)
- UD officially acquires Chrysler property in Newark
- Newark Police make arrest in Nov. 18 robbery
- Newspaper cites Newark among six college towns worth visiting
- International festival celebrates culture, education at UD
- University assists with Delaware GIS Day field trip
- Piepalooza shows McNair spirit of community giving
- Fashion and Apparel Studies chair honored by Apparel Magazine
- 'Shakespeare First' attracts overflow crowd
- UD professor, alumnus help lead Vanderbilt death penalty debate program
- United Way campaign concludes with contributions topping $196,000
- UD launches Center for Political Communication
- Education professor inducted into Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi
- UD awarded funds for cyberinfrastructure development
- UD figure skaters excel at Eastern Sectionals
- Princeton anthropologist addresses human language and art in Darwin lecture
- Violinist Xiang Gao to lead China tour in June
- Delaware art history grad student honored for best paper
- MSERC programs in math education receive continued funding
- UD Library Associates elects officers for 2010
- Richards to return to faculty in College of Health Sciences
- UD Police seek information about injured student
- For the Record, Nov. 20, 2009
- UD in the News, Nov. 20, 2009
- UD planning teachers institute in cooperation with Yale National Initiative
- PCS, Academy of Lifelong Learning receive award
- Record 334 students receive General Honors Awards
- Vaughan elected interim president of national education organization
- Lambda Chi Alpha completes annual food drive
- Second Life Outsider art show seen a success
- Dec. 2: Former RNC chairperson Ed Gillespie to speak
- UD students tour CIA headquarters
- UD's second hydrogen fuel cell bus carries special guests
- Junior Chefs Rockfish Cook-Off accepting entries
- More News >>
- Dec. 2: Former RNC chairperson Ed Gillespie to speak
- Nov. 30-Dec. 4: College School schedules book fair
- Dec. 1: LGBT community to mark World AIDS Day
- Dec. 3: Center plans Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration
- Dec. 4: College of Education and Public Policy hosts graduate information sessions
- Dec. 4: Reindeer Run to benefit Special Olympics Delaware
- Dec. 6: New Castle County Alumni Club plans Winterthur holiday event
- Dec. 6: UD alumni events planned in Baltimore, Philadelphia
- Dec. 6: 'Jams for Jimmy' benefit concert to be held in Wilmington
- Dec. 7: Black Student Union to present program on racial stereotypes
- Dec. 12: Blue Hens men's basketball team plans toy drive
- May 7: Phi Kappa Phi plans ceremony
- 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
- More What's Happening >>
- UD calendar >>
- Jan. 6, 28: Employee Nights at UD basketball games set
- Changes ahead for recognition of student honors
- Bicyclists, motorists need to watch out for one another
- Nominations sought for Redding Award recognizing campus diversity efforts
- Nov. 30: Chemical hygiene, lab safety survey deadline
- Princeton Review announces student survey
- UD's Winter Faculty Institute kicks off Jan. 5
- State offers UD faculty, staff free health risk assessment
- Upgrade to Windows 7 available for UD students
- More Campus FYI >>
12:26 p.m., Nov. 24, 2008----A group of students from the University of Delaware IGERT Program in Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen visited the Independence School in Pike Creek on Saturday, Nov. 8, to demonstrate the use of solar power.
The eight graduate students who participated--Michael Mayeda, Meghan Schulz, John Clinger, Beth Cheney, Sarah Mastroianni, Elizabeth Huynh, Timothy Miller, Laura Cassels and Daniel Kasper--represent various UD departments in disciplines from engineering to public policy.
With the students at Independence ranging in age from 3 to 14, the graduate students had to be flexible in performing the demos and answering the kids' questions.
The solar hydrogen IGERT program is characterized by a commitment to outreach and an interdisciplinary approach.
“We love doing programs like this,” Cassels said, “because it's so important to educate kids about science.”
“It's great to see them get excited about fuel cells and solar panels,” Mastroianni added.
“More of our education should be interdisciplinary,” Cheney said. “The value of it is obvious--when you have a team with complementary expertise, you can call on each other to fill in where your own knowledge is lacking. That's an important message for kids, too.”
Article by Diane Kukich