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

Recent honors, international fellowships, presentations and publications include the following:

Honors

A video produced by eight students in the spring 2015 section of the news documentary course COMM425 has won a third-place award in the National Federation of Press Women’s 2016 professional communications contest. The documentary, Net Worth, explores the question of whether college athletes should be paid and was created in a class taught by Lydia Timmins, assistant professor of communication. The award was made in the category of special programming for television.

International fellowships

Matt Weinert, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, served as Visiting Fellow at the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice, May-June, Uppsala University, Sweden. He delivered the Uppsala Forum Public Lecture with a talk titled “On the Destruction and Protection of Cultural Heritage: Political Readings of a Global Problem," presented a paper on "Re-reading, Re-thinking, and Re-framing World Society: On the Construction of the Concept of the Global” at a workshop on English School theory, and led a methodology seminar on “Ethical Issues and Qualitative Methods: Lessons from Field Research in Cambodia and Nepal."

Presentations

Chandra L. Reedy, professor in the Center for Historic Architecture and Design and in the Asian Studies Program, was an invited speaker at the sixth International Workshop on Higher Education for a special workshop on studies of ceramic glazes organized by the Mechatronics and Modelling for Materials Technology Research Group at University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia. Her talk was on "Thin-section Petrography of Chinese Glazed Ceramics," June 16, Vic, Spain.

Polly Zavadivker, assistant professor of history and director of the Jewish Studies Program, presented a paper titled “EKOPO and Evobshchestkom: Public Aid to Jewish War Victims Before and After the Revolution” at the international conference Soviet Jewish History: New Sources, New Approaches in Moscow on June 15-16. The conference was held at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the largest Jewish museum in Europe, and sponsored by the Russian Higher School of Economics in Moscow and New York University. Scholars of Soviet Jewry from post-Communist Europe, Western Europe, Israel and the United States convened to present research in a developing field. Conference proceedings will be published in the Russian-language scholarly journal Archive of Jewish History.

Publications

The 2016 Fashion Industry Benchmarking Study, conducted by Sheng Lu, assistant professor of fashion and apparel studies, in conjunction with the U.S. Fashion Industry Association (USFIA), was released on June 22 and shows a record high level of optimism about the five-year outlook for the industry in the United States. The study, first conducted in 2014, surveys 30 executives from leading fashion and apparel brands, retailers, importers and wholesalers. This year, 92 percent reported being optimistic despite market competition pressures and uncertainty in American politics.

The new study was covered in numerous trade publications, and Lu will discuss its findings at the USFIA Washington Trade Symposium, to be held July 13 on Capitol Hill.

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