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

Recent presentations, awards, service and publications include the following:

Presentations

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, presented “Shah ‘Abbas I and the Maydan-e Naqsh-e Jahan: Creating a Unique Public Space,” at the 14th Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies, Mexico City, Aug. 14, 2024.

Awards

Kimberley Isett, Biden School professor and vice provost for academic programs and university initiatives, was named winner of the 2024 Academy of Management (AMO)—Public and Nonprofit Division Keith Provan Award for Outstanding Contributions to the field.

Service

Timothy Shaffer, inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) chair of civil discourse and director of the SNF Ithaca Initiative in the Biden School, served on the advisory committee that developed the newly launched GBH and PBS LearningMedia Launch New Civics Collection.

Publications

Ashley Darling recently graduated after completing her doctoral training in the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences Cardiovascular Psychophysiology Laboratory under the mentorship of Jody Greaney, assistant professor of health behavior and nutrition sciences. Her dissertation focused on understanding cardiovascular disease risk in young adults with major depressive disorder (MDD). The first of her dissertation studies, titled “Sympathetic-Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity in Adults with Major Depressive Disorder,” was recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Darling has accepted a contract analyst position at Tamayo Federal Solutions in Virginia.

Julie Klinger, associate professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, and Temidayo Oniosun, a doctoral candidate in the department, coauthored a report commissioned by the U.S. Institute of Peace that was noted as a contribution to the White House National Science and Technology Council’s Report. The report is titled “China’s Space Collaboration with Africa: Implications and Recommendations for the United States.” It focuses on how Beijing has made support for the development of African nations’ space programs a key incentive for the continent to form closer ties with China. The report from the White House National Science and Technology Council can be found here.

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theatre, published in the newest issue of Lumina Lina, Revista de spiritualitate si cultura romaneasca (Nr. 3, July-September 2024, New York), a comprehensive analysis of the lyrical work of the Romanian-German poet Eugen Popin, titled "Poetry is his home - Eugen Popin's Ars Poetica." The poems are in English or German: Papageien mit blauen Schnäbeln 2013 by POP Verlag (Ludwigsburg/Germany) in German; evanescences or The Bridge Between The Banks 2018 by Create Space Publishing (South Carolina/USA), and Murmur Beyond Silence or Cor Dordium 2022 by Cappas Press (Galatz/Romania) in English translation by K.V. Twain. Popin is an outstanding literary voice of the Romanian-Germans, descendants of immigrants, who settled in the 12th century in Transylvania. Their literature of today after the upheaval of 1989 is the only independent German-language literature – vital in all literary genres, poetry, prose, drama, screenplay, feature, essay and literary criticism – that has existentially experienced and helped shape the complex and truly complicated period of transformation from the harshest dictatorship of the Eastern Bloc, the arbitrary rule of the Ceaucescu clan, to democracy in Eastern European Balkan conditions. Popin's poetry is multilayered in content and form, versatile, highly sensitive and characterized by warmth and humor. It is harmonious, simple, perfect in form and, to echo Horace's language, “appropriate to the subject matter and the audience” and avoids what is “improbable, unnatural and sacrilegious.” In this respect, deeply human: “old-fashioned/and hiding his wings in his shabby knapsack/the poet/always manages/to sneak to the edge of the day” (Werbeunterbrechung, Papageien mit blauen Schnäbeln, p. 9). Popin consistently acknowledges ancestors such as Novalis (“Everything leads me back into myself”), Baudelaire (“That which the spirit creates is more alive than matter”) and Nietzsche (“...to seduce myself to myself”). "The reader is immersed in Popin's world -- permanently or only fleetingly. He takes part in the poet's life from Cicova to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, his encounters in Auschwitz, Verona, the influences of Wolfgang Bächler, Cesare Pavese, Dante ‘here/stay/only/turn/pages/my/inside’” (p. 16).

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