[new_royalslider id="36"]New director for economic education center
The University of Delaware’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) has promoted economic education, financial literacy and entrepreneurship through a teach-the-teacher concept; for over four decades, the center’s programs have equipped educators with the tools so they can in turn impact student learning.
Now the center has a new director, Carlos Asarta, who says his priority remains to fulfill CEEE’s mission, while also looking to leverage technology and online education.
“The center is well known for the quality of its programs and the impact they have on student knowledge,” said Asarta, who assumed the director role Sept. 1. “Using the latest technologies will enable us to reach even more educators and students, and developing new and innovative programs will help us prepare students for their future roles as consumers, producers, employees, entrepreneurs and voters.”
Asarta came to UD from the University of Nebraska Lincoln where he was an associate professor in the Department of Economics, a council associate for the Nebraska Council on Economic Education and a center associate with the UNL Center for Economic Education; he also chaired the university-wide UNL Teaching Council from 2010 to 2012.
Slated for publication in August 2014, he has co-authored a fully digital curriculum for economics with Roger Butters, a professor of economics at UNL.
Principles of Economics will be offered in English and Spanish and features a range of multimedia components compatible with McGraw-Hill Higher Education’s course management platform, Connect. In addition to his role as CEEE director, Asarta is an associate professor in the Department of Economics. This position will allow him to teach undergraduate courses and be involved in the master’s and doctoral economic education programs at UD.
Emge joins Cozen O’Connor
Cozen O’Connor has bolstered the strength and scope of its national real estate practice with the addition of eight experienced attorneys across six offices in recent months, including seven partners and one associate.
Real estate attorneys who have joined the firm as partners in recent months included Richard L. Emge, who joined Cozen O’Connor’s Wilmington office;.
Emge has joined Cozen O’Connor’s Wilmington office as a partner, having most recently served as Senior Assistant City Solicitor for the City of Wilmington. While with the City of Wilmington, he handled legal matters for the city relating to real estate, land use, procurement, telecommunications and economic development. Prior to working for the City of Wilmington, Richard was an associate with Wolf Block’s Real Estate Practice Group. He received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Delaware.
Schwartz joins Downtown Visions board.
Downtown Visions announced its newest board member, entrepreneur, Mike Schwartz. Schwartz is best known as the creator of Mike’s Famous Harley-Davidson brand in Delaware. The state of the art facility was dubbed — “Disneyland for Harley’s”. Upon its opening, Mike created the world’s first and only Harley-Davidson dealership, themed restaurant, and roadside Americana museum complex.
In 2010, Mike purchased the former Ships Tavern Mews and rebranded it as The Lofts & The Shops @ 2nd & LOMA. The project is a contiguous historic renovation of a city block square from 2nd to 3rd on both Market Street and Shipley Streets. The Lofts & The Shops @ 2nd & LOMA consists of 86 apartments and 20 retail spaces which is currently 100% occupied.
Mike works with several charities and projects. Schwartz and his 2nd & LOMA team hosts the annual Ladybug Music Festival. Their goal with the festival is to continue the revitalization of Wilmington’s new “Neighborhood of the Year”, while providing family friendly entertainment inside multiple local businesses to strengthen the LOMA community.
DSU director elected to board
Amystique Harris Church, DSU associate director of the Office of Testing, has been elected to the 17-member Governing Board of the National College Testing Association (NCTA).
NCTA is a non-profit organization of testing professionals organized in 2000 through the merging of several regional associations. It currently has over 1,900 members at more than 650 higher education institutions and 55 corporations and certification agencies in the United States and Canada.
Pilkington joins Bayhealth Orthopaedics
Orthopaedic surgeon Trinity Pilkington, MD, is joining Bayhealth Orthopaedics of Dover. This practice is part of the Bayhealth Medical Group, a partnership of highly trained physicians, their clinical staff, and an administrative support team that operates practices throughout central and southern Delaware.
Prior to joining Bayhealth, Dr. Pilkington was an orthopaedic surgeon on staff at Riverside Memorial Hospital in Newport News, Va.
“We are very happy that Dr. Pilkington has joined our practice,” said Michael Mattern, MD, also of Bayhealth Orthopaedics of Dover. “With the addition of Dr. Pilkington and orthopaedic surgeon Gabriel Lewullis, MD, we are responding to the growing need for advanced orthopaedic care in our area.” Jonathan Kates, MD, is also a member of Bayhealth Orthopaedics.
Dr. Pilkington graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and completed an orthopaedic surgical residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. He continued his orthopaedic training, specializing in orthopaedic trauma and reconstructive surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Dr. Pilkington is currently Bayhealth’s medical director for orthopaedic trauma.
In addition to providing expertise in complex orthopaedic fracture care, Dr. Pilkington also specializes in minimally invasive joint replacement surgery.
Bayhealth also announced that Lisa Reid, MD, is joining the team at Bayhealth Family Medicine of Dover.
This practice is part of the Bayhealth Medical Group, a partnership of physicians, their clinical staff, and an administrative support team that operates practices throughout central and southern Delaware.
For the last ten years, Dr. Reid has served the community as a physician at Southside Family Medicine and Eden Hill Express Care.
Dr. Reid’s career experience includes caring for patients of all ages in family practice and urgent care settings.
She served for four years in the U.S. Air Force, where she planned and implemented course curricula, provided medical oversight to instructors, instructed students in various medical subject areas, and cared for patients in the family practice and OB/GYN clinics.
Dr. Reid earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia, in Richmond, and completed a family practice residency at Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pa.
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