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

Recent new assignments and presentations include the following:

New assignments

Patricia C. Shea has been named associate general counsel and chief privacy officer at the University, Laure Ergin, vice president and general counsel, has announced. Her appointment is effective Jan. 1. As a part of the Office of the General Counsel, Shea will provide legal counsel and advice to senior leadership, managers and others at the University, particularly in the areas of health care, federal and state privacy matters, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), General Data Protection Regulation, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that requires financial institutions to explain their information-sharing practices to their customers and to safeguard sensitive data. Before joining UD, Shea was a partner at K&L Gates LLP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for more than 20 years, where she represented health care providers, academic medical centers and universities, employer-sponsored self-insured welfare benefit plans, wellness providers and others. She worked specifically in the areas of data collection, use and security; governance and structure; and strategic alliances, transactions and innovations, among others. A graduate of George Mason University, Shea earned her M.B.A. at Pennsylvania State University and her law degree cum laude at the Widener University School of Law. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Oregon Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association, and she serves as a trustee of Wilson College.

Presentations

Jennifer D. Griffin, adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, gave an invited presentation in Taipei, Taiwan, at the 2019 Taiwan International Symposium on Regional Security and Transnational Crime, hosted by the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) on Law Enforcement Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Strategy. Griffin's presentation, titled “Human Trafficking from the Indo-Pacific Region to the U.S. — Challenges for local Law Enforcement," discussed the definitions and forms of human trafficking, the victims, traffickers and facilitators, the challenges with identifying the scope of the problem, the challenges that law enforcement face, and the 4P Paradigm (or model) to include the Protection, Prosecution, Prevention and Partnership to combat this crime. Through a victim-centered approach, recommendations for law enforcement were suggested to carry out national and international human trafficking initiatives.    

New publication

The fall 2019 issue of the Department of Art History's annual newsletter, Insight, is now available online. The publication highlights the work and achievements of students, faculty and alumni from summer 2018 to fall 2019.

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