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Who should attend?
General assignment reporters; business, science, and technology writers in the print, broadcast, and online media
Who will lead the workshop?
The workshop will be led by experts from academia and from the media.
Where will the workshop be held?
The Trabant University Center, Room 209, on UD's main campus in Newark, Del., is our base. A parking garage is located next door.
What will be covered?
Leading experts will present on energy policy, solar power, wind power, vehicle-to-grid technology, and more. A hands-on component on fuel cells, a tour of UD's hydrogen bus, and an expert panel on emerging technologies and what lies ahead also will be featured. Each media participant also will receive a resource kit with video, high-resolution photographs, and other useful materials for reporting on alternative energy.
Why is the University of Delaware hosting this event?
For
nearly four decades, UD has been leading research on solar cells, catalysts
for fuel production, lightweight composites for fuel-efficient vehicles,
and energy and environmental policy. Today, UD is expanding on these
strengths and building new, nationally prominent research programs
across the energy spectrum, including wind power, vehicle-to-grid technology,
hydrogen storage, and other areas. The University
of Delaware Energy Institute (UDEI) &mdash a portal to UD's energy
research, policy, and education activities &mdash launched in 2008.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy selected UD to be the home
of a new Energy
Frontier Research Center.
What is the registration deadline?
There is no fee to attend the workshop. Limited travel stipends are available to those who register by March 31. Registration officially closes on April 9.
Questions?
Contact the workshop organizers in the UD Office of Communications & Marketing.
This workshop is organized by the University of Delaware Office of Communications & Marketing in partnership with the University of Delaware Research Office. It is sponsored by the Unidel Foundation.
The University of Delaware has a strong tradition of excellence, from its founding as a small private academy in 1743, to the research-intensive, technologically advanced institution of today.
Our alumni tell our story of achievement, from the first class, which included three signers of the Declaration of Independence and one signer of the U.S. Constitution, to the more than 140,000 living Blue Hens who are making vital contributions in science, business, education, the arts, policy, health care, the environment, and many other areas. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill, are both UD alumni.
A top-tier research institution, UD is a Land Grant, Sea Grant, and Space Grant institution and holds the Carnegie Foundation’s highest designation for research activity &mdash a designation accorded to less than 3 percent of U.S. colleges and universities.
A state-assisted, privately governed institution, UD currently offers 125 undergraduate majors and 75 minors, and 43 doctoral and 110 master’s programs. The student body includes more than 16,000 undergraduates, 3,500 graduate students, and 1,000 students in professional and continuing studies from across the United States and around the world. Courses are offered across seven colleges: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; College of Arts and Sciences; Lerner College of Business and Economics; College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; College of Education and Public Policy; College of Engineering; and College of Health Sciences.
Among UD’s distinguished faculty are internationally known authors, scientists, and artists including Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellows, members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
State-of-the-art facilities support UD’s academic activities, from the 146-foot Hugh R. Sharp—heralded as the most advanced research vessel in the United States, to a new airship that will assist in studying the Earth from above, with applications in geography, geology, coastal field biology, ecology, and oceanography.
In addition to the Georgian-inspired main campus in Newark, Delaware, UD has locations around the state &mdash in Wilmington, Dover, Georgetown, and Lewes &mdash and teaching facilities in London, Paris, and China. A thriving study-abroad program and expanding international partnerships further enhance our students' education as global citizens. Learn more
The Unidel Foundation was founded in 1939 by Amy Elizabeth du Pont in memory of her father, Eugene du Pont, former head of the DuPont Co. Miss du Pont had served on the Board of Trustees’ advisory committee on the Women's College, which with Delaware College, became the University of Delaware in the 1920s. She was the first person in Delaware to direct her philanthropy to the higher education of women. Among many initiatives, gifts from Unidel support a prestigious scholarship program and have also helped to launch initiatives in undergraduate and graduate education, to renovate signature buildings on campus, to establish endowed faculty chairs, and to create a nationally recognized University Honors Program.
