3:44 p.m., Jan. 31, 2008--"Research and Integrity in Science and Engineering (RAISE)," this 18-month pilot project is designed to increase student awareness of research ethics through small-group discussions on a range of issues, from the falsification of experimental results, to plagiarism, conflicts of interest in industry-funded research, improper attribution of authorship, and the vulnerability of junior researchers in reporting misconduct.

5:10 p.m., Jan. 30, 2008--Peter Kolchin, Henry Reed Clay Professor of History at UD, has been elected to the Society of American Historians (SAH).

4:17 p.m., Jan. 30, 2008--Five UD professors will gather on Super Tuesday to provide expert analysis and commentary for attendees who will be viewing the results of the primary elections from 22 states. The discussion and viewing is slated for 8-11p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 5, in Multipurpose Room A of the Trabant University Center. The event is open to the University community, and refreshments will be served.

4:54 p.m., Jan. 28, 2008--Students interested in learning about coastal land-use issues have an opportunity to gain hands-on experience this summer. The Undergraduate Coastal Community Fellowship program is accepting applications from undergraduate students interested in working on projects that help Sussex County, Delaware, government and local municipalities address the impacts of growth and development.

11:14 a.m., Jan. 28, 2008--This is not your typical year for Super Bowl ads, according to John Antil, University of Delaware associate professor of business administration who tracks advertising for the big game. Antil said Fox television has most likely sold all of its available ads for Super Bowl XLII to be aired on Sunday, Feb. 3, adding that the network sold out of most of the inventory much earlier than is typical and at record prices--up to $3 million for a 30-second spot.

4:27 p.m., Jan. 25, 2008--Distinguished marine geologist Charles Nittrouer is scheduled to give a lecture at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in 206 Robinson Hall, with an ITV link to Cannon 202 on UD's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. The event is free and open to the public.

3:10 p.m., Jan. 25, 2008--The Caribbean island of Bonaire arguably has some of the most unspoiled coral reefs in the world. A multinational team of researchers, including two UD scientists and 16 undergrads, is taking a collaborative, high-tech approach to determine why. It is using not one, but three autonomous underwater robots to help gather data about the island's waters and reefs.

2:34 p.m., Jan. 25, 2008--It's definitely winter here in the Mid-Atlantic region, but for 16 University of Delaware students, Winter Session is downright tropical.

2:53 p.m., Jan. 24, 2008--Did you know that many of the brand-name blue jeans sold in the United States are made in Guatemala?

11:44 a.m., Jan. 24, 2008--Martin BrŸckner, UD associate professor of English, will speak on "Finding Maps: Carto-bibliography in American History and Practice," at noon, Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in the Morris Library. The lecture is part of the UD Library Assembly of Professional Staff's Scholar and Library Series and is free and open to the public. Attendees may bring brown bag lunches, and light refreshments will be available.

4:43 p.m., Jan. 23, 2008--The University of Delaware is a center for Problem-Based Learning (PBL), an international educational movement, based on active learning, encouraging students to work in groups, carry out research and think independently about real world problems.

5:05 p.m., Jan. 17, 2008--As the globe turns, you see their names--the autographs of an elite group, the world's foremost explorers and aviators. There's the signature of Amelia Earhart, the famed aviatrix; Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen, first to reach the North and South Poles; Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to scale Mt. Everest; Neil Armstrong, the first to set foot on the moon. One legendary pioneer after another.

5:15 p.m., Jan. 16, 2008--The geriatric physical therapy residency program at the University of Delaware recently became only the second such program in the United States to receive credentialed status from the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

1:30 p.m., Jan. 15, 2008--A University of Delaware experiment is under way aboard the International Space Station. Eric Furst, UD associate professor of chemical engineering, and his postdoctoral researcher Paula Vasquez developed the experiment as part of the InSPACE2 (Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions) program.

4:51 p.m., Jan. 11, 2008--UD's Global Agenda speaker series on foreign affairs will turn a heated lens on global warming this spring semester with lectures from seven visiting experts in the field.

4:18 p.m., Jan. 11, 2008--With a presidential election less than a year away, the topic of Latin American immigration to the United States has become a hot button political issue in debates among Republican and Democratic candidates.

1:20 p.m., Jan. 11, 2008--Michelle O'Malley, a doctoral student in chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, has won a $500 student travel award to attend the Joint Meeting of the Biophysical Society and the International Biophysics Congress in Long Beach, Calif., being held Feb. 2-6.

3:47 p.m., Jan. 9, 2008--Being away from home during the holidays is always hard, and this is especially true at the literal end of the earth, the South Pole. Here, satellite connectivity for Internet and domestic phone calls is available only eight hours each day. This community of 250 people, living at 10,600 feet on the world's largest ice cap, braving -20 degree summer temperatures, has developed a unique camaraderie that may be as friendly and comforting as this location is harsh.

