was also one of the organizers and presenters at a conference at Stanford University organized
to honor George M. Fredrickson. He is also completing a second term on the Richmond Public Art Commission and is its
representative on the steering committee of the Slave Remembrance Project; and he has been asked to serve a third term.
• Dr. Cromey is program director for the Richmond Chapter of Archaeological Institute of America.
• Dr. Fuller-Seeley is a member of planning committee for next year’s Commonwealth Conference on “Moviegoing and
American Society,” to be held at University College, London.
• Dr. Schwarz is a member of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission.
• Members of the department serve VCU on University Council and its Academic Affairs Committee; Faculty Senate and its
Executive Committee, Mediation Committee on the Honor System, and Academic and Professional Status Committee; the
Academic Campus Honors Council; an Internal Review Board; and the University Grievance Committee.
• Faculty serve the College of Humanities and Sciences on such bodies as Faculty Council, the College Promotion and Tenure
Committee, the Women’s Studies Advisory Board, the advisory board for International and Areas Studies and the Grievance Board.
Objectives and Outcomes
• Every year the faculty of the Department of History commit themselves to maintaining their well-established record of excellence
in teaching, research and scholarship, and professional service. Their achievements during 2001-2002 testify to an extraordinary
level of success, that is even more impressive in light of two very labor-intensive activities – intended hiring and program review.
Searches for four faculty members to replace those who had retired or left progressed well until financial crisis forced their
suspension. A thorough examination of all aspects of the undergraduate and graduate programs resulted in a comprehensive
self-study that provided the basis for a very successful site visit.
Assessment
• The department has used a formal process for assessing the undergraduate major for over a decade. Now that a critical mass of
materials on the graduate program has been accumulated, a similar process was introduced to assess skills and learning outcomes
for the M.A. in History. Analysis shows high levels of student performance, with the majority falling into the very good to
excellent category. Steady improvement in the quality of historical writing reflects the long-term departmental commitment
to that goal and the increasing success by the History Department faculty in helping majors and graduate students to develop
the crucial skills necessary to good historical writing.
• Program review also included surveys of undergraduate majors, current graduate students, undergraduate and graduate alumni,
and students in general history classes, administered by the Survey and Evaluations Research Laboratory at the end of the
previous academic year. Analysis of those results underscored a high level of student satisfaction at all levels of the program.
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Program Review
• After two years of gathering and analyzing data, examining practices and results, and thoughtfully considering all aspects of its
teaching, scholarship, and service missions, the faculty of the Department of History produced a self-study that became the
basis of examination of the program by a team of four external reviewers. Dr. James Harris, Dean of the College of Arts and
Humanities at the University of Maryland; Dr. William Link, Head of the Department of History at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro; Dr. John Moeser, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Virginia Commonwealth University,
and Dr. Constance Schulz, Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at the University of South
Carolina conducted an on-campus review from May 12 to 14, 2002.
• The reviewers’ report praised the faculty in all categories of review, while it reaffirmed that this is a critical time in the department’s
development. The report challenged the department to consider a number of issues, including continued leadership, planning
for rebuilding the faculty, supplementary revenue sources, responding to expanding enrollments, refining the relationship of
Introduction to Historical Studies to the rest of the undergraduate curriculum, fostering undergraduate and graduate student culture,
expanding partnerships in the professional community, and enhancing awareness of the department and its new programs.
New Faculty
• Dr. David Routt joined the department this year as Collateral Assistant Professor to teach courses in the Medieval, Renaissance,
and Reformation periods. Dr. Routt earned his Ph.D. at the Ohio State University in 1998. He previously taught at the University
of Rhode Island and Colgate. In addition to courses on the Middle Ages, Dr. Routt taught the Survey of European History.
He will remain on the faculty in 2002-2003.
• Dr. Lorraine Gates Schuyler completed her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia shortly before joining the department in fall
2001 as Collateral Assistant Professor. In addition to survey courses in American History, she taught the History of the South
and introduced a senior seminar on Southern women’s history. Dr. Schuyler leaves Virginia Commonwealth University this
summer to take up a fellowship at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; she will be revising her dissertation for publication.
• Dr. Grace Vuoto earned her doctorate at McGill University in 2000 and spent the next year as a visiting scholar to Northwestern
University and the Johns Hopkins University before joining the VCU faculty in fall 2001 as Collateral Assistant Professor to
teach the History of England and History of Women in Europe in addition to survey courses in European History. Next year
she will begin a tenure-track position at Howard University.
• Dr. Yucel Yanikdag came to VCU in fall 2001 as Collateral Instructor, with teaching responsibilities in the History of the Modern
Middle East in addition to offering survey courses in European History. He completed his Ph.D. at the Ohio State University in
October. He will return to VCU as Collateral Assistant Professor for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Objectives for Next Year
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• The faculty of the Department of History will continue their excellent performance in teaching, scholarship and research, and
professional service. Despite cutbacks, fall courses will offer more seats than were occupied in fall 2001. At least one book will
go to press; another completed monograph is being submitted to publishers.
• Faculty will address the recommendations of the external reviewers, first at a faculty retreat in August 2002, and then will
propose a plan for implementation of adjustments and new initiatives.
• The department hopes that finances will permit us to replace the four senior department members who retired or resigned last year.
• In preparation for a proposed program in Public History, the department will intensify its planning and explore collaborations
with public and private institutions in the central Virginia region.

Dr. Judy VanSlyke Turk
Director
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Mass
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Faculty
Mr. John W. Campbell, Jr. - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Thomas R. Donohue -Professor
Dr. Brenda Smith Faison - Associate
Professor
Ms. Jean O. Govoni - Associate
Professor
Dr. J. David Kennamer - Associate
Professor
Ms. June O. Nicholson - Associate
Professor
*Dr. L. Terry Oggel - Acting Director
& Professor
Ms. Paula I. Otto - Assistant Director
& Associate Professor
Mr. William L. Sims - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Ted J. Smith - Associate Professor
Mr. Jeffrey C. South - Associate
Professor
Dr. Clarence W. Thomas - Associate
Professor
**Dr. Judy VanSlyke Turk - Director &
Professor
Ms. Wilma H. Wirt - Associate
Professor
Adcenter Faculty
Dr. Patricia Alvey - Executive Director
& Associate Professor
Mr. Patrick H. Burnham - Associate
Professor
Mr. Timothy Chumley - Assistant
Professor
Mr. Constantin “Coz” Cotzias -
Associate Professor
***Ms. Andrea D. Groat - Financial
Manager
***Ms. Sallyann C. Holzgrefe - Director
of Development
Mr. David “Jelly” Helm - Associate
Professor
Mr. Charles Kouns - Associate Professor
***Ms. Dawn K. Waters - Assistant
Director
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
IDr. Edmund C. Arnold
Mr. George T. Crutchfield
Dr. Jack Haberstroh
Mr. Robert Hughes
Mr. James R. Looney
Staff
Ms. Nicole K. Footen
Ms. Suzanne L. Horsley
Ms. M. Frances Lynch
Ms. Nancy L. Shillady
Ms. Susan W. Williams
Adcenter Staff
Ms. Sharon Shaw
Mr. Robert Thiemann
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**Director effective 3-1-02
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Activities and Accomplishments
Staffing Changes
• The School of Mass Communications welcomed new leadership in 2001-02 with the hiring of Dr. Judy VanSlyke Turk as the
School’s Director. She joined VCU on March 1, 2002 from Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, where she had
been founding Dean of the College of Communication and Media Sciences at this new university for Emirati female students.
Prior to Zayed University, she had been dean or director of journalism and mass communication programs in South Carolina,
Ohio and Oklahoma.
• The School also welcomed Suzanne Horsley on January 1 as its first Director of Alumni Relations and launched several new
alumni programs, including networking receptions in Washington, DC and New York. In the summer of 2002, Horsley initiated
a donor recog-nition society and began sending on-line news to alumni to supplement information available on the School’s
Web site and Intracomm, the School’s biannual alumni newsletter.
• Nicole Footen joined the School October 1 as Coordinator of Student Services, and oversees academic and career advising as
well as internship placement for the School’s almost 900 majors and pre-majors. She has overseen significant changes in the
way the School administers its MASC 203 Newswriting entrance examination.
• Susan Williams joined the School February 1 as financial manager, replacing Vicki Byrd who moved to a fiscal position in the
College of Humanities & Sciences. Susan, who previously worked in the College, ensured that the School spent its limited
operating funds wisely, right down to the last penny.
• Dr. Patricia Alvey, since 2000 executive director of the Adcenter, the School’s graduate advertising program, announced that
she would leave that position at the end of the spring semester to become Distinguished Chair and Director of the Temerlin
Advertising Institute at Southern Methodist University.
• While there were no additions to the School’s continuing faculty, Will Sims joined the faculty on a one-year collateral
appointment to teach undergraduate advertising courses. Patrick Burnham joined the School, also on a one-year contract,
to teach in the School’s graduate program at the Adcenter.
• Gil Thelen, Executive Editor and Vice President of The Tampa Tribune, was the Dabney Distinguished Professor of
Journalism during the spring 2002 semester. His course, “Writing, Editing and Reporting in a Converged Newsroom,” gave
students the opportunity to learn how print, electronic and digital media formats can be used collaboratively to provide information
to the public.
Curriculum Changes and Achievements
• The School, as part of its strategic planning effort, developed a “Plan for the Future of the School of Mass Communications.”
Many of the initiatives detailed in the plan are related to curriculum change, and one initiative already has been accomplished:
creation of a minor in Media Studies. The minor, available to students beginning in the Fall 2002 semester, is comprised of 18
semester credit hours. All students in the minor will complete a core of communication theory and media concepts courses,
and then will choose from an array of introductory courses in all four of the School’s sequences: print journalism, electronic
journalism/broadcasting, advertising and public relations.
• Three faculty – Jeff South, Paula Otto and June Nicholson – joined Dr. Turk for a visit to the News Center in Tampa, FL,
a joint operation of The Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV and TampaBay Online, all three owned by Richmond-based Media
General, Inc. The purpose of the visit was to gather information about how converged journalism is practiced in preparation
for the School’s move to a converged journalism curriculum, to be formalized in 2002-03.
• The Capital News Service was back in operation in the Spring 2002 semester to cover state government and the General
Assembly for 33 participating newspapers across Virginia. Prof. Wilma Wirt coordinated the reporting, writing and editing
of the students enrolled in this advanced journalism course.
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• Profs. Paula Otto and Jeff South also introduced students to covering the legislature and state government in their classes.
Students in Prof. Otto’s Newscasting class gathered stories and prepared packages for multiple radio, television and Internet
outlets. Prof. South’s Legislative Reporting students published a daily Web-zine, “On The Lege,” that included enterprise and
investigative stories, some of which were picked up and used by media outlets around the country. The students’ work was
featured during a panel discussion at the National Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in March 2002 in Philadelphia.
• Students in Dr. David Kennamer’s Public Relations Research Methods class collaborated with the School’s Director of Alumni
Relations to conduct focus groups and surveys, both by telephone and online, with the School’s alumni in the Richmond area.
• The School’s new General Education course, MASC 151 Communications Technology and Global Society, attracted 100 students
the first time it was offered in the Fall 2001 semester. Dr. Brenda Smith Faison and Prof. South shared the teaching of the course
that included online breakout sections. The course was developed under a $20,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
• Another course “went digital” during the year as students in Prof. Otto’s Documentary class learned digital editing using two
new Macintosh computers and Final Cut Pro software. Otto received a grant from VCU’s Center for Teaching Excellence to
learn the software and reconfigure the course.
• Students in the Adcenter’s “Perspectives in Advertising” class for first-year students created an installation exhibit entitled
“10 x 10: Ten Decades, Ten Projects, One Century,” which depicted the relationship between advertising, history and
American popular culture. The Adcenter held an open house to showcase the exhibit, prepared under the guidance of Prof.
Charlie Kouns.
• Adcenter faculty and students also were involved in a wide range of service and community projects, including Art 180, High
School Heroes and the Virginia Coalition for the Homeless.
• New linkages to professional communicators and journalists were forged in several courses during the year. Among them was
Advertising Layout and Production, thanks to the introduction of portfolio reviews by Prof. Jean Govoni. A dozen advertising
professionals evaluated and critiqued student portfolios, providing valuable feedback to the students. Advertising students in
classes taught by Prof. Govoni and Prof. Will Sims worked with the Virginia Blood Services to create an ad campaign directed
at getting VCU students to participate in campus blood drives held in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
• A record 390 students were enrolled in Dr. Thomas Donohue’s MASC 101 Introduction to Mass Communications course
in the Fall 2001 semester in response to increased demand and as part of the School’s effort to increase credit hour production
without sacrificing instructional quality.
• Prof. Jelly Helm developed the first Adcenter course conducted using video conferencing, Portfolio Development, which he
taught in the Spring 2002 semester. Prof. Helm’s teaching was reduced to half-time after his move to Portland, Oregon in the
summer of 2001.
Student Accomplishments
• Members of VCU’s chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) attended the national conference in
Atlanta. While there, they toured PR agencies, attended professional development workshops and participated in leadership
development activities. Prof. John Campbell was faculty adviser and chaperone.
• The student chapter of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) traveled to Las Vegas with Prof. Paula Otto,
faculty adviser, for the National Association of Broadcasters and national RTNDA conferences held concurrently. Special
student sessions covered such topics as finding your first broadcasting job and how to write better stories.
• Four students met the requirements to be named Peer Advisers, to complement faculty advising by providing basic program
information to other students. The Peer Advisers were James Mann, Lisa Kunnmann, Michelle Wiredu and Richard Hartogs.
Each Peer Adviser is on duty two hours a week to provide information and advice from the Peer Advising Office.
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• The VCU Student Chapter of SPJ Society of Professional Journalists assisted with the hosting of the SPJ regional professional
conference in Fredericksburg. With faculty advisor Wilma Wirt, they assisted with registration, greeting guests and writing
articles about the conference for Quill, SPJ’s national magazine.
• Student Holly Clark’s story about a controversy over a Virginia state agency’s plan to give housing assistance to unrelated
adults and unmarried couples was picked up by Stateline.org, a Web site devoted to state government. She wrote the story
for her Legislative Reporting class.
• Vanessa Debrew and Christina Powell were tapped by the faculty for recognition at VCU’s Black History in the Making
celebration in February.
• At its spring awards ceremony, the School awarded scholarships to eight students for their outstanding achievements:
1. Frank Brown and Emily Sempsey won the Alden Aaroe Scholarship for the rising sophomores with the highest grade
point average in the Electronic Media and News Editorial sequences.
2. Richard Denzler won the Gene B. Creasy scholarship given to an outstanding rising junior or senior from Virginia in
the Electronic Media sequence.
3. Holly Clark was awarded the Crutchfield Journalism Scholarship (for the second year running), presented to the rising
junior or senior in the News Editorial sequence, based on academic achievement, need and promise of success in a
newspaper career.
4. Holly Clark also won the Beverly Orndorff Scholarship, given by Media General in honor of Beverly Orndorff, nationally
recognized science and medical writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, to a print journalism student with a demonstrated
interest in medical/science reporting who has at least a 3.0 GPA.
5. Holly Clark also won the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame Award, given to an outstanding undergraduate or
graduate student based on merit and need.
6. Christianne Darby won the Martin Agency Minority Advertising Scholarship, presented to a minority student in the
Advertising or Public Relations sequences based on academic merit and need.
7. Geoffrey Rowland and Sarah Edwards won the Ed and Polly Temple Writing Award recognizing the rising seniors who
are the most adept writers of print journalism in the School.
8. John D. Humphreys Jr. won the Joseph F. Mason Scholarship, awarded to a rising senior pursuing significant academic
study in marketing or advertising who is taking business courses, is maintaining a 3.0 GPA, and has assumed a leadership
role in at last one extracurricular activity.
• Twenty-three Adcenter students were awarded a total of 25 national scholarships and fellowships, totaling nearly $103,000
for the 2001-2002 academic year. Almost 78% of Adcenter students were placed in paid summer internships at many of the
country’s top advertising agencies. Students receiving scholarships were:
La’Leatha Ryan Miriam Kaddoura Barry Brothers
Jennifer Scholl David Fredette Lee Remias
Monica Taylor Derrick Webb Jennifer Lee
Elaine Leung Tomaneci Waller Emily Lopez
Jon Bunning Beth Ryan Nicole Santucci
Mark Svartz Diana Tung Walt Barron
Alan Boltz Chris Overton Carola Kanashiro
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• Adcenter students won the bronze medal in design and 12 merit awards in advertising at The One Show, one of the country’s
most respected competitions. Students receiving these awards were:
Stuart Jennings Tannen Campbell Nate Anderson
Sean Vij Miriam Kaddoura Dave Fredette
Beth Ryan Matt O’Malley Jon Graham
Josh Rosen Mark Svartz Derrick Webb
Julie Delude Barry Brothers Jeff Shill
Matt Arnold Scott Johnson Whitney Jenkins
Mark Maziarz John Lau Michael Tuton
Trevlin Utz Ravi Costa Yosune George
Jimbo Embry
• Adcenter students Josh Rosen, Miriam Kaddoura, Jon Bunning, Greg Desmond, Lee Remias, Mark Svartz, Beth Ryan and
Monica Taylor were invited to show their work at The One Club’s Student Exhibition in New York.
• Second-year Adcenter students Jon Bunning and Class of 2001 alumna Tracey Morgan accepted a bronze award at the One
Show on behalf of the Adcenter, which won the award and a merit for “Sixty Weeks,” its recruitment and promotional book.
The Adcenter also won a gold award in Show South for “Sixty Weeks” as well as a silver award for a series of recruitment ads
published in industry magazines.
• The second-year Adcenter team of Mark Svartz, David Fredette and Jon Bunning received a bronzed award in the International
Clio Awards.
• The Adcenter’s team of first-year students Chris Overton and Chantal Panozzo won a British Design and Art Direction statue
and merit award. The students will travel to London in late June to receive the award.
• The School’s undergraduate graduating class of 2002 heard from Dorothy Gilliam, veteran reporter and columnist for The
Washington Post, as the speaker for the School’s ceremony to award diplomas. Gilliam, who currently directs The Post’s Young
Journalists Development project, advised graduates to remember the lessons learned from 9/11, to portray the world in all its
complexity and to make diversity and humanity a part of their personal ethic. Outstanding student awards were presented to
Patrick Almaguer (undergraduate) and Jennifer Scholl (graduate), and the 2002 inductees into Kappa Tau Alpha, the journalism
honor society, were recognized. They were:
School of Mass Communications (undergraduate)
Patrick R. Almaguer Carol Arevalo Elizabeth Childs
Holly K. Clark Katherine E. Duffy Marchello I. Ferrara
Tamsen Heckel Cynthia A. McNamara Bobby L. Parks
Keat W. Powell Kimberly J. Rollins Shawn Wray
Adcenter (graduate)
Walter Barron Philip Flickinger Joyce Forbes
Christopher Franzitta Miriam Kaddoura Jeffrey Shill
• The Adcenter’s 54 graduates in the class of 2002 heard from Dan Wieden, president and creative director of Wieden + Kennedy,
one of the world’s leading advertising agencies and the man who coined the Nike tag line “Just do it,” at their graduation
ceremony in May. Wieden is a member of the Adcenter Board.
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Outreach Initiatives
• The Adcenter hosted a panel discussion in November featuring its Board members on the topic of the state of advertising
following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The theme, “Is it time for the ‘new hard sell’?” generated thoughtful debate, and the
panel drew coverage from the local media as well as being the subject of a column in the Winter 2002 issue of one, a magazine,
published by the One Club for Art and Copy.
• The Adcenter also co-sponsored, with VCU’s School of Business, the Eighth Annual International Business Forum on the
topic of “The Americanization of World Cultures through Television, Film and Advertising.”
• The school hosted its 17th Urban Journalism Workshop in collaboration with the Richmond Times-Dispatch and under a
funding grant from the Dow Jones Newspaper. Fund. Prof. June Nicholson directed the two-week workshop for 12 students
who produced a 20-page newspaper with the theme “Teens and the Law.”
• Fifteen high school newspaper and yearbook editors from across the state participated in the High School Editors’ Workshop,
sponsored by the School, the Virginia Press Association and the Virginia High School League. Professional journalists from across
Virginia and experienced high school publication advisers taught the workshop sessions in the intensive one-week program.
• The School also hosted, for the 13th consecutive year, the Virginia High School League Fall Publications Workshop. More
than 800 student editors, student staff and faculty advisers from school newspapers, yearbooks and magazines from across the
state attended, despite the fact the workshop was scheduled just a few short weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A meeting
between representatives of the School’s faculty and officials of the District of Columbia public schools identified DC-area high
schools with active journalism programs. As a result, for the first time, students and faculty from 17 Washington, DC high
schools were invited to participate in the Publications Workshop as part of the School’s out-of-state student recruitment effort.
• The School’s faculty participated as speakers or panelists for a number of university and professional programs and conferences,
including programs held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, at the national conference of Public Relations
Society of America, for a regional meeting of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), for the
Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, at the national conference of the Radio-Television News Directors
Association, at the National Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference, The Virginia press Women’s Spring Conference and
as part of VCU’s Black History Month observation.
• No Virginia Hall of Fame ceremony or induction occurred in 2002, in part a result of the disruption in “normal” activity that
followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the School also felt the Hall and its activities deserved examination and perhaps
re-invention, and therefore appointed Martha Steger, a Richmond public relations executive and 2001 inductee into the Hall
of Fame, to co-chair a committee with Director Turk to study and make recommendations regarding the Hall prior to the
2003 festivities.
• Two of the advertising agencies represented on the Adcenter’s Board were inducted into the VCU Founders’ Society in recognition
of their generous contributions to the Adcenter. Adcenter Board members Flynn Dallis (Leo Burnett) and Rick Boyko
(Ogilvy & Mather) accepted the honor on behalf of their respective agencies.
• Adcenter faculty member Jelly Helm and students Tracey Morgan (Class of 2001) and Jon Bunning (Class of 2002) produced
Sixty Weeks, a commemorative book chronicling the Adcenter experience. The piece has served as a brochure for the program,
a gift for Adcenter audiences and a recruitment tool. As of May 2002, more than 5,300 copies of the book have been sent to
industry professionals, members of academia and potential students. The award-winning book has been praised by its audiences
as “inspiring,” resulting in a grass-roots demand throughout the industry.
• The Adcenter also unveiled its new Website – cleaner, easier to navigate, faster to download and more intuitive than the original
site. Student work and accompanying strategic briefs are featured. Since more than 80% of the inquiries the Adcenter receives
from prospective students come through online requests, the downloadable admissions application has contributed to an
increase in the number of applications.
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• In teaching and student learning, this year was especially noteworthy for the School’s success in enhancing its instructional
technology. This year was the first year of the university’s Student Computer Initiative, and in concert with that endeavor the
School launched its own initiatives emphasizing technology in instruction and promoting increased technological skills for
student learning. Prof. Jeff South and Dr. Brenda Faison introduced a new course, MASC 151, Communications Technology
and Global Societies. This large-section course introduced general education students to a variety of technologies that will
benefit them in school and later in life, wherever their careers take them. Faison and South implemented new technology in
their instruction as well, and conducted part of the instruction via the Internet.
• With similar emphasis on keeping the School’s use of technology at the cutting-edge, Prof. Paula Otto introduced students in the
Electronic Media sequence to Final Cut Pro, a Macintosh-based digital video editing program. Students in the senior-level
documentary course produced professional-quality documentaries with the new software and the School's digital cameras.
• Dr. Ted J. Smith developed a new course, Propaganda and the Ethics of Mass Communi-cation, and offered it as a special topics
course in the spring 2002 semester. The upper division course was designed as a general education elective for non-majors as
well as an elective within the Mass Communications major.
• Consistent with instructional technology efforts, the Technology Committee continued its series of Tech Demo Days. These
sessions were designed to assist colleagues in the School and across the campus in learning a variety of instructional techniques
that take greater advantage of technology for the classroom. Building on the foundation it established last year with sessions
on PowerPoint and image-scanning and image-importing, the committee, led by Prof. South, sponsored a series of hands-on
tutorials in Final Cut Pro, taught by Prof. Otto. Otto focused on ways to capture and edit digital video files and taught participants
how to use the School's Sony digital camcorders. To provide further assistance for classroom technology, the committee
generated tipsheets on such skills as how to access the School’s public drive on the university’s server.
• With the School’s emphasis on providing students with a comprehensive and rich learning experience, Prof. Jean Govoni
continued her innovative practice, begun last year, of having advanced Advertising students participate in semester-end portfolio
reviews. This year 30 students prepared portfolios for review by 24 of the Richmond area’s top creative directors, art directors
and copywriters. Each student’s portfolio was reviewed one-on-one by all reviewers, who evaluated the students’ work and gave
advice about job opportunities. One immediate benefit to the review was that several students landed internships with local agencies.
• The Adcenter hosted its annual Recruiter Session immediately following graduation. Twenty advertising agencies from across
the country reviewed graduates’ portfolios and interviewed students in this two-day event. As a result, a number of new graduates
were offered positions at some of the most respected agencies in the country.
• The School again hosted its annual Internship Fair, with enhanced participation. More than 100 students registered to meet
with representatives of 30 media agencies from the Richmond area and beyond. The increased success of the event is credited
to innovations by the Internship Committee. Headed by Prof. Govoni, the committee created databases that track the success
of internships and that expand the list of internship providers.
• In a similar vein, Prof. Wilma Wirt again conducted Job Fairs each semester for News-Editorial students. This year marked the
ninth year of these fairs, where students meet with newspaper editors from across the state to learn how to develop professional
résumés and how to prepare for and conduct themselves during a professional job interview. The fair is also a showcase for
the School’s News Editorial students--the editors keep track of the students, first for internships and later for jobs.
• In spite of relocating to Portland, Oregon, Associate Professor David (Jelly) Helm continued to produce communications
materials for the Adcenter, and taught second-year students portfolio development via video conferencing in the spring semester.
• Industry veteran Pat Burnham spent the fall and spring semesters teaching concept development, ad layout and typography
and broadcast development at the Adcenter. Burnham was creative director at Fallon in Minneapolis during its creative heyday
of the 80’s and 90’s. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Western Heritage
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Research
Faculty
• The School’s faculty brought out a total of 28 publications this year and engaged in a wide variety of other scholarly and creative
activities. Prof. Jeff South’s Media Ethics, a digital “coursepack,” is an e-textbook that makes the most of the Internet, with its
lecture notes covering 16 chapters and a hotlist of Web sites for each topic.
• Dr. Brenda Faison completed her book, News Media Careers for Artists and Designers, to be published next year by Sadorian
Publications. Prof. South’s contribution to News Reporting and Writing (9th edition) is in press—his contributions will
appear in the textbook, the instructor’s manual and an accompanying CH-ROM. Dr. Smith’s portions of Communication Best
Practices at Dell Computer, General Electric, Microsoft and Monsanto will appear in 2002 published by State University of
New York Press. Also “in press” is Dr. Donohue’s Everyone’s Talking, a 30-minute video focusing on parental rights regarding
children’s official records. Dr. Kennamer and Prof. South collaborated on a study of civic journalism that will be published by
Newspaper Research Journal.
• Dr. Smith has two essays under review, one by the Indiana Magazine of History and the other for The Encyclopedia of
Conservatism. Dr. Kennamer’s analysis of data about predictors of HIV risk among Hispanic men is awaiting word from The
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.
• Dr. Kennamer served as a reader of manuscripts submitted for publication at Communication Research and Political
Communication, and he reviewed Election Polls, the New Media, and Democracy for the journal Mass Communication and
Society. Dr. Smith continued to serve as co-editor of the Human Communication Process book series, published by the State
University of New York Press. Prof. Campbell served as a reader of Integrated Public Relations for Houghton Mifflin, and Prof.
South evaluated Untangling the Web for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Profs. Chumley, Helms and Sims participated in diverse creative projects, generating, among other products, videos for campaigns
with such agencies as the State Fair of Virginia, Spurrier Media Group and Community Idea Stations. Prof. Helm created a
new recruitment campaign for the Adcenter based on “Sixty Weeks,” a promotional book chronicling the Adcenter experience
which he also created. Prof. Chumley edited two historical documentaries that examine the use of drama and comedy in advertising.
• All told, the faculty delivered 18 talks, addresses and presentations, as well as moderating sessions at meetings of such organizations
as Virginia Press Women, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, The National Press Club and
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Dr. Smith participated in organizing a conference at the
Ethics and Public Policy Center in D.C. and was co-leader of a conference on “The Southern Critique of Modernity” sponsored
by the Abbeville Institute at the University of Virginia.
• School faculty provided paid and unpaid consultation on 14 occasions, for such diverse entities as the Department of Defense,
Market & Communication Research, the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing
Authority, Virginia Department of Planning and Budget and Philip Morris.
Students
The following student work was included as examples of excellence in advertising education in industry publications, websites,
educational texts or books:
• Remias, L. ('02), M. Svartz ('02), R. Villacarillo ('01); Cotzias, Coz, Creative Director. "Compassionate" Newspaper Ad.
ATHENA Awards Annual (2001).
• Perks, D. (’02), M. Wojtysiak(‘02); Cotzias, Coz, Creative Director. “Fire Safety” Print Ad, PSA. D&AD Student Awards
Annual (2001): 017.
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• Haselton, H. (’01), P. Li (‘01); “Polka, Dot, Bikini” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards Annual (2001).
• Desmond, G (’02), D. Fredette (’02); “Subway Hurdler, Shot Putter, Hurdler” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards
Annual (2001).
• Bunning, J. (’02), G. Desmond (’02), D. Fredette (’02), N. Santucci (’02); “Guerilla Placement” Print Campaign. The One
Show Awards Annual (2001).
• Suso, E. (’01), K. Walker (’01); “Jordan, Woods, Tyson” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards Annual (2001).
• Perks, D. (’02), J. Smith (’01), J. Ward (’02); “Spring, Engine, Hydraulic” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards Annual
(2001).
• Herbert, J. (’01), P. Li (’01); “Some Guy, Oh Well, Go Home” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards Annual (2001).
• Everett, R. (’01), J. Smith (’01); “Himself, Nature, History” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards Annual (2001).
• McKay, P. (’01), T. Morgan (’01); “Half an Inch, National Anthem, Brushfire” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards
Annual (2001).
• Ashley, M. (’01), D. Kapoor (’01); “Pole Vault, Bus, No Parking” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards Annual (2001).
• Ashley, M. (’01), D. Kapoor (’01); “Shotput, Mascot, Faces” Print Campaign. The One Show Awards Annual (2001).
• Blake, T. (’01), J. Runkle (’01); “Salvation Army” Print Ad. International Clio Awards Annual (2001).
• Keeler, J. (’01), P. McKay (’01); “Dramamine” Print Ad. International Clio Awards Annual (2001).
• Scott, R.E. (’01), student work currently featured on Getty Images Bloodbank, new talent website sponsored by D&AD,
www.dandad.org/gettyimagesbloodbank:
Service
Faculty
• School faculty contributed an enormous amount of service this year—to the School, the College and the University, as well as
to regional and national professional organizations. All faculties were engaged in conducting national searches for four teaching
and research faculty members; several sat on search and review committees for faculty administrative leaders. All members of
the faculty were deeply engaged in such on-going School activities as curriculum revision and enhancement, assessment of
student learning, and advising of student organizations. What follows highlights a few of the special service efforts of the faculty
— just the “tip of the iceberg.”
• In university-wide endeavors, Dr. Ted Smith chaired two search and review committees for administrative faculty. Prof. John
Campbell represented the School on the University Honors Council while Dr. David Kennamer and Prof. June Nicholson sat
on the University Faculty Senate with Prof . South serving as an alternate. Dr. Clarence Thomas again led the School’s participation
in the university’s Black History in the Making celebration. Prof. Wilma Wirt was engaged in work on both the university
Honors Program and the Student Media Commission.
• Outside the university, faculty from the School played a role in a number of state and national endeavors. Dr. Tom Donohue
provided expert advice about teens and behavioral change at the University of Virginia’s Institute of Psychiatry, Law and
Public Policy.
• Prof. Jean Govoni served as a consultant to the Art Directors Club in New York City.
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• Dr. Patricia Alvey, Adcenter, was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Interactive Advertising and an invited
panelist at the American Academy of Advertising’s annual conference. She also provided pro bono consulting assistance to
the Office of Policy and Analysis, Smithsonian Institution.
• Prof. David (Jelly) Helm, Adcenter, is the only American, and the only educator, to serve on the 12-person Advisory Committee
of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) Advertising Initiative. The panel, comprised of business, communication and
media professionals from around the world, works on ways advertising can raise global awareness about the importance of
preventing over consumption of the earth’s natural resources.
• Prof. Charles W. Kouns, IV, Adcenter, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center for Conscious Relationship
and of the Garfield F. Childs Memorial Fund. He provided pro bono consulting for the Hand Workshop Art Center.
• Prof. Timothy Chumley, Adcenter, produced, as a pro bono volunteer, collateral materials for PAWS, a local organization
devoted to finding homes for stray animals.
Students
• Students enrolled in the Public Relations Campaigns course produced strategic plans for public relations campaigns for more
than two dozen local not-for-profit organizations.
• Student groups from the Adcenter comprised of 1st and 2nd year art directors, copywriters and planners visited high schools to
talk with students about what it means to choose a career in advertising as part of the High School Heroes program.
Seventeen Adcenter students visited four classes at local schools this year.
• Two VCU Adcenter students worked to create a branding identity and collateral materials for Richmond Community High
School for gifted and talented high school students. The results of the project were embraced and adopted by the school’s
board of directors.
• A large group of Adcenter students volunteered with Art 180, an outreach program for at-risk children in Richmond.
Adcenter students encourage the children in the ART 180 program to express themselves by creating different types of art,
including poetry, photography, painting and film. The project was unveiled at a public event at a local mall in January.
Objectives and Outcomes
• Hire a new Director. Dr. Judy VanSlyke Turk was hired as Director of the School, effective March 1, 2002.
• Create the position of Director of Alumni Relations and hire the first individual to hold this position. Suzanne Horsley was
hired as Director of Alumni Relations, effective January 1, 2002.
• Hire five new faculty to join the School in the Fall 2002 semester. Three new faculty were hired: Debora Wenger to teach in
the School’s evolving converged journalism program, Dr. Tracy Ryan to teach advertising research and other courses in the
School’s undergraduate advertising/business track and Charles W. Kouns, IV to teach strategy and account planning at the
Adcenter. (Kouns previously was on a special teaching appointment.) Two other faculty searches – for an electronic/new
media specialist and for an advertising copywriting expert – were not successful. New searches for these positions will take
place in 2002-03.
• Engage in strategic planning that will result in a blueprint for development and enhancement of the School over the next
several years, The School’s faculty and new director reviewed and revised a strategic plan the School had developed but not
fully implemented in 2000. The resulting “Plan for the Future of the School of Mass Communications” will guide the School’s
development of a full strategic plan during 2002-03.
• Provide additional enhancements to the School’s computer and broadcasting facilities. Additional Macintosh computers,
printers, scanners and software were purchased for the School’s labs. Audio editing bays were updated and additional digital
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capacity was added to the School’s broadcast facilities. Software used extensively in graphics, advertising and public relations
classes was upgraded, and the School added to its collection of digital type fonts.
• Expand the media portion of the strategy track in the Adcenter’s graduate program. The Adcenter chose to delay further
consideration and implementation of this curriculum change until a new executive director was identified and vacant faculty
positions filled.
• Launch the first in a series of Executive Education programs under the auspices of the Adcenter.The Adcenter chose to delay the
launch of its Executive Education program until a director of executive education could be hired to manage this initiative. A
business plan and full competitive analysis of the executive education market in advertising was completed and approved. Plans
for a launch module entitled “Trust” have been outlined, and Adcenter Board support and launch financing have been secured.
• Develop internal processes for managing a balanced budget for the Adcenter without relying on state or University subsidies
and for tracking applicants to the Adcenter. The Adcenter was successful in developing and implementing a balanced budget
for 2001-02, and budget planning for 2002-03 will maintain that budgetary self-sufficient. The Adcenter has developed a
comprehensive database of its graduates that indicates that 90% of the Adcenter’s first four graduating classes are employed at
top advertising agencies around the world. The Adcenter also tracks the number of inquiries from prospective students, the
number of applications received and the number of acceptances. Applications are up 40% for the Class of 2004 over last year’s
applications, and the number of inquiries has nearly quadrupled from the Fall of 1996 to the present. The acceptance rate has
decreased from a high of 72% to the current 32%, an indication that the Adcenter is becoming increasingly more selective.
An increasing number of international students are applying to and being accepted by the Adcenter.
Assessment
Assessment – of quality and adequacy of faculty, curriculum, facilities and other resources, and professional service and outreach –
was a major element of the School’s strategic planning process. The benchmarks the School used in its planning were those provided
by the body that accredits journalism and mass communications programs, the Accrediting Council on Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication. The School did not seek reaccreditation in the Council’s last cycle, but intends to regain
its accreditation within the next three or four years. Therefore, most of the judgments the faculty, staff and students involved in
assessment made were made within the framework of what met not only VCU or School standards but what met these important
national standards.
• The School published a report, ‘Plan for the Future of the School of Mass Communications,” that resulted from its self-assessment
during 2001-02.
• The School also engaged in assessment planning as part of its response to the information requested of it by the Office of the
Provost in the context of the University’s upcoming SACS institutional accreditation visit. Assistant Director Paula Otto and
the faculty developed a variety of measures that will be used to assess whether key student learning objectives are being met.
Those measures will be implemented beginning with the Fall 2002 semester.
• The Adcenter Board met twice during the year to review its progress and accomplishments. One of the conclusions reached
was that the Adcenter’s faculty and Board should further discuss and refine the Adcenter’s mission before hiring a new executive
director and implementing curriculum changes such as expansion of the strategy track to include more media planning.
Program Review
• The School was not involved in either University-mandated program review or professional accreditation review during the
2001-02 year. The self evaluation conducted as part of preparing “A Plan for the Future of the School of Mass Communications”
could be viewed as internal program review, and the plan itself as the action plan resulting from that internal review.
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• Will Sims, a Richmond advertising copywriter and graduate of the VCU Adcenter, the School’s graduate program in advertising,
joined the School’s faculty in a one-year collateral appointment to teach undergraduate advertising courses.
• Patrick Burnham, a veteran art director with experience at top New York and Minneapolis advertising agencies, joined the
School’s faculty in a one-year appointment to anchor the Art Direction Track at the Adcenter.
Objectives for Next Year
• Bring faculty and administrative staffing to the full complement required to deliver high-quality undergraduate and graduate
instruction. This will necessitate the hiring of new leadership for the Adcenter, hiring of a Director of Executive Education for
the Adcenter, and hiring of five faculty: a strategy track faculty member and a faculty member to head the art direction track
at the Adcenter; an advertising copywriting faculty member who would teach in both undergraduate and graduate advertising
programs; an electronic media/convergence journalism faculty member, and a faculty member in public relations.
• Integration of the Adcenter – its faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters – into the School, College and University.
With the hiring of permanent leadership for the School as a whole, and the opportunity to hire new leadership for the Adcenter,
the time is right to develop and support a “we” culture that is all inclusive and supportive of all programs within the School.
• Develop a strategic plan for the School that includes identification of opportunities and needs and that provides a timeline
for achieving each objective or initiative that is part of the plan.
• Comprehensive review of the School’s curriculum, both undergraduate and graduate. Some of this review is necessary as part
of addressing key initiatives of the strategic plan. Much of the graduate curriculum in advertising offered at the Adcenter has
never been formalized, and that must occur in 2002-03.
• Obtaining approval of a scholastic journalism track within the School’s Master of Mass Communication degree program.
A proposal is ready for submission in the Fall 2002 semester.
• Development of an array of professional development workshops and seminars for journalists and advertising and public relations
professionals. Some of this effort will be through the Adcenter’s Executive Education program. Some will be in collaboration
with VCU’s School of Business.
• Resurrection of a dormant Professional Advisory Board, under the leadership of alumnus Dick Robertson.
• Creation of additional venues for students to apply what they are learning to professional media and communication projects
and productions. Among the initiatives being explored are a service-learning course that might serve as the capstone course
for public relations students and creation of a student-produced television newscast that would be aired over public television.
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Chair
Department of
Mathematics
& Applied
Mathematics

