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2009

Thandi Buthelezi, Asst. Professor of Chemistry
and Laurel Dingrando, Nicholas Hainen, Cheryl Wistrom, and Dinah Zike. Chemistry: Matter and Change. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2009.

John Collins, Professor of Physics
J. Grassetti, K. Mishra, D. Hamby, J. McKittrick, J. Tao, S. Shimizu, J Talbot, and B. Di Bartolo, "Structural and Optical Properties of ZnO-Based Alloys", ECS Transactions, 16 (31), 113 (2009).

H. Orucu, G. Özen,
John Collins, Professor of Physics
and B. Di Bartolo, "Temperature Dependence of the Luminescence Spectra of Garnet Crystals Doped with Chromium Ions", Optical Materials, 31, 1065-1070 (2009). 



W. Wall, B. Di Bartolo,
John Collins, Professor of Physics
and H. Orucu, "Vibrational Assisted Transitions and Phonon Spectra in Crystalline Solids", Journal of Luminescence, (2009).

Smith, M.J., Rose, J., and
Mike Gousie, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science.
The Cookie Cutter: A Method for Obtaining a Quantitative 3D Description of Glacial Bedforms. Geomorphology 108. (July 2009), pp. 209-218.

Quinn, P. C., Doran, M. M.,
Jason E. Reiss, Asst. Professor of Psychology
and Hoffman, J. E. (2009). Time course of visual attention in infant categorization of cats versus dogs: Evidence for a head bias as revealed through eye tracking. Child Development, 80, 151-161.



2008

Tom Armstrong, Asst. Prof. of Computer Science
and Tim Oates. Which Came First, the Grammar or the Lexicon? Proceedings of the 9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), 2008.

Tim Barker, Professor of Astronomy
and Balonek, Thomas J.; Chromey, F.R.; Barker, T.; Levandowski, K.; Clements, S.D.; Aller, M.F.; Aller, H.D.; Gurwell, M.A. "The Historic Optical Light Curve and 2007 Outburst of Quasar PKS 1749+096".
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #04.17, January 7, 2008.

Bill Goldbloom Bloch, Professor of Mathematics
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Barbara Brennessel, Professor of Biology
Good Tidings: The History and Ecology of Shellfish Farming in the Northeast. UPNE, 2008.

Davies, Christopher; Ren, Li; Gustafson, Ryan;
Thandi Buthelezi, Asst. Professor of Chemistry
and Bartsch, Richard A.; Surowiec, Malgorzata. Molecular association of benzene with a new cyclophane receptor. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry 61, 2008, 347.

Rachelle DeCoste, Asst. Professor of Mathematics
Closed Geodisics on Compact Nilmanifolds with Chevalley Rational Structure, manuscripta math. 127, 309-343 (2008).

Matthew J. Evans Asst. Professor of Chemistry
and L. A. Derry, C. France-Lanord. Degassing of metamorphic carbon dioxide from the Nepal Himalaya, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q04021, doi:10.1029/2007GC001796, 2008.
Science Perspectives, 27 June 2008: vol. 320 #5884 1727-1728.

Vance, S. and
Jason C. Goodman, Asst. Professor of Physics
Physical Oceanography of an Ice-Covered Moon. Book chapter in Europa, (R. Pappalardo, W. McKinnon, K. Khurana, eds.), 2008.

Mike Gousie, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science
Grady, J., Burrage, B. '08, Grossman, R. '07, Machado, D. '08, Milewski, S. '07, and Stuetzle, C. '07. Using Metaphors in Dynamic Social Stratification Visualizations. In IV08: 12th International Conference on Information Visualization (London, 2008), IEEE, pp. 485-490.

Palmer, S. E., Davis, J.,
Rolf Nelson, Asst. Professor of Psychology
and Rock, I. (2008). Figure-ground effects on shape memory for objects versus holes. Perception, 37, 1569-1586.

Jason E. Reiss, Asst. Professor of Psychology
Object substitution masking: What is the neural fate of the unreportable target? SaarbrÃπcken, Germany: VDM Verlag (2008).

Scott Shumway, Professor of Biology
A Naturalist's Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Globe Pequot Press, 2008.



2007

Bill Goldbloom Bloch, Professor of Mathematics
Fractal Boundaries are Not Typical. Topology and its Applications. 154 (2007), 533-539.

Geoff Collins, Associate Professor of Geology
Jason Goodman, Assistant Professor of Physics
Enceladus' South Polar Sea. Icarus 189, pp 72-82, 2007.

Geoff Collins, Associate Professor of Geology
Ganymede and Callisto. Encyclopedia of the Solar System (2nd ed.), L. A. McFadden, P. R. Weissman, and T. V. Johnson, eds., Academic Press, pp 449-466, 2007.
Coauthors: Johnson, T. V.

