For the Record, March 25, 2016
University community reports honors, presentations, publications
9:55 a.m., March 25, 2016--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent honors, presentations and publications include the following:
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Honors
Jules Bruck, associate professor of landscape architecture in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Ed Lewandowski, acting director of Delaware Sea Grant’s Marine Advisory Service in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, received the Outstanding Downtown Community Partner Award at the Revitalize 2016 conference in Wilmington, Delaware, for their innovative project in Laurel, Delaware, to redevelop the town’s commercial district along the Broad Creek waterfront.
"Much of their time and commitment exceeds their regular work duties because of their vision for the town and belief in its potential," wrote Brian Shannon from the Laurel Redevelopment Corporation in nominating Bruck and Lewandowski for the award.
Members of “Team Laurel,” including Bruck and Lewandowski, discussed the project during a TED-style talk delivered at the event, hosted by the Delaware Economic Development Office. They were recognized, along with Lee Ann Walling from Cedar Creek Planners, during the Excellence in Downtown Revitalization awards ceremony for their dedication and project leadership.
Presentations
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, attended the second Ibero-Safavid conference, focusing on Missionaries in Safavid Iran, which he had helped to organize in his capacity as member of the Council of Ibero-Safavid Studies, held in Madrid, Spain, March 10-11. He presented a paper at the meeting titled “The French Jesuit Missionary Jean-Baptiste de la Maze (1624-1709), and His Description of Shirvan.”
Publications
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, coedited, with Enrique García Hernán and José Cutillas Ferrer, The Spanish Monarchy and Safavid Persia in the Early Modern Period: Politics, War and Religion (Madrid: Albatros, 2016). He contributed the introduction, pp. 17-28. The book constitutes the proceedings of the first Ibero-Safavid conference, held in Madrid in 2013, and was presented at the second Ibero-Safavid conference, in Madrid, on March 10.
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