David Wunsch, director of the Delaware Geological Survey, with Pick and Gavel Award recipient Anne J. Castle. See SERVICE

For the Record, April 8, 2016

University community reports recent books, exhibitions, presentations, service

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9:54 a.m., April 8, 2016--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent books, documentary films, exhibitions, graduate student achievements, performances, 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.

Books

A new book by James C. Curtis, professor emeritus of history, focuses on photographers hired by the federal War Relocation Authority (WRA) and shows how their images were shaped by the government’s need to explain and justify the evacuation, confinement and eventual resettlement of over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Discriminating Views: Documentary Photography and Japanese American Internment was the subject of a recent article in the Wilmington News Journal. Curtis, also a former director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, was instrumental in the creation of UD’s History Media Center in 1970 and establishing a curriculum in visual history. 

Documentary films

James Corbett, professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, appeared in the recently released documentary Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping, produced by Polar Star Films.

The documentary investigates the many faces of worldwide freight shipping and sheds light on the functioning, regulation and hidden costs associated with this nearly invisible industry.

An expert in the environmental impacts of shipping, Corbett has conducted groundbreaking research on the air pollution generated by maritime transport. His research focuses also extends to assessing technological and policy strategies to improve freight transportation.

Exhibitions

University of Delaware alumnus Dennis Carr is the curator of a new exhibition at Winterthur Museum, “Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia,” which runs through Jan. 8. Carr, who earned his master’s degree in 1999 from UD’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, is the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. “Made in the Americas” is the first large-scale, Pan-American exhibition to examine the profound influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. It includes more than 80 works, including fine furniture, textiles, ceramics, silverwork and paintings.

Graduate student achievements

Kristin Yoshimura, a graduate student studying marine biosciences in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, received an honorable mention from the 2016 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. This distinction provides Yoshimura “enhanced access to cyberinfrastructure resources, including supercomputing time, in support of research toward completion of the graduate program of study.”

Sarmistha Chatterjee, a doctoral student in the Department of Geography, received the best research presentation award at the doctoral-level at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, held in San Francisco from March 29-April 2. The award was given by the AAG’s Water Resources Specialty Group. Chatterjee’s presentation was titled "Modeling Small Dam Fragmentation and Climate Change Impacts on the Hydrology of the Smoky-Hill River Basin, Kansas."

Performances

James Keegan, associate professor of English in UD’s Associate in Arts Program in Georgetown, Delaware, is directing The Winter's Tale at the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory until April 24. His production uses original pronunciation, or OP, in which the actors adopt historically accurate accents and pronunciation; in this case, their pronunciation and speech patterns are as close as possible to the Elizabethan English used in Shakespeare's original productions.

The opening night performance of the play received rave reviews in DC Metro Theater Arts and in TheatreBloom. Keegan, who also teaches acting and film and is a member of the resident troupe at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, is hosting a pre-show lecture series and question-and-answer session before each Saturday performance of The Winter’s Tale

Presentations

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, and Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow at the University of Delaware Library, gave invited lectures in Liverpool, U.K., at the Walker Art Gallery. Their talks were part of the public events scheduled by the Walker's education office in conjunction with the museum's current exhibition, Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion, which explores the connections between an important Victorian art movement and the city of Liverpool.

On March 30, Samuels Lasner spoke about "Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites," in a talk that focused on Liverpool-based collectors of Pre-Raphaelite painting in the 19th century, but also highlighted some relevant Pre-Raphaelite works with Liverpool links in his own collection (which is on loan to the UD Library). 

On March 31, Stetz gave a talk titled "Dante's Dream and a Poet in 1880s Liverpool," about the inspirational role that a particular Pre-Raphaelite painting by D.G. Rossetti (owned since the 19th century by the Walker) played in the literary career of Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947).

Later this year, Stetz and Samuels Lasner will be co-curators of the exhibition Richard Le Gallienne: Liverpool's Wild(e) Poet, Aug. 5 to Oct. 31 at the Central Library in Liverpool, which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of this writer, who began as a disciple of Oscar Wilde, but also became an influential figure in his own right, especially in the Aesthetic and Decadent movements.

Theodore E. D. Braun, professor emeritus, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture, presented "Lies, Slanders, Prevarications, Calumnies: Voltaire and his Fictive Le Franc de Pompignan" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, March 31-April 3.

Service

David Wunsch, director of the Delaware Geological Survey, presented Anne J. Castle, former Assistant Secretary for Water and Science in the Department of Interior under President Obama, with the Pick and Gavel Award at the historic Cosmo’s Club in Washington, D.C. The Pick and Gavel Award is presented by the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) to a national public policy official or other leader who has demonstrated support, leadership, and advancement of the geosciences in the public policy arena. Previous winners include U.S. senators, congressmen and executive agency leaders.

Wunsch, who nominated Castle for the award, cited her strong support of cooperative efforts between the AASG and the U.S. Geological Survey, and her implementation of the SECURE Water Act, including the National Ground Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) effort within the Interior Department. 

Wunsch is a member of the federal Subcommittee on Ground Water, which advises the Interior Department on groundwater issues within the U.S., and a past-president of the AASG. He has worked closely with Secretary Castle in the past.

Delaware Geological Survey is a state agency based at UD and housed in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

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