1:30 p.m., Oct. 15, 2008----Representatives from Exelon Corp. and the University of Delaware will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, Oct. 16, and will ring The Closing Bell® that day in celebration of the University's state-of-the-art Exelon Trading Center.

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Ringing the bell will be Ian McLean, executive vice president for finance and markets at Exelon, and UD President Patrick T. Harker. A link to a live webcast of the closing bell ceremony will be available on the University's homepage, [www.udel.edu], at 3:59 p.m., that day.

The Exelon Trading Center allows University of Delaware students to get real-world training without leaving the campus. Funded in part by a generous donation from Exelon, the center opened earlier this year and features information needed to trade commodities, specifically the purchase and sale of electricity in addition to securities.

The 2,200-square-foot educational trading facility is designed to replicate the trading floors in investment banks, brokerage houses and hedge funds on Wall Street. The center contains 16 classroom workstations, four research room workstations, an instructor podium and real-time feeds to two tickers and four LCD displays.

McLean said Exelon is proud to partner with the University of Delaware to provide students with access to real-world learning tools that will help them address emerging issues. McLean said, “Such educational experiences will better prepare students to tackle tomorrow's exciting business challenges, challenges like using competitive energy markets to identify the most cost-effective solutions to global climate change.”

"The University of Delaware's partnership with Exelon is truly a winner for everyone," Harker said, "It provides our Lerner College of Business and Economics students with hands-on experience in the trading of commodities, gives them internship opportunities and allows our faculty members to work with professionals at Exelon."

Others attending from the University will include Conrado M. "Bobby" Gempesaw, dean of the Lerner College of Business and Economics, and seven UD business students: Robert Sassa, a senior finance major from Newark, Del.; Abner Tsadick, an Exelon employee and graduate student in the Executive MBA Program, from Wilmington, Del.; Chris Hutchinson, a master's student in finance from Dover, Del.; Laura Voltz, a senior finance and accounting major from Claymont, Del.; Marcella Sontheimer, a senior finance and accounting major from Hyde Park, N.Y.; Samantha Vauthier, a senior accounting and finance major from Lititz, Pa.; Chris Moore, a senior finance and management major from Newark. Del.; and Jason Dague, a senior economics and finance major from Hershey, Pa.

Exelon Corp., one of the nation's largest electric utilities with nearly $19 billion in annual revenues, has one of the industry's largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois and Pennsylvania and natural gas to 480,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon trades on the NYSE under the ticker EXC.

One of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country, the University of Delaware is the flagship university of the state of Delaware. With a distinguished faculty and strengths in study abroad, undergraduate research and discovery learning, the University is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as having very high research activity-a designation accorded fewer than 3 percent of U.S. colleges and universities. The University offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate degrees across seven colleges, including the Lerner College of Business and Economics, which is ranked among the top 25 public university business colleges in the country.