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Bird in the Hand

By Guest PostJuly 28, 2012Culture, Generalblue feathers, blue hen, blue hen chicken, delaware, delaware state bird, elena torok, fightin blue hens, gamecocks, jack gelb, john caldwell, kent county, military regiment, paul h sammelwitz, project, radiography, revolutionary war, taxidermy specimen, university, university of delaware, winterthur museum

University art conservation student prepares Blue Hen for display

When University of Delaware Prof. Jack Gelb, Jr., was given a taxidermy specimen of a Blue Hen by a retiring colleague in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences, he realized that this particular example of the Delaware state bird was somewhat the worse for wear.

And so Gelb, who is chairperson of the department as well as director of UD’s Avian Bioscience Center, turned to the Department of Art Conservation for expert help.

“This was a wonderful opportunity for me to learn about natural history materials,” said Elena Torok, now a third-year graduate student in the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. “We happily agreed to work” on the project. (more…)

Going Big

By Guest PostJuly 23, 2012Scienceamanda wu, behavior of materials, carbon nanotube, China, chou research group, composite applications, fiber, force, go big, macroscale, nanoscale, sensor, strain, strain rate, tsinghua university, tsu wei chou, university of delaware, van der waals, weibang lu

UD researchers report progress in development of carbon nanotube-based continuous fibers

The Chou research group in the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering recently reported on advances in carbon nanotube-based continuous fibers with invited articles in Advanced Materials and Materials Today, two high impact scientific journals.

According to Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. du Pont Chair of Engineering, who co-authored the articles with colleagues Weibang Lu and Amanda Wu, there has been a concerted scientific effort over the last decade to “go big” – to translate the superb physical and mechanical properties of nanoscale carbon nanotubes to the macroscale. (more…)

Water in a Changing World

By Guest PostJune 25, 2012Entertainment, Sciencealgal blooms, biogeochemistry, cancer causing byproduct, carbon, changing world, chesapeake bay, climate change, delphis levia, disinfection, experimental watershed, fair hill, forest canopy, groundwater level, high frequency data, natural ecosystem, nitrogen, nitrogen cycling, nsf, season, shreeram inamdar, soils, stream runoff, university of delaware, water, water quality, watershed hydrology, watersheds

Experimental watershed provides new insights, rich educational experience

Six years and about 4,000 water samples later, an outdoor experimental watershed laboratory established by University of Delaware faculty members Shreeram Inamdar and Delphis Levia at Fair Hill, Md., is now producing valuable data and novel insights into how water and chemicals move through the forest canopy, soils and watersheds, and how future climate change may impact or alter such responses.

Inamdar, associate professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, has investigated the role of soils, streams, and watersheds in leaching water and nutrients, while Levia, professor in the Department of Geography, has studied the interactions of atmosphere and the forest canopy in leaching water and nutrients. Together, they have provided a complete picture of watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry. (more…)

Crocodilian Evolution

By Guest PostJune 15, 2012Nature, Scienceadam thomas, alligators, birds, canr, carl schmidt, colin kern, crocodile, crocodilian evolution, crocodilian family, crocodilian native, danielle quigley, david ray, dna sequence, evolution research, extinction, gene, genetic evolution, genome, genomic change, gharials, indian subcontinent, university of delaware, wetlands

UD’s Schmidt studies genome of crocodile family in evolution research

University of Delaware scientist Carl Schmidt is working to identify genes in crocodiles, alligators and gharials as he searches for links between the creatures that could give clues as to how they evolved over the years in relation to one another.

Schmidt’s effort is part of a National Science Foundation-funded project being conducted by a team of researchers assembled by David Ray, an evolutionary biologist at Mississippi State University. (more…)

Counting Horseshoe Crabs

By Guest PostMay 17, 2012Nature, Sciencecensus, crab line, crab population, delaware bay, dover, eadoh reshef, fertilization, field research, horseshoe crab, joanna york, jonathan dinman, kayla krenitsky, marine science, megan nogan, migration, pvc pipe, st jones reserve, tammy beeson, teresa messmore, university of delaware, will goldman

Marine science majors conduct field research with horseshoe crab census

Wearing sneakers and rain boots, University of Delaware freshmen got their feet wet as marine biologists recently while counting horseshoe crabs along the Delaware Bay. The students participated in a monitoring effort to gain firsthand experience in field research with their fellow marine science majors.

“Where else can you go on a Saturday night to count horseshoe crabs?” freshman Will Goldman said. (more…)

Mather Lecture

By Guest PostMay 14, 2012Environmentatmosphere, atmospheric moisture, biodiversity, charles j vörösmarty, China, climate change, computer model, cort willmott, deforestation, Europe, geospatial data, global water crisis, hydrology, India, industrializing place, john r mather, mather lecture, nancy targett, natural water systems, nitrogen pollution, noaa, river, sandra mather, stress, thermal regime, united states, university of delaware, water cycle, water management

Renowned expert Charles J. Vörösmarty addresses global water crisis

The world’s streams, rivers and lakes are under increasing stress because of human water management – and mismanagement – that threaten aquatic biodiversity and the water supply, Charles J. Vörösmarty said recently during the second annual John R. Mather Visiting Scholars Lecture.

Vörösmarty, professor of civil engineering with the City College of New York, presented “Global Water Crisis: The Slippery Slope” on May 3 at the University of Delaware’s Roselle Center for the Arts.

“The contemporary water system is really defined increasingly by the actions of humans,” he said. (more…)

Startup Success

By Guest PostMay 10, 2012Technologybiomolecular engineering, chief operating officer, collegiate startup, hen hatch, investor, jill royston, john rabolt, kathryn meier, peter millili, rbpc, sameer sathaye, scott jones, sean gilligan, t3d, t3d nanotech, technology startup, ulhas naik, university of delaware, venture capital, vinu krishnan

T3D goes beyond Hen Hatch, places among top collegiate startups worldwide

T3D Nanotech, LLC, a high technology startup company spun off from patent pending nanotech research at the University of Delaware, was recently awarded $1,000 in UD’s Hen Hatch competition. But that award was preceded by another honor: selection to participate in the 2012 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC).

As the world’s largest and richest business plan competition, the RBPC supports the creation of new startup companies and brings together business and engineering students from the world’s top educational institutions with successful venture capital investors, entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Out of a pool of 1,600 applicants, T3D gained entry to the top 2.6 percent of just 42 teams invited to compete for more than $1.5 million in prizes. (more…)

Spy Hackers

By Guest PostMay 5, 2012Politicsafghan president, afghan war, afghanistan, al qaeda, america, american espionage, american intelligence policy, Barack Obama, battlefield strategy, China, chinese hacker, digital age, george w. bush, hamid karzai, intelligence historian, iran, lies, matthew aid, middle east, north korea, osama bin laden, pentagon, russian linguist, sneaky guys, somalia, spies, spy hackers, university of delaware, us intelligence, yemen

Intelligence historian cites changing focus of American espionage

In the spy trade, predicting the future is a risky business at best, but experts believe that America’s intelligence efforts will focus on Iran, North Korea and China.

Matthew M. Aid, intelligence historian and expert on the National Security Agency, discussed the forces driving this emerging strategy during a talk on Wednesday, May 2, in Mitchell Hall.

Aid’s talk, “The Future of Intelligence and Espionage,” concluded the spring 2012 Global Agenda speaker series “Spies, Lies and Sneaky Guys: Espionage and Intelligence in the Digital Age.” (more…)

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