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Faculty
Dr. Ghidewon Abay-Asmerom -
Associate Professor
Mr. George W. Bowers - Instructor
Ms. Hilary J. Clark - Instructor
Dr. James K. Deveney - Professor
Dr. Aimee J. Ellington - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Reuben W. Farley - Professor
Mr. Christos F. Fulakis - Instructor
Dr. William E. Haver - Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. William Glynn
Dr. Charles M. Lohr
Dr. Paul D. Minton
Ms. Faith M. John - Instructor
Mr. Henry E. Johnson - Instructor
Ms. Kimberly S. Jones - Instructor
Dr. Candace M. Kent - Assistant
Professor
Ms. Marlene K. Kustesky - Instructor
Dr. Andrew M. Lewis - Chair &
Associate Professor
Mr. Ronald Lloyd - Instructor
Dr. J. Richard Morris - Associate
Professor
Dr. Joseph R. Morris
Mr. Malcolm L. Murrill
Mr. Akili A. Obika - Instructor
Dr. John F. Schmeelk - Professor
Dr. Hassan Sedaghat - Associate
Professor
Ms. Yvette Stepanian-Holst - Instructor
Dr. William J. Terrell - Associate
Professor
Dr. James A. Wood - Director, Graduate
Studies & Professor
Dr. Pratip N. Raychowdhury
Dr. David A. Schedler
Staff
Ms. Karen A. Murphy
Ms. Evelyn T. O’Brien
Ms. Carolyn L. Payne
Ms. Dorothy S. McClure
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The Department, formerly part of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, became an independent department in the fall
of 2001. Despite the disruption of normal routine and significantly increased work loads for staff and faculty, the Department
continued to provide high quality programs for our majors, to meet most of the service needs of a large number of students
in the College of Humanities & Sciences and the Schools of Engineering and Business, and to provide significant general
education requirements for students throughout the university.
• Faculty members were actively engaged in scholarly activities with a number of papers published, many more in press and
submitted. Several faculty members were invited speakers and session organizers at national and international conferences.
• The NSF sponsored project, Virginia Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers, led by Dr. Bill Haver and
Dr. Reuben Farley, continued to involve our faculty in the development of courses in mathematical sciences. This grant
provides collaborative opportunities with faculty at other colleges and universities across the Commonwealth.
• The faculty continues to be actively involved with the training of secondary school teachers and the stimulation of secondary
school students. There are several active grants in this area, including the Advanced Scholars Program, led by Henry Johnson,
which in the summer of 2001 doubled the number of rising 7th and 8th graders from the Richmond Public Schools engaged
in a summer of mathematical and science enrichment.
• The department developed for the university a plan for assessing the quantitative literacy of University’s students and began
a pilot project to evaluate the proposed assessment.
• Bill Haver led the Curriculum Committee this year through a wide-ranging exploration of possible developments. We met and
had discussions with faculty in the Business School and the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Departments. Plans are now in
place to develop a significant emphasis in the mathematics of Life Sciences, which could lead both to an undergraduate track
and to a five year M.S. program. An MAA Mathematics and Life Sciences conference hosted by VCU in the spring of 2001,
the official report of which was co-authored by Dr. Bill Terrell and Vice-Provost Thomas Huff, helped give impetus to this effort.
• Dr. Candace Kent expects to offer a pilot upper-level course in Mathematical Modeling for the Life Sciences in the spring of
2003. Most other plans, including calculus and precalculus courses emphasizing applications from the Life Sciences, are on
hold until we can acquire the faculty necessary to develop and implement new programs.
• Furthermore, the department has adopted recommendations of the Curriculum Committee, after major work done by Dr. Bill
Terrell, Dr. Candace Kent, and Dr. Ghidewon Abay-Asmerom, to modify some courses and to create at least one new course
to enhance the use of technology throughout our upper-level courses. Dean Albert Sneden was particularly helpful in obtaining
software for us that will be essential in teaching this new class, the pilot version of which, Math 291 Mathematical
Computing, will be offered by Dr. Ghidewon Abay-Asmerom in the fall of 2002.
• Dr. J. R. Morris is retiring after many years of service and was appointed Professor Emeritus. He has been an important member
of our faculty – an outstanding classroom teacher and caring and involved advisor to students. We will miss his full time efforts,
but are happy that he will continue to be active in the department as an adjunct instructor.
• The members of the mathematics community at VCU and in the Richmond area were greatly saddened by the death of Mary
Lou Gibson in February of this year. Mary Lou received her masters in mathematics from VCU in 1975 and was a leader in
the mathematics education community until her death. She served as a mathematics teacher and department chairman at
Godwin High School in Henrico county and later as a mathematics specialist at the Mathematics and Science center. In
1986-87 she served as VCU’s first Mathematics Teacher in Residence. Mary Lou team-taught with VCU mathematics faculty
numerous in-service professional development courses for local mathematics teachers. Through these efforts Mary Lou had a
profound effect on encouraging and assisting University faculty to incorporate technology and other innovative approaches in
their courses. An endowment fund has been created in Mary Lou’s honor and a junior or senior mathematics major who is
preparing to teach mathematics will receive a Mary Lou Gibson Scholarship each year. Jennifer Cecil received $1,000 as the
first recipient of this scholarship.
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Teaching
• Undergraduate majors numbered about 130. There were 24 graduate students enrolled in the M.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies
and about a dozen students are seeking an M.S. in Mathematics.
• With the large service responsibility to the College and to the Schools of Engineering and Business, the Department generated
over 19,900 undergraduate credit hours and over 750 graduate credit hours for the calendar year. In addition, students spent
over 5,000 noncredit hours in self-paced study.
• Outstanding Undergraduate Awards for 2001-2002 went to Lee-Anne Boyd, Mathematics Education; Mackenzie B. Smith,
Applied Mathematics and Brent M. Cody, Pure Mathematic
• Faculty members continued to enhance instruction with the application of technology, as the use of calculators and computers
becomes common throughout both lower and upper level courses.
• The Virginia Mathematics and Science Coalition has identified the minimal disciplinary preparation of middle school
mathematics and science teachers as a critical area that needs to be addressed. The Mathematics Department has the lead
responsibility for two interdisciplinary mathematics and science degree programs designed primarily for prospective and
current middle school teachers. These programs are a direct response to this need and a part of a statewide effort lead by VCU
to change this situation.
• The undergraduate program is offered as math and science tracks within the B.S. in Science program. Approximately 40 students
have declared these majors. Reuben Farley, Bill Haver, Aimee Ellington (math); Joe Chinnici (biology); Bob Gowdy (physics);
and David Hagan (Science Museum of Virginia) advise students and teach interdisciplinary courses in this program.
• The M.S. program is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and is jointly offered by VCU, the
Mathematics and Science Center, and the University of Virginia. Currently, 24 students, each of whom is a teacher spending
three summers and one academic year enrolled full time, have been accepted into the program. Bill Haver, Reuben Farley,
Aimee Ellington (VCU math); Loren Pitt (UVA math); Steve Thornton (UVA physics); Julia Cothron (Mathematics and
Science Center); David Hagan (Science Museum of Virginia); Adam Niculescu (VCU physics); and Donald Shillady (VCU
chemistry) are advising students and teaching courses in the program.
Research
• Nine research articles appeared in print with more accepted for future publication. In addition, faculty members, principally
Dr. Bill Haver and Dr. Reuben Farley, were successful in securing grants and contracts totaling $2.1 million. Many of these
awards attest to the department’s national reputation in the area of teacher preparation in mathematics and the sciences.
• The faculty made presentations at conferences, colloquia, and in area schools. Several international conferences invited
members of the department as speakers and organizers of sessions.
Service
• The faculty continues to be very active in professional societies, reviewing articles for many journals and conferences, and
reviewing grant proposals for funding organizations. In particular, the department continues to show strong support for the
Virginia Junior Academy of Science paper competition acting as readers and judges for the annual competition. Many of the
faculty have leadership roles in a variety of community organizations and churches.
• Dr. William Haver is a member of the Committee on Undergraduate Preparation of Mathematics and the Committee on
Faculty Professional Development, both standing committees of the Mathematics Association of America. He serves as on
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the President’s Council of Advisors at VCU and as the four-year college representative to the Virginia Community College
Taskforce on Role of VCCS in teacher Preparation.
• P. N. Raychowdhury is the editor of the Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations, which has achieved
national standing. In addition to the regular issues, special issues for the New York Collaborative, Massachusetts Collaborative,
and Women and Minorities in Mathematics and Sciences (featuring a contribution by Governor Mark Warner) have been
published by the journal.
Objectives and Outcomes
The math department accomplished a great deal this year, with considerable help from all the members of our faculty.
• For our students, we strive to offer a strong undergraduate and graduate mathematics education and provide service to other
departments and their students. We did an excellent overall job in serving our students. The very strong commitment to students
embodied in the attitudes of our most senior members permeates the department. The consistently high student evaluations of
classroom teaching testify to the skill and dedication of our instructors.
• The change to departmental status under very short notice required a reorganization of administrative staff as well as faculty
committee work. Offices were moved after the start of fall classes. Administrative work was significantly complicated because
the change in status was not finalized until near the end of the fall semester. Nonetheless, because of the dedicated effort of
faculty and staff, the result was a transition that did not sacrifice the quality of our instruction or the attention and care we
give to our students.
• Simply scheduling the class sections, and finding the right section for every student, is a major task, particularly since for so
many of these students the class is necessary but not high on their own priority list. Dr. Reuben Farley took over this task in
the fall, and with major assistance by Instructor Marlene Kustesky, did an outstanding job of satisfying our students.
• Our major goal for our faculty is to rebuild the faculty of the department by attracting and retaining excellent mathematicians
who will foster strong teaching and an atmosphere in which mathematics is done, discussed, and enjoyed. We began that
rebuilding process this year with the successful recruitment of Dr. Julie Raye, an applied mathematician recently awarded her
Ph.D. from North Carolina State University.
• Further recruitment is absolutely necessary if the Department is to reach the strength needed as part of the Interdisciplinary
University. With approximately the same number of students, our sister Virginia school George Mason, a Tier III university,
has 24 tenure track faculty members, while we operated this year with 12. Our peer institution Northeastern, a Tier II university
with about our enrollment, has 35 tenure track faculty members. No significant progress towards our goal of competitive
advantages for both students and faculty can be made without increasing our faculty rolls.
• We will lose Dr. Richard Morris and regain Dr. John Schmeelk (who has been in Qatar) in the fall of 2002, and, of course, Dr.
Julie Raye will join our faculty.
Assessment
• The department has developed a plan to assess our majors and minors in Mathematics, and we will begin to implement and
report on that plan next year.
• The department developed for the university a proposal for assessing the quantitative literacy of University’s students and
began a pilot project to begin the assessment.
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Program Review
• As mentioned above, the department has approved the following changes:
1. Create new course, MATH 300, Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning that would be required for math majors
instead of Math 211. This will allow us to cover the same material as in Math 211, but in greater depth and sophistication
in a classroom of math majors.
2. Create new course, MATH 255, Introduction to Computational Mathematics that would be required for math majors
instead of CSC 255. This course will provide our majors with the hands-on experience in using the software essential
to doing mathematics today.
3. Increase credit hours for MATH 490, Mathematical Expositions from 1 to 2 hours, require it for all majors and add a
requirement to attend and write about seminars and colloquia. This course should evolve into a “capstone” course for
our majors.
4. Adjust prerequisites in upper level courses to reflect and take advantage of these changes.
• These changes should all be implemented in the ensuing academic year.
New Faculty
• Dr. Julie Raye, a 2002 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University. Dr. Raye was a GAANN Fellow
and Research Assistant at NC State. Her thesis explored an electromagnetic interrogation technique utilizing pressure-dependent
polarization. These techniques have many applications, including foliage penetration, identification of underground objects,
and noninvasive tumor detection.
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Lt. Col. Kenneth C. Woodburn
Chair
Department of
Military
Sciences

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Lt. Col. Kenneth C. Woodburn - Chair
SFC Kevin Kelsey - Senior Army
Instructor
Staff
Ms. Diane E. Marrow
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The 2001-2002 year was very productive for the Military Science Department. In partnership with the University of
Richmond, our Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program earned the McArthur Award as the #1-ranked
Medium Category ROTC program on the East Coast.
• VCU commissioned five graduating seniors into the U.S. Army during Fiscal Year (FY) 2002. One student graduated in
December 2001 and the other 4 graduated in May 2002. VCU hosted its inaugural Spring commissioning ceremony at the
Virginia War Memorial
• Including our graduating seniors, 27 students are in the commissioning track to become Army Second Lieutenants, including
3 nursing students. These young women will be the first Army nurses commissioned from VCU when they graduate over the
next three years.
• Our cadets participated in several special events during the year. These events are specifically designed to help prepare the
future officers for the duties and responsibilities they will assume upon commissioning.
1. Annual ROTC Military Ball. Held at the University of Richmond, the ball was planned and executed by the
department’s cadets. The ball was extremely successful event that enhanced the esprit de corps within the program
and exposed the cadets to the social traditions within the Army.
2. The senior class participated in a Battlefield Seminar at the Petersburg National Battlefield studying the siege of
Petersburg, particularly as it related to the outcome of the Civil War. The Army requires its officers to study military
history as a means to understand the principles of war and their application on the battlefield – why events occurred
as opposed to just “what happened.”
3. The department hosted a weekend Field Leadership Exercise (FLX) each semester. Each FLX taught the cadets new
skills like rappelling, rock climbing, and orienteering and helped prepare the Junior class cadets for the 2002 National
Advanced Leadership Camp at Fort Lewis, Washington. Both were very successful, resulting in additional cadets
competing for ROTC scholarship awards.
• The ROTC program currently has 18 students on tuition/fees scholarships, with offers pending to an additional nine students.
Five of those nine offers are to current VCU students, one is to a high school senior and three are to current active duty soldiers
through the Army’s Green-to-Gold program. The 18 students on scholarship represent an increase of ten over SY00-01. Army
ROTC paid more than $69,000 to scholarship students for tuition and fees, approximately $10,500 for scholarship students’
books, and $74,000 in monthly stipends for all contracted cadets – more than $150,000 in financial assistance to ROTC students.
• Second Lieutenant Joyce M. Price, a May 2002 graduate, earned national recognition as a Distinguished Military Graduate.
This designation put 2LT Price in the top 20% of a ROTC cadets nationwide.
• Cadets David Stover and Shawn McSpadden completed Army Airborne School. Cadets Adam Herndon and Meredith Walsh
will attend this summer.
• Curriculum changes for eight MILS classes were approved by the University for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Teaching
• Military Science taught 15 sections in eight Military Science classes this year, including one holiday inter-session section.
Class enrollment exceeded 110, including three nursing students and one graduate student, primarily in the MILS 101 and
MILS 102 courses. Lieutenant Colonel Woodburn taught the 100 and 200 level courses plus the Spring 300-level course.
Lieutenant Colonel Don Lash, the Professor of Military Science, taught the 400-level courses.
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Service
• The ROTC department provided the VCU Color Guard for the Mills Godwin High School Veteran’s Day assembly;
Lieutenant Colonel Woodburn delivered the keynote address at the assembly.
Objectives and Outcomes
• The Department commissioned five officers, meeting its Army-mandated mission. We have 12 contracted rising seniors,
200% of our contract mission for FY 2003. All three freshman offered 3-year advanced designee ROTC scholarships out of
high school enrolled at VCU.
Assessment
• Our assessment processes for quality enhancement within the department are reasonable, fair, and represent outcomes that
will allow us to identify and select the students who will become leaders for the Army. They have different purposes at each
academic level and accommodate both our Army and University missions. I will routinely review our results and objectives/
outcomes to identify trends and adjust parameters as needed to ensure a balanced, objective evaluation of our students’
performance.
Program Review
• Our Brigade Headquarters from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and 1st ROTC Region Headquarters, Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
conducted external reviews of the department’s administrative practices and procedures for cadet records and inspected our
nursing program. Both areas met or exceeded all established standards. We will aggressively look to find ways to sustain our
current performance and incorporate suggested techniques as needed to improve our overall support to our cadets.
New Faculty
• Ken Woodburn joined the department as chair in August of 2001. He is a 17-veteran of the U.S. Army and was promoted to
Lieutenant Colonel May 23, 2002.
• Master Sergeant Mike Kennedy joined us as an instructor. With 22 years of experience he has extensive experience in training
soldiers and also has written training doctrine at the Army-level. He retired from the Army in July 2002.
Objectives for Next Year
• Our priorities for Academic Year 2002-2003 are to:
1. Meet our commissioning mission.
2. Target recruiting efforts on the Scholar-Athlete-Leader, or “SAL.” Identify and focus on the students who have proven
themselves, either on their high school campus or at VCU, capable of handling their academic responsibilities,
maintaining a reasonable level of physical fitness, and assuming leadership roles in the community or on campus.
3. Implement the revised Army-directed ROTC curriculum across all academic levels.
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Division of
Philosophy
Dr. Anthony J. Ellis
Director

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Earle J. Coleman - Professor
Dr. Anthony J. Ellis - Director &
Professor
Dr. Neil Manson - Assistant Professor
Dr. Eugene Mills - Associate Professor
Dr. Robert B. Redmon - Associate
Professor
Dr. Peter L. Vallentyne - Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Thomas O. Hall
Dr. James E. Lindsay
Dr. Glenn R. Pratt
Staff
Ms. Mary G. Blaquiere
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Activities and Accomplishments
• Our publication record was exceptional for a department of our size. We published 5 articles and chapters, and 3 encyclopedia
entries; we gave 10 professional presentations, in Slovenia, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom as well as the USA.
One member of the department edits a journal, and another is an associate editor of a journal.
Teaching
• The Philosophy Division (with seven full-time faculty) taught four writing-intensive sections and three honors modules. Bob
Redmon offered Web versions of PHIL 221 Critical Thinking and PHIL 222 Logic. Tony Ellis taught a section of PHIL 212
Ethics and Applications at the Governor’s School as part of VCU’s outreach to local schools. Peter Vallentyne taught PHIL
212 Ethics and Applications in a condensed three-week course in Qatar as part of the VCU-Qatar Design Program.
Research
• We published 5 articles and chapters, 3 encyclopedia entries and 4 book reviews. We gave 10 professional presentations, refereed
27 articles and 5 books, edited one journal, co-edited another, and engaged in 40 other refereeing activities. Tony Ellis was
editor of Philosophical Books; Peter Vallentyne was Associate Editor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.
Service
• The Division continued its tradition of active service to VCU, the community, and the profession. We delivered 6 community
presentations and served in 7 non-mandatory College, University, and Professional administrative positions. Earle Coleman
served as a member of Faculty Senate, and head of its Student Affairs Committee. Tony Ellis served on the Analysis
Committee, one of the UK’s main professional organizations. Gene Mills was co-organizer of a major, international annual
philosophy conference in Slovenia. Peter Vallentyne was President of the VCU chapter of the ACLU in the Fall, President of
the VCU chapter of the AAUP and a member of the editorial boards of Utilitas and Economics and Philosophy.
Objectives and Outcomes
• Philosophy has concrete numerical goals for various aspects of research, teaching, and service. The goals are set to represent
achievements that would be judged as very good by national standards. All goals were met, and most were exceeded.
Assesment
• Philosophy has an ongoing review of its Program. It involves collecting and evaluating portfolios of work from all Majors,
assessing their work in a capstone course, administering a questionnaire to all Majors, and an annual analysis of syllabi and
curricula. The results of this year’s exercise indicated that the level of satisfaction on the part of students is high. They voice a
number of concerns (in particular that the number of upper-level courses is small), but these concerns cannot be adequately
addressed without an increase in faculty.
Program Review
• The Division underwent an external review in 1998, and all feasible recommendations were acted upon.
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New Faculty
• Dr. Wai-hung Wong, from the University of California at Berkeley, temporarily took the place of Trenton Merricks. Dr. Wong
is the author of a number of scholarly articles in the area of Epistemology.
• Dr. Uri Henig, from the Bowling Green State University, joined the Division as an Instructor for the year.
• Dr. Dani Attas, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was Visiting Associate Professor for the year 2001–2002.
• Neil Manson joins the Division in August 2002. A graduate of Syracuse with a doctorate from Notre Dame, Dr. Manson has
been the Gifford Research Fellow in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center
for the Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame. He is the author of a number of articles on science and religion.
Objectives for Next Year
• Philosophy intends to continue its excellent record in scholarship, teaching and service.
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Physics
Dr. Robert H. Gowdy
Chair

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. David B. Ameen - Instructor
Dr. Alison A. Baski - Associate Professor
Dr. Marilyn F. Bishop - Associate
Professor
Dr. Patrick F. Goolsby- Associate
Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Cameron Satterwaite
Dr. Robert H. Gowdy - Chair &
Associate Professor
Ms. Jane G. Hastings - Instructor
Dr. Purusottam Jena - Professor
Dr. Shiv Narain Khanna - Professor
Dr. Durig E. Lewis - Instructor
Dr. Elske v. P. Smith
Dr. Peter Martin - Associate Professor
Dr. V. Adam Niculescu - Associate
Professor
Dr. Bijan K. Rao - Professor
Dr. Chhanda Samanta - Visiting
Professor
Staff
Ms. Janice P. Guyer
Ms. Evelyn C. Perham
Mr. Russell H. Shumaker
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The Physics Department had another productive year with our overall student credit hour production up by another 15%. We
secured new research funding, developed new courses, and continued to improve existing courses.
• We graduated twelve students, seven B.S. and five M.S., this year. Four of the physics B.S. degrees were awarded to double
majors with Engineering and two were double majors with Mathematics. In addition, Chris Ashman completed his Ph.D. in
Chemical Physics advised by Dr. Khanna.
• Brent M. Cody won the Physics Undergraduate Academic Award.
• George Wes Hitt won the Physics Undergraduate Service Award.
• James Chris Moore and Sucheta Akhikari won the Physics Graduate Academic Award.
• Nine new members were inducted into the VCU chapter of the physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma.
• One of Dr. Alison Baski’s Scanning Tunneling Microscope images is part of a banner now displayed at the Science Museum of
Virginia.
• Dr. Khanna’s work on the magnetic properties of materials was selected by the Chemical Society of Japan to be included in
their Engineer Education Course of the Japan Science and Technology Corporation.
Teaching
• Dr. Gowdy and Dr. Niculescu organized a highly successful meeting of the Chesapeake section of the American Association of
Physics Teachers at the Science Museum of Virginia and here at VCU November 16-17, 2001. The attendance was at least
double that of any previous CAAPT section meeting and included many local high school physics teachers.
• The incorporation of web-based components into our courses continues. Dr. Rao has developed a ‘Tutorial on Demand’ web
page for his College Physics course to prepare students for his exams and for the MCAT. Dr. Gowdy developed and taught
a graduate-level course on Gravitation (PHYS591-001 in Fall 2001) that is entirely web-based with assignments and exams
submitted entirely by e-mail. Dr. Gowdy also developed an interactive on-line textbook for the Elementary Astronomy course.
Our department home page provides links to a total of 19 physics course home pages.
• Dr. Bishop continued the development of our new upper-level course for non-majors, The Physics of Sound and Music,
PHYS307/MHIS307. The course is now cross-listed with the Department of Music.
• In spite of growing demands on our time, we continue to expand our upper-level course offerings for our physics majors.
Dr. Durig Lewis taught our Optics PHYS422 course — the first time in many years that the course has been offered. Dr. Baski
taught the new Surface and Materials Physics (PHYS661) course for the first time.
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The long-term trend in our teaching
productivity can be seen in the chart to
the right, based on data from the College
Annual Reports.
Physics: Undergraduate Student Credit Hours
Student-credit-hour production has
doubled since the new general education
guidelines went into effect in 1997 and it
is not at all clear that we have seen the
end of the increase.
Research
• Our eight faculty members published 32 articles in peer-reviewed journals, gave 24 invited talks and 46 contributed talks, and
wrote seven grant proposals.
• It is normal for a department of our size to have most of its research funding in the form of a single grant for a single project.
Our funding is spread over a variety of projects and sources.
1. Our Electronic Structure Group (Jena, Khanna, Rao) is in the third year of a three-year $600,000 grant from the
Department of Energy and is participating in a multi-institution DURINT from the Office of Naval research. This
same group is also receiving substantial funding from industrial research contracts with Philip Morris and Conducting
Materials Corporation.
2. Dr. Baski is in the fourth year of her $290,707 NSF career grant, is participating (with Morkoc in Engineering) in a
$300,000, three-year NSF DMR grant and has just been notified of funding for a new $200,000, three-year NSF DMR grant.
3. Dr. Niculescu’s course development efforts have been supported by a series of Dwight Eisenhower grants from SCHEV
as well as funding from the VCEPT NSF grant (Haver, Farley PIs) and a DOE grant on Technology in Education
(Richard Rezba PI).
4. Dr. Lewis, Dr. Niculescu, and Dr. Baski have just been notified of funding for a new one-year, $60,000 Eisenhower grant
from SCHEV for outreach programs to local elementary school teachers.
Total Physics Grant Support
The long-term trend in our research productivity can
be seen in the chart to the left, based on data from
the College Annual Reports.
Just as for our teaching productivity, the year 1997
was a critical time. For research, the infusion of startup
funds for three new experimental physicists was
the triggering event that led to an increase in
research funding. The new level of funding has
continued even though two of those new faculty
members have since left and have not been replaced.
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Service
• Dr. Baski served on the General Education Taskforce; presented a lecture as part of the Academic Success Workshop series
sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and is currently secretary and treasurer of the VCU chapter of Toastmasters.
• Dr. Jena served as a member of the Council of Advisors to President Trani.
• Dr. Rao served on the University Computing and Communication Services Advisory Council, the Research Computing
Advisory Committee and the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
• Dr. Chhanda Samanta, a visitor to our department, served as an alternate member of the Faculty Senate.
• Dr. Baski served on the Distinguished Service Award Committee and as chair of the College Technology Committee.
• Dr. Bishop served on the Library Committee and the Undergraduate Academic Committee and as Secretary to the Faculty
Council.
• Dr. Rao provided evaluations of the Hindi language for the Foreign Language Placement tests.
• Dr. Khanna served on the Graduate Academic Committee.
• Dr. Jena served on the College Promotion and Tenure Review Committee and on a panel to evaluate the scholarship of
faculty in the Department of Chemistry.
• Dr. Chhanda Samanta, a visitor to our department, carried out international student recruiting in India for VCU.
• Dr. Jena is a Scientific Editor for the Oxford University Press and served as a Sorter for the March American Physical Society
meeting in Indianapolis.
• Dr. Baski chaired a scientific session of the 48th American Vacuum Society National Symposium in San Francisco from
October 28 to November 2, 2001.
• Dr. Rao chaired a scientific session of the March American Physical Society meeting in Indianapolis.
• Drs. Rao and Khanna served as guest editors of the Journal of Cluster Science.
• Drs. Gowdy and Niculescu organized a meeting of the Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers
held at VCU in November 2001.
• Dr. Baski organized three “fun” physics lectures to about 100 disadvantaged students participating in the National Youth Sports
Program and gave three 30 minute talks about physics at Career Day for the 5th grade classes at Holladay Elementary School.
• Dr. Baski organized physics demonstrations by the entire physics faculty as part of the Destination Imagination function at
VCU, April 29, 2002.
• Dr. Bishop gave physics demonstrations at the Gifted Zone Center at Three Chopt Elementary School and served as an
advisor for student physics projects at Tuckahoe Middle School.
• Dr. Rao is a Host Demonstrator at the Science Museum of Virginia and has served as a Judge for the Richmond 2001 Science Fair.
• Drs. Ameen, Baski, and Lewis served as judges for the Chesterfield Science Fair.
• Dr. Khanna is Chairman of the next Festival of India to be held in Richmond in September 2002.
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Objectives and Outcomes
• The overall objectives of our program are contained in the Mission Statement that was adopted in 1998:
• The basic mission of the physics department is the generation and dissemination of knowledge about the discipline of physics
and the training of students in the basic skills of that discipline. The application of the basic mission depends on the needs of
the students.
1. To non-science students we teach the basic concepts of physics and scientific reasoning to prepare them to live in a
society with ever increasing technological applications of physics and to be able to make informed decisions on issues
of health and environment.
2. To pre-health science students we teach both the basic concepts and the applications of physics as well as the skill of
analyzing simple physics problems through the use of algebra.
3. To engineering students we teach the basic concepts and applications of physics as a foundation for further study as well
as the skill of analyzing complex physics problems through the use of calculus.
4. To physics majors we provide a fundamental understanding of the main areas of physics so that they are prepared for
jobs that use physics-based technologies. By the time they graduate, they are expected to have mastered the analytical
approach to solving technical problems by identifying simple subsystems that obey known physical laws and using these
laws to approximate the behavior of the whole system.
5. To physics graduate students we teach advanced concepts, applications, and skills, which reach to the frontiers of
current research in physics.
6. To our constituents in industry, the media and the public in general, we offer insights into both the applications and
the limitations of our discipline and access to an understanding of current physics research.
The goal of academic excellence resulting from faculty following their personal goals as scholars in their fields is implicit in all
of the above goals.
Assessment
• The only assessment mechanism that was put into place in 1998 was a required Senior Seminar capstone course (PHYS490)
for physics majors. That course includes both a project and an oral exam so that we have had an informal way to assess the
strengths and weaknesses of our graduating seniors.
• This year, we developed a “Physics Analytical Problem-solving Skills Evaluation Instrument” that ranks eight different problemsolving
skills. The instrument was used for the first time with this year’s Senior Seminar. For the introductory courses we plan
to use a combination of the College Science Literacy test and the Hestenes Force-Concept Inventory test to monitor the
outcomes of those courses.
Program Review
• With the completion of its external review in September 2000, the department has been operating under a new action plan.
The goals set by the department and endorsed by the external review committee are:
1. Establish a core group in Nanoscale Experimental Physics
2. Build a bridge to the Life Sciences
3. Develop industry-targeted technology tracks
4. Establish a core group in Physics Instruction Research
5. Stabilize enrollment in the M.S. Program
6. Establish new cooperative Ph.D. Programs
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The external review committee also pointed out that most physics department faculty members will be eligible for retirement
within the next five years and suggested an additional goal:
7. Establish a succession plan by hiring new faculty members into each of the department’s areas of research strength.
• Progress on meeting goal (1) was stalled this year because budgetary problems forced the cancellation of our third attempt to
recruit a replacement for the experimental physicists that we have lost over the last few years.
• The prospects for progress on goal (2) now appear to be very good. We are working with faculty on the Medical Campus to
develop Medical Physics graduate courses to be offered initially as part of our Physics M.S. program with an eventual goal of
establishing a Biomedical Physics Ph.D. program that spans both campuses.
• Our increased number of Physics M.S. graduates indicates that we are making some progress toward meeting goal (3). In addition,
we will be welcoming our first new candidate for the new teacher-oriented track of the M.S. program. However, our one
remaining experimental physicist has mentored all of our current M.S. graduates. The cancellation of our attempt to hire
an additional experimental physicist leaves our M.S. program in a vulnerable state.
• Goal (4) was advanced by the involvement of three physics faculty members in the latest SCHEV Eisenhower grant.
However, the budget problem made it impossible for us to recruit new faculty specialized in this area.
• Goal (6) is now focused on the establishment of a Biomedical Physics Ph.D. degree.
Objectives for Next Year
• Maintain the availability of our introductory courses in the face of rising demand. Because class sizes for labs and recitation
sections cannot be increased, it is clear that we must add new sections.
• Maintain the SCHEV-mandated productivity levels of our B.S. and M.S. programs. Because we are already offering upper-level
and graduate courses on a need-only basis, we will not be able to cut back on those offerings without reducing our graduation
rates.
• Fulfill our contracted research obligations. Because the majority of our faculty have such obligations, it is clear that our ability
to increase teaching loads is limited.
• Begin collecting pre-test and post-test assessment data for all of our introductory courses in accord with our Assessment Plan.
• Work with colleagues on the MCV campus to develop new medical physics courses and recruit M.S. students into a new medical
physics track of the program.
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Dr. Russell A. Cargo
Chair
Department of
Political Science
& Public
Administration