11:15 a.m., Jan. 9, 2008--Is getting new knees on your list of New Year's resolutions? Research at the University of Delaware indicates that women wait longer to pursue knee-replacement surgery than men do.

4:17 p.m., Jan. 8, 2008--For 25 UD students and their two professors--Jacob Bowman, associate professor of entomology and wildlife ecology, and Jonathan Cox, supplemental art faculty--Friday, Jan. 4, was not a typical first day of class. At 4 p.m., they boarded a plane at New York's JFK airport heading for Argentina and Antarctica as part of the University of Delaware Winter Session Study Abroad Program.

7:09 p.m., Jan. 5, 2008--More than 300 UD students, family members, University associates and friends filled Thompson Hall in the Louise and David Roselle Center for the Arts Friday evening, Jan. 4, for a hooding ceremony honoring the 130 doctoral degree candidates from six different colleges. The students officially received their degrees at Commencement on Jan. 5.

4:39 p.m., Jan. 3, 2008--Wendy Bellion and Monica Dominguez, assistant professors in the Department of Art History, have been awarded a $20,000 grant by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago.

3:43 p.m., Jan. 3, 2008--Overshadowed by computer-based media, the chalkboard may have lost favor in the 21st-century college classroom, but faculty in UD's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering gained new respect for this simple piece of equipment after attending a two-day Excellence in Engineering Education (ExCEEd) teaching workshop recently.

10:50 a.m., Jan. 3, 2008--UD's Education Alumni Association is seeking nominations for its 2008 Commitment to Education Award, which honors alumni who have demonstrated an extra measure of commitment as teachers, researchers, administrators or friends of education. The deadline is Friday, Feb. 15.

5:59 p.m., Feb. 29, 2008--Delaware's statewide Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) held its third annual meeting on February 15 at Delaware State University's MBNA Hall. More than 100 scientists, government officials, and private industry representatives gathered to network and assess EPSCoR's progress in Delaware, where the program is managed by the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) at the University of Delaware.

3:31 p.m., Feb. 29, 2008--Svilen Bobev, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received the National Science Foundation's prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award. The highly competitive funding award, designed to support the integrated research and educational activities of faculty early in their careers, is bestowed on those scientists and engineers deemed most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Fewer than 20 percent of the proposals submitted to the annual competition are funded.

9:49 a.m., Feb. 29, 2008--Two upcoming lectures will examine how China's flourishing economy is impacting both that country's natural resources and its partnerships with other countries around the world.

3:56 p.m., Feb. 28, 2008--"Although half the students in the course live on the other side of the world, it's as if we are in the same classroom. We talk to each other, discuss different topics, can see each other as if were all together in one place," said UD junior Emma Devine.

1:50 p.m., Feb. 28, 2008--A three-person panel discussion on "Creating a Climate for Political Action" was held Wednesday evening in Mitchell Hall. The discussion marked the opening of the 2008 Global Agenda series, titled "Boiling Point: International Politics of Climate Change."

5:25 p.m., Feb. 27, 2008--A $256,800 grant received by the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will bolster fellowship and learning opportunities for five master's-level students specializing in objects conservation for the duration of their enrollment in the program.

4:38 p.m., Feb. 27, 2008--Do you know an outstanding teacher who makes an extra effort to bring the wonders of Delaware's marine and aquatic resources to students? Nominate him or her for the 2008 Governor's Marine and Aquatic Science Teacher of the Year Award.

4:27 p.m., Feb. 27, 2008--The Delaware Geological Survey (DGS) at the University of Delaware has released a new technical report that details the technical aspects of the water-table mapping program, including methods, fluctuations in water-table depths, depth to water, water-table elevation and discussion of applications of water-table maps to real world issues.

3:23 p.m., Feb. 27, 2008--The University of Delaware was recently honored by the government of Thailand for providing equipment and technical expertise for the construction of a neutron monitor on the summit of Doi Inthanon, Thailand's highest mountain. The construction of the new cosmic ray detector was a collaborative effort between UD, three Thai institutions--Mahidol University, Chulalongkorn University and Ubon Ratchathani University--and Shinshu University in Japan.

4:12 p.m., Feb. 26, 2008--David Kirchman's research has taken him to remote places like Antarctica and Alaska. Now it's landed him at the top of his profession. The professor of marine biosciences has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, which means he's a part of the leadership group of the oldest and largest single life-science membership organization in the world.

3:42 p.m., Feb. 26, 2008--David Resnik, bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, will present "Misconduct in Research--What It Is, Why It Happens, How to Deal with It and How to Prevent It" at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 27, in 100 Wolf Hall.

3:13 p.m., Feb. 26, 2008--Presidential politics, solar energy, travel to Turkey and demographic trends in Sussex County will be discussed by University of Delaware faculty during the 23rd annual Land & Sea Lecture Series to be held on Fridays throughout March in Lewes and Milford.

