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

Recent publications, presentations, honors and grants include the following:

Publications

Stephanie H. Chang, director of Student Diversity and Inclusion within the Division of Student Life, coauthored a recently published book chapter in Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education. The chapter, titled “A Framework for Social Justice Education: Combining Content, Process and Holistic Development,” uses data from a study of intergroup dialogues and examines how students learn about social justice through developing a theoretical framework for learning about social justice education.

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, had his article “Anti-Ottoman Politics and Transit Rights: The 17th-Century Trade in Silk between Safavid Iran and Muscovy,” Cahiers du Monde Russe 35 (1994), translated into Turkish by İlker Külbilge, under the title “On yedinci yüzyılda Safevȋ Iranı ile Moskova arasındaki ipek ticaretinde ortaya çıkan osmanlı aleyhtarı siyasalar ve mürür hakları,” Cihannüma Tarih ve Coğrafya Araştırmaları Dergisi6:1 (2020), pp. 197-229.

Presentations

Megan Gaffney, coordinator of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services at the Library, Museums and Press, was a panelist during the Resource Sharing Conference web series, “Moving Forward Together,” hosted by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), on July 8, 2020. Gaffney co-presented best practices on “Outreach and Customer Service for Interlibrary Loan” with colleagues from Penn State and Florida Gulf Coast University.

Honors

Emily Hauenstein, professor of nursing, received the prestigious International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses Melva Jo Hendrix Distinguished Lectureship Award during the 2020 virtual annual meeting. This award acknowledges psychiatric-mental health nurses whose careers exemplify Hendrix's values and principles—her unswerving commitment to improving care for the underserved, stigmatized or disenfranchised and her dedication to mentoring others. Awardees are recognized for leadership and work in the community (education, practice, and research). Hendrix was on the National Institute of Mental Health review committee that awarded Hauenstein her first R01. Hauenstein will present the lecture at the 2021 ISPN meeting and will speak about misogyny and mental health.

A forthcoming title from the University of Delaware Press— Realism and Role-Play: The Human Figure in French Art from Callot to the Brothers Le Nain by Marika Knowles—received a Millard Meiss Publication Fund grant from the College Art Association (CAA). The grant supports book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies and related subjects. It is the University of Delaware Press’ third successful application for a CAA grant in the last three years.

Sharon Kung, an honors junior majoring in biological sciences, is the recipient of a 2020 Bryant Howard Research Award, which grants students a 10-week summer internship at the John Hopkins School of Medicine and a $3,000 stipend. Kung is working with Elias Zambidis, associate professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins, to research naïve pluripotent stem cells to treat ischemic blindness. The Bryant-Howard Medical Research Award is made possible by a gift from UD alumnus, W. Michael Bryant of the Class of 1959. Advised and inspired by UD Prof. Robert S. Howard to pursue a career in medicine, Bryant earned his medical degree in 1963 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Thanks to his faculty mentor, Bryant identifies his professional self as “a product of the University of Delaware and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine–and their values.”

Grants

Many students struggle with a deep understanding of fractions, even after several years of instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms. Nancy C. Jordan, Dean Family Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Education (SOE), and Christina Barbieri, assistant professor in the SOE, have received a nearly $892,000 National Science Foundation grant to study foundational mathematical concepts among young children before they begin school and how these concepts may affect fractions learning. With a team of researchers at UD and Temple University, Jordan (principal investigator) and Barbieri (co-principal investigator) will investigate first graders’ informal fractions knowledge, taking individual differences into account, and study the relationship to fractions learning in formal educational settings.

With co-principal investigators Nancy Dyson, assistant professor in the SOE, and Henry May, associate professor in the SOE, Jordan (principal investigator) has also received a nearly $3.3 million Institute of Education Sciences grant to study the efficacy of a fraction sense intervention among 720 Delaware sixth graders who have struggled with fraction learning. This work builds on Jordan's previous grant-supported work to understand fractions learning among elementary and middle school students and develop an intervention in collaboration with Delaware teachers.

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