Three UD undergraduates, (from left) Lauren Genova, Hannah Wastyk and Ben Lefler, presented their work at the Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention. See PRESENTATIONS.

For the Record, April 17, 2015

University community reports awards, presentations, publications

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8:55 a.m., April 17, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent awards, presentations and publications include the following:

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Awards

Jessica Conrad, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation short-term fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. The fellowship will be used to complete her ongoing work on the chapter “At the Bottom of the Bottle: Consumer Resistance, Racial Uplift, and Woman Suffrage in Temperance Literature.” Conrad, who focuses her work on 19th century American print and material culture, has received multiple summer research fellowships and has held the Winterthur Research Assistantship. Her dissertation, advised by Martin Brueckner, associate director of the Center for Material Culture Studies, examines the role print culture played in shaping, spreading and sustaining consumer resistance movements, including abolitionist boycotts, temperance and thrift culture.

Yasser Payne, associate professor of Black American Studies, has been selected to receive the 2015 William A. Vrooman Exemplar of Justice Award from the Delaware Center for Justice. The award was established in 1960 by the center, then known as the Delaware Prisoners Aid Society, to pay tribute to individuals who devoted their time and energy to improving the quality of justice in Delaware. Payne has conducted in-depth research on violence in Wilmington communities, training local residents to serve as his research assistants. He will receive the award at the 94th annual meeting of the Delaware Center for Justice on Thursday, April 30.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy has presented its 2015 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award to graduate student Chuan Qin. The award of a Certificate of Excellence and a check for $1,000 was given by James MacDonald, professor and the department’s graduate program director, on April 8 before the department’s colloquium. The annual award was established to encourage and honor exemplary performance by a graduate student in the role of a teaching assistant. Award recipients are selected based on student evaluations and letters of support from course instructors. The high quality of Chuan’s TA activities in a number of introductory physics courses for engineering majors and life science majors are borne out by the students’ comments which praised Chuan for her helpfulness, clear explanations, and organization. Chuan received a bachelor of science degree from the Department of Physics, Nanjing University. She is pursuing a doctorate with Yi Ji, associate professor. 

Presentations

Three undergraduate students in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry — Lauren Genova, Hannah Wastyk and Ben Lefler — recently presented their work at the 2015 Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention, hosted by Muhlenberg College. Genova won a first-place award, and Wastyk earned a second place, both in the biochemistry division.

George F.W. Haenlein, professor emeritus of animal and food sciences, has been invited to speak at the fourth International Conference and Exhibition on Nutrition to be held Oct. 26-28 in Chicago. He will speak on the topic “Goat Milk in Human Nutrition.”

Publications

“Internationalizing Authorship: Beyond New Grub Street to the Bookman in 1891," an essay by Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, was published in the spring 2015 issue of Victorian Periodicals Reviewm a Johns Hopkins University Press journal.

Peter Weil, associate professor emeritus of anthropology, has published several articles concerning typewriters and their historical role. “Ephemera – Fightin’ Typewriters Earn Their Stripes! [The Roles of Typewriters in the Development of Command and Control in Industrial Military Organization] Part 1,” appeared in ETCetera, Journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association, No. 105, summer 2014, pp. 12-15; “Ein McGill Locher,” Historische Bürowelt, Nr. 98, Dezember 2014, pp. 22-23; “Ephemera – Fightin’ Typewriters Earn Their Stripes! [The Roles of Typewriters in the Development of Command and Control in Industrial Military Organization] Part 2,” ETCetera, Nos. 106 and 107, winter 2015, pp. 18-23; and “Ephemera – BURNS: The Machine and the Man – Typewriter History in a 1920’s Portrait,” ETCetera, No. 108, March 2015, cover and pp. 3-7.

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