11:55 a.m., Feb. 26, 2008--Developing clean, affordable energy--it's a major challenge facing the United States and the world this century, and University of Delaware researchers are putting their brainpower to work to find sustainable solutions.

5:44 p.m., Feb. 25, 2008--Two doctoral students from UD's College of Marine and Earth Studies (CMES) will spend the next year in the nation's capital learning the ins and outs of the marine policy process, thanks to a prestigious award they've both earned. Marine policy students Ami Kang and Kateryna Wowk are among just 48 students from across the nation to receive a 2008 Dean John A. Knauss Fellowship.

3:39 p.m., Feb. 25, 2008--UD's Department of Political Science and International Relations is sponsoring a colloquium on Global Governance and Society for the spring semester. Titled "Global Governance and Governmentality," the lecture series kicks off Monday, March 3. All lectures are held from 5-7 p.m., Mondays, in 116 Gore Hall.

5:06 p.m., Feb. 22, 2008--Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairperson of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, will kick off the spring 2008 Global Agenda lecture series, "Boiling Point: International Politics of Climate Change," which will be held at 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays, in Mitchell Hall, beginning Feb. 27. The series is free and open to the public.

4:19 p.m., Feb. 22, 2008--A daring mission in 1931 to explore the Arctic in a submarine named Nautilus, and a recent underwater expedition to rediscover the scuttled vessel, will be the focus of the next lecture in the University of Delaware's William S. Carlson International Polar Year Events, set for 3:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 29, in Memorial Hall.

4:54 p.m., Feb. 21, 2008--Seeking an out-of-this-world travel destination? Outer space will rocket into reality as "the" getaway of this century, according to researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of Rome La Sapienza. In fact, the "final frontier" could begin showing up in travel guides by 2010, they predict.

4:29 p.m., Feb. 21, 2008--Xiaoming Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, is the recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

4:03 p.m., Feb. 21, 2008--Rapper David Banner will give a talk at UD titled "Cope, Conform or Resist: A Lecture on the Double Consciousness of Young African-Americans" at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Clayton Hall Auditorium on the Laird Campus. Sponsored by Black American Studies and the Department of English, the talk is free and open to the public.

3 p.m., Feb. 21, 2008--Several events, including talks and a fair focusing on healthy lifestyle choices, will be offered at UD during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which runs Feb. 25-28.

4:04 p.m., Feb. 20, 2008--For those daring souls who braved Delaware's icy terrain on Feb. 12 to see Coast Guard Capt. Lawson Brigham add his signature to the American Geographical Society's Fliers' and Explorers' Globe, the treacherous trip was well worth it.

4:46 p.m., Feb. 19, 2008--The University of Delaware Library was a significant presence at the annual meeting of the American Printing History Association (APHA), which was held Jan. 26 at the New York Public Library. Following a business meeting and reports of officers, APHA's distinguished Achievement Awards were given.

4:12 p.m., Feb. 19, 2008--The work of a University of Delaware faculty member, Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities, and of a University of Delaware staff member, Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, University of Delaware Library, will be presented in an exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York.

3:24 p.m., Feb. 19, 2008--The University of Delaware Library announces the electronic full text availability of two books by John S. Boyer, E. I. DuPont Professor of Marine Biochemistry/Biophysics Emeritus of the University of Delaware. The two Boyer books, Water Relations of Plants and Soils (co-written with Paul Kramer) and Measuring the Water Status of Plants and Soils, are available in the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository [http://dspace.udel.edu] and are a landmark first for the library's Institutional Repository.

2:17 p.m., Feb. 19, 2008--The Delaware Alliance for Excellence honored Bayhealth Medical Center's Inpatient Rehabilitation Center and United Electric Company Inc., as the recipients of the W.L. (Bill) Gore Award of Excellence at its annual Delaware Quality Award banquet held Thursday, Feb. 7, in Clayton Hall on the University of Delaware's campus.

6:26 p.m., Feb. 18, 2008--UD undergraduates are invited to apply by Feb. 25 for the David A. Plastino Scholars Program in the College of Arts and Sciences.

6:07 p.m., Feb. 18, 2008--Attention science, engineering and mathematics undergraduates eager to get into the lab or out in the field: there's a summer internship opportunity that might be a perfect fit for you. The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Delaware lets students conduct guided research in marine science at UD's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes.

2:54 p.m., Feb. 14, 2008--The Black American Studies Program "Brown Bag" lecture series for the spring semester will begin Monday, Feb. 18, with a lunchtime talk by Theodore Davis, associate professor of political science and international relations at UD. The five-lecture series will cover topics ranging from "black" politics to the use of hip-hop in literacy programs.

2:42 p.m., Feb. 14, 2008--What if Delaware could use a cost-effective renewable energy resource to reduce its dependence on coal, oil and other fossil fuels? Some experts say such a resource--wind power--is ready to be tapped just off the Delaware coast.

