News
Tropical Forest Loss
DSI Resident Faculty member, Kyle Davis has published a new study that tropical forest loss is increased by large-scale land acquisitions.
Building Better Benchmarks
Rudi Eigenmann, DSI DiCoS Core Director & Faculty Council member, and Sunita Chandrasekaran, DSI Affiliated Faculty are part of a UD Team of computer scientists team measuring the true performance of supercomputers
Data Boost to Battle Floods
A UD team has partnered with a national research group dedicated to addressing America’s flood risk. The interdisciplinary team includes DSI Resident Faculty, Greg Dobler and Pinki Mondal.
Forecasting Urbanization
DSI Resident Faculty, Jing Gao explains how data science drives new maps to predict the growth of cities over next century
Putting the Pandemic in Perspective
DSI Affiliated Faculty and UD Epidemiologist Jennifer Horney explains social distancing, testing rates and more to a global audience.
COVID-19 Research Underway
DSI affiliated faculty members, Juan Perilla and Jodi Hadden-Perilla, both assistant professors in UD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, are leading a research team that is investigating the structure of the novel coronavirus that has caused the current global pandemic.
Treating Asthma with Data Analytics
Research from DSI Affiliated Faculty, Junbo Son could transform the future of asthma management.
Expert Insight on Coronavirus
Before the first positive case had been reported in Delaware, on Wednesday, March 4 the University of Delaware hosted a 90-minute panel discussion to bring the UD community and the public up to speed on COVID-19. Included on the panel was DSI affiliated faculty, Prof. Jennifer Horney of UD’s Disaster Research Center and founder of the University’s program in epidemiology.
Crops for Cows
DSI Resident Faculty and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences and the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Kyle Davis performed the crop water-use estimates for the study that shows water scarcity driven by beef production in the Western United States.
Harnessing Exotic Genetics
A multi-institutional team led by University of Delaware plant geneticist and DSI Affiliated Faculty, Randy Wisser, decoded the genetic map for how corn from tropical environments can be adapted to the temperate U.S. summer growing season.
