Awards,
Professional Achievements, and Workshops
Post-doctoral
fellow with the UD Center for Advanced Study, 1994-5.
Involved full academic year release from instruction and
service to write a book on presidential disaster
declarations. University awards only 2-3 each year
selecting from a faculty of 800.
Certificate of Appreciation issued by the National
Emergency Management Association, September 1994.
Petak Award for best paper on disaster policy or emergency
management delivered at the annual American Society for
Public Administration conference, 1993.
"Networking Conference and Workshop," U.S. Federal
Emergency Management Agency, National Emergency Training
Center, Emmitsburg, Maryland, January 1988.
Awarded a University of Delaware Public Service Fellowship
for the 1986-87 academic year to work as a News and Public
Affairs Analyst for WHYY TV-12 (Wilmington-Philadelphia)
public television. This project involved production work of
election night coverage, management of all aspects of
returns reporting, integration of returns with
computer-based Vidivote software package enabling
generation of TV graphics of return counts in virtual time,
personnel management of returns assistants, and on-air
commentary of election results.
The
post-election responsibilities of the project involved
proposal generation and application, sponsor identification
for grant proposals, political content analysis of nightly
reports, and field production. I also produced "Capital
Comments," a weekly five minute news interview of a key
state political official from March 7 through July 3, 1987.
From January 1987 to October 1987 1 created and associate
produced a documentary entitled, "DELAWARE RIVER, DELAWARE
BAY," which aired October 26, 1987 at 8:00 PM EDT on TV-12.
The program earned a 4.3 share which was considerably
higher than the average TV-12 prime time program average
share of 3.0 to 3.5. A 4.3 share means that approximately
115,000 households in the Delaware Valley viewing area
watched the entire 30 minute program. The producer was
David Rosenberg. Since airing, WHYY TV-12 has nominated the
program for an EMMY AWARD as best 30-minute public affairs
documentary produced by a public television station in
1987. The program won the 1988 Achievement Award of the
Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin.
Fellowship was competitively awarded and is sanctioned by
the Office of the Provost and the Public Service Fellowship
Committee.
Workshop on Development of an Action Plan to Abate Seismic
Hazards to Lifelines, conducted by the Building Seismic
Safety Council for the U.S. Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Denver, Colorado, 5-7 November 1986.
Workshop, American Political Science Association, Program
for Continuing Professional Development, "Inside the Budget
Process," lead by Dr. Allen Schick, September, 1986.
Certificate of Achievement, Senior Executive Policy Center,
Offices of Programs and Academics, National Emergency
Training Center, granted by Louis O. Guiffrida, Director of
the U.S. Federal-Emergency Management Agency, 1 June 1984.
Workshop Participant, "NASPAA/FEMA Workshop for Professors
of Public Administration and Public Affairs," Federal
Emergency Management Agency White House National Security
Council, and National Association of Schools of Public
Affairs and Administration sponsors, Washington, D.C. and
Emmitsburg, Maryland, 20-31 May and 1-2 June 1984. (All
expenses paid by U.S. FEMA).
NASPAA Site Visit Team Training, NYU, April 1980. Retrained
and Recertified by Prof. Joseph Cayer at ASPA 1994 Kansas
City conference.