Rudi Eigenmann, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and DSI Faculty Council Member, DiCos Core Director and Chair, DSI Infrastructure Working Group has been named a Fellow of IEEE (formerly known as The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Professor Eigenmann was named a Fellow for contributions to compilers for high-performance computing. 

Rodrigo Vargas, Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Environmental Change and DSI Faculty Council Member, and doctoral student Mario Guevara have developed a new, more accurate way to map predicted soil moisture, even in areas where no data have been available.

DSI Resident Faculty and Assistant Professor in the departments of Geography & Spatial Sciences and Plant & Soil Sciences, Kyle Davis, led a study that shows how India can improve nutrition, climate resilience, and the environment by diversifying its crop production.

Two unlikely UD collaborators — an engineer and a journalist — teamed up to develop a program that helps UD students explain their research in terms mere mortals might understand. The five-part “Words For Nerds” seminar was developed by Joshua Zide, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and DSI Affiliated Faculty, Dawn Fallik, Associate Professor of English, to give graduate students training and practice in the art of explaining complex ideas to street-level audiences.

A new suite of online and short intensive courses in winter and spring are being offered as part of the new Graduate Certificate in Minerals, Materials and Society. You do NOT have to be enrolled in program to take courses – all welcome!!! They are offered at 600 level for grad students and undergrads can take 400 level versions or take the 600 level ones with permission form signed by advisor.

The online offerings in spring are part of our new MOU with University of Queensland, Australia. Courses are taken as regular UD courses but offered online by Australian faculty.

Graduate student Abdul Qadir puts love of geography to use through data science. Qadir is a master’s student in data science program and a research assistant for Pinki Mondal, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, and DSI resident faculty.