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3 unusual facts about University of Delaware


Bo Levi Mitchell

He helped lead EWU to the NCAA Division I FCS National Championship with a 20-19 come-from-behind victory over the University of Delaware, the school's first national championship in football.

John DePol

The University of Delaware Library holds the only known collection of DePol's early etchings.

Sidney Lawton Smith

Collections of bookplates designed, etched, and engraved by Sidney Lawton Smith are held in the Lewis Stark Bookplate Collection at the University of New Hampshire, and the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection at the University of Delaware.


A News

The program, written at Duke University by Steve Daniel and Tom Truscott, was released on a tape given out at the June 1980 USENIX conference held at the University of Delaware.

Alan Gowans

A former president of the Society of Architectural Historians, he served as chairman of the art history department at the University of Delaware and as founding chairman of the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.

Chen Shi-shuenn

Chen holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University, master's degree in civil engineering from University of Delaware and doctoral's degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.

Dunmore High School

Student-athletes from Dunmore High School have accepted scholarships to many nationally ranked colleges and universities including: Bucknell University, Bryant University, University of Hartford and University of Delaware.

FingerWorks

Founded by John Elias and Wayne Westerman of the University of Delaware in 1998, it produced a line of multi-touch products including the iGesture Pad and the TouchStream keyboard, which were particularly helpful for people suffering from RSI and other medical conditions.

Jancee Dunn

She grew up in Chatham, New Jersey and attended University of Delaware but dropped out 17 credits short of her Bachelor's degree in English.

The Twin Atlas

The Twin Atlas is a folk-rock band, known for its atmospheric folk and pop songs, written and home-recorded by Sean Byrne with Lucas Zaleski, who began playing together when they met at the University of Delaware in the early 1990s and began releasing music as The Twin Atlas in 2000.

Thomas McKean

McKean County, Pennsylvania is named in his honor, as is Thomas McKean High School in New Castle County, also McKean Street in Philadelphia, and the McKean Hall dormitory at the University of Delaware.

Trailer Bridge

Suter's education included a BS in Mathematics from the University of Delaware, an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.


see also

2009 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team

The biggest coup for the University of Delaware in the off-season was the addition of quarterback Pat Devlin, a transfer from Penn State and former high school All-American out of Downingtown East High School.

Bobby Carpenter

Bob Carpenter Center, the basketball and multipurpose arena at the University of Delaware

Howard Clarke

He has also authored The Art of the Odyssey (Prentice-Hall, 1967; rpt. Duckworth, 19940); Homer's Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey (University of Delaware Press, 1981), he has translated from the Polish The Return of Odysseus by Stanisław Wyspiański (Indiana University Press, 1966); and he has edited Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Odyssey (Prentice-Hall, 1983) and Vergil's Aeneid in the Dryden Translation (Penn State Press, 1987).

James Shulman

His dissertation, which examined how heroes made decisions in the complex world of Renaissance epic poetry, received the John Addison Porter Prize in 1993 and forms the basis of The Pale Cast of Thought: Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic (University of Delaware Press, 1998).

John McNutt

John G. McNutt, professor of Urban Affairs at the University of Delaware

Pam Gregory

Gregory began working at the University of Delaware rink in 1990 and previously coached Scott Smith, Jeff Merica, Chrisha Gossard, Sara Wheat, Kelsey Drewel, and Christine Zukowski.

University of Delaware Press

The University of Delaware Press publishes books in all scholarly fields, but its strengths are in literary studies, eighteenth century studies, French literature, history, the history of art, and studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore.

YoUDee

According to the University of Delaware, YoUDee's colors are Gold and Blue because his great-great-great-grandfather was awarded the Gold Medal for Valor during the Battle of Trenton in the American Revolutionary War.