Joe Pika is congratulated on his retirement and thanked for his long record of public service by Sen. Tom Carper, who, as Delaware governor in 1994, first appointed him to the state Board of Education. See HONORS.

For the Record, May 1, 2015

University community reports awards, presentations

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9:47 a.m., May 1, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent awards, honors and presentations include the following:

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Awards

Jacob Orledge, an undergraduate studying health sciences and political science and international relations major, was presented the Best Delegate Award at New York University’s Model United Nations Conference. At the conference, Orledge represented a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, in the Palestine Committee.

Honors

Delaware's congressional delegation (U.S. Sens. Tom Carper '75M and Chris Coons and Rep. John Carney '84M), the state's chief justice (Leo Strine '85), the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Delaware (Leonard Stark '91) and a host of colleagues, former students, friends and family turned out Friday, April 24, to celebrate the retirement of Joseph A. Pika, the James R. Soles Professor of Political Science and International Relations and former associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. 

During his 34-year career on the UD faculty, Pika also was known for his public service, including serving on the state Board of Education beginning in 1994 and as the board's president from 2001-05. His scholarly research focuses on American Government, with an emphasis on the presidency, political leadership, education policy and Delaware politics, and he is the author of the widely used and acclaimed textbook The Politics of the Presidency.

At the retirement celebration, CAS Dean George Watson read several letters of tribute, including one from Vice President Joseph Biden, a UD alumnus, who urged Pika to remain engaged in public service.

Presentations

Lou Hirsh, retired UD director of admissions and chair of the Admissions Practices Committee of the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admissions Counseling (PCACAC), and Jake Talmage, director of college counseling at the St. Paul’s School in Baltimore, conducted a session titled “So What's Ethical? Current (and Thorny) Case Studies in Admissions Ethics” on April 20 at the 50th annual PCACAC Conference at the Omni Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia.

Margaret D. 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 presentation and gallery tour at the Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia to representatives from the Friends of the Princeton University Library and members of the Student Friends of the Princeton University Library (undergraduate and graduate students) on April 18. The two groups were in Philadelphia to see "Everything Is Going on Brilliantly: Oscar Wilde and Philadelphia," the exhibition curated by Stetz and Samuels Lasner. This exhibition, which originally was scheduled to close on April 26, has been extended by the Rosenbach for an additional month, due to the large numbers of visitors. It will run through May 24.

Fred DeMicco, who serves as UD's ARAMARK Chair in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management (HRIM), spent the week of April 13 at the College of Hospitality and Technology Leadership at the University of South Florida's Sarasota-Manatee (USFSM) campus. DeMicco was invited to USFSM as part of the Distinguished Visiting Professor Series.

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Photo of Joe Pika by Wenbo Fan

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