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Amin Alimard - Collateral Associate
Professor
Dr. Manley Elliot Banks - Associate
Professor
Ms. Deborah M. Brock - Instructor
Dr. Russell A. Cargo - Acting Chair,
Director of Nonprofit Studies &
Associate Professor
Dr. Deirdre M. Condit - Assistant
Professor
Dr. W. Avon Drake - Associate Professor
Dr. David J. Farmer - Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Frank Belloni
Dr. Gilbert W. Fairholm
Dr. Carolyn L. Funk - Director,
Commonwealth Poll, Center for
Public Policy & Associate Professor
Mr. Supad K. Ghose - Instructor
Dr. Stephen D. Gottfredson - Dean &
Professor
Dr. Ralph S. Hambrick - Professor
Dr. Herbert Hirsch - Professor
Dr. Robert D. Holsworth - Director,
Center for Public Policy & Professor
Dr. Janet R. Hutchinson - Director,
Public Administration Program &
Associate Professor
Dr. F. William Heiss
Dr. Laurin L. Henry
Dr. M. Njeri Jackson - Director, African-
American Studies & Associate
Professor
Dr. Husain M. Mustafa - Professor
Dr. William W. Newmann - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Judith L. Twigg - Associate Professor
Dr. Nelson Wikstrom - Professor
Dr. Blue E. Wooldridge - Associate
Professor
Dr. Henri Warmenhoven
Staff
Ms. Aphrodite Delios
Ms. Sylvia Golphin-Williams
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Activities and Accomplishments
• We are proud of the significant accomplishments coming from the department in the 2001-2002 academic year. Enrollments
have increased this year in both the undergraduate political science program as well as having reached record high enrollment
in the Masters in Public Administration degree program.
• We have restructured the MPA program to bring it into line with other successful MPA programs nationally and have reduced
the number of credit hours from 42 to 36 needed to earn that degree. In addition we have added a new BA/MPA program
that enables outstanding undergraduate students to begin taking graduate level courses their senior year and accelerate the
path to the MPA. We have also added a new 15 credit hour Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management.
• Under the tireless leadership of Dr. Janet Hutchinson, The MPA Program rose in the US News and World Report rankings
from 69 to 51 out of over 259 programs nationally. That is a significant accomplishment and one for which we are very proud.
• The Department has designed a new Capital Semester Program slated to begin in Spring Semester 2003 that will enable students
to have an intensive and comprehensive internship experience during the Virginia General Assembly session complemented
with course work and networking opportunities designed to focus on state politics and public policy. This program will be an
excellent opportunity for VCU students and political science students from other universities.
• Because many students are interested in political science because of the solid liberal arts foundation it offers to those planning
on a career in law, we have engaged a consultant to prepare a proposal for the Department regarding our pre-law program.
That proposal, expected in July 2002, will outline recommendations for strengthening out pre-law program and helping students
prepare successful applications for law school.
• We have worked with the Office of Community Programs to establish a new program at VCU that gives students an opportunity
to earn a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from American Humanics, the premiere national organization preparing
people for entry level positions in youth and human service organizations. Also, in the nonprofit area, The Jessie Ball duPont
Fund has recently provided a start-up grant to establish the Nonprofit Enterprise Institute at VCU. This Institute will coordinate
the nonprofit academic programs across the University but will also expand VCU’s ability to provide support services to nonprofits
and lead research in the area of nonprofit-related policy issues.
Individual faculty accomplishments include:
• Dr. Amin Alimard served as advisor for all MPA and Certificate in Public Management students. This year, as a result of the
September 11th attacks, he was called upon to counsel international students in areas beyond typical academic advising.
• Dr. Elliott Banks presented a paper, “Growing diversity Among Black Political Leadership,” by invitation at the Symposium on
Black Leadership at Virginia Tech in 2001. He also presented a paper, “A Metamorphosis of the Black Urban Regime: The
Rise of a Neo-Conservative Black Regime in Washington, D.C.” at the Midwesr Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.
• Dr. Cargo was awarded a Speaker and Specialist Grant from the US State Department to work with Non Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) and universities in India in 2001. Dr. Cargo also presented a proposal to the Jessie Ball duPont Fund
for the establishment of the Nonprofit Enterprise Institute at VCU which will coordinate all nonprofit management educational,
research, and service activities at VCU. The duPont Fund awarded VCU $165,000 for that purpose.
• Dr. Deborah Brock developed Financial Management Policies and Procedures for the City of Richmond and chaired a panel
on “Citizen Participation in Local Government” at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in
Anaheim, California.
• Dr. Deirdre Condit presented two papers this year. “Putting Cruelty First: Political Theory and the aftermath of Sept. 11,
2001” was presented at the Virginia Political Science Association’s annual meeting and “The Imaginary Fetus: Public and
Private Identities in the Politics of Reproduction,” was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and
the Life Sciences.
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• Dr. Avon Drake developed a new course this year, “Black Intellectuals” and served as a reviewer for the American Political
Science Review.
• Dr. David John Farmer presented papers at several academic gatherings. “Love and Administration” was delivered to the
American Society for Public Administration in Phoenix and “Lovely Administration” at the Western Social Science
Association in Albuquerque. He also has been instrumental in mapping the new concept of Anti-Administration that is
a new theory of administration being debated internationally.
• Dr. Carolyn Funk was awarded tenure. She presented a paper, “What’s Not to Like? Explaining Public Involvement in
Politics” at the Biannual Seminar on Political Psychology at Columbia University. She also served as a discussant for “Polls
and Political Outcomes” at the American Association for Public Opinion Research meeting in Montreal, Canada.
• Dr. Ralph Hambrick led the effort to establish the Capital Semester Program at VCU as chair of the Provost’s task force. He
has also led the Department’s graduate and undergraduate Internship Program. Dr. Hambrick presented a paper at the meeting
of the American Society for Public Administration entitled “Leadership in Action: The Organizational and Policy Dynamics
in Protecting a Natural Resource.” He also presented a day-long workshop on Leadership Styles for the Virginia Department
of Human Resource Management’s Certified Public Manager Program.
• Dr. Herbert Hirsch developed a course for high school teachers in Richmond through the Holocaust Museum. He also delivered
a paper, “Building a Movement to Stop Genocide” at the Association of Genocide Scholars at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Hirsch has also been active internationally working with scholars in Israel, Australia, England, and has been recognized as
one of 22 scholars whose biographies appear in “Pioneers of Genocide Studies.”
• Dr. Janet Hutchinson has provided excellent leadership for the Masters in Public Administration degree program for the third
year. Under her direction we have reorganized the MPA curriculum and reduced the required hours from 42 to 36 credit hours
bringing VCU in line with most other programs. Dr. Hutchinson saw the fruits of her efforts as we had our first graduate of
the joint MPA/JD program with the University of Richmond’s Law School which she initiated several years ago. She has also
obtained approval for a new Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management for the department. She has planned and organized
the Tempel Executive in Residence with Patricia Jackson, Executive Director of the James River Association, and the Visiting
Scholar Lecture with Dr. Robert Denhardt noted scholar from Arizona State University. Dr. Hutchinson was also instrumental
in attracting Dr. Won Wuk Rhee, Dean of the College of Law, to be with us this year as a visiting scholar from Kyungpook
National University in Korea.
• Dr. Husain Mustafa has advised all undergraduate students in the Department and is the advisor for the Pre-Law Society and
for the Moslem Society of VCU. This year Dr. Mustatfa has been in high demand as a lecturer and commentator on various
topics surrounding the War on Islam and the Middle East. He has contributed several columns to the Richmond Times-
Dispatch and has actively participated in campus activities related to the September 11 attacks.
• Dr. William Newmann has dedicated considerable time this year to lectures and colloquia in the aftermath of September 11.
These have included media interviews from as far away as Brazil. He has also served as a reviewer for CHOICE Library
Review Service.
• Dr. Judyth Twigg developed two new courses this year, “The Politics of International Aid” and “Health, Disease, and Global
Security.” Most significant has been Dr. Twigg’s outstanding contributions to understanding the relationship between health
issues and understanding social, political and economic strains on Russia today. Dr. Twiggs research and analysis has been
solicited by such notable sources as the Kennan Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the US Department
of Defense, the Aspen Institute, and The Club 2015.
• Dr. Nelson Wikstrom presented a paper, “The City in the Regional Governmental and Political Mosaic” at the Hansell
Symposium at the University of Kansas and served as a discussant at the American Political Science Association annual
meeting in San Francisco.
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• Dr. Blue Wooldridge served as a member of the faculty team assisting the Kazakhstan School of Public Health Education
Partnership teaching the use of the case method in Yerevan, Armenia. Dr. Wooldridge also served as the chair of a site visit
team for the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
Teaching
• There were 220 undergraduate majors in the Department and 103 MPA students enrolled in 2002. We graduated 47 students
with a BA in Political Science, 35 with a Masters in Public Administration, and 3 students completed the eighteen credit
hour Certified Public Manager (CPM) program. The Department offered a grand total of 158 Classes, including all sections,
in the 2001-2002 academic year.
Research
• The Department had a productive year in the area of research. Dr. Hutchinson published a book, Failed Child Welfare Policy:
Family Preservation and the Orphaning of Child Welfare. Drs. Farmer, Funk, and Hirsch produced chapters in books. The faculty
published 25 articles in a wide range of professional journals on an even broader range of topics. Two research reports were
produced and two introductions to books were published as well as reviews of six books were published. Topics ranged across a
variety of political science and public administration topics from the results of “The 2002 Virginia General Assembly Session”
(Dr. Wikstrom) to “Scenarios for Russia – Health Care 2015” (Dr. Twigg), and from “National Missile Defense and Deterrence:
Stability is in the Eye of the Beholder” (Dr. Newmann) to “What to Do: Nonprofit Managers and the Economy” (Dr. Cargo).
Service
Faculty members in the Department have presented numerous talks, provided media interviews, and have participated in many
single-event activities around the University and throughout the community. They have also served on tenure and promotion
committees and provided other valuable services to the Department. Listed here are the significant on-going committees and
boards that are served by the Department’s faculty.
Service in the University
• Dr. Alimard served as an advisor for MPA Program, was Persian Language Examiner for VCU and participated in the
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
• Dr. Banks sat on the Advisory Committee for the VCU Center for Multi-cultural Affairs, the Department’s Curriculum
Committee and the Tenure Review Committee.
• Dr. Cargo served as Acting Chair of the Department, sat on the Grace Harris Leadership Institute Advisory Board, the
Especially for Nonprofits Program Advisory Board and the Capital Semester Planning Committee.
• Dr. Condit sat on the Department’s Curriculum Committee, the Department’s Personnel Committee, the Center for Teaching
Excellence, the Institute on Women’s Health Education Committee, the Women’s Studies Advisory Committee and served
as a consultant for VCU Rape Services and the Univerisity’s Post September 11th Programs.
• Dr. Drake participated in the Department’s Library Committee.
• Dr. Funk served on the IRB for the Protection of Human Subjects Research Panel, the Social Science Initiative Task Force
and the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, Leadership Development Class
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• Dr. Hambrick was the coordinator for MPA Program “River” Theme, the Departmental Internship Coordinator and the Chair
of the Capital Semester Planning Task Force. He also served on the Faculty Council, the MPA Program’s Admissions Committee
and the Tenure Review Committee (3 Candidates) for the School of Education.
• Dr. Hirsch served as Chair on the Tenure Review Committee for Dr. Funk and sat on the Department’s Personnel Committee.
• Dr. Hutchinson served as the Director of the MPA Program, sat on the Departmental Curriculum and Personnel Committees,
the Graduate Academic Committee, the College Awards Committee, the Faculty Grievance Committee and was Chair of
the Search Committee for two departmental positions.
• Dr. Mustafa sat on the Department’s Curriculum Committee and was Advisor to the Pre-Law Society.
• Dr. Newmann sat on the Department’s Curriculum Committee and the International and Area Studies Advisory Committee.
• Dr. Twigg served as Chair of the Campus Evaluation Committee for the Student Fulbright Scholarship Program, sat on the
University Information Technology Committee, the Promotion and Tenure Committee for Dr. Funk, was an advisor to Office
of Disability Support Services and participated in the Department’sResearch Bulletin Board.
• Dr. Wooldridge sat on the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, the Planning Committee of the Grace E. Harris
Leadership Institute, the Department’s Personnel Committee, the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Committee, the Capital
Semester Planning Committee, Search Committees in School of Education and Department of Psychology and on the
College Technology Committee.
Service to Professional Organizations
• Dr. Alimard served as Advisor and Treasurer to Pi Alpha Alpha and as an advisor to the Public Administration Student
Association (PASA).
• Dr. Banks sat on the Rodney Higgins Awards Committee at the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
• Dr. Cargo sat on the Continuing Education Review Board for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), formerly the
National Society of Fund Raising Professionals.; the Editorial Review Board for BoardSource, formerly the National Center
for Nonprofit Boards (NCNB); the Academic Research Council for the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise (NCNE);
the Association Management Company Accreditation Commission fot the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE);
was a representative for the Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) to the
Research Council of the Association of Fundraising Professionals; was on the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC)
Board of Directors, elected Treasurer, and Chair of Task Force to Locate New Home for NACC; participated in the Virginia
Coalition of Nonprofits and the Central Virginia Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Board of Directors,
Program Committee.
• Dr. Condit was a liaison to the Women’s Caucus for Political Science for both the APSA and the SPOS.
• Dr. Farmer was a member of the Administrative Theory and Praxis Editorial Board and sat on the Public Administration
Theory Network’s Planning Committee and Site Selection Committee.
• Dr. Funk served as a council member of American Political Science Association Organized Section on “Elections, Public
Opinion, and Voting Behavior”
• Dr. Hambrick was a member of theVirginia Certified Public Manager Advisory Committee, Chair of the Virginia Certified
Public Manager Curriculum Committee, elected Chair of the Historic Falls of the James River Advisory Board and served on
the James River Advisory Council
• Dr. Hirsch was a member of the Board of Directors for the International Network on the Holocaust and Genocide, was an
Associate at the Center for Comparative Genocide Studies at Mcquarie University (both in Sydney, Australia), was Contributing
Editor of Menorah and served on the International Council at the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Israel.
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• Dr. Hutchinson served as President of the Virginia Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration and as a
University Representative for National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
• Dr. Twigg was a member of the Committee to Assess the Status of PS: Political Science and Politics for the American Political
Science Association, sat on the Award Committee for Marshall Shulman Book Prize with the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies and was Co-Chair of the Committee for Russian Health and Demography section of the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
• Dr. Wooldridge was Chair of the Site Visit Team and was a member of the Commission for Peer Review and Accreditation
for the to University of Illinois’ National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), sat on the
Local Arrangements Committee for the Annual Conference of Black Political Scientists., and on the Tenure Review Committee
for GSPA at the University of Colorado in Denver and was a member of the Board of Management for the International
Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration in Brussels, Belgium.
Service to Community
• Dr. Alimard served as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Iranian Studies in Washington, DC.
• Dr. Cargo was Treasurer of the Board of Directors for the The Cold War Museum (Smithsonian Affiliate Museum) in Fairfax
County, VA (Term ended 1 Jan 02).
• Dr. Hambrick was a member of the Board of Directors, Southampton Citizens Association.
• Dr. Hirsch was a member of the Board of Directors at the Philadelphia Center on the Holocaust and Genocide.
• Dr. Hutchinson paticipated in Richmond First (service/policy study organizations).
• Dr. Newmann participated in the Virginia Center for the Teaching of International Studies.
• Dr. Twigg was a member of the MIT Club of Virginia and sat on the Board of Trustees for the Virginia Center for the
Teaching of International Studies.
• Dr. Wooldridge was a mediator with the Department of Employee Dispute Resolution.
Objectives and Outcomes
• The Department of Political Science and Public Administration had planned to introduce, improve, or expand in the areas of
Nonprofit management, International aid, Pre-law curriculum and programming, Internships and the Capital Semester Program.
• In the area of nonprofit management, VCU may now boast that it is one of the few universities in the nation to offer a full
range of nonprofit management curriculum beginning with non-credit workshops through the Ph.D. in Public Policy and
Administration. The Department plays a significant role in making that possible with its faculty participating in all aspects of
that curriculum but especially the new undergraduate and graduate certificates and the nonprofit specialization in the Masters
in Public Administration degree.
• Dr. Judyth Twigg introduced an undergraduate course this spring, “The Politics of International Aid.” This was the first step in
the creation of a new track for students interested in International Relations that ties together political science, international
studies, and nonprofit management.
• The Pre-law program has been under review this semester by an external consultant who has been gathering information from
law schools, other undergraduate programs, key faculty from across disciplines at VCU, and other attorneys to make recommendations
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• Dr. Ralph Hambrick accepted responsibility for the Department’s undergraduate and graduate internship program this year. He
had initiated a revised process for students and for those supervising VCU interns in the workplace. This is a program that has
begun to expand but is the type of program that takes an investment in relationship-building over a period of years. Richmond
is a fertile area for potential internships in a wide variety of public and nonprofit organizations and we are looking forward to
continuing our work to improve the internship opportunities for students.
• Dr. Hambrick has also led the task force assembled by Provost McDavis to create a Capital Semester Program. The plan has
been approved for implementation during the 2002-2003 academic year in cooperation with the Center for Public Policy.
Students in the Capital Semester Cohort will have an internship in the General Assembly or in the Executive Branch of the
state government. That will be supplemented by a special course designed to provide students networking opportunities and
exposure to key government officials while teaching the protocol, informal structures, and the processes of the state government.
Students will also have three additional courses available to them including, Virginia Government and Politics, Public Policy
Process, and Public Administration. Marketing materials are under development and will be distributed at the start of Fall
Semester 2002.
Program Review
In April 2001 the Planning and Review Committee issued its report on the Department. Since then we have used that document
as a guide for planning and program implementation.
• Our plans for the 2002-2003 academic year are to fully implement the new programs we created this year:
1. BA/MPA Degree Program
2. American Humanics Certificate in Nonprofit Management for Undergraduates
3. Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management
4. Pre-Law Program
5. Capital Semester Program
• We expect to continue to build on two courses we added this year related to the Planning and Review Committee’s report:
Politics of International Aid and Black Intellectuals. The Black Intellectuals course could be the lead in for a research agenda
in that area we could sponsor with the Center for African American Studies and the Politics of International Aid Course is a
good starting point for partnerships between International Studies and private nonprofit organizations in Richmond such as
Christian Children’s Fund and the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
• We will need to focus attention on the section of the Planning and Review Committee’s Report on Resource Generation. With
the retirement of one faculty member forecast for December 2002, we must direct our attention to finding leveraging opportunities
for both grants and contracts. There has been nominal success this year in contracts with the Department of Human Resource
Management for training and from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund for the Nonprofit Institute. There are many more opportunities
that a strategic effort could capture to enable the Department to develop a more interesting and attractive set of activities in
the future. This can lead to research opportunities, graduate student support and assistance, and improved recruitment.
New Faculty
• Political Science and Public Administration had two new collateral faculty members this year on one-year appointments, Dr.
Deborah Brock and Mr. Supad Ghose. Dr. Brock taught quantitative methods and public policy courses at the undergraduate
and graduate levels. Mr. Ghose’s specialty was in international relations and he taught US Government as well.
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Objectives for Next Year
• Break into the top 50 MPA Programs in the country, US News and World Report.
• Increase undergraduate enrollment by 5%. (Target: 231 Majors)
• Graduate our first students with a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management.
• Recruit 25 students into our first Capital Semester Program class.
• Revise Departmental By-Laws and involve faculty more directly in curriculum matters, policy matters, and Awards and Recognitions.
• Increase external funding for research and programs to reach $75,000 goal.
• Determine faculty needs in replacement for Departmental retirement.
• Build Programs and research activities around “Race and Politics” and “International Aid” topics per Planning and Review
Committee Report.
• Review Library Holdings to Determine Appropriateness for Curriculum.
• Improve administrative functions, especially with course scheduling, to reduce errors and improve service to faculty and students.
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Faculty
Dr. Kevin W. Allison - Associate
Professor
Dr. Stephen M. Auerbach - Professor
Dr. Faye Z. Belgrave - Professor
Dr. Jack W. Berry - Research Assistant
Dr. James M. Burke - Research
Associate
Ms. Deborah S. Butler - Research
Assistant
Ms. Connie L. Christensen - Research
Associate
Dr. Amelia D. Compton - Instructor
Dr. Jean L. Corcoran - Instructor
Dr. Steven J. Danish - Director, Life
Skills Center & Professor
Dr. Thomas E. Eissenberg - Associate
Professor
Dr. Albert D. Farrell - Professor
Dr. Donelson R. Forsyth - Director,
Social Program & Professor
Dr. Elizabeth A. Fries - Associate
Professor
Dr. Pamela W. Garner - Assistant
Professor
Dr. James P. McCullough - Director,
Unipolar Mood Disorders Institute
& Professor
Ms. Freida A. McNeil - Research
Assistant
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Kent G. Bailey
Dr. Marilyn T. Erickson
Dr. William D. Groman
Dr. Aleta L. Meyer - Co-Director,
Multisite Violence Prevention Project
& Collateral Assistant Professor
Dr. Barbara J. Myers - Director of
Graduate Studies and Developmental
Psychology Program & Associate
Professor
Dr. Laura E. Plybon - Research Assistant
Dr. Joseph H. Porter - Professor
Dr. Victoria A. Shivy - Assistant Professor
Dr. Brian N. Smith - Instructor
Dr. Michael A. Southam-Gerow -
Assistant Professor
Dr. Marilyn Stern - Director of
Counseling Training & Professor
Dr. Sandra E. Gramling - Director,
Psychology Honors & Associate
Professor
Ms. Anne Y. Greene - Research
Assistant
Ms. Cheryl Groce-Wright - Research
Assistant
Dr. Robert J. Hamm - Director,
Biopsychology Program & Professor
Dr. John J. Hartnett - Associate Professor
Ms. Barbara Hoffman - Department
Manager & Director of
Undergraduate Advising
Dr. Clarissa S. Holmes - Professor
Ms. Kristyn N. Hoy - Research Assistant
Dr. Phyliss Hornbuckle
Dr. Donald J. Kiesler
Dr. Kathleen M. Ingram - Interim Director,
Counseling Program & Assistant
Professor
Ms. Tammy B. Jackson - Consultant,
Workplace Initiatives
Dr. Wendy L. Kliewer - Associate
Professor
Dr. Thomas H. Leahey - Professor
Dr. John M. Mahoney - Associate
Professor
Dr. Suzanne Mazzeo - Assistant Professor
Dr. Micah L. McCreary - Associate
Professor
Dr. Arnold L. Stolberg - Professor
Dr. Hellen A. L. Streicher - Interim
Director, Center for Psychological
Services & Assistant Professor
Dr. Terri N. Sullivan - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Dace Svikis - Associate Professor
Dr. Scott R. Vrana - Director, Clinical
Program & Associate Professor
Dr. Michael R. Van Slyck - Associate
Professor
Ms. Alice L. Westerberg - Research
Assistant
Dr. Susan B. Wilkes - Director,
Workplace Initiatives & Assistant
Professor
Dr. Everett L. Worthington - Chair &
Professor
Dr. Stanley R. Strong
Dr. Robert Tipton
Staff
Ms. Glenda Blackwell Smalls
Ms. Rosa P. Bradley
Ms. Tiffany L. France
Ms. D. Gail Golding
Ms. Julia Foster-Woodson
Mr. William W. Lawson
Ms. Joyce W. Phillips
Ms. Diana R. Pauley
Ms. Mary Ann E. Ryan
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The mission statement’s vision has five parts. In the first statement, it says, “The Department of Psychology strives to be
a national leader recognized for generating knowledge about psychological processes through scientific research and for
disseminating that knowledge to our colleagues, our graduate and undergraduate students, and society at large.” Our accomplishments
include receiving over $4.2M in extramural funding for research, publishing over 60 articles in scientific journals or chapters,
and generally making a large impact on the scientific community.
• “We lead the way by effectively integrating teaching, scholarly inquiry, and service, thus creating an exemplary learning
environment for our graduate and undergraduate students.” The Department has integrated through training graduate students
and undergraduate students in the areas of health and life sciences and community interventions in research and professional
practice and service. The mission statement says, “Psychologists, as social scientists, are suited uniquely to address societal issues by
finding ways of addressing human problems, by developing knowledge and technology, and by educating people to be productive
citizens and effective psychologists.” This was especially seen in the research efforts that were conducted in the community.
• The mission statement says, “We achieve excellence by measuring continuously our performance and productivity individually
as scholars, teachers contributors to society, and collectively as a Department, in order to meet effectively the changing needs
of our consumers, whether they be students, staff, faculty, the Commonwealth of Virginia, or society.” This year was an intensive
application of this principle. We undertook a strategic management initiative during the year — the first by the Department
in eight years. The effort to analyze ourselves and our productivity and make changes that would benefit society, the Commonwealth
and our students was reinforced by undergoing a once-every-five-years review mandated by SCHEV. We undertook an intensive
self-study and were visited by a team of external reviewers, who thouroughly evaluated the department and generally affirmed
the accomplishments and mission of the department. In their report, they stated, “It is the judgment of the review committee
that the performance of the Department of Psychology within VCU and within the profession is well above the mean for
comparable institutions in urban research … universities with clinical or counseling psychology doctoral programs and large
undergraduate programs … VCU’s Department of Psychology is poised to achieve national prominence. It is close to achieving
faculty depth that is comparable or better than most departments of psychology in what were formerly referred to as Carnegie
I universities,” (p. 4).
• Finally, our mission statement says, “In all our endeavors, we strive to use resources cost-effectively so that we can best achieve
this mission and the missions of the College of Humanities and Sciences and of Virginia Commonwealth University.” Again,
quoting from the report of the site visit team, “Overall, the department is operating in a very cost efficient manner and utilizing
the resources it has well, and productivity exceeds expectations given the level of support by the University,” (p. 8).
Teaching
• In undergraduate teaching, we maintained our service to over 1100 Psychology majors. Enrollment in undergraduate classes
continues to be at peak capacity, with many 300 and 400-level classes registering 100 or more students. A record number of
students are engaged in specialty courses offered in Field Work (under Dr. Wendy Kliewer's direction) and Research
Internship (under Ms. Barbara Hoffman's direction). We provided an undergraduate honors course sequence (led by Dr.
Sandra Gramling), provided a home to Psi Chi (led by Dr. Jack Hartnett), the Psychology honorary society, provided educational
opportunities in field work and research internship for undergraduates. During the year, we revised to curriculum in
Psychology. As part of our year of strategic management, we reconsidered a curriculum that was intended to provide training
to make students able to succeed in graduate school. Instead, we re-organized the curriculum to emphasize preparation for
careers in Psychology-related areas as well. The curricular changes cleared all academic committees and will go into effect
next year. Curriculum changes were approved enabling undergraduates to select a concentration within the Bachelor of
Science major to focus on concentrations in Pre-Graduate School, Applied Psychology, Life Sciences, and Urban Psychology,
all of which reflect the department’s strengths. Each of these concentrations requires a higher GPA. We also completed the
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second year of an Assessment of learning in the major. Dr. John Mahoney spearheaded a research-based approach to assessing
learning within the psychology major. He documented that additional learning is measurable with each additional course
taken in Psychology.
• As far as graduate education is concerned, some revisions were made in the graduate training programs as well. Clinical
Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and the developmental program within Experimental Psychology all conducted curriculum
reviews and made modifications in their curricula. One very result-producing graduate course, taught by Dr. Tom Eissenberg,
is Grant Writing. That course was approved by the university curriculum committee this year. It has been offered for three
years, and several students over a three-year period have been successful in receiving their own federal research funding.
• The department’s teaching staff was significantly enhanced with the addition of five collateral faculty hired to teach a variety
of both required undergraduate and graduate courses. We maintained our faculty complement at a slightly lower level than in
some recent years due to the attrition of one faculty member the previous year and an unfilled position from a previous search.
We lost Dr. Julie Williams, Director of the Center for Psychological Services and Development (CPSD), who took an administrative
position at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Hellen Streicher filled in ably as Interim Director this year, and we
look forward to Dr. Sonia Banks joining the faculty at the end of the 2002 summer to assume the permanent Directorship of
the CPSD. Dr. Susan Wilkes was appointed to head the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute as Dr. Williams’ replacement.
• Faculty were recipients of several honors during the year. Dr. Don Forsyth won one of the prestigious SCHEV Outstanding
Professor awards and was honored by Governor Mark Warner. Dr. Micah McCreary won the College Elske v.P. Smith
Distinguished Lecturer award. Ms. Kirby Worthington won the College’s Outstanding Social Science Adjunct award. Dr. Tom
Eissenberg won the College award honoring junior faculty for their scholarship.
• Adding to the effectiveness of the delivery of services, graduate teaching assistants serve as lab instructors in major required
areas such as Statistics (at both levels), Research Methods, Intelligence Testing, Design and Analysis, and Assessment of
Personality. Contributing to the process of assisting undergraduates with their planned progress towards the degree is the work
done in the department’s Advising Office, where, in the course of a normal semester week, approximately 70 to 80 students are
counseled regarding curriculum planning, special exceptions, help in the appeal process, and consultation regarding career goals.
• In the area of public teaching, we had a number of faculty members participate in media interviews. For example, Dr. Everett
Worthington gave over 50 public interviews appearing on television in Canada, on various national radio programs, in O
Magazine, and in most major newspapers. Dr. Steve Danish wrote Op/Ed articles and appeared in many newspaper interviews
regarding the Tobacco Settlement Board. In addition, the Department provided a public lecture, for which many graduates
and local area professionals received continuing education credit. Maxine L. Clarke Multicultural Event was held May 21,
2002 at the Grace Street Theater. The American Psychological Association President-Elect, Dr. Robert J. Sternberg of Yale
University’s Department of Psychology presented an informative and exciting talk entitled: “Successful Intelligence” to area
psychologists, students and faculty in the Psychology Department.
• Altogether, we maintained high quality undergraduate and graduate education efforts and numerous faculty were honored by
the state and College as making outstanding contributions to the teaching of undergraduates and graduates.
Research
• Our faculty and students have continued to excel in the creation and publication of scientific knowledge at the highest levels
of scientific venue. The Psychology Department has been exceptionally effective in securing federal funding for research. At
the present, over half of the faculty members are federally funded. The Department is one of the leading departments in the
country in research on health and biopsychological topics and is a key player in the Life Science Initiative. Our faculty has
published four books this year and over 60 refereed articles and chapters. In addition, Psychology has a strong connection with
the surrounding communities and the research being conducted has received national recognition in terms of awards (e.g., Dr.
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Steve Danish’s Life Skills programs; Drs. Al Farrell and Aleta Meyers’ RIPP programs). Drs. Faye Belgrave, Kevin Allison,
Cathy Howard, and Micah McCreary have all conducted federally funded research within local communities.
• Dr. Faye Belgrave research activities continue to focus on prevention interventions for urban youth. During this year, she
implemented two federally funded prevention programs with colleagues (Drs. Kevin Allison, Laura Plybon, and Tiffany
Townsend). One program evaluated the effectiveness of a culturally enhanced curriculum for preventing substance use and
associated risky behaviors among 6th grade girls attending five middle schools in Richmond, VA. The other project assesses
the effectiveness of integrated cultural curriculums that target drug and sexual risk among African American girls in early
adolescence. This project is done in collaboration with the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Richmond. Both projects are funded
annually by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention for about $800,000. Other core project staff is Julia Foster Woodson,
Program Manager, and Deborah Butler, Prevention Specialist. The project has involved over 30 undergraduate students, and
several graduate students and volunteers who have served as tutors and as group facilitators. During this year, Dr. Belgrave,
colleagues, and staff founded the Center for Cultural Experiences. The purpose of this Center is to generate research on culturally
congruent prevention programs; to provide training on cultural issues; and to work collaboratively with communities to implement
culturally competent programs and services. Vivian Lucas, MBA, Associate Director for the Center and Director of Community
Partnerships was brought on board to coordinate Center activities.
• Additionally, Dr. Belgrave continued to serve on several national advisory committees including the National Institute of
Drug Abuse, African American Scholars Group, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Women’s
Advisory Committee, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Data Coordinating Center, and the Center for Disease
Control, Women and Diabetes Advisory Committee.
• Dr. Tom Eissenberg continues to direct the activities of the Clinical Behavioral Research Laboratory, where he leads an active
research program and trains a new generation of Psychological scientists. Dr. Eissenberg’s research is focused on drug abuse and
dependence and is funded through a combination of sources including NIH (NIDA), foundation (e.g., Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation), and pharmaceutical (e.g., Purdue Pharma) sponsors. In 2001 he submitted a competitive renewal application for
his current NIDA grant; it will be funded for an additional five years effective 07/01/2002 ($1,250,000 total direct costs). Also
in 2001, Dr. Eissenberg published three research papers and had an additional three manuscripts “in press”. While most of his
research is based upon data collected at VCU, he also collaborates with individuals at other sites, including Johns Hopkins
University and the Center on Addiction and Mental Health in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Eissenberg trains Experimental Psychologists,
and his senior graduate student, Mr. August Buchhalter, was a recipient of a prestigious NIH F31 pre-doctoral training fellowship
in 2001; another of Dr. Eissenberg’s students, Ms. Alison Breland, submitted an NIH F31 application in 2001.
• Dr. Albert Farrell established the Center for Promotion of Positive Youth Development this year with two of his colleagues in
Psychology – Dr. Aleta Meyer and Dr. Kevin Allison. The Center approaches positive youth development through an action
research process that seeks to identify critical life skills and develop effective strategies for promoting their development.
Other faculty involved in Center projects include Dr. Terri Sullivan, Dr. Kevin Allison, Dr. Wendy Kliewer, Ms. Anne
Greene, and Ms. Cheryl Groce-Wright. Within the Center, Dr. Farrell serves as P.I. on two federally-funded research projects
representing a total of nearly $1.4 million in annual funding. The Multi-Site Violence Prevention Project funded by the
Division of Youth Violence within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently in its third year. The primary
objective of this project is to assess the effectiveness of several promising middle school- and family-based interventions
designed to reduce violence at the school level. This project involves a total of 37 schools at four different sites. Researchers at
VCU are implementing this project in collaboration with investigators at Duke University, the University of Illinois-Chicago,
and the University of Georgia. A second project titled “Essential Skills for Violence Prevention” is currently in its first year of
funding from NIH. This project was designed to provide the developmental work needed to improve the relevance and effectiveness
of violence prevention programs. Its objectives are to identify the problem situations faced by urban adolescents, the
strategies most likely to be effective in those situations, and factors that inhibit or facilitate their use. Dr. Farrell’s research program
provides numerous opportunities for graduate students interested in applied research. All of his current graduate students
have published or submitted articles for publication. One of his graduate students, Ms. Joanna Strong, received a NIH F31
pre-doctoral training fellowship in 2002.
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• Dr. Elizabeth Fries, continues her role as Director of Cancer Control at Massey Cancer Center. She continues her work on her
two National Cancer Institute funded projects – Reaching Rural Residents with Innovative Nutrition Strategies (RO1CA71024-
01A2) and Dietary Change in Rural Family Members of Colon Cancer Patients (5P30CA16059-21S1) – and plans to submit
the renewals for these projects over the next two years. She also received preliminary word that her 5-year training grant in
Cancer Control should be funded. This grant will fund pre and post-doctoral fellows in Psychology, Biostatistics, and Human
Genetics and is a major multi-disciplinary effort that will build important skills in both H&S and medical students and
trainees. Dr. Fries is PI on one of the sub awards Virginia Statewide Evaluation of Tobacco Prevention Programs for Youth
from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation. Her award is 1.2 million dollars over 3 years. As part of this project her
team will evaluate the effectiveness of over 50 programs to keep children and adolescence from smoking. Her team will have
data from over 10,000 youth and the project is designed to be an institution-wide collaboration resource for those interested
in smoking initiation. Dr. Fries’s work provides multiple opportunities for graduate students and colleagues alike.
• Dr. Susan Wilkes and her colleagues in the Workplace Initiatives Program received a number of new contracts this year for
the provision of consultation and training in the area of leadership and team development. Many of the contracts were for
services related to the highly successful leadership assessment (360-degree feedback) process, where leaders receive valuable
information regarding their current level of effectiveness in their role. Often, executive coaching is a part of this process. Dr.
Jim Burke is heavily involved in the 360 process and subsequent coaching efforts, while Ms. Tammy Jackson is a highly rated
trainer on many of the contracts. Graduate students are integrally involved in the provision of this service and have found it
to be a key component in learning to apply their skills to real world issues. Several students have gone on to excellent positions
in consultation in the private sector. Other contracts for the Workplace program this year include the Virginia Executive
Institute, Commonwealth Management Institute, and the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute.
• These are just a few of the many programs of research that are having an impact on the Life Sciences and on the Urban
Community. Graduate students are highly involved in research publication. Over 20 students published articles in scientific
journals during the past year. This attests to the high quality of scientific training offered by the faculty and the high caliber
of students that have been attracted to our training programs.
Service
• The Department has accomplished much service that benefits the profession of Psychology, the University, and the
Commonwealth of Virginia. Several people were exemplars at serving the profession of Psychology. Dr. Don Forsyth has edited
a major journal and been actively involved throughout the university and in the American Psychological Association. Dr.
Tom Eissenberg organized a major national conference this year. He also was on NIDA grant-review panels. Dr. Dave Svikis
participated on numerous national grant review panels, became the Women’s Health Director at VCU, and participated in
numerous service activities to the profession. At the university level, many people were highly involved. Importantly, five
faculty members served on IRB panels, which also is a huge amount of work each week. At the level of the Commonwealth
of Virginia, Dr. Steve Danish headed the Tobacco Settlement Board for the last two years and did service nationally in sport
psychology with the Olympic Committee. Dr. Arnold Stolberg gave consultation time and participated with the Courts of
Virginia in many ways at helping formulate policies and laws on custody of children.
Objectives and Outcomes
• Going into the 2001-2 academic year, it was apparent that much of the time within the Department of Psychology would be
occupied with self-study. We had initiated both the strategic management process and the project to assess learning in the major
the year before. We knew we would be carrying out those projects. In addition, we also knew that we were scheduled to undergo
the SCHEV review during 2001-2. Thus, from the beginning of the year, our attention was focused as a Department on doing
an excellent job at evaluating ourselves and changing our behavior in response to the evaluations. Our second priority was to
continue to function as excellent teachers, researchers, and service providers amid the year of self-and external evaluations.
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• Our outcomes were positive in both regards, as can be seen by the data reported above. The assessment tasks were successfully
accomplished. Those led to a very successful external review for SCHEV with a positive report, a successful evaluation of
learning within the Psychology curriculum, and a review of content of both undergraduate and graduate curricula that led to
changes in curricula in the undergraduate program and in three of the five programs that train graduate students. Our accomplishments
in teaching were numerous — both on the level of a Department and considering the achievements of individual
faculty. Our accomplishments as researchers resulted in more new grants and successful publication from data collected under
the funding of existing and recently ended grants. Our service was excellent, especially at the State and Professional levels.
Our contributions to the IRB panels were also notable.
Assessment
Our assessment activities occupied a large amount of Departmental time and effort during the current year. Assessment was in fact
our top Departmental priority. This was occasioned by the confluence of four assessment tasks that were undertaken during the year.
• Assessment in the Major. Dr. John Mahoney headed a two-year effort to assess learning in the major. We identified two types
of learning that might be possible for undergraduates. In the first, we assessed, during 2000-1, accumulation of rather esoteric
specialized knowledge that might be characteristic of what a professional might know about psychology. Not surprisingly, the
undergraduates did not demonstrate much increase in esoteric psychological knowledge. They did evidence a dose-effect curve
that was linear, suggesting that the more courses in Psychology that a student took, the more “esoteric knowledge” he or she
retained. However, the amount of knowledge accumulated was small. In 2001-2, we created an instrument that assessed the
knowledge of psychological information that we thought a well-informed psychology graduate ought to accumulate over the
course of a college education. We call this “reasonable knowledge” of psychology. We tested students in their first week of
PSYC 101, at the end of PSYC 101, and at the end of four other core courses taken by psychology majors. We asked students
how many courses in Psychology they had completed to the time of testing. Again, we found a linear dose-effect curve, indicating
that the more courses in Psychology, the more “reasonable knowledge” of Psychology that the undergraduate Psychology major
retained. The amount of such “reasonable knowledge” that people retained was much more than the amount of “esoteric knowledge.”
• Throughout 2001-2, the Department, under the leadership of Drs. Thomas Leahey and Scott Vrana, compiled a thorough selfstudy.
In May, 2002, under the mandate by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia, the Department was visited by
a site visit team of Psychologists from five universities. The results were positive, but the team suggested a number of additional
resources be granted to the Department. The team concluded that “VCU’s Department of Psychology is poised to achieve
national prominence.” They named several resources necessary for such an achievement to be realized within ten years.
• Throughout 2001-2, the Department undertook a different type of self-study. We examined the goals and objectives for the
major units of the Department. Seven task forces studied the make-up of the Department and came up with recommended
priorities for goals, objectives, and changes in operation to fit with the strategic management plan. The process was overseen
by an external consultant, Mr. Wally Stetinius, a member of the faculty in Business who teaches Strategic Planning throughout.
Goals were clarified and recommendations were made. At the present, the separate recommendations from the seven task
forces must be prioritized by the Chair and submitted to the faculty to provide next year’s plan.
• SACS Review. The SACS Review that will be undergone by VCU in the upcoming years, mandated that the Department
generate clear goals, objectives, assessment plans, and benchmarks against which the Department would measure success. As
a result of the large amount of self-study undertaken during the year, the documents presented in the WEAVE format were
formulated for eight units: the Department as a whole, the undergraduate program, the five graduate programs, the Center for
Psychological Services and Development, and the Center for Information and Advising.
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Program Review
• As described in the above section, the Department underwent a program review during 2001-2. At the present, the self-study
report is in, and the report by the site visit team has been submitted to the Dean. The Chair has responded on behalf of the
Department of Psychology requesting resources to meet the recommendations by the site visit team. At the present, the Dean
is considering the data and will make recommendations to the Provost, which will result in action plans that will be formulated
most likely in the Fall, 2002 semester. That coincides with the completion of the strategic management initiative as well.
New Faculty
• Dr. Pamela Garner joined the Developmental Program from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas. Dr. Garner, who
was tenured at the University of Houston before joining the faculty at VCU, is already a nationally recognized expert on emotion
regulation in children.
• Dr. Michael Southam-Gerow joined the Clinical Program from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a
post-doctoral research fellow for three years. He already has an established program of research in clinical psychology.
• Dr. Marilyn Stern became the new Director of Counseling Training. Dr. Stern came to VCU from State University in Albany,
New York. She is a nationally known researcher who studies childhood problems in health. She is one of the leading
Counseling Health Psychology researchers in the country and brings leadership to an already prominent Counseling
Psychology program toward providing training in counseling health psychology.
• Dr. Michael Van Slyck joined the faculty as a non-tenure track Associate Professor. Dr. Van Slyck is an expert on violence
prevention and is a Social Psychologist by training.
• Dr. Brian Smith, a graduate of the VCU Social Psychology program, joined the faculty as a non-tenure track Instructor. He
taught undergraduates primarily throughout the first half of the year and was employed as a research post-doctoral fellow on
Dr. Elizabeth Fries’ research project during the second half of the semester.
• In the Fall of 2002, Dr. Sonia R. Banks from The Arthur Ashe Institute of Urban Health Downstate Medical Center in
Brooklyn, New York will become the new Director for the Center for Psychological Services and Development.
• Dr. Hellen Streicher, a graduate of the Clinical Psychology program at VCU several years ago, accepted a one-year non-tenure
track Clinical Assistant Professor position to serve as the Interim Director of the Center for Psychological Studies.
Objectives for Next Year
• We intend to continue the clarifying of goals, objectives, and performance review that was pushed well along during the present
year. This involves
1. Strategic Management initiative: Prioritize objectives across the seven task forces and formulate yearly and five-year
plans for achieving the objectives.
2. SACS Review: Assess the performance of the units using the WEAVE documents and the assessment criteria noted within.
3. SCHEV Self-study, site-visit, Chair response and Response from Administration: We hope to receive resources for moving
the Department toward the top tier of Psychology Departments. This will involve the response from the Dean and
Provost. Based on the response from the administration, we will formulate a plan--within our Strategic Management
plan and SACS objectives--to use the resources provided to accomplish our objectives.
• We intend to continue to excel at undergraduate education, placing into action the revised curriculum.
• We intend to continue to excel at graduate education and training, implementing changes in the curriculum.
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• In terms of faculty and graduate student achievements, we intend to increase the number of research grants (to faculty and
students) and the number of people funded on research grants and to increase the number of refereed publications by faculty
and graduate students. We hope to get at least one faculty awarded a College or University award for outstanding performance
at teaching, research, or service.
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Director
Division of
Religious
Studies

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Faculty
Dr. Cliff W. Edwards - Director &
Professor
Dr. Daniel E. Perdue - Instructor
Dr. Jack Spiro - Harry Lyons
Distinguished Professor of Judaic
Culture & Director of Judaic Studies
Dr. Kristin M. Swenson-Mendez -
Instructor
Dr. Amina Wadud - Associate Professor
Dr. Mark D. Wood - Associate Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Thomas Hall
Dr. James Lindsey
Dr. Glenn Pratt
Staff
Ms. Stephanie Y. Freeman
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Activities and Accomplishments
• During this academic year, the Religious Studies Program taught over 3,200 students, advised over 80 majors, and graduated
25 majors, 13 of them at the May graduation. These figures are the highest in the program’s history.
• An hour-long video entitled “Religious Diversity in Richmond” funded by a College of Humanities & Sciences grant was
completed by the faculty. It will be used in high schools, colleges, and among religious and civic groups.
• A Religious Studies Newsletter, edited by Dr. Kristi Swenson-Mendez, has been inaugurated. Three issues have been distributed
to alumni and friends.
• Religious Studies faculty conducted a major study of its curriculum and major requirements. Budget cuts have led to a delay
in implementation.
• A Religious Studies Catholic Studies Committee has worked out details for a proposed Catholic Studies Minor within
Religious Studies and has offered related courses. Budget cuts have delayed the seeking of authorization.
• Religious Studies students planned and carried out a successful and well-attended Celebration of Religion and the Arts under
the direction of religious studies graduate, Wendy Hsu. An art exhibit and musical performances were featured.
• Dr. Mark Wood and Dr. Kristi Swenson-Mendez submitted a grant proposal for a Conference on Teaching Religion in the
Twenty-First Century. Hopes are that such a conference will be held at VCU in the years ahead.
• Dr. Kristi Swenson-Mendez planned a post-September 11 Panel Discussion on religion and current events that utilized the
division’s faculty and drew a large audience from the university and community. Faculty also participated in a university
Teach-in on the topic.
• Religious Studies graduate, Wendy Hsu, has been designing a new Web Site for the program that will soon be available.
• Dr. Mark Wood’s new course on Religion and Culture in Italy will take students to Italy this summer to join the Foreign
Language program in Italy and to conduct research in the area of religion.
• Religious Studies faculty have developed new courses, delivered papers nationally and internationally, conducted workshops
and panels, and spoken at civic, religious, and academic gatherings of many sorts this year.
• Religious Studies faculty have written articles, reviews, and book-chapters on a wide variety of topics in the field of religion
this academic year.
Teaching
• 3,200 students were taught this academic year in religious studies courses.
• A study of our curriculum and major requirements was completed, but budget cuts have delayed implementation.
• Our courses in Biblical Hebrew Language studies, in cooperation with Foreign Languages, have been a continuing success.
• New courses have been inaugurated, including a course especially for majors in “Critical Theory in Religion,” a course
in “Religion and Social Justice” and a summer overseas course in Italy on “Religion and Culture in Italy.”
• Courses in Asian religions, “Tibetan Buddhism” and “Religion and Medicine in Asia” have attracted significant numbers
of students.
• Several professors are developing and utilizing computer based lectures and presentations and a focus on web-based materials
for our courses.
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Research
• Dr. Wadud’s book, Qur’an and Woman has added two translations this year, Dutch and Spanish. She has made scholarly
presentations across the United States and in Asia this past year, and had articles, reviews and a book chapter published.
• Dr. Wood’s book on Cornell West has received numerous positive reviews, and was the subject of a panel at the annual meeting
of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. He has delivered scholarly papers both nationally and internationally
this year.
• Dr. Swenson-Mendez completed her dissertation and received her Ph.D. from Boston University. She has read papers at
professional meetings and published an article and reviews this year.
• The entire religious studies faculty participated in the research and creation of a video on “Religious Diversity in Richmond.”
• Dr. Edwards published two review articles and delivered papers at academic conferences.
• Faculty have served on editorial boards and review panels for several journals.
Service
• Religious Studies faculty delivered over 50 lectures to civic and religious groups and to schools in Virginia and beyond,
conducted workshops and participated in university and community panels.
• Faculty served on a variety of university and college committees, including the Faculty Senate, College Undergraduate
Academic Committee, College Library Committee and a variety of other committees and sub-committees.
• Faculty have served on community boards, refugee settlement committees and have brought a variety of speakers to the
VCU campus.
Objectives and Outcomes
• Our Mission Statement, as detailed in the Program Review of 1998, focuses upon teaching, learning and creative research
which explore the many forms of religious expression in a global context. We hope to help all students not only explore
foundational themes in religious studies, but significantly improve their reading, writing, and critical thinking.
• This year the faculty has met to review together student records, writing samples, essays on critical topics and the like, with
a view toward improving our courses and student work in the humanities generally. We believe that solid progress is being
made, but further work on our course offerings will help us accomplish our goals more effectively.
Assessment
• In pursuit of the above objectives, we had instituted an end of year faculty review of student materials with a view toward
evaluating our progress and the quality of student work. The year ahead, we intend to create a questionnaire/competency
exam of our own, as none exists in the Religious Studies area itself. This exam will be given to selected groups of entering
students and to students graduating in order to determine the effectiveness of out program and of student efforts.
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Program Review
• The review of our program in 1998, and the recommendations of the external reviewers have been taken seriously, and moves
to increase faculty and courses in the area of Asian religions and theology have been attempted. Dr. Perdue in Asian religions
has joined our program as instructor as has Dr. Swenson-Mendez in the area of biblical studies and languages. The beginnings
of a theology emphasis through a series of “Catholic Studies” courses was beginning to be developed, but was curtailed due to
budget cuts. Courses in Bible and Archaeology, Religion and Nature, Religion and the Presidency, and some of our women
and religion courses were also intended to respond to the external reviewers’ suggestions, but have been cancelled for now due
to budget cuts. Essentially a third of our courses have been cancelled due to these restraints. We hope to rebuild in these areas
in the future as finances allow.
Objectives for next year
• We are working to focus on highest priorities in order to offer courses to entering students as well as to fulfil our responsibilities
for General Education courses for the university community. This includes sufficient offerings in World Religions, Religion in
America and Global Ethics and the World’s Religions, all of which play an important role in the General Education portions
of the programs of many students across the university.
• Our next priority is to offer a serious and varied set of courses important to majors in the field of religion. This has become
more difficult in view of the needs of our first priority and the budget situation.
• Where possible we have increased the size of classes to accommodate student needs. Through careful advising, we hope
to alert our majors to certain valuable courses which can be offered only in alternate semesters or years.
• A careful use of Independent Studies courses allowing majors to pursue research on an individual basis will be stressed.
Where possible, these students will be encouraged to present their findings to student groups and classes.
• Our loss of a number of courses will likely decrease the number of students we will be teaching. We intend to study the effect
this has on our program and on the morale of our students.
• Faculty already have new research and writing being reviewed for publication as well as plans underway for further
research/writing/publication. Next academic year should be an especially good one for quality publications by the faculty.
• Faculty have been developing technology use for the classroom as well as web-site sources for student study and research.
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Dr. Jimmie S. Williams
Chair
Department of
Sociology &
Anthropology

