For the Record, Feb. 27, 2015
University community reports recent honors, presentations
9:21 a.m., Feb. 27, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent announcements, honors, international visitors and presentations include the following:
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Announcements
Michelle Haney, the newest police officer in UD’s Department of Public Safety, graduated from the Delaware State Police Academy’s 79th Municipal Class on Feb. 6. Haney was a seasonal police officer for the Rehoboth Beach Police Department, and is a 12-year member of the Girl Scouts. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Delaware in 2012. Haney will be assigned to field training for the next 12 weeks before being assigned to a permanent squad. She joins the ranks of 46 UD police officers currently patrolling the University campus.
Honors
Sujata Bhatia, a UD alumna who is a physician, bioengineer, author, professionally licensed chemical engineer and Harvard University professor, has been voted a “favorite professor” by Harvard’s Class of 2015. This is the second year in a row she has been so honored. She graduated from UD in 1999 with three bachelor of science degrees in biology, biochemistry and chemical engineering, and a master's degree in chemical engineering, and received a UD Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement in 2006.
International visitors
A delegation from the Sultanate of Oman visited the University of Delaware on Jan. 27 to explore strategic partnership opportunities as the Sultanate seeks to establish a new comprehensive university in Oman. UD is one of a limited number of U.S. institutions with which the delegation is meeting this winter.
Collaborations through joint research, faculty development and scholarly activities in the fields of engineering, computer sciences and business, as well as joint research, faculty development and scholarly activities, were the focus of discussions during the delegates’ day-long visit, facilitated by the Institute for Global Studies. Delegation representatives met with key University stakeholders, including Babatunde Ogunnaike, dean of the College of Engineering, and Rick Andrews, deputy dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, who shared the strengths and structure of their respective colleges and programs.
The visiting delegates -- members of the University Project Core Group -- included Ahmed Hassan Al Bulushi, dean of Caledonian College of Engineering (CCE); Salim Al Araimi, member of the CCE Governing Council and professor at Sultan Qaboos University; M.P. Nair, professor and chief financial officer of Oman Medical College; and A Nizamuddin Ahmed, deputy dean and registrar of CCE.
Presentations
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Professor of History, gave a lecture titled “Love in the Safavid Period: Between Image and Reality,” at the Exhibit9 Gallery, Potomac, Maryland, on Feb. 14.
Meghann Matwichuk, associate librarian, Multimedia Collections and Services Department, University of Delaware Library, presented "Connections and Directions: Establishing a Game Studies Research Group at the University of Delaware" at the 36th annual meeting of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA), Feb. 12, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
David Shearer, professor of history, participated in a symposium workshop in Munich, Germany, “The Born and the Common Criminal: The Discourse of Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in the Late Russian Empire and the Early Soviet Union (1880-1941),” Jan. 13-14. The conference was sponsored by the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität. Shearer presented a paper, “Recidivism, Social Atavism, and State Security in Soviet Policing Practice.”
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