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The impact of highway construction
With support from a Partnerships for Arts and Culture Grant, Nina David, associate professor in UD’s Biden School and DSI affiliated faculty member, and her research team co-sponsored an event on Oct. 8 in which they closed off the 9th Street bridge in Wilmington to allow residents to gather over the highway and envision what a potential capping of I-95 could look like.
Campus innovator honored for inventions
The National Academy of Inventors has named University of Delaware’s Gonzalo Arce to its 2022 Class of Fellows. Arce is the Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical Engineering at UD and a DSI Affiliated Faculty member.
UD’s LaShanda Korley appointed U.S. Science Envoy
LaShanda Korley, Distinguished Professor in UD’s College of Engineering and DSI Affiliated Faculty member, has been selected as a U.S. Science Envoy to share expertise and enhance international cooperation between other nations and the U.S.
Using clocks to detect ultralight dark matter
DSI affiliated faculty Marianna Safronova and collaborators propose sending atomic clocks into space to study dark matter.
Integrated Mineral Supply
Saleem Ali, the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at UD, chair of the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences and DSI Affiliated Faculty member, is the lead author of a new study that suggests the need for an international minerals agreement to ensure countries can produce the green technologies necessary to battle climate change.
Working with Nature
Computational Foundations
Guangmo (Amo) Tong, Assistant Professor in the CIS department and DSI affiliated faculty member, receives NSF CAREER award for computer science research
Improving Kenya’s crop yield
A new paper from UD researchers used statistical approaches to examine rainfed corn in Kenya, a country with widespread corn cultivation and consumption and where the crop is central to individual’s livelihoods and national food security. The paper was authored by Kevin Ong’are Oluoch, a doctoral student in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment with his adviser, Kyle Davis, a DSI resident faculty member.
Missing WWII aircraft found
A team from UD lead by Mark Moline, Harrington Professor of Marine Studies in UD’s School of Marine Science and Policy, and DSI Affiliated Faculty recently located the wrecks of missing missing WWII aircraft in the Adriatic Sea. Moline is co-founder of Project Recover, an organization that uses underwater technologies to help locate and repatriate the more than 80,000 U.S. service members still missing from past conflicts since WWII.
Beyond the Speed of Sound
Hypersonic travel is in the future, but first researchers must solve some key problems including managing how hot vehicles get at high speeds, as well as how to maintain flight stability. UD Associate Professor Joseph Kuehl from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and DSI Associate Faculty is working with another researcher at the University of Notre Dame to try to solve these key challenges.