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Faculty
Dr. Amber Bennett - Instructor
Dr. David G. Bromley - Professor
Dr. Nita L. Bryant - Assistant Professor
Dr. Ann Creighton-Zollar - Associate
Professor
Dr. David R. Croteau - Associate
Professor
Dr. Neil W. Henry - Associate Professor
Dr. Julie A. Honnold - Associate
Professor
Dr. Stephen G. Lyng - Associate
Professor
Dr. John S. Mahoney - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Joseph A. Marolla - Associate
Professor
Dr. Lynn D. Nelson - Professor
Ms. Daphne L. Rankin - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Diana H. Scully - Director, Women’s
Studies Program & Professor
Dr. Audrey Y. Smedley - Professor
Dr. Christina B. Turner - Associate
Professor
Dr. Marsha A. Wadkins - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Jimmie S. Williams - Chair &
Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Lewis F. Diana
Dr. David D. Franks, III
Dr. Edward E. Knipe
Dr. John H. McGrath
Dr. L. Daniel Mouer
Dr. J. John Palen
Staff
Ms. Cynthia G. Brown
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Activities and Accomplishments
• This was a challenging year. The department’s administration was nearly completely changed. Due to Dr. Marolla’s appointment
as Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Dr. Williams became the department chair, and Dr. Honnold the
associate chair. After serving, with distinction, as the department’s Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Lyng requested relief
from that responsibility. Dr. Bryant agreed to replace Dr. Lyng and, under her supervision, our graduate program continues to
maintain its high standards.
• In December of 2001, Drs. Mouer and Palen retired. We were fortunate to hire Dr. Amber Bennett, an archaeologist, to
replace Dr. Mouer. Unfortunately, it was necessary to cancel our recruitment for two replacement faculty positions in February
due to the university’s fiscal crisis.
• This academic year, 5,500 students completed one or more of the 135 courses taught by our faculty. Further, forty-three of our
undergraduate majors graduated with a Bachelor of Science, and ten of our graduate students received their Master of Science
degrees. It is also noteworthy that one of our undergraduate majors, Jessica L. Hatcher, received the College of Humanities
and Science’s Wayne C. Hall Undergraduate Scholarship.
• Currently, 12 of our 14 (86%) faculty members use computer enhancements in each of their courses. This takes numerous
forms, including course web pages, “power-point” presentations, “blackboards,” etc. Three of our faculty ( Drs. Creighton-Zollar,
Marolla, and Nelson) have prepared, and delivered, one or more “distance learning” courses. Four of our faculty (Drs. Bryant,
Creighton-Zollar, Rankin, and Turner) continue to receive formal training and support from the “Preparing Tomorrow’s
Teachers to Use Technology (PT3)” grant program. Our entire faculty benefits, indirectly, from the PT3 program, as we
continue to integrate technology into our courses.
• The published scholarly works of our faculty this year include three books and 19 chapters or articles. In support of our scholarship,
four grant proposals have, or will be, submitted by several teams of our faculty.
• Finally, our faculty’s commitment to service includes membership on 105 committees, task forces, and editorial boards. In
addition, two of our faculty members serve the university and college as program directors (i.e., the Center for Teaching
Excellence and the Women’s Studies Program).
• Despite all of the changes and our “tightened” budget, our department has had a good year.
Teaching
• This year our faculty taught 33 different courses (121 sections), in three disciplines (Anthropology, Sociology, and Social
Science) to 5,500 students. These courses (sections) were taught by the full-time equivalent of about 16 faculty members.
Collectively, as judged by students, our faculty are “very good” instructors.
• Over 85 percent of our full-time faculty use computer enhancements in their courses. Included among these “enhancements”
are course web pages, “power-point” presentations, “blackboards,” etc. Three members of our faculty continue to deliver, periodically,
one or more “distance learning” courses. Integration of technology into our courses continues to grow. With the support
from the “Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3)” program, four of our faculty are receiving time and
technical instruction in computer enhancement for teaching. Their support has indirectly benefited our entire faculty’s effort
in these methods of teaching.
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Research
• Research and scholarship always require time. Often, in order to conduct our research external funding is necessary. Last year
a great deal of time and work was dedicated to preparing research proposals for funding from non-university sources. One
proposal was delivered to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in June. Three other proposals should be ready for
submission this summer or in the early part of the fall semester of 2002.
• One of the primary roles of our faculty is to generate and expand the knowledge base of our disciplines. One indicator of
success in this role is the quality and number of works they have placed in the public domain. The publication of our research,
of course, expands the knowledge base of our disciplines. This year our faculty had three books and 19 chapters or articles
published by well-respected publishing houses and/or scholarly journals.
Service
• Our faculty has committed a great deal of time and effort to serving our disciplines, university, college, department, and
community during this academic year. We served, assiduously, on at least 105 committees, task forces, councils, and editorial
boards. In addition, two of our faculty serves the university and college as program directors (i.e., the Center for Teaching
Excellence and the Women’s Studies Program). On average, each of our faculty served on about seven committees, task
forces, etc. A list of the services is available for the concerned reader.
Objectives and Outcomes
• Maintain the department’s Web page.
• At least once each year the department’s general web page is up-dated to reflect university, college, and departmental changes.
Dr. Nelson created, and continues to maintain, our outstanding and “state of the art” web site. The URL for this site is:
http://www.has.vcu.edu/soc/.
• Create a web page for the Sociology Graduate program.
• Dr. Bryant, the Graduate Studies Director, created a web page dedicated to the Sociology Graduate Program. Although there
are still a few “bugs” on the page, it is a creative and informative source of information for potential and continuing graduate
students. The URL for this site is: http://www.has.vcu.edu/soc/frset7.htm.
• Develop, mail, and analyze a sample survey of Sociology and Anthropology alumni. Although the methodology and instrument
for this task is complete, we have yet to identify the target sample. Data collection and file creation will begin this summer.
• Continue our pursuit (both group and individual) for external funding.
• This year, three grant proposals by members of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology were prepared.
• Dr. Creighton-Zollar sent her proposal to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Small Grant Program.
She hopes to find support for her study of “Race and Infant Mortality among College Women.” If this proposal is not successful,
she plans to submit it to the small grants program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD) this summer.
• Last summer, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) approved, but did not fund, Ms. Rankin’s grant proposal
for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Belize. She will resubmit that proposal to USAID this summer.
• Currently, Ms. Rankin and Dr. Honnold are preparing a proposal for the Centers for Disease Control program for “Integrated,
Multi-level Interventions to Improve Adolescent Health through the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Including
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HIV and Teen Pregnancy.” This proposal was submitted on June 1, 2002. If approved, funds (up to $500,000 for eight years)
will become available in September of 2002.
• Dr. Smedley, along with several departmental colleagues, is in the final stages of preparing a research proposal for the assessment
of the impact of a Public Broadcasting System’s documentary on perceptions of race. The target of the proposal is the Ford
Foundation. The target date for submission of this proposal is June 15th.
• Continue to develop and emphasize the Graduate Research Practicum.
• Dr. Bryant will teach the Practicum next year. Representatives of the Richmond United Way and Dr. Bryant are now planning
several research projects that will benefit both our graduate students and the United Way.
• Continue our extensive graduate student recruitment efforts.
• In her role as our Graduate Studies Director, Dr. Bryant continues to recruit graduate students with an interest in sociology.
She is now in the final stages of identifying those applicants who will be offered GTA’s for 2002-2003.
• Develop and use a quantitative instrument to assess the knowledge of our graduating undergraduate and graduate students.
• During the summer of 2002, Drs. Bryant, Mahoney, Turner, and Williams will prepare exit instruments (tests) for our graduating
seniors in Anthropology and Sociology and graduating master’s students. These instruments will be pre-tested in the fall of
2002. After adjustments, based on an examination of the pre-test results, all students who will graduate in the spring of 2003
will complete the appropriate instrument. Use of the exit interview and questionnaire (modified) will continue.
• The purpose of each of these tasks is to assess the strengths and weaknesses in our course content and delivery. Modifications
to our course content and delivery may result from the results of student responses to the instruments.
• Continue the development and formalization of an internship program for our undergraduate and graduate level.
• This year several potential community agencies have expressed an interest in our internship program. The primary faculty
(Bryant, Mahoney, and Turner) who have supervised student interns are over-burdened; thus, we are now attempting to
expand the number of faculty supervising interns.
• Continue to integrate technology into our course offerings.
Assement
• Our department has established nine goals that we hope we can assist our students to achieve during their time in our
programs. The goals relate to assisting our majors to acquire: Writing skills, computer literacy, quantitative and critical reasoning
skills, global (multi-cultural) knowledge, oral communication opportunities, the value of life long learning, service, ethics,
and good citizenship.
• We will assess our achievement of these goals by using:
1. A student portfolio, for each of our majors, that includes copies of essays written in “writing intensive” courses taught by
our faculty. Two of our faculty members will assess the writing skills, logic, research, statistics and critical thought used in
the student essays.
2. An alumni survey, designed to tap the extent to which our graduates have met our goals is complete. The survey will
include a questionnaire that to be mailed to a sample of our graduates. Our first alumni survey will begin during the
summer of 2002.
3. Beginning in the fall of 2002, each of our graduates will complete an Exit Examination. This exam will be used to assess
our students’ quantitative and logical reasoning skills, their ability to think critically and the extent of their global knowledge.
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4. The graduating student’s advisor, during the process of advising, will assess the student’s communication skills and
commitment to continued learning, service, and ethics.
5. Until the department receives approval for a one-credit senior seminar course, we will assess our students’ communication
and critical thinking skills in a senior level course that primarily attracts only our students.
• Although many of these procedures are yet to be operational, they will be in the fall of 2002.
Program Review
• As detailed above, the department is seeking external support for several research projects. This year, or early next semester,
we will have submitted the largest number of research proposals in the history of our department in a single calendar year.
• Likewise, we are teaching larger numbers of students, with fewer professors, than in the past. Our students judge our teaching
as being “very good,” and we continue to increase the use of technology in our courses.
• As indicated in the Research section of this document, the quantity and quality of our scholarship continues to be high. The
service provided by our faculty remains extensive and varied.
• Although our efforts might be improved, given the size of our faculty and our budgetary limitations, it is difficult to imagine
that we can significantly expand our efforts. This being said, however, we will continue to improve each aspect of our mission
next year.
New Faculty
• Dr. Amber Bennett joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor from Sweetbriar College. She received her Ph.D. degree in
Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Her specialty in Anthropology is in the area of historical archaeology.
She has developed excellent skills as an instructor at several universities and we, and our students, are fortunate to have her
on our faculty.
Objectives for Next Year
• Our top priority is to make adjustments, resulting from the college’s fiscal crisis, with as little disruption to our programs as
possible. Another priority is to prepare our department’s portion of the university’s re-accreditation report.
• At this time, our most important challenge is to do more with fewer staff and resources. Nevertheless, the morale of our staff
remains high, and they plan to meet these challenges and their responsibilities to our students, profession, department, college
and university.
• It is our intention to continue teaching, scholarship, and service. Should we be successful in our grant efforts, several adjustments
will be necessary, including finding qualified staff to teach and assist with the required research. It remains to be seen what,
exactly, effects our shortages will have on our intentions.
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Faculty
Mr. Jamison S. Barnett - Instructor
Dr. David F. Bauer - Professor
Ms. Shawn P. Burton - Instructor
Dr. James M. Davenport - Associate
Professor
Dr. Jill R. Hardin - Assistant Professor
Dr. Neil Henry - Associate Professor
Dr. D’Arcy Mays, III - Chair &
Associate Professor
Dr. James E. Mays - Assistant Professor
Dr. Jason R. Merrick - Assistant
Professor
Dr. W. Scott Street, IV - Assistant
Professor
Dr. Patricia P. Williamson - Associate
Professor
Staff
Ms. Anita C. Nelson - Assistant to
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research was created from the Division of Operations Research and
Statistics of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Board of Visitor approval established the Department in November
2001 (along with the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in the College of Humanities and Sciences and
the Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering).
• The Department offers quality programs for both B.S. and M.S. majors, and meets the service needs of a large number of students
in the College of Humanities and Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the general education requirements for students
throughout the university.
• Faculty members are active in both research and consulting activities. 7 papers/abstracts were published during the year, and
13 invited/contributed presentations were made at national, state, and local conferences. Faculty and graduate students consulted
with the following companies and organizations: James River Association; Barry Strickland & Company; Department
for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities; Infineon Technologies Richmond; General American Corporation; Scentczar
Corporation; and U.S. Coast Guard. Three graduate students are working as interns at Capital One.
• The Department has worked with the Department of Biostatistics on the creation of a Quantitative Bioinformatics 5-year program.
Additionally, the Department will work to create courses in Categorical Data Analysis and Survival Analysis in support
of the Ph.D. in Epidemiology in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health.
• Mr. John Brooks, an adjunct of mathematics and statistics courses at the University since 1957, received the Distinguished
Adjunct Faculty Award for the Mathematical and Natural Sciences.
• Dr. James E. Mays was runner-up for the ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences’ (SPES) Outstanding
Presentation Award for his presentation “Small-Sample Model-Robust Confidence Intervals in Regression” at the 2001 Joint
Statistical Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Dr. Jill Hardin and Dr. Scott Street received a Small Teaching Grant from the VCU Center of Teaching Excellence for
“Development of a Writing Intensive Course for the Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research.” Dr. Street
also received a VCU Faculty Mentoring Grant from the VCU Instructional Development Center for “Web-based Multimedia
Components to Enhance the Learning and Teaching of Intermediate Statistics. Dr. Jim Davenport presented the invited talk
“The TV Model of Delivering Statistical Education” at the 2001 Joint Statistical Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Dr. Jason Merrick received a Sloan Foundation Pre-Tenure Leave Fellowship during the spring semester.
Teaching
• The Department had 5 undergraduate mathematical science majors in the operations research and statistics tracks, of which 2
graduated in 2001-02, and 15 graduate mathematical science majors in the operations research and statistics tracks, of which 3
graduated in 2001-02.
• In addition to courses for majors, the Department generated over 6,400 undergraduate credit hours and over 750 graduate
credit hours for students primarily in the College of Humanities and Sciences and the School of Engineering. These numbers
will increase with the collaborations with the Department of Biostatistics and Department of Preventive Medicine and
Community Health (both in the School of Medicine).
• Graduation seniors Kelly Mooney and Kara Norman received the Outstanding Graduating Senior Award from the
Department.
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• There has been an evaluation of the degree requirements, and faculty remain active in course development and course revision
to satisfy this vision for our program. Among the courses are the following:
1. STAT 210 – Basic Practice of Statistics, Dr. D’Arcy Mays and Mr. Jamison Barnett. Developed interactive MS Excel
spreadsheets for class demonstrations using Visual Basic for Applications and developed MS Excel exercises with stepby-step
instructions. A course revision.
2. STAT 314 – Applications of Statistics, Dr. Scott Street. An IDC grant titled “Web-based Multimedia Components to
Enhance the Learning and Teaching of Intermediate Statistics.” A course revision.
3. STAT 4XX – Writing Intensive Course, Dr. Jill Hardin and Dr. Scott Street. A CTE Small Teaching Grant for the
creation of a writing intensive course to satisfy the College of Humanities and Sciences general education requirements.
4. STAT 541 – Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Dr. James Davenport. All lectures converted to video
streaming and real media files, then burned to CDs and distributed to students. Funds from the Commonwealth
Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP) used to pay for the enhancements. A course revision.
5. MATH 641 – Mathematical Modeling, Dr. Jill Hardin. A course revision.
6. MATH 643 – Decision and Risk Analysis, Dr. Jason Merrick. Revision of a course that had not been taught since
the departure of Dr. Greg Parnell 3 years ago.
7. CMSC/MATH 691 – Network Models and Graph Theory, Dr. Jill Hardin. Development of course for students in
operations research and computer science. An interdisciplinary course.
8. ENVS 603 – Environmental Research Methods, Dr. James Mays (with Dr. Shelley Harris from the Center for
Environmental Studies). Continued development of an interdisciplinary course.
Research
The following is a list of invited talks presented by the faculty during the year. These are in addition to the 7 other talks, lectures
and colloquium given during the year as well as the published work listed later in this Report.
1. Davenport, James M. “The TV Model of Delivering Statistical Education”, Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001.
2. Hardin, Jill R. “Using Integer Programming Techniques to Solve Scheduling Problems”, Richmond-Tidewater Chapter
of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, October 2001.
3. Mays, Darcy P., Jie Zhang, and Jing Tian “Optimal Two-Stage Designs for a Logistic Model with Heterogenous
Proportion Structures,” Workshop on Response Surface: Theory and Applications, Blacksburg, VA, April 2002.
4. Merrick, J. R. W. “The Ports and Waterways Safety Assessment,” Richmond-Tidewater Chapter of the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences, October 2001.
• Dr. Neil Henry is Associate Editor of Sociological Methods and Research. Additionally, faculty served as reviewers for 5 publishers
and 4 journals.
• Dr. Jason Merrick and Dr. Neil Henry are among a group of faculty who received a $500,000 research grant from NSF: “An
Integrated Multi-Objective Decision Analysis Model for an Urban Watershed in the Richmond, VA Metropolitan Area.”
• Dr. James Mays (along with Dr. Shelly Harris, PI, Dr. J. C. Fox, Dr. C. Crawley, and Dr. R. A. Yeary) received a three-year
$604,310 NIOSH/NIH grant “Pesticide Dose Monitoring in Turf Applications.”
• Faculty served on 10 dissertation committees for students in the College of Humanities and Sciences, School of Nursing,
School of Education, and School of Medicine. Faculty also served on 24 thesis committees for students in the College of
Humanities and Sciences, and directed 6 students in independent study courses.
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Service
• Faculty continue to be very active in professional societies and take leadership roles in a variety of community organizations.
Several faculty members served as readers and judges for the Virginia Junior Academy of Science competitions, and others
participated in probability and statistics activities at the Science Museum of Virginia for National Science and Technology
Week. Other noteworthy service to the University and to professional and community organizations includes the following:
• Dr. David Bauer is Secretary-Treasurer of the Section on Statistics in Sports, American Statistical Association, and served as
chair of the Section on Zoology at the Virginia Junior Academy of Science Meeting in May 2001. He served as assistant chair
of the Department of Mathematical Sciences through December 2001, and was nominated by the Department for the College
of Humanities and Sciences Distinguished Service Award.
• Dr. James Davenport completed a three-year term as vice-chair of the Council on Sections of the American Statistical
Association.
• Dr. Neil Henry served as an Honorary Faculty Senator and editor of the Faculty Senate Webpage, was a member of the
University Faculty Grievance panel, was past-president of the College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Council, and
served as chair of the College of Humanities and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee.
• Dr. D’Arcy Mays served as the University’s representative to the Southern Regional Council on Statistics and is an at-large
representative of the Academic Regulations and Appeals Committee.
• Dr. James Mays served on the Recreational Sports Advisory Committee, was a faculty senate representative, and was a member
of the College of Humanities and Sciences Undergraduate Academic Committee. He served as President of the Statistics
Section of the Virginia Academy of Science, and was a judge at the Mathematics and Computer Science section of the Metro
Richmond Science Fair.
• Dr. Jason Merrick served as President of the Richmond-Tidewater Chapter of INFORMS and was a member of the 2001
Decision Analysis Publications Award Committee for the Decision Analysis Society. He was also a member of the College of
Humanities and Sciences Technology Committee.
• Dr. Scott Street served as the Department webmaster and attended and contributed to numerous training seminars offered by
the University.
• Dr. Patricia Williamson served as an alternate to the University Council and was a member of the College of Humanities and
Sciences Library Committee.
New Faculty
• Dr. Jill Hardin joined the Department in August 2001 after receiving her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. She has taught classes in
Deterministic Operations Research, Mathematical Modeling, and Network Models and Graph Theory; and her research interests
include Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization.
Objectives for Next Year
• The Department’s goal is to continue to grow and to serve the University and community. We will continue to offer a variety
of service courses for students in the College of Humanities and Sciences and for students in other Schools in the University.
In connection with this, we plan to expand our undergraduate and graduate programs, in terms of numbers of students and
courses offered.
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• The Department will continue to pursue research grants and collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines on grants that
they have received. This consulting mission is essential for a respected department of statistics and operations research.
Additionally, the Department will continue to provide consulting to government, industry, and corporate businesses throughout
the Richmond area.
Other individual objectives include the following:
• Dr. James Davenport plans to continue development of real media files to supplement the teaching of statistics via CGEP and
the ATM distance learning mode.
• Dr. Jill Hardin will spend part of the summer as a visiting scientist in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, and will begin mentoring sessions with Dr. Karla Hoffman of the Systems Engineering and
Operations Research Department at George Mason University. Dr. Hardin will also continue to work with Dr. Scott Street to
develop and then teach in the spring semester a Writing Intensive course.
• Dr. James Mays will work on the NIOSH/NIH grant “Pesticide Dose Monitoring in Turf Applications.”
• Dr. Jason Merrick and Dr. Neil Henry will work on the NSF research grant “An Integrated Multi-Objective Decision Analysis
Model for an Urban Watershed in the Richmond, VA Metropolitan Area.”
• Dr. Neil Henry will work with Dr. Margot Garcia to write a book that pulls together the work on the multidisciplinary
Upham Brook project.
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Faculty
Dr. John J. Accordino - Chair &
Associate Professor
Dr. Helen R. Aspaas - Assistant Professor
Dr. Michael P. Brooks - Professor
Dr. Margot W. Garcia - Associate
Professor
Dr. Morton B. Gulak - Associate
Professor
Dr. Gary T. Johnson - Associate
Professor
Dr. John V. Moeser - Professor
Dr. Robert D. Rugg - Director,
Geography & Professor
Dr. Avrum J. Shriar - Assistant Professor
Dr. Weiping Wu - Associate Professor
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Dr. Marijean H. Hawthorne
Mr. Carroll R. Hormachea
Dr. Peter Schulz
Staff
Ms. C. Diane Bentley
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Activities and Accomplishments
The 2001-2002 academic year saw numerous accomplishments as well as plans for the future of the Department of Urban Studies
and Planning. Significant activities and achievements include the following:
• The Department’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program received a strong endorsement from the Planning
Accreditation Board (PAB) of the American Planning Association this spring, which recommended re-accreditation of the
25-year-old program for another seven years. The PAB report concluded that “the faculty are a significant asset to this program”
and that students emerge “able to be productive immediately upon employment.” The report also cited the strong support for
the program expressed by the VCU administration. The report marks the end of an 18-month process of self-study and site visit.
• Scholarly productivity in the Department was strong this past year. Drs. Aspaas, Brooks and Wu published books, and 15 articles,
book chapters, monographs and research reports were published as well.
• “Where Do We Grow from Here?” the highly successful community symposium series organized by Dr. Gary T. Johnson, concluded
in November with a session entitled “Addressing the Challenge of Sprawl within the Richmond Region.” The session, which
featured local elected and appointed public officials, was attended by about 100 persons from the Greater Richmond area.
This session and its two predecessors sparked an award-winning series of in-depth reports on sprawl in the Richmond Times-
Dispatch newspaper.
• Dr. Helen-Ruth Aspaas spent several weeks at Maseno University in Western Kenya with the Farmer to Farmer program, funded
by USAID. Working with colleagues there, Dr. Aspaas defined a plan of action for developing gender awareness education at
the institutional level and for the rural area that Maseno University serves. Dr. Aspaas is reporting on this work at the Women’s
World Congress in Kampala in July 2002.
• Drs. Rugg and Wu collaborated with colleagues at the East China Normal University and at the University of San Carlos of
Guatemala to develop sub-city urban social and economic indicators of human welfare for the cities of Shanghai and Guatemala
City, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the University Consortium for Geographic
Information Science. The project is developing a Geographic Information System to map and compare trends in the two
cities, as well as in Richmond.
• Dr. Margot Garcia received the Margarita McCoy Award for advancement of women in planning at institutions of higher education
at the November 2001 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning conference in Cleveland. The Award Committee cited
Professor Garcia’s strong leadership and contributions to the American Planning Association’s Feminist Women’s Interest
Group and her long-standing efforts to promote the advancement of women in planning.
• Dr. John Accordino participated in the seminar “Urban Planning in Germany” as a Fulbright Fellow during the summer of
2001. As a follow-on to this work, Dr. Accordino and Dr. Margaret Peischl of the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures will teach honors modules on Berlin during the Spring 2003 semester.
Teaching
• High-quality instruction and student mentorship continue to be priorities for the Department.
• Enrollment in Department courses grew significantly over the previous year. In academic year 2001-02 (including Summer
2001) 674 students completed Urban Studies courses, an increase of 18 percent over the 2000-01 year. Also, 692 students
completed Geography courses, an increase of 32 percent over the 2000-2001 year, and 382 students completed graduate courses
in Urban and Regional Planning or the Doctoral Seminar in Public Policy, an increase of one percent over the previous year.
• As of census day, fall 2001, the Department had 65 undergraduate majors and 47 graduate majors, a slight increase over the
previous academic year. During the past year, 33 students graduated from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning; 22
received the Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies and 11 received the Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree.
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• Several faculty members developed new, innovative teaching techniques this past year. With the assistance of a PT3 Technology
Infusion grant, Dr. Aspaas became proficient in the use of a wide array of electronic technologies and equipment that she has
used to make her large Geography classes more interactive. In addition, she has placed all of her courses on Blackboard. Dr.
Gary Johnson has developed web-based course materials for his undergraduate courses and Dr. Rugg has developed a webbased
GIS course that will be pilot-tested this coming academic year with students in Richmond, Guatemala and Shanghai.
• The faculty continued their highly successful service-learning courses. Dr. Moeser’s Discover Richmond class provided valuable
service at the William Byrd Community House, the Dupont Learning Center, the Youth Empowerment Station, the YWCA’s
Shelters for Abused Women and its After-School Program, and at the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods.
Dr. Aspaas placed 45 students from her World Regions geography course in ten different sites relating to the themes of food
security, immigration, aging, and the environment.
• The Department’s volunteer student organizations, the graduate Urban and Regional Planning Students Association, the
undergraduate Urban Studies Students Association and the undergraduate Gamma Theta Upsilon Geography Honor Society
chapter all were very active and successful this past year. The Urban Studies Students cleaned up Cary Street near VCU on
several occasions and thus qualified as street sponsors under the Virginia Adopt-a-Street program. With leadership from Dr.
Aspaas, all three student groups traveled to Washington, D.C. to visit the National Geographic Society and the Library of
Congress Map Library. Several students attended the annual conference of the American Planning Association in Chicago,
and the student groups sponsored several successful guided tours in Richmond, including a vacant and abandoned housing
tour in Union Hill and a historic architecture tour in the Fan.
Research
• Department faculty made significant accomplishments in both funded and non-funded research this past year. As indicated in
the publications list, the faculty published three books and 15 articles, book chapters, monographs and research reports.
• Dr. Accordino published two co-authored articles on mitigating the risks of, and financing, inner-city commercial development
projects. He also published a book chapter on defense conversion planning in the United States.
• Dr. Aspaas published two Geography workbooks and has several additional publications in press. She completed her research
on women’s small-business development in Southwest Virginia and in the Four-Corners area of the U.S., funded by a VCU
faculty grant-in-aid ($5,000) and a grant from the U.S.D.A. ($65,000). She co-authored a successful grant application to the
National Science Foundation for $42,000 that will bring 15 American and 15 South African geographers together to develop
collaborative research projects on African development.
• Dr. Brooks’ book, “Planning Theory for Practitioners,” was published this past year. In addition, Dr. Brooks completed a study
of the effects of the Dillon Rule on Virginia’s cities and counties, which was published by the Richmond First Club.
• Dr. Margot Garcia completed the research phase of her work as Principal Investigator on a three-year study of the Upham
Brook Watershed, funded by the National Science Foundation at $500,000. The project includes contributions by Drs. Gulak,
Moeser and Rugg in the Department, as well as faculty from other departments in the University. Dr. Garcia published two,
co-authored, peer-reviewed articles, as well as several additional pieces.
• Dr. Mort Gulak continued his applied research and planning for the Carver neighborhood (funded through a U.S. HUD COPC
grant of $18,000) and for the Chamberlayne Avenue neighborhood (funded through a City of Richmond grant of $13,000).
He also continued his work with Dr. Garcia on the Upham Brook project. At the behest of Richmond City Councilwoman
Reverend Gwen Hedgepeth, Dr. Gulak began a City-funded feasibility study of a community center in South Richmond.
• Dr. Johnson returned to the full-time teaching faculty after a three-year stint as Department chair and resumed his work on
a U.S. housing policy text.
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• Dr. Moeser published an invited commentary on the Richmond Free Press to mark the newspaper’s tenth anniversary and
he continued his research with Dr. Garcia on the Upham Brook Watershed project.
• Dr. Rugg completed his grant-funded Geographic Information Systems work at the University of Maine. He continued his
collaborative work with Dr. Weiping Wu and with colleagues abroad, developing urban indicator systems for Shanghai and
Guatemala City; the project is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at $40,000. Dr. Rugg also
secured a new grant in the amount of $20,000 from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to continue his development of
an urban indicator system for the City of Richmond.
• Dr. Shriar continued his field research on the impacts of public policy and sustainable farming methods in Peten, Guatemala
and he wrote or revised several manuscripts on this topic.
• Dr. Wu published a co-edited the book “Facets of Globalization: International and Local Dimensions of Development,” as
well as three chapters in books and research reports. Dr. Wu has three active research grants, two through the National
Science Foundation on Chinese migration issues at $110,000 and one through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (with Dr. Rugg) at $40,000, on the development of sub-city urban indicators of social and economic well being
in China and Guatemala.
• In addition to their own scholarship, faculty in the Department served as reviewers of grant applications for the United States
government and for international agencies, and they reviewed manuscripts for several book publishers and for some of the
leading journals in the field, including: Cartography and GIS, Environmental Health Perspectives, Environment and Planning,
Housing Policy, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Journal of
Environmental Planning and Management, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of
Urban History, and Third World Planning Review.
Service
The Department has a long-standing commitment to providing public service at the local, state, national and international levels,
as well as service to the Urban Planning and Geography professions. The aforementioned Planning Accreditation Board review
cited this as a significant strength of the Department. Some significant services rendered by faculty this past year are listed below.
• Dr. John Accordino served as a member of the Commercial Development Advisory Team of the Better Housing Coalition. He
continued his research assistance to the Richmond Coalition for a Living Wage and advised the City of Richmond on a study
assessing the probable impacts of a living wage in the city.
• Dr. Aspaas’ service to Maseno University in Kenya is described above. In addition, she coordinated fund-raising activities for
community development projects in villages in East Africa and Afghanistan, she continued her coordination work for the
Capital Regional Geographic Alliance, which provides area high-school teachers with Geography training and resources, and
she co-chaired the VCU site for the World Food Day Teleconference in October.
• Dr. Brooks continues to serve as a member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Site Visitor Selection
Committee.
• Dr. Garcia served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management and the Journal of the
American Planning Association, as well as on the National Liaison Committee for the United States Geological Survey on
National Ambient Water Quality Assessment. Locally, she served on the Board of Directors of the Chickahominy Watershed
Alliance and she served as a judge of The 2000 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards for Manufacturers, by the
Virginia Manufacturing Association.
• Dr. Gulak served on the Carver-VCU Partnership Steering Committee and he co-chaired the Partnership’s Community
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• Dr. Johnson coordinated the aforementioned symposium: “Where Do We Grow from Here?” and he served on the editorial board
of the Journal of the American Planning Association. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Better Housing Coalition.
• Dr. Moeser was a member of Board of Governors of the William Byrd Community House and he also served on the Board of
Directors of the Hope in the Cities project, as well as on four additional community organization boards. He made numerous
presentations on issues of race and economics in the Richmond area and he was interviewed numerous times by the print and
broadcast media on issues of urban politics, race, and community development.
• Dr. Rugg served as a member of the Board of Directors of the University Consortium on Geographic Information Systems, and
he continued to represent the American Association of Geographers to national and international GIS standards committees.
• Dr. Wu served on the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Diversity Committee. She also co-chaired the Association’s
Global Planning Educators’ Interest Group and was awarded the President’s Recognition for Outstanding Service to the Association
for that work. She served on the International Advisory Board of the Urban China Research Network and she co-chaired a
track on the role of cities and regions in globalization for the World Planning Schools Congress, held July 2001 in Shanghai.
• In addition to their service to the profession and the community, Department faculty also provided valuable service to the
Department, the College and the University. Particularly noteworthy are Dr. Aspaas’ service as teaching mentor for the
Center for Teaching Excellence, her service on the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Scholarship Committee, and her assistance
to the Department chair in coordinating the Geography program during the 2001-02 academic year; Dr. Garcia’s service as
Honorary Faculty Senate member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee member and member of the University Grievance
Committee, College Promotion and Tenure Committee member and College Graduate Curriculum Committee member; Dr.
Gulak’s service on the University Architectural Review Committee; Dr. Johnson’s service on the Provost’s Social Science Task
Force and the University Conflict-of-Interest Committee; Dr. Moeser’s service as Chair of the College’s Urban Subcommittee
of the Undergraduate Academic Curriculum Committee and his membership on the Faculty Council and the Dean’s Advisory
Committee on General Education; Dr. Shriar’s service on the College’s Faculty Council and the College’s Distinguished
Service Award Selection Committee; Dr. Wu’s membership on the University Council and her service on both the College
Undergraduate Academic Council and the College Grievance Committee.
Objectives and Outcomes
The Department articulated several goals and objectives at the beginning of the 2001-02 academic year. Our success in achieving
those goals is outlined below.
Teaching, Recruitment and Student Life
• Continue to improve course pedagogy & delivery, especially through new technology. Achieved through Dr. Aspaas’ PT3 grant
to incorporate new technology into classroom teaching; Dr. Johnson’s web-based course readings; Dr. Rugg’s development of
a web-based GIS course to be taught Spring 2003.
• Continue the valuable student outcomes assessment process begun 1989. Achieved and incorporated into University’s new
WEAVE structure. Improved undergraduate writing competency assessment by restructuring Writing Assignment Checklist
into Norms for Good Writing list.
• Increase enrollments in entry-level classes: Added sections of entry-level classes: Increased URSP 116 to two sections per
semester as of Spring 2002, plus one section for Summer.
• Increased class size ceilings in URSP 116, 261, 306, 340 and GEOG 204 and 308 to accommodate more students.
• Reception for new and prospective undergraduate students: Done September 2001.
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• Chair’s participation in four College of Humanities & Sciences-sponsored undergraduate recruitment sessions in October,
November, February and April.
• Encourage students in Urban Revitalization certificate to apply to MURP: Done successfully for four new students AY 01-02.
• Mailed 500 Master’s program posters to colleges east of Mississippi in October 2001; will repeat in September 2002.
• 250 master’s course descriptions mailed to planning agencies & others for both Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 semesters.
• Over 80 MURP application packets mailed to prospective graduate students since August 2001 (other students apply without
first requesting materials from the department).
Collaboration with other VCU units
• Joint research through Dr. Garcia’s NSF grant with faculty from History, Biology, Psychology and other departments.
• Collaboration with other schools and departments through Dr. Gulak’s work on Carver-VCU Partnership Steering Committee.
• Substantial involvement of five URSP faculty in PhD in Public Policy degree.
• Dr. Garcia served on seven MIS in Environmental Science master’s theses this past year.
• Faculty have served on other departments’ P & T panels, Program Review panels this past year.
• Initiatives with African American Studies, including joint sponsorship of Claude Barnes (NC Central U.) in February 2002
and African American History in the Making awards.
Scholarship
• Maintain the department’s high level of scholarly productivity, in theoretical and applied research, and for both academic and
lay audiences. This was accomplished, especially through the books published by Drs. Aspaas, Brooks and Wu, and through
the journal articles and other publications of Drs. Accordino, Garcia and Moeser.
• Provide financial assistance so that junior faculty can attend conferences and present papers. Achieved, with assistance from
the Dean, as both Drs. Aspaas and Shriar attended Geography conferences and presented papers.
External Relations
• Increase department outreach to important constituencies.
• Meet with heads of planning agencies and related organizations to monitor effectiveness of our programs. This was accomplished,
not by the chair directly, but in the context of the Planning Accreditation Board site visit. The site-visit team noted with approval
how many agency heads appeared at the meetings and they indicated that the agencies are very satisfied with our students.
• Engage alumni more frequently. Except for the strong support that MURP alumni showed in the PAB site-visit process, this
goal was not accomplished because of the press of other tasks. It will be a very high chair priority for 2002-03 and will be
achieved, in part, through the department’s 30th anniversary celebration in Spring 2003.
• Statewide celebration of 30th anniversary of founding of the department. Planning is underway, largely through the work of
Drs. Johnson and Brooks.
• Represent department at important scholarly meetings in Urban Planning, Urban Studies & Geography. Achieved: Faculty
and Chair attended meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, American Planning Association, Virginia
Chapter of the American Planning Association, Association of American Geographers, and other relevant organizations.
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Community and professional service and leadership
• Continue to provide a high level of community and professional service and leadership. Accomplished, especially through the
outstanding community service of Drs. Moeser, Aspaas and Johnson and the excellent professional service of Dr. Wu.
Program Monitoring and Development
• Conduct Master of Urban and Regional Planning program self-study process: Completed self-study document and planned
and organized successful site-visit of Planning Accreditation Board site-visit team, including integral involvement of Masters
students, faculty, adjunct instructors, employers and internship supervisors, alumni, University administrators, librarians and
local American Planning Association officials.
• Humanities & Sciences Program Review Process: Department-wide self-study analyses of status of programs in Urban Studies,
Urban and Regional Planning, and Geography (minor) completed. Department then conducted strategic planning process
to discuss new initiatives based upon the results of program-specific self-study analyses; worked with Survey Research Lab to
develop surveys of current and past students in all three department programs. Program Review self-study document to be
completed in July 2002.
Geography Program Development
• Continue to integrate Geography Program faculty more fully with the Urban Studies & Urban Planning faculty: Achieved in
part, through involvement of Geography faculty in master’s studios and other courses, as well as advising of undergraduates by
Geography faculty.
• Develop curricular option for students wishing to major in Geography. Achieved through the Program Review strategic planning
process discussed above.
Improve Intra-Department Communications
• Established regular (at least once per week) e-mail communication with all graduate and undergraduate students in the
department to inform about department activities, distribute job postings, announcements of lectures, etc. Students have
commented very favorably upon this service.
• Web Site: Worked with student assistant to update department’s web site in September 2001 (the first time this had been
done in several years). Worked with graduate and undergraduate students during fall 2001 semester to learn their web needs;
met with web designers in Ms. Messmer’s office to price web redesign and enhancement. Currently waiting on next FY budget
to determine if the Department can afford to redesign the site.
Assessment
• The Department continued to utilize and to refine its 11-year-old student outcomes assessment process. A new writing assessment
tool was developed and implemented for the undergraduate Urban Studies program. Both the Urban Studies and the Urban
and Regional Planning programs were assessed, using our traditional measures. Although the faculty were generally quite satisfied
with the outcomes, we focused considerable attention on devising ways to improve students’ plan-making and visioning abilities,
since they scored lower on these aspects of their work than is acceptable to the faculty. During the year, we also incorporated
our assessment tools into the University’s new WEAVE structure.
• Last year, our Assessment process uncovered some concerns with the writing abilities of our undergraduates. We responded by
revising our Writing Assignment Checklist tool, mentioned above.
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Program Review
• Our Department is now going through the Program Review process, as described above. We will submit our self-study document
in July 2002 and plan to have a site visit by October 2002. The document will contain a detailed strategy and action plan for
the Department. Assuming that the strategy is approved by the Dean and endorsed by the site-visit committee, we will begin
implementation in academic year 2002-03.
Objectives for Next Year
• Maintain high levels of high-quality scholarship, both theory/policy-based and applied.
• Maintain and enhance the Department’s high-quality teaching and mentorship of students; continue to develop innovative
teaching methods.
• Continue the Department’s strong tradition of community and professional service.
• Build new partnerships with faculty from other Departments across the University, and with colleagues in the profession in the
U.S. and abroad.
• Implement strategies identified in the Program Review process, including better utilizing Department faculty resources, developing
curricular options for students who want degree-based coursework in Geography, planning for the expansion of the Master of
Urban and Regional Planning program into new markets, expanding enrollment opportunities in lower-level undergraduate
courses, better utilizing the energies and resources of our alumni, and redesigning the Department’s web site to make it a more
useful and interactive tool for current and prospective students, alumni, and other interested persons.
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Director
African
American
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Faculty
Dr. Christopher A. Brooks - Associate
Professor
Dr. Ann A. Creighton-Zollar - Associate
Professor
Dr. Melanie Njeri Jackson - Director &
Associate Professor
Dr. Norrece T. Jones - Associate
Professor
Ms. Rose Marie Landrum-Lee -
Instructor
Dr. Audrey Y. Smedley - Professor
Dr. Edgar A. Toppin - Visiting Professor
Dr. Mark D. Wood - Assistant Professor
Staff
Ms. Dollie R. Thomas
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Activities and Accomplishments
• In 2001-2002, the African American Studies Program sponsored research, teaching, and service activities in support
of its plan to:
1. Increase the visibility of the program.
2. Encourage faculty collaboration, research, and interdisciplinary work.
3. Recruit and retain students.
4. Provide community outreach and service.
• This was a productive year for the African American Studies Program. The Program had significant accomplishments in
scholarship/research, teaching and service. We congratulate Dr. Mark Wood, Associate Professor of Religious Studies jointly
appointed in African American Studies, for earning tenure and promotion. Dr. Wood is the first faculty member hired as a
joint appointee in African American Studies to be tenured on the basis of his performance in both academic units.
• This year the Program hired a new collateral faculty member, aided in the submission of a major research proposal, introduced
new courses and revised an existing course. Additionally, in preparation for re-submission of the Proposal for a Major in African
American Studies, the Program has collaborated with academic units on both campuses. The Program continues to encourage
and support faculty research, teaching and service activities. This year, Dr. Audrey Smedley established an endowed scholarship
in honor of her parents, for students with an interest in African American Studies. We also offer a scholarship each year for
recipients of our outstanding student award.
• In the spring of 2001, Dr. Christopher Brooks and Dr. Martha Moon (School of Nursing) were notified that they were being
considered for funding for a National Security Education Grant addressing HIV/AIDS education in Southern Africa. During
the summer 2001 Dr. Christopher Brooks and Dr. Njeri Jackson traveled to Swaziland and South Africa to sign memoranda
of understanding with the University of Swaziland and the University of the Transkei. Those memoranda remain in place,
while we seek funding from other sources.
• In fall 2001 the Program hired a collateral faculty member, Ms. Rose Landrum-Lee, a doctoral candidate in Urban Studies
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Ms. Lee also holds a certificate in Women’s Studies. Ms. Lee is the first jointly
appointed faculty member between the African American Studies Program and the Women’s Studies Program. With the
addition of Ms. Lee the Programs were able to offer the first course on African American women.
• In preparation for re-submission of the Proposal for the Major in African American Studies in fall 2002, the Program has
refined and expanded its course offerings. In a meeting with President Trani in December 2001, the Program expressed its
commitment to developing a focus on the Life Sciences and increasing research grants and other funding. In support of that
commitment, the Program is exploring inter-departmental collaborations in research with several projects on the Medical
Campus. We also co-sponsored with Psychology, Life Sciences, Urban Studies, and the Center for Public Policy, a Distinguished
Lecture Series featuring four presentations, in the course of the spring 2002 semester that explored the relationship between
the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Life Sciences.
• The African American Studies Program and its faculty led a study abroad program to Barbados in summer 2001; renewed
institutional memberships in professional African American Studies associations; actively participated in professional associations,
and participated in numerous service activities in our professions, the university, and the local community. We also collaborated
with academic units within the College, in the School of the Arts and on the Medical College campus, and provided support
for research and publication activities of African American Studies faculty. Our faculty have participated in and designed
workshops on teaching, served as consultants and advisers for community projects and professional activities.
• At the May 2002 graduation President Trani recognized Demetria Logan, recipient of the African American Studies Program
Outstanding Student Award, for her high grade point average as an honors student who graduated with seven minors.
• The African American Studies Program again honored outstanding African American Students at the annual “Black History
in the Making” awards program.
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• Dr. Ann Creighton-Zollar, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology jointly appointed in African American Studies
worked with a local civic organization to design and offer training in computers for the community.
• Dr. Christopher Brooks, Associate Professor of Music jointly appointed in African American Studies, wrote a major grant
proposal, traveled to South Africa to negotiate agreements about the proposal, completed his book on Shirley Verrett, and
published an article introducing the Hampton University art exhibit of work by Dr. Murry Depillars.
• Dr. Njeri Jackson, Director and Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration jointly appointed with
African American Studies, completed the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute training, taught a course on minority health
issues in the MPH program, developed a new course on the Politics of Science, Technology and Society, served in leadership
positions in her professional associations, and revised the proposal for the major in African American Studies, and presented
several invited lectures.
• Dr. Norrece Jones, Associate Professor of History jointly appointed in African American Studies, organized a major national
conference in honor of one of the nation’s most distinguished historians, Dr. George Fredrickson, completed his book manuscript,
and authored several articles that are in press.
• Dr. Audrey Smedley, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology jointly appointed in African American Studies used a fall 2001
research leave to complete several writing and research projects and to secure a publisher for a new book. She also presented
a lecture at the University of Manchester and published five articles.
• Dr. Mark Wood, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies jointly appointed in African American Studies, earned tenure
and promotion to Associate Professor.
• For the fourth summer in a row, students traveled to Barbados in a Study Abroad Program taught by Dr. Bernard Moitt,
an Assistant Professor of History who teaches a number of cross-listed courses.
• This year the African American Studies Program sponsored a Distinguished Lecture series that was co-sponsored with
Psychology, Life Sciences, Urban Studies, and the Center for Public Policy.
• African American Studies also co-sponsored with the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs a lecture and slide presentation
by the renowned African American Artist, Tom Feelings. These lectures provided learning experiences for the community,
our colleagues and our students, and brought increased visibility to the African American Studies Program.
Teaching
• This year, eleven students graduated with a minor in African American Studies.
• Demetria Logan received the Outstanding Student Award from African American Studies. She received a $200 scholarship
in recognition of her accomplishments.
• Thirty students received awards from twenty-seven academic units during the Black History in the Making Program.
• During the academic year 1,110 students enrolled in 43 core and cross-listed courses in African American Studies.
• Two students enrolled in independent study courses in African American Studies.
• Several faculty members participated in a range of workshops to improve courses and teaching. Consequently, several new and
revised courses have been added to the curriculum. Additionally, faculty members are working to incorporate, as appropriate,
new technologies into their pedagogy. The African American Studies Program is particularly attentive to challenges and needs
of African American students and provides educational experiences that enhance campus diversity and dialogue. It is not just
the scholarship and expertise of our faculty that has led many of our minors to comment on how important African American
Studies is to their personal development and to their ability to address workplace issues in light of historical conditions and
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challenges. It is also the energy, insight, enthusiasm, and perspectives of faculty members that account for high appraisal of the
Program. The term that has come up repeatedly in exit interviews is “empowered,” and the phrase “more knowledgeable about
the history of African Americans.” This fosters the goal of the University “to value and promote racial and cultural diversity in
its student body, faculty, administration, and staff to enhance and enrich the University.”
• In addition to classroom teaching, service on theses and dissertation committees, faculty members have taught in a variety
of public and other professional contexts:
1. Dr. Brooks presented a lecture at the Carpenter Foundation Educational Outreach.
2. Dr. Creighton-Zollar provided two computer workshops.
3. Dr. Jackson, in addition to being Program Co-Chair, served as a panel chair at the APSA meeting. Dr. Jackson participated
in the student teach-ins during the fall semester following the attacks on the World Trade Center. She also presented a
paper at the Olive Harvey Black Studies Conference.
4. Dr. Jones presented a paper at the George Fredrickson Conference.
5. Professor Lee presented two invited public lectures.
6. Dr. Smedley presented four invited lectures.
7. Dr. Wood has presented a number of lectures on pedagogy and social justice. He also participated in the student teach-ins
during the fall semester following the attacks on the World Trade Center.
• An important and unique dimension of African American Studies is our familiarity with the role of culture in teaching, learning
and living. Our faculty is often called upon to provide expert consulting and advice on what has been called “cultural competency”
in learning, and in the provision of health care and other services.
Research
• Dr. Brooks’ completed manuscript, All of My Life: the Autobiography of an African American Diva, Shirley Verrett, has been
accepted by John Wiley and Sons. He has also written speeches and lectures for Professor Shirley Verrett.
• Dr. Creighton-Zollar wrote and submitted a grant. She is currently conducting research in three areas: active and collaborative
learning in African American studies, leadership, and, infant mortality among college-educated African American women.
• Dr. Njeri Jackson is completing work on the book manuscript, The Racial Empire in the Americas.
• Dr. Jones has received his editor’s responses to his book, Slavery and Antislavery: Race and Freedom Struggles in the Making
of America, forthcoming from Blackwell Publishers, 2003. He has five manuscripts in press that are forthcoming.
• Dr. Smedley had five publications during this last academic year. She has one book in press and two other publications in progress.
• Dr. Wood presented several lectures at Bucknell University. He also presented a paper at an international conference. The
Richmond Free Press published an editorial Dr. Wood wrote on the minimum wage law. Dr. Wood is doing research on
Confederate worship and its role in the reproduction of racial identity.
• Members of the African American Studies Faculty presented papers, chaired and participated in panels, and commented
on the work of other scholars at the following meetings:
1. American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature
2. American Anthropology Association
3. American Political Science Association
4. Association for General and Liberal Education
5. National Conference of Black Political Scientists
6. Olive Harvey Black Studies Conference
7. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Conference
8. Congres Marx International III
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• Faculty members received invitations to present talks and lectures at Virginia State University, Manchester University,
Michigan State University, Stanford University, Bucknell University and the University of Paris.
Service
• Dr. Brooks served on the Council for International Exchange of Scholars Fulbright Specialist Selection Committee, the
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Selection Committee, and is a National Board Member of VIDEMUS, a non-profit arts
organization in North Carolina.
• Dr. Jackson served as a program co-chair for the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Division of the American Political Science
Association for the fall 2001 annual conference. She is also on the editorial board of the Directory of Complementary Medicine,
and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. She also serves as an Advisor to Dr. Philippa Strum,
Director of the Division of United States Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on scholarly
issues related to African Americans.
• Dr. Jones organized a national conference held at Stanford University.
• Dr. Smedley is a reviewer for two university presses and a consultant for California Newsreel’s documentary film, Race: The
Genealogy of an Illusion.
• Several of our faculty has served as members of the Faculty Senate, President Trani’s Council of Advisors, the Institute for
Women’s Health, the Wilder Symposium Committee, the Faculty Tenure and Promotion Review Committee and the African
American Alumni Council Leadership Scholarship Committee.
• Faculty members have provided extensive service to the College and its Departments. They have served or contributed to
activities and organizations such as the International Studies Advisory Board, the Women’s Studies Advisory Board, the VCU
Black History Month Advisory Board, the Undergraduate Assessment Committee, the Graduate Affairs Committee of the
Department of History, the Honors Committee of the Department of History, the Faculty Mentoring Program, OMSA Brown
Bag Luncheon Discussion, the International Studies Advisory Board, the International Studies Student Research Conference
and the Cook Photograph Collection, Cabell Library Archives.
• Dr. Jackson served as an advisor for the Richmond Crusade for Voters.
• Dr. Jones is a longstanding member of the Public Art Commission.
• Dr. Wood is a member of the Richmond Coalition for a Living Wage and a volunteer for America Reads.
Objectives and Outcomes
• Increased Visibility of the African American Studies Program. The African American Studies Program has made considerable
progress in pursuit of the goals identified in last year’s Annual Report. The increased visibility of the program has generated
invitations to consult on and participate in a number of community and professional activities.
• Faculty Collaboration, Research, and Interdisciplinary Work. This year the Program worked with the Women’s Studies Program,
Psychology Life Sciences, International Studies, Urban Studies, and the Center for Public Policy and several projects at the
Medical College.
• Recruitment and Retention. We continue to actively recruit students. We have tapped into student interest by participating
in the College Open House and other recruitment activities. Students have stopped by the office and filled out forms officially
declaring minors earlier in their academic careers. Ms. Lee continues to monitor and update the Program website which helps
us reach an even larger audience.
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• Community Outreach and Service. The service activities of the African American Studies Program have been exemplary. They
represent an opportunity to establish a supportive and cooperative relationship with Richmond’s African American Community.
Program Review
• Evaluation of the curriculum gave rise to several new courses and revision of several existing courses
• Faculty expects to approve the revised bylaws in August.
• This year the African American Studies Program significantly revised our proposal for the major with input from President
Trani, Vice Provost Dr. Brodd, and the office of the Dean. This year we did a mailing to our graduates to seek their assessment
of the Program and to learn about the impact of the minor in their lives since graduating. We also conducted exit interviews
with graduating minors.
• Our newsletter and brochure will come out in the fall semester. Also, we have revised and updated our website.
Assessment
• Once we have established the major in African American Studies we will be in a position to assess student performance as
determined by measures identified in the proposed major. For the existing minor, assessment is based upon our exit interviews
(also used to solicit input from alumni), and course evaluations.
Objectives for Next Year
• The Program’s primary objective is to secure approval for the major. This coming year we will submit the revised proposal for
the major. We expect, ultimately, establishment of a Department of African American Studies. VCU’s African American
Studies major will be a unique program with concentrations in art and literature, Africa, and African America, and a focus on
social science and the life sciences. We also want to do more work in the area of retention. We are currently working with the
life sciences to submit an NIH proposal that addresses the challenges faced by African American students.
• Faculty will attend grant workshops and collaborate with other units on grant submission. The Program will design a VCU
101 course on the African American Experience in Higher Education. We will seek funding for a summer seminar for teachers.
We will collaborate with other units on campus to again offer a distinguished lecture series.
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Dr. Richard Fine
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Faculty
Dr. Richard Fine - Director
Minor in American Studies
• The Program in American Studies offered one course during 2001-2, ENGL/AMST 391 Topics in English/American Studies:
American Horror, taught by Prof. Tom DeHaven and enrolling 119 students. This was the largest American Studies course
ever offered.
• Four students graduated with Minors in American Studies during the year.
• The Program revised the list of approved courses for the AMST Minor, and also designed an assessment program as part of
the Quality Assessment activities underway in the university.
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Studies
Ms. Sherry B. Mikuta
Director

