For the Record

Article by UDaily staff Photo courtesy of John Halligan August 07, 2020

University community reports recent presentations, accolades

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

Recent presentations and accolades include the following:

Presentations

José-Luis Riera, vice president for student life, cohosted a session on “Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Student Affairs” with Lamar Hylton of Kent State on May 26, 2020, presented by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ Council on Student Affairs. The event included student affairs officials from the University of Florida and the University of Maryland as speakers.

Accolades

The New Castle County Chamber of Commerce recently honored College of Health Sciences Dean Kathleen S. Matt with its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award during its 98th-annual dinner. The event, initially scheduled for March, was held virtually on July 22 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Matt was recognized for her tireless work in developing UD’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research Campus, where the Health Sciences Complex and the Tower at STAR anchor a growing research campus. In a recorded message, Delaware Gov. John Carney acknowledged the depth of Matt’s contributions to advance the healthcare workforce in Delaware and develop the STAR Campus as a hub of innovation. “There can’t be a more appropriate recipient during this difficult time in our state,” Carney said. Dave Brond, vice president of strategy and planning for Aloysius Butler & Clark, introduced Matt and noted the tremendous growth that has occurred in the College of Health Sciences since she joined as dean in 2009. Research expenditures have grown 300% in the past seven years, with the addition of 15 patents and 53 active research awards. In accepting her award, Matt credited the power of partnership. “When you work together as a team, you can accomplish absolutely anything,” said Matt, who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UD. “Together, we have created a place and a space where our faculty, staff, our students and our community can work together and explore, engage, experience and excel. We can create the future of healthcare here in Delaware.”

"Entrapment" by John Halligan

John Halligan, a senior in the Department of Art and Design, has been selected by the International Sculpture Center (ISC) as a recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Some 217 students from more than 100 colleges and university sculpture programs in North America and abroad were nominated. Jurors María Carolina Baulo, art historian, curator and arts writer-critic (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Angel Cabrales, artist and educator (El Paso, Texas); and Peyton Scott Russell artist and arts instructor (Minneapolis, Minnesota), deliberated over 570 images of sculptural works to select 12 award recipients and 10 honorable mentions. Halligan will be included in an online exhibition, given a one year complimentary membership to the ISC, be included in a feature article in the November/December 2020 issue of Sculpture magazine, and be included on a feature page dedicated to the 2020 student award recipients on the ISC website.

University Printing was featured July 10, 2020, in an article, “University of Delaware: Essential, Pandemic or Not,” published by In-plant Impressions, a graphic arts magazine written specifically for those in the in-plant industry. In the article, Michael Czerepak, manager of University Printing, talks about the essential work his unit has been doing during the pandemic. “We take pride in the fact that we support the school academically and administratively,” he says in the article.

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