For the Record, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024

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

Suzanne Burton, senior associate dean for the arts and professor of music education, with colleague Joanne Rutkowski of Penn State, presented their research on the sustainability of early childhood music research and practice at the International Society for Music Education, Early Childhood Music Education commission conference in Helsinki, Finland, July 24, 2024.

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theatre, who is internationally known for his literary and artistic work under the pseudonym Jean Bodin, had a staged reading of two dramatic texts in Greek language at the Amphitheater Mitsero, Cyprus, on July 8, 2024, invited by the Kouroushis Foundation. Two prominent actors of the Nationaltheatre THOC presented the works. Anthi Antoniadou interpreted the one-women-monologue "The Nurse" (translated by Marianna Papastephanou), which draws on biographical details of one of the former Soviet "nurses" of the Libyan dictator Ghadafi during her attempt to rejuvenate in the Fontana Amorosa after her escape to the island of Aphrodite. Neoclis Neocleos let a 15-part choir "Decomposition at a distance on the record or Sleep's murderer black sun" (translated by George Neophytou) be heard, "demasking the promises of the totalitarian state, which maximizes its control over the lives of its citizens by applying the dual rationale of the 'public good' and the rule of the majority with linguistic force and intellectual sharpness" (Kostas Hadshigeorgiou, Anef).

Awards

Manaswini Rao, assistant professor, and Sabrin Beg, associate professor, both in the Department of Econmics in the Lerner College, have been honored as new Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) faculty affiliates. J-PAL is a global research center based at MIT. Faculty affiliates are selected based on their overall research agenda and contributions in conducting randomized controlled trials to study poverty alleviation. Other affiliates include Nobel laureates and faculty at the top universities worldwide.

Publications

Hamed Mahmudi, assistant professor of finance in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, coauthored the article "Growth-promoting Bonuses and Mergers and Acquisitions" in the July 8 issue of the ECGI (The European Corporate Governance Institute) blog.

Ravi Ammigan, associate provost for international programs, has coauthored two peer-reviewed research papers, focused on the student experience in international higher education. "'It is always hard at the beginning': Peer-to-peer Advice for International Students Transitioning to University Life in the U.S." analyzes the lived experiences of international students through peer advice and offers insights to university officials for facilitating the sociocultural adjustment of students through acculturation and transition programs. "Exploring and defining international exposure: A qualitative study of doctoral student experiences" investigates the importance of international exposure in doctoral programs and discusses the impact of broadened student perspectives on their view of research, teaching and supervision.

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