News
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?”
Stellar Student
UD undergraduate student, Lauren Baron (whose mentor is DSI Resident Faculty member Roghayeh (Leila) Barmaki) has already developed a program that combines art therapy, physical therapy and virtual reality for stroke patients working through their upper limb mobility challenges.
Driven by Passion for Sustainability
Doctoral student Thomas Benson (whose advisor is DSI Faculty Council member Ben Bagozzi) has combined his passion for the environment with his education to impact the campus and beyond.
Concentrating on Connections
DSI Affiliated Faculty Ilya Safro, is using artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to analyze biomedical and health records for connections that might explain the link between HIV infection, HIV-associated dementia and substance abuse comorbidity.
Engineering the Future of Manufacturing
UD College of Enginnering’s Marianthi Ierapetritou leads a $3 million National Science Foundation effort to explore renewable raw materials for chemical manufacturing. Also participating in this project are DSI Affiliated Faculty members Hui Fang, Dionisios Vlachos, and Kalim Shah.
