Delaware Geological Survey carbon-dates groundwater found to be thousands of years old
Posted On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Changming He, Delaware Geological Survey, Delaware River, groundwater study, Tom McKenna, Zack Coppa
A drop of rain that falls near Middletown, Del., may take as long as 14,000 years to seep through the earth and trickle underground into a well several miles away, according to new research by the Delaware Geological Survey (DGS).
Scientists used radiocarbon-dating techniques to determine the age of groundwater from ...
New UDaB, IGS Collaboration to Help Broaden Alternative Break Programs
Posted On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Amy Johnson, Institute for Global Studies, Susan Serra, UDaB, University of Delaware Alternative Breaks
The service-based and student-led University of Delaware Alternative Breaks (UDaB) program will now be housed in the Institute for Global Studies (IGS), which will provide supporting services and help manage aspects of the growing program.
UDaB was founded in 2010 by a student who was passionate about service. That passion was ...
Delaware Cardiovascular Research Center Holds Third Annual Symposium
Posted On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Biological Sciences, brainchild of Ulhas Naik, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Delaware Cardiovascular Research Center, Heart of the matter
No one seemed to mind being in the warm conference room of the Embassy Suites in Newark on Friday, Oct. 11. Outside, it was cold, windy and rainy. Downright dreary. But the atmosphere inside was quite the opposite, as researchers, physicians, scientists, students and others came together from across the ...
UD Plant and Soil Sciences Researcher Receives two USDA Grants
Posted On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: AFRI, AFRI’s Renewable Energy, microbial contaminants, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of Delaware, USDA, Yan Jin
The University of Delaware’s Yan Jin has received two awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for her studies on wetlands waters and for cross-disciplinary research on fresh produce and microbial contaminants.
The funding for both projects is being provided through the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Agriculture and ...
Bank of America Volunteer Speaks to FYE Students on ins and outs of credit
Posted On Monday, October 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: America volunteer, Credit lessons, First Year Experience, FYE students, University of Delaware
As an attendance sheet floated around the room, one by one the students in a University of Delaware First Year Experience (FYE) class signed their names, wrote down their home states (New York, Pennsylvania and beyond), and were quick to mark a check in the “Did not have high school ...
UD Senior Encourages Community Engagement with University Museum Exhibitions
Posted On Saturday, September 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Maren Hassinger, Mechanical Hall Gallery, Sonya Clark, University Museum exhibitions, University Museums
Katie Bonanno, a senior art conservation major at the University of Delaware, has designed a series of interactive programs to accompany a University Museums’ fall exhibition.
As part of her senior thesis, Bonanno wanted to find a way to encourage community engagement with the “Hassinger and Clark: Boxes, Combs and Constellations” ...
UD Student Spends Summer Working With Children in Morocco
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: America’s Unofficial Ambassadors, Indonesia, Madalyn Becker, Morocco, University of Delaware, Zanzibar
University of Delaware students spent their summers in many different ways. Some had jobs, some had internships, and some just enjoyed the time off. Junior international relations major Madalyn Becker had a rather unique experience: She spent her summer in Morocco helping local children.
Becker interned with America’s Unofficial Ambassadors, an ...
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...
NUCLEUS Welcomes New Students to Program’s Array of Services
Posted On Friday, September 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: College of Arts and Sciences, Dean George Watson, Deputy Provost Nancy Brickhouse, NUCLEUS open house, Provost Domenico Grasso, Rosalind Johnson, University of Delaware
The University of Delaware’s NUCLEUS academic support program, which continues to expand in size and services, welcomed 124 students to its annual open house this month.
Just three years ago, the program began the academic year with a total UD membership of 83 students and a focus on underrepresented students majoring ...
John Barnshaw named director of UD’s Higher Education Consortia
Posted On Friday, September 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Higher Education Consortia, John Barnshaw, John Sawyer, University of Delaware, University of North Carolina
The Higher Education Consortia, which administers the National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity, better known as “The Delaware Study,” has named John Barnshaw as its new director.
The Delaware Study, operated by the University of Delaware since 1992, has approximately 200 institutions that participate annually, and has matured over the ...
Local Police, Firefighters Trained in Safety Measures Specific to Electric Cars
Posted On Thursday, August 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: College of Earth, electric cars, electric vehicle-to-grid technology, Environment, firefighters, Local police, Ocean
After a car crash, emergency responders know to cut off the fuel before it leaks on the pavement and starts a fire. Some may not be sure, though, where to start when the car is an electric vehicle that runs without gasoline.
“First responders need to know that with a wreck ...
Governor’s School for Excellence Brings Talented High School Students to Campus
Posted On Thursday, August 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE, FEATURED Tags: Gov. Jack Markell, Governor’s School for Excellence, Jason Thompson, Joseph Peterson, Lloyd Shorter, University of Delaware
Aug., 2013--For a week in the summer, some of Delaware’s brightest and most creative high school students call the University of Delaware home. The Governor’s School for Excellence, now in its 34th year, brought 125 students to campus where they took academic classes, worked in small musical and theatre ensembles ...
DNREC honors longtime wetland educator Terry Higgins as Delaware’s 2013 Wetland Warrior
Posted On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Collin O’Mara, Delaware State Fair, DNREC, Gov. Jack Markell, Terry Higgins, wetland educator
On July 25 at the Delaware State Fair, Gov. Jack Markell, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Collin O’Mara and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III Administrator Shawn M. Garvin honored Terry Higgins of Marydel with the 2013 Delaware Wetland Warrior Award for his lifelong efforts to conserve, ...
Blue Hens attend State Fair, engage with Delawareans
Posted On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Baby Blue, Dawn Keyek, Delaware State Fair, President Patrick Harker, University of Delaware, YoUDee
Acting on its commitment to the First State, the University of Delaware hosted a booth and sent several representatives to the Delaware State Fair, which was held from July 18-27 in Harrington.
“It’s so great to see UD . We had to stop by the booth and be reminded of what ...
Wilmington University Goes Green at PurpleStride
Posted On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Christiana Care Health Services, Helen F. Graham, Matt Wilson, Pancreatic cancer, PurpleStride, Wilmington University
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE -- In a sea of purple, Wilmington University proudly showed its colors.
A 50-plus-member team of faculty, staff, students and student-athletes participated in the PurpleStride 5K run/walk to raise money for pancreatic cancer research on a sunny, warm June day along Wilmington's Riverfront. In its first year in Delaware, ...
Voting Rights Act Book and Author Garner Praise
Posted On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Gary May, Transformation of American Democracy, U.S. Supreme Court, University of Delaware, Voting Rights Act
Gary May, professor of history at the University of Delaware, and his new book about the 1965 Voting Rights Act have been attracting widespread attention and praise, most recently from veteran journalist Bill Moyers, who called it "masterful."
Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy ...
Workshop Helps Grade School Teachers Integrate Computer Science in Classroom
Posted On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: computational thinkers, Computing Machinery, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Lori Pollock, Memorial Hall, Terrence Harvey, University of Delaware’s
Although computers are an integral part of daily life and critical to the functioning of modern society, only nine states nationwide are counting computer science (CS) courses as a core requirement in K-12 education, according to a report released by the Association for Computing Machinery. Currently, the state of Delaware ...
UD’s Kung Teaches Silage to Brazilian Professors, Students
Posted On Monday, July 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Brazilian professors, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Limin Kung, S. Hallock du, University of Delaware
For the past 14 years, Limin Kung has served as a bridge between the University of Delaware and various universities in Brazil, linking with more than 20 students and professors from the South American nation through his expertise in the agricultural practice known as silage.
Kung, the S. Hallock du Pont ...
