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Spring 2021 Seminar Series
Please join us for the Project WiCCED Seminar Series for Spring 2021 to learn about ongoing projects and upcoming opportunities for collaboration within our network. Show your support for a diverse group of students, with our new featured student lightning talk! Click...
Environmental Monitoring: NASA EPSCoR funding enables UD’s new remote sensing big data science center
Knowing how to mitigate these changes requires a deeper understanding of how the coastal ocean responds to global environmental changes and regional processes. This includes the ocean and the land, but also the in-between spaces, such as marshes and wetlands. As the...
Co-Pi Donald Sparks Honored by the European Geosciences Union
The University of Delaware’s Donald Sparks, Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair in Plant and Soil Sciences and director of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN), has won the 2021 Philippe Duchaufour Medal given by the European Geosciences Union. EGU’s Soil System...
The Project WiCCED Network in Action
Check out what our team members have been up to lately, WiCCED September Newsletter.
Partnering with Oyster Farmers for “Citizen Scientists Program”
Scientific research is often motivated by a desire to improve the livelihoods of targeted communities. However, researchers often work divorced from potential stakeholders, making it challenging to design, implement, and communicate beneficial research. In contrast,...
2020-2021 Wesley College STEM Program Scholarship Recipients
Wesley College’s STEM UR-CATS (Undergraduate Research – Center for Analytics, Talent, and Success) allows for engaged STEM learning in different domains and at varying levels of intensity. In fall 2020, through external federal and state funding, Wesley’s STEM UR-CATS...
EPSCoR Project WiCCED Seminar Series 2020
Beginning on September 30, 2020, we will be hosing a monthly research spotlight seminar series to share in the work that is taking place across our institutions! Project WiCCED Seminar Series (9 23 20)pdf The first seminar will be Dr. Kent Messer,...
What this Wesley College survey says about virtual education and mental health amid COVID-19
Sixty-eight STEM students at the Dover school were surveyed. Here's what they said about their changing sense of community, career interests and more - click link here.
Wesley College students co-author peer-reviewed journal article with their STEM program advisor
Biological chemistry majors, Jeremey Wirick (BS, 2019) and Osama Mahmoud (BS, 2020) made significant undergraduate research contributions and earned co-authorship on a scientific article in the high-impact International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS). The IJMS...
Op-Ed: Despite Coronavirus challenges, Delawareans still want to invest in cleaner water
Our Social Dimensions team (Kent Messer, George Parsons and Laura Paul) Â recently asked - Do Delawareans still want to invest in cleaner water? To find out what they learned, click link here.