The painting "Le Bonheur de vivre," by Henri Matisse, is revered as one of two masterpieces that changed the course of painting in the early 20th century. University of Delaware Prof. Robert L. Opila is collaborating with conservation experts at the Barnes, and at Winterthur, to study the paint’s material microstructure and attempt to determine why the cadmium sulfide is changing color.
A professor who specializes in fair trade issues says what Bloomberg News uncovered in Victoria's Secret's African supply chain is a symptom of a larger problem.
Like an international relay team with telescopes, astronomers worldwide are working together to continuously watch several cooling stars for clues that may help reveal one of our galaxy’s deepest secrets: its age.
Effective long-term treatment for patients living with HIV is complicated. Drug resistance is the leading cause of treatment failure and the development of new strains of the virus is common. Ryan Zurakowski, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, has developed a treatment method to reduce the risk of future failures in patients who have already experienced failure with their HIV treatment protocol.
A content analysis of local TV news finds agreements between stations mean less original content and possible monopoly violations. The report was filed with FCC; its author,a professor at the University of Delaware, says the FCC needs to consider these agreements' effects. The FCC is set to make decisions in 2011 about media ownership, during its quadrennial review. However, none of the studies the FCC commissioned for the review examine these agreements.
JPMorgan Chase and the University of Delaware opened the “JPMorgan Chase Innovation Center” at UD's Newark, Del., campus, which enables students and faculty to work side-by-side with bank employees on joint applied research projects and provides on-campus job opportunities for UD students.
The 2008 vice presidential race became a battle between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey rather than then-Senator Joe Biden.
In the Crab Nebula, in the constellation Taurus, a remnant of an exploded star has astrophysicists scratching their heads, reassessing their theories about gamma rays — the highest-energy form of light, generated by subatomic particles moving close to the speed of light.
In the Pinwheel Galaxy some 21 light years from Earth, a supernova beams brightly, out-shining its cosmic neighbors and causing a stir among starwatchers. Students in University of Delaware Prof. Judi Provencal’s Observational Astronomy class (PHYS 469) photographed the exploding star last week using the telescope at Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory in Greenville, Del., which has a lens spanning 24 inches in diameter.
Statistical analysis used to debunk the old adage “Pitching is 75% of the game.”
The University of Delaware provides the following list of experts on hurricanes, from historic hurricanes to disaster management, coastal erosion, flooding, rip currents, social behavior in disasters, engineering hurricane-resistant housing, damage effect on crops, and equine emergency management.
Worries that first responders will shirk duties in a disaster are overblown, but they do need assistance with family matters, University of Delaware study shows.
More beachgoers are injured just feet from shore than by rip tides each year at Delaware's beaches. Researchers in Delaware examine how simply playing in the ocean can lead to ruptured spleens, spinal injuries and death.
Ritchie Garrison was helping to clean out his late uncle’s attic in Massachusetts when he came upon an intriguing department store bag. “When I saw what was inside, I almost fell over,” the University of Delaware history professor says.
The samplers embroidered by girls in colonial America not only brightened the home, but also shone the light of literacy into the needleworkers’ young lives. To bring these historic American treasures to the public eye, the University of Delaware in collaboration with the University of Oregon is now launching the Sampler Archive Project, a major effort to build a national digital archive and searchable database of samplers stitched by American girls in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. UD won a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to develop the resource.
When victims of crimes sit down and talk with their perpetrators both benefit, says Susan Miller, University of Delaware professor of sociology and criminal justice. In her new book, Miller examines the power of "restorative justice" and details interactions between victims and offenders in a Delaware program.
Roberta Colman, Willis F. Harrington Professor Emerita of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware, ranks 23rd in the journal Biochemistry’s 50 most prolific authors. The journal, published by the American Chemical Society, is celebrating its 50th year of publication this year.
The papers of an important 20th century American diplomat, George S. Messersmith, have been digitized and are now available for the first time online at the University of Delaware Library, making them accessible to researchers around the world.
University of Delaware astronomer Judi Provencal has been busy manning the command center for a star watch of epic proportions, the latest observing run of the Whole Earth Telescope (WET). This global collaboration of observatories collects asteroseismic data—information on stellar waves that pass through hot stars in the cosmos like earthquakes pass through Earth.
Two studies of consumers could benefit car manufacturers. A nationwide survey asked consumers what changes to the common complaints of charging time and limited range are worth. For longer range, they’d pay $35-$75/mile. For faster charging, they’d pay up to $3,250/hour. A second study showed longer range isn’t absolutely necessary for many. The current 100-mile range could work for 32% of people.
Pyrite nanoparticles from oceans' hydrothermal vents rich source of iron for bacteria and plant life, University of Delaware researchers find.
The Association of American Geographers has presented University of Delaware geographer Frederick (Fritz) Nelson with the Francois Emile Matthes Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cryospheric Science.
