For the Record, April 21, 2005

Presentations

George Watson, associate dean of arts and sciences and Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Janet de Vry, manager IT-User Services, a poster, “Promoting Student Engagement through Teamwork: Partnering Faculty Leaders with IT-User Services”; Watson with Deborah Allen, associate professor of biological sciences, a workshop, “Student Engagement through Problem-Based Learning”; and Allen with Katayoun Chamany of New School University, a workshop, “Using Science Case Studies to Promote Interdisciplinary Learning,” at conference on Pedagogies of Engagement: Deepening Learning In and Across the Disciplines, April 14-16, Bethesda, Md.

Rebecca Hutchinson, editor, public relations, an oil painting and a pastel at the juried Delaware Women’s Conference Art Exhibit at the Newark Arts Alliance and now at the Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover.

Robin Elliott, director of occupational health and safety, “What Makes Safety Work,” at President’s Health and Safety Awards Ceremony, April14. West Virginia University.

Martin Wollaston, associate policy scientist, and Kevin Vonck, senior research assistant, Institute for Public Administration, “Source Water Protection—A Toolbox of Measures to Assist Local Governments Protect Public Drinking Water Supplies,” at the American Planning Association’s national conference, March 19-23, San Francisco.

Thomas E. McKenna, associate scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, and Kimberly C. Hanson, UD Mineralogical Museum, displayed minerals from the museum collections and rocks from the DGS repository at “Water and Our Changing Landscape: Perspectives from the Wild and Scenic White Clay Creek Watershed,” April 14, Clayton Hall.

Marian Lief Palley, professor of political science and international relations and women’s studies, “The Politics of Breast Cancer,” at Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition annual conference, April 7, Wilmington, Del.; “Caring for Older Americans,” at Taiwanese Association of Family Caregivers annual conference, March 26, Taipei, Taiwan; and “The Role of Gender in Public Policy Decision Making in the United States,” at Institute of American and European Studies, Academic Sinica, March 29, Taipei, Taiwan.

Licinia Kalhiher, Rodney Complex coordinator, Sami Nassim, Dickinson Complex coordinator, Kathleen Kerr, director of residence life, and James Tweedy, associate director of residence life, “Start Singing the Blues! Designing a First-Year Residential Curriculum”; Kerr with Robert M. Longwell-Grice, “Words They (CH)use: Metaphors Resident Assistants Use Regarding their Jobs” and Nassim with Samanta Lopez, Russell Complex coordinator, “The Ninth Element: Using the Enneagram to Maximize Teamwork,” at annual national conference of American College Personnel Association, April 2-6, Nashville. Zakia Reaves, Pencader Complex coordinator, was presented the award for outstanding graduate student by the Commission of Residence Life and Housing at the national conference.

Service

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, has been invited to join the editorial advisory board of the journal Directors & Boards.

Marian Lief Palley, professor of political science and international relations and women’s studies, was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Women-Politics and Policy.

Joyce Hill Stoner, professor of art conservation, attended the second formal meeting of the United States Senate Commission on Art. She was appointed in the summer of 2004 to the Senate Curatorial Advisory Board for a term ending Jan. 1, 2007.

Awards

A. Scott Andres, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, received a 2004 Recognition Award from the Delaware Division of Water Resources for his work on protecting the ground water resources of the state.

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