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

Recent presentations, awards and appointments include the following:

Presentations

Two Horn Entrepreneurship faculty presented their research at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Colloquium on Transitional Entrepreneurship, hosted by Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia, May 31-June 1. Laura Gasiorowski, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, presented the paper "Authenticity in founder's digital identities: A gendered perspective," which examines authenticity in entrepreneur’s digital communication and how gender plays a role in its evolution. Early findings show that women get more authentic over time while men get less authentic over time, potentially due to the lower status of women as entrepreneurs, which encourages a growth mindset over time. Stephanie Raible, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, virtually presented the developmental paper “Taking the leap: What metaphors reveal about women’s transitions into entrepreneurship,” which explores the qualitative data of 53 new women entrepreneurs explaining their careers and identities before and after their career transition. Initial findings have led to a cursory model for how these women are experiencing their transitions into entrepreneurship. 

Duygu Phillips and Stephanie Raible, assistant professors of entrepreneurship, each presented papers at the premier international women's entrepreneurship research conference, the Diana International Research Conference (DIRC), which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, May 31-June 3. Phillips presented the paper “Gender-equality paradoxes among entrepreneurs- Interactive effects of gender equality and culture,” with co-author Alexander Glosenberg. Raible presented "Taking the leap: What metaphors reveal about women’s transitions into entrepreneurship," along with her co-author, Karen Williams Middleton. Raible also chaired a roundtable session of three early-stage papers on entrepreneurial stereotypes.

On June 20, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, was an invited reader of her poetry at an online event sponsored by Current Words Publishing (Milton, DE). It was held to celebrate the latest issue of Instant Noodles Magazine, which published her poem "Sparklers" in April 2024. In addition, her poem "Class Trip," which appeared this spring in the print anthology "Finding Harmony" (Written Tales Chapbook, Vol. XII), was also the featured online poem of the day for June 17 on the "Written Tales" website.

Awards and Honors

Derek Wu, a 2024 honors graduate who double majored in biological sciences and environmental sciences, has been selected as a Marcus L. Urann Fellow by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society. Wu is one of six students nationwide to receive $20,000 for graduate education. Chartered in 1905, UD’s PKP chapter is one of the oldest in the nation.

Johann Ducharme, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and faculty director of the Siegfried Fellows, was awarded a $50,000 grant from The Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a part of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, for the project “Institutional Consensus of Character Education.” The aim of this 12-month grant is to conduct an institution-wide, strategic consensus of the leadership and character work currently underway and begin assessing for the collective impact of academic, extra-curricular and athletic programming. 

Appointments

Fran O’Malley, policy scientist in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), has been recently appointed to a 10-person national advisory group for the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB). The NAGB is an independent, bipartisan board that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), generally known as The Nation’s Report Card. The NAEP provides critical insight into student academic achievement and learning experiences in various subjects, including civics and U.S. history. NAEP assessments are informed by “frameworks” that are approved by NAGB. Over the next six months, O’Malley will meet with fellow advisory group members to consider the development of new or revised frameworks for civics and U.S. history. This advisory appointment follows a report titled “Maintaining the Validity of the NAEP Frameworks and Assessments in Civics and U.S. History” that O’Malley prepared for the NAEP Validity Studies Panel in 2022. This report provided the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NAGB, and the NAEP community with important information to “help maintain the validity and utility of the NAEP assessments for civics and U.S. history.” O’Malley is the director of IPA’s Delaware Center for Civic Education. IPA is a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.

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