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

Recent awards, presentations and new appointments include the following:

Awards

Laura Helton, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on her book project, “The Making of African-American Archives, 1910-1950.” Helton, who had an earlier career as an archivist and who specializes in American literature and history of the 20th century with an emphasis on African American print culture and public humanities, is examining the emergence of African American archives and libraries. Also a faculty member in UD’s Center for Material Culture Studies, she is one of the organizers of a conference, “Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art,” which will be held on campus April 26-27.

Amanda Jansen, professor in the School of Education, was recently awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop a professional development experience for university faculty who work in mathematics education. She shares the award with colleagues Sarah Sword, Michael Young and Albert Cuoco. The project, “Focus on Inquiry and Equity in Mathematics for Education Faculty,” will begin with a summer workshop for 20 university faculty to examine and reflect on the kinds of research questions that mathematicians ask and how social inequities based on race, gender or ethnicity shape mathematics education and the kinds of questions that students ask. When the faculty begin the 2019-20 academic year, they will work to implement ideas from the summer workshop into their own courses for future teachers. Jansen is a mathematics educator who conducts research on students’ engagement in mathematics classrooms and teachers’ learning from their reflections on their own practice. She is invested in continually improving UD’s elementary mathematics teacher education courses through research and development work. For more about her work, visit her faculty webpage.

Presentations

Susan Conaty-Buck, assistant professor of nursing, made a podium presentation entitled "Technology Disrupting Education. What Clinicians and Faculty Need to Know" at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Doctoral Education Conference in San Diego, California, on Jan. 17. Her presentation highlighted the need for those educating healthcare clinicians to incorporate information about the use of advanced healthcare technologies. Conaty-Buck teaches healthcare informatics to students in interprofessional courses offered to graduate and undergraduate students.

Jaehee Jung, professor of fashion and apparel studies, recently was invited to the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT), where she delivered special lectures on fashion brand management to undergraduate students. At one of those lectures, the provost of the institute presented her a Foreign Professor Certificate. Jung, whose research includes cultural influences on apparel product brand management and luxury fashion brand management and marketing, also discussed fashion management education with BIFT faculty members and graduate students.

New assignments

Six new police officers have joined University of Delaware Police:

• Paul Bartelt II, a graduate of Newark High School, enlisted in 2006 in the United States Marine Corps, where he served two deployments in the Iraqi theater. After being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 2010, Bartelt enrolled at UD, graduating in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. He recently graduated from the Delaware State Police Training Academy.
• Valerie Battles is a graduate of St. Mark’s High School in Wilmington, Delaware, and earned her associate degree at Delaware Technical Community College in the Law Enforcement Option program, which is designed for those seeking careers in law enforcement. Battles recently graduated with the 92nd Delaware State Police and 87th municipal class from the Delaware State Police Academy. Previously, she worked in banking and finance until she made a career change and worked with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control as a seasonal officer.
• Jenifer Ceja, a native of Mexico, attended Delaware Technical Community College, graduating with an associate degree in criminal justice: law enforcement option. She then attended Wilmington University, where she will receive her bachelor’s degree in behavioral science. Ceja has served as a cadet with UD Police and as a seasonal police officer with the Rehoboth Beach Police Department. A member of the Delaware Army National Guard since 2015, Ceja is a recent graduate from the 92nd Delaware State Police and 87th municipal class from the Delaware State Police Academy.
• Dustin Schrantz graduated from Saucon Valley High School in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, and attended the 93rd Wilmington Police Academy, graduating in February 2009. Before joining UD Police, Schrantz served more than 10 years with the Wilmington Police Department.
• George Walton attended Slippery Rock University, earning a bachelor’s degree in parks and resource management. He completed five summer seasons as a National Park ranger -law enforcement for the National Park Service, then transferred to Delaware Natural Resource Police-Parks for five years before joining UD Police.
• Jessica Zeilman attended Stony Brook University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies in 2014. She played Division 1 softball for Stony Brook University.  Zeilman attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she earned a master’s degree in sports administration in 2016. Zeilman graduated the Delaware State Police Academy in 2017 with the 84th Municipal Recruit Class. Before joining UD Police, she spent two years with the Delaware State University Police Department.

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