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SEPP announces grants for ethics curriculum development
May 17, 2013--The Center for Science, Ethics and Public Policy (SEPP), with support from the National Science Foundation's EPSCoR program, announces a grant competition to integrate considerations of science, ethics and policy into undergraduate and graduate instruction at the University of Delaware.
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Sustainability at DuPont
Apr. 23, 2013--In 2008, DuPont’s William F. Bailey was charged with leading an energy efficiency initiative for the company’s worldwide operations, which has reduced energy consumption by 20 percent and has saved the company more than $230 million. Bailey, a DuPont Engineering Fellow, and several other DuPont employees will be on the University of Delaware campus Thursday, May 2, to talk about DuPont sustainability efforts.
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Sparks to chair national soil science committee
Apr. 19, 2013--Donald L. Sparks, S. Hallock du Pont Chair in Soil and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Delaware, has been appointed to a three-year term as chair of the U.S. National Committee for Soil Science (USNC/SS).
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Hillel Dialogue
Apr. 15, 2013--As the population of the world soars toward 9 billion by midcentury, sustainable agriculture pioneer Daniel Hillel is "conditionally optimistic" that humanity will find a way to feed up to two billion more people in the coming decades.
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Video vote
Apr. 9, 2013--A student video competition sponsored by the Delaware Environmental lnstitute Student Programs Committee has entered its second phase with the announcement of four finalists that have been posted on Facebook for public viewing.
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Science and free will
Apr. 1, 2013--Four noted scholars will speak at a daylong conference co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Ethics, and Public Policy on Saturday, April 20, focusing on current philosophical and scientific work on the subject of free will.
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DENIN field trip
Mar. 22, 2013--DENIN, Delaware Wild Lands, the state's oldest land conservation organization, and the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve are sponsoring a free field trip to the St. Jones Reserve, in Kent County, Del., on Friday, April 12.
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DENIN research symposium
Feb. 28, 2013--The Delaware Environmental Institute’s (DENIN) third research symposium, titled “Coastal Consequences: Sea Level Rise in Delaware,” will take place on Tuesday, March 12, from 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at the University of Delaware’s Clayton Hall Conference Center in Newark.
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Fighting microbes with microbes
Jan. 24, 2013--EPSCoR seed-grant recipient Harsh Bais conducts research into how some beneficial microbes promote disease resistance in plants. His work was recently featured in an article in The Scientist.
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SEPP on Campus Voices
Dec. 10, 2012--A recent episode of the WVUD radio station's Campus Voices program featured philosophy professors Tom Powers and Mark Greene discussing the University of Delaware’s Center for Science, Ethics and Public Policy (SEPP), National Science Foundation funding, ethics courses at UD, and nanotechnology and biomedical ethics.
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Climate dialogue
Nov. 16, 2012--Richard Alley, Geosciences Professor at Pennsylvania State University, appeared at the University of Delaware’s Mitchell Hall on Nov. 8 to discuss his breakthrough findings about abrupt climate changes in Earth’s past and the implications of his research for Earth’s future.
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Coastal power surveys
Oct. 19, 2012--Kent Messer leads a research team that is conducting two studies at the Delaware coast to determine how people would react to offshore energy production and how that could impact the state's economy.
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Joint Wesley-DSU publication
Oct. 19, 2012--An article co-authored by Qiquan Wang and Malcolm D'Souza describing the development of the joint Wesley-DSU biological chemistry program and the collaborative efforts at the two institutions fostered by the Delaware INBRE and EPSCoR programs appeared in the Journal of College Teaching & Learning.
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Right to science?
Oct. 2, 2012--Philosophers, ethicists and scientists came together at the UD's Delaware Biotechnology Institute to consider the role science and engineering have in improving living conditions in the developing world as well as in the U.S. The workshop was part of a series of discussions that will be compiled by the AAAS and relayed to the international human rights community through the United Nations.
