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

Recent appointments, presentations and honors include the following:

Appointments

Thomas Kaminski, professor of kinesiology and applied physiology in the College of Health Sciences, was appointed to the U.S. Soccer Sports Medicine Research, Education, and Advisory Panel. As a member of the prestigious panel, Kaminski will influence health and safety policies for all U.S. soccer, from professional to youth. “I have been fortunate enough in my career to have had a long-standing partnership with the United States Soccer Federation,” said Kaminski. “Having been honored to serve as a member of this advisory panel is a testament to their commitment to player health and safety.”

Presentations

On May 19, 2025, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, was an invited reader of her poetry at a virtual event sponsored by the Philadelphia-based Moonstone Arts Center. Two of her poems ("Retreat" and "Transatlantic Blues") are forthcoming in the 29th annual Poetry Ink Anthology that Moonstone Arts issues. In addition, she has recently had several other poems published. These include "Fable-bodied," which appeared in Magnets and Ladders (Spring/Summer 2025 issue); "Six Haiku in the Mourning" in Voices Unbound: An Anthology of International Poetry (Fresh Words Publishing, 2025), p. 119; and "Dupuytren's: A Haiku Sequence" in the print annual Freshwater Literary Journal 2025 (a publication sponsored by Connecticut State-Asnuntuck), p. 128.

Honors

Antony Beris, the Arthur B. Metzner Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was honored by the Society of Rheology with the 2025 Bingham Medal for outstanding contributions to the field. A leader in his field, Beris’ work has led to innovative strategies for modeling the way complex and highly structured materials flow, from toothpaste and ketchup to polymers used in plastics, fiber composites and liquid crystals, such as those used in TV displays, and even the blood found in our bodies. He has pioneered a novel modeling approach through an extension of thermodynamics and has developed high performance computer simulations that allow engineers to successfully process many materials, for instance polymers used in wire and cable. These simulations also enable engineers to employ additives to reduce the force required for fluids to flow, say, in transferring water or oil through pipelines. The Society of Rheology specifically cited Beris’ work developing “a new systematic approach to apply nonequilibrium thermodynamics to the modeling of complex fluid flow with applications to viscoelasticity and liquid crystals; for the stability analysis of viscoelastic flows and the first direct numerical simulations of polymer-induced drag reduction; for modeling thixotropy and blood rheology.” Beris was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.