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Delaware native Alexandra Duszak is a 2011 Honors graduate of the University of Delaware, where she was executive editor of The Review, the university's student newspaper. She will begin a year-long fellowship at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington DC in July.
For anyone living in Washington, D.C., it’s impossible to escape the political chatter that seems to touch every aspect of daily life. This is truer than ever in an election year; the city is already preoccupied with dissecting the merits and faults of each candidate. This, at a time when many Americans are only vaguely [...]
The conversation is changing. Or rather, who directs it is changing. Much as we might love the experience of reading a newspaper, the use of a broadsheet as a primary news source these days is waning. Imagine someone reading a wide-open newspaper while walking through a busy subway station. Fumbling through clumsy pages, he seems [...]
On any given night in Newark—with the possible exception of Sunday—at least one of Main Street’s bars will be hopping. While the busyness of the college town’s various watering holes is to be expected, what may be less so is the seriousness with which its bartenders practice their craft. For these men (and a few [...]
Delaware resident Debi Brooks is a co-founder of The Michael J. Fox Foundation, which funds research for Parkinson’s Disease treatments. Before becoming involved with the foundation in 2000, she worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs. She was the CEO of MJFF until 2007, when she became the executive vice chairman. Brooks sat down with [...]
Bernard Muir has been the director of athletics at the University of Delaware since 2009 and was previously the athletic director at Georgetown University. With the football team’s January run for an NCAA Division I FBS championship still fresh in the minds of Blue Hens and the opening of a 54,000 square-foot addition to the [...]
Delaware native Alexandra Duszak is a 2011 Honors graduate of the University of Delaware, where she was executive editor of The Review, the university’s student newspaper. She will begin a year-long fellowship at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington DC in July. The issue discussed here is especially important to Alexandra because of her [...]
New Castle native and legendary boxing champion Dave Tiberi is a fixture across the Delaware business, civic, non-profit, media and sports scenes. The founder of TNT Video, Dave and his wife Angela recently formed Emergency Response Protocol, a company that uses digital technology to help first responders gather critical location-based information before responding to an [...]
Charles M. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance and the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. A nationally-recognized expert in corporate governance, Elson recently sat down to talk with Alexandra Duszak about threats to Delaware’s unique position as a corporate home, [...]
Ralph Begleiter is a professor of political science and communication at the University of Delaware and is also the director of the university’s Center for Political Communication. He has a 30-year career in broadcast journalism and was CNN’s world affairs correspondent for two decades, during which time he traveled to nearly 100 countries and all [...]
On most Thursday nights in the summer, the Trolley Square mainstay Kelly’s Logan House transforms into a battleground. Over the course of six weeks, 12 local bands—two each night—go head to head as they prepare for Armageddon. Musikarmageddon, that is. While the name and the premise might sound intimidating, the actual competition is anything but. [...]
Organization: Girls On The Run Delaware
Girls on the Run® is a 501(c)3 positive youth development program which combines an interactive curriculum and running to inspire self-respect and healthy lifestyles in pre-teen girls. Our core curriculum addresses many aspects of girls’ development – their physical, emotional, mental and social well-being. Lessons provide girls with the tools to make positive decisions and to avoid risky adolescent behaviors.
Girls on the Run will be hosting their Spring 5k Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at the Wilmington Riverfront. Registration opens at 7am and the race starts at 8:30am.
