For the Record, Nov. 20, 2015
University community reports awards, presentations, publications
9:33 a.m., Nov. 20, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent awards, presentations and publications include the following:
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Awards
Sheng Lu, assistant professor of fashion and apparel studies, has received a Paper of Distinction Award from the International Textile and Apparel Association Conference. At the 2015 conference, held earlier this month in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lu presented "Potential Impact of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) on Related Textile and Apparel Trade Flows." To view the presentation, visit this website.
Media
WVUD’s Campus Voices features an interview with Dennis Assanis, who has been elected the new president of the University of Delaware. Bassam Khatri and Abbie Sarfo, interns for the campus radio station, attended the Board of Trustees election meeting and had an opportunity to speak with Assanis.
Fashion trends seen around the University of Delaware campus have been in the spotlight recently as the College Fashionista website has designated UD its latest "featured campus." Sixteen UD students have been contributing photos and personal style advice to the blog this semester, making up what the website calls a team of style gurus. The contributors post photos of fellow students they spot around campus showing distinctive fashion trends.
Presentations
Theodore E.D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, presented the paper “A Little Corner of Voltaire’s Vast Correspondence” and organized and chair a panel on “The Eighteenth-Century Version of Email and Social Networks” at the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Nov. 12-14.
Also, Braun organized and chaired a panel on “Nation, Port and Family: Reading, Mapping and Censoring in the Ibero-American Enlightenment” at the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Rotterdam, July 27-31.
He presented the paper “Le France de Pompignan, Scholar and Urban Planner” and organized and chaired the panel “Know Your Enemies – I (Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, March 19-21.
Also, Braun presented the paper “Voltaire’s Enemy: Le France de Pompignan: Intellectual, Urban Planner, Philanthropist” and organized and chaired a panel on “Why You Should Know Your Enemies” at the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Point Clear, Alabama, Feb. 26-28.
Publications
Theodore E.D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, published two articles, “The Controversy over the Morality of the Theatre in Early Enlightenment France” in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, and “Songs Without Music: The Hymnes of Le Franc de Pompignan,” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, Vol. 5 (2015), p. 277-293.
Trips
Junior and senior cadets from the University of Delaware Air Force ROTC detachment visited Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6. The cadets toured the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense and the largest office building in the world, visiting the different floors of the building and revisiting history as they walked through halls dedicated to American military heroes, veterans and the different branches of service. From civilians to military personnel, enlisted service members to officers, and from the Air Force, Marines, Navy and Army, the cadets found that the Pentagon has a diverse community of workers. Cadets found it an emotional experience to visit the parts of the Pentagon that were hit by American Airlines Flight 77 on 9/11, and noted that the memorials dedicated to those who lost their lives have become a significant and important part of the facility. Outside of the building is the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial, which honors the 184 victims with 184 benches, which cadets said they bound both beautiful and sobering.
The UD cadets also visited the Air Force Memorial, which stands a few miles away from the Pentagon. The memorial was built in 2006 and represents the pride and honor for all the men and women who served and continue to serve in the U.S. Air Force. The design of the three arcs represents the flight path of jets and space vehicles and embodies the three core values of the Air Force, which are “Integrity, Service Before Self and Excellence in All We Do.”
Cadets said the trip “was an incredible experience that allowed us to pay our respects and admire the United States' resiliency and the strength of not only its military members but its citizens, as well.”
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