3:35 p.m., Feb. 12, 2008--Muqtedar Khan, associate professor of political science and international relations and director of UD's Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for International Studies (CFIS) have been awarded a grant of $494,368 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs to implement its program, "Faith and Community: A Dialogue."

2:28 p.m., Feb. 12, 2008--The Women Studies Program's lecture series, "Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Culture," which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 12:20-1:10 p.m., Wednesdays, in 116 Gore Hall. The series, which is slated to begin Feb. 13, also serves as a one-credit pass/fail course for UD students. The course is listed as WOMS298-010.

1:39 p.m., Feb. 12, 2008--Capt. Lawson Brigham, who sailed to the polar limits of the global ocean on a voyage from Antarctica to the North Pole, will join a celebrated group of adventurers when he signs the American Geographical Society's Fliers' and Explorers' Globe at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the University of Delaware's Louise and David Roselle Center for the Arts.

1:34 p.m., Feb. 12, 2008--Capt. Lawson Brigham, deputy director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission will present "Using Scenario Planning to Understand Future Arctic Marine Use" from 1:30-2:50 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 13, in 206 Robinson Hall and via ITV in 202 Cannon Lab on UD's Lewes campus.

11:43 a.m., Feb. 12, 2008--Lynette Young Overby has been appointed the new faculty director of UD's Undergraduate Research Program and Office of Service Learning, Havid‡n Rodr’guez, vice provost for academic affairs and international programs, announced. She joins the UD staff from Michigan State University, where she served as associate dean for outreach and engagement and also as professor and director of its Program for Interdisciplinary Learning through the Arts.

5:07 p.m., Feb. 11, 2008--Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered a novel technique--that acts like a "spell-checker" for correcting a misspelling in the DNA code--to repair the defective gene that causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This hereditary neuromuscular disease is the number-one genetic killer of children under two years old.

8:23 a.m., Feb. 7, 2008--Scientists working to assess reef conditions in the Caribbean helped launch the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) on Jan. 24. Based on their preliminary results, IYOR, a campaign to raise awareness about the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, is well-timed.

4:34 p.m., Feb. 5, 2008--Capt. Lawson Brigham, who sailed to the polar limits of the global ocean on a voyage from Antarctica to the North Pole, will join a celebrated group of adventurers when he signs the American Geographical Society's Fliers' and Explorers' Globe on Tues., Feb. 12, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Delaware's Louise and David Roselle Center for the Arts.

4:14 p.m., Feb. 5, 2008--Viet Dinh, a supplemental faculty member in UD's Department of English, was recently awarded a $25,000 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support work on an upcoming novel.

2:56 p.m., Feb. 5, 2008--Jingguang Chen, director of UD's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, has been appointed the Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering, UD Provost Dan Rich has announced, "in recognition of his distinguished scientific career and his service to the University of Delaware and beyond."

4:34 p.m., Feb. 4, 2008--Zeynep Firtina, a doctoral-level student in biology at UD, received a $1,000 grant last semester from the Sigma Xi Committee of Grants-in-Aid Research to support her ongoing research on cataracts.

2:06 p.m., Feb. 4, 2008--Each year to commemorate the birth of Abraham Lincoln, Feb.12, 1809, the Special Collections Department of the University of Delaware Library mounts a new display of items from the Lincoln Collection in its Lincoln exhibit case in Morris Library. The new exhibition will open Tuesday, Feb. 5.

12:42 p.m., March 28, 2008--From a hydrogen fuel cell-powered bus to a solar-powered poultry house, the University of Delaware has a number of clean, green, "on the ground" initiatives under way in energy research and policy.

12:13 p.m., March 28, 2008--David Resnik, a bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), talked about the different kinds of research misconduct, their official definitions and the associated repercussions in a lecture Thursday afternoon, March 27, in Wolf Hall.

3:41 p.m., March 27, 2008--"Objects in Motion: Art & Material Culture Across Colonial North America," a two-day symposium on the art and culture of New Spain, New France and British America is set for Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, at various locations on the University of Delaware campus.

11:38 a.m., March 27, 2008--A discussion on how the world's poorest nations stand to be the most affected by climate change and the ways in which developed countries can provide them with renewable energy sources was the topic of UD's "Global Agenda 2008: Boiling Point International Politics of Climate Change" lecture Wednesday evening, March 26, in Mitchell Hall.

6:56 p.m., March 26, 2008--The rapid growth in Delaware, a burgeoning population, increasing pressure on infrastructure and open spaces and the spiraling cost of homes were the focus of discussion at the opening of "Creating a Livable Delaware: Pathways for Enhancing Prosperity and Quality of Life," a daylong conference on Tuesday, March 25, at the University of Delaware's Clayton Hall Conference Center in Newark.

3:31 p.m., March 25, 2008--Judi Provencal is star-struck, but not so much by the glitz and glam of Hollywood. You have to look heavenward through a telescope to see the object of her fascination--to pale stars called white dwarfs, their brilliance faded because all of their nuclear fuel has been burned up.

