DSI Affiliated Faculty member Dionisios Vlachos, Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, was recognized on Thursday, September 26, with the U.S. EPA 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The award recognizes Vlachos’ research and development of lubricant base oils from plant or food waste biomass, a greener alternative to petroleum-based products.

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.

DSI Affiliated Faculty member Jack Puleo, professor and chair of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed by the secretary of the Army to a three-year term on the Coastal Engineering Research Board.