For the Record
November 11, 2016
University community reports recent awards, books, publications
For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent awards, books and publications include the following:
Awards
William (Sandy) Schenck was awarded the Charles R. Sherman Award for outstanding service to the National Association of State Boards of Geology (ASBOG) at the Nov. 2 ASBOG annual meeting. This award is ASBOG’s highest honor for outstanding service to the organization.
Books
Peter Weil, associate professor emeritus of the Department of Anthropology, has published a book with co-author Paul Robert titled Typewriter: A Celebration of the Ultimate Writing Machine. It is published and being sold worldwide by Sterling Publishing Co., New York, New York, a branch of Barnes and Noble. The 218-page hardbound volume examines the history of typewriters and features more than 175 color portraits of typewriters, tracing the machine’s evolution from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries, along with print advertisements, vintage photographs, patents, and other memorabilia.
Publications
Timothy Murray, head of Special Collections, co-authored the essay "Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted: the Outlaw Art of William S. Burroughs," with former University of Delaware Library Senior Assistant Librarian Maureen Cech, in The Outlaw Bible of American Art, San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2016. Murray also contributed the essay "T.L. Kryss: Ghost Printing" to the same publication.
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