Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and director of UD’s John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, has been selected as one of the 100 most influential people in finance by Treasury and Risk Management magazine, which listed him as a reformer who is “working to change the system’s fundamentals.” He also recently received the Health Care Compliance Association Award for his significant contributions to promote compliance and ethics and was named to the new Independent Governance Advisory Panel for the American Red Cross.

Patricia DeLeon, professor of human genetics in the Department of Biological Sciences, was honored by the American Society of Andrology for her research achievements in the field of andrology and for delivering the keynote address at the society’s inaugural national mentoring luncheon. Andrology is the study of male reproductive diseases.

Julian Yates, associate professor of English, has been awarded two long-term fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and one short-term fellowship by the Francis Bacon Foundation. The fellowships will support the research and writing of his forthcoming book, Renaissance Organics, which he describes as exploring the ways in which things shape humans’ sense of the world.

Robert Eisenberger, professor of psychology, has been elected a fellow in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the society’s highest honor. A UD faculty member since 1978, Eisenberger conducts research in the field of employee motivation.

Twenty-two education students at the University were designated as Meritorious New Teacher Pre-Candidates, a first-of-its-kind program to recognize highly qualified prospective teachers, based on a variety of criteria that correlate with subject mastery and effective teaching. UD had more students earning the designation from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Teachers Project than any other institution in the region.

Robert Straight, art professor and associate chairperson of the Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications, is exhibiting 10 acrylic paintings in a solo show that will run through Oct. 13 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The exhibit, “Toroids and Plaids: Paintings by Robert Straight,” showcases his style of superimposing plaids with toroids, which are curved lines that never meet.

Margaret D. Stetz, the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and professor of humanities, was invited to the University of Bergen in Norway to deliver a lecture on Henrik Ibsen at a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the Norwegian playwright’s death.

Michael Skogen, a graduate student in biotechnology, is the first UD student to win the highly competitive Donald A. King Student Research Fellowship from the Huntington’s Disease Association. Working with biological sciences Prof. Eric B. Kmiec, Skogen is searching for a therapy for Huntington’s disease using biochemical and cell-based assays.

Louis L. Hirsh, director of admissions, was named 2005-06 Counselor of the Year for Delaware by the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admissions Counseling. Hirsh came to UD in 1984 and has been director of admissions since 2003. He also has served as faculty adviser to E-52 Student Theatre.

Timothy Martin, AS ’06, won first place in the Organic Chemistry III Division at the 70th Intercollegiate Student Chemists’ Convention in April. Two other UD students, Richard Karpowicz Jr., AS ’07, and Gary Di Filippo, AS ’06, also made research presentations at the convention, in which 18 different schools were represented.

Agata Bielska, AS ’06, a 2005 Goldwater Scholar, is the first author of an article in the journal Biochemistry concerning research she conducted that has provided signficant clues to the understanding of molecular mechanisms important to Alzheimer’s disease.