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Environmental Protection Agency Recognition
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Dionisios Vlachos, Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, was recognized on Thursday, September 26, with the U.S. EPA 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The award recognizes Vlachos’ research and development of lubricant base oils from plant or food waste biomass, a greener alternative to petroleum-based products.
Modern-day Alchemy
A research team led by DSI Affiliated Faculty members Dion Vlachos, a chemical and biomolecular engineer, and Michael Crossley, an entomologist and wildlife ecologist, has synthesized new active insecticidal ingredients that are target-specific and ecologically safer than conventional pesticides.
Mercury in Fish
Results from a new study led by DSI Affiliated Faculty member Mi-Ling Li, assistant professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at the University of Delaware, suggest that tropical and subtropical fisheries account for more than 70% of methylmercury fished from the ocean, largely because they are the major fishing grounds for commercially important fish like tuna and countries from all over the world want to harvest these fish.
For the Record
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Jack Puleo, professor and chair of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed by the secretary of the Army to a three-year term on the Coastal Engineering Research Board.
For the Record
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Juan Perilla, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, recently published Elasticity of the HIV-1 Core Facilitates Nuclear Entry and Infection in the journal PLOS Pathogens.
The Coast in Unclear
DSI Resident Faculty member Pinki Mondal and DSI Affiliated Faculty members AR Siders and Nina David are part of an interdisciplinary research team at the UD to receive $6 million in research funding on best practices for how coastal communities can combat sea level rise.
Advancing Hope
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Shawn Polson, associate director of UD’s Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and fellow researchers, recently received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute (NIH/NEI) to further study the ABCA4 gene and its thousands of variants.
UD Leads Frontier Research on Plastics Problem
DSI Affiliated Faculty member LaShanda Korley (center), Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Delaware, directs the Center for Plastics Innovation, which is conducting pioneering research essential to reducing plastic waste.
Explore Global Opportunities
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.
