For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent awards and presentations include the following:

Awards

The National Association of Economic Educators has chosen Carlos Asarta, associate professor of economics and director of UD’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship, as the winner of the 2016 Abbejean Kehler Technology Award. This award recognizes an individual who is instrumental in promoting the use of technology to improve the delivery of programs in economic education.

At the award presentation, Sue Owens of Economics Arkansas discussed Asarta’s Principles of Economics, McGraw-Hill’s first- ever product to be built online from the ground up, and his passion for research. Asarta, she said, exemplifies “innovative work and research in the use of technology to foster the teaching of economics.”

In a recent article on Asarta’s other achievements this year, Dean Bruce Weber of UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics said, “Lerner College is thriving because of its dedicated, path-breaking faculty, and Dr. Asarta is an ideal example we are proud of. The success and wide-reaching impact of Carlos’ work in economic education demonstrates how scholars at Lerner continue to shape the future of education in business and economics.”

Presentations

Meg Grotti, associate librarian, Reference and Instructional Services Department, University of Delaware Library, co-presented a poster session on learning analytics systems with a national leader in academic library assessment, Megan Oakleaf, associate professor in the iSchool at Syracuse University, at the Association of Research Libraries' Library Assessment Conference on Oct. 29, Arlington, Virginia.

Theodore E.D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, planned and chaired two related sessions at the annual meeting of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 27-29. The sessions were titled “Not Really One of Us (I): Scientists, Others, and Mothers” and “Not Really One of Us (II): Actresses and Animals.” He also read a communication at the annual meeting, "Olympe de Gouges, Anti-Slavery Author."

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Professor of History, presented “Between Decay and Regeneration: The Eighteenth Century in Iranian History and Historiography,” at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, Oct. 27.

Thomas Buckley, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, presented to the physical therapy program at SRH Hochschule in Heidelberg, Germany, on Oct. 25. The title of the lecture was "The Role of the Physical Therapist in Concussion Management."

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