For the Record, Oct. 14, 2011
Faculty, students report recent presentations, publications, honors
9:49 a.m., Oct. 14, 2011--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent presentations and publications include the following:
Campus Stories
From graduates, faculty
Doctoral hooding
Staff announcements
New additions to UD's Department of Public Safety are Nicole Hyden and Bernard Innocent. Hyden is currently working with a UD field training officer and will be assigned to a patrol squad in a few weeks. Innocent is currently working various administrative assignments within the department and will begin at the New Castle County Police Training Academy next month.
Hyden comes to UD after serving more than 21 years with the New Castle County Police, where she retired as a senior sergeant. For her last eight years there, she was in the mounted patrol unit as a commander and previously as a patrol sergeant. She also worked in the criminal investigation unit, with the majority of time assigned to the family services unit, as well as in the research development and inspection unit for a reaccreditation project and in the human resources unit. A certified police instructor, Hyden has been a master police instructor for 10 years. Fluent in Spanish, she holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish and secondary education from Salisbury University.
"Although I have retired from a larger Delaware police department, I am excited to start a new career at the University of Delaware Police Department," Hyden said. "I am sure that I will face new challenges and I look forward to joining a new family."
Raised in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, Innocent earned his bachelor's degree in psychology, with a minor in criminal justice, from Widener University. While at Widener, he was a member of the varsity track and field team.
"I am excited to be part of the University of Delaware Police Department," Innocent said. "Law enforcement has been something I’ve always wanted to do and the proactive, progressive approach UDPD takes to not only enforce the law but to educate the community is the type of agency I sought out.”
Presentations
Suzanne L. Burton, associate professor of music education, presented a paper titled "Making Music Mine! A Centers-Based Approach to Middle School General Music" at the New Directions Conference on Revitalizing Secondary General Music, held at Michigan State University, Oct. 7.
Publications
Chandra L. Reedy, professor of public policy and administration, art history and Asian studies, co-editor (with Pamela B. Vandiver, Weidong Li, Jose Luis Ruvacaba Sil, and Lesley D. Frame), Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IX, Warrendale, Pa.: Cambridge University Press and Materials Research Society, 385 pages, 2011. Also authored a chapter in that book, "Technological Tradition and Change in Tibetan Silversmithing Techniques in Songpan, Sichuan Province, China," pp. 127-34.
Susan Strasser, Richards Professor of American History, was chosen by the Reed College history department to contribute an essay to Thinking Reed: Centennial Essays by Graduates of Reed College, edited by Roger Porter and Robert Reynolds and just published by the college. Strasser's piece, "The Rest is History," expresses her gratitude to her undergraduate teacher David Allmendinger, later a longtime member of the UD history faculty, and now emeritus.
Julie McGee, curator, University Museums, was cited in an Oct. 12 Jamaica Observer column by Franklin W. Knight concerning the exhibit Keith Morrison: Middle Passage on view through Dec. 11 in UD's Mechanical Hall Gallery. She was cited for her "insightful essay" in the exhibit catalogue that "expertly captures the essence of Morrison's work." Knight was on campus as a keynote speaker for the African Americas symposium.
Honors
Chidera Okafor, a sophomore in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and a new member of the UD chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, has been awarded the 2011 Merit Award scholarship, a $1,000 scholarship to defer the costs of education. Merit Award scholarships are awarded to only 52 outstanding new NSCS members out of hundreds of applicants nationwide. Earlier this year the UD chapter, a registered student organization, received the organization's Gold Star Award based on chapter activities.
Gamma Sigma Sigma was recognized at its national convention with a number of awards, including outstanding chapter adviser presented to Andrea Everard, associate professor of accounting and management information systems. Other awards included Gamma Sigma Sigma CARES (Collaboration to Assist in Relief Efforts Through Service), district recognition for hosting a leadership conference, Project Impact Award for educating youth at risk, Barbara V. Ferraro Outstanding Collegiate Service Program (first place), Distict IV Award, Margaret Linton Award for Outstanding Collegiate Chapter (third place), Outstanding Collegiate Award (Elizabeth Glinka, Heather Hartman, Katie Ragghianti and Kristen Pannullo), Rosalie Powell Award (Denise Shuler, chapter consultant), Emerging Leader Award (Danielle Lavoie and Anne-Elyse Wacher) and National Service Partner Awards (Alex's Lemonade, American Red Cross, American Cancer Society and March of Dimes).
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