10:01 a.m., March 25, 2008--The University of Delaware will open a new Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships that will be led by David S. Weir, director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, UD President Patrick Harker has announced.

4:48 p.m., March 24, 2008--The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Undergraduate Science Education Program held a practice research poster session in McKinly Lab on March 18, for 16 undergraduate research students who will attend the 2008 Experimental Biology Meetings, April 5-9, in San Diego.

2:42 p.m., March 24, 2008--Edmunds Bunkse, UD professor of geography, was awarded the Cross of Recognition by the Latvian government in a ceremony in Riga, Latvia, in November.

2:34 p.m., March 24, 2008--The University of Delaware's Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) will receive $3.75 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative over the next three years to continue leading-edge research on photovoltaic-based solar cells.

12:08 p.m., March 24, 2008--Since 2000, the Delaware Water Resources Center (DWRC) has offered paid internships for undergraduates, providing a unique opportunity for students and faculty to become directly involved in research and education programs that address water resource related issues of critical importance to Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic region.

11:08 a.m., March 24, 2008--A talk on memory enhancement, featuring learning and memory authority Gary Lynch, is set for 4 p.m., Monday, April 7, in 117 Gore Hall.

10:51 a.m., March 24, 2008--The next lecture in UD's Global Agenda series, slated for 7: 30 p.m., Wednesday, March 26, in Mitchell Hall features Janet Hall, senior policy adviser at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C., who will lecture on special challenges faced by the poorest nations in the fight against global warming.

4:35 p.m., March 21, 2008--Margaret Werth, associate professor of art history at UD, has been selected as the Clark-Centre Allemand Fellow for 2008-09. The new fellowship is jointly sponsored by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., and the Centre Allemand d'Histoire in Paris to recognize scholars "whose projects deepen the knowledge, understanding and interpretation of art and visual culture, broadly conceived."

3:34 p.m., March 21, 2008--The University of Delaware plans to study the potential for wind power generation at its Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes, Del. A temporary tower on the campus will be installed and outfitted with electronic gear to determine the feasibility of this alternative energy source.

2:33 p.m., March 21, 2008--From research camps atop glaciers in some of the most remote regions of the planet, Waleed Abdalati, head of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has witnessed remarkable changes in the Earth's ice cover.

4:39 p.m., March 20, 2008--In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, thousands found themselves without electricity and landline phone and communication services because of severed cables, flooded equipment and loss of primary and backup power.

11:24 a.m., March 20, 2008--Michael Gamel-McCormick, professor of individual and family studies, interim chairperson of the Department of Individual and Family Studies and director of the Center for Disabilities Studies, has been named interim dean of the University of Delaware's College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy (CHEP), Provost Dan Rich has announced. His appointment is effective July 1.

4:04 p.m., March 19, 2008--The University of Delaware will host the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance in Hospitality Conference, May 1-2, at the Courtyard Newark-University of Delaware hotel.

3:35 p.m., March 19, 2008--UD's College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support graduate education and scholarship in material culture and to promote public interest and engagement in the interpretation and preservation of America's cultural heritage. The University must match the challenge grant with $2 million through fundraising.

3:31 p.m., March 19, 2008--The first-ever X-Room Conference, "Designing the Hotel of the Future," will be held from 7 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, May 3, at the Courtyard Newark-University of Delaware hotel.

3:27 p.m., March 19, 2008--UD Research and Graduate Studies will host a National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) video presentation on "Managing Cost Issues," from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 26, in the Rodney Room of Perkins Student Center.

4:37 p.m., March 18, 2008--UD's President's Forum on Entrepreneurship, "The Engine of Innovation and Economic Growth," is set for 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Friday, April 25, in the Puglisi Orchestra Hall of the Louise and David Roselle Center for the Arts.

4 p.m., March 18, 2008--The Office of the Provost, the Center for International Studies and the Salzburg Seminar selection committee have announced UD's Salzburg Seminar fellows for 2008.

3:55 p.m., March 18, 2008--For more than 60 years, the Salzburg Global Seminar has been hosting weeklong discussions to try to find solutions to global problems. UD faculty and staff have participated for more than 30 years, and on Friday, March 14, at the Roselle Center for the Arts, Stephen L. Salyer, Salzburg Seminar president and CEO, and UD President Patrick Harker signed an agreement affirming and enhancing that long-term relationship.

2:51 p.m., March 18, 2008--An online workshop on invention reporting and related intellectual property policies, terms and conditions applicable to National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and development funding agreements will be offered by the UD Research and Graduate Studies Office from 4-5 p.m., Thursday, April 10, in 204 Kirkbride Lecture Hall.

2:49 p.m., March 18, 2008--Three UD-based groups working on promoting renewable and alternative forms of energy have been invited by the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Del., to present their work at the "Power Up Hagley: Energy Fun for Everyone" day on Sunday, April 20.

