2:31 p.m., June 19, 2009----For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Presentations

L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, librarian, Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, presented "Exploring Online Access to Collections/Brainstorming with the Center for Legislative Archives," Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., on June 2.

Francis Karani, senior laboratory technician, and Sue Seta, laboratory animal health technician, both in the Office of Laboratory Animal Medicine, attended the 2009 Tribranch Symposium for the American Association of Laboratory Animals Science, June 9-10, Atlantic City, N.J. The UD office presented two posters, “A Simplified Method of Treating Mouse Dermatitis” and “How Safe is Your Facility?” The former, presented by Seta, won first place in the institutional category.

Publications

Robert L. Hampel, professor, School of Education, "In Search of New Frontiers: How Scholars Generate Ideas," Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 19, 2008. Also, "The National Home Study Council, 1926-1942," American Journal of Distance Education, and, with Jeffrey Menzer, "Lost at the Last Minute," Phi Delta Kappan.

Anthony Middlebrooks, assistant professor in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, is co-editor with Scott J. Allen of John Carroll University of a special issue of the Journal of Leadership Education.

Service

Carroll E. Izard, Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychology, has had his Emotions Course, the centerpiece of his early childhood intervention research, translated into Italian. The course already had been translated into French.