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Rare Earth Mining
DSI Resident Faculty Members Kyle Davis and Federica Bianco are co-authors of a study published in the journal Remote Sensing, which used remote sensing techniques to look at changes in mining surface footprints between 2005 and 2020 in two rare earth mines located on either side of the Myanmar-China border, within Kachin State in northern Myanmar and Nujiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province in China.
Threats To Public Health Workers
New research resulting from a longitudinal study by primary investigator, DSI Faculty Council member Jen Horney, founder of UD’s Epidemiology program, shows threats to public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic nearly doubled after the vaccine was released.
Research Heavy Hitter
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Xiang-Gen Xia has been named a Highly Cited Researcher, with multiple publications ranking in the top 1% for the number of citations in his field.
Homing In On The Right Treatment For a Rare Disease
DSI Faculty Council member Sunita Chandrasekaran’s research to home in on effective drug therapies for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer, was published earlier this year in the journal Bioinformatics Advances.
Designing Cities for 21st-Century Weather
As weather extremes become the new normal under climate change, DSI Resident Faculty member Jing Gao is working to understand how urban land patterns can help reduce population exposure.
2024 Fellows Class of Optica
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Gonzalo Arce, of the College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was named as a member of the 2024 Fellows Class of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America). This year’s class includes 129 fellows from 26 countries who were selected based on their outstanding contributions in advancing optics and photonics research, business, education and engineering as well as for their service contributions to Optica.
Assessing Living Shorelines
Researchers at the University of Delaware are exploring ways to help build coastal resilience while also providing benefits to the Delaware Bay ecosystem. The project is led at UD by DSI Affiliated faculty member Jack Puleo, professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Expanding the Reach of Research with Open Access
Over the past year, the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press has increased its efforts to support initiatives around open access publishing. “The Library, Museums and Press believes that knowledge is a global public good,” said DSI Infrastructure Working Group member Annie Johnson, associate university librarian for publishing, preservation, research and digital access. “We support open access to scholarship because it fosters knowledge equity, helps accelerate discovery and innovation, and promotes public trust in higher education.”
Next-Generation AI Educaton
DSI Faculty Council member Sunita Chandrasekaran, the AI graduate certificate’s program director, states that UD’s new graduate certificate in artificial intelligence is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge needed to pursue careers in AI research, development and application development.