4:22 p.m., March 17, 2008--Katherine (Kasey) Grier has been appointed director of UD's Museum Studies Program and professor of history, effective fall 2008, bringing a wealth of experience as a historian, scholar and teacher, with an extensive background in museums, to her new assignments. Museum Studies is interdisciplinary but will now be housed in the history department.

4:04 p.m., March 17, 2008-- What does it mean to say that an estuary is polluted or unhealthy, and what does it suggest when we talk about cleaning it up? Find out at the University of Delaware's Lunch and Lecture Series event from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, 2008, at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Del.

4 p.m., March 17, 2008--A team of undergraduate students in UD's Department of Computer and Information Sciences will be heading north by northwest to compete in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest to be held April 6-10, at the University of Alberta, in Branff Springs, Alberta, Canada.

2:13 p.m., March 17, 2008--Sometimes, working with individuals from different academic disciplines and background is the best way for students and faculty to learn how to solve problems encountered in the day-to-day operation of businesses serving both local and international clients.

11:20 a.m., March 17, 2008--"Ships, Submersibles and Underwater Habitats: Diving into the Adventures of Science at Sea" is the title of a talk to be delivered by Nancy M. Targett, dean and professor in the College of Marine and Earth Studies at UD, at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, April 10, in the Reserve Room of the Morris Library. The presentation is the annual faculty lecture sponsored by the University of Delaware Library Associates.

10:44 a.m., March 17, 2008--"Why I Am an Astronomer and a Catholic," a lecture by Dermott Mullan, a professor of physics and astronomy at UD, is set for 7 p.m., Monday, March 17, in 205 Gore Hall.

4:38 p.m., March 14, 2008--Are students on UD's Newark campus really as apathetic about political issues as reflected in polls like the "Election, What Election" poll, where UD was rated fourth among some 361 schools in a poll conducted by the Princeton Review?

3:54 p.m., March 14, 2008--Michael S. Strano, a University of Delaware graduate and the Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture on "The Chemistry of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Applications to Biomolecule Detection, Nanotube Separation and Electronic Networks" at 10 a.m., Friday, April 11, in 102-103 Colburn Laboratory.

2:45 p.m., March 14, 2008--Frank Wu, dean of the School of Law at Wayne State University, shared his own challenges with being racially stereotyped, addressed strides made in civil rights and focused on the importance of maintaining cultural differences while practicing tolerance in this year's Louis L. Redding Diversity Lecture, held Thursday evening, March 13, in the Trabant University Center Theatre.

2:36 p.m., March 14, 2008--UD's School of Education is hosting a symposium on "Changing Conceptions of Special Education," set for April 24-25, to explore the relationship between general and special education.

10:56 a.m., March 14, 2008--A University of Delaware professor noted for his pioneering and continuing work with the Internet has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). David L. Mills, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is among the NAE's 65 new U.S. members and nine foreign associates.

10:32 a.m., March 14, 2008--Three of the world's pioneers in small RNA research--Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun and David Baulcombe--will lecture on their recent discoveries at a special half-day symposium at the University of Delaware from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts.

4:59 p.m., March 12, 2008--Marcy MacDonald, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and associate neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, will deliver UD's Clark Lecture at 5 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, in 100 Wolf Hall. Her topic will be "A Genetics-driven Approach to Huntington's Disease Therapeutics." The event is open to the public.

4:49 p.m., March 12, 2008--"Women of Color Respond to Violence," a talk by Maria Ochoa, a visiting lecturer, author and professor, is set for 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, in 115 Purnell Hall.

3:29 p.m., March 12, 2008--Ken Haas, professor of sociology and criminal justice at UD, will give a talk about "The Emerging Death Penalty Jurisprudence of the Roberts Court" at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, in 118 Purnell Hall.

3:18 p.m., March 11, 2008--A lecture on dyslexia, "Finding and Teaching Pre-Kindergartners at Risk for Dyslexia and Reading Failure," is set for noon, Thursday, March 27, at UD's Early Learning Center.

2:22 p.m., March 11, 2008--During Winter Session, while many fellow UD students were on study abroad programs to all parts of the globe or taking those extra courses on campus, junior Michael Rosen, who has been a tutor in chemistry for much of his time at UD, spent seven weeks at home on a different project--writing a book and publishing it. The result is a 186-page book, titled The Guide to Surviving General Chemistry.

11:34 a.m., March 11, 2008--In addition to its strengths in undergraduate education, the University of Delaware is a major graduate education institution, offering 110 master's and 43 doctoral degree programs. Currently, more than 3,500 graduate students are enrolled at UD.

5:45 p.m., March 10, 2008--Nine Delaware communities have been chosen to participate in a comprehensive revitalization initiative called Blueprint Communities, designed to help older neighborhoods get their second wind and plan for community renewal more effectively. The program was unveiled by Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, U.S. Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) and U.S. Rep. Michael Castle (R-Del.) on Monday, March 10, at the University of Delaware's Roselle Center for the Arts.

