For the Record
June 26, 2020
University community reports recent presentations, publications, honors
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, media placements include the following:
Presentations
Theodore E. D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, read a paper on "Cyrano de Bergerac, Precursor of Voltaire" at the South Central Society for 18th-Century Studies meeting at St. Augustine, Florida, on Feb. 7-8, 2020.
Nicole Long, executive director for planning and strategy in the Division of Student Life, presented a webinar titled “Challenging our Assumptions: Lessons that COVID-19 Measurement has Highlighted” with colleague Timothy Bono, assistant dean for assessment and analytics at Washington University, on June 4, 2020. The COVID-19 global pandemic has created a novel environment for student affairs assessment professionals, to be more mindful of how they approach their work. Now more than ever, student affairs assessment professionals are called to challenge assumptions inherent in assessment through critical analysis to better understand student voices. This webinar, hosted by Student Affairs Assessment Leaders -- a professional organization of educators who coordinate or contribute to assessment for and within divisions of student affairs -- highlighted the assessment assumptions that need to be reconsidered in order to most effectively understand college student experiences associated with COVID-19 and beyond.
Publications
Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian, was interviewed by Mary Lee Kennedy, Association of Research Libraries executive director, for her article, “GLAM Collaborations under COVID-19 Conditions and Beyond,” which appears in the current issue of Research Library Issues. The article is available online at https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.300.4
Honors
A paper coauthored by Jennifer Joe, the Lerner College’s Whitney Family Endowed Chair of Accounting, Cohen Family Lerner Director of Diversity and chief diversity advocate, has won the Glen McLaughlin Prize for Ethics in Accounting Research. The Glen McLaughlin Prize for Accounting Ethics has become known as the “gold standard” around the country for highlighting important studies in accounting ethics. The paper -- "Audit Partners’ Judgments and Decision Making Processes in the Audit of Internal Control over Financial Reporting" -- is forthcoming in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.
John P. Crowley, assistant professor of communication, has been selected to receive the 2020 Early Career Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA). The award, which recognizes outstanding scholarship, will be presented at the association’s annual convention in November. Crowley, who joined the UD faculty in 2019, focuses his research on the intersection of interpersonal communication and health, particularly seeking to understand how people coping with difficult life experiences, including discrimination, can communicate in ways that help them cope. He is a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Physiology of Interpersonal Communication, scheduled for publication in August.
The trust management minor in the Lerner College of Business and Economics has been recognized as a qualifying wealth management training program by the American Bankers Association. This designation will allow the minor to qualify as an official wealth management training program that UD Lerner students can use toward earning a Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CFTA) designation. To receive this designation, a candidate must meet eligibility requirements by the time they take the exam. These eligibility requirements will be greatly reduced for students. Typically, to be eligible to take the exam, candidates must have at least 10 years of experience in wealth management; or five years’ experience and a bachelor’s degree; or three years’ experience and completion of the Lerner program. Moreover, Lerner students who complete their summer internship in the trust management industry will be given six months credit toward the three-year experience requirement. This means students in UD’s minor who complete an internship will be eligible to receive the CFTA designation (if they pass the exam) within 2.5 years of graduation. This initiative was led by Jennifer McCloskey, director of the trust management minor.
Grant awards
Tanya Nesterova and Olivia Shaw, both undergraduate students in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, have been selected to receive support for research projects this summer from Shodor, a nonprofit organization that provides materials and instruction in computational science. They were awarded grants as apprentices in Shodor’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) EMPOWER (Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education and Research) program, which matches students with mentors who are working on projects related to the work of XSEDE. Nesterova works with Assistant Prof. Juan Perilla on research into the molecular mechanisms of HIV infection. Shaw works with Assistant Prof. Jodi Hadden-Perilla on ways to make the computational microscope accessible to blind researchers.
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