For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent presentations and honors include the following:

Presentations

Beth Miller and Karen Roberts, science writers in UD’s Office of Communications and Marketing, shared best practices for effectively communicating complex research to public audiences as invited speakers at the Environmental Research Translation Workshop held June 5, 2025, at UD's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. Participants learned strategies to develop brief, clear explanations of their work, to foster greater understanding and appreciation of UD research and its impact. The two-day workshop was organized by Chris Petrone, marine advisory service director with Delaware Sea Grant, and Andrew Wozniak, associate professor of marine science and policy, through supplemental funding from the U.S. NSF ART program, which is investing in capacity-building resources that enhance research translation. In 2024, OCM launched a Communications Training for UD Researchers program under the leadership of Tracey Bryant, senior director of research communications.

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, was an invited participant in a (hybrid) scholarly seminar at the University of Essex (UK). This event, held both online and in-person on May 7, 2025, was sponsored and organized by the university's Centre for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, for which she is an advisory board member. It focused on discussion of a recently published work of neo-Victorian feminist fantasy, The Mune by Susan Dawes, which imagines a group of so-called "fallen women" of different races and classes establishing a new and more progressive society on an unnamed island in the 19th century.

Honors

Jennie Saxe, associate professor in civil, construction and environmental engineering, received the 2025 Outstanding Teaching in Environmental Engineering and Science award during the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors annual conference, May 20-22, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The award honors innovative, rigorous and inspiring educational approaches that engage students and advance the discipline.   

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