Advancing Women in the Professoriate

Advancing Women in the Professoriate

Apr 18, 2019 | Faculty

ADVANCE Institute offers grants to empower female faculty Kathy McCoy was reluctant to step outside her comfort zone as professor of computer and information sciences, a position she had held for 15 years at the University of Delaware. She didn’t necessarily see...
Delaware Computer Science Education Summit

Delaware Computer Science Education Summit

Apr 11, 2019 | Computer Science

Education leaders work to increase K-12 students’ access to computer science An increasing number of Delaware high schools offer computer science courses. Still, there’s more work to be done to ensure that every child in the First State has the opportunity to learn...
Virtual Reality for Physical Therapy

Virtual Reality for Physical Therapy

Mar 21, 2019 | Computer Science, Education

Computer science professor develops award-winning tool for improving upper body mobility A University of Delaware professor was part of a team that won the Best Virtual Reality Prize at theReality Virtually Hackathon, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Chandrasekaran Reflects on High Performance Computing

Chandrasekaran Reflects on High Performance Computing

Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized

Sunita Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of computer science at UD, and Jack Dongarra, University Distinguished Professor in the electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, recently reflected on their experiences at SC18,...
High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing

Jan 15, 2019 | News

New HPC cluster named for former UD IT director Jane Caviness The University of Delaware’s newest high performance computing (HPC) community cluster, named Caviness, puts vast computational power at researchers’ disposal. Named for Jane Caviness, a former UD employee...
No Dinosaur Bones Here

No Dinosaur Bones Here

Jan 4, 2019 | News

Computing Museum creators reflect on rapid advancement of technology Museums commonly feature items such as ancient artifacts and dinosaur bones. That’s not the case for the Computing Museum housed in Smith Hall at the University of Delaware. Many of the items on...
Highly Cited Researchers

Highly Cited Researchers

Dec 20, 2018 | Faculty, Honors

Cathy Wu, Craig Brown and Anderson Janotti make list of top influencers Engineers at the University of Delaware do research that garners attention from scientists and engineers around the world, and three faculty members in the College of Engineering were recently...
Students, Faculty Excel at HPC Conference

Students, Faculty Excel at HPC Conference

Dec 18, 2018 | Engineering, News, Students

The University of Delaware was well represented by undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, in November 2018. Joshua H. Davis, a first-year student in...
In Memoriam: John Cavazos

In Memoriam: John Cavazos

Nov 12, 2018 | News, Uncategorized

John Cavazos Jr., an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, died on Nov. 3, 2018. He was 49. “John left us all too soon,” said Kathy McCoy, chair...