University Of Delaware: For The Record

Wilmington DE

16 May, 2022

3:39 PM

Description

Press release from the University of Delaware: May 13, 2022 University community reports publications, 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 Shelly McCoy, associate university librarian for public services and space planning at the UD Library, Museums and Press, is the author of a chapter titled "Interim Management During a Hiring Freeze, Salary Freeze and Salary Reduction" in the new book Interim Leadership in Libraries: Building Relationships, Making Decisions, and Moving On, edited by Jennifer E. Knievel and Leslie J. Reynolds. Priscilla Smith, associate professor of art and design, has written several articles about Delaware-based photographers that are published in the Lenscratch States Project. Lenscratch is an online daily journal dedicated to supporting and celebrating the photographic arts and photographic artists. The States Project, for which Smith is the Delaware editor, captures the work of thousands of photographers from across the country with the help of a local photographer at each stop. Jessica Sowa, professor in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, recently coauthored Human Resource Essentials for Public Service: People, Process, Performance with Mary Guy. The book details the importance of well-built human resource management (HRM) infrastructure for government and nonprofit organizations. Guy and Sowa connect organizational mission, public service values and outcomes through a three-dimensional framework of people, process, and performance. Sal Mistry, assistant professor of management in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, recently had his coauthored research article "Too Many Teams? Examining the Impact of Multiple Team Memberships and Permanent Team Identification on Employees' Identity Strain, Cognitive Depletion, and Turnover" accepted for publication in the journal Personnel Psychology. His paper examines the negative impact of being on too many teams, including identity strain and other harmful outcomes. It was first published online on April 23, 2022. Honors Jaipreet Virdi, assistant professor of history, received the 2022 William W. Welch medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine for her book Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History, published in 2020 by the University of Chicago Press. The medal is awarded to a book of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history. This press release was produced by the University of Delaware. The views expressed here are the author's own.