The University of Delaware is sponsoring Extreme 2004: Exploring the Deep Frontier, a scientific research expedition to thermal vents deep on the Pacific Ocean floor that features participation by more than 53,000 middle and high school students from around the world.
A University of Delaware professor draws on interviews with capital case jurors in his new book, "Jurors' Stories of Death: How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality."
As an Oct. 13 U.S. Supreme Court hearing approaches, the constitutionality of the juvenile death penalty is challenged in a new study by two University of Delaware faculty members and two Northeastern University researchers.
Experts from U.S. and foreign universities will discuss such issues as cloning, genetically modified foods and stem cell research during an Ethics and Life Sciences Conference to be held Friday-Sunday, Oct. 22-24.
A major exhibition drawn from the Paul R. Jones Collection, which is among the oldest, largest and most comprehensive collections of works by 20th century African American artists in the world, will open in September and continue through the 2004-05 academic year at the University of Delaware in Newark.
The College of Marine Studies is inviting students from around the world to join its researchers for Extreme 2004: Exploring the Deep Frontier, a deep-sea expedition to hydrothermal vent sites nearly two miles below the surface on the Pacific Ocean floor.
University of Delaware's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, supported by a $10 million U.S. Agency for International Development contract, has entered into a partnership with the University of Sarajevo to establish a new graduate business school in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Researchers have redesigned the traditional figure skate, adding a hinge that allows ankles to flex in order to cushion jump landings. The goal is to reduce the joint injuries that plague many competitive skaters.
U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., a 1965 University of Delaware graduate, will speak at the 155th Commencement exercises at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 29, in Delaware Stadium on the Newark campus. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
Two professors from the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics have written a book on the Earned Income Tax Credit, which they believe is an effective anti-poverty tool that should be expanded.
The University of Delaware will host the first scholarsly symposium devoted to the lives and work of late-Victorian poets, playwrights, and lovers Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote under the pen name Michael Field.
Super Bowl XXXVIII will feature the most expensive commercial time in advertising history, with speculation centering on a possible Apple "1984" anniversary ad.
A researcher is developing small robotic devices that mimic the flight of birds and insects for use in industrial and military applications.
Marine scientists are leading more than 45,000 students worldwide on a deep sea expedition as part of Extreme 2003: To the Depths of Discovery.
Seeing is believing. Or maybe not, according to a professor who has conducted extensive experiments in perception, memory and visual illusions. People tend to remember parts of a scene that were not in the photograph viewed but were likely to have existed just beyond the boundaries.
Marine scientists are now working aboard the 420-foot U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy on a project to track the fresh water flowing out of the Arctic Ocean into the Atlantic.
The University of Delaware and benefactor Paul R. Jones of Atlanta are preparing for a major art exhibition featuring works from the Paul R. Jones Collection, the largest private holding of works by African-American artists in the world, during the 2004-5 academic year.
Ty Jones, honored last month with an Obie Award for his work in the Off-Broadway production of "The Blacks: A Clown Show," is the latest graduate of the University of Delaware's prestigious Professional Theatre Training Program to take New York by storm.
"The University of Delaware is one of only three schools in the country with a graduate photograph conservation program, and our services are in demand," Debra Norris, chairperson of art conservation and a photo conservator, says.
"Land of Ice, Hearts of Fire: Inuit Art and Culture" is the title of an art exhibition set to open Sept. 10, at the University of Delaware, home of a comprehensive collection of rare Canadian Inuit drawings.
An English actress and a French director among the world's foremost interpreters of the works of Samuel Beckett will be featured at a three-day festival celebrating the Nobel Prize-winning author, scheduled Oct. 9-11, at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.
Emerging as one of today's most promising artists, Xiang Gao has performed for world leaders, such as former President George Bush, and the former President of China Xian-nian Li. His musical integrity and his virtuoso technique have gained accolades from reviewers around the world.
Scientists from the University of Delaware have made a major breakthrough in terahertz nanotechnology, one that could have practical applications in medical imaging, hazardous materials detection and even rescue operations.
Geocryology, or the study of permafrost, is an increasingly important area of study in the larger field of global change science.
When the 75th annual Academy Awards ceremonies take place on March 23, a UD professor will be watching to see how many Oscars"Chicago" takes home.
