For the Record, Oct. 31, 2014

University community reports recent awards, presentations

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9:43 a.m., Oct. 31, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent announcements, 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.

Announcements

The Disaster Research Center's (DRC) Enrico Quarantelli Resource Collection, a repository for the center's own databases as well as materials collected by other agencies and researchers, now also provides access to another resource. Through a partnership with the Emergency Information Infrastructure Project (EIIP), which closed earlier this year, an archive of webinars designed to improve the effectiveness of emergency and disaster management is available in the DRC collection. The webinar series, known as EMForum, covered topics including preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation and were saved as transcripts and audio and video recordings. "The DRC welcomes this wonderful opportunity to further enhance what is already widely recognized as a premier collection of information on the social science aspects of disasters by adding this stellar and eclectic collection of presentations that span EIIP's 17-year history," said James Kendra, DRC director and professor of public policy and administration. The webinar archives are available at this website.

Awards

Nancy Targett, dean of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE) and director of the Delaware Sea Grant College Program, and George Luther, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies, have been named 2014 Distinguished Alumni by the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Chemistry.

Targett graduated from Pitt with a degree in chemistry and biology in 1972. A UD faculty member since 1984, she is an expert in marine chemical ecology and organismal interactions. Under her leadership as CEOE dean, faculty and staff in the college are working broadly at local, state, national and international levels on issues relating to environmental observing and forecasting; marine renewable energy and sustainability; and ecosystem health and society.

Luther, who earned his doctorate in physical/inorganic chemistry from Pitt in 1972, is an expert in oceanography, specifically biogeochemical processes in marine environments. A member of the UD faculty since 1986, Luther has made 14 trips deep beneath the sea in the famous research submersible Alvin. Most recently, he was one of 28 scientists invited to test the completely rebuilt sub, which recently underwent a significant overhaul.

Presentations

Yasser Payne, associate professor in the Department of Black American Studies, will deliver the keynote address at the 13th annual Community Mental Health Conference sponsored by the Mental Health Association in Delaware on Nov. 13 at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington.

Peter P. McLaughlin Jr., senior scientist at the Delaware Geological Survey, gave a presentation on Oct. 18 at the 2014 Geological Society of America annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada, titled "Application of 3-D Aquifer Mapping to Analysis of Groundwater Withdrawals by Source in the Delaware Coastal Plain," coauthored with Jaime L. Tomlinson (DGS) and Amanda K. Lawson.

Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the School of Education, gave a presentation at the 2014 Sound Wave Symposium sponsored by Rady Children’s Hospital and hosted by AMN Healthcare in San Diego, Oct. 10-11. The symposium was titled “From Your Lips to My Brain … Integration of Developmental and Medical Impact on Speech Perception, Assessment and Maximization Through Amplification.” Golinkoff spoke on the topic “From Coo to Code in the Baby’s First Year: Language Development Starts Before Implants.”

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Cori Ilardi contributed to this week’s For the Record

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