UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 9, Page 1
October 29, 1992
Two faculty honored by named professorships
University of Delaware Provost R. Byron Pipes has announced the
appointment of two new named professors : C.P. Huang, a member of the
Department of Civil Engineering since 1974, has been named
Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Hilton
Brown, at the University since 1978, has been named the Harriet Baily
Professor of Art, Art Conservation and Art History.
Named professorships, which honor distinguished scholarship and
teaching, are awarded only to select members of the faculty. Of the
more than 900 faculty members at the University, only 36 are named
professors.
"These two scholars represent top achievements in engineering and
the arts and sciences," Pipes said.
"C.P. Huang's research and teaching put him in the forefront of
the increasingly important field of environmental engineering," he
said.
"Hilton Brown's creativity as an artist and his expertise in the
materials used by artists make him uniquely qualified for this
appointment, which spans three disciplines-art, art conservation and
art history," Pipes said.
Huang joined the Delaware faculty in 1974 as assistant professor
of civil engineering. He was promoted to associate professor in 1977
and full professor in 1981, and he has held a joint appointment in the
University's College of Marine Studies since 1987.
Listed in Men of Achievement, International Who's Who of
Contemporary Achievement and Who's Who in Engineering, Huang has
received numerous awards, including the Editor Award of the American
Society of Civil Engineers' Division of Environmental Engineering, the
Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award of the Overseas Chinese
Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association and the Certificate
of Excellence in Research from the Chesapeake Water Pollution.
He has received 30 research grants from a variety of government
and industry sources, including the National Science Foundation, the
U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Interior, the Environmental
Protection Agency, the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection, the Delaware Department of Transportation, the Du Pont Co.
and Sara-Lee Co.
The author of more than 140 articles, proceedings, book chapters
and technical reports, Huang has presented more than 30 seminars
throughout the United States and in Canada, Taiwan and Switzerland.
Active in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Huang
has served as vice chairman of the ASCE Division of Environmental
Engineering's Publication Committee and as editor of its Journal of
Environmental Engineering. He also is a member of the American
Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Water
Works Association, the Water Pollution Control Federation, the
International Association of Water Pollution Research and the
International Association of Colloid and Surface Scientists. He is a
member of the national council of the Chinese Institute of
Engineers-USA and president of the Overseas Chinese Environmental
Engineers and Scientists Association.
Huang has served as an engineering consultant for several
companies, including Bechtel Co., Formosa Engineering Co., Union
Hicarbon Co., Chi-Lin Co., the Du Pont Co. and TNC Associates.
Born in Taiwan, he is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He received his
bachelor's degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University
and his master's and doctoral degrees in environmental engineering
from Harvard University.
Brown is a specialist in the history of the materials and
techniques of Western painting, drawing and printmaking, as well as an
active artist. Before he joined the Delaware faculty, he had served
four years as visiting associate professor of art history for the
University's Art Conservation Program.
Brown has received numerous scholarships, fellowships and awards
from such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore
Museum of Art and the City Art Museum of St. Louis, and his paintings,
prints and drawings have been exhibited in 23 one-person shows in New
York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and
Wilmington.
His work has been included in more than 125 invitational and
juried group shows in this country and abroad. and it may be found in
the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Art
Institute of Chicago, the University of Maryland in College Park,
among many other institutional and private collections in this country
and abroad.
From 1981-88, Brown was a contributing editor to American Artist,
writing a column, "Looking at Paintings with Hilton Brown," as well as
special articles.
He has curated several shows for the University Gallery and
written a catalog on the life and art of Ralph Mayer. Between 1979 and
1988, he was actively involved as an artist member of the American
Society for Testing and Materials in writing voluntary standards for
artists' materials for chemical composition, lightfastness and
potential health hazards.
Brown studied at the Goodman Theatre and School of Drama of the
Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, the University of
Illinois at Chicago and received his certificate in fine arts,
bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts degrees from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught at his alma mater and
at the School of Fine Arts of Washington University in St. Louis and
at Goucher College in Baltimore.
Brown's professorship is named in honor of Harriet T. Baily
(1891-1988), who joined the art department of the University of
Delaware Women's College in 1928 as assistant professor. Miss Baily
became a full professor and chaired the University's Department of Art
from 1946 until her retirement in 1956.