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Ms. Sherry B. Mikuta - Director
Ms. Dorothy E. Fillmore -Assistant
Director
Mr. Ronald X. Peterson - Coordinator &
Special Student Advisor
Staff
Ms. Tara E. Cassidy
Ms. Deborah J. Hobson
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Activities and Accomplishments
• Interdisciplinary Studies 2001-02 activities and accomplishments have been vast and varied. Interdisciplinary Studies began
the year with three tracks: Individualized, Forensic Science, and Women’s Studies. (The following report concerns the
Forensic Science and Individualized tracks only; Women’s Studies has a separate report.) In March, forensic science was
approved to be a separate degree program by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia. This approval of a B.S. in
Forensic Science was the culmination of a two-year process to take the program from incubation status within Interdisciplinary
Studies to a stand-alone program and represents the major accomplishment of the year.
• Forensic science enrollment skyrocketed growing from 14 students in spring 2001 to 114 students in spring 2002 with
approximately 18 percent out-of-state students. Student interest continues to be high and the anticipated fall 2003 enrollment
may add more than a 100 additional forensic science students.
• Throughout the year, we sought ways to strengthen our curriculum and program by working on relationships with professional
associations. For instance, the forensic science curriculum was modified to align more closely with the proposed model undergraduate
curriculum that the National Institute of Justice as well as the American Academy of Forensic Science are promoting.
Also, after a thorough review of the Virginia Institute for Forensic Science and Medicine’s workshops, an agreement was
reached to offer VCU academic credit for two of their workshops. Our faculty have been active in teaching for the Institute.
• We also sought to strengthen our relationship with other VCU departments. For example, we worked with the Department of
Chemical Engineering to design a forensic minor that could be used in conjunction with their major. This was in response to
an interest in this particular combination of training from the FBI. We are waiting to see if this proposal will be accepted.
• We worked to establish several new forensic science publications. A new one-page flyer was printed immediately after the
program received degree status. In addition, a tri-fold on forensic science careers was developed for both current and prospective
students who may not fully understand the wide range of career opportunities available.
• We have continued to market our program out of state. One recruiting method, going into high school classrooms where
forensic science is taught, has received very positive response. We have made presentations or lectured in several high schools
in New York and South Carolina. We not only have been asked to return to these schools but also have been asked to include
additional schools in the New York area.
• Finally, we worked to provide our students with opportunities to explore forensic science. Recognizing the importance of
forensic science students connecting to their major and their fellow students, we organized a Forensic Science Student Club.
The Club brought in outside speakers for several meetings each semester and had attendance averaging over 30 students each
meeting. The Club sponsored a contest for a logo and also designed a tee shirt as a fund raiser. A forensic science newsletter
was developed out of the director’s office and distributed each semester with information on intern and externship opportunities,
program information, university resources, and forensic faculty highlights. In addition, we sponsored a contest for upper level
forensic science students with the grand prize of attending the American Academy of Forensic Science Annual Meeting in
Atlanta. The submission required an original paper describing a novel experiment in an area of forensic sciences. Unfortunately,
there were no eligible submissions but we hope to offer this again next year when there will be more upper level students in
the program.
• The “traditional” BIS program is the individualized program with an enrollment of 131 and 58 graduating throughout the
year. This program is for students who already have some college credits and wish to create a unique curriculum not available
in traditional majors. Program advisors work one-on-one with the students, helping them develop a proposed plan. Once
admitted, students work with faculty advisors, experts in one of the focus area disciplines, to finalize their curriculum plans.
In 2001-2002, 67 faculty advisors from the College, and the Schools of Allied Health, Arts, Business, Education, and Social
Work assisted BIS students. The program could not be successful without the service of these advisors, and we want to recognize
their critical contribution.
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• Advising is an essential component of Interdisciplinary Programs and we saw an increase in total contacts peaking at almost
1,200 in April. Our advisors offer guidance not only to the forensic science and individualized track students but also to the
International Studies minors. We anticipate involving forensic science faculty in the upper level forensic science student
advising next year. In addition,we advise the over 1,100 special non-degree seeking students that are enrolled each semester.
• Many of the individualized and forensic science track students received College or University recognition. Jessamyn Miller
received the Individualized Track Outstanding Graduating Senior, and the Nontraditional Studies Achievement Award; Ruth
Ann Redbird won the Outstanding Forensic Science Senior, and the C.R.C. Press Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award;
Ella and Mark Faulkner both won a prestigious competition for a national Geographic Society Internship; Joseph Arrington
and Sylvia Winston received the Black History in the Making Awards from African American Studies. Jiarzen Chang won the
Marika Byrd Merit Scholarship and Cristiane Turner received both the Rexinger Undergraduate Scholarship and the Epps
Undergraduate Scholarship. Four individualized track students and one forensic science student were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi.
• The BIS alumni now number 1,157. It has an especially active alumni organization. This is the first year that the Nontraditional
Studies Alumni Board functioned as a council. In June, the Council and the BIS program sponsored a 25th Anniversary
Celebration of the existence of the program inviting all of the alumni. Attendance was very good with many former and current
students attending as well as the current and former directors. The celebration was a nice way to bring together the alumni
and current students to foster active participation from each group in the alumni council and to increase alumni giving.
• The BIS staff also has the responsibility for coordinating the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) for VCU and for
Central Virginia. This past year, 323 CLEP tests were administered to over 260 students. The program converted to computer
testing and has expanded the level of service to provide test-takers the opportunity to schedule testing during the week rather
than only once a month on Saturdays.
Teaching
• We developed and offered three new forensic science courses, Forensic Science I and II, and Criminalistics and Crime
Analysis Lab. We also submitted and were approved for the lab course to be a writing intensive course. We had an enrollment
of 350 in these courses.
• We submitted and received approval from UUCC for a forensic science internship program. The program will be available fall
2002 to senior level students with a GPA of 2.75 or above. We currently have internship opportunities available in agencies
such as the Virginia Division of Forensic Science, the Capitol Police, the Chesterfield County Police, and a biochemistry and
biophysics lab at MCV. We were very pleased by the response to our requests to agencies for participation.
• We organized a core group of courses to be offered this fall as a FIG (Freshman Interest Group) for students interested in
Forensic Science. This is the first FIG for forensic science and we will be monitoring its use and success closely to determine
if additional FIGS are necessary and if the core courses are the best mix for our majors.
Research
• Dr. Byrd published two chapters in books, and one journal article. He also continues his NIJ-funded research on Computer
Modeling in Forensic Entomology. and is co-investigator on a new NIJ-funded project, Developmental Temperatures of
Larvae Under Field Conditions.
• Michelle Peace presented two posters at the Society of Forensic Toxicologists Annual Meeting.
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Service
• Dr. Byrd and Ms. Peace were very active in either coordinating and/or lecturing for 11 workshops and one seminar series,
primarily on forensic entomology or forensic toxicology. They also lectured in both local and out-of-state high schools.
• Dr. Byrd continues to serve as a reviewer for the American Criminal Justice Society and as chair of the American Board of
Forensic Entomology. He also served as an Expert Witness at the Young Forensic Scientists Forum at the American Academy
of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting.
• Dr. Ferrara received the 2001 Briggs White Award presented by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. He was
invited to speak at the 2002 American Academy of Forensic Science Annual Meeting and also served as a member of the Attorney
General’s Initiative on DNA Laboratory Analysis Backlog Working Group and on the Choice Point DNA Advisory Board.
• Dorothy Fillmore served as chair of the Evaluation Committee for the 2002 National Academic Advising Association
(NACADA) Conference. She served as a member of the VCU Taskforce for the American Humanics Program, and the
Association of Virginia Individualized Studies Administrators (AVISA).
• Deborah Hobson serves as Vice President/President-Elect of AVISA.
• Pete Marone served on the Planning Panel for the National Institute of Justice Technical Working Group for Education and
Training. He also made numerous presentations to the Commonwealth Attorney’s Services Council, General District Court
Judges, and Circuit Court Clerks and Judges regarding post conviction testing and storage of human biological evidence.
• Sherry Mikuta serves as a member of the University Retention Committee. She also served on the 25th Anniversary
Committee for Phi Kappa Phi, and as a judge for the Executive Women International Scholarship Program.
Objectives and Outcomes
• The objectives for forensic science focused on establishing a firm foundation for the program and earning approval for it as
a stand alone degree program; these objectives were met successfully. The objective for the individualized track was to begin
changing the University’s perception that the BIS degree is a default degree (that is, a degree for students who cannot qualify
for any other degree), to being a credible degree in and of itself. Through many meetings with various university administrators
and working closely with the BIS Admission’s Committee, progress was made. However, as is true with impacting any long
held belief, this will need to be an on-going objective.
Assessment
• Assessment plans were developed for both forensic science and the individualized track. The forensic science plan incorporated
assessment measures for biology and chemistry principles and lab procedures as well as for forensic science duties, responsibilities
and techniques. The individualized track already had an Exit Survey in place but has added a portfolio requirement and the
use of focus groups to the assessment methods to be utilized. Portfolios were determined to be one of the only assessment methods
that would be effective for a program in which there are not general learning objectives because of the uniqueness of each student’s
focus area. In order to make the portfolio requirement official, Bulletin language was submitted and approved by UUCC.
New Faculty
• Michelle Peace, M.F.S., a summer 2002 doctoral candidate in Forensic Toxicology, joined the program initially to teach for
Dr. Byrd when he was called away due to the events of September 11th. Since then, she has been a tireless advocate of the
program and developed and taught a new forensic science lab course in the spring.
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Objectives for Next Year
• Forensic Science:
1. Hire at least one additional full time faculty member in forensic science.
2. Offer the additional new courses, Forensic Toxicology and Forensic Molecular Biology and lab. In addition, revise and
offer CHEM 401 Organic Synthesis.
3. Implement the assessment plan.
4. Improve the delivery of information about program opportunities, requirements, and university rules and resources by
designing an electronic student handbook.
5. Develop a pilot peer-mentoring program for out-of-state freshmen students for fall 2003 implementation.
6. Increase the opportunities for current students to connect to the university (student club meetings, brown bag lunches,
workshops, socials).
• Individualized Track:
1. Formalize a retention plan for sophomores, juniors and seniors, targeting those students with a 2.2 overall grade point
average or less.
2. Fully develop the portfolio program and assist newly admitted students in developing a portfolio to be used for program
assessment activities.
3. Work closely with a Nontraditional Studies alumnus, skilled at facilitating focus groups, to develop and implement
a focus group for program assessment purposes.
4. Develop and implement a survey, accessing student perceptions about quality of advising, CLEP testing services, and
overall customer service.
5. Increase the opportunities for current students to connect to the university (brown bag lunches, workshops, socials).
6. Change the University’s perception of the BIS degree as a default degree.
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International
Studies
Dr. R. McKenna Brown
Director

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. R. McKenna Brown - Director
Ms. Dorothy Fillmore - Advisor
Ms. Deborah Hobson - Advisor
Mr. Ronald Peterson - Advisor
International Advisory Committee Members
Charles Byles - School of Business
Christina Lindholm - Fashion Design
& Merchandising
Bob Godwin-Jones - Foreign Languages
Harold Greer - History
Njeri Jackson - African-American
Studies
David Kennamer - School of Mass
Communications
Pamela Kiecker - School of Business
Peter Kirkpatrick - Foreign Languages
Martha Moon - School of Nursing
Lynn Nelson - Sociology &
Anthropology
William Newmann - Political Science
& Public Policy
Mary Katherine O’Connor - School
of Social Work
John Rossi - School of Education
Javier Tapia - School of the Arts
Christina Turner - Sociology &
Anthropology
Judith Twigg - Political Science
& Public Policy
Mark Wood - Philosophy & Religious
Studies
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The 2001-2002 academic year saw continued progress for the interdisciplinary International Studies Program. Links across
the University continue to grow, and decisive steps towards the development of a major have been taken.
• International Studies Program faculty received special recognition for their efforts this year. Prof. McKenna Brown earned the
College Award for Excellence in Teaching and Prof. Harold Greer of History, an International Studies Advisory Committee
member, was recognized for Outstanding Advising.
Teaching
• On the curricular front, the ISP continues to grow. Contributions to the General Education Program fall semester included
INTL/FRLG 203 Language & Identity: the Francophone World and in spring semester INTL/FLRG 204 Language Groups in
the US: Latinos. The ISP collaborated with the Departments of Foreign Languages and Urban Studies and Planning to revamp
URSP/FRLG/INTL 345 Great Cities and offer it spring semester, team-taught by Drs. Gina Kovarsky of International Studies
and Foreign Languages and George Munro of History with a focus on St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Kovarsky then followed up
with a summer study abroad program to St. Petersburg.
• A revision of the International Studies Minors was approved in fall, which both streamlines the structure and expands the
concentrations available. Students may now select among four global studies minor concentrations, six area studies minor
concentrations and the Native American Studies minor. In spring the BA in International Studies proposal was approved by
the Vice Presidents Council, the Presidents Council, the University Council and the Board of Visitors and now moves on to
the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia.
• A United States Department of Education Title VI Grant in which the School of Business, the Department of Foreign
Languages and the International Studies Program joined forces to create a Certificate Program in International Management
Studies supported many activities this year. Revised versions of business French, German and Spanish courses were offered,
and Program faculty traveled to Spain, France and Germany for information and training to improve teaching and to build
links with European business schools.
Research
• VCU faculty who teach courses with international content are also active and productive scholars. Their research accomplishments
for this year, including conference presentations and publications, are reported within their respective home departments.
Service
• The Sixth Annual VCU International Studies Student Research Conference was held in October 2001, featuring a panel
of local experts addressing the aftermath of September 11. Over one hundred students from nine universities participated in
more than a dozen panels on international topics, such as, “The African Heritage of Latin America,” “China: Law, Politics
and Trade,” “Women’s Rights in the World,” “ and “Spain: Urban Portraits.” Special exhibits included study and work abroad
opportunities and a screening of videos from the VCU Libraries collections on Islam and Central Asia. An invited session
brought together leaders from the local Islamic community to present “Islamic Voices, Islamic Perspectives.”
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Objectives and Outcomes
• The following objectives were set for the International Studies Program for the 2001-2002 academic year. A description of the
outcome accompanies each:
1. Advance the Proposed B.A. in International Studies. In spring the BA in International Studies proposal was approved by
the Vice Presidents Council, the Presidents Council, the University Council and the Board of Visitors and now moves
on to the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia.
2. Expand the role of the International Studies Program in supporting interdisclinary curriculum development. The ISP
collaborated with the Departments of Foreign Languages and Urban Studies and Planning to revamp URSP/FRLG/
INTL 345 Great Cities and offer it spring semester with a follow-up study abroad program to Russia.
3. Expand the existing International Studies minors. A revision of the International Studies Minors was approved in fall,
which both streamlines the structure and expands the concentrations available. Students may now select among four
global studies minor concentrations, six area studies minor concentrations and the Native American Studies minor.
4. Increase the number of faculty appointed to International Studies. The Dean approved a request to search for a full-time
instructor of Russian Studies to be jointly appointed to International Studies and Foreign Languages. Dr. Gina Kovarsky
joins the International Studies Program this year as the first faculty member appointed to the program.
Assessment of Outcomes
• As part of the quality enhancement process, the International Studies Program has identified the following learning outcomes
(each followed by its respective assessment activity and criteria) expected for its students upon completion of the program.
1. The acquisition of critical knowledge regarding the political, economic, social, and cultural systems of other societies
and the global community. An international literacy test instrument will be administered to all students enrolled in the
required interdisciplinary INTL 101 Human Societies and Globalization or INTL 105 International Relations. The
same test instrument will be administered to graduating seniors taking the required INTL. Average exit scores will be
40% higher than average entrance scores. The test will be administered once a year to both levels and scores compiled
once every two years.
2. Enhance skills for addressing the complexity and interdependence of the world’s societies and the global environment.
Seventy-five percent of the portfolios reviewed will include materials demonstrating skill development. Portfolios will
be collected every semester that the capstone seminar is taught, and be reviewed once every two years.
3. Prepare students for graduate studies and careers in a variety of fields with an international focus. International Studies
alumni will be grouped into three-year cohorts to determine patterns of success in career preparation. The first cohort
will serve to establish a baseline. Data will include job tracking as well as surveys to be developed and administered
among graduates to be completed online. Analysis of the baseline data will lead to the establishment of minimum levels
of success at career preparation. Beginning in 2004, surveys will be conducted every three years until 2010, and every
five years afterward.
4. Prepare students for positions of leadership and community/societal involvement in problem solving and contribute to
the workings of local and global communities. International Studies alumni will be grouped into three-year cohorts to
determine patterns of success in career preparation. The first cohort will serve to establish a baseline. Data will include
job tracking as well as surveys to be developed and administered among graduates to be completed online. Analysis of
the baseline data will lead to the establishment of minimum levels of success at career preparation. Beginning in 2004,
surveys will be conducted every three years until 2010, and every five years afterward
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Objectives for Next Year
• The following objectives are set for the International Studies Program for the 2002-2003 academic year:
1. The approval of a B.A. degree program in International Studies by the State Council for Higher Education of Virginia.
2. Increased involvement in and support for the interdisciplinary and internationalized curriculum development.
3. A ten-percent increase in the number of students pursuing the minor in International Studies.
4. A ten-percent increase from last year in the total number of students and other campuses participating in the VII
International Studies Student Research Conference, Nov 20-12, 2002.
5. An increase of three faculty jointly-appointed to the International Studies Program.
New Faculty
• Dr. Gina Kovarsky joins the International Studies Faculty this year as instructor of Russian Studies in a joint appointment
with the Department of Foreign Languages. Her courses include Russian language, culture and literature in translation, as well
as interdisciplinary courses in the Honors Program. Dr. Kovarsky is an active scholar who also assists in developing new courses
and organizing program events such as the International Studies Student Research Conference.
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Judaic
Studies
Dr. Jack D. Spiro
Director

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Jack D. Spiro - Director
Activities and Accomplishments
• Paper published in Selected Proceedings of the International Network of Personal Meaning on “Meaning in the New Millennium.”
• Essay on “The Merchant of Venice” was published in Midstream: A Monthly Jewish Review.
• Signed contract for book co-authored with John Shelby Spong, Dialogue: In Search of Jewish-Christian Understanding, for
translation into Korean.
• Edited and published three issues of Menorah Review.
Teaching
• Taught two semesters of each of “Death: Myth and Reality,” “History of the Jewish People” and “Religion in Contemporary
America.”
• Taught “Why Do We Suffer?” and “The Middle East: Separating Fact from Fiction” for Virginia Commonwealth Society.
Research
• Preparing a paper for publication and several lectures on the relevance of Baruch Spinoza’s thought for 21st century religion/theology.
Service
• Speaking engagements were conducted with the Richmond Kiwanis Club, 5400 Men’s Club, Richmond chapter of the
Archaeological Institute of America, the Richmond Woman’s Club (series of four lectures), Grace and Holy Trinity Church
in Richmond, First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, two lectures at interfaith conference (Asheville, NC), lecture at seminar
and workshop on “Peacemaking for a New Era,” sponsored by the Chrysalis Group of Richmond, and two lectures at The
Hermitage at Cedarfield in Richmond.
Objectives and Outcomes
• This year’s objectives were met through the teaching of two courses on Judaism: “Introduction to Judaism” and “The
American Jewish Experience,” the continued publication of three more issues of Menorah Review, and an operational web
site for the Center for Judaic Studies at www.vcu.edu/judaicstudies.
Objectives for Next Year
• An objective for the coming year is to access the web site and create modifications and documents, and eventually to publish
Menorah Review on the internet.
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Women’s
Studies
Dr. Diana H. Scully
Director

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Deirdre Condit - Assistant Professor
(joint appointment in Political
Science and Public Administration)
Dr. Diana Scully - Director and
Professor
Dr. Janet Winston - Assistant Professor
(joint appointment in English)
Ms. Rose Landrum-Lee - Collateral
Instructor (joint appointment in
African American Studies)
Staff
Ms. Hollie Mann
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Activities and Accomplishments
• The major highlight of the Women’s Studies Program this year was the launching of the Women’s Studies major track in the
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Much of our attention was focused on publicizing the new program and recruiting
students. By the end of the spring semester, 19 students had changed or added Women’s Studies as their major.
• The Women’s Studies Senior Seminar class, required of all majors, was taught for the first time this spring by Dr. Diana Scully.
Ms. Kellee Kent, Ms. Katherine Link and Ms. Tiffany Puryear completed the seminar and will be the first to graduate in the
major track.
• The Women’s Studies Program is a step closer to realizing a major goal of globalizing the curriculum and providing Women’s
Studies focused opportunities for students to study abroad. Much of the year was spent organizing and planning a Study/Travel
Abroad this summer to East Africa. Twenty-three students, parents, VCU faculty (Drs. Janet Hutchinson, Angelina Overvold
and Diana Scully) and friends will travel with the VCU Women’s Studies Program to Uganda and Kenya. The primary
purpose of the trip is to attend the Eighth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, “Women’s Worlds 2002,” and
simultaneous meeting of the World Organization of Women’s Studies, both hosted by the Department of Women and Gender
Studies at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. After the conference, the group will travel to Kenya and visit the
Amboseli National Game Preserve, Mombassa, and Nairobi.
• Dr. Janet Winston received an external research fellowship from Oregon State University’s Center for the Humanities for
2002-03. While at Oregon State she will be working on her book manuscript, Victoria after Victorianism: Twentieth-Century
Revisions of the Great White Queen.
• Ms. Rose Landrum-Lee received a Black History Month Award from Raising A Nation Project.
• The Women’s Studies Program sponsored two programs this year, a viewing of Beneath the Veil, a documentary on the life of
women in Afghanistan under the Taliban and a program on transgender issues.
• Women’s Studies NEWS, the annual spring newsletter, was published again this year.
• Two social events for Women’s Studies students and faculty were held; the annual fall Student Appreciation Pizza Social and
a spring potluck supper.
• Women’s Studies students had an active year. Under President, Ms. Hollie Mann, the Feminist Action Network (FAN) held
a number of well attended meetings and, in March, hosted an outdoor music and art festival featuring five female bands. The
event featured a visual arts exhibit, street theatre, and performance art between band sets.
• Several Students received awards this year. Ms. Aphrodite Hairston received the “Black History in the Making Women’s
Studies Award.” Ms. Melissa Butcher received the “College of Humanities and Sciences Outstanding Women’s Studies
Student Award.”
Teaching
• The Women’s Studies Program offered a total of 29 courses or cross-listed courses last year with a combined student enrollment
of 832. A new and important course was added to the Women’s Studies curriculum, “African American Women: From
Slavery to Present,” taught by Ms. Rose Landrum-Lee. Dr. Deirdre Condit gave several guest lectures and Ms. Landrum Lee
facilitated a Race Forum at the Pace Center. Faculty also participated in the planning of the September 11 Teach-In, and
Women’s Studies programs on Afghanistan and transgender issues.
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Scholarship
• Women’s Studies faculty were active in the area of scholarship last year. Dr. Janet Winston published a book review in the
Wolf Studies Annual and she served as the moderator of a panel at the International Virginia Wolf Conference at the
University of Wales. She served as a reader for scholarly submissions for Wolf Studies Annual and she and Dr. Diana Scully were
moderators at the Eleventh Annual Feminist Work in Process Conference at the University of Richmond. Dr. Winston
received a Research Fellowship from Oregon State University’s Center for the Humanities where she will spend the 2002-03
academic year. Dr. Deirdre Condit presented papers at the annual meetings of the Association for Politics and the Life
Sciences and at the Virginia Political Science Association and was a grant reviewer for the VCU Center for Teaching
Effectiveness. Ms. Rose Landrum-Lee was a panelist on education at the African Women’s Conference.
Service
• Women’s Studies faculty members were active in providing service in the College, University, community and profession.
Within the College, Dr. Janet Winston was a member of Faculty Council and served on two Dean’s Advisory Committees,
one on the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. and one on General Education. At the University level, all Women’s Studies faculty were
part of the Planning Committee for the September 11 Teach-In. Additionally Dr. Deirdre Condit was a member of the
Institute on Women’s Health Education, and a VCU Rape Services consultant. Dr. Janet Winston served as a Safe Zone faculty
member. In the community, Ms. Rose Landrum-Lee was co-chair of a forum on the Middle East at the Pace Center. Dr.
Diana Scully served as the Treasurer and Chair of Development for the National Women’s Studies Association where she
served on the Executive Committee and Governance Council. Dr. Deirdre Condit was a liaison to the Women’s Caucus for
Political Science from both the APSA and SPOS.
Objectives and Outcomes
• The Women’s Studies Program met its objectives for the year. Principal among these was student recruitment for the major
track in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the expansion of Women’s Studies courses or courses cross-listed
with Women’s Studies. Two new courses were added this year and several more are scheduled for next fall. The Women’s
Studies Advisory Committee revised the Program’s Mission Statement, Bylaws and Five-Year Goal Statement to be consistent
with the new major track.
Assessment
• During the spring, Women’s Studies developed a set of objectives and assessment measures by which to judge the progress of
the Program. Objectives include:
1. Growth of the Program and curriculum through increasing the number of majors, expanding the number of courses
cross-listed with Women’s Studies, increasing offerings that focus on diversity among women and/or a global perspectives,
and encouraging graduate course offerings with the long term goal of a Certificate Program in Graduate Women’s Studies;
2. Maintain the quality of women’s studies courses and cross-listed courses through faculty development activities,
3. Contribute to the improvement of student life at VCU through advising/mentoring and communication through the
newsletter and sponsored events;
4. Contribute to the public service and community outreach mission of VCU particularly as it relates to women and girls;
5. Increase program resources through university channels and fundraising.
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New Faculty
• Ms. Rose Landrum-Lee joined the Program as a collateral instructor with a joint appointment in African American Studies.
Ms. Landrum-Lee is completing her doctoral work in Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She adds an
important new course to the Women’s Studies curriculum, “African American Women: Slavery to Present.”
Objectives for Next Year
• Women’s Studies will continue to work on program development and student recruitment next year. Our goal will be to
increase the number of courses that are cross-listed with Women’s Studies and the number of students who are pursuing the
major track or minor in Women’s Studies.
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Center for
Environmental
Studies
Dr. Greg C. Garman
Director

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. John Anderson - Affiliate Assistant
Professor
Dr. Peter L. deFur - Affiliate Associate
Professor
Dr. J. Clifford Fox - Interim Assistant
Director
Dr. Greg C. Garman - Director &
Associate Professor of Biology
Dr. Shelley A. Harris - Assistant
Professor of Preventive Medicine
& Community Health
Dr. Stephen P. McIninch - Research
Associate
Dr. R. Leonard Vance - Associate
Professor of Preventive Medicine
& Community Health
Staff
Ms. Guinevere N. Dean
Ms. Amber K. Foster
Mr. William Shuart
Ms. Elizabeth A. Walls
Ms. Angelica Bega
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Center for Environmental Studies
Activities and Accomplishments
• During the past academic year, Center-affiliated faculty, staff, and graduate students made significant, and in many cases unique,
contributions to the University mission. Specifically, the number and scope of externally funded research grants to the Center
increased substantially during 2002, as did the number of cooperating and affiliate research faculty in the areas of environmental
health, policy, and science. Seventeen VCU faculty, representing 10 different departments and programs on both campuses,
were involved in Center research grant activities in AY 2002. An additional 10 faculty members participated in graduate
student research by serving on thesis committees. Cooperative research initiatives with other academic institutions, including
UVA, W&M, and the Smithsonian Institution also increased in 2002.
• Drs. Harris and Fox led in the development of a VCU research team, including physicians, microbiologists, epidemiologists,
and policy analysts, that will provide regional municipalities with early warning safeguards against the introduction of biological
and chemical hazards to water supplies. The project will incorporate state-of-the-art detection methods for a wide range of
potential pathogens, including anthrax.
• With support from the College and VCU Life Sciences, the Center’s Environmental Technology Lab expanded its teaching
and research capabilities in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Environmental Remote Sensing with the addition
of new hardware and software. In the past year, the Center’s GIS computing capabilities increased with the addition of ESRI’s
ArcGIS version 8.1 running on 15 new Dell workstations. The Center recently acquired a high-end Sun workstation and a
Dell PowerEdge 2650 Server (2.4 GHZ Xeon processor, 180GB of storage and 3GB of ram), which will allow CES to store
and analyze 500+GB of high-resolution spatial data. These enhancements will allow CES lab to interface directly with the
Beowulf supercomputer in the Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratory.
• CES personnel, including Greg Garman and William Shuart, were members of the team that developed, for the VCU Board
of Visitors, a Site Development Plan for the Inger and Walter Rice Center for the Environmental Life Sciences. The Rice
Center will be an integral component of VCU Life Sciences and will be developed into a nationally recognized facility for
scholarship related to the ecology, conservation, and management of coastal river and riparian ecological systems.
Teaching
• CES faculty and instructors taught 19 ENVS graduate and undergraduate courses, including several innovative additions
to the ENVS curriculum, during the 2002 academic year. For example, Dr. Judson White (CES affiliate faculty) worked with
colleagues in the VCU Department of Economics to develop a graduate level course in ‘Business and the Environment.’ This
unique course exposed students to a wide range of environmental compliance issues from the sometimes conflicting perspectives
of business, government, and other environmental stakeholders. A panel discussion with several distinguished guests, including
the new Secretary of Natural Resources, was a highlight of the course. The Center’s students continue to benefit from outstanding
instructors, including cooperating faculty from other VCU programs and affiliate faculty representing governmental,
private, and nonprofit communities.
Research
• During the past year, the Center generated $461,000 in external grant awards – a substantial increase from previous years.
This total includes nine individual grants, primarily from local, state, and federal agencies, and involves almost 40 VCU faculty,
graduate students, and staff. Many of the Center-affiliated research projects were strongly interdisciplinary, blending faculty
and students from diverse fields such as public administration, medical toxicology, and environmental science. Although not
included in the CES award total for 2002, Dr. Harris received a major, multi-year NIH grant ($640K) for her research in occupational
and environmental health. Several other VCU faculty will be co-PI’s on this award, which begins in July, 2002. CES
faculty and graduate students also contributed to scholarship within their respective fields by submitting over a dozen peerreview
articles to journals and other outlets.
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Training
• Under the leadership of Dr. Fox, the Center’s training program for environmental professionals increased the number and
scope of short courses and workshops offered during 2002. Approximately 20 classes in topics ranging from GIS and remote
sensing to environmental law and occupational health enrolled over 180 participants and generated $80K in program revenue.
This program is the largest of its kind in Virginia and will be expanded in 2003.
Service
• CES faculty, graduate students, and staff contributed a significant number of community service and outreach hours to the
Metro Richmond region during the past year. Of particular merit is the Center’s involvement with students from local high
schools, including the Governor’s School.
Objectives and Outcomes
• For 2002, the Center’s primary objectives focused on three areas:
1. Increase external research funding,
2. Enhance the existing graduate ENVS curriculum,
3. Play a central role in developing and articulating a vision for the 342-acre Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences.
Under the first objective, external funding to the Center for research increased substantially in 2002 and, of equal importance,
the number of faculty collaborators from outside the Center also increased. The Center continues to work with the School
of Graduate Studies, and with several cooperating departments and programs (e.g. Preventive Medicine and Community
Health, Economics, Public Administration, Biology) to develop a proposal to convert the current MIS graduate degree to
a Master of Science degree. Finally, CES personnel contributed to the Rice Master Plan in several key areas, including the
ongoing development of spatial data management tools and the Virginia Rivers Initiative, which will be the programmatic
focus for the Rice Center. Overall, the Center met or exceeded its objectives for 2002.
Assessment
• The Center is working with HAS administration to develop specific assessment tools related to quality enhancement within
the curriculum. Most of these efforts are part of the SACS Accreditation Process.
Objectives for Next Year
• Specific objectives for the 2003 Academic year will include: maintaining the current, high level of research funding and related
scholarly activities and increase the degree to which these efforts operate across disciplines and among departments and programs.
We also intend to complete and submit proposals to convert the current MIS program into a Master of Science degree in
Environmental Studies and make significant progress toward a five-year, BS-MS curriculum at VCU. Finally, we would like
to implement the Virginia Rivers Initiative as one of the major elements of the Rice Center Master Plan approved recently
by the BOV.
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Dr. Hellen A. Streicher
Interim Director
Center for
Psychological
Services &
Development

