Delaware's EPSCoR program draws national and state leaders at third annual meeting
February 27th, 2008
Delaware's statewide Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) held its third annual meeting on February 15 at Delaware State University's MBNA Hall.
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GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/ENGINEERING
October 23rd, 2007
Graduate Student Fellowships at the Ph.D level for students matriculating in the Spring or Fall 2008 semesters are available through the Center for Critical Zone Research (CCZR) and the Institute of Soil and Environmental Quality (ISEQ), both interdisciplinary environmental centers of excellence at the University of Delaware.
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Environment, Energy, Ethics Conference
September 21st, 2007
Please join us for the Environment, Energy, Ethics: Science and Responsibility for the 21st Century Conference at University of Delaware Clayton Hall, September 21-23, 2007.
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Chemical engineering prof receives NSF Career Award
April 17th, 2007
Thomas H. Epps III, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, is the recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.
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Xinqiao Jia wins NSF career award for biomedical engineering research
April 16th, 2007
Xinqiao Jia, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Delaware, recently received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award.
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Prof wins grant for nanostructured solar cell research
March 19th, 2007
Gabriela Stoleru, UD assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has received a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to research nanostructured solar cells.
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Teachers 'test drive' new genetics curriculum
November 13th, 2006
Forty-three middle-school teachers from across the state, including instructors of science and special education, took a hands-on tour of the new genetics unit on Friday, Nov. 3, at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in Newark.
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University announces new critical zone center
October 10th, 2006
The University of Delaware has announced the formation of a new Center for Critical Zone Research, designed to conduct basic research concerning the Earth's life-sustaining, near-surface environment, during a ceremony Tuesday morning, Oct. 10, at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.
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Scientists call for study of Earth's critical zone
August 1st, 2006
Scientists who attended a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop held last fall at the University of Delaware have called for an international initiative to study the Earth's critical zone, which encompasses the outermost surface of the planet from the vegetation canopy to groundwater and which sustains life.
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Education grant helps high schoolers
July 30th, 2006
A group of middle school students from the Delmar, Indian River, Laurel, Seaford and Woodbridge school districts recently spent a week learning about biochemistry, molecular biology, mathematics, graphing and chemistry...
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Sparks helps helm world soil science congress
July 7th, 2006
The 18th World Congress of Soil Science will be held July 9-15 in Philadelphia, returning to the United States for the first time in 46 years and drawing internationally renowned researchers from a variety of backgrounds to discuss key issues related to the impact of soil on the environment and in feeding the hungry.
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Undergrads Ponder Research Ethics Conundrums At Workshop
July 20th, 2006
More than 200 undergraduate students are spending their summer on UD's Newark campus conducting research under the mentorship of faculty advisers. Some have made individual arrangements to pursue an area of personal interest.
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Delaware EPSCoR Outreach Website Launched
June 30th, 2006
The EPSCoR RII web team at the University of Delaware (David Barczak, Beth Chajes, and Tracey Bryant) recently launched the Delaware EPSCoR RII Outreach Site at http://www.epscor.dbi.udel.edu/outreach/
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DoD to Award $11.5 Million for Science and Engineering Research
March 28th, 2006
The Department of Defense announced today plans to award $11.5 million to 22 academic institutions in 17 states to perform research in science and engineering fields important to national defense.
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Analytical Chemistry: Analyzing Air Nanoparticulates
February 27th, 2006
Mass spec technique characterizes airborne particles smaller than 10 nm
The CHEMICAL COMPOSITION of airborne nanoparticles is largely unknown because of measurementment difficulties. Chemists at the University of Delaware, Newark, have now developed a nanoaerosal mass spectrometer that combines an aerodynamic inlet, an ion trap, and a time-of-flight mass analyzer to characterize individual particles samaller than 10 nm. (Anal. Chem. 2006, 78, 1750).
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Competitive Research Partnership Confab Held
January 26th, 2006
More than 100 faculty, students and National Science Foundation (NSF) officials converged at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) in Newark on Monday, Jan. 23, for the first annual meeting of a life sciences partnership of the state's institutions of higher education.
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Delaware State University Faculty Search
January 3rd, 2006
Delaware State University seeks applicants for a 12-month tenure-track faculty position (75% research and 25% teaching) at the Assistant Professor level.
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Whodunits spice up science
August 10th, 2005
To steer kids toward tech careers, schools get creative. Straight out of a scene from "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," 80 middle-school students became minicriminologists Tuesday as they learned to take blood samples, collect evidence from a crime scene, lift fingerprints and use technology to solve crimes.
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Marine biologist wins top NSF grant
May 23rd, 2005
Thomas Hanson, an assistant professor of marine biology-biochemistry at UD, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Scientists study Wilmington air pollution
April 30th, 2005
University research will help determine causes of problems. In a test rig set up inside a faded trailer along Martin Luther King Boulevard, a laser zaps chemical dust specks obtained from Wilmington's polluted air.
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State to get $6 million for research grant expected to bring new jobs
April 26th, 2005
Delaware will receive a $6 million federal research grant that could bring new jobs and improve the environment as it builds the state’s life-sciences industry.
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NSF, state fund major life sciences initiative
April 25th, 2005
The National Science Foundation and the state of Delaware have awarded $9 million to a partnership of the state's institutions of higher education, led by the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and the University of Delaware, to fund new research in the life sciences.
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DoD to Award $11.4 Million for Science and Engineering Research
April 5th, 2005
The Department of Defense announced today plans to award $11.4 million to 20 academic institutions in 16 states to perform research in science and engineering fields important to national defense.
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UD chosen one of best places to conduct life sciences research
November 8th, 2004
The University of Delaware is among the best places in the nation at which to conduct research in the life sciences, according to an international survey of full-time researchers conducted by the magazine The Scientist.
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Biology Teachers Learn How to Teach Science With a Conscience
October 8th, 2004
When the Delaware Department of Education asked UD's Delaware Biotechnolgy Institute (DBI) to set up an in-service workshop on how to teach bioethics in high school biology classes, more than half the high school biology teachers in Delaware signed up for it.
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Two Delaware Researchers Are Awarded DEPSCoR Grants for FY2004
March 8th, 2004
Two of the twenty proposals selected nationwide for funding under the FY 2004 Department. of Defense EPSCoR (DEPSCoR) program were submitted by Delaware researchers.
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