For the Record, June 20, 2014
University community reports recent appointments, awards, presentations
9:30 a.m., June 20, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent appointments, awards, media and presentations include the following:
Campus Stories
From graduates, faculty
Doctoral hooding
Appointments
George Watson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has announced four new department chair appointments: Arwen Mohun will become chair of the Department of History, effective Sept. 1, following her current appointment as interim chair; Lawrence Nees will become chair of the Department of Art History, effective Sept. 1, 2015, following his current appointment as interim chair and a deferred sabbatical leave for the next academic year; Perry Chapman will serve as interim chair of the Department of Art History for a year beginning Sept. 1, 2014; and Wunyabari Maloba, professor of history, will serve as interim chair of the Department of Black American Studies, effective Sept. 1, succeeding Carol Henderson, who has been named vice provost for diversity.
Awards
Two public relations professionals, who first worked together to create a marketing communications plan as undergraduates in a UD Department of Communication course, have received a prestigious Silver Anvil award from the Public Relations Society of America for the best healthcare marketing program of the year. Both 1988 alumnae, Grace Thompson Leong, president and co-owner of Hunter Public Relations in New York, and Sheri Keiles, director of communications for McNeil Consumer Healthcare in Fort Washington, Pa., received the award for a campaign they designed for the Zyrtec brand. "While it may have taken some time to pick up the public relations industry's top honor for programming excellence, it was well worth the wait because we were able to do it together," Leong wrote in a note to Carolyn Bartoo, instructor in communication. "The power of two UD [communication] majors is an unstoppable force!" Bartoo compared the Silver Anvil to winning an Oscar, calling it "the pinnacle of professional achievement, especially since it's judged by very accomplished professionals."
Media
The UD figure skating program was featured in two articles in the June/July 2014 issue of U.S. Figure Skating’s Skating magazine. The UD Intercollegiate Figure Skating team was featured on pages 22-23 for winning the national championship and the UD Synchronized Skating Team was featured on page 54 for its Play Synchro recruitment program. The article was prepared by the team’s Megan O’Donnell and Wendy Deppe and cited Angie Cardello, program coordinator at the UD Ice Arena.
Presentations
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, traveled to Poland, where he presented four papers. At the University of Warsaw he spoke on “Wine in Iranian History: Ambivalence and Ambiguity” on June 2 and on “The Fall of the Safavid Dynasty in Comparative Perspective” on June 9. On June 3 he presented the latter lecture at the Cracow branch of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. On June 4 he delivered “The Center and the Periphery in Safavid Iran” at the University of Cracow. He also chaired a panel at “Contact Zones” in Turkish-Polish Relations (1414-2004), an international conference held at the University of Warsaw in celebration of 600 years of Turkish-Polish relations, June 7-8.
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