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- 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
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- 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
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- Jan. 6, 28: Employee Nights at UD basketball games set
- Changes ahead for recognition of student honors
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- Nov. 30: Chemical hygiene, lab safety survey deadline
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- UD's Winter Faculty Institute kicks off Jan. 5
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8:01 a.m., Sept. 23, 2009----Coast Day, the University of Delaware's annual celebration of the sea, attracts everyone from seafood lovers to people who want to know more about the coast. But if there's one group that's sure to enjoy this special day, it's children.
Activities for kids at Coast Day provide a hands-on view of the ocean and coastal environment and include opportunities to do things such as touch live marine critters, learn all about Delaware rocks and fossils, and see robots used to perform marine science research.
The free event will be held Sunday, Oct. 4, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at UD's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. It is sponsored by the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE) and the Delaware Sea Grant College Program.
Families making the trip to Coast Day will want to make the Information Table at Cannon Lab their first stop. There they can pick up their Coast Day events program and Treasure Hunt map, which lets kids answer questions related to Coast Day events and win cool prizes.
Families can use the event program and see which activities are especially kid-friendly. Exhibits and demonstrations that kids will love are marked with a special children's activity icon.
These activities include one that lets kids 12 and under sign a safe boating pledge and receive a personal floatation device (available on a first-come, first-served basis). Another exhibit focuses on the Coast Day 2009 theme, “Climate Change and Our Coast.” Climate Connections demonstrates several aspects of climate change and gives guests, including kids, a chance to explore how they can help deal with climate change in their everyday lives.
Families with kids should also check out the magic show, “There's Magic in the Atmosphere.” It features George Luther, UD professor of oceanography, who uses his bag of glowing and exploding chemical magic tricks to not only amaze his audience, but also explain various marine-related phenomena. See the show at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
For more information about Coast Day, visit the Web site or call (302) 831-8083. Additionally, the full lineup will be available through the event program, which is posted on the Web site.
Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson