Events

Sustainable Delaware subject of Oct. 15-16 conference, workshop

“Sustainable Delaware 2009” is the subject of the AIA Delaware conference and workshop, scheduled Thursday and Friday, Oct. 15-16, in Clayton Hall at the University of Delaware in Newark. Included on Oct. 16 will be several free public programs with topics geared to homeowners, business, students and locale preservationists.

Deadline for environmental poster presentations extended to Oct. 20

Oct. 14, 2009----The deadline for graduate students to submit posters on research topics such as sustainable energy, policy, climate change, environmental contamination or ecology to be shown during Student Environmental Sustainability Day on Thursday, Oct. 22, has been extended to Tuesday, Oct. 20.

New projects are welcome, but posters from previously completed original research are also acceptable. The poster session will be held on The Green at the University of Delaware's Newark campus.

Deadline for environmental sustainability video presentations extended to Oct. 20

Oct. 13, 2009----The deadline to submit video presentations to be shown during Student Environmental Sustainability Day on Thursday, Oct. 22, has been extended to Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Submitted videos, which should have a focus on environmental sustainability in the community, will stream in Memorial Hall during the daylong activities, which will take place on The Green. Topics can include issues such as sustainable energy, policy or any other related aspect that students would like to address.

Oct 21: Workshops scheduled for UD Sustainability Day

Several workshops on sustainability will be held during the University of Delaware Campus Sustainability Day, Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Rooms 209 and 211 of the Trabant University Center.

Sustainability Day will be part of a three-day celebration of the environment at UD, which will culminate in the official launch of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) on Friday, Oct. 23.

Invitation to the opening of the Delaware Environmental Institute

Oct. 23: World-renowned environmental scientists to speak at DENIN opening

Francois Morel, Albert G. Blanke Jr. Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University, and William H. Schlesinger, president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, will present scientific talks during the official launch of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) at the University of Delaware's Mitchell Hall in Newark, Del., on Friday, Oct. 23.

Schlesinger will delve into the practical application of discovery research in ecosystem science and biogeochemistry in his talk, “How Can Studies of Ecosystem Science and Biogeochemistry Help Solve Environmental Problems?”

Oct. 30-31: UD to host conference on 'Ethics of Climate Change'

The University of Delaware will host a conference on “The Ethics of Climate Change: Intergenerational Justice and the Global Challenge” Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30-31, at the Clayton Hall Conference Center on the University's Newark campus.

Advanced registration is free for University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Wesley College and Delaware Technical and Community College students and faculty and is available online. On-site registration begins at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29 and is available throughout the conference.

The conference will include presentations and panel discussions by nationally and internationally recognized climate scientists, philosophers, economists, and ethicists on how humans should respond to climate change.

Nov. 11: Science Café returns to Newark

The Science, Ethics, and Public Policy Program (SEPP) at the University of Delaware will bring its Science Café program back to downtown Newark this fall, for more informal monthly discussions among scientists and community members.

Gatherings will be held at Iron Hill Brewery, 147 E. Main St. in Newark, at 5:30 p.m.

On Wednesday, Nov. 11, Tom Hanson, associate professor of marine biosciences at the University of Delaware and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, will present “It's a Microbial World.”