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Preparing for a changing climate
Jack Puleo, chair of the University of Delaware’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and DSI Affiliated Faculty, is leading a research effort that could have broad implications for coastal communities and calculating risk in the face of a changing climate and rising sea levels.
Mechanical Cures
Sambeeta Das, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UD and DSI affiliated faculty member, was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award program, which is part of the NIGMS, to support student-driven groundbreaking research in her laboratory in the College of Engineering.
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.
