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- Additional Maroon 5 tickets to go on sale for UD students Nov. 9
- UD professor testifies about offshore wind for legislative hearing
- Delaware Army ROTC team competes in Ranger Challenge
- Association for Computing Machinery cites UD student
- UD profs discuss Nobels in chemistry, literature, economics
- Blue Hen alums return to UD for Homecoming
- UD alum Christopher Christie elected governor of New Jersey
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- Solar panels latest in green technology at UD dairy farm
- UD Library Special Collections on the road
- UD pre-service students assist with Teachers of Science newsletter
- UD honors 2009 Presidential Citation recipients
- Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery
- Blue Hen Leadership Program offers students opportunities
- Ellen Wise joins College of Education and Public Policy as director of development
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- Nov.18: Delaware seeks CAA Blood Challenge title
- Nov. 9-10: Conference to focus on creating new economies for Delaware, the nation
- Nov. 9: Blue Hen basketball rally planned
- Nov. 10: Preconception health fair set in Trabant
- Nov. 11: Science Cafe returns to Newark
- Nov. 11: Dan Rich to speak on the role of universities in a global economy
- Nov. 11: Annual Step-n-Stroll show set at The Bob
- Nov. 11: Pompeii revisited during past three centuries
- Nov. 12: 'Shakespeare First' to feature lecture by James Shapiro
- Nov. 13: Project MUSIC Day to host elementary students
- Nov. 13: Student-organized ONE event to focus on poverty, hunger, disease
- Nov. 13: DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman to give talk at UD
- Nov. 14: Blue Hens tailgate tent set for Navy game
- Nov. 16: New opening act for Maroon 5 concert announced
- Nov. 17: UD students plan rally to open Relay for Life season
- Nov. 18: College of Education and Public Policy to host first expo
- Nov. 18: National Superintendent of the Year to visit Delaware
- Nov. 19: UD plans Geospatial Research Day
- Nov. 19: Darwin Lecture considers the origins of art
- Nov. 20: Tarburton to speak at Friends of Agriculture Breakfast
- Sept. 30-Nov. 18: School of Nursing offers fall research lecture series
- Oct. 23-Nov. 13: UD to host international art show in Second Life
- Oct. 14-Nov. 18: Art, history experts to offer gallery talks
- Oct. 11-Nov. 29: International Film Series offered Sundays at Trabant
- Sept. 9-Dec. 2: 'Assessing Obama' series to feature faculty, national speakers
- Sept. 9-Dec. 2: 'Research on Women' fall lecture series announced
- Sept. 18-Dec. 18: Library's 'Lion Awakes' exhibition looks at reggae, Marley
- Sept. 26-May 1: Take in an opera at the Met with UD matinee tickets
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3:01 p.m., May 26, 2009----The first University of Delaware Leadership Award, honoring an exceptional leadership major who has exhibited great promise and service to the community, has been presented to sophomore Gillian Looney.
The Leadership Program, an undergraduate major offered through the College of Education and Public Policy, has formed a working partnership with the Jefferson Awards for Public Service, a prestigious national recognition system founded in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sam Beard and Senator Robert Taft Jr. to honor community and public service in America at the local and national levels.
“For the past two years the Jefferson Awards Youth Service Initiative has been honored to partner with the University of Delaware Leadership Program,” said Michele P. Fidance, national director of the Jefferson Awards. “The leadership major at the University advocates a system of values and ethics to mobilize change resulting in improved quality of life. Because of these shared values and ethics, we have created a winning partnership.”
The Jefferson Awards Youth Service Initiative (YSI) was created to encourage high school students to get involved in volunteering and community service.
“Our mission is to build lifelong habits around leadership, ethics and community service,” Fidance said. “The YSI program is currently operating in eight communities across the country and in 25 high schools here in Delaware.”
According to Karen Stein, director of the UD Leadership Program, “Our students serve as leadership coaches in Delaware high schools participating in the Youth Service Initiative, and our senior capstone students put on a Leadership Development Conference for high schoolers in the fall. This service is a requirement for seniors, but it was Gillian's voluntary, enthusiastic and effective participation in these efforts, as well as many other opportunities for service, that earned her this award.”
The $1,000 prize was funded through the Delaware Youth Leadership Fund, established by the Jefferson Awards to provide educational scholarships and incentives to Delaware high school students for outstanding acts of community service and leadership. The Race for a Better Delaware, a 5K run/walk held April 5 in Wilmington as part of Gov. Jack Markell's call for Delaware citizens to embrace volunteerism, raised money for the fund.
Article by Beth Chajes