Honors and Achievements

Billy Price Glass, professor emeritus of geology, was presented the prestigious Barringer Medal and Award at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society in September, in recognition of "outstanding work in the field of impact cratering or work that has led to a better understanding of impact phenomena." Glass, who retired from UD July 1, continues to work with graduate students and teach.

Jewel Walker, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Theatre, was awarded a 2005 Barrymore Award for Choreography and Movement for his original creation, Tuesday. The piece recently was performed by the Amaryllis Theatre Company in Philadelphia, where it was directed by Stephen Patrick Smith, an alumnus of UD's Professional Theatre Training Program.

David Usher, associate professor and associate chairperson of the Department of Biological Sciences, was honored in September with a National Faculty Mentor Role Model Award from Minority Access Inc., for expanding the pool of minority researchers through mentoring and supporting minority students.

Two departments received high rankings in a recent issue of Chemical and Engineering News for the number of their graduates. UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is ranked 13th out of 631 bachelor's degree programs in the nation, tied with Purdue University. The Department of Chemical Engineering is ranked third in the doctoral degree category.

G. Arno Loessner, associate professor in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and faculty fellow in the Center for International Studies, received a Fulbright award for a November visit to Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, where he focused on teaching and advising in the university's master's degree program in public administration.

Mark Stanton, associate professor of psychology, was the 2005 recipient of the Pavlovian Investigator Award, a prestigious international award given annually by the Pavlovian Society for distinguished contributions to the field of behavioral neuroscience. Stanton also recently attained fellowship status in the American Psychological Association.

Community Connectors, a program sponsored by UD's Center for Disabilities Studies, received a Christopher Reeve Foundation Quality of Life grant of $5,000 to improve the well-being of persons living with spinal cord injuries or other types of paralysis. Community Connectors is an interactive program in which undergraduate and graduate students serve as mentors, partners and liaisons with youths and adults living with disabilities.

Ed Kee, director of agriculture for Delaware Cooperative Extension and an instructor in plant and soil sciences, and Carol Vukelich, director of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education and the Hammonds Professor in Teacher Education, received the 2005 Ratledge Family Awards for Delaware Public Service. The awards were established to recognize the contributions of University community members to benefit all Delawareans.

Deborah Andrews, professor of English, received the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Business Communicators, in recognition of her work as a teacher and as the editor of Business Communication Quarterly, which focuses on the teaching aspects of business communications.

The University's Sexual Offense Support (SOS) Program was honored in November with the 2005 Delaware Governor's Outstanding Group Volunteer Service Award for its 30 years of work providing support for the victims of sexual assault, date rape, date rape drugs and other dating violence.

James Kolodzey, Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a highly competitive IBM Faculty Award, which recognizes research quality and its relevance to industry. Kolodzey studies emitters and detectors of signals in the terahertz frequency range, which he has described as the "final frontier" in the study of electromagnetic waves.