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1:30 p.m., July 8, 2014–Three University of Delaware professors — Pamela Green, Blake Meyers and Cathy Wu — are among the world’s top scientists, according to the recently launched Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list. 

According to Thomson Reuters, Highly Cited Researchers is a compilation of influential names in science that spotlights some of the “standout researchers of the last decade.”

1:17 p.m., May 27, 2014–The Bioinformatics Student Association (BiSA), a registered student organization at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive assistance from the National Center for Women and Information Technology Academic Alliance (NCWIT) Student Seed Fund to support its outreach initiatives. 

8:40 a.m., Feb. 17, 2014–The Association for Mathematics of Language (SIGMOL) honored the University of Delaware’s Vijay K. Shanker with the inaugural S.Y. Kuroda Prize on Jan. 7 for his work in natural language processing.

1:24 p.m., Jan. 6, 2014–Leadership appointments have been announced for the Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE). This statewide program is building Delaware’s biomedical research capability by developing research in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular health and the neurosciences, providing key research resources and enhancing the biomedical science and technology knowledge of the state’s workforce.

10:39 a.m., June 13, 2013–No matter how identical they are biologically,
twins are fundamentally different and unique. In the same way, two cells
that originate from a single parent cell may have the same shape and size,
yet differ in the level of proteins they carry.

Proteins are complex molecules that play a critical role in developing
the structure, function, and regulation of the body’s tissues and organs.

8:37 a.m., April 2, 2013–Salil Lachke, University of Delaware assistant professor of biological sciences and a 2012 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, is one of just eight researchers from around the world selected as an Alcon Research Institute 2013 Young Investigator Grant recipient.

Dec. 6, 2012–Michela Taufer, associate professor at the University of Delaware, has been named the David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Chair of Computer and Information Sciences.

The position is funded through a generous gift from David L. Mills, professor emeritus, and Beverly J.C. Mills, a UD alumna. It is meant to reward exceptional young female faculty talent in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer and Information Sciences.

Dec. 3, 2012–Blake C. Meyers, chair of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Designation as a fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers.

1:02 p.m., Nov. 8, 2012–Every minute of every day, data grows exponentially. Web and social media activities, cell phone and GPS signals, business transaction records, digital documents and more generate massive amounts of data. In fact, this infographic by Josh James, founder and CEO of the business intelligence company Domo, shows Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content, Google receives over two million search queries and consumers spend $272,070 on web shopping each minute.

Oct. 22, 2012–The University of Delaware’s Francis Alison Society has selected Maciek R. Antoniewicz, DuPont Young Professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, to receive its 2012 Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholar award.

Named in honor of a distinguished University professor, the award is given annually to promising and accomplished young faculty. Recipients are chosen by fellow faculty members who have received the Francis Alison Award, the University’s highest faculty honor.

Sept. 27, 2012–University of Delaware professor Hagit Shatkay has co-authored a new book, detailing systematic ways to automate biological text analysis.

Entitled “Mining the Biomedical Literature,” the book offers readers a concise introduction on how to mine biological text effectively in order to find relevant information. The book also describes general techniques for retrieving and extracting information and analyzing text.

Sept. 25, 2012–Abhyudai Singh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, describes a new method to understand sources of “noise” in gene-expression that create variability in protein levels in a paper published in Molecular Systems Biology, a publication of Nature, on Aug. 28.

This noise is expressed as variability in the levels of proteins/mRNAs in a cell.