The University of Delaware’s Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Faculty Senate, held the second annual Faculty Senate Awards Ceremony recognizing faculty in teaching, advising and mentoring, scholarship and creative activities, service and community engagement teaching, advising and mentoring, scholarship and community engagement.  Awardees include DSI Associate Director Ben Bagozzi, and DSI Affiliated faculty members Carolyn Voter and Christina Barbieri.

DSI Director Cathy Wu, Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science, has been appointed to co-chair the search advisory committee for the next dean of the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering (CoE).  Candidates will visit campus beginning Tuesday, October 15, to participate in town hall meetings.  The full schedule is available on the CoE dean search website, with biographical information about each candidate available through a UD login 24 hours before their town hall. This livestream link can be used for each town hall.

DSI Faculty Council member Bintong Chen has been appointed Chaplin Tyler Professor; the Chaplin Tyler Professorship recognizes exceptional accomplishment in scholarship and a profound commitment to graduate education.

Results from a new study led by DSI Affiliated Faculty member Mi-Ling Li, assistant professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at the University of Delaware, suggest that tropical and subtropical fisheries account for more than 70% of methylmercury fished from the ocean, largely because they are the major fishing grounds for commercially important fish like tuna and countries from all over the world want to harvest these fish.

A research team led by DSI Affiliated Faculty members Dion Vlachos, a chemical and biomolecular engineer, and Michael Crossley, an entomologist and wildlife ecologist, has synthesized new active insecticidal ingredients that are target-specific and ecologically safer than conventional pesticides.