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

Recent presentations, awards and publications include the following:

Presentations

On Jan. 12, Meg Marcozzi, Stephanie Raible and Dan Freeman of Lerner College's Horn Entrepreneurship presented the evolution of their work "Conceptualizing Entrepreneurship Student Types" within the Translating Research for Impact track at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) annual conference. Their qualitative research project seeks to advance entrepreneurship educators' understanding of their students by finding common perceptions of categories of students, as framed by the faculty and staff who work with them. 

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, and Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, were invited presenters of online lectures to the Baltimore Bibliophiles, a scholarly organization now celebrating its 70th year. Their Zoom talks on Jan. 16 were related to the exhibition that they curated, titled Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity, which was on view at the New York Public Library's Wachenheim Gallery from Oct. 20, 2023 until Jan. 27. Stetz and Samuels Lasner's final in-person presentations in the gallery of the exhibition, which focused on the role that the British artist and writer Max Beerbohm played in the early transatlantic celebrity industry, occurred on Jan. 25 and were given to an audience of members of the American Antiquarian Society, the Bibliographical Society of America, the American Printing History Association, and the Grolier Club, as part of what is known as the annual "Bibliography Week" in New York City.

Awards and Certifications

Sandra Nolan, assistant professor and interim director of the undergraduate program in the School of Nursing (SON) in the College of Health Sciences, recently became a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE). The certification from the National League for Nursing promotes excellence in the advanced specialty role of the academic nurse educator. The certification is a mark of distinction for nursing faculty and proves Nolan demonstrates expertise as a leader in nursing education. 

Interdisciplinary disaster research involving the College of Health Sciences and the College of Engineering will be supported by a nearly $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Jennifer Horney, professor and founding director of the Epidemiology Program, and Shangjia Dong, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who are both core faculty with the Disaster Research Center, will work together on research that aims to improve the ability of infrastructure and communities to withstand severe natural hazards. The funding from the Disaster Resilience Research Grant Program, which is jointly managed by NIST and NSF, will go towards improving understanding of the risks to acute care access and flood impacts to improve service providers’ and communities’ disaster preparedness. The funding will also help ensure continuity of care and reduce morbidity and mortality associated with missed treatments in future disasters. 

Publications

Timothy J. Shaffer, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Chair of Civil Discourse and SNF Ithaca Initiative Director in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, and Daniel A. Lahera, a current student in the public policy and administration doctorate program at the Biden School, co-authored a chapter, titled "Building Positive Peace Through Dialogue and Deliberation," in the recently published Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict.

Dan Lee, assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Lerner College of Business and Economics, recently had a co-authored research paper, "Reproducibility in Management Science," accepted for publication by Management Science. Lee participated as a member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.

Sri Beldona, professor of hospitality management and chair of UD’s Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management, along with Farhad Tabatabaei, UD hospitality business analytics doctoral student in the Lerner College, recently published “Are eco-friendly hotels inconvenient? An Implicit Association Test” in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Beldona and Tabatabaei investigate consumers’ attitudes toward eco-friendly hotels.

Jackie Silverman, assistant professor of marketing in the Lerner College, co-authored research article “The Prediction Order Effect: People Are More Likely to Choose Improbable Outcomes in Later Predictions”  is forthcoming in Management Science. Silverman and her co-author investigate the influence of order on how people make predictions of outcomes of future events. Silverman’s co-authored research article “On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions” was published in the November 2023 edition of the Journal of Consumer Research. Their research explores how logged “streaks” — behaviors performed consecutively three or more times — affect consumers’ decisions to engage in the same behavior subsequently.

Research by Gang Wang, associate professor of management information systems in the Lerner College, was accepted for publication in Information Systems Research. His article “The Impact of Process- Versus Outcome-Oriented Reviews on the Sales of Healthcare Services” with Hongfei Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Jing Peng, University of Connecticut; and Xue Bai, Temple University, is forthcoming.

Stephanie Raible, assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Department of Business Administration, recently published the social entrepreneurship case, "Aisle: A Canadian B Corp Pivots to Scale its Impact," with co-authors María Ballesteros-Sola (California State University Channel Islands), Kyleen Myrah (Okanagan College) and Kerry Rempel (Okanagan College) through SAGE Business Cases. More information about the case is available here.

Nicole Minni, GIS and graphics specialist at UD’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), and Sean O’Neill, IPA policy scientist, partnered with the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) to develop a Transportation Improvement District (TID) interactive dashboard. The TID Dashboard highlights the boundaries of each of the 13 (soon to be 14) active or planned TIDs throughout the State of Delaware along with specific projects within each TID and the amount of state spending for each area. Through TIDs, DelDOT can provide the transportation improvements needed to support land development in locations identified as appropriate for development in local Comprehensive Plans. Coordinating land use and transportation can lower infrastructure costs and foster planning for market-ready development/redevelopment opportunities. As a transportation-based impact fee, TIDs provide a way to equitably distribute the cost of transportation improvements triggered by development-related growth to the private sector benefiting from the facilities. IPA is a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, continues to use poetry as a form of literary and cultural criticism. The new issue of The Steinbeck Review, a publication of Penn State University Press devoted to the works of John Steinbeck, contains her poem "Of Rabbits and Men," a feminist reconsideration of the misogyny and femicide in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, as well as her "A Note on 'Of Rabbits and Men.'" In the latter she discusses the fate of the young woman character known only as "Curley's wife." Two additional poems of hers have also been published: "Squirrels" and "Invitation to the Dance: After Michel Fokine," both appearing in Quintessential City Life: An Anthology of Urban Poems, which is sold on Amazon.

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theater, is the author of an obituary, "In Memoriam Guy Stern," who died at the age of 101 on Dec. 7 in Michigan. Stern was a German-American Holocaust survivor, known as former Provost and Professor of Holocaust Studies and German Literature at Wayne State University, longtime board member and fellow of the Leo Baeck Institute, and widely celebrated as one of the so-called "Ritchie Boys" (named for Camp Ritchie where they trained) for his award-winning work as a U.S. military intelligence officer in World War II. Since his retirement in 2002, he was Director of the Institute for Altruism Research at the Holocaust Museum in Detroit. His research on Brecht's theater work connected him with UD; since 1992, he has regularly participated in the symposia and conferences held on the occasion of Brecht productions at the PTTP and the REP.

Appointments

UD’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics appointed UD alumnae Sarah Johnson and Amy Krzyzanowski as two new instructional designers. Johnson and Krzyzanowski, who both earned their master’s of arts for Economics and Entrepreneurship for Educators (MAEEE) in 2021, are tasked with helping CEEE better understand, prepare and support the needs of Delaware teachers by providing dynamic resources and programs to aid professional learning. Read more on the Lerner website.

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