For the Record, April 15, 2016
University community reports recent presentations, publications
10:17 a.m., April 15, 2016--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent media inclusions, presentations, publications, service and undergraduate research include the following:
People Stories
'Resilience Engineering'
Reviresco June run
Media
Tricia Wachtendorf, Disaster Research Center associate director and associate professor of sociology, was featured in the documentary film The Altruism Revolution, which aired in France and Germany in February.
Pat Young, current chair of the Delaware Disaster Assistance Team and public policy resource collection coordinator, was interviewed in the Milford Chronicle regarding her nomination of Claudia Leister for the the Delaware Diamond Award
Performances
Alan Fox, professor of philosophy, will be the special guest monologist on the Philadelphia improvised comedy show Great Great at 7 p.m., Friday, April 15, at Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St. Great Great was created by 2012 UD alumni Kate Banford, with Aaron Nevins, both co-founders of Good Good Comedy.
Presentations
Diego Otegui, disaster science and management doctoral student participated in the fourth World Conference on Humanitarian Studies held by the International Humanitarian Studies Association in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from March 5-8. He participated in two panel sessions, presenting "Urban Field Disaster Response: A Mixed Coordination Model for Operations in Urban Marginal Settings" and "Humanitarian Response and Organized Crime: An Exploratory Essay on the Need for an International Regulation to Control Humanitarian Organizations."
Publications
Tricia Wachtendorf, Disaster Research Center associate director and associate professor of sociology, wrote an essay that was featured in the Natural Hazards Observer, drawing connections between themes in the film The Martian and disaster response. Her coauthored book with James Kendra, professor of public policy and director of the Disaster Research Center, American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11, is due out with Temple University Press in June. More information can be found at this website.
Service
Joe Trainor, Disaster Research Center Core Faculty Member and assistant professor of public policy, was a session co-organizer for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-30. He was also a contributing author for a report on that conference in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.
Undergraduate research
Five undergraduates from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware presented their work at the fourth annual University of Maryland-Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Day. This year’s event was hosted by the University of Maryland on March 25.
The Mid-Atlantic regional competition includes groups from the University of Maryland at College Park, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Delaware. Research Day is designed to showcase the quality of student research projects conducted during the academic year, as well as to inspire classmates in the biomedical engineering programs to pursue their own research.
Accompanied by assistant professor Emily Day, the group, with topics noted, included:
• Margaret Billingsley, “EGFR Targeted Nanoparticles to Improve the Detection Limit of Circulating Tumor Cells;”
• Daniel Charytonowicz, “Heat Stress Response Dynamics in a Chicken Cancer Cell Line;”
• Otto Juhl, “Middle Ear Cholesteatoma Tissue Removal;”
• Peter Sariano, “High-Resolution Spatiotemporal of Embryonic Lungs and Kidneys;” and
• Elizabeth Soulas, “A Novel Platform for the Investigation of Gene Expression in Epithelial Systems.”
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