2008 Woodie Awards
The heavy rain did not prevent the class of 2008 from celebrating together one last time before graduation. The sixth annual Senior Day, normally held on the North Green, took place in the Trabant University Center Multipurpose rooms Friday afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m.
Several registered student organizations and Main Street businesses are joining together today to raise money for those affected by two recent natural disasters in Asia.
With the university currently attempting to transform its ways and go green, Albert Matlack, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, decided to create a course in an attempt to broaden the minds of future generations - a course on green chemistry.
On May 31, each student in the graduating class of 2008 will automatically become a member of the University of Delaware Alumni Association. After that date, despite any official membership titles the graduates earn, they will have to decide for themselves if and how they want to remain part of the university community.
On May 5, the University of Delaware's chapter of the American Association of University Professors and the university administration concluded renegotiations concerning a two-year contract for professors at the university. The contract will be voted on by AAUP members to determine whether or not it will be approved as the final version.
University seniors can be often found scrambling to find a job. But few can say three years later they have built a career that is on its path to fame and recognition.
On May 10, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive successfully collected thousands of pounds of food from doorsteps all over New Castle County. Stamp Out Hunger is the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
As the race for the Democratic nomination draws to a close, superdelegates are expected to play a decisive role in determining who will be the final Democratic candidate, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) or Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill). With five more primaries left, superdelegates may not have as significant a role in the nomination process as first expected.
Officers in the Newark Police Department are stepping up their presence at crosswalks this year. The state Office of Highway Safety has selected pedestrian safety as an area of concern and has provided more than $50,000 to police departments around the state to make improvements.
With the sun finally shining through a cloudless sky, the North Green was transformed into a green block party on Saturday. Greenfest, sponsored by the university's Students for the Environment, brought together live bands and environmentally charged student organizations to promote environmental awareness on campus.
A bill passed by the state's general assembly earlier this month may increase the level of voluntary recycling and the amount of proper disposal of solid waste materials within the state of Delaware, if it is passed by the state Senate.
A new emergency contact system, which will be able to process voice communication and data, text messages and voice messages from Blackberries, will be made available in the Delaware area in late 2009.
The first day of every semester is the same for art professor Robert Straight. Students file into his sunlit art studio in Taylor Hall and sit in the two dozen multicolored chairs strewn between the easels and half-finished paintings propped up along the perimeter of the checkered floor.
Newark's Conservation Advisory Commission is considering proposing an anti-idling ordinance - a regulation that prohibits people from leaving their vehicle running while they are stopped.
After the Spring Semester is over, the university is still active with students of all ages well into the summer months. High school students nationwide participate in the Uninitiates' Introduction to Engineering program, which introduces high school juniors and seniors to the fields of science and engineering. The U.S. Army recently awarded the university funds in order to help boost the program.
Patients at six rural Maryland hospitals will now be monitored by the Christiana Care Health System's eCare Program, which began in November 2005. Doctors and nurses at the Christiana and Wilmington campuses monitor intensive care unit patients in remote locations by computer.
