Delaware Environmental Institute

Category: Students In Action

  • Jason Geiger, New DENIN Fellow, Is Developing Technology to Remediate Oil and Natural Gas Brine Spills

    “I wasn’t always a great student,” said Jason Geiger, newly named DENIN Fellow for 2023–2025. “If you would go back and tell my high school teachers that I’m a graduate student who’s been awarded a fellowship, they wouldn’t believe you. But finding som

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  • Research by New DENIN Fellow Hanan Abou Ali Aims to Reduce Hunger in Nigeria

    Hanan Abou Ali lives by the belief that we are all supposed to help each other. She hopes her Ph.D. work will help the world meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially number 2: End hunger. Her Ph.D. research, now supported by a

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  • New DENIN Fellow Ross Klauer Hopes to Use Enzymes and Microorganisms from the Mealworm Gut to Break Down Plastics

    Picture a writhing mass of mealworms. What do you think of next? Ross Klauer, a recipient of a 2023–2025 DENIN Fellowship, thinks plastics decomposition. Klauer’s Ph.D. research in chemical engineering is examining the breakdown of common plastics in t

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  • Michael Powers, New DENIN Fellow, Is Building a Model of Permafrost Distribution in the Central Andes Mountains to Allow Coexistence of Drinking Water Reserves and Mining

    About half of the world’s copper is mined in the high Andes Mountains of South America. Dissertation research by newly named DENIN Fellow Michael Powers will help balance concern for preserving the region’s permafrost and rock glaciers as drinking wate

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  • Three Blue Hens Honored For Green Efforts

    UD Office of Sustainability recognizes student, staff and faculty member Three Blue Hens with strong commitments to the health of Planet Earth have won 2023 Green Hen Awards, selected by the University of Delaware’s Office of Sustainability. The 2023 w

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  • Kyle VanHemert, New DENIN Fellow, Is Examining How Concept of “The Environment” Emerged

    Kyle VanHemert is one of five newly named DENIN Environmental Fellows for 2022–2024. These competitive fellowships are awarded to UD doctoral students whose research bridges science and society. VanHemert is unusual among DENIN Fellows in that he’s not

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  • R. Alan Mason, New DENIN Fellow, Is Studying Movement of Plastics in Delaware Bay

    R. Alan Mason is among five UD doctoral students recently named DENIN Environmental Fellows for 2022–2024. These highly competitive and prestigious fellowships offer financial support and professional development opportunities to students at UD whose P

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  • New DENIN Fellow Christy Li Is Modeling Mercury Contamination in South River, Virginia

    Christy Li grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, where the outsized influence of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay sparked an early interest in the environment. Now as a doctoral student at UD and a newly announced Fellow of the Delaware Enviro

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  • New DENIN Fellow Dannielle Pratt Aims to Understand Ghost Forests and Failing Cropland

    Dannielle Pratt, doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering, was recently named a DENIN Environmental Fellow for 2022–2024. She’s studying sea level rise along the Delmarva Peninsula as part of the National Science Foundation–funded Coasta

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  • Bradie S. Crandall, New DENIN Fellow, Aims to Turn Nitrate Pollution into Fertilizer

    Bradie Crandall is among five UD doctoral students recently named DENIN Environmental Fellows for 2022–2024. These highly competitive and prestigious fellowships offer financial support and professional development opportunities to students at UD whose

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