For the Record, Sept. 18, 2015
University community reports awards, papers, presentations
12:26 p.m., Sept. 18, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent announcements, awards, media, papers and presentations include the following:
People Stories
'Resilience Engineering'
Reviresco June run
Announcements
The University of Delaware Air Force ROTC Detachment 128 celebrates the Air Force’s 68th birthday today. Maj. Andrew M. Hott, operations office and assistant professor of aerospace studies, said that on Sept. 18, 1947, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act establishing a new defense organization, and the creation of the U.S. Air Force. Until this act was passed, the U.S. Air Force was not seen as an independent organization, unlike the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy that were separate entities. The passing of this act marks Sep. 18 as the official birthday of the U.S. Air Force. For more information about the AFROTC, visit the website or contact the detachment via email at afrotc-ud128@udel.edu or telephone at 302-831-2863.
Awards
The International Studies Association's Human Rights Section has named Matthew Weinert's Making Human: World Order and the Global Governance of Human Dignity (University of Michigan, 2015), a finalist for the 2016 International Studies Association Best New Book in Human Rights Award. The committee described the book as "a magisterial treatment of the question, done with great innovation and creativity," through a "phenomenal" engagement of "the theoretical/philosophical through empirical cases." Weinert is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations.
Jissell Martinez, business administrator for the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and a UD alumna, was recognized for her community leadership at the annual Hispanic Day festival and parade in Wilmington, Delaware, this month, where she was presented the Community Impact Motivator Award.
Martinez, who earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations in 2008 and a master’s degree in public administration in 2010, is a co-founder of the Delaware chapter of the national organization Latinas in Motion. The nonprofit fitness and running group aims to encourage, inspire and empower women to lead active, healthy lives and combat such conditions as heart disease, which is the No. 1 killer of Latinas in the United States. With more than 300 members, the Delaware group is the fastest-growing chapter in the organization.
Media
An important literary discovery made by Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, and Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, University of Delaware Library, has been featured in a recent article. In the Sept. 9 issue of the Times Literary Supplement (UK), Joseph Donohue's "Wilde in France" (pp. 14–15) discusses the unpublished typescript of Oscar Wilde's play Salome, held by the Free Library of Philadelphia, that Stetz and Samuels Lasner displayed in their spring exhibition at the Rosenbach, "Everything Is Going on Brilliantly: Oscar Wilde and Philadelphia." Donahue describes this typescript as "a major addition to Wilde studies" that was "entirely unknown to the scholarly world," until its inclusion in the "handsomely laid-out exhibition" created by Stetz and Samuels Lasner, "two scholars and bibliophiles with long experience in mounting literary and cultural exhibitions."
Papers
Gregg Silvis, associate university librarian for Information Technology and Digital Initiatives, University of Delaware Library, was mentioned in a recent whitepaper on Digital Media Management. In reference to the ARTstor image repository software, he was quoted, saying, "Shared Shelf was designed from the ground up to deal with images. Images are at the core of what it is about." The whitepaper was initially released during the American Library Association annual conference in San Francisco in June.
Presentations
John Callahan, research scientist with the Delaware Geological Survey at the University of Delaware, recently presented information on projects in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment to representatives of the Army Reserve Forces Policy Committee (ARFPC), including Maj. Gen. William D. Razz Waff, chairman of the ARFPC, who visited the Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes earlier this year. Callahan spoke during ARFPC’s annual meeting at the Bethany Beach training site, discussing tools and resources that would help them and local emergency management better prepare for emergency situations, with a focus on flooding. Callahan presented on several ongoing CEOE projects that focus on the monitoring of the tides and storm surge, such as from water level tide gages and satellite imagery, as well as on past data analysis and future forecasts. The presentation also included a live demonstration of the Delaware Coastal Flood Monitoring System. The operational and research-based projects are being jointly conducted by the Delaware Geological Survey, Delaware Sea Grant, the Delaware Environmental Observing System, the Delaware Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Center and the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Delaware Coastal Programs.
Service
University of Delaware Air Force ROTC Detachment 128 cadets participated in the opening ceremony for Aberdeen Proving Ground’s annual Prisoner of War/Missing in Action 5K run.
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