For the Record: Faculty, Staff Works Listed

Brenda Wineapple, Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, recently published an essay, "The Transformation in Parnassus," about novelists who use real poets as subjects in their fiction, and an essay about her choice of biographical subjects, "Strange Bedfellows," in culturefront, the magazine for the New York State Council for the Humanities. She also gave the concluding remarks at last spring's Nathaniel Hawthorne Society meeting in Boston, which celebrated the 150th publication of The Scarlet Letter. Called "Scarlet Letters and White Lies," her talk discussed the problems she faced writing Hawthorne's biography.

Joseph B. Board Jr., Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Government, was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law's Academy of Law Alumni, a recognition of graduates who have attained distinction in the legal profession. Board and three other inductees were honored at a ceremony recently at the IU-Bloomington campus. Board earned his A.B. in government from IU. He also earned a B.A. and master's in jurisprudence at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He earned a law degree from IU School of Law, and a Ph.D. in government, also from IU. At Union since 1965, he specializes in Swedish government and politics.

Robert Fleischer, research professor of geology, was co-author (with W. R. Giard and L. G. Turner of GE) of an article "Membrane-Based Thermal Effects in Rn-222 Dosimetry" in the journal Radiation Measurements. The article discussed an improvement in methods for measuring radon, showing that membranes used to exclude the unwanted isotope radon-220 from measurements of the usual radon (Rn-222) allow different amounts to pass depending on the temperature of the membrane. Documenting the effect permits more accurate measurements. He also co-authored (with students Stephen A. Hadley and Nicholas R. Meyer, and Alfred Cavallo of the U. S. Department of Energy) an article, "Eyeglass Lenses for Personel Radon Dosimetry," in Health Physics. The article describes the technique (developed by Fleischer) of using the nuclear track detection ability of most plastic lenses for eyeglasses. Because the radioactive decay of radon gives off particles that the lenses record, the accumulation of tracks is a record of the radon exposure of the lenses, and hence of their wearers.