UD Art Conservation Students Preserve Ancient Mosaic in Italy
Posted On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, GEORGIA Tags: art conservation undergraduates, Medusa mosaic, mythology, Saving Medusa, University of Delaware
Beautifully lifelike depictions from mythology often graced the ground floor of ancient Roman villas. Made from colored stone and glass, these intricate mosaics showed scenes from battles and warriors, gods and demons.
One featured Medusa as the central medallion, her swirling snakes swinging wildly about her head.
Dated somewhere around the second ...
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 ...
UD’s Lachke expands cataracts research to infants born with the disease
Posted On Monday, June 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: computational biology, Knights Templar Eye Foundation, University of Delaware, University’s Center for Bioinformatics
The University of Delaware’s Salil Lachke, a developmental biologist and expert in gene discoveries associated with eye disease, has received a career-starter research grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation (KTEF) to expand his scholarship to infants born with cataracts, making him one of 19 researchers across the country to ...
UD alumnus named president of Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science
Posted On Monday, June 10, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: Chia Nan College of Pharmacy, Chia Nan University, University of Delaware, Water Resources Agency
Suen-Zone (Jack) Lee, a 1993 graduate of the University of Delaware, has been named president of Chia Nan University (CNU) of Pharmacy and Science in Tainan City, Taiwan.
Lee, who earned his doctoral degree in civil and environmental engineering, is a leading expert in environmental engineering in Taiwan, particularly in groundwater ...
National Program Selects UD Student for Language Study Abroad
Posted On Sunday, May 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE, FEATURED Tags: HONORS PROGRAM, Ikem Okoye, Juliette Maas, State University of Zanzibar, University of Dar es Salaam, University of Delaware
Juliette Maas, a history and area studies major at the University of Delaware from Kennett Square, Pa., has been named a 2013 Boren Scholar and will spend the 2013-14 academic year studying Swahili in East Africa.
An Honors Program student with majors in history and in Latin American and Iberian studies, ...
Scientists Find New Magic In Magnetic Material
Posted On Saturday, May 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: environmental detectors, John Xiao, Nature Communications, super-sensitive medical, University of Delaware, Xin Fan
From powerful computers to super-sensitive medical and environmental detectors that are faster, smaller and use less energy — yes, we want them, but how do we get them?
In research that is helping to lay the groundwork for the electronics of the future, University of Delaware scientists have confirmed the presence ...
Students Translate Academic Research Into Plain English at Graduate Research Cafés
Posted On Saturday, April 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: CEOE, chemical and biomolecular engineering, Giant penguins, Hugh R. Sharp Campus, University of Delaware
Giant penguins lived in the Southern Ocean 40 million years ago, growing as tall as 6 feet and weighing 200 pounds. Their demise may have been due to factors affecting modern species of penguins today: competition for food and a changing climate.
Megan Cimino, a doctoral student in the University of ...
UD Student Volpone Travels To Africa to Work With Exotic Animals
Posted On Thursday, March 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: College of Agriculture’, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, exotic animals, University of Delaware, Volpone travels to Africa
On her second day in South Africa, University of Delaware student Melissa Volpone found herself doing something out of the ordinary: petting a lion. That seemed appropriate because, after all, one of the main reasons that she was wanted to go to Africa was because of a lion, albeit a ...
