“The haunting memories of lost love”

It’s all about collaboration at UD these days.  One only need to flip through the pages of the University of Delaware Research magazine to feel the inter-disciplinary love on campus. While the UD Alumni Relations Blog is all about playing nice and working together, we’ve gotta admit that the latest collaborative effort on campus is [...]

From the pages of the Review

Every Tuesday, UD student-run newspaper The Review is published. Here is a taste of today’s stories: Saturday class proposal likely dismissed, Apple says: “Dead on arrival” says Provost Tom Apple. Take that, education! Single stream recycling succeeds in city at UD: Probably enough cans recycled in one week to build the Eiffel Tower. Alum brings [...]

Saturday night’s all right for classes

University of Delaware Provost Tom Apple has proposed having classes on Saturday reports  The Review. Provost Apple cited low attendance to Friday classes as one of the reasons for the potential move to Saturday classes. “Fridays are disappearing from the academic calendar,” Apple said at the meeting. By meeting twice a week, more pressure would [...]

Know a Dean?

The University of Delaware College of Arts & Sciences is looking for a new dean.  The search committee, headed by Dean of the College of Engineering Michael Chajes, is seeking nominations and applications to lead UD’s largest college. While the UD Alumni Relations Blog isn’t even bothering to apply (b/c we’ll get an interview on [...]

New UD Provost Tom Apple writes…

The latest edition of the UD Alumni Relations Blog’s Letters from Important People series features the words of the University of Delaware’s newest provost, Tom Apple. Apple was previously the dean of UD’s College of Arts & Sciences, and now as provost, he is UD’s chief academic officer. The following text written by UD Provost [...]

Paging John Connor…

The UD Alumni Relations Blog has always been told that we’re doomed to repeat history’s mistakes and while we tend to believe that, we’re not exactly concerned with the lessons that history teaches.  We’re really concerned with the lessons that movies teach us (life is like a box of chocolates – idiots never know what [...]

UD Engineers Without Borders in Cameroon

Engineers Without Borders-USA is a non-profit, humanitarian organization of students and professionals who share a vision of a world where everyone has access to adequate sanitation, safe drinking water and resources to meet their basic needs. Currently the UD EWB chapter is focusing on a potable water supply project in Cameroon, Africa.  The group has [...]

UD Professor to track bizarre stars

UD Professor Judi Provencal is leading a world-wide effort to track stars’ strange behavior.  For most “stars’ strange behavior” conjures thoughts of Britney Spears shaving her head, Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch or anything involving Joaquin Phoenix, but for Provencal, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UD and director of the Delaware Asteroseismic [...]

New deans announced

It appears big announcements are in vogue at UD – just recently a new athletic director was announced, a blimp was launched on Tuesday (pics to come) and two new deans were just hired. On Tuesday, Michael Gamel-McCormick was named the dean of the newly named College of Education and Public Policy (formerly CHEP – [...]

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