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Guangmo (Amo) Tong, Assistant Professor in the CIS department and DSI affiliated faculty member, receives NSF CAREER award for computer science research

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Guangmo (Amo) Tong, assistant professor in UD’s College of Engineering, is using fundamental computer science research toward improving data-driven decision making. Through a better understanding of the theories that underlie algorithmic decision-making, Tong’s research can support future breakthroughs across a wide range of applications. Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson | Illustrations by Joy Smoker

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.

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A new paper from University of Delaware researchers Kevin Ong’are Oluoch (right), a doctoral student in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, and assistant professor Kyle Davis (left) used statistical approaches to examine rain-fed corn in Kenya, a country with widespread corn cultivation and consumption and where the crop is central to individual livelihoods and national food security. Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

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.

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University of Delaware’s Mark Moline (left), professor of marine studies, rinses the AUV after its survey in Croatia while Matthew Breece, research scientist, and Erik White, senior engineer, download and analyze the data. Photos courtesy of Evan Kovacs and Elizabeth Snyder

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.

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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. One University of Delaware researcher is working with another at the University of Notre Dame to try to solve these key challenges. Illustration by Joy Smoker.

A Pioneer in Polymer Physics

UD College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and DSI Affiliated Faculty LaShanda Korley has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) “for innovative bio-inspired strategies to control architecture, assembly, and mechanics of soft material systems.”

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UD Engineering Prof. LaShanda Korley is recognized among her peers for her research achievements in bio-inspired and sustainable materials. Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

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.

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UD’s Sunita Chandrasekaran, David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 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. Photos by Evan Krape and courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy

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.

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Master’s student Grant Otto (left) helps orient the AUV away from the boat while master’s student Sun Woo Park initiates the mission go command from the remote control. The Iver3 AUV is setting off to map lakebed anomalies off the War of 1812 battlefield site. Photo courtesy of Art Trembanis.

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.

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This drone image by Jarrod Miller, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, shows how farms close to estuaries and tidal streams connected to the Chesapeake Bay can be impacted by saltwater encroachment.

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.

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The University of Delaware’s College of Engineering will offer a unique cybersecurity engineering undergraduate degree starting in the fall semester of 2022. Photo illustration by Joy Smoker.

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