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Sharing Innovative Ideas
UD faculty and staff presented ideas that promote academic excellence at the second annual One Idea, One Slide Summit.
DSI Faculty Council member Bintong Chen, professor of business administration and director of Lerner College of Business and Economy, presented “FinTech Policy Innovation: Using Customer Sensitive Data to Improve Fair Lending” at the One Idea, One Slide Summit.
DSI Faculty Council member Sunita Chandrasekaran, David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development chair, presented “Boost UD Discovery and Learning through Free AI Platform.”
Future Leaders and Innovators
DSI Fellow Shar Daniels was among the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award winners for 2024.
LSST Camera Arrives at Rubin Observatory in Chile
The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California to the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, where it will soon help unlock the Universe’s mysteries. DSI Resident Faculty member Federica Bianco and DSI Associate Director John Gizis have held leadership roles in the Rubin ecosystem for years.
For the Record
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Chandra Reedy, director of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design (CHAD) and professor in the Biden School, was named a national finalist in the 2023 Wiki Science Photo Competition under the Microscopy category and the Image Sets category for Crystals in Song Dynasty Glaze. The winning U.S. images will represent the United States at the international level.
The Intersection of Finance and Technology
DSI Affiliated Faculty member Paul Laux, professor of finance, was one of the organizers of the inaugural FinTech and Financial Institutions Research Conference on April 19 at the FinTech Innovation Hub at the University of Delaware, where the interconnectedness of finance and technology was on full display.
Spark! Symposium Focuses on Financial Health
Seven graduate students recently took the stage in the University of Delaware’s FinTech Innovation Hub on the Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus to present their Spark! in 5 Symposium talks on financial health.
Wealth disparity was also central to the talk given by DSI Fellow James Korman (third from the right), who recently received his doctorate in political science and international relations from the College of Arts and Sciences at UD.
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.
