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Mapping Forest Extent
DSI Resident Faculty member Pinki Mondal was a co-author on a study that verified the accuracy of remote sensing products that measure forest extent in Mexico. Mondal, along with other researchers from UD and an international team of collaborators, looked at forest extent estimates from seven land or tree cover remote sensing products and compared them to two independent forest inventory datasets.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Carbon Monitoring System program of the United States funded the research, and the results of the study were recently published in Environmental Research Letters.
For the Record
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Abhyudai Singh, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was selected for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. In spring 2025, he will be a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen.
Celebrating National Inventors Month
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Sambeeta “Sam” Das, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is among more than 300 UD inventors working on solutions to challenging societal problems. Her UD-patented work includes microrobots that can be guided with a magnetic field to deliver medication to cells—or to destroy infectious cells, such as cancer—inside the body.
A Sweet Experiential Learning Opportunity
Buddy Valastro, known as the “Cake Boss,” and his daughter, Sofia, cut the ribbon to celebrate the opening of the new cake vending machine in Trabant University Center. Students in a course taught by DSI Affiliated Faculty member Tim Webb, fourth from the left, are currently analyzing data and will make judgments that will be implemented into the machine next spring.
Blazing a Trail for Science
DSI Faculty Council member Rodrigo Vargas has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the largest scientific societies in the world.
4th International Radar Aeroecology Conference and Workshop
The Aeroecology Program at the University of Delaware will be holding the 4th International Radar Aeroecology Conference and Workshop in Newark, Delaware, USA.
August 4 – 9, 2024
Dynamic Pricing Is On The Rise
Lerner professor and DSI Affiliated Faculty Timothy Webb explains why Wendy’s got pushback for plans to test new pricing strategy.
Families Fighting Cancer Together
Many African American families are run by single moms who feel shame when diagnosed with cancer. This prompts the need for tailored interventions that address the psychosocial needs of these patients and their families. These crucial discoveries came in a series of attachment-based family intervention therapy sessions designed by University of Delaware Health Behavior and Nutrition Sciences Professor and DSI Faculty Council member Adam Davey, who has long wanted to see interventions that address the psychosocial needs of African American patients with cancer and their families.
User Beware
DSI Faculty Council member Xiao Fang, professor of management information systems and JPMorgan Chase Senior Fellow at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and DSI Affiliated Faculty member Ming Zhao, associate professor of operations management, collaborated with Minjia Mao, a doctoral student in UD’s the Financial Services Analytics (FSAN) program, and researchers Hongzhe Zhang and Xiaohang Zhao, who are alumni of the FSAN program.
Their research findings that AI chatbots share some of our biases was published in March in the journal Scientific Reports.
For the Record
DSI Infrastructure Working Group member Annie Johnson, associate university librarian for publishing, preservation, research and digital access, was elected to the Board of the Library Publishing Coalition, an independent, community-led membership association of academic and research libraries and library consortia engaged in scholarly publishing.
