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

Recent presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Presentations

Muqtedar Khan, professor of Islam and global affairs in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, has conducted a series of interviews, or Khanversations, in which various Delaware political leaders discuss the current coronavirus pandemic. Guests have included State Auditor Kathy McGuiness, Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long, State Sen. Bryan Townsend and New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer, among others. The interviews also are being used as primary source material for Khan’s spring semester classes on good governance and contemporary political ideologies. The interviews are available on YouTube.

Publications

Joseph Harris, professor in the Department of English, published the book The Work of Teaching Writing Learning from Fiction, Film, and Drama. The book explores how the work of teaching writing has been depicted in novels, films and plays to reveal what teachers can learn from studying not just theories of discourse, rhetoric or pedagogy but also accounts of the lived experience of teaching writing. It is Harris’ third book published by Utah State University Press.

Patricia A. DeLeon, Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences Emerita and Francis Alison Professor, has published a paper entitled "PHB regulates meiotic recombination via JAK2-mediated histone modifications in spermatogenesis," along with colleagues Ling-Fei Zhang, Wen-Jing Tan-Tai, Xiao-Hui Li, Mo-Fang Liu, Hui-Juan Shi,  Wai-Sum O and Hong Chen, in Nucleic Acids Research, March 30, 2020.

Honors

Mark Warner, professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy in UD’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, has been named a Fellow of the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS). The ICRS includes 827 members from 67 countries representing a broad spectrum of coral reef researchers, educators, managers, students, communicators and citizens. It promotes the acquisition and dissemination of scientific knowledge to secure coral reefs for future generations. The honor is in recognition of Warner’s important contributions to coral reef biology/ecology.

David Colton, Unidel Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, has been selected as a 2020 Fellow of the  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), a nonprofit organization with the mission to convey useful mathematical knowledge to professionals looking to implement mathematical theory. Those selected for the SIAM Fellows Program were nominated for their exemplary research and outstanding service to the community. Through his nomination, Colton is recognized for his fundamental contributions to acoustic and electromagnetic scattering theory and inverse problems in wave phenomena. SIAM Fellows help advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science and raise the visibility of applied mathematics and computational science.

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