Three cheers!

The UD Alumni Relations Blog rarely delves into matters all that serious, but when we read that former UD Alumni Association President Len Stark ’91 was confirmed as a judge to the US District Court in Delaware, we sat up straight, buttoned our top buttons and wiped that smirk off our faces. Stark, a Rhodes [...]

See Who’s Coming to FRW 2010

Over 500 Blue Hens and friends have already registered to attend UD Forum & Reunion Weekend 2010 with Friday’s Mug Night on the Green and Saturday’s Blue Hen Barbecue and Blue Hen Boardwalk being the three most popular events. To see a list of alumni, faculty and staff who have registered so far, visit the [...]

Delaware the Musical

Not much else to say about this masterpiece. Cheers to Avi Amon ’08 and Drew Rifkin in UD Admissions for making this happen. “not just traditional flips” Delaware the Musical

Laurie March Design

Thanksgiving is in the rearview and now the true American holiday, pre-Christmas Shopping Season, is upon us.  Not wanting to get left behind, the UD Alumni Relations Blog will be bringing you, loyal reader, all kinds of gift ideas that will make you the toast of the family when the presents are opened. The UD [...]

Recommended reading from David Plouffe

Thanksgiving is in the rearview and now the true American holiday, pre-Christmas Shopping Season, is upon us.  Not wanting to get left behind, the UD Alumni Relations Blog will be bringing you, loyal reader, all kinds of gift ideas that will make you the toast of the family when the presents are opened. David Plouffe, [...]

Blue Hens to launch pumpkins

The UD Alumni Relations Blog loves to see things blow up, destroyed and smashed to bits.  There’s nothing we’d rather do than blast some heavy metal, get fired up and punch a hole in our office door (rawk!).  Several broken metacarpals and zero broken doors later, we’ve decided to let others take care of satisfying [...]

Time to retain counsel?

Wikipedia, the infallible home of all knowledge, defines a university as, “an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education.’” The University of Delaware’s opening sentence of its mission states, “The University of Delaware exists to cultivate learning, develop [...]

Commencement 2009

The University of Delaware celebrating its 160th Commencement Exercises on Saturday and the day was a massive success and, dare we say, saturnalia of achievement.  UD President Patrick Harker spoke of redefining success and Commencement speaker Thomas Friedman challenged the Class of 2009 to restore the values of the Greatest Generation and to be the [...]

The three engineers that did

The UD Engineering Alumni Association recently honored three alumni for their outstanding work:  Steven H. McKnight ’95, earned his Ph.D. in materials science; E. Alan Uebler ’64 ’66,  earned master’s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering; and Sean X. Wang ’92 who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. McKnight is chief of the Army Research [...]

Alumni added to Wall of Fame

Last Friday four distinguished Blue Hens were added to the UD Alumni Wall of Fame. Robert D. Fleck ’69, Francis “Skip” Gardiner Jr. ’62, Spangler “Buzz” Klopp ’66 ’68M and David Plastino ’78 were inducted into UD’s most prestigious alumni group. In recognition of the many notable achievements of its alumni, the University and the [...]

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