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History Professor Appointed to OAH Distinguished Lectureship
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, UD Associate Professor of History, has been appointed to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Program by Pete Daniel, President-Elect.
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Master of Fine Arts Students’ Work on View in Philadelphia
An exhibition featuring works by UD master of fine arts students graduating this spring opens with a reception that is free and open to the public from 5-9 p.m., Thursday, May 8, at the Crane Arts building in Philadelphia.
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Five Undergrads Present Research Papers at ISSC

UD seniors Patrick J. Knerr, a biochemistry major, and Michael T. Pirnot, majoring in chemistry, received second-place awards for their research papers in the biochemistry and organic

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UD Hosts Workshop on Improving Foster Care

More than 30 employees from child welfare agencies from around the world attended a weeklong workshop in intervention methods for youth foster care held April 14-18 in the Perkins Student Center at UD.

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Three UD Students Awarded 2008-09 Goldwater Scholarships

Three University of Delaware students--Ritika Samant, a junior biological sciences major and political science minor from Hockessin, Del.; Spencer Tofts, a junior mathematics major from

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PTTP Alum Ty Jones's Play Emancipation on Stage in New York City
Ty Jones, a graduate of UD's Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP), says he believes strongly that Americans need to deal with the residual effects of slavery by engaging in a civil
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’Sleeping Giants’ at the Ends of the Earth Are Awakening, NASA Expert Says

The “sleeping giants” at the ends of the Earth--the polar ice sheets--are “awakening,” Waleed Abdalati, Head of NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Branch, told

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UD Undergrads Take Top Prizes at National Biology Conference

Three students in UD's Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Undergraduate Science Education program and the University's American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

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’U.S. News’ Recognizes Delaware Grad Programs
University of Delaware graduate programs in physical therapy, urban affairs, engineering and education remain among the nation's elite, according to new rankings published in the 2009
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BAMS Students Invited to Apply for Newton Award
UD's Black American Studies (BAMS) program invites applications from students for it’s first-ever James E. Newton Award. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, April 30.
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Duly Noted

Duly Noted provides information about University of Delaware faculty's and staff's recent professional activities, which include presentations, publications, public references, services, and awards.

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Symposium Fuels New Ideas for Future UD Energy Research
From a hydrogen fuel cell-powered bus to a solar-powered poultry house, the University of Delaware has a number of clean, green, “on the ground” initiatives under way in energy research and policy.
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Undergrads Sharpen Research Poster Presentations Before National Conference
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Undergraduate Science Education Program held a practice research poster session in McKinly Lab on March 18, for 16 undergraduate research
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UD Receives $500,000 NEH Challenge Grant

UD's College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support graduate education and scholarship

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Global Agenda Series Debuts in Second Life Simulcast
The University of Delaware's Global Agenda speaker series has gone where no UD speaker series has ever gone, with an appearance on Second Life, an Internet-based 3-D virtual world entirely created by its residents.
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Professor Werth Selected as Clark-Centre Allemand Fellow

Margaret Werth, Associate Professor of Art History at UD, has been selected as the Clark-Centre Allemand Fellow for 2008-09. The new fellowship is jointly sponsored by the Sterling

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UD Geographer Honored by Latvia

Edmunds Bunkse, UD Professor of Geography, was awarded the Cross of Recognition by the Latvian government in a ceremony in Riga, Latvia, in November.

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Kasey Grier to Head Museum Studies Program
Katherine (Kasey) Grier has been appointed director of UD's Museum Studies Program and Professor of History, effective fall 2008, bringing a wealth of experience as a historian, scholar and teacher
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Delaware Division of the Arts Honors 4 UD Artists

Four artists affiliated with UD have received individual artist fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Sculptor Robert Bickey, Instructor in Art, and poet Piotr Florczyk, a

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Students Launch Blue Hen Poll
Are students on UD's Newark campus really as apathetic about political issues as reflected in polls like the “Election, What Election” poll, where UD was rated fourth among some 361 schools
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BAMS Launches New Web Home Page

A new UD Black American Studies (BAMS) Web page has been launched and can be viewed at [www.bams.udel.edu].

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Professor Named Principal Horn with Leading Orchestras
Has horn, will travel and is going places in the world of music describes John David Smith, UD Assistant Professor of Music and Horn Player, who has performed all over the United States,
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Plastino Scholar Robyn Mello Reports on Experience in Sierra Leone

Pursuing the opportunity to take a semester off and conduct a five-month internship with the International Organization for Migration in Freetown, Sierra Leone

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UD Professor Uses Fulbright to Boost Science Education in Peru
Deborah Allen, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at UD, brought her experience with Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to Peru over winter break during a two-and-a-half week
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AIC Honors Burnaby Munson as Chemical Pioneer
Burnaby Munson, C. Eugene Bennett Chair of Chemistry, has received recognition throughout his illustrious career for his research and teaching, both nationally and from UD. Most recently he has
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UD Alum Argues for Redesign of the Internet
Guru Parulkar, Executive Director of the Clean Slate Internet Design Research Program at Stanford University, thinks that now is the right time to reinvent the Internet.
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UD’s Technical Expertise Recognized in Thailand Ceremony

The University of Delaware was recently honored by the government of Thailand for providing equipment and technical expertise for the construction

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NEH Grant Enriches Programming, Expands Fellowship Horizons

A $256,800 grant received by the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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Face to Face a World Away
“Although half the students in the course live on the other side of the world, it's as if we are in the same classroom. We talk to each other, discuss different topics, can see each other as if were
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Bobev Receives NSF Early Career Award

Svilen Bobev, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received the National Science Foundation's prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award.

