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Winners Selected for 2021 Map Competition
Congratulations to this year’s winner of the 2021 University of Delaware Student Competition for Geospatial Data Visualization / Map Design, Loonibha Manandhar, for “Scenario-based Projected Population Exposure to Sea Level Rise, Wilmington City, Delaware, USA, 2100” and runner up, Anthony Chan, for “University of Delaware Shuttle Bus Potential Idle Time on a Random Day in Spring 2021”.
National Climate Assessment
Three DSI faculty members have been selected to contribute to the Fifth National Climate Assessment. They are Jing Gao (left), A.R. Siders (center), and John Callahan (right), all of the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences.
Culturally Appropriate Food Shifts
A new paper by PhD candidate Dongyang Wei and DSI Resident Faculty member, Kyle Davis, identifies environmentally sustainable diets that take local preferences and cultures into account.
Strategic Advances in HIV Research
DSI Affiliated Faculty Juan Perilla and team produce high-precision model of HIV dynamics in collaboration with Oxford
New Atomic Data Portal
DSI Faculty Council Member and DiCos Core Director, Rudi Eigenmann and UD Professor, Marianna Safronova, combine physics and computer science to develop their atomic portal that provides extraordinary information about atomic properties in user-friendly ways.
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Computing, engineering and polymer sciences converge in a new NSF doctoral traineeship created by UD Professor and DSI Faculty Council member, Arthi Jayaraman. “Computing and Data Science Training for Materials Innovation, Discovery, AnalyticS” (NRT-MIDAS) will teach doctoral students how to use high-performance computing and data science to lead to new discoveries and innovations in the field of polymers.
Taking Stock
Drought is expected to become more common under climate change. UD disaster researcher and DSI Affiliated faculty member, A.R. Siders, is among the scientists working to assess whether current adaptation methods are enough or what new approaches may be needed.
New Neuroscience Grad Program
UD pulls together expertise from disciplines in Colleges of Health, Engineering and Arts and Sciences in introducing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate program for the fall semester of 2021. John Jeka, professor and chairperson for the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology and DSI affiliated faculty discusses the program in a UDaily article.
Looking Deeper into the Soil
DSI Faculty Council member, Rodrigo Vargas, to build cutting-edge tools for studying soils with new Deep Soil Ecotron.
Artificial intelligence for the masses
Professor Rudolph Eigenmann, interim chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and DSI DiCos Core Director, is part of a $20 million National Science Foundation-funded project to expand access to artificial intelligence.