2:25 p.m., March 10, 2008--These "new and notable" podcasts, produced by Information Technologies-University Media Services, are now available for downloading from UD's podcasts site at [www.udel.edu/podcast]:

1:11 p.m., March 6, 2008--Barbara Settles, UD professor of individual and family studies, has been honored by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) as one of six new fellows.

1:53 p.m., March 5, 2008--Cordell Overby has been appointed the associate provost for research and graduate studies at the University of Delaware. The announcement was made by Carolyn Thoroughgood, vice provost for research and graduate studies.

4:29 p.m., March 4, 2008--Burnaby Munson, C. Eugene Bennett Chair of Chemistry, has received recognition throughout his illustrious career for his research and teaching, both nationally and from UD. Most recently he has been named a 2008 Chemical Pioneer by the American Institute of Chemists (AIC).

4:01 p.m., March 4, 2008--Guru Parulkar, executive director of the Clean Slate Internet Design Research Program at Stanford University, thinks that now is the right time to reinvent the Internet.

3:37 p.m., March 4, 2008--Michael Santare, professor of mechanical engineering, has been selected to be a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International for "exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession." Santare is one of only approximately 2,834 fellows, chosen from among more than 100,000 ASME members.

1:35 p.m., March 4, 2008--UD's College of Health and Nursing Sciences is sponsoring a research lecture series this spring that will feature guest speakers from Temple University, UD and the University of Pennsylvania.

8:39 a.m., March 4, 2008--Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. du Pont Chair of Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been elected a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) for his influential contributions to the mechanics of nanocomposites and anisotropic heterogeneous materials.

4:46 p.m., March 3, 2008--Ian Appelbaum, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation for his pioneering research in the exciting next evolution of electronics known as spintronics.

4:18 p.m., March 3, 2008--UD undergraduate science majors are invited to apply for the College of Marine and Earth Studies (CMES) Semester-in-Residence Program. Taking place at UD's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes during fall semester, the program exposes students to the world of marine and earth studies. Applications for fall semester 2008 are due Friday, March 7.

3:06 p.m., March 20, 2008--The British experience in Colonial India will be the topic of a lecture by Raymond Callahan, professor emeritus of history and first director of UD's Master of Liberal Studies Program, at 7:30 p.m., March 24, in 006 Kirkbride Hall.

5:25 p.m., April 30, 2008--The 25th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Saturday, May 3, in the Perkins Student Center. The symposium will showcase research performed by undergraduates at the University during the 2008 school year.

4:33 p.m., April 30, 2008--Today, the Delaware Nutrient Management Commission, University of Delaware, state agencies, Delmarva poultry companies and the Natural Resources Conservation Service announced significant progress made in their cooperative efforts to improve Delaware's water quality and other environmental initiatives.

4:27 p.m., April 30, 2008--About 160 nursing students participated in a disaster drill conducted by UD's School of Nursing, which simulated a high school shooting, at about 12:20 p.m., Monday, April 28, in McDowell Hall.

4:13 p.m., April 30, 2008--"Plays well with others." That popular phrase on a T-shirt is being taken to a whole new level in higher education these days, as experts in a variety of fields increasingly must work together to address some of society's biggest challenges, from a warming planet to cancer.

11:13 a.m., April 30, 2008--Charles H. Thornton, chairman of Charles H. Thornton and Company LLC, will deliver UD's third annual Arnold D. Kerr Lecture in Engineering Mechanics at 3 p.m., May 7, in the Trabant Center Multipurpose Room. His lecture will address "Structural Engineering in the 21st Century."

3:28 p.m., April 29, 2008--Carole Marks, professor of sociology at UD, will discuss her upcoming book, Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne, a book about Harriet Tubman, at noon, Wednesday, April 30, at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA) in Wilmington, Del.

3:25 p.m., April 29, 2008--Two UD student-produced video documentaries on the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and on Hurricane Katrina in 2005 will be shown from 2:30-4 p.m., Wednesday, April 30, in 204 Kirkbride Hall.

1:34 p.m., April 29, 2008--Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia, affects some 4 million people in the United States. It is the third most costly disease, after cancer and cardiovascular disease. And not only is there no cure for Alzheimer's; there is no accurate pre-mortem diagnostic tool. Only an autopsy can indicate for sure that a patient had the disease.

1:27 p.m., April 29, 2008--"Imagining Africa: King Solomon's Mines" will be the subject of a talk by Heidi Kaufman, assistant professor of English and Jewish Studies, at 7:30 p.m., Monday, May 5, in 006 Kirkbride Hall. After her talk and a brief intermission, the 1937 film of King Solomon's Mines will be screened.

5:12 p.m., April 28, 2008--Brian Baynes, president and chief scientific officer of Codon Devices, will present a lecture on "Programming the Genome" at 10 a.m., Friday, May 2, in 102-103 Colburn Laboratory. Baynes will discuss how understanding, harnessing and enhancing the capabilities encoded in the genomes of natural organisms could help solve critical social problems, such as energy shortages, pollution and hunger.

