For the Record, Dec. 4, 2015
University community reports awards, presentations, publications
9:25 a.m., Dec. 4, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent awards, media, presentations, publications and service include the following:
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Awards
The University of Delaware-based American Philosophical Association has announced that Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the 2015 Quinn Prize, the APA’s highest honor for service to the profession. The prize memorializes Philip L. Quinn, a former president of the APA’s Central Division and chair of the APA’s board of officers. The prize, which includes a $2,500 monetary award, is given annually by the APA’s board of officers in recognition of service to philosophy and philosophers, broadly construed.
Over her career, Nussbaum has been president of the APA Central Division and has served on the APA Board of Officers in multiple capacities. She has chaired APA committees, including the Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research, the Committee on International Cooperation, the Committee on the Status of Women, the Committee on Public Philosophy, and others. Author of over 30 books, Nussbaum received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and holds honorary degrees from 37 institutions worldwide.
Cheshire Calhoun, chair of the APA’s board of officers, said, “Martha Nussbaum's extraordinary philosophical career has been devoted to deepening our understanding of issues of profound social, political, and ethical importance, and doing so with great intelligence, humanity, and literary elegance. She pioneered, when it was not fashionable to do so, writing philosophy that weaves through disciplinary boundaries, that speaks to a wider public audience, and that is fully civically engaged. We award her the Quinn Prize with both pride and gratitude.”
Media
Jan Gardner Broske, University Museums collection manager, will be featured in a WHYY-TV First segment about the Old College West Gallery exhibition “Old Master Prints and Drawings from the University Collection. The program will air at 5:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, and at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 7, and also will be available on the web. University Museums’ fall exhibitions will close at 5 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11.
Karl Booksh, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is featured in a Nov. 16 Chemical and Engineering News article about chemists with disabilities who have overcome challenges in the workplace. Booksh told the magazine, “There have been a lot of advances over the years that are allowing increased access and participation by people with disabilities, but when it comes to full inclusion and full access to leadership opportunities at the best jobs and at the best schools, there’s still a lot of implicit resistance in the system. It’s not conscious bias; it’s unconscious bias.”
Anne M. Boylan, professor of history and of women and gender studies, wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Times, discussing appropriate ways to commemorate women in history.
Presentations
Chandra L. Reedy, professor in the Center for Historic Architecture and Design and in Asian Studies, presented "New Discovery of Coal-Clay Composite Ceramic Traditions in Sichuan Province, China" at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the session on Ceramic Ecology, Denver, Nov. 19. Co-authors were Pamela B. Vandiver, University of Arizona; He Ting and Wang Yanyu of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology; and University of Delaware doctoral student Ying Xu.
Karl Booksh, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was a panelist at a Nov. 18 presentation titled "Americans With Disabilities: Growing the Workforce," offered as part of the American Chemical Society's Science and the Congress Project. The lunchtime panel in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington was a briefing for congressional staff members, who learned about the benefits to both businesses and persons with disabilities when those workers are employed in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and health care. Booksh spoke about opportunities for students with disabilities, who are underrepresented nationally in STEM fields. He and Sharon Rozovsky, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, lead an undergraduate research program at UD for students with disabilities.
Carla Guerrón Montero, associate professor of anthropology and director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, was keynote speaker for the Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium Student Research Conference at Villanova University on Nov. 13. The title of her presentation was “Cultural Heritage and the Tourist Gaze in Brazil’s Quilombo Residual Communities."
George F.W. Haenlein, professor emeritus of animal and food sciences, made a presentation on goats at Cabell Midland High School in Huntington, West Virginia, on Nov. 13. Haenlein said while goats have been neglected in agricultural textbooks, there has been a large increase in the use of goats worldwide in recent years.
