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Three new named professors appointed
John Byrne has been named Distinguished Professor of Public Policy; McKay Jenkins, has been named Cornelius A. Tilghman Sr. Professor of English; and James Kolodzey has been named Charles Black Evans Professor in Electrical Engineering. John Byrne serves as director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP). His appointment as Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy is in recognition of the importance of his research in energy and environmental policy, his contributions as a scholar and teacher and his outstanding leadership of the center, according to Rich. Byrne’s areas of expertise are in the economic and political factors that shape public policy, sustainable development, environmental justice involving contaminated industrial sites adjoining poorer communities and the impact of technology on the environment and society. Among his honors and special appointments, Byrne serves as a contributing author to Working Group III of the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), coexecutive director of the Joint Institute for a Sustainable Energy and Environmental Future, cofounder of the International Solar Cities Initiative, policy adviser to the Environmental Forum of the Korea National Assembly and a member of the board of directors of the Urban Environmental Center. He was instrumental in obtaining United Nations observer status for CEEP related to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Byrne also created UD’s graduate program in energy and environmental policy—the first such doctoral degree offered in the U.S. Byrne was a Fulbright senior lecturer/researcher in 1995, jointly affiliated with Seoul National University and the Korea Energy Economics Institute. He has published extensively in his field and is coeditor of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society and general editor of Energy and Environmental Policy book series. His most recent books are Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice. Byrne received his bachelor’s degree in economics and his master’s and doctoral degrees in urban affairs and public policy from UD. He was named director of UD’s Energy Policy Research Group in 1981 and was appointed an assistant professor in urban affairs and public policy in 1982. He has received UD’s excellence in teaching award.
A journalist and scholar of American literature specializing in environmental studies, nonfiction writing and the history and literature of race relations, Jenkins is the author of four books with another scheduled for publication this year. They include The South in Black and White: Race, Sex and Literature in the 1940s; The Peter Matthiessen Reader, an anthology of the wildlife and wilderness author’s nonfiction writing; The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone, which resulted in two national book tours; The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division in World War II, which is being made into a documentary film for PBS and has been optioned for a Hollywood feature film; and the upcoming Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913, to be published by Random House in January. He has written many scholarly articles and essays, as well as nonfiction articles and book reviews, and has delivered almost 50 invited lectures and papers at conferences. His journalism experience includes writing for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Seattle Times and The Annapolis Capital. This past year, he and Marilyn Nelson, former UD professor of English, were selected to participate in Operation Homecoming, a National Endowment for the Arts project in cooperation with the Department of Defense to assist troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq to capture their firsthand impressions of war through both oral and written expression. A graduate of Amherst College, Jenkins received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and master’s and doctoral degrees in English from Princeton University. He joined the UD faculty in 1996 and is a member of the journalism program. Among his honors, he was named the outstanding graduate student teacher at Princeton University, received UD’s College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, was a Lambert Writing Fellow at Deerfield Academy and has received two UD General University Research summer grants. As a newspaper journalist, he received the Human Service Award for a series on suburban homelessness in Georgia, and a Best Science Story of the Year from the Maryland-Delaware-Washington, D.C Press Association. The Cornelius A. Tilghman Sr. Professorship in English was established by his widow, the late Marjorie Johnson Tilghman, AS ’28, in memory of her second husband, a graduate of UD’s Class of 1925 and a Rhodes Scholar. James Kolodzey has been appointed Charles Black Evans Professor in Electrical Engineering in recognition of his notable record as a scholar and a teacher and for distinguished service to the University of Delaware and beyond, according to Rich.
Among his recent accomplishments, Kolodzey and his research team discovered a way to harness the power of electromagnetic waves of terahertz frequencies in a palm-sized device that could have practical applications in medical imaging, hazardous materials detection and possible rescue operations for detecting victims trapped under rubble. Last winter, Kolodzey’s lab teamed up with the Russian Academy’s Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics to carry out research on devices that emit terahertz signals, funded by the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation. Kolodzey has published extensively in his field with 93 articles in refereed journals and numerous conference papers and book chapters. His papers are frequently cited and used as a key reference. Kolodzey received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering physics from Lehigh University and master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Before joining the UD faculty in 1991, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana, and he has been a visiting scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, at the Technical University of Munich and the Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale of the University of Paris in 1997-98. Charles Black Evans (1866-1933) was secretary of the Delaware College Board of Trustees from 1886 until his death. Evans Hall, which houses the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named after him and his father, George C. Evans, a member of the Board of Trustees from 1856-1904. Article by Sue Moncure To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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