Campus Voices, University of Delaware

Jawanza Keita joined us to introduce listeners to UD's #VoicesOfUDel campaign, designed to foster positive conversation that promotes the value of diversity.

Associate Professor Mark Serva, Accounting and MIS, and Marcin Cencek (A&S '14) joined us to talk about UD's Global Enterprise Technology minor and internship.

Associate Professor Adam Rome, Unidel Helen Gouldner Chair in Environment, joined us to preview the films and format of the first annual Lights, Camera, EARTH! film festival at UD. In addition to describing the 11 films that will be shown Feb. 21-23 in Mitchell Hall, Prof. Rome talked about UD's new program in Environmental Humanities.

We were joined today by four middle schoolers who are actively campaigning to get Delawareans to recycle their "organic trash" into compost; even signing up over 150 households in one of their pilot programs.

Asst. Profs. Jenni Buckley and Heather Doty, Mechanical Engineering, and Melissa Jurist, program director for UD K-12 engineering, talked about some of the reasons so few women join engineering and other STEM disciplines. We had such an interesting discussion, that we expect them to come back again this spring.

Bob Gonyea, keynote speaker at the 2014 UD Winter Faculty Institute, joined us for a preview of some of the themes he'll raise on campus on January 9. His data shows that retaining and engaging university students is the business of faculty AND support staff, and that certain kinds of learning engage students more readily.

Babtunde Ogunnaike, Dean of UD's College of Engineering, and Scott Grzenda, coach of UD's women's soccer team, headline a group of UD soccer experts as we dissect the draw for the summer 2014 FIFA World Cup. None of us picked Spain!

WVUD conducted a bilingual interview with Mario Vargas Llosa when he visited campus on October 31, 2013. Hear him talk about the creative process, the Internet, and politics. A very powerful interview.

Sociology prof Victor Perez talked with us about how the concept of Cancer Clusters is used as a rhetorical device and about how social sciences can inform the physical sciences in putting together a complete picture of environmental phenomena.

Most of the time, Professor Joel Best talked about the student loan mess, but he is the world's expert on certain contemporary legends: poisoned Halloween candy and middle-schooler's alleged sex games. It's a fascinating interview!