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

Recent honors, presentations and appointments include the following:

Honors

Jonathan B. Justice, professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, has been elected by the membership of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management to serve as ABFM's vice chair elect for 2019, vice chair for 2020 and chair for 2021. ABFM is a section of the American Society for Public Administration  and is a leading professional association of international scholars and practitioners concerned with public budgeting and finance. ABFM's professional-development leadership activities include an annual conference, occasional webinars and issue briefs on topics of interest, and co-sponsorship with the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis of the leading scholarly journal Public Budgeting and Finance.

Presentations

Marcia S. Scott, policy scientist with the Institute for Public Administration (IPA) in the School of Public Policy and Administration, recently presented at the 2018 Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) annual conference in San Diego, California. The panel session, Road Diets: Why You Aren’t Losing, only Gaining, highlighted how local, regional and state transportation agencies are putting their roads on "diets" by reducing street widths and vehicle lanes to reallocate space for pedestrians and bicyclists. More than a safety countermeasure, these traffic-calming measures can encourage active transportation, support place-based economic development, foster high levels of civic pride and engagement, and create healthy and environmentally friendly travel options. Scott’s presentation showcased visual tools, featuring best-practice examples of road diets and traffic-calming measures in Delaware, within IPA’s online Delaware Complete Communities Planning Toolbox. The session was moderated by Rebecca Crowe, transportation specialist from the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Safety. Panelists included Wendy Cawley, P.E., traffic safety engineer with the City of Portland, Oregon, and Morgan Beryl, senior transportation planner with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Nevada. Founded in 1977, WTS International -- an international organization dedicated to the professional advancement of women in transportation -- comprised of 6,500 members and 79 chapters and is connected to a network of 40,000 transportation professionals.  

L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, special projects coordinator, manuscripts librarian and curator of the Joseph R. Biden Jr. senatorial papers at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, presented at the annual conference of the Society of American Archivists on Aug. 15 in Washington, D.C. The panel presentation, “Women’s Collections Section,” focused on women’s political collections at Mid-Atlantic area repositories. It addressed "finding women activists" through leveraging archival description of women's activities, using material culture to discover public engagement in non-traditional resources, and proactively collecting papers of women and women's organizations involved with politics and public policy.

New appointments

Chrystalla Mouza has been named director of the School of Education. She will be responsible for providing vision and direction for the school, leading faculty and staff, and advancing the department’s mission and visibility. Mouza joined UD in 2003 as an assistant professor specializing in educational and instructional technologies. Her research examines how teachers learn to use digital technologies in their teaching and how technology-rich learning environments support teacher and student outcomes. With colleagues from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Mouza serves as co-principal investigator in UD’s Partner4CS project, funded by the National Science Foundation. Partner4CS seeks to broaden participation in computer science through professional development for teachers in grades 4-12, helping students cultivate the critical thinking skills required to navigate our digital landscape.

Nancy E. Boyer has accepted an appointment in the Department of Geography as an affiliated assistant professor, effective Sept. 1, 2018. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wellesley College, an M.B.A. from Wharton Graduate School of Business, and a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the University of Delaware. She has taught in Ethiopia, conducted field research in Bulgaria and Republic of Korea, and worked on partnership building in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is appointed for research, consulting and/or teaching, and is expected to bolster interdisciplinary peace studies, according to Delphis F. Levia, department chairperson.

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