For the Record, Sept. 12, 2014

University community reports recent presentations

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2:05 p.m., Sept. 12, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent announcements, 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.

Announcements

George Watson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, announced that Joann Browning, professor of theatre, has been promoted to become the college’s senior associate dean for the arts. Watson also announced four new department chair appointments: Chrysanthi Leon has accepted a one-semester appointment as acting chair of the Department of Women and Gender Studies while Monika Shafi is on sabbatical leave; Annette Giesecke will serve two years as interim chair of the Department of Foreign Language and Literatures, succeeding Gary Ferguson, who has accepted an academic year appointment as the Gordon Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia; Lu Ann De Cunzo will serve a one-year appointment as interim chair of the Department of Anthropology; and Robin Morgan has been appointed to serve two years as interim chair of the Department of Biological Sciences. Morgan, a professor of animal and food sciences and former dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, is formally trained in biology and conducts research on herpesvirus oncology.

Lynnette Young Overby, professor in the Department of Theatre, has been appointed by the College Board to serve on the Advanced Placement Program (AP) Research Development Committee for the 2014-15 academic year. Members of each College Board AP Development Committee — seven to nine distinguished secondary and post-secondary faculty — are responsible for developing the AP Research course and examination. Once appointed, members will potentially serve on the committee for up to four academic years. Service on the AP Research Development Committee will include developing, reviewing and revising teacher support documents.

Presentations

Wendy Bellion, associate professor of art history and winner of the 2014 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, will deliver the Eldredge Prize Lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. The lecture can be viewed live via webcast at this site and will be available after the event on YouTube at this site. The Eldredge Prize, which is awarded by the museum, recognized Bellion’s 2011 book, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America

Leslie F. Goldstein, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Relations, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, "Asian and Black Intersectionality in Racial Discrimination Policy, 1866-1954," in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28.

Hannah Lee, senior assistant librarian, Multimedia Collections and Services Department, University of Delaware Library, presented "Young, Black, Brown and Yellow: Diversity Recruitment Practices from the Field" at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) annual meeting held in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 16, 2014.

Carol Vukelich, Hammonds Professor in Teacher Education and director of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education, was the keynote speaker at the Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association conference in Bali, Indonesia, Aug. 8-10. Her presentation on “Literacy Development and Learning in Early Childhood Education” reached 800 early childhood educators from 26 countries.

Publications

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Professor of History, published "The Ambiguities of Alcohol in Iranian History: Between Excess and Abstention," in Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz and Florian Schwarz, eds., Wine Culture in Iran and Beyond (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), pp. 137-164.

Honors

Bahira Sherif Trask, professor of human development and family studies, was nominated and selected to participate in the White House Summit on Working Families in June. The White House Council on Women and Girls, the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Center for American Progress hosted a Summit on Working Families on June 23, 2014, that focused on how to re-fashion the American workplace. As family change becomes more prevalent, an increasing number of American employees are finding it difficult to balance work-family obligations. A primary purpose of the summit was to highlight these contemporary transformations and to emphasize that, in order for businesses to stay competitive in today’s global economy and to help workers ensure the economic stability of their families, it is imperative that workplaces rethink their policies to meet the demands of a changing world. 

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