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Mapping American life

By Guest PostApril 28, 2013Culture18th century studies, american experience, book prize, county lines magazine, early american culture, early american fascination, handkerchiefs, jigsaw puzzles, louis gottschalk, mapping american life, martin brueckner, university of delaware, winterthur museum

Winterthur exhibit showcases UD professor’s research on maps and culture

A new exhibit at Winterthur Museum highlights the research conducted by University of Delaware faculty member Martin Brückner, focusing on the important part that maps played in everyday American life from the 1750s to the 1870s.

“Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience” opened Saturday, April 20, and will run through Jan. 5. Brückner, associate professor of English and of material culture studies at UD, was exploring what seemed to be an early American fascination with maps when he discovered that Winterthur’s collections included numerous examples of maps being used in daily life. He developed the idea for an exhibition from that discovery and his additional research. (more…)

Power of integrity

By Guest PostMarch 30, 2013Economybarbados group, efficiency, eugene fama, fortune magazine, harvard university, hidden moonwalking bear, hidden power, hutchinson lecture, michael jensen, normative virtues, positive theory, power of integrity, productivity, robert merton, university of chicago, university of delaware, veil of invisibility, violation

Hutchinson Lecture features financial economics expert Jensen

It can be easy to miss what’s right in front of you, said Michael Jensen as he shared an awareness test video of basketball players and a “hidden” moonwalking bear in the opening of the 23rd annual Hutchinson Lecture last week at the University of Delaware.

“In effect, integrity is the unforeseen bear in our lives and my intention is to shift the parts of our world group, our frames of reference, relevant to our view of integrity so that we see it differently, in fact as it is, or much closer to what it is,” said Jensen, who presented “The Hidden Power of Integrity and Access to Vast Increases in Performance.” (more…)

Isotope Fingerprints

By Guest PostMarch 8, 2013Sciencealgae blooms, chemical elements, chesapeake bay, conflow, deb jaisi, DNA, ebl, ecological problems, eutrophication, irms, isotope fingerprints, isotope ratio, isotopic composition, mass spectrometer, mid atlantic, non terrestrial, oxygen deficiency, phosphate, phosphate oxygen isotopes, phosphorus, phosphorus backbone, phosphorus fraction, phosphorus rich fertilizer, phosphorus sources, rna, sediments, stable isotope facility, synchronizing unit, university of delaware, usda, water quality

Jaisi laboratory tracks chemicals in water, farmland throughout Mid-Atlantic

University of Delaware researcher Deb Jaisi is using his newly established stable isotope facility in the Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (EBL) to find the fingerprints of isotopes in chemical elements — specifically phosphorus — in order to track sources of nutrients in the environmentally-sensitive Chesapeake Bay, other bodies of water and farmland throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

Jaisi, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, explained that he and his research team are currently working on many projects in the EBL, including two that are funded through seed grants, one focusing on terrestrial phosphorus sources and the other on marine phosphorus sources in the Chesapeake. One of those grants is from the UD Research Foundation (UDRF) and is titled “Role of Non-terrestrial Phosphorus Sources in Eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay.” (more…)

Children’s Books

By Guest PostMarch 5, 2013Culture, Educationacting cool, backpack, books, character issues, children, early childhood, invitation slip up, magnolia elementary school, reading specialist, stephanie guzman, sticky fins, university of delaware, young daughter

UD alumna, educator writes books to help children deal with challenges

After Stephanie Guzman graduated from the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development in 2001 as an early childhood education major, her first position was as a second grade teacher at a Title I school.

While Title I schools are designed to improve the academic proficiency for children from disadvantaged areas, Guzman found her students had character issues that needed to be addressed as well. (more…)

Global Education

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UD student helps provide children in Nigeria a schoolhouse of their own

In the Nigerian village of Ukya’u, the children have a teacher and sit on benches in a church room, but there are no desks, no separate classes and no school building to call their own.

Chelsea Rozanski, a University of Delaware sophomore who is majoring in anthropology with a minor in African Studies, is working to change that situation. (more…)

Poetic Extravaganza

By Guest PostMarch 1, 2013Culture19th century, african american writers, anne spencer, Bible, black american studies, black culture, black history month, black student union, bob carpenter center, book of genesis, brooklynn hitchens, caged bird sings, canaan baptist choir, center, civil rights activist, clouds, famous poems, female poet, god, harlem sweeties, kasandra moye, langston hughes, maya angelou, new castle, nkosi oates, paul laurence dunbar, poetic extravaganza, president, rainbow, renaissance woman, still i rise, university of delaware

Angelou encourages University community to be ‘a rainbow in the clouds’

Maya Angelou had a special message for the enthusiastic audience that came to hear the renowned Renaissance woman and civil rights activist speak during a sold-out event held Friday evening, Feb. 22, in the University of Delaware’s Bob Carpenter Center.

“I’m going to remind you that you have already been paid for,” Angelou said. “Whether you are white or black or of Asian or Spanish ancestry, gay or straight, you don’t have to apologize to history for anything.” (more…)

Underwater Robot

By Guest PostFebruary 27, 2013Sciencearthur trembanis, carter duval, ceoe, coast of delaware, create sonar images, douglas miller, high definition, laundry basket, marine samples, mark moline, metal frame, navigation system, navy, number of mussels, palau, plastic, plume of water, record video, redbird artificial reef, remotely operated vehicle, research expedition, rov, scientists, swimming pool, underwater robot, university of delaware, waterproof video cameras, western pacific

New remotely operated vehicle to aid UD marine research efforts

UD researchers discuss a new underwater robot that will assist in marine research.

An underwater robot made a splash at a University of Delaware swimming pool recently in a test of the new equipment, which will soon be used in field research by College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) scientists.

The device, called a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), can dive deep below the ocean surface to record video, create sonar images and retrieve objects. (more…)

Facial Research

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2013Scienceaggression, any prejudicial beliefs, automatic, b leitner, context, controversial social behaviors, eric hehman, expression of prejudice, facial, facial research, fwhr, greater fwhr, matthew p deegan, predict, racial prejudice, ratio, reporting prejudices, samuel l gaertner, social dominance, structure of face, testosterone related behaviors, university of delaware, width to height

Structure of face may help predict expression of prejudice, researchers report

The structure of a man’s face may indicate his tendency to express racially prejudiced beliefs, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Studies have shown that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is associated with testosterone-related behaviors, which some researchers have linked with aggression. But psychological scientist Eric Hehman of Dartmouth College and colleagues at the University of Delaware speculated that these behaviors may have more to do with social dominance than outright aggression. Hehman conducted the research while he was a graduate student at UD. (more…)

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