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

Recent awards and publications include the following:

Awards

Delaware Sea Grant marine education specialist Chris Petrone and UD doctoral student Lisa Tossey won first place in the audiovisuals category of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) Communications Contest for Project VIDEO, a virtual reality tour of the ocean drilling research vessel JOIDES Resolution, after placing first in the Delaware Press Association (DPA) Communications Contest earlier this year.

NFPW is a dynamic nationwide organization of professional women and men pursuing careers across the communications spectrum. DPA is the NFPW state affiliate organization.

The Project VIDEO "virtual field trip" also earned an APEX Grand Award in the electronic media category. It was among 100 projects selected by APEX for grand awards from the nearly 1,400 submissions. It can be viewed with a web browser here or by using the RoundMe app and searching for JOIDES.

Publications

Leslie F. Goldstein, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor Emerita of Political Science, has published a review essay. “Legal Histories of America’s Second Revolutionary War,” in The University of Tulsa Law Review vol.52 (spring 2017): 495-510.

David Shearer, Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History, published an essay, “Dikhotomiya protiv Pronitsaemosti (Dichotomies vs. Complexities)” in the book Gruziya v Teni Stalinizma (Georgia in the Shadows of Stalinism), Mark Iunge Bernd Bonvech, Daniel’ Miuller, editors (Moscow: AIRO-XXI, 2017), 387-415.

Juan R. Perilla, who recently joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the first author of an article about his HIV research, published online July 19 in the journal Nature Communications. The article reports the findings from two years of work in which a supercomputer simulated the HIV capsid, described as a “protein cage” that carries the HIV virus into the nucleus of a cell. The findings provide insights into how the capsid affects and is affected by its environment and how it travels in the human body, and could help researchers find new ways to defeat the virus, Perilla said. The findings are summarized in a news release from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where the research was conducted.

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