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Moral ground
Oct. 2, 2012--Although climate change is certainly a scientific and technological issue, it is fundamentally a moral issue that calls for a moral response, says philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore. Moore addresses why climate change science has elicited such indifference among the American public and how we can respond ethically and morally.
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The people pipeline
Sept. 19, 2012--Just as laboratories need pipelines for water and natural gas, they also need a “pipeline” that provides a continuous supply of people able to conduct research there. Making sure the people pipeline is full of well-trained individuals is one of the most important goals of Delaware EPSCoR.
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Symposium highlights summer undergraduate service, research projects
Aug. 14, 2012--The University of Delaware hosted the third annual Undergraduate Research and Service Celebratory Symposium on Thursday, Aug. 9. The symposium featured oral presentations and student poster displays. The second annual Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research in Sustainability Prize was awarded during the symposium. The first place recipient was EPSCoR-funded intern, Taylor Smith, a senior environmental engineering major.
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UD to host inaugural human, animal, environmental health symposium
July 25, 2012--The University of Delaware will host the inaugural animal, human, and environmental health symposium, Global Thinking for the Greater Good: Interdisciplinary Health Discourse and Research, in the Townsend Hall Commons on Wednesday, Aug. 22.
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HIP for STEM workshop fosters collaborations with Delaware Tech faculty
July 9, 2012--Delaware Technical and Community College will host a workshop, “HIP (High Impact Practices) for STEM,” on Wednesday, Aug. 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Delaware Environmental Education Center on the Wilmington Riverfront.
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UD helps farmers manage irrigation with Delaware-specific environmental data
July 9, 2012--Watering corn, cantaloupes and other crops with industrial-sized sprinklers can be costly for farmers, but so can be fields parched by dry, hot weather. University of Delaware researchers are helping growers find the right balance between irrigation and rainfall with new online software that incorporates Delaware-specific environmental data..
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Rabolt teaches course in vibrational spectroscopy in China
July 2, 2012--John F. Rabolt, Karl W. and Renate Böer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, presented a course on “Characterization of Materials Using Vibrational Spectroscopy,” May 27-June 8, at Donghua University, located in the Songjiang district outside Shanghai, China.
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Experimental watershed provides new insights, rich educational experience
June 26, 2012--Six years and about 4,000 water samples later, an outdoor experimental watershed laboratory established by University of Delaware faculty members Shreeram Inamdar and Delphis Levia at Fair Hill, Md., is now producing valuable data and novel insights into how water and chemicals move through the forest canopy, soils and watersheds, and how future climate change may impact or alter such responses.
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Undergrad receives fellowship to study deep-sea viruses
June 22, 2012--Jessica Chopyk, a junior biological sciences major at the University of Delaware and former EPSCoR research intern, has won a $5,000 American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
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Grad student Jason Fischel receives NSF fellowship
May 10, 2012--
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NECC evaluates past, plans for future
May 10, 2012--A team of research leaders from Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont came together recently for the annual North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (NECC) meeting. The meeting was held at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) in Newark.
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UD's Jaisi wins ORAU Powe Award to track down nutrient pollutant in Chesapeake
May 9, 2012--Deb Jaisi, an assistant professor of plant and soil sciences at the University of Delaware, wants to seek out the sources of a key nutrient so excessive that it has become a pollutant in the Chesapeake Bay — phosphorus (P).
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Prestigious travel grants allow UD students to attend plant biology conference
Mar. 30, 2012--Two members of Harsh Bais' research group, postdoctoral researcher Venkatachalam Lakshmanan and graduate student Emily Alff, have received travel grants from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), which will enable them to attend the society’s annual meeting this summer in Austin, Texas.
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Research ethics expert Nicholas Steneck to speak at UD
Mar. 13, 2012--The UD Center for Science, Ethics and Public Policy will sponsor a lecture titled “Research Integrity: A Global Overview” by Nicholas H. Steneck on Wednesday, March 14, from 1:30–2:30 p.m. in 205 Gore Hall.
