Honors and Achievements

George Luther, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies, has received a five-year honorary professorship at the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences at Cardiff University in Wales. As an honorary professor, Luther will continue his collaboration with David Rickard, professor of geochemistry, on metal-sulfur geochemistry. Their research partnership began in 1993.

Pamela Cook-Ioannidis, professor of mathematical sciences, has been elected secretary of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), which has more than 10,000 individual members and 400 institutional members. She also serves as editor in chief of the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics.

Four faculty members of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have been recognized with awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Nobu Kobayashi received the Moffatt-Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award, Dennis Mertz won the Richard R. Torrens Award, Dominic Di Toro received the Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Ib A. Svendsen posthumously received the International Coastal Engineering Award.

Patricia Tanner Nelson, professor of food and resource economics, has received the Career Achievement Award from the National Council on Family Relations for her work in guiding new parents with educational information. The award honors the nation’s most outstanding Cooperative Extension state specialist in family life and human development.

James Jones, professor of psychology and director of the Black American Studies Program, has been honored by the American Psychological Association for his work on behalf of the association’s Minority Fellowship Program, which is dedicated to expanding opportunities for minorities in psychology.

Brian Miller, assistant professor of hotel, restaurant and institutional management, was named Educator of the Year by the Professional Convention Management Association for encouraging his students to participate in the association.

Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. du Pont Chair of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the fifth professional organization to confer the rank of fellow on him.

Three titles published by the University of Delaware Press were selected as outstanding academic books for 2005 by Choice magazine, the official review publication of the Association of College and University Research Libraries. They are A Dream of Stone: Fame, Vision and Monumentality in 19th-Century French Literary Culture by Michael D. Garval; Percy Bysshe Shelley: Exile of Unfulfilled Renown by James Bieri; and What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction by Victoria Aarons.

Matthew Kinservik, associate professor of English, was unanimously awarded the 2006 Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship by the American Society of 18th-Century Studies. The award will allow Kinservik to visit Dublin and Belfast to conduct research for a book on the trials of the Rev. William Jackson, a spy for Jacobin France in 1794.

The Office of Residence Life has been honored with two awards for its programming and outreach efforts to promote social justice and cultural sensitivity on campus, both from the American College Personnel Association’s Commission for Social Justice Educators.

Mark Barteau, Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical Engineering and chairperson of the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, an honor reserved for those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice or education.

Aynsley Taylor Inglis, a sophomore majoring in political science, won two first-place honors, in classical ballet and contemporary ballet, at the 2006 Youth American Grand Prix regional ballet competition in January.