The College of Humanities & Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Hellen A. Streicher - Interim Director
Dr. Susan B. Wilkes - Manager
Workplace Initiatives Program
Ms. Cheryl Groce-Wright - Coordinator
Institute for African American
Mental Health Training & Research
Psychological and Career Services
The Workplace Initiatives Program (WIP)
The Institute for African-American Mental Health Training and Research (IAM)
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Center for Psychological Services and Development
Mission Statement
• The Center for Psychological Services and Development (CPSD) at the Virginia Commonwealth University was developed
in 1984 as a training facility for advanced doctoral candidates in the Department of Psychology, and as a site for the development
of innovative training and supervision models by departmental faculty.
• Underlying Philosophy and Mission:
1. The CPSD serves as a practical component to the graduate training program, bridging the gap between theoretical content
of coursework, research, and psychological and consultative practice.
2. CPSD also serves as an arena in which faculty members can develop and institute integrative models of training,
research, and service.
3. The Center serves to link the university with its urban community by providing psychological services at moderate
costs to adults, children, and families residing in the greater Richmond community and training opportunities for local
professionals. Such services promote a spirit of partnership between the university and the community, and are consistent
with the comprehensive mission of the university.
4. The Center adheres to the American Psychological Association’s Standards for Providers of Psychological Services,
ethical guidelines, and code of conduct.
Organizational Structure
• Faculty and Staff: The faculty of the CPSD during the 2001-2002 year included two half-time positions: Interim Director
(.6FTE) and Associate Director (.4 FTE). A national search has been underway to re-fill the permanent, full-time administrative
faculty position of CPSD Director, which has been vacant since July 1, 2001. The office manager is the currently the only
full time position in the Center. This year’s faculty and staff are Hellen A. Lewis Streicher, Ph.D., LCP, Interim Director; Jean
Corcoran, Ph.D., LCP, Associate Director; and Glenda Blackwell-Smalls, Administrative and Program Specialist III.
• Graduate Assistants: The role of graduate assistants is an integral training and service related role available in the CPSD.
Students apply for 2 positions available each year and are selected by the Center Director for training in mental health services,
administration, and program development. The 2001-2002 graduate assistants are Matthew Bitsko, M.S., Assistant Director
and Jennifer Zacharias, M.S., Assistant Director.
• Clinical Staff and Faculty Supervisors: Each semester, approximately 20-25 second- and third-year doctoral students from the
clinical and counseling psychology programs are on-staff as student clinicians as part of their practicum training requirements.
Graduate students are supervised by Psychology Department faculty members who are licensed clinical psychologists in Virginia.
Most clinical services are provided by graduate students under the supervision of licensed faculty, although some faculty
members provide direct client-care services at CPSD. Supervision typically occurs in both individual and group formats and
serves a crucial role in the psychology practice training of graduate students. Clinical responsibility for all therapy and assessment
cases of trainees is maintained by individual faculty supervisors. This year’s faculty supervisors were Steve Auerbach, Ph.D.,
Clinical; Jean Corcoran, Ph.D., Collateral; Kathleen Ingram, Ph.D., Counseling; Micah McCreary, Ph.D., Counseling; Jim
McCullough, Ph.D., Clinical; Victoria Shivy, Ph.D., Counseling; Sue Sledge, Ph.D., LCP, Adjunct; Michael Southam-Gerow,
Ph.D., Clinical; Arnold Stolberg, Ph.D., Clinical; Scott Vrana, Ph.D., Clinical; and Gerry Weinberger, Ph.D., Adjunct.
• Counseling CPSD Advisory Committee: This committee is a deliberative body charged by the Chair of the Department of
Psychology to assist the Director with routine functioning of the CPSD and to make recommendations regarding the objectives,
procedures, and priorities for daily operations of the Center. The Committee is comprised of the CPSD (Interim) Director,
one CPSD Assistant Director, program directors from the both the clinical and counseling psychology programs, one clinical
and one counseling psychology faculty representative, and graduate student representatives from the clinical and counseling
psychology programs appointed annually.
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• CPSD Strategic Planning and Management Committee: This committee was developed during the past year as part of the
Psychology Department’s overall strategic efforts to address long-range policy planning and management of the CPSD.
Members are comprised of the CPSD (Interim) Director (Chair), and faculty representatives from the clinical, counseling,
and experimental psychology graduate programs.
Activities and Accomplishments
• The 2001-2002 year was a significant transition year for CPSD due to changes in personnel, policies, and procedures. The
Interim Director worked with the Department Chair, Clinical and Counseling Psychology Program Training Directors,
Practicum Supervisors and Graduate Students, CPSD Advisory Committee, and the CSPD Strategic Planning and Management
Committee to identify, develop, and implement significant changes to both the structure and function of CPSD which
improved and strengthened the relationship and involvement of the CPSD with the Department and among the programs, as
well as improved the quality of training and services offered at CPSD.
• Practicum Training: The Center’s most important mission is training psychology students from the VCU doctoral psychology
training programs. Secondarily, the Center offers training to professionals in the community.
• Graduate students in the Clinical and Counseling Psychology programs are required to complete a CPSD practicum course
(PSY 694 for clinical students; PSY 693 for counseling students) for either 3 or 6 consecutive semesters before they are eligible
for off-campus training. Trainees work with 4-5 cases at a time and receive individual and group supervision of all therapy
cases, evaluation, groups and assessment activities. All interviews and therapy are videotaped for use in supervision and case
conference activities. This is a traditional model for training psychologists, and provides the student with unique opportunities
to develop both general and specialized psychological skills. Weekly staff meetings are held in which students develop and
refine their professional skills. Professionals from the community are invited as guest speakers to present specialized information,
often not within the expertise of faculty, and serve to supplement course material.
• Service and Community Partnerships: The Center for Psychological Services has fostered partnerships with community organizations,
and has expanded its service delivery model. For example, not only can individuals and families come to the CPSD
for services, but graduate students from the CPSD are also going to these individuals, families, and organizations that need
services as well (such as Carver Elementary School). In the past year, CPSD established a liaison-relationship with MCV
Ambulatory Care Psychiatry in order to better serve the needs our adult clients who require medication evaluation and
management services, as well as for our students who are able to receive valuable training in consultation-liaison work and
pharmacotherapy. The Center has provided continuing education (CE) training to professionals since earning approval in
April, 1986 from the American Psychological Association. CPSD is also recognized by the Virginia Board of Psychology
to offer CE credits to Psychologists. This year, CPSD sponsored a successful, free CE activity for VCU alumni, faculty, and
mental health and education professionals from across the state, featuring one of our nation’s most prominent psychologists,
Dr Robert J. Sternberg, President-Elect of American Psychological Association.
Objectives for Next Year
• CPSD will obtain a permanent full-time administrative faculty position of Director during the 2002-2003 academic year and
will proceed with strategic planning goals for the next year, including monitoring Quality Enhancement Objectives and
Outcomes for training and service which were instituted at the end of 2001-2002, evaluating how we function to reduce and
respond to liabilities, securing and maintaining a more constant source of funding for the daily operations of the CPSD, and
increasing number of continuing education activities offered.
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Staff
Dr. Steven J. Danish - Director
Sydney Brodeur
Erin Carroll
Robert Fazio
Lisa Harmon
Kristyn Hoy
Lashanda Jones
William Lawson
Amanda O’Brien
Tanya Taylor
Samy Uguy
Alice Westerberg
Elizabeth Fries - Affiliate
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Mission
• The Life Skills Center, part of the Psychology Department at Virginia Commonwealth University was established in 1992.
The mission of the Center is to develop, implement and evaluate life skill programs for children, adolescents and adults for
the purpose of promoting health and enhancing personal development. We use skills as the means to achieve our goals
because they are concrete, easily taught and learned, and when directed toward areas of our everyday lives, empower us. We
believe in the old Chinese proverb:
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
What are Life Skills
• Life skills are often discussed but rarely defined. They are the skills that enable us to succeed in the environments in which
we live. They can be behavioral (communicating effectively with peers and adults) or cognitive (making effective decisions);
interpersonal (being assertive) or intrapersonal (setting goals). Some of the environments in which we live are families, schools,
workplaces, neighborhoods, and communities. Most individuals must succeed in more than one environment and as one
becomes older, the number of environments in which one must be successful increases. For example, a child need only succeed
within the family; an adolescent must succeed within the family, at school, and in the neighborhood; adults must succeed in
the family, workplace, neighborhood, and in the community.
Environments will vary from individual to individual, thus the definition of what it means to succeed will differ across
individuals, as well as across environments. However, even among different individuals there are some basic skills that are
needed to achieve success. Furthermore, individuals in the same environment are likely to be dissimilar from each other as a
result of the life skills they have already mastered, their other resources, and their opportunities, real or perceived. For this reason,
programs to teach life skills must be sensitive to developmental, environmental and individual differences and the possibility
that the needed life skills may not be the same for individuals of different ages, ethnic and/or racial groups, or economic status.
While it is necessary to be sensitive to these differences, it is also important to recognize that individuals can often effectively
apply life skills learned in one environment to other environments as appropriate.
Many “life skill” programs seem to focus on social competency and in teaching refusal skills. Such approaches are incomplete
and make it hard for individuals to change. The emphasis on NO leaves very little opportunity to know when and what to say
YES to. The focus of change is outside the individual. We believe that the teaching process begins most successfully by focusing
on intrapersonal skills such as learning to set goals.
The Need for the Center and its Programs
• Our youth continue to take risks with their health, their lives, and their future. Involvement in health-compromising behaviors
such as drug use, unprotected and unsafe sex, violent and delinquent acts, and dropping out of school continues to increase.
The cost of these actions to our society is staggering; not only in the present, but for years to come. Despite our best efforts to
develop programs that reduce these behaviors, the involvement of adolescents in these activities is not abating.
• Prevention programs generally have as their goal to reduce the incidents of the various health-compromising behaviors by
teaching what has become known as refusal skills. What research has shown is that prevention programs directed at youth,
regardless of how effective these programs are, never totally eliminate youth’s involvement in health- compromising behaviors.
• However, the most serious problem with prevention approaches is that they have little or nothing to do with youth development.
Adolescence is a time when youth are seeking a sense of industry and competence. When, and if they learn to avoid healthcompromising
behaviors, what have they learned about what to do. We believe that a major focus for intervention programs
should be to develop competence — the ability to do life planning, be self-reliant, and be able to seek help from others — and
promote positive development. In all of our programs this emphasis will be in the forefront.
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New Life Skills Center Programs for 2001
• Tuskegee Airmen Life Skills Program We were invited to participate with the Tuskegee Airmen chapter in Chicago in
a special program for a school district in Chicago. The mission of the project is to improve the life skills and long-term educational
and career opportunities for these high-risk adolescents.
This project encourages active participation by students starting in the eighth grade and continuing through high school
in a comprehensive program designed to strengthen life and academic skills. A consortium of national and local organizations
developed the project to provide opportunities for America’s youth. The consortium includes:
1. Chicago DODO Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen
2. Life Skills Center of Virginia Commonwealth University
3. AF AM Knitting
4. ACT. Inc.
5. South Shore Network of Schools
6. Students and faculty from local universities in Chicago, including Loyola, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and
at Champaign-Urbana, and Chicago State.
The project uses a life-span developmental model to target three performance initiatives: mechanisms to motivate students
toward success, the promotion of positive life skills, and the academic preparation and workforce readiness of the participants.
To fulfill its mission, the Project incorporates interventions aimed at student prosocial behavior, academic enhancement,
and community service. The program employs a unique community-school partnership that was developed by the Center and
its’ partners to aid disadvantaged youth. This program incorporates student educational and mentoring interventions, teacher
training and curriculum review, and parental involvement and guidance over a proposed five-year period. The life skills model
focuses simultaneously on reducing at-risk behaviors and promoting health-enhancing behaviors. The project has identified
key indicators that will assist the student to develop constructive life skills that can be used throughout their high school years
and beyond. The life skills component encourages the student to participate in life planning, provides learning and study
skills, emphasizes self reliance, and assists students to acquire behaviors to relate effectively to others.
The project was launched at one small school district in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to learning life skills (the Center’s
GOAL Program), the students receive academic enhancement programming in science, math, reading and writing, ACT test
preparation and career and educational planning, involvement in community service such as peer tutoring; encouraging
participation in various after-school sport and/or arts programs, and instruction about aviation, including how to fly glider and
power planes taught by the Tuskegee Airmen.
• Developing a Virginia Tobacco Program (VTP) We received a grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation
to develop and implement a pilot Virginia Tobacco Program. To begin, we are sorting through other tobacco programs and
determining critical components of these existing programs. From this review and an analysis of previous work done at the
Department of Health and the Life Skills Center, we will develop a Virginia Tobacco Program (VTP) to pilot. To date, we
have determined that effective programs are characterized by:
1. Being peer-led or having peer-mentoring assuming that the peers were trained by adults and supervised by adults
during implementation;
2. Focusing on positive skill and competency development as opposed to concentrating solely on refusal skills and
problem/negative behaviors (e.g. emphasizing a future orientation, goal setting, character building, life skills, self-efficacy);
4. Targeting 10-16 year olds;
5. Having both school-based and after-school based curricula;
6. Being comprehensive in terms of who is included by involving parents/families, peer groups, schools and communities;
7. Having a strong implementation design and evaluation (e.g. experimental, randomized design, significant sample size,
process evaluation, outcomes evaluation, etc.);
8. Setting clear program goals and hypotheses;
9. Having widespread applicability (rural and urban settings);
10. Including a rigorous training component for implementation staff; and
11. Having meaningful activities for youth to participate in.
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Once we have developed the program, including a session that puts into context the history of tobacco in Virginia, we will
pilot the new program in various settings, both in school and after-school settings in different parts of the state. We will also
assist in an evaluation of the program.
• A Bridge to Better Health BRIDGE is a genealogy and health program funded by the Massey Cancer Center. The program
is designed to teach high school students to become their family’s health historian as a means of sensitizing them to their own
health risks, particularly breast and testicular cancer. We believe that knowing one’s family health history can influence
participant’s health and become an empowering life skill.
The program has been developed to be taught in conjunction with the ninth and tenth grade health and physical education
curriculum. There are two major components: (1) learning the basic fundamentals of genealogy with a special emphasis
on health histories; and (2) teaching a variety of health-oriented life skills. By teaching skills such as conducting breast and
testicular self-examinations, increasing fiber intake, reducing fat intake, and remaining or becoming tobacco-free, the possibility
of detecting cancer at an early stage as well as reducing cancer risks is increased. Furthermore, by teaching a series of life
skills that are transferable across life domains, we hope to empower students to apply these new skills toward enhancing their
health and in areas such as school, home and community practice.
The program consists of six one-hour, skill-based workshops. A pilot of the program was conducted at Mathews County
High School. Evaluation of the program is just being completed.
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Faculty Publications
African American Studies Program
Articles and Other Publications
Brooks, Christopher. “Beyond the Fixed Star: The Art of Murry Depillars.” International Review of African American Art 18
No. 3 (Spring 2002): 3-13.
Smedley, Audrey L. “Adventures in an Unchartable Field.” Annual Review of Anthropology 30 (September 2001): 1-19.
Smedley, Audrey L. “Social Origins of the Idea of Race,” Race in 21st Century America. Stokes, C., T. Melendez, and G.
Rhodes-Reed. Eds. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2001. 13-24.
Smedley, Audrey L. “Science and the Idea of Race” Race and Intelligence: Separating Science from Myth. Fish, Jefferson M. Ed.
Mahwah, NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. 145-177.
Smedley, Audrey L. “Comment on Len Lieberman’s ‘How Caucasoids Got Such big Crania and Why They Shrank.” Current
Anthropology 42 No. 1 (February 2001): 69. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/issues/v42n1/011002/011002.html
Wood, Mark. “Needed: Living Wage Law.” Richmond Free Press (February 21-23): A13.
Department of Biology
Books
Seibel H. R., K. E. Guyer, A. B. Mangum, C. M. Conway, A. F. Conway, and W. L. Shanholtzer. How to prepare for the MCAT
(Medical College of Admissions Test). 9th Edition. Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, 2001.
Articles and Other Publications
Anderson, J., S. Webb, R. Fisher, C. Smith, J. Dennis, and J. DiBenedetto. “In situ detection of the pathogen indicator E. coli
using active laser-induced fluorescence imaging and defined substrate conversion.” Journal of Fluorescence, 12 (2002) 51-55.
Anderson, J., S. Webb, R. Fischer, K. Kester, and B. Brown. “Baseline and in vivo photoluminescence of endospore material
using the parasitoid wasp C. congregata.” Applied Spectroscopy, 55, (2001) 684-689.
Anderson, J., S. R. Webb, R. Fischer, K. Kester, and C. Smith. “Comparative intrinsic and enhanced total photoluminescence
of endospore material.” Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) International Symposium on
Environmental and Industrial Sensing, S. Buttenback (ed.), Newton MA (2001).
Podlesak, D. W. and C. R. Blem. “Factors affecting growth of Prothonotary Warblers.” Wilson Bulletin, 113, (2001), 263-272.
Podlesak, D. W. and C. R. Blem. “Determination of age of nestling Prothonotary Warblers.” Journal of Field Ornithology, 73,
(2002) 33-37.
Brown, B. L., and J. M. Epifanio. “Nuclear DNA” Chapter 6 in Genetic Principles and Practices for Fisheries Scientists. E.M.
Hallerman editor. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda Maryland, 2002.
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Couch, C. R., B. L. Brown, J. F. Pagels, and J. M. Waters. “Genetic structuring of relict populations of the red-backed vole
(Clethrionomys gapperi).” Journal of Mammology. 82 (2002) 289-301.
Hallerman, E. M., B. Brown, and J. Epifanio. “Introduction to Fisheries Genetics Principles,” Chapter 1 in Genetic Principles
and Practices for Fisheries Scientists. E. M. Hallerman editor. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda Maryland, 2002.
Byrd, J. H. and J. C. Allen. “Growth and development of phormia regina (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Interpreting postmortem
interval determinations based on entomological evidence.” Forensic Science Internation. 120 (2001) 79-88.
Lord, W. D., M. L. Goff, and J. H. Byrd. “Insects in the investigation of violent crime.” Managing Death Investigation. Federal
Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice. FBI National Academy. (2002) 155-164.
Goff, M. L., W. D. Lord, and J. H. Byrd. “Entomotoxicology.” Managing Death Investigation. Federal Bureau of Investigation,
United States Department of Justice. FBI National Academy. (2002) 165-174.
Enzler J. C., C. M. Conway, and A. F. Conway. “Involvement of blood clotting in pregnancy loss induced by lipopolysaccharide
injection in CD-1 mice.” Virginia Journal of Science, 52, (2001) 83.
Li, Y., J. P. Bernot, C. Illingsworth, W. Lison, K. M. Bernot, W. B. Eggleston, K. Fogle, J. E. DiPaola, J. Kermicle, and M. Alleman.
“Gene conversion within regulatory sequences generates maize r alleles with altered gene expression.” Genetics, 159, (2001),
1727-1740.
Zhang, X., C. Feschotte, Q. Zhang, N. Jiang, W. B. Eggleston, and S. R. Wessler. “P instability factor: an active maize transposon
system associated with the amplification of tourist-like MITEs and new superfamily of transposases.” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science (USA). 98, (2001) 12572-12577.
Matveyev, A. V., K. T. Young, A. Meng, and J. Elhai. “DNA methyltransferases of the cynaobacterium Anabaena PCC7120.”
Nucleic Acids Research 29 (2001) 1491-1506.
Elhai, J. “Determination of bias in the relative abundance of oligonucleotides in DNA sequences.” Journal of Computational
Biology. 8 (2001) 151-170.
Vogel, S., K. Hoke, and J. Elhai. “Simplified expressions of a measure of compositional bias.” Journal of Computational Biology.
8 (2001) 170-175.
Fine, M. L., K. L. Malloy, C. B. King, S. L. Mithchell, and T. M. Cameron. “Movement and sounce generation by the toadfish
swimbladder.” Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 187 (2001) 371-379.
Thorson, R. F., and M. L. Fine. “Crepuscular changes in emission rate and parameters of the boatwhistle advertisement call of
the gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta.” Environemtnal Biology of Fishes. 63 (2002) 321-331.
Reynolds, R. J., J. F. Pagels, and M. L. Fies. “Demography of northern flying squirrels in Virginia.” Proceedings of the Annual
Conference of Southeastern Associations of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 53, (2001) 340-349.
Bellows, A. S., J. C. Mitchell, J. F. Pagels, and H. N. Mansfield. “Mammals of Fort A.P. Hill, Caroline County, Virginia.”
Virginia Journal of Science. 52 (2001) 163-226.
Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. “Plant community composition and small mammal communities in old fields
on Virginia’s Coastal Plain.” Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. 117, (2001) 101-112.
Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. “Macrohabitat and microhabitat affinities of small mammals in a fragmented
landscape on the upper Coastal Plain of Virginia.” American Midland Naturalist. 146, (2001) 345-360.
Plunkett, G.M. “The relationship of the order Apiales to subclass Asteridae: a re-evaluation of morphological characters based
on insights from molecular data.” Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 58, (2001) 183-200.
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Eibl, J. M., G. M. Plunkett, and P. P. Lowry. “Evolution of Polyscias sect Tieghemopanax (Araliaceae) based on nuclear and
chloroplast DNA sequence data.” Adansonia. ser. 3, 23 (2001) 23-48.
Plunkett, G. M., P. P. Lowry, and M. K. Burke. “The phylogenetic status of Polyscias (Araliaceae) based on nuclear ITS sequence
data.” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 88 (2001) 213-230.
Watson, M. F., G. M. Plunkett, S. R. Downie, and P. P. Lowry. Introduction: Evolution, biogeography and systematics of the
Apiales (Araliaceae and Apiaceae). Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 58 (2001) 179-181.
Schlessman, M. A., G. M. Plunkett, P. P. Lowry, and D. G. Lloyd. “Sexual systems of New Caledonian Araliaceae: a preliminary
phylogenetic reappraisal.” Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 58 (2001) 221-228.
Downie, S. R., G. M. Plunkett, M. F. Watson, K. Spalik, D. S. Katz-Downie, K. M. Valiejo-Roman, E. I. Terentieva, M. G.
Pimenow, A. V. Troitsky, B. Y. Lee, and J. Lahham. “Tribes and clades within apiaceae subfamily apioideae: the contribution of
molecular data.” Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 58 (2001) 301-330.
Lowry, P. P., G. M. Plunkett, and A. A. Oskolski. “Early lineages in apiales: insights from morphology, wood anatomy and
molecular data.” Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 58 (2001) 207-220.
Freeman, J. G., J. J. Ryan, C. P. Shelburne, D. P. Bailey, L. A. Bouton, N. Narasimhachari, J. Domen, N. Simeon, F. Couderc, and
J. K. Stewart. “Catecholamines in murine bone marrow derived mast cells.” Journal of Neuroimmunology. 119, (2001) 231-238.
Kedzierski, W. M. and L. A. Smock. “Effects of logging on macroinvertebrate production in a sand-bottomed, low-gradient stream.”
Freshwater Biology. 46 (2001) 1-13.
Wright, A. B. and L. A. Smock. “Macroinvertebrate community structure and production in a low-gradient stream in an
undisturbed watershed.” Archiv fur Hydrobiologie. 152 (2001) 297-313.
Caran, N., L. D. Johnson, K. J. Jenkins, and R. M. Tombes. “Cytosolic targeting domains of gamma and delta calmodulindependent
protein kinase II.” Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276 (2001) 42514-9.
Sundberg, P., J. M. Turbeville, and S. Lindh. “Phylogenetic relationships among higher nemertean (Nemertea) taxa inferred
from 18S rRNA sequences.” Molecular Physiological Evolution. 20 (2001) 327-334.
Webb, S. R., G. Garman, S. McIninch, and B. Brown. “Amoebae associated with ulcerative lesions of fish from tidal freshwater
of James River, Virginia.” Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. 14 (2002) 68-76.
Department of Chemistry
Books
Ottenbrite, R. M. and E. Cheillini (Eds.). Biomedical Polymer Applications. New York, New York: Kluwer/Plenum Press., 2001.
Articles and Other Publications
Abedalsayed, V., Y. Ibrahim, M. Rusyniak, M. Rabeony, and M. S. El-Shall. “Fuoroalcohols as Nucleating Agents in Supersaturated
Vapors. Efficient Clustering with Water in the Vapor Phase.” Journal of Chemical Physics. 115 (2001) 2897-2900.
Carlisle, J.A., I.N. Germanenko, Y.B. Pithawalla and M.S. El-Shall. “Morphology, Photoluminescence and Electronic Structure
in Oxidized Silicon Nanoclusters.” Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. (2001) 114-116, 229-234
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Mahmoud, H., I. N. Germanenko, Y. Ibrahim, and M. S. El-Shall. “Spectroscopy and Structure of Styrene (Water)n and Styrene
(Methanol)n Clusters n=1,2.” Chemical Physics Letters. 356 (2002) 91-100.
Pithawalla, Y. B., V. Abdelsayed, I. N. Germanenko, and M. S. El-Shall. “Synthesis, Characterization and Novel Application of
Semiconductor and Inermetallic Nanoparticles: From Science to Technology.” Science of Metastable and Nanocrystalline
Alloys, Structure, Properties and Modelling. Eds. A. R. Dinesen, M. Eldrup, D. Juul Jensen, S. Linderoth and T. B. Pedersen.
Roskilde, Denmark: (2001) 365-370.
Pithawalla, Y. B., S. C. Deevi, and M. S. El-Shall. “Preparation and Characterization of Metallic and Intermetallic Nanoparticles.”
Advances in Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials. 9 (2001) 99-109.
Pithawalla, Y. B., S. C. Deevi, and M. S. El-Shall. “Preparation of Ultrafine and Nanocrystalline FeAl Powders.” Journal of
Materials Science and Engineering. 16 (2001): 230-242.
Pithawalla, Y. B., J. Gao, and M. S. El-Shall. “Prospects for the Study of Gas Phase Polymerization and the Synthesis of Polymers
Containing Nanoparticles in Microgravity.” Polymer Processing in Microgravity. Eds. John A. Pojman. (ACS Symposium
Series, 2001) 13: 185-202.
Rusyniak, M., V. Abdelsayed, J. Campbell, and M. S. El-Shall. “Vapor Phase Honogenous Nucleation of Higher Alkanes:
Dodecane, Hexadecane, and Octadecane. 1. Critical Supersaturation and Nucleation Rate Measurements.” Journal of
Physical Chemistry B. 105 (2001) 11866-11872.
Rusniak, M., and M. S. El-Shall. “Vapor Phase Homogenous Nucleation of Higher Alkanes: Dodecane, Hexadecane, and
Octadecane. I1. Corresponding States and Scaling Law Analysis.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 105 (2001) 11873-11879.
Davies, M. S., D. S. Thomas, A. Hegmans, S. J. Berners-Price, and N. Farrell. “Kinetic and Equilibria Studies of the Aquation of
the Trinuclear Platinum Phase II Anticancer Agent [{trans-PtCl(NH3)2}2{µ-trans-Pt(NH3)2(NH2(CH2)6NH2)2}]4+(BBR3464).”
Inorganic Chemistry. 41 (2002): 1101-1109.
Hegmans, A., Y. Qu, L. R. Kelland, J. D. Roberts, and N. Farrell. “Novel Approaches to Polynuclear Platinum Pro-Drugs.
Selective Release of Cytotoxic Platinum-Spermidine Species through hydrolytic cleavage of Carbmates.” Inorganic
Chemistry. 40 (2001) 6108-6114.
Hofr, C., N. Farrell, and V. Brabec. “Thermodynamic properties of duplex DNA containing site-specific d(GpG) intrastrand
cross-link formes by an antitumor sinuclear platinum complex.” Nucleaic Acids Research. 29 (2001) 2034-2040.
McGregor, T. D., J. Kasparkova, K. Neplechova, O. Novakova, H. Penazova, O. Vrana, V. Brabec, and N. Farrell. “A
Comparison of DNA Binding Profiles of Dinuclear Platinum Compounds with Polyamune Linkers and the Trinuclear
Platinum Phase II Clinical Agent BBR3464.” Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 7 (2002) 397-404.
Qu, Y., J. A.Fitzgerald, H. Rauter, and N. Farrell. “Approaches to Selective DNA Binding in Polyfunctional Dinuclear Platinum
Chemistry. The Synthesis of a Trifunctional Compokund and Its Interaction with the Mononucleotide 5’-Guanosine
Monophosphate.” Inorganic Chemistry. 40 (2001) 6324-6327.
Wang, Y., N. Farrell, and J. D. Burgess. “Direct Evidence for Preassociation Preceding Covalent binding in the Reaction of
cis-[Pt(NH3)2(H2O)2]2+ with Surface Immobilized Oligonucleotides.” Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123
(2001) 5576-5577.
Zehnulova, J., J. Kasparkova, N. Farrell, and V. Brabec. “Conformation, Recognition by HMG-Domasin Proteins and Nucleotide
Excision Repair of DNA Intrastrand Cross-links of Novel Antitumor Trinuclear Platinum Complex BBR3464.” Journal of
Biological Chemistry. 276 (2001) 22191-22199.
Burgess, J. D. and F. M. Hawkridge. “Direct Electrochemistry of Proteins and Enzymes at Electrodes,” Electroanalytical Methods
for Biological Materials. Eds: A. Brajter-Toth and J. Q. Chambers (Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 2002) 109-142.
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Kuciauskas, D., M. Freund, J. R. Winkler, H. B. Gray, and N. S. Lewis. “Electron Transfer Dynamics in Nanocrystalline
Titanium Dioxide Solar Cells Sensitized with Ruthenium and Osmium Polypytidyl Complexes.” Photovoltaics for the 21st
Century. Eds: V. K. Kapur and R. D. McConnell. (Pennington, NJ: The Electrochemical Society, 2001).
Flora, J. C., and D. C. Muddiman. “High Mass Accuracy of Product Ions Produced by SORI-CID using a Dual Electrospray
Ionization Source Coupled with FTICR Mass Spectrometry.” Analytical Chemistry. 73(2001) 1247-1251.
Null, A. P., J. C. Hannis, and D. C. Muddiman. “Genotypying Simple and Complex Short Tandem Repeat Loci using ESI-
FTICR-MS.” Analytical Chemistry. 73(2001) 4514-4521.
Gordon, E. F., and D. C. Muddiman. “Impact of Ion Cloud Densities on the Measurement of Relative Ion Abundances in Fourier
Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry: Experimental Observations of Coulombically-Induced Cyclotron
Radius Perturbations and Ion Cloud Dephasing Rates.” Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 36(2001) 195-203.
Flora, J. W., and D. C. Muddiman. “Complete Sequencing of Mono-Deprotonated Peptide Nucleic Acids by Sustained Off-
Resonance Irradiation Collision-Induced Dissociation.” Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 12 (2001) 805-809.
Flora, J. W., and D. C. Muddiman. “Selective, Sensitive, and Rapid Phosphopeptide Identification in Enzymatic Digests using
ESI-FTICR-MS with Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation.” Analytical Chemistry. 73(2001) 3305-3311.
Hannis, J. C., and D. C. Muddiman. “Tailoring the Gas-Phase Dissociation and Determining the Relative Energy of Activation
for Dissociation of 7-Deaza Modified Oligonucleotides Containing a Repeating Motif” International Journal of Mass
Spectrometry and Ion Processes. (2002) 1-12.
Mangrum, J. B., J. W. Flora, and D. C. Muddiman. “Solution Composition and Thermal Denaturation for the Production of
Single-Stranded PCR Amplicons: Piperidine-Induced Destabilization of the DNA Duplex?” Journal of the American Society
for Mass Spectrometry. 13(2002) 232-240.
Null, A. P., L. T. George, and D. C. Muddiman. “Evaluation of Sample Preparation Techniques for High-Sensitivity Mass
Measurements of PCR Products using ESI-FT-ICR-MS.” Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 13 (2002)
338-344.
Null, A.P. and D. C. Muddiman. “CEPH Family 1362 STR Database: An Online Resource for Characterization of PCR Products
using Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry.” Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 13 (2002) 89-90.
Flora, J. W., A. P. Null, and D. C. Muddiman. “Dual-Micro-ESI Source for Precise Mass Determination on a Quadrupole Timeof-Flight
Mass Spectrometer for Genomic and Proteomic Applications.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. (2002) 435-
444. (SPECIAL ISSUE)
Flora, J. W. and D. C. Muddiman. “Gas-Phase Ion Unimolecular Dissociation for Rapid Phosphopeptide Mapping by IRMPD in
a Penning Ion Trap: An Energetically Favored Process.” Journal of the American Chemical Society. 12( 2002) 4399-4400 .
Null, A. P. and D. C. Muddiman. “Perspectives on the use of ESI-FTICR Mass Spectrometry for STR Genotyping in the Post-
Genome Era.” Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 36 (2001) 589-606. (Special Feature)
Hu, B., R. M. Ottenbrite, and J. A. Siddiqui. “Metal Nanostructures on Modified Pen Films.” Polymer Preprints. 42 (2)(2001) 648.
Lenka S., R. R. Nayak, K. M. Munmaya, R. M. Ottenbrite. “Molecular Composites: III: Inclusion Complexes and graft
Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate by Radical Initiating Systems.” Journal of Designed Monomers and Polymers. 2 (2002).
Wall J. S., B. Hu, J. A. Siddiqui, and R. M. Ottenbrite. “Monolayer Grafting of Organo-Silica Nanoparticles on Poly(ethylene
naphthalate) Films.” Langmuir. 17(19)(2001) 6027-6029.
Bezemer E., and S. C. Rutan. “Multivariate Curve Resolution with Non-linear Fitting of Kinetic Profiles.” Chemometrics and
Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 59 (2001) 19-31.
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Bezemer, E., and S. C. Rutan. “Study of the Hydrolysis of a Sulfonylurea Herbicide Using Liquid Chomatography with Diode
Array Detection and Mass Spectrometry by Three-Way Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares.”
Analytical Chemistry. 73 (2001) 4403-4409.
Bezemer, E., and S. C. Rutan. “Three-way Alternating Least-Squares Using Three Dimensional Tensors in MATLAB®.”
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 60 (2002) 239-251.
Nigam, S., and S. C. Rutan. “Principals and Applications of Solvatochromism.” Applied Spectroscopy. 55 (2001) 362A-372A.
Esperdy K., and D. Shillady. “Simulated Infrared Spectra of Ho(III) and Gd(III) Chlorides and Carboxylate Complexes Using
Effective Core Potentials in GAMESS.” Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 41 (2001) 1547.
Shillady, D., J. Craig, and S. C. Rutan. “Explicitly Correlated SCF Study of Small Hydrides.” International Journal of Quantum
Chemistry. 85 (2001) 520-528.
Trindle C., D. Shillady, J. Craig, and S. C. Rutan. “Dye Probes of Nanoclusters in Liquids.” Journal of Cluster Science. 12
(2001) 473-486.
Schaneberg, B. T., D. K. Green, and A. T. Sneden. “Dihydroagarofuran Sesquiterpene Alkaloids from Maytenus Putterlickoides.”
Journal of Natural Products. 64 (2001) 624.
Weiss, R., V. Bulach, A. Gold, J. Terner, and A. X. Trautwein. “Valence-Tautomerism in High-Valent Iron and Manganese
Prophyrins.” Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 8 (2001) 831-45.
Palmer, M. A., G. E. Wnek, J. Topich, J. B. Hudson, and J. A. Moore. “A One-Semester Engineering Chemistry Course.”
Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference and Exposition (2002).
Benetollo, F., G. Bombieri, K. M. Samaria, L. M. Vallarino and J. W. Williams. “Isomerism in calcium and strontium complexes of
six-nitrogen-donor macrocyclic ligands with peripheral methyl substituents, and crystal structure of [Sr(CF3SO3)2(C26H30N6)].”
Polyhedron. 20 (2001) 3143-48.
Leif, R. C., M. C. Baker, A. J. Bromm, L. M. Vallarino, J. W. Williams, S. A. Williams, and S. Yang. “Optimizing the luminescence
of lanthanide(III) macrocyclic complexes for the detection of Anti5BrdU.” SPIE Proceedings. 4622 (2001) 203-8.
Department of Criminal Justice
Books
Albanese, Jay S. Criminal Justice. 2nd edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2002.
Articles and Other Publications
Albanese, Jay S. “Looking for a New Approach to an Old Problem: The Future of Obscenity and Pornography.” Visions for
Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century. R. Muraskin and A. Roberts, eds., 3rd edition. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Gordon, Jill A. “Juvenile Aftercare.” Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.
Gordon, Jill A. “An Evaluation of Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center.” The Correctional Psychologist. Fall 2001.
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Moriarty, Laura J. “Guardian Ad Litem.” Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.
Smith, M. and Petrocelli, M. “Racial Profiling?: A Multivariate Analysis of Police Traffic Stop Data.” Police Quarterly. 4 (2001)
4-27.
Albanese, Jay S. “Gotham Unbound: How New York City was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime” by James B. Jacobs
with Coleen Friel and Robert Radick New York University Press, 1999. Book review in Criminal Justice Review. 27 (2002).
Hague, James L. “The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution” by Tinsley Yarbrough, Oxford University Press, 2000. Book
Review in Criminal Justice Review. 27 (2002).
Department of English
Books
Cornis-Pope, M. Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After. New York and London: Palgrave
Press, 2001.
De Haven, T. Dugan Under Ground. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2001.
Seibel, Hugo R., Kenneth E. Guyer, B. Mangum, and A. F. Conway. Barron’s How to Prepare for the Medical College
Admission Test: MCAT. New York: Barron’s, 2001.
Articles and Other Publications
Ansel, Talvikki. “Alcyone.” The Pushcart Prize. XXVI: Best of the Small Presses. (2002) 307-9.
Ansel, Talvikki. “World.” The Atlantic Monthly. (July/August 2001) 120.
Bassard, K. C. “Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson.” Women, Gender,
Religion: A Reader. Ed. Elizabeth A. Castelli. Vol. 2. New York: Palgrave Press, 2001. 310-30.
Caudle, A. B. “Facing March Winds,” “The Pear Tree so Splendid,” “What I Look for When Choosing Haiku.” South by
Southeast: Haiku & Haiku Arts. 8.1 (Spring 2001) 7, 20, 26.
Caudle, A. B. “Line Elegy for Larry.” New Virginia Review. 11 (Spring 2001): 51.
Caudle, A. B. “Seeing the Wind Brush,” “Raspy Tongue.” South by Southeast: Haiku & Haiku Arts. 8. 2 (Summer 2001) 24.
Coppedge, W. “Barry Lyndon: Kubric’s Elegy for an Age.” Literature/Film Quarterly. 29. 3 (2001) 172-8.
Cornis-Pope, M. “The End-of-History Syndrome: Theoretical and Literary Rejoinders.” Fin de siècle. Ed. Monika Fludernik and
Ariane Huml. Trier (Germany): Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002. 351-64.
Cornis-Pope, M. “Literary Imagination in the Post-Cold War Era: Developing Alternative Models of Cultural Interaction.”
Literary Research/Recherche littéraire. 18.36 (Fall-Winter 2001) 389-401.
Cornis-Pope, M. “Perspectives on Europe” (co-authored with Thomas F. X. Noble and Justin Stagl). Sociologia Internationalis.
38.2 (2001) 245-56.
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Cornis-Pope, M. “Postmodernism” and “Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism in the USA.” The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of
Modern Criticism and Theory. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002. 558-67, 608-17.
Cornis-Pope, M. “Theory as Cultural Conversation.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language,
Composition, and Culture. 1.3 (Fall 2001) 545-53.
Cornis-Pope, M. “Towards a History of the Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe: Theoretical Reflections” (co-authored with
John Neubauer). ACLS Occasional Papers. 52 (2002).
Donovan, G. “Music and Healing.” 64 (Magazine). 3.2 (March 2002) 61-63.
Donovan, G. “Searching for the Heart of Virginia.” 64 (Magazine). 2.8 (October 2001) 50-51.
Donovan, G. “Winter Solstice: Oregon Hill” and “Strange Child.” Alaska Quarterly Review. 19.3 and 19.4 (Spring and Summer
2002) 174-6.
Fagan, A. “VCU’s Middle Eastern Campus: What It’s Like Staffing a Design School Half a World Away.” 64 (Magazine). 1.2
(March 2000) 76-79.
Frankel, N. “Aubrey Beardsley ‘Embroiders’ the Literary Text.” The Victorian Illustrated Book. Ed. Richard Maxwell. UP of
Virginia, 2002. 112-25.
Griffin, C. W. “Reading and Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays.” The Shakespeare Yearbook. 12 (2001) 252-74.
Hodges, E., and Jean Yerian. “The First-Year Prompts Project: A Qualitative Research Study Revisited.” Published on the Policy
Center on the First Year of College website at www.brevard.edu/listserv/index.htm.
Hodges, E. “And the Question Is This—’What Lesson Can We, as Writers, Take from This Reading for Our Writing.” The
NCTE Guide to Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition. Ed. Duane Roen. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of
English Press, 2001. 527-35.
Keller, M. “For My Father.” GSU Review (Fall 2001) 6.
Keller, M. “Sympathy.” New Virginia Review. 11 (2001) 43-44.
Kinney, J. “Race in the New South: Joel Chandler Harris’s ‘Free Joe and the Rest of the World.’” American Literary Realism. 33
(2001) 235-51.
Kuhn, E. “Bathrooms.” Troubadour: Best of Rhyme 2001. San Antonio: Towers and Rushing, Ltd., 2001. 55.
Kuhn, E. “By Hand.” Santa Clara Review. 88.2 (Spring 2001) 74.
Kuhn, E. “How Bodies Work.” Windsor Review. 34.2 (Fall 2001) 50.
Kuhn, E. “No Games.” The Ledge. (2001) 61.
Kuhn, E. “The Phantom Itch.” Red Rock Review. 11 (Winter 2002) 82.
Kuhn, E. “Table Manners.” International Poetry Review. 27.2 (Fall 2001) 84.
Latané, D. “The Two Doctor Maginns.” Notes and Queries. 48.2 (2001) 136-37.
Mangum, B. “Fitzgerald’s Short Stories.” Cambridge Companion to the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. Ruth Prigozy.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. 57-78.
Morse, C. “What The Clerk’s Tale Suggests about Manly-Rickert’s Edition and the Canterbury Tales Project.” Essays in Honor of
Derek Pearsall. Ed. Alastair J. Minnis. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001. 41-56.
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Oggel, L. T. “Late 19th-Century Literature.” American Literary Scholarship 1999. Edited by Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke
UP, 2001. 259-88.
Silverman, J. “Hampton Institute,” “Black Business,” and “National Urban League.” W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia. Ed.
Gerald Horne and Mary Young. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Silverman, J. “Revue of Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film,” ed. William B. Thesing. Victorians Institute
Journal. 29 (2001) 142-45.
Tester, W. “In Saigon” (excerpt from a memoir). 64 (Magazine) 2.10 (December 2001).
Woodlief, A. “Norton Literary Workshop.” www. wwnorton.com/introlit.
Department of Foreign Languages
Books
Gonzalez, Gaspar Pedro. The Dry Season: Q’anjob’al Maya Poems. Trans. R. McKenna Brown. Cleveland: Cleveland State
University Poetry Center, 2001.
Modern Austrian Prose: Interpretations and Insights. Ed. and introduced by Paul F. Dvorak. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2001.
Gruber, Marianne. Calm. Trans. and afterword by Margaret T. Peischl. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2001.
Articles and Other Publications
Dvorak, Paul F. “Individualism and Indoctrination in Alfred Kolleritsch’s Allemann” in Modern Austrian Prose: Interpretations
and Insights. Ed. and Introduced by Paul F. Dvorak. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, (2001) 286-299.
Godwin-Jones, R. “Tools and Trends in Corpora Use for Teaching and Learning.” Language Learning and Technology. 5:3
(2001) 7-12.
Godwin-Jones, R. “Language Testing Tools and Technologies.” Language Learning and Technology. 5:2 (2001) 8-12.
Martinez-Gongora, M. “Mujeres, Erasmo y la ‘feminizacion’ del ciudadano en los dialogos de Alonso de Valdes.” Revista de
Estudios Hispanicos. 25.2 (2001) 223-240.
Martinez-Gongora, M. “El discurso humanista de educacion masculina: formas de autocontrol en El scholastico de Cristobal de
Villalon.” Neophilologus. 85 (2001) 203-223.
Martinez-Gongora, M. “Entre el rigor humanista y la estetica cortesano: el ideal de conducta masculina en la ‘Respuesta de
Boscan a Don Diego de Mendoza.’” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 78. (2001): 421-438.
Munoz, Eugenia. “Mas alla de la frontera Sandra Cisneros y Margarita Tavera: Conflictos entre una raza y dos culturas.” Memoria
XVII Coloquio de las Literaturas Mexicanas. Ed. Gabrial Osuna. Mexico: University of Sonora Press (2001) 309-329.
Peischl, Margaret T. “Marianne Gruber’s Die glaeserne Kugel: Humanity in the Future?” Modern Austrian Prose: Interpretations
and Insights. Ed. Paul F. Dvorak. (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2001): 200-217.
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Department of History
Books
