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Code Fun
Mel Jurist wants all kids to love engineering as much as she does, but she knows that’s a tall order.
Computer science honors
Professor Taufer is just one of 49 computing professionals this year to be named a distinguished scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading association of computing professionals.
Data science innovation
The ability to access, analyze and draw insights from massive amounts of data already drives innovation in areas ranging from medicine to manufacturing, leading to greater efficiency and a higher quality of life.
Chicken Fat
Just as poultry is steadily gaining in popularity on dinner plates, the chicken is growing in attractiveness as a biomedical model for studying health issues ranging from headaches and ovarian cancer to cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy.
Ask Watson
There’s a container revolution underway, but it doesn’t have anything to do with organizing your closet.
From genes to drugs
In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative, a new research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease.
Big data, big answers
A team led by the University of Delaware’s Michela Taufer took first place in an international computing challenge for developing an accurate, scalable solution to the problem of scoring drug compounds on supercomputers.
CISters in technology
Thanks to funding from the National Center for Women and Information Technology Academic Alliance (NCWIT), in partnership with Symantec, undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Delaware will have the opportunity to participate in an e-textiles workshop this fall that aims to introduce computer science and engineering concepts in a practical and fun way.
Mining for biomedical information
Hagit Shatkay, associate professor of computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware, and Chandra Kambhamettu, professor of computer and information sciences and image analysis expert, have received a grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to apply that principle to biomedical research, using what Shatkay calls “computational glancing.”
Google Glass Explorer
The University of Delaware’s Jingyi Yu is investigating the use of Google Glass as an efficient and affordable way to fit and design prosthetics.
Professor named
The University of Delaware’s Michela Taufer, the David and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair of Computer and Information Sciences, has been elected to a three-year term on the steering committee for the SC Conference Series.
Programming honors
The University of Delaware programming team participated in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest on Nov. 1, finishing 11th among 188 teams in the Mid-Atlantic regionals. Representing UD were Kahn Duong, Andre Marianiello, Ryan McKenna and Alexander Stachnik.