UD’s award-winning Advanced Telehealth Coordinator Online Certificate program is led by a UD Professional and Continuing Studies program team consisting of (clockwise from top left) Meghan Phelan, Carolyn Morris, Gemma Lowery and Lynn Fishlock. See Honors.

For the Record

Article by UDaily staff December 04, 2020

University community reports recent publications and honors

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

Recent publications and honors include the following:

Publications

Art history doctoral candidate Anne Cross recently published an article in Panorama, the online journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Entitled "'The Time Has Now Gone by When Things of This Nature Are to Be Hidden from the Public': Mediating Bodily and Archival Violence," the article describes her encounter with a portrait of Martha Ann Banks, a young African American woman abused by her former enslaver, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Drawing from her dissertation research, Cross offers insights into Banks' life and the production of her image, including how Banks' image was circulated and framed through its use as a wood engraving in Harper's Weekly.

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, had his 2005 monograph, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900, translated into Persian a second time, under the title Dar talab-e ‘eysh. Mavared-e mokhadder va moharrek dar tarikh-e Iran beyn-e salha-ye 1500 ta 1900 miladi (Tehran: Bahar, 2020).

Jessica Horton, associate professor of art history, recently had her short response, "Ecocritical Art History for a Palimpsest Planet," published in British Art Studies as part of a conversation piece entitled "The Arts, Environmental Justice and the Ecological Crisis."

Honors

Rachel Karchmer-Klein, associate professor in the School of Education, has received the 2020 Albert J. Kingston Award for Distinguished Service to the Literacy Research Association (LRA), a research organization that works to advance literacy theory, research and practice. Karchmer-Klein's research investigates relationships among literacy skills, digital tools and teacher preparation with particular emphasis on technology-rich instructional design. She received this award in recognition of her many positions of leadership within the LRA, her active participation in its academic conferences and her mentorship of graduate students, among other contributions.

Joy Goswami

Joy Goswami, assistant director of UD’s Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships, has been elected to the Board of Directors of AUTM, a global nonprofit that supports the commercialization of academic research. The AUTM network includes over 3,100 members from over 800 universities, research centers, hospitals, business and government organizations focused on driving forward innovation through technology transfer. Goswami has been an active member of AUTM since 2007 and has served the association in various leadership positions, including as chair of the finance portfolio. Additionally, he has made several national and international presentations over the years to strengthen collaborations and support professional development for the association. Within OEIP, Goswami oversees technology transfer activities and corporate partnerships and assists early-stage startup and spin-off companies in bolstering their competitiveness.

Elizabeth Soslau, associate professor in the School of Education, has received the Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic P20 Partnership Award, which recognizes a leading partnership between preK-12, higher education and the community. Partnerships recognized through this award address issues related to college, career and civic readiness through student engagement and service-learning, thereby increasing both student success and community development. Soslau received this award in honor of her partnership with Need in Deed, a Philadelphia-based education nonprofit, and Warner Elementary School in Wilmington, Delaware. This partnership builds capacity for culturally responsive pedagogy at Warner Elementary through critical service learning, an approach that connects the classroom with the community and helps students see themselves as agents of change.

Carolyn Morris, UD adjunct instructor and program director of the Advanced Telehealth Coordinator Online Certificate program, earned the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) Mid-Atlantic Region. Recognized for the development, creation and leadership of the program since its launch five years ago through UD’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies, the timing underscores the relevance of telehealth expansion during the coronavirus pandemic, when Morris as well as many of the program’s graduates have played a critical role in the launch and support of telehealth initiatives in Delaware and worldwide.

Gemma Lowery, UD alumna and telehealth program manager for ChristianaCare, was recently named the new program director for the Advanced Telehealth Coordinator Online Certificate program offered through UD’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies. On the front lines of ChristianaCare’s telemedicine program and one of the certificate program’s first graduates, Lowery is an advocate for the use of telehealth to address a wide variety of healthcare access issues and believes the COVID-19 crisis “has shined a bright light on the value of telehealth as a significant part of our medical treatment toolkit.”

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