25 Saturday Jan 2014
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The Atlantic 10 Conference announced Thursday its annual “Basketball Legends,” and current University of Delaware women’s basketball associate head coach CRR Jeanine Radice is one of 26 former basketball student-athletes and coaches named by the league for the immeasurable impact each made on their respective institution and basketball program. She was honored for her playing career at Fordham University. Congratulations, Jeanine.
07 Tuesday Jan 2014
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cardiovascular disease, edwards, kidney disease, kukich, research grant, riordan, University of Delaware
CRR Dave Edwards recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the effects of exercise on vascular function in people with chronic kidney disease.
“Studies have shown that patients with chronic kidney disease are more likely to die of a cardiovascular disease such as a heart attack than of end-stage kidney failure, so we’re very interested in studying vascular function in this population,” says Edwards, associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology at the University of Delaware. “Once we have a better understanding of the reasons for poor blood vessel function, we can develop better interventions.
See story, written by CRR Diane Kukich.
CRR Charlie Riordan was recently honored by the American Chemical Society with the Delaware Section Award. Riordan, vice provost for research at the University of Delaware, and his research team are known for their work in bioinorganic chemistry, an area of inquiry that seeks to understand the function of metals in biology, human health, and disease diagnosis and treatment.
13 Friday Dec 2013
For all you runners who are also bicycle enthusiasts, you may have heard of or even be fanatical devotees of the annual Tour de France—cyclists’ 23-day version of an ultra-ultramarathon. And surely you’ve heard of deposed seven-time champion Lance Armstrong.
In all likelihood, though, you’ve never heard about the Tour de Lead Graffiti. That is, until now.
Tour de Lead Graffiti Stage 5 poster by CRR Mark Deshon, Ray Nichols, and Jill Cypher
CRR Mark Deshon gained some measure of national notoriety, as the letterpress poster that he had collaboratively designed and printed back in July of 2013 was published in the Dec. 16th, 2013, edition of Sports Illustrated, along with a small article on Lead Graffiti’s “Tour de Lead Graffiti” written by SI writer Alexander Wolff.
Wolff writes, “Each morning during the Tour de France, members of the [Newark, Del.] Lead Graffiti printmaking collective gathered to watch that day’s stage. They took note of every salient breakaway, pratfall and Phil Ligett bon mot, then spent the rest of the day producing a broadside that captured the action. The results—visible at leadgraffiti.com—are like the peloton, a riot of shapes and colors. The designers call what they do ‘endurance letterpress,’ for they repeat the routine 23 days in a row and, like the Tour itself, scrupulously post total elapsed time.”
Deshon was completely surprised. His reaction to leafing through the magazine he had just picked out of his mailbox and seeing his poster on page 25 was, “My poster. In a national magazine! How could this have happened?” Roughly translated into the native language of the Tour—“Sacré bleu!”
See the production story of the poster and Deshon’s own recollections.
09 Monday Dec 2013
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half marathon, kauffman, marathon, opila, parent, parsons, rehoboth beach, simmons, strickland
CRR Christina Parsons flashes that smile of accomplishment after finishing her first marathon.
Three CRRs celebrated Delaware Day by braving the December 7th cold and completing the Rehoboth Beach Seashore Marathon; three others ran the half-marathon.
CRR Christina Parsons finished her first marathon in under four hours, clocking in at 3:55:32. This placed her 13th in her age group (45-49) and 280th overall, out of 806 finishers.
CRR Bob Opila finished 12th among the 60-64s with a 4:06:09 in his first marathon since returning from Australia and Turkey. New CRR Michelle Parent finished her marathon in 5:06:34. Congratulations, you three!
In the half-marathon, CRR Dan Simmons posted a 1:37:45 to win the 65-69 age group, coming in 75th overall out of 1184 finishers! CRR Theresa Kauffman finished 9th among the 50-54s and 256th overall with a 1:50:34. CRR Rachel Strickland finished in 2:31:45, plus she ran along with Parent to help her finish the marathon, despite some painful tendinitis. A good day’s work.
29 Friday Nov 2013
Along with another University of Delaware professor, CRR Charlie Riordan has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Congrats, Charlie.
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