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

Recent conferences, honors, media, presentations and service include the following:

Conferences

David Shearer, professor of history, participated as one of three commentators at the conference “Echoes of the Great Terror: Soviet Perpetrators on Trial, 1939-1943,″ University of Virginia, Oct. 1. Shearer commented on five of the 11 sessions of the two-day conference, and delivered the conference’s summary remarks.

Honors

Alexandra Davis, a master’s degree candidate in urban affairs and public policy, has received the 2016 Galloway International Congressional Fellowship to serve as a foreign policy fellow in the office of U.S. Sen. Christopher Coons of Delaware. Through the one-year legislative fellowship, which began Oct. 3, Davis will evaluate programs under the State Department and Foreign Operations to inform Coons’ work on the Senate Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees. The fellowship is supported by the nonprofit Galloway Family Foundation. In 2015, Davis received a Fulbright grant to conduct research in South Africa.

Media

Tara Mangini, who graduated in 2006 with a degree in visual communications, was featured in an article in The New York Times Style section describing the unusual interior design business, Jersey Ice Cream Co., she and a partner operate. They take on clients for home remodeling projects by camping out in the property for weeks or months at a time while building, renovating and filling the house with “stuff we think is cool,” Mangini says in the article.

Presentations

Sheldon D. Pollack, professor of law in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, was an invited participant at a colloquium on “Hayek on Law, Legislation, and Liberty” held Sept. 23-24 at the Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia. The colloquium was co-sponsored by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the Liberty Fund. The participants were a diverse group of conservative legal scholars from a variety of academic institutions, including Oxford, the University of Chicago, Cardoza School of Law, Georgetown Law Center and Indiana University. Panel discussions were devoted to the eclectic writings of Friedrich August von Hayek, the Austrian economist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974.

This fall has seen increased interest in work by Fred DeMicco, Aramark Chair in the Lerner College's hospitality department, on bridging the hospitality and medical industries. Last month, DeMicco led a session titled “Putting the Hospitality in Hospital” during the ninth annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress.

This month, DeMicco’s new book, called Medical Tourism and Wellness – Hospitality Bridging Healthcare (H2H), will be published.

Also this month, DeMicco will present at the 2016 Cornell Hospitality, Heath and Design Symposium: In Search of a Healthy Future. DeMicco will discuss "Hospitality Bridging Healthcare for the Patient/Guest Experience in Medical Tourism and Wellness Settings."

Service

The American College of Governance Counsel, an organization of leading corporate governance lawyers from the United States and Canada, has elected Charles Elson as one of its second class of 20 fellows. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and a professor of finance. The appointment of these fellows will "enhance the ability of the college to pursue its mission of promoting a high level of professional standards among governance practitioners and a better understanding and broader adoption of best governance practices," said John F. Olson, chair of the American College of Governance Counsel.

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