For the Record, Jan. 29, 2016
University community reports recent exhibitions, honors, presentations
10:10 a.m., Jan. 29, 2016--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent exhibitions, honors and presentations include the following:
People Stories
'Resilience Engineering'
Reviresco June run
Exhibitions
Aaron Keith Hoffer, a 2013 graduate of the University of Delaware with a bachelor of fine arts degree, will be featured in a Delaware Division of the Arts exhibition Feb. 5-26 in the Mezzanine Gallery in the Carvel State Office Building in Wilmington. The exhibition is titled “Psychic Future” and features abstract paintings created through the use of materials that repel, interact and converge on the surface. Hoffer said his aim is “to achieve a sense of wholeness in an abstract context through sheer sensory overload.” An opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 5, at the gallery.
Honors
James M. Brophy, the Francis H. Squire Professor of History, has been appointed to the academic advisory board of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences. This definitive edition of the complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, begun in 1975 and reconstituted in 1989 after the fall of Soviet communism, has already published 64 of the planned 114 volumes. MEGA's team of editors expects to complete the monumental work in the next 15 years.
Presentations
Close to 200 graduate students, faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and industry representatives turned out for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s Winter Research Review at the University of Delaware’s Clayton Hall on Jan. 27. The program included research presentations by 25 fourth-year graduate students as well as posters highlighting the work of third-year students. The presentations addressed a broad range of topics including bone regeneration, cancer treatment, drug transport, lung disease, catalysis, and self-healing polymers.
Troy Mix, policy scientist of the Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware, and Mark White, deputy director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, presented a webinar, "Analyzing Economic Diversity," to members of the Pennsylvania Economic Development Institute and the Pennsylvania Economic Development Association on Jan. 27. The presentation summarized research on economic diversity conducted for the Appalachian Regional Commission and highlighted implications for practitioners working to diversify their regional economies.
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