11:26 a.m., Sept. 11, 2009----UD in the News provides a roundup of recent news items about the University of Delaware, its faculty, students, staff and alumni.

Charles E. Robinson, professor of English, was featured in a Sept. 14 Newsweek magazine article about Mary Shelley and her authorship of Frankenstein. Robinson has published The Original Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus, which highlights both the work of Mary Shelley and also editing by her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Sergio Olaya, a UD senior, was featured in a Sept. 11 Philadelphia Inquirer column after attending President Barack Obama's address on health care reform Wednesday night before a joint session of Congress. Olaya was a guest of the White House and sat with First Lady Michelle Obama during the address.

John Byrne, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, was quoted in a Sept. 10 Korea Herald article, saying there must be a cooperative international effort to deal with the problem of green inequity, in which some nations are developing leading-edge technologies to reduce carbon emissions while others continue to use outdated technologies.

Thomas Sims, deputy dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Katy O'Connell, communications manager in the college, Dan Severson, laboratory coordinator, and students Kate Kingsborough and Sara Busker were featured in a Sept. 10 News Journal article on the new UDairy creamery. "We wanted students to make ice cream, but we wanted it to be part of their classes, not an after-school job. At every one of our events, we want people to do more than just have an ice cream cone. We want them to think about why we're there, what our message is," Sims told the newspaper.

Charles Bartlett, associate professor of entomology and wildlife ecology, was quoted in a Sept. 10 News Journal article about bedbugs. "They are in the news a lot lately because they are making a comeback. There is a lot of mythology about them, because they had been very well controlled for a long time," Bartlett told the newspaper.

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a Sept. 9 article in The New York Times concerning the firing of the Bank of America general counsel following a shareholder vote to approve a merger with Merrill Lynch. “I'd like to know why he was dismissed,” Elson said. “If he was terminated because of disagreements on disclosure on Merrill, that's relevant. It goes right back to the effectiveness of management. You can always disregard a general counsel's advice, but the question is, Why did you?” Elson also was quoted in a Sept. 8 Bloomberg news service article about judges and punishment being meted out on Wall Street in the wake of the recession, and in a Sept. 11 News Journal article on recommendations concerning Delaware corporate law.

James Corbett, professor of marine policy, was cited in a Sept. 9 Panama Report article about pollution from shipping along the Panama Canal.

Christopher Papile, a UD alumnus who received a doctorate in chemical engineering, was featured in a Sept. 9 Massachusetts High Tech article about research on magnetobaric power, which might be able to convert low-temperature heat to electricity.

Joseph Pika, James R. Soles Professor of Political Science and International Relations, was quoted in a Sept. 8 News Journal article about the voting records of Delaware's congressional delegation.

Jeanne Pfaelzer, professor of English, wrote a two-day Labor Day series on reparations, apologies and immigrant labor that ran Sept. 7-8 in The Globalist, an international globalization issues Web site.

Patrick Harker, president, and family were featured in the September 2009 edition of Signature Brandywine, which looked at life in UD's President's House.

Dion Vlachos, Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering, was featured in a Sept. 6 News Journal article about research being conducted through Energy Frontier Research Center funding.

Cole Galloway, associate professor of physical therapy, Sunil Agrawal, professor of mechanical engineering, Laura Morris, associate director of UD's Early Learning Center, and Christina Ragonesi, a graduate student in the College of Health Sciences, were quoted and cited in a Sept. 6 News Journal article about UD's work with power chairs and robotics to help children with disabilities explore their worlds.

The Professional Theatre Training Program production of A Doll House was featured in a Sept. 4 News Journal article, which quoted Deenie Howatt, theatre coordinator, director Leslie Reidel, professor of theatre, and actors Andrew Goldwasser, Meaghan Sullivan, Matthew Simpson and Carolyn Crocker.