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Kerr Lecture 2017
Expert to address global engineering for a small planet in Kerr Lecture Bernard Amadei, professor at the University of Colorado, will deliver the 2017 Arnold D. Kerr Lecture in Engineering Mechanics and Design at the University of Delaware on April 20. The lecture,...
New Pathway for Microbially Minded
Emerging graduate program adds extra buzz to microbiology symposium You just never know what will happen at a research symposium – what new data you'll see, what sort of questions will arise or where connections will be made that produce new studies and new knowledge....
RR Big Data
Conference addresses big data in railroad maintenance planning More than 150 representatives of the railway and academic communities turned out for the 2016 Big Data in Railroad Maintenance Planning Conference at the University of Delaware on Dec. 15-16. The third...
Solid Evidence
Seminal paper on sediment-water interaction wins national award In 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), in effect putting the huge body of water — along with the region’s streams, creeks and...
Engineering Diversity
Rachel Davidson appointed associate dean for diversity in College of Engineering Rachel Davidson, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed associate dean for diversity in the College of Engineering at the University of...
Shop Right
Online shopping might not be as green as people think it is Home shopping isn’t new — images from Sears catalogues in the early 1900s show bicycles, banjos, hats, dresses, shoes, long underwear for men, corsets for women, guns, tools, light fixtures, storage trunks,...
DCT Leadership Change
Chris Meehan to direct Delaware Center for Transportation The Delaware Center for Transportation at the University of Delaware has announced a change in leadership, effective July 1. Ardeshir Faghri, professor of civil and environmental engineering who has led the...
Faculty Honors
Eight faculty members honored for excellence in teaching, advising Eight members of the University of Delaware faculty have been recognized for outstanding work in teaching and advising, and three graduate teaching assistants have received awards for excellence in...
Truman Scholar 2016
University of Delaware junior Sarah Hartman named a 2016 Truman Scholar University of Delaware junior Sarah Hartman, an environmental engineering major with minors in French and political science, has been named a 2016 Truman Scholar. A native of Wilmington, Delaware,...
All about the microbes
Researchers compare notes on amazing world of bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoa They're out there for better or for worse, a teeming universe of microbes that influences everything that lives and breathes in this world. They have ominous-sounding names – bacteria,...
Reducing the Relics of War
Grant to address fate of munitions constituents in the environment The Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) was established in 1911 as a field artillery firing and field training site. Over the next several decades, MMR, which occupies 34 square miles on upper...
Engineering with Impact
Engineers Without Borders to implement water systems in Malawi, Philippines Classroom skills became the foundation of real-life solutions for 10 members of the University of Delaware’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UD) chapter this August, as they ventured into the...