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4:23 p.m., April 3, 2007--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Presentations

Lillian T. Wang, GIS specialist and cartographer, Delaware Geological Survey, “Surficial Geologic Mapping of Delaware in GIS,” at TUgis conference, “Geocollaboration: Collaborative Methods for Working with Geospatial Data,” March 19-20, Towson, Md.

Theodore E.D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, “Jorge Juan de Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa as Men of the Enlightenment,” at South-Central Society for 18th Century Studies, Feb. 22-24, Tulsa.

Scott Andres, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, “Results of the Domestic Well Water Quality Survey,” to Delaware Cancer Consortium, Feb. 20, Wilmington, Del.

Service

Deni S. Galileo, associate professor of biological sciences, spoke March 21 to the small business committee of the Delaware Senate on human embryonic stem cells and the pending Senate Bill 5, Delaware Regenerative Medicine Act, and on March 20 to the health and human development committee on human cloning of the Delaware House of Representatives, and its pending House Bill 76, Delaware Human Cloning Prohibition Act.

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Lerner College of Business and Economics, was guest speaker at the annual awards breakfast of the American Red Cross of the Delmarva Peninsula, March 29, Wilmington, Del.

Awards

Theodore E.D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South-Central Society for 18th-Century Studies at its annual meeting, Feb. 22-24, in Tulsa.