Benefits of horsehoe crab focus of Lewes presentation

The Horseshoe Crab: Man's Best Friend, or How Well Do I Know the Crab That Saved My Life" is the topic of a talk by Bill Hall, marine studies, at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 27, in Room 104, Cannon Laboratory, at the Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. The free, public talk, which will be followed by light refreshments, is part of the College of Marine Studies' Ocean Current Lecture Series.

According to Hall, a marine education specialist, the prehistoric creature with the helmet-shaped body and spear-like tail has saved countless human lives. The crab's blood contains a "unique clotting agent that the pharmaceutical industry uses to test intravenous drugs for bacteria. No IV drug reaches your hospital pharmacy without its horseshoe crab test. So, if you or someone you love has ever been hospitalized, you owe a lot to the horseshoe crab," Hall said.

Horseshoe crab eggs also are an important source of food to migrating shorebirds as they wing their way north to Arctic nesting grounds, he said.

The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required.

For information or reservations, call (302) 645-4279.

Institute adds technology to teaching and learning

The Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) Institute is offering a summer program from June 1-July 2. The institute on "Partnerships for Learning" is open to everyone who teaches at UD-faculty, teaching assistants, academic and student affairs personnel, administrators, instructional technologists, librarians and others.

Featured keynote speakers June 8-10 will be Barbara Walvoord, an English professor and director of the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Notre Dame, and Karl A. Smith, professor of engineering at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books on cooperative learning.

The author of Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment, Walvoord will speak on "Making Every Moment Count," from 8:30-10:30 a.m. and "Grading with Learning in Mind," from 1:15-3:45 p.m., Tuesday, June 8. She also will present "Helping Students Learn from Their Mistakes," from 8:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Wednesday, June 9. All talks will be held in Room 208, Gore Hall.

Smith, who recently served on the board of directors of the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, will conduct a workshop on "Foundations for Cooperative Learning" from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday, June 10, in Room 208, Gore Hall.

The TLT Institute is designed to be cumulative. The first week, June 1-4, will provide prerequisite computer skills. The second week will provide fundamentals in instructional planning, grading, assessment, cooperative learning and instructional technologies.

During the third week, technology workshops are scheduled for all faculty and staff, and there also will be workshops for Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education fellows and workshops for Technology in Teacher Education participants. In the fourth and fifth weeks, there will be further workshops.

The TLT Institute is sponsored by the Office of the Provost; the Center for Teaching Effectiveness; Information Technologies: University Media Services, User Services; Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education; Office of Educational Technology and the University of Delaware Library. Information is included in the TechTalk insert in this week's issue of UpDate. To register, visit <http://present. smith.udel.edu/calendar/>.

Newark Nite on June 5

Newark Nite '99 will be held from 5-9:30 p.m., Saturday, June 5, with a rain date scheduled for June 12. Activities will extend down Main Street to the Market East Plaza Shopping Center.

Among the attractions will be musical events, a children's stage, instructional dance area, food specials and antique automobiles.

A children's area will feature the Castle Moonbounce, Seaweed the Giant Sea Serpent, Jungle John's Reptile Show and games for all ages.

A complete schedule of events will be in the June 4 issue of the Newark Post.

Free parking is available in Newark Parking authority and University lots.

5K race to support state scholarships, building fund

The 5K for Scholarship/First Ladies Build will be held on Thursday, May 27, in Rockford Park. Pre-race registration is $12. Race day registration is $15 and takes place from 5:30-6:15 p.m. with the 5K run beginning at 6:30 p.m., and by the 5K walk beginning at 6:31 p.m. Every entrant will receive a long-sleeved T-shirt, and the top finishers will receive awards. There also will be door prizes and refreshments.

Scholarship money will go the Miss Delaware Scholarship Organization (MDSO), a part of the Miss America Scholarship Organization. Last year, MDSO provided $30,000 in scholarships to young Delaware women in the Miss Delaware competition.

Jody Kelly, who graduated from UD last May and was crowned Miss Delaware 1998 is coordinator.

Other proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity/First Ladies Build, a charitable housing initiative.

For race information, call the 5K hotline at 369-1358.

Lecture opens space exhibit

A major interpretive exhibition, "One Small Step: Exploring America's Adventures in Space, 1959-1999," will open today in both the University Gallery and the University Mineralogical Museum. An opening day lecture by noted science writer, Andrew Chaikin, is scheduled at 7 tonight in the Trabant University Theatre.

Chaikin's award-winning book, A Man on the Moon, was the basis for the television miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, produced by Tom Hanks for HBO.

The exhibition will run through Nov. 1 in the University Gallery in Old College, and will be in place to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20.

For additional information, call 831-8242.

College convocations set May 29 across the campus

Following the 1999 Commencement exercises, Convocation ceremonies for six colleges--as well as departmental convocations for the College of Arts and Science and College of Health and Nursing Sciences, as well as programs in the College of Human Resources, Education and Public Policy--will be located throughout campus. Each ceremony will last approximately one hour. No tickets are required unless otherwise noted.

Following are a list of this year's college Convocation celebrations.

* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
2 p.m., Mitchell Hall

* College of Arts and Science
Department of Anthropology 11:30 a.m., Munroe Hall

Departments of Art, Art Conservation, Art History, Music and Theatre 11:30 a.m., Mitchell Hall

Department of Biological Sciences 2 p.m. Room 101 A/B, Clayton Hall,

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1:30 p.m., Pearson Hall auditorium

Department of Communication 3:30 p.m., Pearson Hall

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Noon, Room 140, Smith Hall

Department of English 2 p.m., Carpenter Sports Building

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
11:30 a.m., Loudis Recital Hall, Amy E. du Pont Music Building

Departments of Geography and Geology and Environmental Science Program
11:30 a.m., Pearson Hall auditorium

Department of History
11:30 a.m., Trabant University Center

Department of Mathematical Sciences
11:30 a.m., Room 115, Purnell Hall, Room 115

Department of Philosophy
11:30 a.m., Room 116, Purnell Hall

Department of Physics
11:30 a.m., Room 100, Sharp Laboratory

Department of Political Science and International Relations
and Arts and Science Economics 1:30 p.m., Trabant University Center

Department of Psychology
Noon, Carpenter Sports Building

Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
1:30 p.m., Delaware Field House

Women's Studies Program
3 p.m., Rooms 209-211, Trabant University Center

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and Medical Scholars Program
11:30 a.m., Room 125, Clayton Hall

* College of Business and Economics
11:30 a.m., Delaware Field House

* College of Engineering
1:30 p.m., Bob Carpenter Center

* College of Health and Nursing Sciences

Department of Health and Exercise Sciences
11:30 a.m., Room 101 A/B, Clayton Hall

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
12:30 p.m., Room 128,
Clayton Hall

* College of Human Resources, Education and Public Policy 1:30 a.m., Bob Carpenter Center

School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy Graduate
Program
1:30 p.m., Room 130, Smith Hall

School of Education Graduate Program
1:30 p.m., Room 120, Smith Hall

Individual and Family Studies Graduate Program
1:30 p.m., Room 208, Gore Hall