Adam S. Kamras

Feb 9, 2024 | udel.edu | Sophonie Milord |Adam S. Kamras

For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni. Recent presentations, awards and publications include the following: Meredith Ray, Elias Ahuja Professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, was a speaker at the symposium “Galileo”s Letters: Experiments in Friendships,” organized by the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University.

Feb 9, 2024 | udel.edu | Sophonie Milord |Adam S. Kamras |UD Library

The University of Delaware Police Department (UDPD) arrested a 24-year-old man on Feb. 8 on two misdemeanor offenses. Isaiah Anderson, a resident of Newark, Delaware, who has no affiliation with the University of Delaware, has been charged with violation of privacy and burglary in the third degree stemming from a UD Police investigation of an incident that occurred in December 2023.

May 24, 2023 | udel.edu | Beth Miller |Adam Thomas |Erica K. Brockmeier |Adam S. Kamras

These processes are not well understood, though. Once these phosphorylation patterns and effects are better known, scientists can focus on how those processes can be interrupted or manipulated in other ways. Essentially, Hadden-Perilla is aiming to take the virus machine apart, understand what each piece does, then put it back together. An important part of that work — the structure of these intrinsically disordered shapes — is missing, though. “We’re trying to rebuild a missing piece,” she said.

May 22, 2023 | udel.edu | Erica K. Brockmeier |Adam Thomas |Adam S. Kamras |Karen Roberts

Amino acids are the individual building blocks of proteins and are essential for biological systems to work properly. There are 20 standard amino acids that make up proteins in all living systems, more than 500 different types of other amino acids found in nature, and a large number of man-made amino acids. Some of these alternative amino acids can help create new types of pharmaceuticals and therapeutics.

May 18, 2023 | udel.edu | Adam S. Kamras |Dante LaPenta |Beth Miller |Karen Roberts

Anybody attending the University of Delaware Graduate College’s spring 2023 Spark! Symposium who was not aware of the format of the event might have been surprised when Ingrid Havron began her talk on “Understanding Beluga Behavior in an Altering Arctic” by asking everyone to imagine they are 11-year-old Riley from the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film, Inside Out.