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Environmental author Terry Tempest Williams finds beauty in the midst of devastation
Mar. 8, 2012--From the devastation of disasters such as last year’s Japanese earthquake and tsunami or accidents such as the Gulf oil spill or human brutality such as the Rwandan genocide, beauty can emerge, environmental author and activist Terry Tempest Williams told an audience of about 250 at Mitchell Hall last week.
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Delaware EPSCoR announces 2012 seed grant recipients
Mar. 8, 2012--
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Holly Michael receives NSF Career Award
Mar. 1, 2012--Holly Michael, assistant professor of geological sciences in UD's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE), is studying how seawater along the coast mixes with freshwater that flows underground, and she recently received a highly competitive Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further her work.
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Delaware academic scientists and engineers lead nation in published research
Feb. 23, 2012--Among university scientists and engineers, Delaware academic researchers are the most productive in the nation, far out-publishing their peers, according to a report prepared by the National Science Foundation and issued by the National Science Board.
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On the radar
Feb. 20, 2012--When the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships broadened in scope this year to include researchers in the ocean sciences, a UD oceanographer and EPSCoR seed grant recipient was among the first in the field to be selected for the honor.
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Wesley College students publish chemistry research
Feb. 16, 2012--Two Wesley College students have had their undergraduate research in chemistry published. Jaci Knapp and Gabriel Fernandez-Bueno completed an INBRE/EPSCoR-supported organic chemistry research project under the direction of Dr. Malcolm D’Souza, professor of chemistry. This work is now published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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Not just for scientists
Jan. 31, 2012--Over 150 members of the University of Delaware community filled Clayton Hall on Jan. 12 for the second Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) Research Symposium, an event that brought together speakers of disparate disciplines with a shared desire to address environmental issues.
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DENIN Dialogue series
Jan. 24, 2012--Terry Tempest Williams, renowned environmental writer and the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah, will be the featured speaker in the Delaware Environmental Institute’s DENIN Dialogue Lecture Series on Tuesday, Feb. 28, in Mitchell Hall at 7 p.m.
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A critical workshop
Jan. 18, 2012--International collaboration in critical zone science took a giant step forward in November when about 80 researchers from the U.S., Europe, China and Australia gathered at the University of Delaware for a three-day workshop focused on planning future joint experiments.
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Coffee and collaboration
Jan. 13, 2012--Leaders of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) spent the morning of Dec. 14 getting to know one another better at the most recent EcoCafé workshop held at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in Newark.
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Wesley College posters selected for 2012 American Chemical Society showcase
Jan. 12, 2012--Wesley College faculty and students collaborated to present undergraduate research at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in March 2012 in San Diego. Three of the nine posters that Wesley students and faculty will present were selected to be showcased at Sci-Mix, a large meeting-wide poster event, at the conference. These posters represent the best science and presentations that the society has to offer.
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DENIN student initiative
Jan. 9, 2012--The Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) at the University of Delaware has selected nine undergraduate and graduate students to serve on its Student Programs Committee, a team charged with facilitating student involvement in DENIN’s environmental mission.
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UD hosts McNair Scholars
December 27, 2011--More than 100 students from institutions around the country attended the annual National McNair Scholars Research Conference and Graduate School Fair, recently hosted on campus by the McNair Scholars Program at the University of Delaware and co-sponsored by Delaware EPSCoR.
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Center for diversity
Dec. 8, 2011--The University of Delaware's new Center for the Study of Diversity will serve as a scholarly think tank that not only conducts research but also helps guide the University in finding the best ways to support diversity on campus.
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Community researchers
December 7, 2011--Delaware Technical & Community College in Stanton was recently featured in the article "Two-Year Colleges Are Jumping into the U.S. Research Pool," published in Science, a leading scientific journal.
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Centered on ethics
December 6, 2011--The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the Delaware Environmental Institute, has launched the new Center for Science, Ethics and Public Policy (SEPP) at the University of Delaware and with it a revamped website.
