For the Record, Aug. 21, 2015
University community reports recent honors, media
9:58 a.m., Aug. 21, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent honors and media include the following:
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Honors
Tania L. Roth, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, whose selection for an Early Career Impact Award was announced early this year by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation (FABBS), received the honor at an annual meeting in July. Roth, a behavioral neuroscientist who studies what happens to the brain when stress occurs early in life, was honored for her “major research contributions to the sciences of mind, brain and behavior,” the foundation said. An article about her work has been published on the FABBS website.
Justin Kates, a 2010 UD alumnus who is serving as the first emergency management director of Nashua, New Hampshire, has been named that state’s Emergency Management Director of the Year. Kates, who earned his degree in sociology with a concentration in emergency and environmental management and was previously a consultant for the Delaware Emergency Management Agency, received the honor in June at the annual New Hampshire Emergency Preparedness Conference.
Media
A Max Beerbohm self-caricature from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to the University of Delaware Library, is reproduced in the Aug. 3 issue of the New Yorker. It appears in an essay by Adam Gopnik, "The Comparable Max," about Beerbohm, an English essayist and caricaturist who lived from 1872-1956. An online version of the article can be seen here. Samuels Lasner is senior research fellow at the UD Library.
UD's Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies is featured in a "Member Spotlight" article in the online journal of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. The University is a founding member of the coalition, which works with academic institutions and business leaders to address environmental and social challenges in the textile and apparel industries. The feature about fashion and apparel studies at UD highlights the department's emphasis on sustainability in its graduate and undergraduate coursework, research and global engagement, as well as on real-world experience for students.
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