For the Record, April 22, 2016
University community reports recent awards, conferences, service
10:08 a.m., April 22, 2016--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent awards, conferences and service include the following:
People Stories
'Resilience Engineering'
Reviresco June run
Awards
Nico Tennant, a UD alumnus who was a member of the YoUDee mascot program, has been honored in a Baseball America article about the best mascots in the minor leagues. Tennant brings life to Wool E. Bull of the Durham (North Carolina) Bulls.
Conferences
More than a dozen University of Delaware leadership, faculty and students attended the MADE CLEAR Higher Education Summit April 6 to explore ways UD can increase its inclusion of climate change education.
The Maryland-Delaware Climate Change Education, Assessment, and Research (MADE CLEAR) partnership is funded by the National Science Foundation through the University System of Maryland. UD Acting President Nancy Targett serves as the lead investigator for the University of Delaware.
Faculty and staff across the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, College of Education and Human Development, and Delaware Sea Grant work together to embed, support and sustain climate change education in K-12 and informal education, on campuses, and to research how students and teachers learn most effectively about climate change.
The goal of the summit was to support Delaware and Maryland institutions to make climate change and carbon neutrality a part of academic and other educational experiences for students.
More than 120 individuals representing 26 institutions participated in the event.
Targett participated in a panel session on achieving the Presidents’ Climate Commitment. The Delaware Education Research and Development Center, under the direction of Joan Buttram, is providing formative and summative evaluation of the program.
Service
Marianna Safronova, professor of physics and astronomy, has been elected vice chair of DAMOP, the American Physical Society Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. She will begin serving in this new role on May 27.
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