For the Record, Oct. 17, 2014
University community reports recent announcements, awards, presentations
10:37 a.m., Oct. 17, 2014--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent announcements, awards and presentations include the following:
Campus Stories
From graduates, faculty
Doctoral hooding
Announcements
Bonnie Ram, senior researcher and associate director of the Center for Carbon Free Power Integration, has been named a guest scholar in the wind energy department at Danish Technical University in Denmark. In this role, she will help develop a new initiative, “Wind Energy and Society,” focusing on social sciences and environmental analyses related to wind energy deployments in Denmark and beyond. Denmark was the first country to deploy utility-scale offshore wind plants and is a leader in using wind on the electric grid, with a global record of 42 percent of electricity in the first half of 2014. Ram will explore ways to engage stakeholders and expand risk communication efforts regarding offshore wind energy; investigate how public engagement and social acceptance can lead to more effective siting strategies in the wind community; and consider how interdisciplinary perspectives can forge a rethinking of wind energy challenges in Denmark, other European Union countries and North America. Ram has more than 10 years experience with U.S. national energy policies, including involvement with the Department of Energy Wind and Water Technologies Program and the National Wind Technology Center. She is the co-author of several U.S federal documents, including 20 Percent Wind Energy by 2030, the first U.S. national report on offshore wind and the first U.S. Offshore Wind Strategy.
Art exhibitions
Virginia Bradley, professor of art, will be featured in the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours from noon-6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 25-26. Bradley will be exhibiting work from "Jeopardy," a series of work completed on sabbatical in London in fall 2013. The Philadelphia Open Studio Tours is a program of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, and is the largest tour of artist studios and creative workspaces in the region and one of the premier open studio tour events in the country. Bradley's studio is at the Crane Art Center, Studio 201, 1400 N. American St., Kensington/Northern Liberties, Philadelphia. Each October, the tours span 20 unique Philadelphia neighborhoods, feature over 300 participants, engage audiences topping 30,000, and literally put Philadelphia’s professional artists “on the map” for locals and tourists alike.
Awards
UD’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory (ISE Lab) was selected as a recipient of a 2014 AIABaltimore Design Excellence Award, with the award presented during a ceremony held Friday, Oct. 10, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Performing Arts and Humanities Building.
Presentations
Cathy Matson, professor of history, gave a talk titled “Working on the Dock of the Bay: Outfitting Philadelphia's Ships in the Revolutionary Era” at the Hale-Byrnes historic house and museum in New Castle, Delaware, on Saturday, Oct. 11.
In remembrance
The fall 2014 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review features an article about the late Thomas W. Molyneux, who was a member of UD's English department faculty from 1967 until his death in 1977. The article was written by Stephen Goodwin, author of several novels and two nonfiction books.
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