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DSI Faculty Council, Professor Art Trembanis from the School of Marine Science and Policy was one of many Faculty directors at the Spring Study Abroad Fair. His table was decorated to promote his Winter 2024 New Zealand GEOL micro program.
Valuing Our Ecosystem
DSI Affiliated Faculty Martin Heintzelman (right) from the UD Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, at the Newark Reservoir, along with fellow researchers have received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assess the economic value of what is gained or lost from the Corps’ environmental projects.
For the Record
DSI Resident Faculty member Pinki Mondal, associate professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, has been selected to serve as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) “Multi-Year Assessment on Monitoring Biodiversity & Nature’s Contributions to People.”
For the Record
First-of-its-kind research by DSI Affiliated Faculty member Tarang Parekh, assistant professor of epidemiology, was recently published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Parekh’s study reviewed the State Innovation Models (SIM), a payment system introduced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2013, which provides financial incentives to states to develop innovative payment models to improve healthcare systems.
Spurring Biotechnology Innovation
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Professor Mark Blenner in UD’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is leading the team working to create the NSF Center for Robust, Equitable and Accessible Technology (CREATE) for Next-Generation BioFoundries. It will help accelerate biotechnology research and workforce training in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
New Directors for UD’s Growing Fintech Endeavors
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Nektarios Tsoutsos (left) of the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering and Gang Wang of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics have been named new co-directors of UD’s endeavors in financial technology.
State Department Program Brings Foreign Policy Scholars to UD
In early July, DSI Affiliated Faculty member Tarang Parekh, a UD assistant professor of epidemiology, gave a presentation on U.S. public health strategies around social determinants of health to some of the world’s most promising mid-career foreign policy scholars who were visiting the University of Delaware as part of the Study of the U.S. Institute on Foreign Policymaking (SUSI), sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Equity and AI
In a recent study published in Learning and Instruction, DSI Affiliated Faculty member Joshua Wilson and his co-authors turn their attention to elementary English learners (EL), investigating how this growing population of students interacts with and benefits from automated writing evaluation (AWE) software. They found that AWE technologies are equally beneficial for ELs as they are for non-ELs.
STEM Sisters
For two weeks this summer, the STEMSisters, 27 Pakistani collegiate women, experienced UD’s campus as Blue Hens. The goal of the STEMSisters program, which is co-directed by DSI Faculty Council member Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished professor of energy and environment, is to encourage the women’s educational and career goals in STEM fields while learning about climate change and sustainability. The three-week institute was co-hosted by UD and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS). It was supported by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.
For the Record
DSI Faculty Council member Thomas M. Powers, associate professor of philosophy, presented “Deontological Ethics in Artificial Intelligence” at the 2024 Conference of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy, held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from July 8-10.
