University Of Delaware: For The Record, March 26, 2021

Press release from the University of Delaware:

Article by UDaily staff

March 26, 2021

University community reports recent presentations, publications, performances

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

Recent presentations, publications, performances, honors and public service include the following:

Presentations

On March 20, 2021, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, was an invited speaker at an event co-sponsored by the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College, CUNY, and the Korean American Association of Greater New York. Her (Zoom) talk concerned the publication of a new work of scholarship on World War II-era military sexual slavery and its aftermath in human rights activism, Korean "Comfort Women": Military Brothels, Brutality and the Redress Movement, by Pyong Gap Min (Rutgers University Press, 2021).

Publications

Erin Knight, assistant professor in the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, and one of her students, Corinne Bogan, who is pursuing her master’s degree in public policy and administration, are coauthors of an article, titled "What 2020 Taught Us about the Politics and Teaching of Public Health," published in the March 2020 issue of the Delaware Journal of Public Health, pages 64-67.

Performances

The UD Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Lauren Reynolds, assistant professor in the School of Music, has been selected as one of eight ensembles to perform at the 19th WASBE (World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles) International Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, in the summer of 2022. The UDWE will join bands from The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Korea at this prestigious event.

Alumnus Ian Passmore, who earned his master’s degree in music in 2014, made his debut as conductor in a Lincoln, Nebraska, Symphony pops concert on March 12, 2021, with jazz vocalist Jackie Allen. It was the symphony’s first livestream performance of the season. Passmore is no stranger to Nebraska audiences: He spent two seasons as the Omaha Symphony assistant conductor and a third season as that symphony’s first associate conductor.

A composition, Suilean a' Chloinne, by Jennifer M. Barker, professor in the School of Music, was performed by the Fort Collins, Colorado, Symphony, with Maestro Wes Kenney, at the orchestra's March 2021 concert. The concert was recorded on March 10 and streamed on  March 12 and March 14. Barker's work for clarinet and piano, titled The Enchanted Glen, will be performed in concert at the University of Wyoming on April 24. That performance will be presented by Blake McGee, professor of clarinet at UW, and pianist Brooks Hafey.

Honors

Larry Purnell, professor emeritus in the School of Nursing, is the U.S. representative for the European Union's Culturally Competent Education.

Leia Sofia Mendez, a junior music composition major, has been selected by the Institute for Composer Diversity to receive a complimentary My Score Membership Grant for self-publishing through J.W. Pepper.

Public service

Carla Guerrón Montero, professor of anthropology, is co-host of a weekly, Spanish-language radio program, “Entre Nosotr@s,” which features interviews with undocumented immigrants and offers information that is relevant for the Latinx community in Delaware. The show, also hosted by Charito Calvachi-Mateyko, co-chair of the Delaware Hispanic Commission, airs live at 11:30 a.m., Thursdays, on 93.9 FM radio and Facebook. One of the sponsors, the ACLU of Delaware, also posts the program on its website.

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