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

Recent presentations, appointments and honors include the following:

Presentations

Antoinette Yost, assistant librarian and coordinator of collections sharing and delivery at the UD Library, Museums and Press, and Megan Gaffney, librarian and head of the Collections and Resource Sharing Department at the UD Library, Museums and Press, presented an online workshop, “Interlibrary Loan Borrowing 102,” as part of the annual Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project Conference on Aug. 4, 2022. The IDS Project is a resource-sharing cooperative that aims to implement and evaluate innovative resource-sharing strategies, policies and procedures that optimize access to information resources of all member libraries.

Appointments

Mark Moline, the Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies in the School of Marine Science and Policy, has been named a member of the Ocean Exploration Advisory Board (OEAB), a Federal Advisory Committee for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Moline’s term began on Aug. 1, 2022, and will run until July 3, 2025. Moline was selected as a special government employee based on his strong background and expertise, and the position directly advises the administrator of NOAA.

Honors

Cindy Ott, associate professor of history and material culture in the Department of History, has been selected as a winner in the National Endowment for the Humanities 2022 Public Scholars Program. Her book, Biscuits and Buffalo: The Ongoing Reinvention of American Indian Culture,is about American Indians who have created new strategies and collaborations, and drawn on deeply rooted customs to affirm their native identity and relevance in this modern globalized world. This highly competitive honor is awarded to only 8% of proposals received. The Public Scholars program offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public.

Catherine L. Grimes, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the recipient of the 2022 Horace S. Isbell Award from the American Chemical Society. Presented annually at the spring ACS national meeting, this award acknowledges excellence in and promise of continued quality of contribution to research in carbohydrate chemistry. The Grimes Research program focuses on the development and chemical synthesis of small molecule carbohydrate probes that mimic intermediates of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis and bacterial-host immune recognition. The work encompasses a mixture of carbohydrate chemistry, molecular biology and biochemistry to answer questions regarding how the human body senses and responds to the presence of bacteria.

Meredith Ray, professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation BeIlagio Center residency in Lake Como, Italy, this fall to complete work on her book-in-progress, Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance. The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program offers academics, artists, policymakers and practitioners a serene setting for focused, goal-oriented work and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with residents from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines and geographies.

Donald A. Watson, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the winner of the 2022 Delaware Section Award of the American Chemical Society. The Delaware Section Award is presented annually to a member of the section for outstanding achievements in research in chemistry or chemical engineering. The society publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry.

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