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

Recent publications, presentations and service include the following:

Publications

Jennifer Horney, professor and founding director of the Epidemiology Program within the College of Health Sciences, has coauthored a recent report by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security. The report, Post-Pandemic Recovery: From What, For Whom, and How? aims to look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and critically think about what recovery from the largest public health crisis in our lifetime looks like. “Recovery from the pandemic cannot be a return to a pre-pandemic normal. We are facing more frequent and more diverse biologic threats and that means we must work to create a new normal that is more resilient with the engagement of impacted communities and policy makers,” said Horney, who also serves as core faculty at UD’s Disaster Research Center. The report serves as a strategic blueprint for governments and partnering agencies to ensure comprehensive pandemic recovery.

Presentations

On Feb. 7, 2023, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, was an invited presenter at a Congressional Forum held at the Rayburn Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., and attended by members of Congress. This event commemorated the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues (WCCW, Inc.), an NGO with which Stetz has long been associated, and which was one of the chief forces behind the passage in 2007 of House Resolution 121 (in support of justice for the survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery in World War II). Titled "The Comfort Women Redress Movement in a Post-Victim Era," the forum took up the subject of past accomplishments and next steps in this human rights cause. Stetz's talk, which was presented virtually, was on the topic of “The Future of ‘Comfort Women’ Issues” and considered how best to sustain and encourage transnational feminist activism. The forum also included the premiere screening of a documentary about the WCCW's work, Cry Out: The Comfort Women Redress Movement in the US (1992-2022), directed by Jungsil Lee, in which Stetz appeared as a speaker. 

Maisha Carey, deputy University librarian and director of organizational learning at the UD Library, Museums and Press, participated in a virtual panel on “Care and Accountability in Library Leadership” during the Ontario Library Association Conference on Feb. 2, 2023. Carey also served as a panelist for “ACRL Presents: Inclusive Leadership” on Feb. 7, 2023, at an event was organized by the New Roles and Changing Landscapes committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

Service

Troy Mix, associate director of the Institute for Public Administration (IPA), is teaming with Scott Maltifano, vice president of CSC; Linda Parkowski, executive director of the Kent Economic Partnership; and Shelly Cecchett, executive director of the Kent Sussex Leadership Alliance, to advance an economic development program concept that would incentivize talented individuals to relocate to and make a home in southern Delaware. Team members pitched the concept at the Pete DuPont Freedom Foundation's  Reinventing Delaware dinner on Nov. 10, 2022, and a review committee selected the idea as one of seven semifinalists. After refining the concept through a facilitated workshop organized by the foundation, the idea was selected as one of four finalists competing for selection as the 2023 Reinventing Delaware winner. In advance of the final selection process, the team is working with a technical assistance provider to further develop the idea. The winning idea will be announced at the ninth annual Reinventing Delaware Dinner this November, with $15,000 awarded to the winner to advance their concept. IPA is a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.

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