Combining an interest in the classics with expertise in the sedimentary geology that defines coastlines, a University of Delaware researcher has discovered that Homer's "Iliad" presents an accurate account of the geography of ancient Troy, information that may end a centuries long debate.
University of Delaware researcher Jeremy Edwards has developed advanced computerized mathematical models that can be used to predict the evolution of bacterial cells and has found that those cells progress toward optimal behavior.
University of Delaware researchers are on the leading edge of molecular design, using sophisticated computer techniques to generate models of molecules that can then be synthesized in the laboratory and that may ultimately lead to new treatments for genetic diseases.
As was the case last year, advertising sales for the Super Bowl XXXVII broadcast are a bit sluggish, according to John Antil, associate professor in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware.
University of Delaware marine scientists will take students from around the world deep into the Pacific Ocean as part of Extreme 2002: Mission to the Abyss, a research expedition that will double as a "virtual field trip" for the study of hydrothermal vents and the unusual creatures that live there.
University of Delaware researchers have developed a revolutionary computer interface technology that promises to put the bite on the traditional mouse and mechanical keyboard.
The following University of Delaware experts are now available for comment on a variety of topics related to the terrorist attacks on America.
An assistant professor of physical therapy at the University of Delaware has jumped feet first into research on the motor skills of infants and in so doing is helping turn some long-held notions about human development on their head.
The scientists of tomorrow will converge at the University of Delaware for the 2002 National Tournament of the Science Olympiad, May 17-18. The event brings together the best middle and high school aged scientists from across the nation.
"Original Acts: Photographs of African-American Performers in the Paul R. Jones Collection" opens Feb. 5 at the University of Delaware. It is the first major showing since the premier collection was donated to UD by Jones, one of the nation's leading private collectors.
Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed a portable detection platform that could provide real-time recognition of chemical and biological weapons using infrared spectroscopy.
For a geomorphologist, past environmental conditions compared with modern pollution levels, tombstones serve better than test tubes or high tech instruments.
The University of Delaware has experts in the areas of politics, emergency management, finance, the personal effects of tragedy and other related topics who are available to speak with the media regarding the country's crisis at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Lord Byron's battle with manic-depression will be considered when scholars from around the world interested in the famous 19th-century Romantic poet gather for the 27th International Byron Conference, to be held Aug. 4-13, in three locations including the University of Delaware.
The nation's first regional Center for the Quilt, designed to document, preserve and share the history and stories of quilts and quilt makers, has been established at the University of Delaware, in cooperation with the Alliance for American Quilts.
A UD professor writes in his new book "Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists" that statistical information is frequently misused by people and organizations interested in shaping the public policy to their own ends.
Turning soy oil into industrial grade plastic? Call it food for thought, says University of Delaware chemical engineering professor. Soy composites have been used to manufacture large doors for John Deere farm machinery, they could be used to build an entire tractor, including the tires.
University of Delaware scientists study disperal of tubeworm babies to hydrothermal vent sites.
Distinguished historian David McCullough, whose prize-winning books have been praised for scholarship, literary distinction and insight into American life, will deliver the Commencement address at the University of Delaware on Saturday, May 26.
The Antarctic sea urchin demonstrates a remarkable economy, a super energy-efficiency in its metabolism. Despite frigid water temperatures and little available food, its babies can synthesize proteins more efficiently than any other organism recorded to date. (Science, 3-9-01)
In a University of DelawareÃs honors colloquium on chocolate, all 20 student chocolate-tasters agree: Dutch-process cocoa is not a chocoholic's dream. One dab of the dark brown powder on their tongues sends them dashing for palate-cleansing water and saltine crackers. They grimace in surprise. How could chocolate taste like this?
When a jury awarded a woman $3M for spilling McDonald's coffee in her lap, people across the continent were sure the jury system was out of control. But, a new book by a University of Delaware Professor explains why jurors made the award.
Simply adopting school uniforms is unlikely to make schools safer and administrators and parents who are considering requiring students to wear uniforms should proceed cautiously, advises a professor of consumer studies at the University of Delaware.
A new study by a nationally known expert on jury behavior finds that potential jurors are skeptical of people who file whiplash lawsuits (Tennessee Law Review and Trial).
Leadership in women is not a quality that can be developed by prescription or by following 10 steps to management or by copying male models of leadership, says Barbara Curry, associate professor of educational development at the University of Delaware.
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