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3 weeks ago | 
udel.edu | Artika Casini |Jack Truschel |Jessica Downey
The University of Delaware Board of Trustees has selected Provost Laura Carlson to serve as interim president of the University, effective July 1, Board Chair Terri Kelly announced today.
Carlson will succeed Dennis Assanis, the University’s 28th president who recently announced his plans to step down on June 30.
“Provost Carlson has graciously accepted this assignment from the Board,” Kelly said.
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3 weeks ago | 
udel.edu | Artika Casini |Jack Truschel |Jessica Downey |Jamie Washington
UD’s prowess in biomechanics, the study of using engineering principles to analyze human movements, has led to lifelong success for its alumni. Baseball season spurs biomechanics memories Jim Richards was frustrated. For weeks, he had been attempting to render data of a cerebral palsy patient into a 3D model with no luck. Finally, he turned to University of Delaware graduate student Scott Coleman.
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3 weeks ago | 
udel.edu | Jamie Washington |Jack Truschel |Jessica Downey
The University of Delaware’s Faculty Senate expanded educational access and opportunity through the approval of new academic degrees, certificates and pathways at its meeting on April 7.
In total, the Senate approved 149 updates to undergraduate programs and 64 updates to graduate programs through the Consent Agenda and Regular Agenda.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Katie Peikes |Tabitha Groh |Jack Truschel
Doug Tallamy, the TA Baker Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Delaware, is trying to encourage people to rid their property of invasive plants and replace them with native plants. In October, he set out with students from the course Introduction to Insect and Wildlife Field Studies to curtail some pesky invasive plants from the UD Wetlands.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Tabitha Groh |Jack Truschel
Sakhi Phang, a senior in the University of Delaware’s Landscape Architecture program, has spent the past two summers working with the residents of the West Side of Wilmington, Delaware, to develop their vision for a public park and community garden on the grounds of the defunct Rodney Reservoir.
Local residents formed the grassroots organization Green for the Greater Good with the goal of keeping the site safe, public and green.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Jack Truschel |Christy Selagy |Molly Schafer |Stephanie Ferrell
On Nov. 21, University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis, First Lady Eleni Assanis and community members from across the University gathered in Gore Recital Hall to announce and celebrate Patricia and Charles Robertson’s extraordinary $5 million commitment to graduate research in the School of Marine Science and Policy.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Jack Truschel |Christy Selagy
The University of Delaware Board of Trustees will hold its fall semiannual meeting at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 10, in the Audion at STAR Tower as well as broadcast on UDLive. The meeting, which will be open to the public, will include an allotment of time for members of the public to comment.
The meeting agenda for this public meeting, listing the resolutions expected to be approved by the board on Dec. 10, will be posted online once available.
On or before Dec.
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May 24, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Amy Wolf |Adam Thomas |Jack Truschel |Megan Everhart
If there’s a statement Katherine Snyder couldn’t disagree with more, it’s this: “Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.”
Snyder learned not only how to play 15 instruments but also how to teach them during her four years at the University of Delaware — and she did it all while being at the top of her class.
“Teachers have to be the most experienced in what they do because they're passing their knowledge on to other people,” Snyder said.
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May 23, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Adam Thomas |Jack Truschel |Megan Everhart |Nya Wynn
Up until her first year of high school, Emmie Rossi, now a senior at the University of Delaware, never considered herself a schoolwork fanatic. But that all changed when she took an earth sciences course with Mr. Alusik at Westfield High School in New Jersey.
“Mr. Alusik was an amazing teacher, and that was the first time that I really enjoyed school,” Rossi said.
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May 23, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Jack Truschel |Megan Everhart |Nya Wynn |Jess Gardner
On May 1, the University of Delaware community came together for I Heart UD Giving Day. With more than 6,400 donors raising over $1 million for UD causes led by students, faculty, staff and alumni, the event was another successful chapter in this proud Blue Hen tradition.
“I Heart UD Giving Day is about community,” said Jim Dicker, vice president of development and alumni relations.