Bendersky, Joseph W. The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army. New York: Basic Books, 2001. Paperback
edition.
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 2001. Paperback edition.
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. Celebrate Richmond Theater. Richmond: Dietz Press, 2002.
Moitt, Bernard. Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Schwarz, Philip J., Ed. Slavery at the Home of George Washington. Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies Association, 2001.
Urofsky, Melvin I. The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson’s House. Charlottesville: Thomas
Jefferson Foundation, 2001.
Urofsky, Melvin I. Religious Freedom: Rights and Liberties under the Law. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
Articles and Other Publications
Bendersky, Joseph W. “Reflections on The ‘Jewish Threat’: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army.” Menorah Review. (Fall
2001) 2-3.
Bendersky, Joseph W. “Review of Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism,” ed. David Dyzenhaus, and “The End of
Law,” by William Scheuerman. Central European History. 43.1 (2001) 116-20.
Briceland, Alan V. “Edward Bland.” Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Ed. John T. Kneebone et al. Vol. 2. Richmond: Library of
Virginia, 2001.
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. “At the Picture Show: Nickelodeon Nomenclature.” The Film Exhibition Reader. Ed. Ina Rae Hark.
New York and London: Routledge (2002) 41-49.
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. “Introduction: Spectatorship in Film and Television.” Journal of Popular Film and Television. 29:3
(Fall 2001).
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. “Selected Bibliography: Additional Sources for Researching Television History and Cultural
Geography.” Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age. Ed. Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins.
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press (2001) 357-65.
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. “You Can Have the Strand in Your Own Town: The Struggle between Urban and Small Town
Exhibition in the Picture Palace Era.” Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition. Ed. Gregory
A. Waller. Malden, MA: Blackwell (2002).
Greer, Harold. Review of United States Protestant Missions in Cuba: From Independence to Castro, by Jason M. Yaremko.
Hispanic American Historical Review.
Herman, John E. “The Mue’ge Kingdom: A Brief History of a Frontier Empire” Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and
Human Geographies in Chinese History. Ed. Nicola Di Cosmo and Don Wyatt. London: Curzon Press (2002) 178-232.
Moitt, Bernard. “Les Antilles et L’Afrique a lere du commerce atlantique des esclaves: le probleme de l’acquisition des femmes
esclaves et ses consequences.” La Caraibe et son histoire: ses contacts avec le monde exterier. Ed. Lucien Abenon and Nenad
Fejic. Fort-de France: Ibis Rouge Editions (2001) 77-85.
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Moitt, Bernard. “Les femmes et l’affranchissement aux Antilles francaises: Les fibres de fait.” Les Abolitions dans les Ameriques:
Actes du colloque organize par les Archives departementales de la Martinique, 8-9 decembre 1998. Ed. Lilane Chaleau. Fortde-France:
Societe des Amis des Archives et de la Recherche sur le Patrimone culturel des Antilles, 2001.
Moitt, Bernard. “From Pack Animal to Railways: Transport and the Expansion of Peanut Production and Trade in Senegal,
1840-1940.” Revue Francaise d’Historie d’Outre-mer nos. 330.31 (2001) 241-67.
Moitt, Bernard. “Review of Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities.”
ed. Doris Kadish. New West India Guide. 75 (2001) 313-15.
Moore, James Tice. “Review of A Historian’s Coast: Adventures into the Tidewater Past,” by David Cecelski. Journal of
Southern History 68 (February 2002) 151-42.
Munro, George E. “Review of At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia,” by George B.
Michels. Religious Studies Review.
Munro, George E. “Review of Historical Dictionary of Russia,” by Boris Raymond and Paul Duffy. Slavonica.
Munro, George E. “Review of Die Razumovskys: Eine Familie am Zarenhof,” by Maria Razumovsky. Jahrbucher fur Geschichte
Osteuropas.
Munro, George E. “Review of The Modernization of Russia, 1676-1825,” by Simon Dixon. Canadian-American Slavic Studies.
Schwarz, Philip J. “George Boxley.” Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Ed. John T. Kneebone et al. Vol. 2. Richmond: Library of
Virginia, 2001.
Schwarz, Philip J. “Review of Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom,” by Ariela J.
Gross. Journal of American History. 88 (March 2002) 1526-27.
Tunnell, Ted. “Review of The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula & the Seven Days,” ed. Gary W. Gallagher. Georgia
Historical Quarterly. 82 (2001) 145-47.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “A Right to Make Cigars – In re Jacobs (1885).” Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Ed.
John W. Johnson. New York: Routledge, 2001. 482-84.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “Edward Nathan Calisch,” Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Ed. John T. Kneebone et al. Vol. 2. Richmond:
Library of Virginia, 2001. 510-13.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Iceman and the Public – New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932).” Historic U.S. Court Cases: An
Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Ed. John W. Johnson. New York: Routledge, 2001. 494-97.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “Is Race Still a Compelling Factor? – Hopwood v. Texas (1996).” Historic U.S. Court Cases: An
Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. Ed. John W. Johnson. New York: Routledge, 2001. 744-47.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Law Recognizes Women are Different – Muller v. Oregon (1908).” Historic U.S. Court Cases: An
Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Ed. John W. Johnson. New York: Routledge, 2001. 757-64.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “Review of Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution,” by Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Journal of Supreme Court
History. 27 (March 2002) 83-90.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “Review of Fundamental Rights: History of a Constitutional Doctrine,” by Milton R. Konvitz. Midstream.
47 (December 2001) 41-42.
Urofsky, Melvin I. “Review of The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan,” by Linda Przybyszewski. Law and History
Review. 20 (Summer 2002) 429-31.
Bendersky, Joseph W. Editor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. Editor, special issue, “Spectatorship in Film and Television,” Journal of Popular Film and Television
29:3 (Fall 2001).
Urofsky, Melvin I. Editor, Journal of Supreme Court History.
School of Mass Communications
Published Digital Coursepack
South, J. Media Ethics. Ann Arbor, MI: XanEdu, 2001.
Articles and Other Publications
Anderson, N. R., D. P. Asnani, E. D. Borum, M. S. Bost, B. E. Forbes, C. W. Gschwend, E. S. Lopez, V. U. Mali, M. G. Maziarz,
C. D. O’Halloran, J. M. Randazzo, Tim Chumley, Faculty Editor. “Say Uncle Productions: The Use of Drama in Advertising
Today.” Historical Video Documentary. June (2002).
Collier, E. C., J. A. Dulude, B. M. Hoyle, G. P. Ingram, S. B. Jennings, C. T. Kanashiro, E. Leung, C. E. Panozzo, P. D. Shah,
E. K. Starr, D. B. Ware, Tim Chumley, Faculty Editor. “Squeal Productions: The Use of Comedy in Advertising Today.”
Historical Video Documentary. June (2002).
Donohue, T. “A Juvenile’s Rights: Competency to Stand Trial.” 35-minute video. 2001.
Donohue, T. and J. LaPlante. “Jamal in a Jam.” 58-minute CD-ROM. 2002.
Donohue, T. and J. Roth. “Jamal in a Jam.” 26-page workbook companion for video. 2002.
Donohue, T. “The Courtroom and Juvenile Justice Personnel.” Board game for juvenile offenders with learning disabilities. 2002.
Donohue, T., T. Meyer and K. Gettleman. “College Students’ Perceptions of the Influence of Advertising and Price versus Non-
Marketer Controlled Factors on the Purchases of Brand-Name Athletic Shoes and Clothing.” Developments in Marketing
Science. Eds. M. Moore and R. Moore. San Diego: Academy of Marketing Science (2001) 259-278.
Helm, David (Jelly). “When History Looks Back What Will Be the Ad Industry’s Great Work.” Adbusters Magazine,
March/April 2002. Online version http://adbusters.org/magazine/40/history.html.
Helm, David (Jelly). “Sixty Weeks.” VCU Adcenter Promotional Book (July 2001).
Keeter, S., J. D. Kennamer, J. M. Ellis, and R. G. Green. “Does the Use of Colored Paper Improve Response Rate to Mail
Surveys? A Multivariate Experimental Evaluation.” Journal of Social Service Research 28 (2001) 69-79.
Nicholson, J. “Curricula Go High-Tech.” Quill 89 (2001) 14-17.
Otto, P. “The Excellence in Journalism Education Project–Summer 2001.” 6-minute video. 2001.
Otto, P. and R. Schneider. “Making a Difference: Influencing State Policy.” 25-minute video. 2002.
Otto, P. and R. Schneider. “Practicing Social Work in an Era Change.” 22-minute video, 2002.
Otto, P., M. White and R. Messina. “Working for Wildlife.” 30-minute video. 2002.
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Smith, T. “TV Reality vs. Real Reality.” The Global Economy: Changing Politics, Family and Society. Ed. L. Edwards. (St. Paul:
Paragon House, 2001) 215-42.
South, J. “Beach replenishment is on shaky ground.” The Virginian-Pilot. Aug. 30, 2001: B11.
South, J. “Golf: Ecological disaster or economic boon?” Chattanooga Times/ Chattanooga Free Press. April 29, 2001: F1.
South, J. “Is this any way to run a railroad?” Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal. Feb. 24, 2002: 12A.
South, J. “Learning on the Job” and “Training resources on the Net.” Quill. 89 (2001) 24-27.
South, J. “New graduates: Prepare for ‘techno-shock.’” Quill 90 (2002) 32-33.
South, J. “Return safety records to Web.” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Oct. 30, 2001: 15A.
South, J. “Teaching CAR.” Uplink. 13 (2001) 17.
South, J. Virginia environmental news roundups for the Summer 2001 and Fall 2001 issues of the SEJournal.
South, J. and R. Crocker. “Legislator gifts.” Uplink. 13 (2001) 14-15.
South, J. and M. Davis. “GIS lags: Why Johnny can’t map.” SEJournal. 10 (2001) 10-11.
South, J. “Checklist of Web Extras.” Web Design for the Mass Media. Ed. Bill Kovarik. Boston: Allyn and Bacon (2002) 63.
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Articles and Other Publications
Deveney, J., and D. Finston. “Ga Invariants and Slices.” Communications in Algebra. 30 (2002) 1437-1448.
Deveney, J. “The Zariski Problem on Field Extensions.” Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Supplement III. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, (2002) 453.
Ellington, A. J. “An Annotated List of Web Sites for Mathematics Educators.” Journal of Adventist Education. 63 (2001) 43-45.
Kent, C. M. “Convergence of Solutions in a Nonhyperbolic Case.” Journal of Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods, and
Applications. 47.7 (2001) 4651-4665.
Boyd, J. N., R. G. Hudepohl and P. N. Raychowdhury. “Using Mathematica to Compute Conjugacy Classes.” International
Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 32 (2001) 901-906.
Boyd, J. N., R. G. Hudepohl and P. N. Raychowdhury. “Frequencies of Vibration for a Circular Array of Masses Coupled
through their Displacements and Velocities.” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. 31 (2001) 3-15.
Boyd, J. N., R. G. Hudepohl and P. N. Raychowdhury. “Breaking the Symmetry of a Circular System of Coupled Harmonic
Oscillators.” International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. 29 (2002) 665-673.
Sedaghat, H. “Convergence, Oscillations and Chaos in a Discrete Model of Combat.” SIAM Review. 44.1 (2002).
Terrell, W. J. “Local Observability of Nonlinear Differential-algebraic Equation (DAE) from the Linearization along a
Trajectory.” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 46 (2001) 1947-1950.
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Articles and Other Publications
Coleman, E. J. “Funny, You Don’t Look One Hundred.” A review essay on One Hundred Years of Art in Israel, by Gideon Ofrat,
tr. by Peretz Kidron. Menorah Review. 52(Spring-Summer, 2001) 4–6.
Coleman, E. J. “Is ‘Process Thought’ Progress?” A review essay on Jewish Theology and Process Thought, ed. Sandra B. Lubarsky
and David Ray Griffin. Menorah Review. 51 (Winter 2001) 2–4.
Ellis, A. J. “Introduction.” War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing. Ed. Aleksandar Jokic. Oxford: Blackwell (2001) 1–26.
Ellis, A. J. “What Should We Do with War Criminals?” War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing. Ed. Aleksandar Jokic. Oxford:
Blackwell (2001) 97–112.
Ellis, A. J. “Casual Sex.” In Defense of Sin. Ed. John Portmann. New York: Palgrave (2001) 243–262.
Ellis, A. J. “Punishment.” The Encyclopedia Of Ethics. Ed. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker. London: Routledge,
2nd edn. (2001) 425–428.
Ellis, A. J. “Book Review of The World of Prometheus. The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens,” by Danielle, S. Allen.
Ethics. 111 (2001) 838.
Mills, E. M. “Introducing Personal Identity.” Teaching Philosophy. 24 (2001) 19–27.
Tideman, M. and P. V. Vallentyne. “Left-Libertarianism and Global Justice.” Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice.
Ed. Burton M. Leiser and Tom Campbell. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing (2001) 443–457.
Vallentyne, P. V. “Self-Ownership.” The Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker. London:
Routledge, 2nd edn. (2001) 1561–63.
Vallentyne, P. V. “Infinity in Ethics.” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, electronic expansion. Ed. Edward Craig. London: Routledge, (2001).
Vallentyne, P. V. “Book Review of On Fairness” by Craig Carr. The Philosophical Quarterly. 51 (2001) 417–418.
Ellis, A. J. Editor of Philosophical Books.
Vallentyne, P. V. Associate Editor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.
Department of Physics
Books
Niculescu, Adam. Wonders of Technology, 2nd edition. John Wiley & Sons-Custom, 2000.
Gowdy, Robert H. Foundations of Physics, Kendall/Hunt, 2002.
Articles and Other Publications
Huang, D., M. A. Reschikov, F. Yun, T. King, A. A. Baski, H. Morkoc. “Defect reduction with quantum dots in GaN grown on
sapphire substrates by molecular beam epitaxy,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 80 (2002) 216-218.
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Yun, F., P. Visconti, K. M. Jones, A. A. Baski, H. Morkoc, A. Passaseo, E. Piscopiello, M. Catalano, R. Cingolani,.
“Characterization of Inversion Domains in GaN by Electric Force Microscopy in Conjunction with Transmission Electron
Microscopy and Wet Chemical Etching,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. 680E (2001) E4.8.1-E4.8.6.
Baski, A. A., K. M. Saoud, K. M. Jones. “1-D Nanostructures Grown on the Si(5 5 12) Surface,” Appl. Surf. Sci. 182 (2001)
216-222.
Huang, D., P. Visconti, K. M. Jones, M. A. Reshchikov, F. Yun, A. A. Baski, T. King, H. Morkoc. “Dependence of GaN polarity
on the polarity on the parameters of the buffer layer grown by molecular beam epitaxy,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 (2001) 4145-
4187.
Baski, A. A., K. M. Saoud. “Au-Induced Faceting of Si(5 5 12),” Cluster Sci. 12 (2001) 521-535.
Jones, K. M., P. Visconti, F. Yun, A. A. Baski, H. Morkoc. “Investigation of Inversion Domains in GaN by Electric Force
Microscopy,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 (2001) 2497-2499.
Rao, B. K., P. Jena, S. Burkart, G. Gantefor, and G. Seifert. “AIH3 and AI2H6 – Magic Clusters with Unmagical Properties,”
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 692.
Pandey, R. N., B. K. Rao, P. Jena, and M. A Blanco. “Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Benzene
Complexes,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123 (2001) 3799.
Khanna, S. N., C. Ashman, B. K. Rao, P. Jena. “Geometry, Electronic Structure and Energetics of Copper Doped Aluminum
Clusters,” J. Chem. Phys. 114 (2001) 9792.
Rao, B. K., P. Jena, S. R. DeBiaggi. “Structure and Magnetic Properties of Fe-Ni Clusters,” Phys. Rev. B 64 (2001) 024418.
Nayak, S. K., P. Jena, V. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert. “Effect of Atomic Relaxation on the Magnetic Moment of Fe, Co, and Ni
Dimers Supported on Cu(001),” J. Surface Science. 491 (2001) 219.
Khanna, S. N., M. Beltran, P. Jena. “Relationship Between Photo-electron Spectroscopy and Magnetic Moment of Ni7 Clusters,”
Phys. Rev. B 64 (2001) 235419.
Gutsev, G. L., P. Jena, H. Wu, Lai-Sheng Wang. “Electronic Structure of Chromiun Oxide Molecules, CrOn-(n =1-5) from
Photoelectron Spectroscopy and ab initio Calculations,” J. Chem. Phys. 115 (2001) 7935.
Rao, B. K., P. Jena. “Caging of Ni Clusters by Benzene Molecule and its Subsequent Loss of Magnetism,” J. Chem. Phys. 116
(2002) 1343.
Rao, B. K., S. N. Khanna. Guest editors. Special Issue: “Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Workshop of the Consortium for
Nanostructured Materials,” Journal of Cluster Science 12.3 (2001) 441-535.
Reddy, B. V., S. C. Deevi, F. A. Reuse, S. N. Khanna. “Effect of Size, Disorder, and Impurities on Magnetism in FeAl,” Phys. Rev.
B 64 (2001) 132408.
Kortus, J., M. R. Pederson, S. C. Hellberg, and S. N. Khanna. “DFT Studies of the Molecular Nanomagnet Fe8 and the V15
Spin System-Electronic Structure and Magnetic Ordering,” Eur. Phys. J. D16 (2001) 177.
Reddy, B. V., D. H. Sastry, S. C. Deevi, S. N. Khanna. “Magnetic Coupling and Site Occupancy of Impurities in Fe3Al,” Phys.
Rev. B 64 (2001) 224419.
Martins, J. L., F. A. Reuse, S. N. Khanna. “Growth and Formation of Fullerene Clusters,” J. Clus. Sci. 12 (2001) 513.
Jena, P., S. N. Khanna, B. K. Rao. “The Role of Interface on the Properties of Cluster Assemblies,” J. Clus. Sci. 12, 443 (2001).
Ashman, C., S. N. Khanna, M. R. Pederson. “Dynamical Effects on the photo-detachment Spectra of Li4,” Chem. Phys. Lett.
351 (2002) 289.
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Gutsev, G. L., P. Jena, S. N. Khanna, B. K. Rao. “Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding of 3d-metal Dimers ScX, X = Sc
to Zn,” J. Chem. Phys. 114, 10738 (2001).
Rao, B. K., P. Jena. “Energetics and Electronic Structure of Carbon Doped Aluminum Clusters,” J. Chem. Phys. 115 (2001) 778.
Reddy, B. V., A. C. Lilly, S. C. Deevi, and P. Jena. “Electronic Structure Sub-stoichiometric Iron-Aluminide Cluster,” J. Phys.
Condens. Matter. 13 (2001) 8363.
Gutsev, G. L., S. N. Khanna, P. Jena. “Magnetic Excitations in Co2 Dimer,” Chem Phys. Lett. 345 (2001) 481.
Niculescu, A., P. Martin. “Teaching Conceptual Physics through Technology,” Science and Technology Education, Proceedings
of the 1st IOSTE Conference in Southern Europe, (2001) 215.
Schwarz, K., K. Hencken, H. Rebel, C. Samanta, M. Fujiwara. “Elastic Scattering and Breakup of 699MeV 6Li-Projectiles in the
Glauber Model Approach,” Euro. Phys. J (Communicated, March 2002).
Kanungo, R., M. Chiba, N. Iwasa, S. Nishimura, A. Ozawa, C. Samanta, T. Suda, T. Suzuki, T. Yamaguchi, T. Zheng, I. Tanihata.
“Experimental evident of core modification in near drip-line nucleus 23O,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 142501.
Samanta, C., S. Adhikari. “Extension of Bethe-Weiszacker mass formula to light nuclei and some new shell closures,” Phys. Rev.
C 65 (2002) 037301.
Gupta, D., C. Samanta. “Inelastic scattering of protrons from 6,8He and 7,11Li in a folding model approach,” J. Phys. G: Nucl.
Part. Phys. 28 (2002) 85-94.
Samanta, C. “Physics with loosely bound nuclei,” Pramana-Jour. Phys. 57 (2001) 519.
Gupta, D., C. Samanta, R. Kanungo, P. Basu, Roy Subinit, S. Kailas, A. Chatterjee,B. J. Roy, K. Mahata, A. Samant, A.
Shrivastava. “Breakup of 42 MeV7Li projectiles in the fields f 12C and 197Au nuclei,” Pramana-Jour. Phys. 57 (2001) 209.
Gupta, D., C. Samanta, A. Chatterjee, S. Kailas, B. J. Roy, K. Mahata, A. Shrivastava. “Measurement of 42 MeV7Li projectile
breakup on 208Pb target near Grazing Incidence,” Nucl. Phys. A. 683 (2001).
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Books
Hutchinson, J. R. and C. E. Sudia. Failed Child Welfare Policy: Family Preservation and the Orphaning of Child Welfare,
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
Articles and Other Publications
Banks, M. E. “Book Review of Farther Along: A Civil rights Memoir” by Marvin Caplan. Politics and Policy, March, 2002.
Cargo, R. A. and S. Urofsky. Research Report, An Evaluation Report of the Especially for Nonprofits Nonprofit Management
Certificate Program, Richmond: The Community Foundation, 2001
Cargo, R. A. and E. R. Cargo. “Book Review Managing Change in Museums: Guidance and Experience to Help,” Nonprofit
Management and Leadership, John Wiley and Sons, Vol. 11, Number 4, (Summer 2001): 499-503.
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Cargo, R. A. “What to Do: Nonprofit Managers and the Economy,” NonProfit Times. 16.4 (February 16, 2002) 19-23.
Cargo, R. A. “Introduction” Sample Job Descriptions in Fundraising, AFP Tool Kit Series, Alexandria: Association of
Fundraising Professionals, 2002.
Condit, D. and C. Fox. “Attitudes of Virginia Citizens towards Issues of Reproductive Freedom: A Report to Planned Parenthood
of Richmond,” 2001.
Farmer, D. J., et. al. “Introduction” and “Questions” in “Constructing a Civil Space: A Dialogue,” Administration and Society.
43.1 (2002) 87-129.
Farmer, D. J. “Mapping Anti-Administration: Introduction to the Symposium,” Administrative Theory and Praxis, 23.4 (2001)
475-492.
Farmer, D. J. “The Discourses of Anti-Administration,” in Jon S. Jun, ed. Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge of
the New Century. Westport, CT: Praeger (2001) 271-289.
Farmer, D. J. “Medusa: Helene Cixous and the Writing of Laughter,” Administrative Theory and Praxis. 23.4 (2001) 559-572.
Farmer, D. J. “Somatic Writing: Attending to Our Bodies,” Administrative Theory and Praxis. 23.2, (2001) 436-439.
Farmer, D. J. “Tonto and the Lone Ranger: Concepts Reveal, Concepts Mask,” Administrative Theory and Praxis. 23.3 (2001)
459-466.
Farmer, D. J. “September 11th,” Administrative Theory and Praxis. 23.2 (2001) 459-466.
Farmer, D. J. “The Biospiritual Awakening,” Book Review of Three Books, Public Performance and Management Review. 24.2
(June 2001) 436-446.
Funk, C. L. “Process Performance: Public Relations to Legislative Policy Debate,” What is It About Government that
Americans Dislike? eds. John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Hambrick, R. “Riverside Drive: Access and the Best Use of the River,” James River Reach, 2.1 (Richmond: James River
Council, 2001).
Hambrick, R. Book Review of” Journey on the James” by Earl Swift in James River Reach, 3.1, (Richmond: James River
Council, 2002).
Hirsch, H. “Reflections on Ethics, Morality, and Responsibility After the Holocaust” Anti-Genocide: Building a Movement to
Prevent Genocide, 2002.
Hutchinson, J. R. “Multigendering PA: Anti-Administration, Anti-Blues,” Administrative Theory and Praxis. 23.4 (2001) 589-
603.
Newmann, W. “National Missile Defense and Deterrence: Stability is in the Eye of the Beholder,” working paper series, (St
Louis: Washington University Press), http://wc.wustl.edu.
Twigg, J. “Russian Health Care Reform at the Regional Level: Status and Impact,” Post-Soviet Geography and Economics. 42.3
(2001) 202-219.
Twigg, J. “Scenarios for Russia – Health Care, 2015,” http://www.club2015.ru/eng/index.asp?FolderID={00000000-0000-0000-
0000-000000000008}
Wikstrom, N. “The Race for the House,” Virginia Capital Connections, Fall 2001.
Wikstrom, N. “The General Assembly Session in Retrospect,” Virginia Capital Connections, Spring 2001.
Wikstrom, N. “The 2002 General Assembly Session,” Virginia Capital Connections, Spring 2002.
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Books
Leahey, T. H. A History of Modern Psychology, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
McCullough, J. P. Skills Training Manual for Diagnosing and Treating Chronic Depression: Cognitive Behavioral Analysis
System of Psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Press, 2001.
Worthington, E. L., Jr. Five Steps To Forgiveness: The Art and Science of Forgiving. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.
Worthington, E. L., Jr. Marriage Counseling: A Christian Approach To Counseling Couples. (Korean translation), 2001.
Articles and Other Publications
Allison, K. W., J. Henry, H. Fabelo, M. Chapin, and C. Howard. “Integrating Services and Training: The Carver Health Project:
Lessons From An Interdisciplinary Training Model.” Universities and Community Schools. 7 (2001-02) 1-2, 95-105.
Auerbach, S. M. “Do Patients Want Control Over Their Own Health Care?: A Review of Measures, Findings, and Research
Issues.” Journal of Health Psychology. 6 (2001) 191-203.
Auerbach, S. M., D. M. Laskin, L. Frantsve and T. Orr. “Depression, Pain, Exposure To Stressful Life Events and Long-Term
Outcomes in Temporomandibular Disorder Patients.” Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 59 (2001) 628-633.
Berry, J. W., and E. L. Worthington, Jr. “Forgiveness, Relationship Quality, Stress While Imagining Relationship Events, and
Physical and Mental Health.” Journal of Counseling Psychology. 49 (2001) 287-310.
Berry, J. W., E. L. Worthington, Jr., L. Parrott, III, L. O’Connor, and N. G. Wade. “Dispositional Forgivingness: Development
and Construct Validity of the Transgression Narrative Test of Forgivingness (TNTF).” Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin. 27 (2001) 1277-1290.
Compton, A. D., J. E. Slemmer, M. R. Drew, J. M. Hyman, K. M. Golden, R. L. Balster, R.L., and J. L. Wiley. “Combinations of
Clozapine and Phencyclidine: Effects on Drug Discrimination and Behavioral Inhibition in Rats.” Neuropharmacology. 40
(2001) 289-297.
Danish, S. “The First Tee: Teaching Youth to Succeed in Golf and Life.” Optimising Performance in Golf. P.R. Thomas (Ed).
(2001) 67-74. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Academic Press.
Danish, S. “Sport psychology: Performance Enhancement.” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. N. J.
Smelser and P. B. Baltes (Eds.). 22 (2001) 14924-8.
Buzzard I. M., C. A. Stanton, M. Figueiredo, E. A. Fries, R. Nicholson, C. J. Hogan and S. J. Danish. “Development and
Reproducibility of a Brief Food Frequency Questionnaire for Assessing the Fat, Fiber, and Fruit and Vegetable Intakes of Rural
Adolescents.” Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 101 (2001) 1438-46.
Corrigall, W. A., M. Zack, T. Eissenberg, L. Belsito, and R. Scher. “Topography and Subjective Effects of Smoking in Adolescent
Cigarette Smokers.” Addiction. 96 (2001) 1409-1417.
Buchhalter A. R., L. Schrinel, and T. Eissenberg. “Withdrawal Suppressing Effects of A Novel Smoking System: Comparison
with Own Brand, Not Own Brand, and Denicotinized Cigarettes.” Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 3 (2001) 111-118.
Zack, M., L. Belsito, R. Scher, T. Eissenberg and W. A. Corrigall. “Effects of Abstinence and Smoking on Information Processing
in Adolescent Smokers.” Psychopharmacology. 153 (2001) 249-257.
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White, K. S., and A. D. Farrell. “Structure of Anxiety Symptoms in Urban Children: Competing Factor Models of the Revised
Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale.” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 69 (2001) 333-337.
Farrell, A. D., A. L. Meyer, E. M. Kung, and T. N. Sullivan. “Development and Evaluation of School-Based Violence
Prevention Programs.” Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. 30 (2001) 207-220.
Farrell, A. D., A. L. Meyer, and K. S. White. “Evaluation of Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP): A School-
Based Prevention Program for Reducing Violence among Urban Adolescents.” Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. 30
(2001) 451-463.
Farrell, A. D. “Are we there yet?” Review of Innovations in Computerized Assessment. Contemporary Psychology. 46 (2001)
12-14.
Forsyth, D. R. “Therapeutic Groups.” Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology, M. A. Hogg and R. S. Tindale (Eds.). 3 (2001)
Group Processes 628-659 Oxford, UK: Blackwell
Forsyth, D. R. “Breaking Standards of Morality when Studying Morality: Case Commentaries.” Ethics and Behavior. 11 (2001)
349-352.
Garner, P. W., and K. M. Estep. “Empathy and Emotional Expressivity.” In J. Worrell (Ed.) Encyclopedia of gender. New York:
Academic Press, (2001) 391-402.
Garner, P. W., and K. M. Estep. “Emotional Competence, Emotion Socialization, and Young Children’s Peer-Related Social
Competence.” Early Education and Development. 12 (2001) 29-48.
Schwartz, Steve, Sandra Gramling and Revonda Grayson. “Stress Induced Oral Behaviors and Facial Pain.” International Journal
of Stress Management. 8 (2001) 1, 35-47.
Hamm, R. J. “Neurobehavioral Assessment of Outcome Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats: An Evaluation of Selected
Measures.” Journal of Neurotrauma. 18 (2001) 1207-16.
DeFord, S. M., M. S. Wilson, C. J. Gibson, A. Baranova and R. J. Hamm. “Nefiracetam Improves Morris Water Maze
Performance Following Traumatic Brain Injury In Rats.” Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. 69 (2001) 611 - 616.
Varvel, S. A., R. J. Hamm, B. R. Martin, and A. H. Lichtman. “Differential Effects of Delta9-THC on Spatial Reference and
Working Memory in Mice.” Psychopharmacology. 157 (2001) 142 - 150.
Temple, M. D., T. M. Delahunty, R. J. Hamm, L. L. Phillips, B. G. Lyeth, and J. T. Povlishock. “Subtle Alterations in NMDA-
Stimulated Cyclic GMP Levels Following Lateral Fluid Percussion Brain Injury.” Journal of Neurotrauma. 18 (2001) 47-55.
Baranova, A., M. S. Wilson, C. Gibson, R. J. Hamm. “The Effects of Chronic Nicotine Exposure in Adolescent Rats on the
Morris Water Maze Performance.” Journal of Neurotrauma. 18 (2001) 1184.
Sun, D. A., S. Sombati, C. J. Gibson, M. S. Wilson, R. J. Hamm, R. J. DeLorenzo. “Traumatic Brain Injury Results in Prolonged
Alterations in Calcium Homeostasis.” Journal of Neurotrauma. 18 (2001) 1178.
Chen, T., A. Rice, R. Zsoldos, M. S. Wilson, R. J. Hamm, R. M. Bullock. “Lactate Administration Attenuates Cognitive Deficits
Following Traumatic Brain Injury.” Journal of Neurotrauma. 18 (2001) 1171.
Kurz, J. E., C. J. Gibson, R. J. Hamm, S. B., Churn. “Moderate Fluid Percussion Injury Increases both Basal and Maximal
Calcineurin Activity in Rat Forebrain Homogenates.” Journal of Neurotrauma. 18 (2001) 1127.
Ingram, K. M., N. E. Betz, E. J. Mindes, M. M. Schmitt, and N. G. Smith. “Unsupportive Responses from Others Concerning a
Stressful Life Event: Development of the Unsupportive Social Interactions Inventory.” Journal of Social and Clinical
Psychology. 20 (2001) 173-207.
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Ingram, K. M., D. A. Jones, and N. G. Smith. “Adjustment among People Who Have Experienced AIDS-Related Multiple Loss:
The Role of Unsupportive Social Interactions, Social Support, and Coping.” Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 43 (2001)
287-309.
Kliewer, W., L. Murrelle, R. Mejia, Y. Torres, and A. Angold. “Exposure To Violence Against a Family Member and Internalizing
Symptoms In Colombian Adolescents: The Protective Effects of Family Support.” Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology. 69 (2001) 971-982.
Plybon, L. E., and W. Kliewer. “Neighborhood Types and Externalizing Behavior in Urban School-Age Children: Tests of
Direct, Mediated and Moderated Effects.” Journal of Child and Family Studies. 10 (2001) 419-437.
Mazzeo, S. E., M. E. Bergman, N. Buchanan-Biddle, F. Drasgow, and L. F. Fitzgerald. “Situation Specific Assessment of Sexual
Harassment.” Journal of Vocational Behavior. 59 (2001) 120-131.
Kornstein, S. G., A. F. Schatzberg, M. E. Thase, K. A. Yonkers, J. P. McCullough, G. I. Keitner, A. J. Gelenberg, S. M. Davis,
and M. B. Keller. “Dr. Kornstein and Colleagues Reply to Quitkin and Stewart.” American Journal of Psychiatry. 158 (2001)
1532-1533.
Polce-Lynch, M., B. Myers, W. Kliewer, and C. Kilmartin. “Adolescent Self-Esteem and Gender: Exploring Relations to Sexual
Harassment, Body Image, Media Influence, and Emotional Expression.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 30 (2001) 225-244.
Southam-Gerow, M. A. “Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Youth.” Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: Epidemiology,
Risk Factors, and Treatment. C. A. Essau & F. Petermann (Eds.). (2001): 219-260. East Sussex, UK: Brunner-Routledge.
Weisz, J. R., M. A. Southam-Gerow, and C. A. McCarty. “Control-Related Beliefs and Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms in
Clinic-Referred Children and Adolescents.” Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 110 (2001) 97-109.
Southam-Gerow, M. A., P.C. Kendall, and V. R. Weersing. “Examining Outcome Variability: Correlates of Treatment Response
in a Child and Adolescent Anxiety Clinic.” Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. 30 (2001) 422-436.
Stern, M., S. Moritzen, S. Carmel, and M. Olexa-Andrews. “The Prematurity Stereotype in Israeli Health Care Providers.”
Medical Education. 35 (2001) 129-133.
McCaul, M. E., D. S. Svikis, and R. D. Moore. “Predictors of Outpatient Treatment Retention: Patient Versus Substance Use
Characteristics.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 62.1, (2001) 9-17.
Moylan, P., H. Jones, N. Haug, W. Kissin, and D. S. Svikis. “Clinical and Psychosocial Characteristics of Substance-Dependent
Women With and Without PTSD.” Addictive Behaviors. 26.3 (2001) 69-474.
Silverman, K., D. S. Svikis, E. Robles, M. Stitzer, and G. Bigelow. “A Therapeutic Workplace for the Treatment of Drug Abuse:
6-Month Abstinence Outcomes.” Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 9 (2001) 14-23.
Tran, G. Q., D. A. Bux, N. A., Haug, M. L. Stitzer, and D. S. Svikis. “MMPI-2 Typology of Pregnant Drug Dependent Women.”
Psychological Assessment. 13 (2001) 333-346.
Johnson, R. E., H. E. Jones, D. R. Jasinski, D. S. Svikis, N. Haug, L. Jansson, W. B. Kissin, G. Alpan, M.E. Lantz, E. J. Cone, A.
S. Golden, G. R. Huggins, and B. Lester. “Buprenorphine Treatment of Pregnant Opioid-Dependent Women: Maternal and
Neonatal Outcomes.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 63 (2001) 97-103.
Haug, N., M. Stitzer, and D. S. Svikis. “Smoking During Pregnancy and Intention to Quit: A Profile of Methadone-Maintained
Women.” Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 3 (2001) 333-339.
Kissin, W. B., D. S. Svikis, G. D. Morgan, and N. A. Haug. “Psychosocial Characteristics of Pregnant Drug Dependent Women
in Treatment and Their Children.” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 21 (2001) 27-34.
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Miles, D. R., D. S. Svikis, J. L. Kulstad, and N. A. Haug. “Psychopathology in Pregnant Drug Dependent Women With and
Without Comorbid Alcohol Dependence.” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 25 (2001) 1012-1017.
Jones, H., N. Haug, K. Silverman, M. Stitzer, and D. S. Svikis. “The Effectiveness of Incentives in Enhancing Treatment
Retention and Drug Abstinence in Methadone-Maintained Pregnant Women.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 61.3 (2001)
297-306.
Lauterbach, D., and S. Vrana. “The Relationship among Personality Variables, Exposure to Traumatic Events, and Severity of
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.” Journal of Traumatic Stress. 14 (2001) 29-45.
Worthington, E. L., Jr. “Unforgiveness, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation In Societies.” Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion,
Public Policy, and Conflict Transformation. Raymond G. Helmick & Rodney L. Petersen (Eds.) (Philadelphia: The
Templeton Foundation Press, 2001) 161-182.
Worthington, E. L., Jr. “Incorporating the Spiritual in Professional and Personal Life.” Spirituality in Clinical Practice:
Incorporating Spiritual Dimension In Psychotherapy and Counseling, by Len Sperry (2001) 184-187.
Worthington, E. L., Jr., and S. J. Sandage. “Religion and Spirituality in Psychotherapy.” Psychotherapy. 38, 473-478.
Worthington, E. L., Jr., J. W. Berry, and L. Parrott, III. “Unforgiveness, Forgiveness, Religion, and Health.” Faith and Health:
Psychological Perspectives. T. G. Plante & A. Sherman (Eds.), (2001) 107-138, New York: Guilford.
Berry, J. T., and E. L. Worthington, Jr. “A General Model of Coping with Sexual Attraction in Professional Relationships: A
Study of Psychologists, Ministers, and Managers.” Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal. 4 (2001) 287-310.
Clark, C. A., E. L. Worthington, Jr., S. N. Baier, J. W. Berry, N. G. Wade, and D. E. Canter, “Predicting Coping With Sexual
Attraction To an Opposite-Gender Friend Using The Investment Model of Commitment.” Marriage and Family: A Christian
Journal. 4 (2001) 425-439.
Heizenroth, W. R., and E. L. Worthington, Jr. “The Role of Love in How People Cope With Sexual Attraction to Someone
Who Is Not a Primary Romantic Partner.” Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal. 4 (2001) 313-322.
Perrone, K. M., and E. L. Worthington, Jr. “Factors Influencing Ratings of Marital Quality Within Dual-Career Marriages: A
Conceptual Model.” Journal of Counseling Psychology. 48 (2001) 3-9.
Ripley, J. S., L. Parrott, III, E. L. Worthington, Jr., L. Parrott, and C. Smith. “An Initial Empirical Examination of the Parrott’s
Marriage Mentoring: Training the Program Coordinators.” Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal. 4 (2001) 77-93.
Ripley, J. S., and E. L. Worthington, Jr. “Married Christians’ Preferences For and Expectations of Christian and Non-Christian
Therapists and Interventions.” American Journal of Family Therapy. 29 (2001) 39-58.
Worthington, E. L., Jr. “Aconselhando Relacionamentos [Relationship counseling].” Aconselhamento: O Jornal do
Aconselhamento Cristao Evangelico no Brasil [Brazilian Journal of Counseling]. 1.1 (2001) 39-48. [Original article, translated
into Portuguese by Robson Gomes]
Worthington, E. L., Jr., K. Bursley, J. T. Berry, M. E. McCullough, S. N. Baier, J. W. Berry, N. G. Wade, and D. E. Canter.
“Religious Belief and Practice and Ways of Coping with Sexual Attraction.” Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal. 4
(2001) 411-423.
Worthington, E. L., Jr., W. R. Heizenroth, J. T. Berry, and J.W. Berry. “Development of the Coping with Unwanted Sexual
Situations (CUSS) Scale.” Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal. 4 (2001) 263-284.
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Articles and other Publications
Edwards, C. “Review of Derrida Remembers Levinas.” Menorah Review. 53 (Fall 2001) 5-6.
Edwards, C. “Review of Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism.” Menorah Review. 55
(Spring/Summer 2002) 1.
Swenson-Mendez, K. “Religious Conversion: A Filmic Representation.” Religious Studies in Theology. 19.2, 53-69.
Swenson-Mendez, K. “Review of Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text and The Biography of Ancient Israel:
National Narratives of the Bible.” Menorah Review. 55 (Spring/Summer 2002) 4-5.
Wadud, A. “Beyond Interpretation.” Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum. 27.1(Feb./Mar. 2002) 50.
Wadud, A. “Islam and Women as Agents of Peace and Human Rights.” A Woman’s Place. Ed. A. Karam. (N.Y.: World
Conference on Religion and Peace, 2001) 165-180.
Wood, M. “Cornel West.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. Ed. C. Winquist. (New York: Routledge, 2001).
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Books
Bromley, D. G. and J. G. Melton (eds.). Cults, Religion, and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Croteau, D. R. and W. Hoynes. Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences. 3rd Edition, Boston: Pine Forge Press, 2002.
Lyng, S. G. and D. Franks. Sociology and Real World. New York: Rowman and Littefield Press, 2002.
Articles and other Publications
Creighton-Zollar, Ann. “Using Diverse Collaborative Workgroups to Overcome the Digital Divide,” Journal of Teaching in
Marriage and the Family. (In press)
Bromley, D.G., and J. G. Melton. “Violence and Religion in Perspective,” Cults, Religion, and Violence. Bromley and Melton
(eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Bromley, D.G. “A Tale of Two Theories: Brainwashing and Conversion as Competing Political Narratives,” Misunderstanding
Cults. Zablocki and Robbins (eds.), University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Bromley, D.G. “Dramatic Denouments,” Cults, Religion, and Violence. Bromley and Melton, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Melton, J. G. and D. G. Bromley. “Challenging Misconceptions about the New Religions-Violence Connection,” Cults,
Religion, and Violence. Bromley and Melton, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Melton, J. G. and D. G. Bromley. “Lessons from the Past, Perspective for the Future,” Cults, Religion, and Violence. Bromley
and Melton, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Bromley, D. G. “Covenant,” Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. NY: Routledge/Berkshire Reference, 2001.
Hancock, L. and N. W. Henry. “Perceptions, Norms and Tobacco Use in College Students: Evaluation of the Social Norms
Marketing Intervention,” The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse, H.W.
Perkins (ed), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002.
Bradford, J., J. White, J. A. Honnold, C. Ryan, and E. Rothblum. “Improving the Accuracy of Identifying Lesbians for Telephone
Surveys about Health,” Women’s Health Issues. 11.2 (2001) 126-137.
Bradford, J., C. Ryan, J. A. Honnold, and E. Rothblum. “Expanding the Research Infrastructure for Lesbian Health.” American
Journal of Public Health. 91.7 (2001) 1029-1032.
Aaron, D. J., N. Markovic, M. E. Danielson, J. A. Honnold, J. E. Janosky, and N. J. Schmidt. “Behavioral Risk Factors for
Disease and Preventive Health Practices among Lesbians.” American Journal of Public Health. 91.6 (2001) 972-975.
Bradford, J., J. A. Honnold, and M. E. Rives. “Resource Allocation Effectiveness of RWCA Title 11 Consortia in Virginia,”
AIDS and Public Policy. 15.1 (2000) 29-42.
Lyng, S. G., J. Ferrell, and D. Miovanovic. “Edgework, media practices, and elongation of meaning: A theoretical ethnography of
the Blue Day Event,” Theoretical Criminology. 5 (May 2001) 177-202.
Lyng, S. G. “Gideon Sjoberg and the counter system method.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction. 25 (2002) 91-107.
Nelson, L. D. and I. Y. Kuzes. “Democratisation and Autocracy: A Study of Sverdlovsk,” The Legacy of State Socialism and the
Future of Transformation, New York: Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2002.
Smedley, A. Y. “Adventures in an Unchartable Field,” Annual Review of Anthropology, in W. Durham, et. al. (eds.). 30
(September 2001) 1-19.
Smedley, A. Y. “Social Origins of the idea of Race,” Race in the 21st Century America, C. Stokes, et. al. (eds.), Lansing, MI:
Michigan State University Press, 2001.
Smedley, A. Y. “Science and the Idea of Race,” Race and Intelligence: Separating Science from Myth, J. M. Fish (ed.), Mahwah,
NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Turner, C. “Cultural continuity and change in Gremio fiestas in Yucatan,” MACLAS Essays XIV. (2002) 121-32.
Mahoney, J. S. The Urban World-Test Bank, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co, 2002.
Smedley, A. Y. “Comment on Len Lieberman’s ‘How Caucasoids got such big crania and why they shrank,’ “ Current
Anthropology. 42.1 (2001) 86-7.
Smedley, A. Y. “Review of Joseph Graves, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes,’ “ American Ethnologists. 29.2 (2002).
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research
Books
Mays, D. P. Supplement to Basic Practice of Statistics, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing, 2001.
Mays, J. E. and R. E. Johnson. Supplement to STAT 208: Statistical Thinking, Sixth Edition, Southwestern College Publishing,
2001.
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Articles and other Publications
Mays, D. P. “Bayesian Modification to the Two –Stage Experimental Design Procedure with Near-Saturated Designs and
Heterogeneous Variance,” abstract in Virginia Journal of Science. 52.2 (2001) 131.
Mays, J. E. “Capturing Nonconformity Points in Regression,” InterStat. 3 (2001) 1-25. Published online at
http;//interstat.stat.vt.edu/interstat/ARTICLES/2001/abstracts/G010003.html-ssi.
Mays, J. E., and J. B. Birch. “Small-Sample Model-Robust Confidence Intervals in Regression,” Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 5-9, 2001.
Mays, J. E. “Small-Sample Model-Robust Confidence Intervals in Regression,” 2001 Abstracts, Joint Statistical Meetings,
Atlanta, GA, August 2001.
Mays, J. E. “Capturing Nonconformity Points in Regression,” abstract in Virginia Journal of Science. 52.2 (2002) 131.
Merrick, J. R. W., J. R. van Dorp, T. A. Mazzuchi, and J. R. Harrald. “Modeling Risk in the Dynamic Environment of Maritime
Transportation,” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference. 2001, 1090-1098.
Norback, J. S., D. C. Llewellyn, and J. R. Hardin. “Intergrating Workplace Communication into Undergraduate Engineering
Curricula,” ORMS Today. 28.4 (2001) 33-35.
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Books
Brooks, M. P. Planning Theory for Practitioners. Chicago: Planners Press, 2002.
Rogalsky, J. and H. R. Aspaas. Instructor’s Resource Manual and Video Guide for World Regional Geography. New York: W. H.
Freeman Publishers, 2002.
Rogalsky, J. and H. R. Aspaas. Working with World Regional Geography. New York: W. H. Freeman Publishers, 2002.
Yusuf, S., S. Evenett and W. Wu, editors. Facets of Globalization: International and Local Dimensions of Development.
Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2001.
Articles and other Publications
Accordino, J. “The Struggle for Defense Conversion in Post-Cold War USA.” International Restructuring and Conversion of
the Arms Industries and the Military Sector. Wolfram Elsner (ed). LIT Verlag Muenster-Hamburg-Berlin-London, 2001.
Malizia, E. E. and J. Accordino. “Addressing Risk and Uncertainty in Inner-City Redevelopment Projects.” News and Views,
(Winter 2002) American Planning Association Economic Development Division.
Malizia, E. E. and J. Accordino. Urban Redevelopment Project Financing. Richmond: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 2001.
Brooks, M. P. “Local Government Experience with Dillon’s Rule in Virginia: Findings of a December 2000 Survey of Selected
Local Officials.” Richmond: The Richmond First Club in cooperation with the Virginia Association of Counties and the
Virginia Municipal League, February 2002.
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Faculty Publications
Garcia, M. Parable of “How Shall I Manage this Forest.” ACSP Update. (September-October 2001) University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Smith, J. E. and M. W. Garcia.”From Superfund Site to Developable Property: The Case of Rentokil.” Journal of Environmental
Planning and Management. 45.2 (2002) 157-179.
Syphard, A. and M. W. Garcia. “Human- and Beaver induced Wetland chances in the Chickahominy River Watershed from
1953 to 1994.” Wetlands. 21.3 (2001) 342-353.
Moeser, J. V. “Richmond Free Press Like the Richmond Planet.” Commentary Invited by the Editor of the Richmond Free Press
in Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Newspaper. Special 10th Anniversary Edition. March 28-30, 2002.
Rugg, R. D. and W. Wu. “Development of Sub-City Urban Indicators in China and Guatemala.” UCGIS. Leesburg VA, January
1, 2002.
Rugg, R. D. “Spatial and Attribute Similarity in a Temporal GIS Database: Final Report.” University of Maine, Department of
Spatial Information Science and Engineering: Orono ME, April 25, 2002.
Wu, W. “Labor Mobility in China: An Evaluation of a Ford Foundation Program in Beijing 1997 - 2001.” Beijing: Ford
Foundation, Beijing Office (November 2001).
Wu, W. “Rejuvenating a Cosmopolitan Culture: Globalization and Shanghai’s Cultural Industries.” The Culture and Economy of
Cities in Pacific Asia. Ed. Won Bae Kim (Seoul: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Research Report 2001).
Wu, W. “Review of Women’s Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam by Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield.” Journal
of the American Planning Association. (Summer 2001).
Wu, W. “Temporary Migrants in Shanghai: Housing and Settlement Patterns.” Globalization, Market Reform, and the New
Chinese City. Ed.: John R. Logan. (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002).
Wu, W. “Shanghai.” Mega Cities Atlas. Ed. GEOSPACE Austria in cooperation with the European Space Agency. Vienna,
Austria: GEOSPACE, 2001.
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Research