Pulling valuable fuels out of thin air? It sounds like magic, but Joel Rosenthal, a chemist at the University of Delaware, is working to transform carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, into gas for your car and clean-energy future fuels. Rosenthal is a winner of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU).
If you’re planning to attend “Frontiers in Catalysis,” the scholarly symposium set for May 26, honoring Richard F. Heck, the University of Delaware's Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, you need to register soon.
Cancer patients can be hit with a nasty array of symptoms and side effects. Sometimes they are so overwhelming patients to abandon life-saving treatments. Effective management of unpleasant symptoms can yield better outcomes, and oncology nurse Carlton Brown has written a book to help with that process.
Research shows racial bias influences views of Obama.
On Thursday, May 26, the University of Delaware will host the scholarly symposium “Frontiers in Catalysis” in honor of Richard F. Heck, Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The University of Delaware's Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) -- a U.S. Department of Energy University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education -- is working with LG Innotek on pioneering research on wide band-gap solar cells, which absorb less sunlight, but produce a higher voltage than solar cells currently on the market.
Six University of Delaware professors have been chosen as 2011 Salzburg Fellows by the Salzburg Global Seminar, an independent, non-governmental organization that seeks to challenge present and future leaders to solve issues of global concern.
UD Global is now introducing audiences in the United States and abroad to the University of Delaware's growing international presence.
Last minute shoppers don't worry. Here's some novel, educational and affordable suggestions for kids' presents -- including the best gift of all.
The University of Delaware is now one of only a handful of universities with a microscope so powerful that researchers can measure a single molecule within a cell.
If you create a detailed plan to achieve a goal, you may have a harder time reaching it. You're better off thinking about why you want to reach it, according to one University of Delaware professor.
University of Delaware researchers are now deploying to Antarctica to finish building a giant “IceCube.” That's the name of the telescope that, when completed in February, will cover an expanse of almost 200 football fields over a mile-and-a-half deep in the ice near the South Pole. And students and the public can follow along, in a virtual way.
On Black Friday, serious sales abound, as do serious shoppers and in some cases, serious consequences – flared tempers, bickering and in 2008, the death of a retail worker. Professor Sharron Lennon spent the past three Black Fridays observing and surveying shoppers to find out why they misbehave.
As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to decline, a new route connecting international trading partners may emerge -- but not without significant repercussions to climate, according to a U.S. and Canadian research team that includes a University of Delaware scientist.
A University of Delaware researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun.
Richard F. Heck, the Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Only 12 astronauts have walked on the moon -- and you have the opportunity to spend the evening with one of them soon at the University of Delaware. The talk will be webcast live and simulcast into UD Second Life on Wed., Oct. 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. Eastern.
Underwater landslides, deep-sea corals, ancient archaeological sites -- these are just a few of the cool phenomena that Adam Skarke, a graduate student at the University of Delaware, may get to see firsthand in the Mediterranean Sea aboard an expedition led by famed explorer Robert Ballard.
Online dating benefits widows in two ways. It gives them a space to make sense of their loss and move forward by finding a new partner, say communication researchers.
A University of Delaware researcher reports that an “ice island” four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.
“President James Monroe needs a bath -- and I'm the one filling the tub,” writes Renee Wolcott, a University of Delaware master's student in art conservation. Wolcott is referring to the challenging task of cleaning a foxed and ink-stained 19th-century engraving of the fifth U.S. president during her summer internship at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
The University of Delaware (UD) has experts available to offer comment on teen alcohol abuse, Common Core standards, transitioning to college, teaching kids reading, writing, math and language, bullying, school security, standardized testing, special education, parenting and teen sex.
A UD professor says policies created as a reaction to school shootings are excessive and counterproductive. His new book suggests schools rethink the polices, including removing police from all but the most violent schools and involving students in the rule-making process.
Nominations are invited for the 2011 Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit until Sept. 3, 2010. The bronze medal and $50,000 cash prize will be awarded to an individual who has made significant pioneering contributions to the promotion of solar energy as an alternate source of energy through research, development, or economic enterprise, or to an individual who has made extraordinarily valuable and enduring contributions to the field of solar energy in other ways.
University of Delaware scientist Donald Watson is part of a research team that has discovered an easier method for incorporating fluorine into organic molecules, giving chemists an important new tool in developing materials ranging from new medicines to agricultural chemicals.
The Institute of Education Sciences, a research branch of the U.S. Department of Education, has awarded a $10 million grant to University of Delaware Professor Nancy C. Jordan and her two colleagues at Vanderbilt University and Carnegie Mellon University to fund a five-year research and development center aimed at understanding difficulties students have in math.
The University of Delaware Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) is part of an industry-academic team that has been awarded $3.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development office of the U.S. Department of Defense, to demonstrate solar cells that can stand up to battle conditions and environmental extremes.
This summer, Donald Sparks, S. Hallock du Pont Chair in Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware and director of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN), will receive the Liebig Award from the International Union of Soil Sciences for outstanding contributions in soil science research, revealing new discoveries, techniques, inventions, or materials related to soils and the environment.
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