After a morning evaluation of weather and road conditions, the University of Delaware’s Newark campus and other locations in New Castle County will remain closed for the day, March 14.  Essential personnel should report to work while the University is closed.

All day and evening classes are canceled March 14, and offices will not be open.

UD Facilities staff will continue working throughout the day to clear campus parking lots and treat sidewalks.

Members of the campus community are reminded to use caution and drive carefully.

The University's campuses in Lewes and Georgetown will open on their normal schedules on March 14. Students in the Associate in Arts Program should follow the Delaware Technical Community College schedule.

Schedule updates

• Pencader and Rodney will be open March 14 for regularly scheduled hours. Pencader will not be open for late night service.  The Laird POD and Harrington POD will both be open but not the Subway in Harrington POD. Kent Dining is closed today.

• Student Health Services is open with staff members on site at all times. On March 14, Student Health Services will be open for urgent care appointments only. Physicians will be available for urgent visits from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Other appointments scheduled for March 14 are canceled. Immunizations, Healthy HENS, X-ray, laboratory, women’s health, nutrition and sports medicine clinic are all closed until the University reopens. 

• The Carpenter Sports Building is closed March 14. To receive schedule updates, please sign up for the Recreation email list or check the Recreation Facebook and Twitter.

• University Student Centers are closed March 14.

• The Morris Library, the Physics Library and the Chemistry Library are closed March 14.

• There will be no UD or Unicity bus service on March 14.

• The Paul R. Jones Lecture with Fo Wilson, scheduled March 14, has been rescheduled at 4 p.m., Wednesday, March 15, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts.

• The UDairy Creamery is closed March 14.  

• The Blue Hen Cafe will open at 9 a.m., and the Barnes and Noble UD Bookstore will open at noon on March 14.

• The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Wilmington is closed March 14.

• The UD Ice Arenas will be closed March 14, and Learn to Skate Classes are canceled.

• The University’s Early Learning Centers in Newark and Wilmington are closed on March 14.

• The 36th annual Black Maria Film Festival, scheduled March 14, has been canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

• The Louis L. Redding Lecture scheduled on March 14 with author Margot Lee Shetterly has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

Information about any additional closings or schedule changes will be posted on this page. Please check back for updates. To submit information for inclusion in this list, please send email to ocm@udel.edu.

Personal safety

Safety is UD's highest priority. Faculty, staff and students should not put themselves at risk, and employees who expect difficulty traveling should contact their supervisors.

The University's policy is reprinted below:

Faculty and students are not expected to take unnecessary risks to meet their teaching and learning obligations due to inclement weather. When classes have not been canceled, it is a matter of personal judgment whether traveling to campus is hazardous. Faculty should notify their departmental offices when weather precludes them from meeting their teaching obligations; similarly, students should notify their professors when inclement weather precludes them from class attendance. In such cases, students should be allowed to make up missed class time and, whenever possible, canceled classes should be rescheduled.