News
Understanding where things happen, and why
In an effort to raise geography awareness throughout the state of Delaware, faculty members and staff engaged in outreach programs at local middle schools (such as those spearheaded by DSI Affiliated Faculty Tracy DeLiberty) and hosted competitions to raise awareness about the power of geography (such as the UD Student Competition for Geospatial Data Visualization/Map Design, created by DSI Resident Faculty Jung Goa) as well as possible career opportunities that could be attained through the field.
Project ABLE
DSI Affiliated Faculty Fabrice Veron (interim dean of CEOE): CEOE was awarded project ABLE, a two-year, $1.3 million grant from NOAA to make Delaware a leading national center in the application and development of autonomous systems, artificial intelligence and workforce development in support of advancing the Blue Economy. DSI faculty council Art Trembanis is UD’s lead researcher on the project.
Tackling plastic waste
DSI Affiliated Faculty Mark Blenner is leading a multi-institutional team of researchers exploring ways to engineer microbes from the gut of the yellow mealworm to degrade non-recyclable plastics. The work is supported with $9M funding from the Department of Energy.
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.
