Lu Ann De Cunzo, professor of anthropology, has been elected to serve as 2008-09 president of the Society for Historical Archaeology, the largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world since A.D. 1400.

Two School of Nursing faculty members have received national recognition for their accomplishments as nurses and educators. Janice Selekman, professor of nursing, received the Excellence in Education Award from the Society of Pediatric Nurses, and Amy Nagorski Johnson, associate professor of nursing, won the Academy of Neonatal Nurses’ Excellence in Neonatal Nursing Practice Award.

Wenbo Li, professor of mathematical sciences, has been elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a prestigious international professional and scholarly society that cited Li’s research in the theory of Gaussian processes and in using this theory to solve problems in diverse areas of probability.

Brian Noehren, a physical therapy doctoral student, won the Clinical Biomechanics Award from the American Society of Biomechanics. His winning paper, selected from about 400 entries, studied the cause of injuries to the illiotibial band, which runs from the hip to the knee and is a common site of injury in runners and dancers.

Meghan McAuliffe, a graduate student in clinical psychology, won a prestigious 2006 American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology Scholarship, which will help support her research on how teacher behavior toward students affects children’s peer relationships.

Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering, has been appointed ExxonMobil Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore, where he will spend a month during the summer. Sandler also is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, in addition to serving on the UD faculty.

Amanda Wenczel, a master’s degree student in marine policy, was awarded a Coastal Management Fellowship from the Coastal Services Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. One of six recipients of the fellowship, Wenczel has been assigned to the Ohio Office of Coastal Management to develop an erosion management plan for the Lake Erie shoreline.

Prabhavathi Srinivasan, a doctoral student in biochemistry, has been awarded a fellowship from the American Heart Association for her research and laboratory work on an enzyme present in human blood that is believed to inhibit atherosclerosis, the buildup of fatty deposits in arteries.

Suzanne Austin, professor of history and faculty fellow in the Office of the Provost, recently was invited to give the prestigious Crayenborgh Lecture at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where she spoke on, “The Decline of Native American Populations After European Conquest.” She also has received certification from the Society for College and University Planning.

Mortar Board, a national honor society of college seniors, recently awarded UD’s Tassel Chapter its Golden Torch Award for the 2005-06 academic year. The award is presented to chapters whose seniors excel in scholarship, leadership and service.

Jennifer Moses, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to support her work at the New York Historical Society for a project titled, “The Fortune Generation: The Black Press and the Unfolding of Jim Crow America, 1888-1908.”

Herbert E. Allen, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for the Study of Metals in the Environment, has joined seven other UD faculty members designated by the Institute of Scientific Information as “highly cited researchers,” an exclusive group comprising less than one-half of 1 percent of all publishing researchers. The institute analyzed several million articles to arrive at the designation.

Internationally recognized architect Allan Greenberg, who designed Gore Hall and the addition to Du Pont Hall, both on The Green of the University’s Newark campus, is the recipient of the 2006 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. He is the first American to receive the prize, which honors major contributions in traditional and classical architecture.