Faculty report recent publications, presentations

1:04 p.m., Nov. 4, 2011--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent publications and presentations include the following:

Campus Stories

From graduates, faculty

As it neared time for the processional to open the University of Delaware Commencement ceremonies, graduating students and faculty members shared their feelings about what the event means to them.

Doctoral hooding

It was a day of triumph, cheers and collective relief as more than 160 students from 21 nations participated in the University of Delaware's Doctoral Hooding Convocation held Friday morning on The Green.

• Doctoral hooding
• Old Swedes
• Summer SAT, ACT prep
• 'Opus 13' pre-sale

Publications

Alice Ba, director of Asian studies and associate professor of political science and international relations, published "ASEAN Centrality Imperiled? ASEAN Institutionalism and the Challenges of Major Power Institutionalization," in ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia, edited by Ralf Emmers (Abingdon and New York, Routledge: 2011), 114-129.

James M. Brophy, professor of history, "The End of the Economic Old Order: The Great Transition, 1750-1860," in The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, ed. Helmut Walser Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, pages 169-94.

Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, published an article, "Notes on the Effect of Mr. Max Beerbohm on a Woman Writer," in Gender Forum, an Internet journal for gender studies, Issue 35, 2011.

Four UD faculty and staff and a graduate student wrote a chapter in the book Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources. The chapter is titled "Use of Geospatial Data in Planning for Offshore Wind Development," and the authors are John Madsen, associate professor, Department of Geological Sciences; Alison Bates, master's degree student, School of Marine Science and Policy; John Callahan, research scientist, Delaware Geological Survey; and Jeremy Firestone, professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, all in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

Presentations

David Pong, professor of history and Asian Studies, presented a paper, "The 1911 Revolution: Perspectives from the late Qing," at the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 14-16.

Scott Andres of the Delaware Geological Survey did a presentation titled "Land Application of Wastewater in Delaware -- Results of Research on RIBS, Spray Irrigation, and Reuse" at the Delaware Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association annual conference, Oct. 11, Dover, Del.

Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, delivered a paper, "'Sideways' Feminism: Rebecca West and the Saturday Evening Post, 1928," at the Rebecca West and Power conference organized by the International Rebecca West Society, Baruch College, City University of New York, Sept.17.

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