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Providing Closure
DSI affiliated faculty member Mark Moline (left) was the co-lead of a mission to Papua New Guinea in 2017 that located Heaven Can Wait, a B-24D Liberator plane from the United States Army Air Forces that was shot down over Hansa Bay in Papua New Guinea on March 11, 1944.
For the Record
DSI affiliated faculty member Anjana Bhat, professor of physical therapy in the College of Health Sciences, has been named a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
Carbon Credit Quality
In a new review, DSI faculty council member Rodrigo Vargas is among a group of leading forest scientists around the U.S. arguing that forest carbon market protocols are flawed and don’t ensure that issued carbon credits accurately account for reduced and removed carbon dioxide emissions.
Global Crop Data
DSI Resident Faculty member, Assistant Professor Kyle Davis (right) co-authored a paper focused on the Monthly Irrigated and Rainfed Cropped Areas Open Source (MIRCA-OS). MIRCA-OS offers high-resolution data on 23 crop classes and helps researchers, students and farmers examine irrigation, rainfall and croplands and how they interact with global water systems.
For the Record
DSI Faculty Council member Jennifer Horney, professor, founding director of the Department of Epidemiology, and core faculty at UD’s Disaster Research Center, has been named to the Board of the Delaware Academy of Medicine within the Delaware Public Health Association.
The Power of Play
A recent study by DSI affiliated faculty member Anjana Bhat found cognitive benefits to whole-body movement in children with autism.
Bug Bites
A small but growing number of restaurants in the U.S. are cooking up insect-based dishes. Some insect farmers even sell roasted crickets and cricket powders at farmers markets. DSI affiliated faculty member Michael Crossley is trying to break that barrier down. In the University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), the assistant professor and agricultural entomologist has launched a new course, Insects as Food (ENWC 267).
Identifying Salt Patches and Marsh
UD researchers combine field data and machine learning algorithm to find salt patches on farmland tripled since 2011 in Delmarva. Three of the authors of this study, (left to right) Matthew Walter, Manan Sarupria and DSI resident faculty member Pinki Mondal, collected preliminary data on rapidly salinizing farm locations in the summer of 2022.
For the Record
DSI faculty council member Xiao Fang, professor of MIS, along with faculty members from the Lerner College’s Department of Accounting, have been awarded support from the American Fintech Council and UD’s Data Science Institute for their project, Leveraging Large Language Models to Simulate Consumer Behavior for Fintech Product Innovation.
For the Record
DSI affiliated faculty member Tim Webb, associate professor of hospitality business management, co-authored the award-winning paper for the Best Paper Award at the 2025 NENA-ICHRIE Conference. This recognition highlights their contribution to the field and strengthens UD’s presence in hospitality research.
