For the Record, Friday, March 28, 2025

Article by UDaily staff Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson March 28, 2025

University of Delaware community reports new publications and honors

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

Recent publications and honors include the following:

Publications

Leslie F. Goldstein, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of Political Science Emerita, has recently published the chapter, "Moyle v United States: Court Restores Injunction Against Idaho Abortion Ban; Decision on the Merits Postponed," in the volume, SCOTUS 2024 Major Decisions and Developments of the U.S. Supreme Court (Palgrave, 2025).

Jack Bartley, retired associate professor and former director of the Associate In Arts Program.has two new books this spring. Smoke on the Water is a fictionalized memoir of his time in the U.S. Navy and on a WestPac/Vietnam deployment, with a release date from Koehler Books on April 15, 2025. Hilo Dome is a YA scifi novel set 200 years in the future in Hilo, Hawaii. Bartley was the director of the Hawaii Domestic Study Abroad Program for 15 years. It will be released through Histria Books on May 20, 2025. In addition to book signing events in Hawaii in Hilo and Kona, he will be at Browseabout Books on June 22 and Barnes & Noble Rehoboth on June 28.

Honors

Lauren Genova and Jacqueline Means at Delaware Legislative Hall

Lauren Genova, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was named one of 10 2025 Outstanding Delaware Women in STEM by Million Women Mentors - Delaware. This award highlights the accomplishments, perseverance, brilliance and tenacity of women in STEM, as well as illuminates the many STEM career paths for Delaware girls. Genova was honored alongside nine other women by Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer, Lt. Gov. Kyle Evans Gay and others at Delaware Legislative Hall in Dover, with the signing of a proclamation to declare March 25, 2025, as Delaware Women and Girls in STEM Day. The idea for a statewide effort to promote STEM education was created by UD undergraduate student Jacqueline Means, “The STEM Queen” and founder of the Wilmington Urban STEM Initiative, who in 2021 established the now-annual Delaware Women and Girls in STEM Day.

Dominique Baker, associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) School of Education and the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, has been named one of the top 40 women in higher education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Baker’s research focuses on the way that education policy affects and shapes the access and success of underrepresented students in higher education, including policies related to student financial aid, college admissions and other aspects of campus climate.

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