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Doctoral student wins Dixon Award
November 30, 2011--Chunmei Chen, a University of Delaware doctoral student in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, was chosen to receive the Dixon Award for best graduate student presentation in soil mineralogy at the recent 2011 Soil Science Society of America meeting in San Antonio.
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Science Café fall series
October 17, 2011--The Science, Ethics and Public Policy Program (SEPP) at the University of Delaware kicks off this year’s Science Café program with a presentation on Monday, Oct. 31, entitled “What Business Does a University Have Marketing Inventions?” The event will be held 5:30-7 p.m. at the Deer Park Tavern, 108 W. Main St., in Newark.
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Campus sustainability institute
October 13, 2011--The University of Delaware’s Sustainability Task Force has announced the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Regional Institute on Sustainability in Higher Education as part of its ongoing commitment to sustainability. The one-day institute will be held on Friday, Nov. 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Perkins Student Center on the University’s Newark campus.
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Summer achievement
August 24, 2011--Two EPSCoR summer research interns, Matt Fischel and Anthony McGuire, were awarded top prizes in the first-ever Undergraduate Research in Sustainability competition, held as part of the University of Delaware's annual Undergraduate Research and Service Celebratory Symposium.
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The softer side of x-rays
August 23, 2011--Researchers at the University of Delaware in collaboration with scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that the chemical structure and bioavailability of cadmium-contaminated soil changes with the flooding and drying cycles of lowland rice culture.
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Research rules
July 21, 2011--Thirty-nine undergraduate students from the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Wesley College and Delaware Technical and Community College are spending the summer immersed in the nitty-gritty of environmental research with the support of the Delaware EPSCoR program.
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An ultra-bright future
July 12, 2011--Graduate students in soil and environmental chemistry at the University of Delaware have logged an unusual record of success in gaining access to some of the most advanced scientific equipment in the world at national laboratories around the country.
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Communicating science
June 27, 2011--“So, what do you do?” It’s one of the most common questions posed in everyday life, but for scientists and engineers, answering can be problematic, requiring a quick assessment of the technological savvy of the questioner, whether that person is a relative, a colleague, a reporter or perhaps even a politician. Replying in an engaging way in language the listener can understand often takes forethought and practice. A workshop on July 21 aims to make this easier.
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Bioinformatics and systems biology
June 6, 2011--More than 100 people turned out for the inaugural Research Symposium on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the University of Delaware on Friday, May 27.
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Aug. 21-24: Global issues in nutrient management
May 31, 2011--The fourth annual international symposium addressing global issues and trends in nutrient management will be held at the University of Delaware, Aug. 21-24.
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Congressional fellow
May 25, 2011--As a scientist, Laura Povlich believes in the need for scientific innovation. As an individual, she understands that the government plays a large role in the development of new technologies.
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Stream researchers share data in Vermont
April 27, 2011--Two Delaware high school students who participated in an EPSCoR-funded research experience as part of the Vermont Streams Project are highlighted in this article in the Burlington Free Press.
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The ethics of the very small
April 26, 2011--Two UD professors, Ismat Shah and Tom Powers, will host two international conferences on nanoethics in November, stopping first in Lahore, Pakistan, and then in Dubai.
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Delaware EPSCoR annual meeting
April 25, 2011--Delaware EPSCoR, the statewide network that links higher education institutions with the public and private sectors to develop Delaware's research infrastructure and capacity, held its annual meeting on April 14 at the Delaware Technical and Community College campus in Dover.
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Science Cafe series continues April 19
April 18, 2011--The Science, Ethics and Public Policy Program (SEPP) at the University of Delaware will continue its Science Café program with a presentation on Tuesday, April 19, entitled “What Happens in the Forest When It Rains, and Why Is It Important?”
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Delaware presidents join forces in Dover
April 8, 2011--April 5, 2011, was a landmark day in Delaware -- Higher Education Day. The presidents of the state’s three publicly supported institutions of higher education joined forces and brought their message of collaboration for academic, as well as economic, benefit to Legislative Hall in Dover.
