The April issue of UD Messenger hits mailboxes this week, and also is available online.
New UD Messenger
April issue of UD Messenger available online
8:46 a.m., April 18, 2016--The newest edition of the University of Delaware Messenger is available online. The print magazine, sent to more than 160,000 alumni, parents and friends, hit mailboxes this week.
Themed “Investing in our Students,” the issue highlights UD’s commitment to providing a stand-out University experience. Cover features include an inside look at the admissions process to recruit the incoming freshman class; a spread on UD’s entrepreneurial ecosystem; and the ripple effect strong faculty have on the student experience.
Campus Stories
From graduates, faculty
As it neared time for the processional to open the University of Delaware Commencement ceremonies, graduating students and faculty members shared their feelings about what the event means to them.
Doctoral hooding
It was a day of triumph, cheers and collective relief as more than 160 students from 21 nations participated in the University of Delaware's Doctoral Hooding Convocation held Friday morning on The Green.
Other highlights include:
Our Students
- Profiles of the current Mitchell Fellows, two students whose scholarship and commitment to social justice follows in the legacy of famed Delaware civil rights leaders Littleton and Jane Mitchell.
- Overview of student research investigating the impact of rainfall in urban environments.
- One student’s “life-changing” internship working with children of red light district workers in India.
- A look at UD’s Alternative Breaks programs, in which students spend their spring break volunteering for places in need.
- The winning remarks from the Pitch: 90 competition, where students explain their research in a concise, 90-second “elevator pitch.”
Our Faculty
- The academic family tree of Prof. Don Sparks, who has mentored 37 doctoral students who have gone on to mentor 102 more.
- A Star Wars Q&A with faculty experts from physics, astronomy and film, along with profiles of alumni who have played unique roles in the science fiction series.
- Office Hours feature with UD’s own Indiana Jones, anthropology professor Peter Roe.
Our UD
- Announcement of incoming president Dennis Assanis.
- A look at UD’s 2016 All-American student-athletes.
- A research partnership between the University and Mt. Cuba to develop more “eco-friendly” plant cultivars.
- A feature on the 50-year anniversary of the School of Nursing.
Our Alumni and Friends
- A feature on the founders of the Mu Pi chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the first African-American sorority at UD, which celebrated its 40-year anniversary this fall.
- The legacy of the Grey family, who have sent generations of family members to UD.
- Alumni profiles on a Zika virus expert; a teacher who wrote a book on her grandparents’ experience in the Holocaust; a beauty pageant winner who organized the first Miss Amazing Pageant in Delaware for children with disabilities; and a successful entrepreneur who champions “doing well by doing good.”
Messenger readers are invited to submit feedback and story ideas via email to TheMessenger@udel.edu.