Pictured at a celebration of Delaware Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are (from left) U.S. Sen. Chris Coons; Renée Beaman, director of the Division of State Service Centers; Ed Freel, policy scientist in UD's Institute for Public Administration; Häly Laasme, LIHEAP program manager; Robert Broesler, senior administrator of the Office of Community Services; and Rob Eppes, president of Junior Achievement of Delaware.

For the Record, March 27, 2015

University community reports recent announcements, presentations

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9:21 a.m., March 27, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent announcements, appointments, honors, presentations and service include the following:

People Stories

'Resilience Engineering'

The University of Delaware's Nii Attoh-Okine recently published a new book with Cambridge University Press, "Resilience Engineering: Models and Analysis."

Reviresco June run

UD ROTC cadets will run from New York City to Miami this month to raise awareness about veterans' affairs.

Announcements

Ed Freel, a policy scientist in the University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration, joined U.S. Sen. Chris Coons at a celebration of the Delaware Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and in cutting a ribbon opening the program’s new student energy conservation training room at the Junior Achievement Building in Wilmington. LIHEAP currently provides Delaware with approximately $12.5 million in funding to assist Delawareans in meeting their fuel needs and to provide related conservation and training programs.

Coons offered comments on the importance of LIHEAP to the state in helping low-income and senior citizens meet their home heating needs. He was followed by Freel who discussed LIHEAP’s history over 35-plus years. Freel was invited to offer remarks in recognition of his role as the first director of LIHEAP during the administration of President Jimmy Carter. When Freel stepped down from his post in 1981, the program had a budget of $1.6 billion. In March 1981 he received a Special Achievement Award from the Social Security Administration for his management of the program.

The new LIHEAP training room will afford students the opportunity to learn about home energy usage and strategies for saving energy in the home.

Appointments

The board of directors of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) has appointed Louis Hirsh, retired director of admissions at UD, to a two-year term as chair of its Admissions Practices Committee. His term begins Oct. 1. The Admissions Practices Committee monitors compliance with NACAC’s Statement of Principles of Good Practice and proposes amendments to that document. NACAC’s 14,000 membership includes secondary school counselors and college admissions officers throughout the United States and many countries overseas.

Honors

Paul Head, Unidel Professor of Music and director of the internationally known and award-winning UD Chorale, has been inducted into the Hall of Fame at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he was recognized for his work as an author, clinician, pedagogue and conductor. Alumni are inducted into the Hall of Fame for outstanding contributions to the profession of music education.

In addition to his work with the UD Chorale, Head is an active guest conductor and clinician and has conducted All-State choirs in 18 states. He is the co-editor of Case Studies in Music Education and a contributing author in The School Choral Program. He earned a master of music degree in conducting and music education at Westminster Choir College and a doctor of musical arts in conducting at the University of Oklahoma.

Heidi Sarver, associate professor of music and director of the UD Marching Band, has been inducted into the Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps Hall of Fame. Sarver was an active member of the corps for seven years and a supporter and educator for 20 years. The corps provides its members, of all ages, with musical, educational and performance opportunities, and the group participates in national Drum Corps Associates championship competitions.

Media

Polly Weir, director of conference services, was featured in the spring issue of Unique Venues magazine, which published its 2015 list of “rock stars” in the collegiate conference world. Weir said UD Conference Services tries “to do something new every year and also adapt to the differences in the market.” To see the story, click here and go to page 49.

Presentations

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, and Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, University of Delaware Library, gave a gallery tour March 14 to the deputy prime minister of Ireland of an exhibition they have curated. Their exhibition, "Everything Is Going on Brilliantly: Oscar Wilde and Philadelphia," which is on display at the Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia until April 26, explores the great Irish writer's local connections and showcases newly discovered manuscript material by him. Joan Burton, who is deputy prime minister of Ireland and head of the Irish Labour Party, was accompanied by diplomats from the Consulate General of Ireland in New York, including Barbara Jones, consul general, and Anne McGillicuddy, deputy consul general, as well as by members of the Irish American Business Chamber and Network, Philadelphia. As Stetz said afterwards, "This is the first time we've been asked to give a gallery talk to a group that included Secret Service agents." Stetz and Samuels Lasner's exhibition, which has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, was recently featured in the article "The Wilde Renaissance" on Slate.com. 

Service

Jinfa Cai, professor of mathematical sciences, has been selected by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (JRME), the premier research journal in the field. The Department of Mathematical Sciences will host the journal from 2015-20, and Cai will be the editor-designate for the first, transitional, year and will be editor for the remaining four years. 

JRME advances the frontiers of mathematics education by disseminating the highest quality research on the learning and teaching of mathematics at all levels, from preschool through college. The work it has published over the past several decades has helped to guide research, foster innovations in practice and inform policy debates and decisions.

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