4:27 p.m., April 28, 2008--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, UD associate professor of history, has been appointed to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Program by Pete Daniel, president-elect.

5:44 p.m., April 25, 2008--More than 30 employees from child welfare agencies from around the world attended a weeklong workshop in intervention methods for youth foster care held April 14-18 in the Perkins Student Center at UD.

5:05 p.m., April 25, 2008--UD seniors Patrick J. Knerr, a biochemistry major, and Michael T. Pirnot, majoring in chemistry, received second-place awards for their research papers in the biochemistry and organic divisions of the 2008 Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention (ISCC), held April 19 at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa.

4:56 p.m., April 25, 2008--Representatives from DART, Delaware E-Z Pass and PhillyCarShare were available from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Mentors' Circle Wednesday, April 24, to mark "Transportation Wednesday," one of the sustainability themes featured during Earth Week at UD.

11:06 a.m., April 25, 2008--Three University of Delaware students--Ritika Samant, a junior biological sciences major and political science minor from Hockessin, Del.; Spencer Tofts, a junior mathematics major from Newark, Del.; and Jeffrey Bosco, a junior chemical engineering major with minors in chemistry, mathematics and Japanese language, from Wilmington, Del.--have been awarded 2008-09 academic year scholarships by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

5:22 p.m., April 24, 2008--A psychology research panel will be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 29, in 140 Smith Hall. The panel is open to all UD psychology majors.

4:45 p.m., April 24, 2008--The UD School of Nursing will conduct a disaster drill from noon-2 p.m., Monday, April 28, in McDowell Hall and outside near Willard Hall Education Building.

4:14 p.m., April 24, 2008--UD President Patrick Harker formally signed two agreements on April 23, officially declaring the University's commitment to sustainability and to reducing its environmental impacts.

4:11 p.m., April 24, 2008--Students, faculty and staff members representing three different renewable energy groups at UD displayed their projects, including UD's electric car and fuel cell bus, at Hagley Museum's "Power Up Gambia" day event, Sunday, April 20.

5:37 p.m., April 21, 2008--Dan Reifsnyder, U.S. Secretary of State deputy assistant for environment, will give a talk titled, "Making U.S. Policy on Climate Change," at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, in Mitchell Hall.

4:19 p.m., April 21, 2008--James M. Jones, UD professor of psychology and director of UD's Black American Studies Program, will give the first College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 29, in 100 Wolf Hall.

4:35 p.m., April 18, 2008--Ian Appelbaum, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a $484,370 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) for a major study on "spintronics."

5:27 p.m., April 17, 2008--Jingguang Chen, the Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2008 Award for Excellence in Catalysis from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.

6:59 p.m., April 16, 2008--More than 1,500 alumni, students, faculty and friends are expected to attend the first-ever University of Delaware Forum on Saturday, May 10, and help the University celebrate both its tremendous achievements and its bold aspirations for the future. The day's activities offer opportunities for alumni to reunite with old friends, reconnect with their alma mater, and explore the passion for discovery, learning and achievement that have become hallmarks of the institution.

5:10 p.m., April 16, 2008--Three students in UD's Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Undergraduate Science Education program and the University's American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Undergraduate Affiliate Network chapter won first-place awards at this year's Experimental Biology Meetings in San Diego, April 5-9.

4:31 p.m., April 16, 2008--The Delaware AeroSpace Education Foundation (DASEF) will host a Family Day fundraiser from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, April 19, in Big Oak Park at the Environmental Outpost on Big Oak Road in Smyrna, Del.

3:42 p.m., April 16, 2008--The "sleeping giants" at the ends of the Earth--the polar ice sheets--are "awakening," Waleed Abdalati, head of NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Branch, told an audience of more than 200 at the University of Delaware on Thursday evening, April 10.

4:28 p.m., April 14, 2008--Family issues expert Mary Ann Mason held out hope women and men in academia with her lecture "Do Babies Matter?" Friday afternoon, April 11, in the Gallery of the Perkins Student Center. Addressing an audience of mostly women of all ages and career paths, Mason discussed the effect of family formation on the lifetime careers of academic and professional women and men.

4:53 p.m., April 11, 2008--The University of Delaware will honor the 2008 winners of the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medals at events on April 15 and 16, as part of a weeklong series of activities under way in the Philadelphia region to familiarize students and the community with the accomplishments of the Franklin Institute laureates.

3:34 p.m., April 11, 2008--UD's steel bridge team came home last weekend from the Mid-Atlantic regional competition at Lafayette College with a first-place overall finish, as well as firsts in four of the six award categories. That performance qualified the team to participate in the national Student Steel Bridge Competition (SSBC) at the University of Florida in Gainesville over Memorial Day weekend.

4:38 p.m., April 10, 2008--As America's energy consumption continues to grow, many of the proposed s