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So you want to be an inventor?
April 5, 2011--Delaware EPSCoR and the Delaware Small Business and Technology Development Center (DSBTDC) are cosponsoring a free workshop titled “The Innovation Process: Science to Commercialization” on April 18–19, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in Newark.
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Two Graduate Research Assistant Positions Are Open in Program Evaluation
April 4, 2011--Two graduate research assistant positions working on the internal program evaluation of two large federally funded science grants are available.
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DSU, Wesley professors share grant funds
February 8, 2011--Three professors, two from Delaware State University, and one from Wesley College, will begin an interdisciplinary research project in February after they were recently awarded with a $30,000 seed grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR).
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Chapas named state EPSCoR director
January 11, 2011--After a nationwide search, Richard B. Chapas has been appointed the next state project director for the Delaware Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or Delaware EPSCoR.
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Nov. 15: Science Café to feature "Materials for the Bionic Woman"
November 1, 2010--The Science, Ethics, and Public Policy Program (SEPP) at the University of Delaware will continue its Science Café program with a presentation Monday, Nov. 15, on “Materials for the Bionic Woman.”
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Nov. 19: DENIN adds seminar to fall series
October 25, 2010--The Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) is pleased to announce an addition to its fall seminar series lineup.
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Delaware EPSCoR receives cyber-infrastructure improvement grant
October 18, 2010--The Delaware Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) has been awarded a $1.18 million dollar grant by the National Science Foundation through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus funding to upgrade the cyber-infrastructure linking higher education institutions throughout the state.
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Conservation International expert continues DENIN Dialogue Series
September 29, 2010--Michael P. Totten, chief adviser on energy, climate and green technology at the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB) of Conservation International, will be the featured speaker in the DENIN Dialogue Series on Nov. 30 at 7:00 p.m. in Mitchell Hall.
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Delaware Tech receives NSF grant to support advanced technology education
September 23, 2010--Delaware Technical and Community College has been awarded a three-year, $878,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide support for undergraduate research and faculty mentors at the college.
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Speakers for DENIN’s fall seminar series announced
September 23, 2010--The Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN), the University of Delaware’s interdisciplinary environmental science, engineering and policy research institute, will host a number of free seminars for the UD community and the general public this fall.
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EPSCoR sponsors undergrads’ summer research
August 27, 2010--Thirty-eight undergraduates representing the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Wesley College, Delaware Technical and Community College and Lincoln University took part in summer research internships sponsored by the Delaware Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), a program funded jointly by the National Science Foundation and the state of Delaware.
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Delaware EPSCoR co-sponsors summer research symposium at DSU
July 22, 2010--Students engaged in summer research activities at Delaware State University will showcase their research at the 2010 Summer Research Symposium on Thursday, July 29, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Student Center on the DSU campus in Dover.
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Researchers offer solutions to poisonous well-water crisis in southern Asia
June 1, 2010----Over 100 million people in rural southern Asia are exposed every day to unsafe levels of arsenic from the well-water they drink.
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First DENIN Dialogue Series speaker addresses strategies for a water-stressed world
Sandra Postel visited UD May 11.
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EPSCoR partner institution Wesley College earns accolades
Wesley excels in environmental and health sciences
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DENIN holds first research symposium
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DENIN spring seminars March 5-May 14
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EPSCoR seed grants awarded for environmental research
The Delaware EPSCoR office has awarded three seed grants to investigators whose projects address environmental challenges in Delaware.
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UD undergrads get hooked on fish research
EPSCoR interns Brittany Schieler and Kevin Crum, juniors at the University of Delaware, conducted summer research on Delaware Bay fish under the direction of Timothy Targett, professor of marine biosciences at UD.
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UD computing teams take top spots in national competition
The National Science Foundation's Delaware Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR, assisted with travel costs for 11 UD students who served as volunteers at the conference.
