By: Melissa Howard

Several university performance groups and local bands will take to the Trabant University Center stage Thursday as part of a universitywide effort to raise money for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The concert is organized by UniteD Students for Haiti, a group ...

By: Elliot Grossman

Newark Mayor Vance A. Funk III kicked off the first “Think Spring Fling” event on Thursday in Townsend Hall, which focused on the relationship between the university and the Food Bank of Delaware. The event, sponsored by the College of Agricul...

By: Lisa Steinberg

Students towed from either the city of Newark or the university find themselves on their way to Ewing Towing Company.  The company, located on Elkton Road near the Maryland border, not only tows for the city of Newark but also the university. The nor...

By: Krista Levy

The Pomeroy Trail, a new asphalt trail to be constructed by the city of Newark along the abandoned Pomeroy rail line, is now in its final stage. The two-mile stretch will begin at the James F. Hall Trail just east of South Chapel Street and run north into...

By: Sean Rader

The card read: “I once told my friends that I was going to get ice cream with another friend, but instead I went to a tanning bed at 7:30 at night so no one would see me.” This was just one of the anonymous confessions turned in to the UD Post...

By: Lauren Zaremba

If passed, a bill introduced late last year in the US House of Representatives would put a university-developed technology in thousands of US Postal Service vehicles. Willett Kempton, professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, began working...

By: Sean Rader

When Mayor Vance A. Funk III spoke of his plans for the Newark train station of the future, he drew on his memory. He reminisced about the old train station of Newark that he recalled from years past.  “It was a major source of transportation w...

By: Kristen Eastman

Astronomy and physics professor Henry Shipman has used every round object he could think of, from soccer balls to peppercorns, to represent the various structures of the solar system for his classes. Ten years ago, Shipman realized he could illustrate the...

By: Melissa Howard

The Faculty Senate voted to remove all of the concentrations in the nutrition program, including gerontology, health and exercise, pediatric and weight management, Sandra Baker, instructor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise science, said....

By: Katherine DiMaggio

After big/little shopping, Christina Wamboldt heads home with a blanket and two shirts embroidered with her sorority’s letters, her wallet $100 lighter. And that was just in one day. Big/little week at the university is a week-long gift-giving marat...

By: Chelsea Caltuna

On Wednesday night, six university students, dressed in outfits ranging from footie pajamas to a revealing schoolgirl uniform, took the stage to compete for the first-ever title of Miss Klondike Kate’s. The pageant, sponsored by the Main Street rest...

By: Pat Gillespie

After its absence during Winter Session, College Taxi, the student-run pedicab service founded last fall, is back in operation but facing new competition with Newark’s newest pedicab company, URide. College Taxi, currently a gratuity-only transporta...

By: Lisa Steinberg

The women’s studies and the black American studies programs have been awarded departmental status by the Faculty Senate, which voted for the change March 1. The proposal will continue to Provost Tom Apple and then to the Board of Trustees for final ...

By: Katherine DiMaggio

Students looking for an international experience may soon have new opportunities to think globally, some of which do not even require leaving the comfort of campus. The recently established Institute for Global Studies will allow students and faculty memb...

By: Adam Tzanis

Posted March 9 A Pennsylvania man was caught trespassing near student houses on Cleveland Avenue early Sunday morning....

By: Adam Tzanis

Posted March 9 An unidentified man attempted to rob a university graduate student Friday night outside of True Value Hardware  at 247 Elkton Road, Newark police said....

By: Nora Kelly

Two more candidates for the position of the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences held forums at the university, citing the university’s connection to the community as a priority for the new dean and a vital part of student and faculty scholars...

By: Josh Shannon

University Police are warning students to be on the lookout for a homeless sex offender known to frequent campus buildings. Police say Scott O. Bancroft, 27, has been arrested on campus at least three times and is banned from university property. “H...

By: Reity O'Brien

April 1 will mark the city of Newark’s official elimination of free Sunday parking. For Elizabeth Dryer, Newark resident and manager of Homegrown Café on Main Street, this is not a welcome change.  “I think it’s a bummer,&rdq...

By: Erica Cohen

In the wake of campus shootings such as the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Northern Illinois, the university’s Division of Student Life launched the Student Behavior Consultation Team late last month to develop support plans promoting student he...