The John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance has named Fei Xie, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Finance at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, as its first faculty research director. His one-year term began Aug. 1, 2025. This new role will deepen the Weinberg Center’s connection to faculty scholarship, expand academic programming and increase opportunities for student engagement. Xie will organize the center’s annual research paper competition, promote research grant opportunities in partnership with the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and help review proposals. He will also work to showcase Lerner faculty research on the center’s website, highlight scholarly achievements and explore launching a corporate governance working paper series. “Fei’s appointment sets a strong example of how our academic centers can support Lerner’s research and teaching mission,” said Lerner College Dean Oliver Yao. “His leadership will enrich the Weinberg Center’s scholarly impact.” Xie will also support faculty involvement in center events, maintain a list of governance researchers at UD and promote student engagement.

Honors

Asia M. Friedman, associate professor and associate chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, was awarded the 2025 Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction for her book Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes. According to the publisher, Rutgers University Press, the book examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography, a routine health screening performed 40 million times each year in the United States, which yet remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. 

Publications

Sarah I. Rooney, associate professor and associate chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering,  collaborated with Jenny Amos at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to publish an editorial in Biomedical Engineering Education, detailing the design and outcomes of the fifth Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit, held in May 2024. The summit brought together over 300 faculty from more than 100 institutions to discuss key issues in biomedical engineering education. In the editorial, the authors share strategies for session facilitation, pre- and postsummit training for session co-chairs and scholarly dissemination, including tools that supported the publication of eight peer-reviewed articles resulting from the event. The piece serves as both a behind-the-scenes look at this national convening and a practical guide for future academic event planning.

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