Peter P. McLaughlin Jr., senior scientist with the Delaware Geological Survey and professor of geological sciences, presented two papers at the 2015 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) held Nov. 1-4 in Baltimore. A presentation in the general program," Synthesis of the Palynostratigraphy of the Potomac Formation in the Middle Atlantic Region of the United States and Implications for Aquifer Correlation” was coauthored with Jesse D. Thornburg and Kenneth G. Miller (Rutgers University), Heather Quinn (Maryland Geological Survey), and Gilbert J. Brenner (SUNY-New Paltz). A presentation in a special three-dimensional geological mapping workshop, “Attributing Groundwater Withdrawals to Aquifers Using 3-D Geological Maps In Delaware, USA,” was co-authored by Jaime L. Tomlinson (Delaware Geological Survey) and Amanda K. Lawson (formerly Delaware Geological Survey). He organized and chaired two oral sessions (“Integration of Microfossils and Sedimentology in Stratigraphic Analysis” and “Palynology”) and one poster session (“Palynology”).
McLaughlin was a co-author on six presentations given by others at the conference, including presentations on the Miocene of Delaware by Keri Fisher, graduate student in geological sciences, University of Delaware; the Potomac Formation of the Middle Atlantic region by Jesse D. Thornburg, graduate student, Rutgers University; the Cretaceous of New Jersey by Peter J. Sugarman, New Jersey Geological Survey; the Cretaceous offshore of New Jersey by Christopher J. Lombardi, graduate student, Rutgers University; the Christina River of Delaware by Margaret Christie, graduate student, geological sciences, University of Delaware); and the coastal plain of northeast Brazil by Emanuella Barbosa, visiting researcher, Delaware Geological Survey, and graduate student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
McLaughlin also served as chair of the annual meeting of AASP-The Palynological Society, held during the GSA conference, and was co-leader of a post-conference field trip with Heather Quinn of the Maryland Geological Survey on “Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Palynology of the Maryland Coastal Plain.”
Gary Allison, assistant professor of special education in the School of Education, gave an address titled “My 43 Years in Autism and Severe Disabilities: Lesson Learned” for UD Autism Speaks.
William Lewis, associate professor of literacy education in the School of Education, and undergraduate researchers Sean Krazit and Yvonne Rivera, presented “Graphic Novels, Text Sets and Critical Theory: Building Students’ Background and Disciplinary Knowledge to Engage and Enjoy Serious Books” at the Critical Questions in Education Conference in Baltimore. They presented on instruction interventions designed to answer the questions “Why don’t we read serious books?” and “How are we doing at teaching the disciplines?” Krazit, an Undergraduate Summer Scholar majoring in English secondary education, presented on the use of graphic novels to develop close reading skills. Rivera, a McNair Scholar double-majoring in English and women and gender studies, presented on text sets aligned with a feminist critical lens. Lewis discussed the use of in-class reading frameworks for discipline-specific texts.
Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in Human Services, Education and Public Policy and professor of education, chaired a plenary panel at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, “Looking back and moving forward: 40 years of the Boston Language Conference.”
Publications
James Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor of History, “Grautöne: Verleger und Zensurregime im Mitteleuropa 1800-1850,” Historische Zeitschrift 301/2 (2015): 297-346.
George Bear, professor of school psychology in the School of Education, published “Differences in Classroom Removals and Use of Praise and Rewards in American, Chinese, and Japanese schools” in Teaching and Teacher Education, 53, 41–50.
Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in Human Services, Education and Public Policy and professor of education, published a blog post in the Huffington Post with long-time collaborator Kathy Hirsh-Pasek titled “Unlikely Bedfellows? Cambridge University and the Lego Company” and a blog post for the Brookings Institution titled “Thank You, Sherry Turkle: Conversation is Important for Adults, but it is Even More Critical for Kids.”
Service
Vickie Goettel, field instructor in the School of Education, and several School of Education teacher candidates participated in Operation Christmas Child through the organization Samaritan’s Purse. Samaritan’s Purse supports people all over the world who are suffering from poverty, war, famine, and any other humanitarian needs. Operation Christmas Child organizes the distribution on shoeboxes filled with goodies that are delivered internationally during the Christmas season. Tara Cerce, Lucy Font, Megan Kelly, Emma McMasters, Ali Miller, Caitlin Skipski, and Abby Whebale filled 15 shoeboxes with small toys, toothbrushes, notepads, art supplies, and socks. Others can participate in Operation Christmas Child here.
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