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

Recent presentations and honors include the following:

Presentations

Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian, presented on the topic of leading through times of change at the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups on July 17, 2018. Hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries, the program focuses on the development of library leaders from diverse backgrounds. Several years ago, Dawes was a participant.

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, presented a paper “Intellectual and Artistic Activity at a Stationary Court: Shah Sulayman I (r. 1666-94) and the Life of the Mind,” at a two-day workshop titled “The Safavid Multi-text Manuscript 1984.463 (Harvard University, Sackler Museum)—Its Content and Context,” held at the University of Hamburg, Germany, on June 25-26. 2018.

UD was the site of the 15th International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES 2018), held July 9-13, 2018. Local organizers of this year's conference were Lian-Ping Wang, a professor of mechanical engineering at UD, and William Matthaeus, Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UD. Around 53 participants registered for this year's conference, which featured four short-course lectures, seven invited talks and 36 regular talks covering theory, implementations and applications of mesoscopic simulation methods. Mesoscopic methods refer to numerical methods based on statistical descriptions of molecular motion, thus combining the details of molecular interaction physics and relatively good computational efficiency.

Honors

UD’s Charlie Riordan and Julius Korley have been appointed board members of the Science, Technology and Research Institute of Delaware (STRIDE). STRIDE’s mission is to help retain the Delaware Valley’s superb scientific talent and to benefit the public by promoting cutting-edge research, supporting and developing new businesses, and facilitating public science education. Headquartered in Delaware, the nonprofit is organized to deliver open innovation, R&D, education and consulting services. Its membership has extensive industrial experience in chemistry, biology, polymer/material sciences and related disciplines. As UD’s vice president for research, scholarship and innovation, Riordan has responsibility for advancing UD’s research enterprise, which includes oversight of the Research Office, five University-wide research institutes, core facilities and the Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships. In addition to his role as the director of entrepreneurship and strategic partnerships for the College of Engineering, Korley also is an entrepreneur and scientist who co-founded the biomedical engineering firm Affinity Therapeutics.

Mary Dozier, the Unidel Amy E. du Pont Chair in Child Development in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, has received the inaugural Translational Research Award from the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), an interdisciplinary professional organization dedicated to basic and applied studies of infant development. The award, which honors those who use knowledge gained from research for the betterment of infants and their families, was presented at this year’s ICIS conference on July 3. Dozier is internationally known for her work in the development of young children who have experienced neglect or other adversity. She leads the Infant Caregiver Project at UD, where she and her team have developed an evidence-based intervention for parents and other caregivers of these vulnerable children.

Mark Chopko, executive chef at the Courtyard by Marriott—Newark at the University of Delaware, scored 100 percent on the  ServSafe® Manager program, developed by the National Restaurant Association and administered by the Delaware Restaurant Association. William Sullivan, managing director of the Courtyard by Marriott, said, “Mark is not only an exceptional culinary chef but also a role model in associate and student development, training and kitchen operation. We are proud to have Mark as our executive chef from day one in 2004, when the hotel opened to today as he continues to excel.” This year the hotel also was again honored with a Best of Delaware 2018 Award for Chopko’s crab cakes. The Courtyard by Marriott is owned by UD and managed by Shaner Hotels. A successful hotel operation, it also serves as a teaching hotel for the Department of Hospitality Business Management in the Lerner College of Business and Economics.

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