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Poet Laureate Reflects on His Early NYC Experiences
Time, as something served and something lost, was among the subjects addressed by U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic as he read from his works on Thursday, Feb. 21, in Memorial Hall.
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UD Wins Grant to Foster U.S.-Middle East Dialogue

Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of UD's Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for International Studies (CFIS)

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UD Researchers Discover Technique for Repairing Gene Defect that Causes Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered a novel technique--that acts like a “spell-checker”

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UD Violinist Xiang Gao Performs in Cannes
Internationally renowned University of Delaware violinist Xiang Gao and his China Magpie Ensemble were featured performers during the 42nd annual conference of MIDEM
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Book Tills New Soil in Ancient Gardens

Annette Giesecke, Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at UD, combined her passion for Roman gardens

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English Faculty Awarded NEA Grant for Creative Writing
Viet Dinh, a supplemental faculty member in UD's Department of English, was recently awarded a $25,000 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
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'Super Tuesday Central' Unites UD's 'Political Junkies'
Five UD faculty members addressed a crowd of more than 150 members of the University community at the Super Tuesday Central gathering held Tuesday evening, Feb. 5
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Biology Grad Student Wins Two Research Awards
Zeynep Firtina, a doctoral-level student in biology at UD, received a $1,000 grant last semester from the Sigma Xi Committee of Grants-in-Aid Research to support her ongoing research on cataracts.
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Kolchin Elected to Society of American Historians
Peter Kolchin, Henry Reed Clay Professor of History at UD, has been elected to the Society of American Historians (SAH).
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Professor’s Book Examines Where Thought Begins and Ends
Philosophers and cognitive scientists are at odds over whether or not the mind extends beyond the brain and body. In his new book, The Bounds of Cognition, Fred Adams, Professor of Philosophy
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Grammy-nominated Children's Musical Directed by PTTP Professor
Leslie Reidel, Professor of Theatre, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in conjunction with award-winning composer Don Sebesky and award-winning lyricist Gloria Nissenson for
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Watson Receives Honorary Professorship in Peru
George Watson, Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UD, recently received an honorary professorship from the Pontificia Universdad Catolica del Peru.
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Geriatric PT Residency Receives National Credentials

The geriatric physical therapy residency program at the University of Delaware recently became only the second such program in the United States to receive credentialed

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New Book Focuses on Latina/o Experience in America
With a presidential election less than a year away, the topic of Latin American immigration to the United States has become a hot button political
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Politics of Climate Change Focus of Spring Lecture Series
UD's Global Agenda speaker series on foreign affairs will turn a heated lens on global warming this spring semester with lectures from seven visiting experts in the field.
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Prestigious Publications Recognize Professor Pfaelzer’s 'Driven Out'
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware Professor of English,
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UD Receives $80,000 Grant to Enhance Jewish Studies

UD's Jewish Studies Program has received a two-year grant of $80,000 from the Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation to fund a postdoctoral

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Criminal Justice Course Wins UCEA Award

The undergraduate course "Drugs and the Criminal Justice System: An Inside/Outside Perspective" taught by Lana Harrison, Professor of Sociology, has received an

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UD’s Caravaggio Scholar Turns Controversy to Advantage

David M. Stone, Associate Professor of Art History at UD, recently shared his expertise on Caravaggio by lecturing at a symposium held for scholars of the Italian

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$20,000 Grant to Support Art History Symposium
Wendy Bellion and Monica Dominguez, Assistant Professors in the Department of Art History, have been awarded a $20,000 grant by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago.
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Listen-Up Ladies: Don’t Postpone Knee-Replacement Surgery
Is getting new knees on your list of New Year's resolutions?
Research at the University of Delaware indicates that women wait longer to pursue
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UD Salutes Two Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Professors

John Byrne, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Director of UD's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, and Frederick “Fritz” Nelson, Professor of Geography and

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Gao and China Magpie Have Been 'Soaring High'

Xiang Gao, University of Delaware Associate Professor of Music and internationally renowned violinist, has had an eventful 2007 with the promise of much more to come in the months ahead.

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New UD Center to Support Teachers in Southern Delaware

The University of Delaware has opened the Southern Delaware Professional Development Center (SDPDC), which will provide public school districts and charter schools

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Babies Driving Robots at University of Delaware
Babies driving robots. It sounds like the theme of a cartoon series but it is actually the focus of important and innovative research being conducted at the University of Delaware
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Medical Advances Focus of Life Science Discussion
A panel discussion on life sciences held Nov. 2 as part of the “Creating Knowledge-Based Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities” conference, put advances in medicine
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Help with Writing Available to All Students
Undergraduate and graduate students can get help with writing from the University Writing Center.
Need another opinion on a final draft of an essay? Confounded by a revision? Uncertain what direction to
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Symposium Highlights Work by New Nobel Laureates

The achievements of the 2007 Nobel laureates in the natural sciences were the highlight of the first part of a symposium held by the University of Delaware's College of Arts

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Jinfa Cai Selected as an ACE Fellow at Temple

Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware Professor of Mathematical Sciences, was recently selected as one of 37 American Council on Education (ACE) fellows in the 2007-08 academic year.

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Donors Attend Exhibition Opening

Special guests attending the Oct. 11 opening of the new exhibition,"Recent Gifts of Photography to University Museums," included the individuals who made the exhibition possible.

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