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 appointments include the following:

Publications

Amanda Bullough, associate professor of management and global leadership and co-founder and research director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, has published an article on "Women’s entrepreneurship and culture: gender role expectations and identities, societal culture, and the entrepreneurial environment"in Small Business Economics. 

Presentations

Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian, presented at the National Information Standards Organization’s NISO+ 2021 conference on Feb. 22, 2021. He presented on “Standards that Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” as part of a panel with Katharina Ruckstuhl from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and Simon Holt from Elsevier (U.K.). Dawes was also a member of the conference planning committee. 

Lawrence Stomberg, professor of cello, was a guest performer in a Lecture Concert Faculty Spotlight Series performance of the Beethoven C# Minor String Quartet, Op. 131, broadcast from Rowan University on Feb. 3, 2021.

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, delivered a lecture titled “Identity in the Safavid period,” via Zoom and in Persian, at the University of Rafsanjan, Iran, on Feb. 25, 2021.

Honors

A team of seniors from the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics -- Nishant Chintala, Meredith McNamara, Giulia Mignardi and Eric Storbrauck -- and their faculty adviser Rich Jakotowicz, director of the Financial Planning and Wealth Management program, took first place in the 2021 Philadelphia CFA Research Challenge! The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that provides university students real-world experience as they assume the role of a research analyst. Each team is assigned a publicly traded company for which they must research and value. The UD team interviewed the management team at Crown Holdings in Yardley, Pennsylvania, and did their research pulling data from Factset and Bloomberg. This win makes the fourth time in five years that a UD team has won the competition in Philadelphia. The students will now progress to the Americas Competition in April, and if they win there, they will progress to the Global Final.

Appointments

Adrienne Harding, music admissions program coordinator in the School of Music and UD alumna, was recently selected as a SphinxLEADer for the Sphinx Organization, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in classical music. SphinxLEADers undertake a two-year professional mentorship designed for executive leadership. 

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