Betsey Dyer, Professor of Biology
Michael Kahn, Professor of Mathematics
Mark LeBlanc, Professor of Computer Science
CART (Classification and Regression Trees) analysis of genomic signatures reveals sets of tetramers that discriminate temperature optima of Archaea and Bacteria. Archaea, v2(3).

Mike Gousie, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Sarah Milewski '07
A System for 3D Error Visualization and Assessment of Digital Elevation Models. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS '07) (Barcelona, 2007). To appear.

Mark LeBlanc, Professor of Computer Science
Betsey Dyer, Professor of Biology
Perl for Exploring DNA. Oxford University Press, July 2007.



2006

Tim Barker, Professor of Astronomy
The Case for Third Bodies as the Cause of Period Changes in Selected Algol Systems. With co-authors D.I. Hoffman, T.E. Harrison, B.J. McNamara, W.T. Vestrand, J.A. Holtzman, T. Barker, A.J. The Astronomical Journal, (2006), 132:2260-2267.

Jani Benoit, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Infaunal burrow densities and sediment monomethyl mercury distributions in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Marine Chemistry, 2006.
Coauthors: D.H. Shull, P. Robinson and L.R. Ucran

Geoff Collins, Associate Professor of Geology
Sediment Transport by Liquid Surficial Flow: Application to Titan. Icarus 181, pp 235-242, 2006.
Coauthors: Burr, D. M., Emery, J. P., Lorenz, R. D., and Carling, P. A.

John Collins, Professor of Physics
Up-conversion at different sites in Pr-doped Y3Al5O 12. Journal of Luminescence., 2006.
Coathors: G. Ozen, B. Di Bartolo, and O. Forte.

Mike Gousie, Associate Professor of Computer Science
A Robust Web Programming and Graphics Course for Non-Majors. In Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Houston, 2006), pp. 72-76.

Chris Kalberg, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Katherine Boyle '04 and Emily Lipsky '06
Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Methyl alpha-Benzamido Cinnamate in Ionic Liquid Solvent. Tetrahedron Letters, 2006, 47, 1311-1313.

Mark LeBlanc, Professor of Computer Science
Rochelle (Shelly) Leibowitz, Professor of Mathematics
Discrete Partnership -- A case for a full-year of Discrete Math. In Proceedings of 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, 313-317.

Laura Muller, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Research Collaborations with Learning Disabled Students: Strategies for Successful Student-Faculty Partnerships. Journal of College Science Teaching, v36, 2006, 26-29.

Tommy Ratliff, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Selecting committees. Public Choice, Vol 126 (2006), pp 343-355.



2005

Tim Barker, Professor of Astronomy
Monitoring the Mass Accretion Rate in Sco X-1 Using the Optical Johnson B Filter. Astrophysical Journal 623, 1070, 2005.
Coauthors: McNamara, B. J.; Norwood, J.; Harrison, T. E.; and Dukes, R.

Barbara Brennessel, Professor of Biology
R. Gravel '05
A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon Medicine. Anglo-Saxon England 34:183-195.
Coauthor: M. Drout

Geoff Collins, Associate Professor of Geology
Investigations of the Application of Aerobot Technology at Venus. Acta Astronautica 56, pp 477-494, 2005.
Coauthors: Gilmore, M. S.; Crumpler, L. S.; Cutts, J. A.; deCharon, A. V.; Head, J. W.; Nock, K. T.; Parry, M.; and Yingst, R. A.

Geoff Collins, Associate Professor of Geology
Strained Craters on Ganymede. Journal of Structural Geology 27, pp 827-838, 2005.
Coauthors: Pappalardo, R. T.

Geoff Collins, Associate Professor of Geology
Relative Rates of Fluvial Bedrock Incision on Titan and Earth. Geophysical Research Letters 32, pp L22202, 2005.

Bill Goldbloom-Bloch, Professor of Mathematics
The Unimaginable: Catalogues and the Book of Sand in The Library of Babel, Variaciones Borges 19, 23-40.

Mike Gousie, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Digital Elevation Model Error Detection and Visualization. In The 4th Workshop on Dynamic & Multi-dimensional GIS (Pontypridd, Wales, UK, 2005), C. Gold, Ed., ISPRS, pp. 42-46.

Mike Gousie, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Augmenting Grid-Based Contours to Improve Thin Plate DEM Generation. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 71, 1 (2005), pp. 69-79.

Elita Pastra-Landis, Professor of Chemistry
A Single Amino Acid Substitution in the Active Site of Escherischia coli Aspartartate Transcarbamoylase Prevents the Allosteric Transition. J. Mol. Biol., 349, 413-423.
Coauthors: Stieglitz, K. A., , S. C., Xia, J., Tsuruta, H. and Kantrowitz, E. R.

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