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Harnessing the power of the world’s fastest computer
UD’s Sunita Chandrasekaran, David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and new DSI Faculty Council member, and her students have been working to ensure that key software will be ready to run on Frontier — the fastest computer in the world — when it “opens for business” to the scientific community in 2023.
Computational Resources Available for New Faculty
UD can help new faculty with computational methods or high-performance computing needs, including though DSI’s Data-intensive and Computational Science (DiCoS) Center and Core Facility.
Discovering a Shipwreck
Coastal Sediments, Hydrodynamics, and Engineering Laboratory (CSHEL) at UD lead by director Art Trembanis, professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy and DSI affiliated faculty, held a summer “boot camp” for marine archeologists to explore Sackets Harbor on Lake Ontario, an area with sites of known shipwrecks. The boot camp let the participants brush up on skills, learn some new ones, and get hands-on experience with UD’s fleet of underwater robots and surveying equipment in the field. As it turned out, it was also a great opportunity for students to make a new shipwreck discovery of their own.
Salty Farms
Pinki Mondal, DSI Resident Faculty, and her students’ work are part of a multi-institutional team using satellite and drone imagery to spot barren salt patches on Delmarva farms.
Degree of the Future
UD’s College of Engineering will offer a unique cybersecurity engineering undergraduate degree starting in the fall semester of 2022 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “We’re a leader in the game,” said Kenneth Barner, Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical Engineering and DSI Affiliate Faculty who, along with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Nektarios Tsoutsos, was a driving force behind the new degree program.
Delaware Career and Technical Education
UD researchers, including DSI Faculty Council member Henry May, are partnering with the Delaware Department of Education on an investigation of students’ equitable access and outcomes related to career and technical education throughout the state of Delaware.
Food Insecurity
UD Professor and DSI Resident Faculty Kyle Davis is part of a research group that recently published a study showing that increased competition for crops for other uses means a smaller fraction of harvested calories are available to feed people. As a consequence, harvests of crops for direct food use will be insufficient to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SD2) of food security for all by 2030.
Coastal Inundation
DSI Affiliated Faculty, John Callahan, and DSI Faculty Council member, Dan Leathers, examine how the Mid-Atlantic coast is impacted by tropical and non-tropical weather events.
Faculty promotions announced
A number of DSI faculty have been promoted, among them Resident Faculty Federica Bianco and Gregory Dobler, and Affiliated Faculty Jeffrey Buler, Mieke Eeckhaut, Hui Fang, Lena Mashayekhy, Teomara Rutherford, Frank Schroeder.
Twinkle, twinkle, wobbling star
Sally Dodson-Robinson, associate professor of physics and astronomy and DSI affiliated faculty member, is leading UD’s role in an international space mission called “Twinkle” that aims to answer some of humanity’s greatest questions, including the age-old “Is anyone else out there?”
