For the Record, April 1, 2016
University community reports recent books, honors, media, publications
10:04 a.m., April 1, 2016--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent books, honors, media and publications include the following:
People Stories
'Resilience Engineering'
Reviresco June run
Books
Jasmin Philip, a senior majoring in biochemistry, has published a young adult urban fantasy titled The Path to Dawn under the pen name Miri Castor. It is part of her Opal Charm series. Philip is the treasurer of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology student affiliate at UD and a member of the NAACP chapter on campus. She will graduate with a bachelor's degree in science this May and will start a doctoral biochemistry program in graduate school this fall. She works as a quality control technician. One of Philip’s many hobbies is writing, as she writes fantasy and science fiction stories under her pen name. Originally from New York, she spends her free time strolling through the city, attending music concerts and practicing karate.
Honors
Adesis, a New Castle, Delaware, contract research firm specializing in organic synthesis for the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biomaterials and catalysts industries, is one of four biotech companies honored by the University of Florida with its 2016 Gator100 entrepreneurship award for the fastest-growing businesses owned by alumni. The president and founder of Adesis, whose 50 employees include many University of Delaware graduates, is Andrew Cottone, who conducted postdoctoral research at UD in 2000-01 in chemistry and biochemistry after earning his doctoral degree at Florida.
Media
Darlene Farabee, a University of Delaware alumna who is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of South Dakota, is featured in an article in The New York Times about a Shakespeare First Folio. Farabee received her master’s degree and doctorate in English literature from UD, and is author of Shakespeare’s Staged Spaces and Playgoers’ Perceptions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and co-editor of and contributor to Early Modern Drama in Performance (University of Delaware Press, 2015).
Publications
Carol Rudisell, librarian, Reference and Instructional Services Department, University of Delaware Library, published "Liberating History, Reflections on Rights, Rituals and the Colored Conventions Project," which was selected as the Editors' Choice article for Digital Humanities Now, a leading publication of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University). The original article was published in Common-place: The Journal of EArly American Life (Vol. 16, no. 1, Fall 2015), an interactive, online journal sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and the University of Connecticut.
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