Michele Hackley Johnson receives a College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Achievement Award from Dean George Watson in 2013. See APPOINTMENTS.

For the Record, Dec. 19, 2014

University community reports recent awards, presentations, publications

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10 a.m., Dec. 19, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent appointments, awards, presentations and publications 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.

Appointments

University of Delaware alumna Dr. Michele Hackley Johnson, a neuroradiologist who earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at UD in 1975 and her M.D. at Temple University in 1979, recently was promoted to full professor at Yale University School of Medicine. At Yale, she is professor of diagnostic radiology and of neurosurgery, associate professor of surgery in otolaryngology and director of interventional neuroradiology. With her promotion in July, Johnson became the first African American woman to be named a full professor at the Yale medical school. Her father, the late Brennie E. Hackley Jr., was also a trailblazer as UD’s first African American doctoral graduate in chemistry, earning his Ph.D. in 1957.

Awards

Nicole Minni, assistant policy scientist and GIS graphics specialist with the Water Resources Agency, housed in the Institute for Public Administration in the School of Public Policy and Administration, and Miriam Pomilio were presented with the Pathfinder Award by the Delaware Geographic Alliance for their work to introduce teachers and students in the state to geographic information systems (GIS). Maggie Legates, coordinator of the Delaware Geographic Alliance, cited their classroom visits, workshops for teachers and the successful GIS Day event held annually at the Dover Air Command Museum. Minni works in all aspects of the WRA’s geospatial research and graphic and web development needs.

The alliance also presented the Distinguished Teaching Award to four teachers – Katelyn Brown of Gunning Bedford Middle School, who received a master’s degree from UD and who also was named Delaware Geography Teacher of the Year; Carolyn Fafara of McCullough Middle School, who also received a master’s degree from UD; Amy Carlson of Keene Elementary School; and Sonia Saunders of Brandywine Springs School.

The Delaware Geographic Alliance is a group of educators and concerned citizens who work to improve geographic education in Delaware. The alliance is supported through grants from the National Geographic Education Foundation and the state of Delaware.

Presentations

Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, gave an invited reading Dec. 15 at the Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, of her contribution to Worn Stories (2014), a volume of short memoirs about items of clothing. Worn Stories, edited by Emily Spivack, was recently featured in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Gregg Silvis, associate university librarian, Information Technology and Digital Initiatives, University of Delaware Library, participated in giving a panel presentation, "Opening Open Access: Exposing Digital Images Collections Ease," at the 34th annual Charleston Conference, Nov. 6, Charleston, South Carolina.

Publications

Robert L. Hampel, professor of education, wrote on “High Schools” in The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia (Sage, 2014), 410-414.

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