University Police are seeking anyone who may have information about at UD student who was injured during the early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 13.
Princeton University anthropologist Alan Mann spoke to a packed house when he delivered the third lecture in the University of Delaware's Year of Darwin Celebration on Thursday, Nov. 19. Mann's lecture addressed "The Question of Humanness: How Do We Define our Origins?"
For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.
A rare opportunity to tour China with renowned University of Delaware violinist Xiang Gao and his wife, Renee Dong, who teaches Chinese at UD, is being offered in June 2010.
UD in the News provides a roundup of recent news items about the University of Delaware, its faculty, students, staff and alumni.
Isabelle Havet, an art history graduate student at the University of Delaware, received the Naomi Schor Memorial Award, a juried prize, for the best essay at the 35th annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, an international conference that attracts scholars worldwide that was held Oct. 22-24 in Salt Lake City
The Mathematics and Science Education Resource Center (MSERC) at the University of Delaware, under the direction of Jon Manon, has received four grants, totaling more than $875,000, from the Delaware Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) for 2009-10 that will continue to fund programs that the center has provided to mathematics teachers across the state of Delaware.
The University of Delaware Library Associates, the "friends group" of the University of Delaware Library, held the annual meeting of the board of directors on Tuesday, Nov. 10, and elected officers for calendar year 2010.
James G. Richards, Distinguished Professor of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences at the University of Delaware, will leave his position as deputy dean of the College of Health Sciences to return to the faculty at the end of December. This was announced by Kathleen S. Matt, dean of the college.
Michael L. Vaughan, senior assistant dean in the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been elected interim board president of the National GEM Consortium. He also serves as treasurer of the Alexandria, Va.-based organization.
A record 334 students in the University of Delaware Honors Program were recognized at an afternoon ceremony Sunday, Nov. 8, at John M. Clayton Hall, where they received certificates and public congratulations for their accomplishments over the past two years.
The University of Delaware Division of Professional and Continuing Studies, in conjunction with UD's Academy of Lifelong Learning, received an award from the University Continuing Education Association Mid-Atlantic in the category for special populations. This year's award honored an Academy of Lifelong Learning course, "Objects as Cultural Artifacts."
The University of Delaware is working with educators in northern Delaware to launch a teachers institute in cooperation with the Yale National Initiative, which is intended to strengthen teaching in public schools through a professional development approach that has been followed for more than three decades by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
The University of Delaware is creating a new multidisciplinary Center for Political Communication (www.udel.edu/cpc) to study and teach about the information technology revolution's effect on campaigns for public office and policy debates.
The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at the University of Delaware wrapped up its annual North American Food Drive on Saturday, Nov. 14, collecting a total of 10,730 pounds of food -- 2,849 pounds of non-perishable food items and $1,420 in monetary donations that will translate to 7,881 pounds of food.
Newark Police are investigating two apparently unrelated street robberies, one of which involved a University of Delaware student.
The University of Delaware hosted an international show of "Outsider Art" in the Second Life virtual community from Oct. 23 through Nov. 13, and organizers said they are pleased with the results.
The University of Delaware Collegiate Figure Skating Team won first place at the recent Cornell competition, finishing ahead of top rivals Boston University, Dartmouth College and Cornell University, among others. The UD Collegiate Team also won the Cornell competition last year.
Ed Gillespie, former chairperson of the Republican National Committee, will present the final talk in the fall lecture series "Assessing Obama's First Year" at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Mitchell Hall on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.
Through a program sponsored by the University of Delaware's Bank of America Career Services Center and the Career Entrepreneurs Organization, 30 UD students visited the new headquarters building of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Va., on Oct. 16 to learn about career opportunities.
The University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences has announced the establishment of an Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, which is being supported through a generous grant from the Unidel Foundation
Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Reyes, a doctoral student in the University of Delaware's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named recipient of the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award at the 56th International Symposium and Exhibition of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) held Nov. 8-13 at the San Jose (Calif.) Convention Center.
The Delaware Space Grant Consortium (DESGC) held its annual symposium to highlight research work that has occurred as a result of funding support from the NASA Space Grant program on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the University of Delaware.
The University of Delaware now ranks third among all public and private research institutions in the United States in the number of undergraduates participating in short-term study-abroad programs, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE).
The University of Delaware's newest bus, a 22-foot, 22-seat vehicle that runs on hydrogen, tooled around downtown Wilmington on Monday, Nov. 16, carrying some very important riders. U.S. Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.), U.S. Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-Del.) and Wilmington Mayor James Baker sat inside chatting about various options for transport in the region.
The University of Delaware in cooperation with the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee completed the first two modules of the International Coaching Enrichment Certificate Program (ICECP). The program included 27 National and Olympic level coaches from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Americas.
Two faculty members in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware, associate professor Robert Sikes and professor David Usher, have been awarded $200,000 from the Department of Defense to support minority undergraduate research in prostate cancer. The award was made through the agency's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).
Following are five things members of the University of Delaware campus community need to know about H1N1 influenza, from vaccinations and precautions to the best way to stay informed.
With a sweet, meaty white flesh, rockfish is a great choice for a healthy meal. All chefs between the ages of 7 and 17 with a recipe that includes this delicious fish are encouraged to enter the Junior Chefs Rockfish Cook-Off, which will be held during the East Coast Junior Watermen's Program on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, at the Ocean City (Md.) Convention Center.
The 2010 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club (UDFSC), will take place Tuesday through Saturday, Nov. 17-21, at the University's Fred Rust Ice Arena on South College Avenue in Newark.
The University of Delaware has a new Web page (http://www.udel.edu/chryslersitework) that provides information to firms interested in providing services related to the planning, salvage, clean-up and development of the Chrysler site.
Beginning Monday, Oct. 26, pedestrian traffic in the North Campus area east of North College Avenue will be temporarily rerouted to permit the replacement of steam and condensate lines. Steam service to buildings in the area will not be affected.
Throughout the summer, the University of Delaware's Communicable Disease Working Group explored how a potential campus outbreak of H1N1 influenza could seriously impact teaching and learning, particularly for classes taught "live" in a classroom.
The University of Delaware Library announces the exhibition "The Lion Awakes: The Influence of Reggae Music and Bob Marley," which will be on display in four exhibition cases in the Morris Library Information Room from Friday, Sept. 18, through Friday, Dec. 18.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Dec. 2: Former RNC chairperson Ed Gillespie to speak
- Nov. 16-22: International Education Week features global programs
- Nov. 22: Music department to hold 'Messiah Sing' event
- Nov. 22: UD Chamber Orchestra to perform
- 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. 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
- 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
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- UD research team studies missteps, falls and fractures
- Chemical engineering student modifies car to run on cooking oil
- Snyder-Mackler delivers Alison Lecture
CAMPUS FYI
- Changes ahead for recognition of student honors
- Bicyclists, motorists need to watch out for one another
- Career Services Center announces online voting for top video
- 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
- Student anchors, videographers compete for spot at 82nd Academy Awards
- State offers UD faculty, staff free health risk assessment
- Upgrade to Windows 7 available for UD students