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

Recent presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Presentations

Faculty and graduate students from the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration presented their work at the Association for Public Policy Analysis (APPAM) 2024 Fall Research Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, and the 2024 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., from Nov. 21–23, 2024. Presentation details for both APPAM and ARNOVA are available on the Biden School website.

Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian, was an invited keynote speaker at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 18th Interlending and Document Supply Conference (ILDS) in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Dec. 2-4, 2024. Under the conference theme, “Global to Local: Diversity and Inclusiveness in Resource Sharing,” Dawes’ presentation addressed the need for diverse library collections in aiding equity, diversity and inclusion efforts and facilitating the exchange of information, leading to better cultural understanding. 

Brigette Romero Carpio, a fourth-year medical sciences doctoral student, presented a poster on her research on identifying biomarkers for cerebral palsy at the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience 2024 conference held in November in Chicago. Romero Carpio works alongside Mona Batish, associate professor of medical and molecular sciences. Romero Carpio also presented her research at the podium at the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine’s (AACPDM) 78th Annual Meeting in October in Quebec City, Canada.

Publications

Persephone Braham, professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, published the chapter "Classical Monsters in Latin American Cultures" in The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, ed. Debbie Felton, Oxford University Press 2024.

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Duygu Phillips’ study on risk in entrepreneurship has been recently accepted for publication at the Journal of Management, an FT50 journal. This study is a systematic review of the concept of risk in entrepreneurship and across business fields. In this study, Phillips and coauthors discuss the similarities and distinctions in the use of the risk construct between entrepreneurship and other business research fields and offer a multidimensional conceptualization of risk. 

Honors

Vita Nova, the University’s student-operated, fine-dining restaurant, received OpenTable’s 2024 Diners’ Choice Award.

Alexander Selimov, Elias Ahuja Chair and Professor of Spanish, has been nominated as a finalist for the prestigious 'Poet of the Year' award by the seventh Boao International Poetry Festival and the Southeast Asian Writers Association.

Megan Sions, associate professor of physical therapy (PT) and director of UD’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary Limb Loss Clinic with Independence Prosthetics-Orthotics and ChristianaCare, has won the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy’s (AOPT) Innovative Practice Award. This award goes to pioneers in the PT field whose dedication to pushing boundaries with innovative ideas results in lasting contributions to the field. UD’s Limb Loss Clinic provides training for healthcare practitioners in this specialty area, helping to reduce the national shortage of providers with experience working with patients following amputation. The clinic has trained a dozen physical therapy and prosthetic residents and more than 150 PT students. Over the past decade, the clinic has resulted in research that informs evidence-based care for this population vulnerable to adverse health outcomes, including the importance of hands-on screening for conditions that may result in a second amputation. Sions and the Limb Loss Clinic were recently featured in the AOPT’s “Ortho Static” Podcast.