Time lapse windmill

The much-hyped (by this blog) University of Delaware Wind Turbine is up! Check it out at the UD Wind Turbine web site and get a glimpse of a carbon-neutral UD. While only the Lewes Campus will be carbon-neutral, it’s a step in the right direction and the UD Alumni Relations Blog cheers. Check out the [...]

Watch the construction

The wind turbine at UD’s Lewes Campus is on its way up. Requiring several dozen cement truck deliveries, the foundation for the 2-megawatt turbine is now in place and the turbine’s tower is going up! Don’t believe us? With our track record, we don’t blame you. Nonetheless, we’re being honest and we can prove it. [...]

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

Wind Turbine Getting Ready to Go Up

We here at the UD Alumni Relations Blog have always said that you know you’ve hit it big when you stand in front of millions to give an award acceptance speech you get your own web site. That’s why nothing can faze us – we’ve already seen the top of the  mountain, set up camp [...]

Shark Month at UD

While the Discovery Channel may be satisfied with one week devoted to sharks, the University of Delaware Alumni Relations Blog is taking the advice of Tracy Jordan and we will “live every week, like it’s Shark Week.” The final installment of the 2009 Ocean Currents Lecture Series, hosted by the University of Delaware College of [...]

UD signs a deal to save the world

The University of Delaware and Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica have signed a memorandum of understanding that could pave the way for a huge wind turbine at UD’s Campus in Lewes, DE next year. While the UD Alumni Relations Blog has no clue what a “memorandum of understanding” is, we’re just going to assume there was a [...]

Power of wind coming to UD?

UD has managed to harness the power of the sun (solar panel design/production),  the earth (bio-gasification and anaerobic digester technology) and water (“Soft path” water strategies). Now the UD’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE) is taking steps to harness the force of the wind. The CEOE’s next Ocean Currents Lecture, to be held [...]

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