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UD hosts first-ever Geospatial Research Day
The University of Delaware's first Geospatial Research Day took place in the Trabant University Center on Thursday, Nov. 19. The free event highlighted the geospatial research being conducted at the University of Delaware and the ways in which UD community members are using geospatial technology.
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Science Cafe returns to Newark
The Science, Ethics, and Public Policy Program (SEPP) at the University of Delaware will bring its Science Cafe program back to downtown Newark this fall, for more informal monthly discussions among scientists and community members.
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University hosts conference on ethics of climate change
Climate scientists, philosophers, economists, ethicists and students gathered at the University of Delaware's Clayton Hall on Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31 to discuss the ways in which humans should respond to climate change, as part of a conference titled, "The Ethics of Climate Change: Intergenerational Justice and the Global Challenge."
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UD start-up company prepares to commercialize novel detector for medical, military applications
PAIR Technologies, a start-up company established by University of Delaware researchers and a former DuPont scientist, is preparing to commercialize a high-precision detector -- a planar array infrared spectrograph -- that can identify biological and chemical agents in solids, liquids, and gases, present at low levels, and in less than a second.
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UD launches Delaware Environmental Institute
More than 200 people attended the official debut of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) on Friday, Oct. 23, including a cadre of elementary and high school students who contributed posters on topics ranging from the benefits of trees to the problems associated with invasive species.
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Oh, brother, it's true: Plants can recognize their siblings and now we know how
Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings, and researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered how.
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Two engineering professors win Department of Defense EPSCoR research grants
Two University of Delaware engineering professors -- Dennis Prather, Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Eleftherios Papoutsakis, the Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering and a faculty fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute -- have been awarded research grants from the U.S. Department of Defense's 2009 Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR).
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New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants
Thanks to a new analytical method employed by researchers at the University of Delaware, scientists can now pinpoint, at the millisecond level, what happens as harmful environmental contaminants such as arsenic begin to react with soil and water under various conditions.
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EPSCoR annual meeting addresses environmental challenges
The Delaware Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant program dedicated to improving Delaware's environment and economy through research and education, held its annual meeting on June 10 at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in Newark.
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Center for Integrated Biological and Environmental Research (CIBER) Launches at Delaware State University
The Center for Integrated Biological and Environmental Research (CIBER) celebrated its opening day on May 27 at Delaware State University, with leaders from its partner institutions in attendance.
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Undergraduate interns conduct real-world scientific research
Fifty undergraduate students and their faculty mentors, representing the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Delaware Technical & Community College and Wesley College, gathered at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in Newark on June 8 to begin their summer research.
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EPSCoR seed grants awarded to environmental researchers
With a focus on environmental issues important to the state, the Delaware National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR) office has awarded five seed grants to investigators whose projects aim to solve environmental problems in Delaware.
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Delaware teachers participate in biotechnology weekend workshop
Fifteen Delaware public school teachers met at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and the University of Delaware's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes Feb. 20-22 for a "biotechnology weekend."
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UD alumnus wins Presidential Early Career Award
University of Delaware alumnus David McNear has won the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor the federal government gives to scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers.
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Environmental sensors meeting talks available online
Copies of talks from the environmental sensors meeting are now available.
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Environmental Sensors Workshop unites geoscientists
The Environmental Sensors Workshop, held Jan. 9 at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, brought together the leaders of major monitoring and sensing initiatives across the state to describe their organizations' current capabilities, discuss emerging needs and explore partnerships.
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Maynard discusses perceptions of nanotechnology research, risk
Internationally recognized research leader and lecturer Andrew Maynard, chief science adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, clarified the public perception of research and risk surrounding nanotechnology at the "Environmental Nanoparticles: Science, Ethics, and Policy" conference held Nov. 10-11 at the University of Delaware.
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NSF awards UD, partners $15 million for environmental research, education
The presidents of the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Delaware Technical & Community College and Wesley College joined with state officials at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute on Nov. 7 to announce that they had been awarded $15 million by the National Science Foundation as part of NSF's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
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