University community reports recent awards, presentations

10:21 a.m., Dec. 12, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent awards 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

Awards

Cindy Holland, assistant director in the Career Services Center, received the Outstanding Service Award from the American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE) at the annual conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, Nov. 2-4. The award recognizes contributions to the organization supporting work on behalf of teacher education majors preparing for careers in K-12 school systems.

Jaehee Jung, associate professor in the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies, won the Paper of Distinction Award at the 2014 International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) conference held in Charlotte, North Carolina, Nov. 12-16. Jung was honored for a research paper on “Associations Between Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery, Celebrity Worship, and Body Image Among South Korean and U.S. Female College Students.”

Christine Payne, a 1998 University of Delaware graduate with a degree in English, is one of 10 winners of the 2014 "I Love My Librarian" Award, a collaboration of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The New York Times and the American Library Association. Payne, a librarian at Appoquinimink High School in Middletown, Delaware, was nominated for the award by a student who praised her dedication to literacy and her many roles, "from club adviser to personal mentor, from editor to inspiration." Payne has worked as a librarian in the district's elementary, middle and high schools, the student wrote, and in each case, "The library became the heart of the school." The award program encourages library users to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional librarians in public libraries, K-12 schools and colleges and universities. This year, the 10 winners were selected from nominations made by more than 1,000 library patrons.

Presentations

Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, gave a presentation, "Collecting the Victorians" at the Philips Memorial Library, West Chester University, on Nov. 19, in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

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