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242

Sponsored Research
New Awards
Department/Program Internal External
Department of African American Studies 0.00 0.00
Department of Archaeology Services 0.00 0.00
Department of Biology 0.00 1,579,717.00
Center for Environmental Studies 0.00 461,256.00
Department of Chemistry 0.00 1,821,849.00
Department of Criminal Justice 0.00 10,937.00
Department of English 0.00 27,500.00
Department of Foreign Languages 0.00 0.00
Department of History 0.00 0.00
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 0.00 1,821,720.00
School of Mass Communications 0.00 0.00
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies 0.00 0.00
Department of Physics 0.00 802,960.00
Department of Political Science and Public Administration 0.00 27,000.00
Department of Psychology 0.00 5,751,937.00
Department of Sociology and Anthropology 0.00 0.00
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research 0.00 7,400
Department of Urban Studies and Planning 0.00 67,911.00
Office of the Dean 0.00 0.00
College of Humanities and Sciences Total 0.00 12,380,187.00
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Continuing Awards
Department/Program Internal External Program
Department of African American Studies 0.00 0.00 0.00
Department of Archaeology Services 0.00 0.00 0.00
Department of Biology 5,908.00 1,372,448.00 1,378,365.00
Center for Environmental Studies 0.00 303,775.00 303,775.00
Department of Chemistry 0.00 2,001,285.00 2,001,285.00
Department of Criminal Justice 0.00 48,825.00 48,825.00
Department of English 7,000.00 33,000.00 40,000.00
Department of Foreign Languages 0.00 0.00 0.00
Department of History 7,000.00 200.00 7,200.00
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathmatics 0.00 1,185,000.00 1,185,000.00
School of Mass Communications 0.00 47,056.00 47,056.00
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies 0.00 46,000.00 46,000.00
Department of Physics 0.00 464,012.00 464,012.00
Department of Political Science and Public Administration 0.00 14,400.00 14,400.00
Department of Psychology 8,000.00 3,430,416.00 3,438,416.00
Department of Sociology and Anthropology 0.00 0.00 0.00
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research 0.00 0.00 0.00
Department of Urban Studies and Planning 0.00 539,916.00 539,916.00
Office of the Dean 0.00 0.00 0.00
College of Humanities and Sciences Total 27,908.00 9,486,333.00 9,514,241.00
Subtotal from New Awards 0.00 12,380,187.00 12,380,187.00
Combined Total - continuing and new 27,908.00 21,866,520.00 21,894,428.00
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New Awards by Department 2001-2002
Department of Biology
Brown, Bonnie 29,940.00
Isolation and Analysis of Molecular Markers for Genome Mapping of Oysters
Jeffress Memorial Trust
Eggleston, William 10,000.00
Characterization of Epiallellism at the Maize r1 Locus
Jeffress Memorial Trust
Elhai, Jeffrey 157,161.00
DNA Modification and Redulation over Patterned Heterocyst Differentiation
National Science Foundation
Fisher, Robert 36,415.00
JSRCC/VSU Bridges to Baccalaurete Degree
J. S. Reynolds, Community College
Kester, Karen 376,400.00
Local Insect Communities as Biohazard Sentinels
U.S. Department of Defense
Pagels, John 10,000.00
A Study of the Northern Flying Squirrel
United States Department of Agriculture
Pagels, John 1,250.00
Genetic Viability and Population Health Assesment of the Northern Flying Squirrel
Virginia Academy of Science
Pagels, John 3,000.00
Habitat Use, Movements, Parasite Load and Genetic Viability of the
Endangered Northern Flying Squirrel in South Western Virginia
Virginia Department Conservation & Recreation
Pagels, John and Mundy Hackett 603.00
The Northern Flying Squirrel: an Endangered Pleistocene Relict in Southwestern VA
Virginia Academy of Science
Plunkett, Gregory 10,000.00
Interpreting Biogeographic Patterns in Araliaceae
Jeffress Memorial Trust
Ryan, John 220,519.00
Stat5 Function in Proliferation and Leukemogenesis
National Institutes of Health
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Ryan, John 220,060.00
Molecular Analysis of Gene Regulation By IL4R Alpha
National Institutes of Health
Ryan, John 17,237.00
Molecular Analysis of Gene Regulation by IL4R Apha
National Institutes of Health
Smock, Leonard 31,858.00
Long Term Biological Characterization of Water Quality of the Polecat Creek
Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Department
Smock, Leonard 25,850.00
Odonate Biodiversity in Western North Carolina - Nantahala District
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Smock , Leonard 25,100.00
Odonate Biodiversity in Western North Carolina - Pisgah District
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Smock, Leonard and John Anderson 50,000.00
Integration of Multiband Imagery into Resource Monitoring at the Operations Level
Virginia Department of Transportation Research Council
Smock, Leonard and John Anderson 40,000.00
Spectral Florescence Remote Sensing Technology
U.S. Department of Defense
Smock, Leonard and Gregory Garman 51,313.00
Age and Growth Analysis of Virginia Fishes
Virgnia Department Game Inland Fisher
Stewart, Jennifer 120,000.00
Catecholamines in Macrophages
National Science Foundation
Stewart, Jennifer 24,500.00
Novel Regulators of Catecholamines in Macrophages
Jeffress Memorial Trust
Turbeville, James 82,747.00
Inferring the Phylogenetic Position of the Acoelomate Bilateria
with Mitochondrial Gene Arrangements
National Science Foundation
Young, Donald 25,765.00
Fluorescence Remote Sensing and Plant Stress
U.S. Department of Defense
Young, Donald 9,999.00
Spatial Temporal Variations in Shrub Colonization
University of Virginia
Total Awards 1,579,717.00
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Center for Environmental Studies
Fox, Clifford 35,315.00
Air Quality Public Education Campain
Metropolitan Washington Council for Government
Fox, Clifford 114,095.00
Y2K Implementation Assistance
U.S. Department of Commerce
Fox, Clifford 38,229.00
Episodic Survey Services for the Washington/Baltimore Clean Air Partners
Metropolitan Washington Council of Government
Garman, Gregory 27,500.00
Enhanced Aquatic Resources Component for the
2002 Biennal Nonpoint Source Water Quality Assessment
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Garman, Gregory 45,890.00
Pilot Study to Develop Technical Standards
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Garman, Gregory 26,800.00
Perennial Stream Field Determination Protocol
Chesapeake Bay Local Assistant
Garman, Gregory 13,350.00
Environmental Program Manager
Virginia Department of Conservation Recreation
Garman, Gregory 20,000.00
Anadromous Fish Monitoring and Sampling for the Falls of the James River
City of Richmond
Harris, Shelly 140,077.00
Developmnt and Implementation of an Early Warning System
to Detect Hazardous Events in the Water Supply for the City of Richmond
City of Richmond
Total Awards 461,256.00
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Department of Chemistry
Crawley, Charlene 2,000.00
Probing Immunochemical Responses to Environmental Contaminants (MOD#2)
The American Society for Cell Biology
EL-Shall, M.Samy 318,812.00
Metallic and Intermetallic Nanoparticles
Philip Morris
EL-Shall, M.Samy 411,200.00
Semiconductor, Metallic and Intermatallic Nanoparticles: From Science to Technology
Chrysallis Technology
EL-Shall, M.Samy 40,000.00
Gas Phase Polymerzation and Nucleation Experiments in Microgravity
NASA
EL-Shall, M.Samy 80,000.00
Surfactant Induced Nucleation and Surface
American Chemical Society
Farrell, Nicholas 273,456.00
Mechanistic Studies on New Plantinum Clinical Agents
National Insititutes Of Health
Kuciauskas, Darius 30,000.00
Membrane Phase Transitions and Transport Studied by Transient Grating Spectroscopy
Jeffress Memorial Foundation
Hawkridge, Fred 141,000.00
Electron Transfer Reactions Between Cyto Chrome C, Cytochrome C Oxidase and Dioxygen
National Science Foundation
Muddiman, David 37,141.00
Rapid and Accurate Genotyping of STRs by ESI-MS
National Institutes of Health
Muddiman, David 66,950.00
Rapid and Accurate Genotyping of STRs by ESI-MS (supplement)
National Institutes of Health
Ottenbrite, Raphael 25,000.00
Educational Aid Program 2001-2002
Dupont De Nemours
Ruder, Suzanne 45,001.00
Research Experience for Teachers at VCU: Classroom Connections
National Science Foundation
Ruder, Suzanne and Sally S. Hunnicutt 205,800.00
REU Site: Practices and Perspectives
National Science Foundation
248

Sponsored Research
Rutan, Sarah 10,400.00
Characterization of Chemical Dynamics in Complex Systems
Jeffress Memorial Trust
Shillady, Donald 7,500.00
Terms of Appointment of SENCER Cluster Coordinators
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Terner, James 13,404.00
Preliminary Studies Examining Near Ultraviolet Fluorescence
and Raman Spectroscopy for Tissue Interrogation of Shock
U.S. Department of Defense
Terner, James 78,685.00
Resonance Raman of Oxidized Peroxidases
National Institutes of Health
Watton, Stephen 27,500.00
Petroleum Research Fund AC Grant So-Gel
American Chemical Society (The Pertroleum Research Fund)
Watton, Stephen 8,000.00
Silica Supported Copper Phenanthrolines as Catalysts and Mechanistic Probes
American Chemical Society (The Pertroleum Research Fund)
Total Awards 1,821,849.00
Department of Criminal Justice
Albanese,Jay and Jill Gordon 10,937.00
Sloan Foundation Pre-tenure Leave Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Total Awards 10,937.00
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Department of English
Perry, Patricia 25,000.00
Capital Writing Project
National Writing Project Corporation
Priebe, Richard 2,500.00
Bringing Africa into the Classroom through African Literature:
A Proposal for Four Workshops for High School Teachers
Virginia Foundation for Humanities
Total Awards 27,500.00
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Farley, Reuben and William Haver 600,001.00
Virginia Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers
National Science Foundation
Farley, Reuben and William Haver 600,000.00
Preparing Future Middle School Math and Science Teachers
FIPSE
Farley, Reuben and William Haver 500,000.00
Virginia Interdisciplinary Science Graduate Teaching Fellows in Middle School Education
National Science Foundation
Haver, William 46,667.00
Virginia Interdisciplinary Science Graduate Teaching Fellows in Middle School Education
National Science Foundation
Johnson, Henry 75,052.00
Advanced Scholars Program/Gateway to the 21st Century
National Science Foundation/City of Richmond
Total Awards 1,821,720.00
250

Sponsored Research
Department of Physics
Baski, Allison 196,707.00
Structure and Reactivity of Metal-Induced ID Nanostructures on High Index Silicon Surface
National Science Foundation
Jena, Puru, Shiv Narain Khanna and Bijan Rao 191,943.00
Compound Metal Clusters and Cluster Assemblies
U.S. Department of Energy
Jena, Puru, Shiv Narain Khanna and Bijan Rao 324,675.00
Trapping of Butadjene by Metal Atoms
Philip Morris
Lewis, Durig 59,335.00
Elementary Teacher Cadet Program in Physics
Virginia State Council of Higher Education
Niculescu, Adam 30,300.00
Teaching Science through Technology: Year II
Virginia State Council of Higher Education
Total Awards 802,960.00
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Hambrick, Robert - Diane Malloney 9,000.00
Managing People, Processes and Change
Virginia Office of Human Resources
Hambrick, Robert and James Phillips 18,000.00
Certified Pubic Manager Programs
Virginia Office of Human Resources
Total Awards 27,000.00
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Department of Psychology
Allison, Kevin 100,000.00
Community Social Capacity: Using Networks and Technology to Build Community Capacity
Aspen Institute
Belgrave, Faye 399,982.00
Intervention for African American Females
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Belgrave, Faye 296,568.00
A Cultural Enhancement Drug Prevention Program
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Belgrave, Faye 234,065.00
A Cultural Enhancement Drug Prevention Program
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Berry, Jack 86,324.00
Warmth-Based verus. Conscientiousness-Based Research
Fetzer Institute
Danish, Steven 299,000.00
Developing a Virginia Tobacco Program
Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation
Eissenberg, Thomas 139,603.00
Crossover Study Comparing C105 (levo-amphetamine sulfate)
Sention, Inc.
Eissenberg, Thomas 21,775.00
TERN Faculty Scholar Program
University of Kentucky
Eissenberg, Thomas 412,290.00
Virginia Youth Tobacco Project
Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation
Eissenberg, Thomas and Alison Breland 25,471.00
Evaluating Risk Reduction Products for Smokers
National Institutes of Health
Eissenberg, Thomas and August Buchhalter 28,797.00
Gender and Nicotine Withdrawal: A Placebo Control Study
National Institutes of Health
Farrell, Albert 900,001.00
Evaluation Research Study in the Area of Agression/Interpersonal Youth Violence
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Farrell, Albert 255,566.00
Identifying Essential Skills for Violence Prevention
National Institutes of Health
252

Sponsored Research
Farrell, Albert and Joanna Strong 30,970.00
Computerized Target Complaints and Inpatient Outcomes
National Institutes of Health
Fries, Elizabeth 1,289,064.00
Virginia Tobacco Youth Project
Virginia Tobacco Settlement
Hamm, Robert 76,228.00
Delay Treatment of Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury: The Role of the AMPA Receptor
Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services
Hamm, Robert 17,546.00
Evaluation of Test Compound for Improving Recovery after Brain Injury
Aderis Pharmaceuticals
Holmes, Clarissa 302,985.00
Memory and Learning in Children with IDDM
National Institutes of Health
Kliewer, Wendy 20,000.00
Service Learning for Youthful Offenders
Virginia Department of Correctional Education
Kliewer, Wendy 19,075.00
Parent Child Communication about Coping with Violence
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mazzeo, Suzanne and Kathleen Mitchell 1,441.00
Binge Eating Disorder and Depression in Ethnically Diverse Undergraduate Men and Women
The National Honor Society in Psychology
Meyer, Aleta 22,701.00
National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Porter, John, H. 29,107.00
Effects Of Antipsychotic Drugs on Phencyclidine Induced Impairments
in Reference and Working Memory in Mice
Jeffress Memorial Trust
Shivy, Victoria 29,945.00
INTUIT: Work and Careers
Virginia Department of Correctional Education
Shivy, Victoria 12,409.00
Using a Career Development Intervention to Address Youth Violence
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Svikis, Dace 449,051.00
Brief Intervention for Drug Use in Pregnant Women
National Institutes of Health
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Vrana, Scott and Collen Quinn 23,994.00
Adolescents’ Physiological Response to Anger
National Institutes of Health
Wilkes, Susan 6,375.00
360-degree Feedback
Virginia House of Delegates
Wilkes, Susan 2,220.00
360-degree Feedback
Wunderlin Company
Wilkes, Susan 1,350.00
Executive Institute Coaching
Virginia Department of Transportation
Wikes, Susan 4,914.00
Executive Leadership Development
Virginia Department of Transportation
Wilkes, Susan 3,516.00
Executive Team Training
Virginia Department of Transportation
Wilkes, Susan 14,240.00
Executive Team Training
Virginia Department of Transporation
Wilkes, Susan 3,596.00
Leadership Assessment
Kentucky Manufacturing Company
Wilkes, Susan 14,751.00
Organizational Development for Louisa Residency
Virginia Department of Transportation
Wilkes, Susan 2,117.00
Performance Enhancement Assessment
Virginia Department of Transportation
Wilkes, Susan 3,844.00
Performance Improvement Consultation
BCWH Architects, Inc.
Wilkes, Susan 34,209.00
Staff Needs Assessment and Consultation
Virginia Department of Transportation
Wilkes, Susan 136,847.00
Staff Training and Development Consultation
Virginia Department of Transportation
Total Awards 5,751,937.00
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Sponsored Research
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research
Merrick, Jason 7,400.00
Sloan Pre-tenure Leave Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Total Awards 7,400.00
Department of Urban Studies
Rugg, Robert 41,921.00
Similarity Assessments Based on Spatial Relations and Attributes
University of Maine
Rugg, Robert 20,000.00
Richmond Neighborhood Indicators
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Wu, Weeping and Robert Rugg 5,990.00
Intraurban Settlement Patterns and Adaptation of China’s Rural Migrants
National Science Foundation
Total Awards 67,911.00
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Adjunct
Faculty

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Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Saba Abed Michelle Abrams J. Padraig Acheson
Department of Foreign Languages Department of Foreign Languages School of Mass Communications
Arpana Agrawal Jeremy Aisenberg John Altenburg
Department of Biology Department of Biology Department of Political Science
and Public Administration
Frances Altman Kristine Amlund-Hagen Charles Anderson
School of Mass Communications Department of Psychology Department of Psychology
Aimee Anido Elizabeth Armstrong Esther Artiles
Department of Biology Department of Biology Department of Foreign Languages
Robin Ashworth Andrew Austen Cheryle Baker
Department of English Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Donald Baker Kris Baker Tom Baldwin
Department of Political Science Department of English International Studies Program
and Public Administration
Lowell Ballard Jose Barbosa Christopher Barnard
Center for Environmental Studies Department of Foreign Languages Department of Biology
Doris Barnes Joan Barnes John Barnes
Department of Mathematics Department of Statistical Sciences Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics and Operations Research and Applied Mathematics
Jamison Barnett Barbara Baroody Jill Baughan
Department of Mathematics Department of Foreign Languages Department of English
and Applied Mathematics
Nancy Beasley Joyce Belton Maria Benson
School of Mass Communications Department of English Department of Foreign Languages
William Bergman Jack Berry Ann Beverl
School of Mass Communications Department of Psychology Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
William Blake Stu Blankenship John Boatwright
Department of History Center for Environmental Studies Department of Criminal Justice
George Bowers James Boykin Jenny Bradner
Department of Mathematics Division of Religious Studies Department of English
and Applied Mathematics
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Karen Brennan David Bridges Scott Brookma
Department of Biology Department of English Department of English
John Brooks John Brooks William Brooks
Department of Mathematics Department of Statistical Sciences Department of Biology
and Applied Mathematics
and Operations Research
Helen Brown Judith Bruce Margaret Brulatour
Department of Chemistry Department of History Department of English
Dwight Burgess James Burke Shawn Burton
Department of History Department of Psychology Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Janice Busic Robert Button Robert Button
Department of Mathematics School of Mass Communications Office of the Dean
and Applied Mathematics
Mason Byrd Nicholas Cain Aimee Campbell
Department of Criminal Justice Department of Chemistry Department of Psychology
B. David Canada Elizabeth Canfield George Cardwell
Department of Urban Studies Department of English Department of Statistical Sciences
and Planning
and Operations Research
Stephen Carey Lee Carleton Elizabeth Carmack
Division of Philosophy Department of English Department of Urban Studies
and Planning
Amy Carroll Diana Challis Steve Charlson
Department of English Department of English Department of Criminal Justice
Rosa Chavis Wesley Childress Geoff Christe
Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics Department of Urban Studies
and Applied Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Planning
Martin Clagett Elizabeth Clark Hilary Clark
Department of Foreign Languages School of Mass Communications Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Caroline Collins Cinzia Corubolo Nancy Costello
Department of Mathematics Department of Foreign Languages Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Stephen Coudriet Peter Coughter Jan Crable
Department of Mathematics School of Mass Communications School of Mass Communications
and Applied Mathematics
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Adjunct Faculty
Edward Crawford Patricia Crocker Dana Curley
Department of Biology Department of Mathematics Department of Biology
and Applied Mathematics
Wade Curry John Daniel, III, James Danielson
Department of English Department of Criminal Justice Division of Philosophy
Dennis Danvers Joyce Davis, Brian Deane
Department of English Department of Criminal Justice Division of Religious Studies
Brian Deane Jay Deane Thomas Dertinger
Department of Criminal Justice Division of Philosophy Department of Political Science
and Public Administration
Luis Diaz-Diaz Thomas Dickens, III Johnathan Dickenson
Department of Political Science Department of Biology Department of Physics
and Public Administration
D. Mychael Dickerson Aime Donah William Doran III
School of Mass Communications Department of Psychology Department of English
Sally Doud Christopher Dover Bonnie Dowdy
Department of English Division of Religious Studies Department of Psychology
Dewitt Drinkard Shelby Duffer Kathryn Dunnington
Department of Psychology Department of Biology Department of English
Rose Elliott Robert Ellis Pamela Evans
Department of English Department of English Department of Criminal Justice
Jennifer Farinholt Zarina Fazaldin Barbara Felton
School of Mass Communications Department of Foreign Languages Department of English
Beth Ferrara Robin Fetherston Emma Flaherty
Department of English Department of English Department of Urban Studies
and Planning
Robert Fleskes Robert Fleskes Pauline Fones
School of Mass Communications Office of the Dean Center for Environmental Studies
Pauline Fones Aubrey Fountain III, Esq. Richard Foy
Department of Urban Studies Department of Urban Studies Department of Political Science
and Planning and Planning and Public Administration
Don Fritsch Myrtle Fultz Merrill Geier
Department of Biology Department of Criminal Justice Department of English
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Meron Getnet Gregory Gilligan Ann Glenn
Department of Foreign Languages School of Mass Communications School of Mass Communications
Martin Goehle Pamela Goheen Zack Goodell
Department of Physics School of Mass Communications Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
Jessica Gordon Lindsay Gray Cheryl Gray Ball
Department of English Department of Urban Studies Department of English
and Planning
Byron Greenberg Alan Griffin Dan Grinnan
Department of Psychology Department of Physics Department of Criminal Justice
Agnes Grocholski Ngoc-My Guidarelli Tamee Gunnell
Department of Mathematics Department of Foreign Languages School of Mass Communications
and Applied Mathematics
David Hagan Anne Hagerty Kevin Hall
Department of Physics School of Mass Communications School of Mass Communications
Michael Hall Crista Hamilton Richard Harman
Department of Criminal Justice Department of Statistical Sciences Department of Physics
and Operations Research
Ann Harmon Elaine Hauck Jeffrey Haykin
Department of English Department of Mathematics Department of Criminal Justice
and Applied Mathematics
Morris Henderson Thomas Hesbach Ralph Higgins
Division of Religious Studies Department of Mathematics Department of Urban Studies
and Applied Mathematics
and Planning
Kenneth Hines Robert Hodder Carol Holden
Department of English Department of Urban Studies Department of Chemistry
and Planning
Karl Huber Esther Hyatt John James
Department of Urban Studies Department of Political Science Department of Psychology
and Planning
and Public Administration
Robert Jenkins Keith Jensen Kim Jones
Department of Foreign Languages Department of Biology Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Sylvia Jones Thomas Jones Francis Kane
Department of Criminal Justice Department of Political Science Department of Physics
and Public Administration
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Adjunct Faculty
James Kauffman Cara Kaufman Mary-Ellen Kendall
Division of Religious Studies Department of Urban Studies Center for Environmental Studies
and Planning
Donald Kiesler Hanna Kim James Kinard
Department of Psychology Department of Biology Department of Foreign Languages
Ronald King Terrence King James Kinzey
Department of English Department of Biology Department of English
Cathy Klosenberg Jody Kulstad Marlene Kustesky
Department of Mathematics Department of Psychology Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Haishan Lai Rose Landrum-Lee Kendra Lawrence
Department of Foreign Languages African-American Studies Program Center for Environmental Studies
James Laws Marilyn Leahy James Lehman
Department of Sociology Department of English Department of Physics
and Anthropology
Amanda Lentz Hsung Lin Anders Linde-Laursen
Department of Biology Department of Biology Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
Jason Lira Ronald Lloyd Jeffrey Lodge
Department of English Department of Mathematics Department of English
and Applied Mathematics
C. Michael Lohr Kristin Longo Bert Lowe
Department of Mathematics Department of Biology Department of Political Science
and Applied Mathematics
and Public Administration
Jane Lucas Adele MacLean Mohsen Mahmoudi
Department of English Department of Political Science Department of Mathematics
and Public Administration
and Applied Mathematics
Meredith Mann Ursula Marfurt-Levy Don Martin
Department of Biology Department of Foreign Languages Department of Criminal Justice
Floretta Maso Joseph Massie Irene Mata
Department of Foreign Languages Department of Criminal Justice Department of Foreign Languages
Brian Mat Carol Mawyer Robert McClintock
School of Mass Communications School of Mass Communications Department of Urban Studies
and Planning
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Dorothy McClure Dianne McGuinness Michael McIntyre
Department of Mathematics Department of Criminal Justice Department of English
and Applied Mathematics
Norman Melchert Richard Mercer Inuka Midha
Division of Philosophy Department of English Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
Floyd Miller Robert Miller Stephanie Miller
Department of Criminal Justice Department of Urban Studies Department of English
and Planning
Cyril Miller, Jr. Gevork Minaskanian Al Moore
Department of Criminal Justice Department of Chemistry Department of Criminal Justice
Meredith Moses Cleveland Murphy Cathryn Myers
Department of Chemistry Division of Religious Studies Department of English
Mike Napier (Academy Group) Betty Nash Consuelo Navarro
Department of Criminal Justice School of Mass Communications Department of Foreign Languages
Esther Nelson Janet Newland Ban Nguyen
Division of Religious Studies Department of English Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Edward Nicholas III Antoine Nicolas Emily Nuckols
Department of English Department of Biology Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Akili Obika Steve Oden John Ogle
Department of Mathematics Center for Environmental Studies School of Mass Communications
and Applied Mathematics
Bob Oldham Robert Oliver David Olli
Department of Physics Department of Political Science Department of Physics
and Public Administration
Leysi Ortiz Bonnie Orzolek Fred Ostrow
Department of Foreign Languages Department of English Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Cheryl Pallant Maria Panbehchi Michael Panbehchi
Department of English Department of Foreign Languages Department of Foreign Languages
David Parrish Mary Parsley Chester Parsons
School of Mass Communications School of Mass Communications Department of Urban Studies
and Planning
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Adjunct Faculty
Utsavi Patel Gregorio Patron Thomas Pavlish
Department of Chemistry Department of Physics Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Michelle Peace Michelle Peace Greg Pendergas
Department of Biology Department of Criminal Justice Department of English
Jacquelyn Pendland Deron Phipps Joseph Pierotti
Department of Biology Department of Psychology Department of Chemistry
Randy Pittman Laura Plybon Joseph Porter
Department of Mathematics Department of Psychology Department of Psychology
and Applied Mathematics
Johan Portland Cynthia Price Brenner Pugh
School of Mass Communications School of Mass Communications Department of English
Lynda Raines Matthew Rapp Pratip Raychowdhury
Department of English Department of Biology Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Rebeccah Rehder George Reid Jill Reid
Department of Biology Department of Physics Department of Biology
Kathleen Reilly Michael Renninger Kirk Richardson
Department of English Division of Religious Studies Department of English
George Rickman Christina Riebeling Keith Rippel
Department of Foreign Languages Department of Psychology Department of Chemistry
Volkmar Risch Emily Roderer Sara Roderer
Department of Foreign Languages Department of English Department of English
Coleman Rose Christi Rosenthal Susan Rowe
Department of Sociology Department of Chemistry School of Mass Communications
and Anthropology
Melissa Ruggieri William Ryan Patricio Saavedra
School of Mass Communications Department of Statistical Sciences Department of Foreign Languages
and Operations Research
Rocio Salinas Elizabeth Saunders Michelle Schmitt
Department of Foreign Languages School of Mass Communications Department of Psychology
Ginny Schmitz Richard Schobitz Ronald Seel
Department of English Department of Psychology Department of Psychology
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Sam Seeley Brian Shaffer Andrew Sharp
School of Mass Communications Department of Mathematics Division of Religious Studies
and Applied Mathematics
Johnathan Shear Winston Shepherd, Jr. Janet Sheridan
Division of Philosophy School of Mass Communications Department of Foreign Languages
Anthony Sherman Anthony Sherman Leslie Shiel
Department of Statistical Sciences Department of Mathematics Department of English
and Operations Research
and Applied Mathematics
Lucinda Shillady Keun Shin Mary Silverman
Department of Biology Department of Biology Department of Biology
Zorica Skoro Clinton Smith Daniel Smith
Department of Statistical Sciences School of Mass Communications Division of Religious Studies
and Operations Research
Patricia Smith Patricia Smith Esperanza Soria-Nieto
Department of Foreign Languages Department of English Department of Foreign Languages
James South James Sparks Jack Spiro
Division of Religious Studies Department of Biology Division of Religious Studies
Ken Storey Jennifer Street Jennifer Street
School of Mass Communications Department of Mathematics Department of Statistical Sciences
and Applied Mathematics
and Operations Research
Jeff Sulik Eilleen Sunseri Seth Sykes
Department of Chemistry Department of English Division of Religious Studies
Pat Tabb Angela Taylor Chad Taylor
Department of English Department of Political Science Department of Urban Studies
and Public Administration
and Planning
Steven Taylor Dennis Thekkudan Gil Thelen
Department of Political Science Department of Chemistry School of Mass Communications
and Public Administration
John Toivonen John Toivonen Reginald Tuck
School of Mass Communications Department of English Division of Religious Studies
Christine Turner Lawrence Vadala Paul VanVleet
Department of Criminal Justice Department of Mathematics Department of Foreign Languages
and Applied Mathematics
John Venable Maria Vidal Michele Vigilance
Department of English Department of Foreign Languages Department of Criminal Justice
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Adjunct Faculty
Arkady Vornovitsky Robert Walker Russell Walker
Department of Mathematics School of Mass Communications Department of Statistical Sciences
and Applied Mathematics
and Operations Research
Barbara Wallace Kathryn Wallo David Walz
Department of Foreign Languages Department of Mathematics Department of Urban Studies
and Applied Mathematics
and Planning
Salena Ware Grant Warren Roger Waters
Department of Mathematics Department of Criminal Justice Department of Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics
Jonathan Waybright Lynda Weaver-Williams Bradley Webb
Division of Religious Studies Division of Religious Studies Department of Biology
Seanne Webster-Davis Gerald Weinberger Sandra West
Department of Foreign Languages Department of Psychology Department of English
Judson White William Whitworth, Jr. Laird Williams
Center for Environmental Studies Department of History Department of Biology
Kenneth Wilson Laura Wise William Woodfin
Department of Physics Department of Psychology Department of Biology
Kirby Worthington Tim York Kimberly Zicafoose
Department of Psychology Department of Biology Department of English
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The College of Humanities & Sciences
2001-02 Annual Report
Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy J. Unger
Assistant Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julie E. Freund
India D. Urbach
Kelly N. Wilkinson
J. Michelle Wilde
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April K. Meyer
Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joanna M. Monk
India D. Urbach
Kelly N. Wilkinson
J. Michelle Wilde
Special thanks to all the faculty and staff in the College of Humanities and Sciences for their contributions
in making this year’s annual report possible.
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