If you have to study, might as well soak up some sunshine.
Although they spend their weekdays on campus studying — sometimes outdoors when the weather’s nice — international students Yidi Tao and Meng Xin plan to make the most of weekends during the summer.
Recently, they visited Cincinnati to go to Hua Xin, a Chinese supermarket. Here, the girls buy lots of Chinese sauces, vegetables and special cooking utensils that cannot be purchased at the local Kroger so they can make their favorite Chinese food dishes at home.
Where do the girls plan to travel next? Kings Island. This will be the first time they encounter the infamous twists and turns of the slithering Diamondback.
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Flyers on two wheels
UD Flyers took to two wheels today for Bike to Work Day. A quick morning headcount showed 30 UD faculty, staff and students making their commute to campus through RiverScape — where Five Rivers MetroParks hosts its annual pancake breakfast for more than 500 bicyclists.
Among them was Lingguang Wang, a graduate student in electronic engineering. Last August, his bike was stolen (“or somebody borrowed it,” he said), so he checked out a free RecBike from RecPlex.
“It’s fun, because the trip is along the river. It’s beautiful spring, and I get to exercise my body,” he said.
He had a free breakfast, perused booths from bike-friendly organizations and met new UD people, including Dr. Mary Buchwalder from the health center (pictured with Wang).
Hector Escobar, director of the library’s education and information delivery, helped coordinate UD’s Bike to Work Week events. He said he hoped to draw enough Flyers today to garner the group a team prize from MetroParks.
The ride back to campus was prize enough for some — cool breeze, bright sunshine, amiable geese (often cranky this time of year), new friends and a police escort by three of UD’s seven bicycle officers.
“It was a fun ride,” Escobar said. “Let’s do it again next year.”
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Stepping lively
L- James Fiessinger, 4th year finance major from Cincinnati and R- his roommate Brian Vonderhaar, 4th year finance and entrepreneurship major also from Cincinnati exercise in the cool comfortable RecPlex on the elliptical machines in the afternoon where temperatures outdoors were in the low 80′s.
5-15-12
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Summer maintenance
As part of summertime maintenance and upkeep, a worker from Neff’s, a local contractor, installs a soffit as part of a siding job on a university neighborhood house at 104 Lawnview.
5-14-12 by Larry Burgess
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Major step for a minor
Transit in the transom
Summer civil engineering students look like a stained glass picture as they are framed in the ancient window of the main doorway at Alumni Hall.
5-9-12 by Larry Burgess
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Perfect pomp
It takes years to make it here, but it would take eons to forget all we learned in the time it took us to earn our diplomas. About 2,000 UD students — the most ever in any one semester — received degrees when they crossed in front of the stage in three separate ceremonies at UD Arena last weekend, May 5 and 6. They are now forever Flyers. Hats off to them all. (Click the photo to see more images from the undergraduate commencement, which saw 1,460 graduate.) Read more about graduation here.
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Surveying students
For some civil engineering undergraduates, mapping out plans for summer break will be on hold for a few more weeks.
Rather than join peers in Daytona Beach, Fla., or go home after finals, the 23 students enrolled in the CEE 215L summer course spent the afternoon of May 7 working in teams scattered across campus surveying the land.
According to Deogratias Eustace, the course adviser, students are challenged to apply knowledge of surveying techniques and processes from prior theoretical courses to hands-on, practical situations.
“These students are making great strides in their area,” Eustace said. “They’re all committed to this, which certainly helps.”
Civil engineering majors are required to complete the course to graduate.
Starting next week, the class will be working at Mount St. John’s in Kettering, Ohio. There, students will gain real-world experience in creating topographical maps.
Owned by the Marianist brothers, Mount St. John houses a seminary and retreat center situated on a 150-acre piece of land. Eustace said the brothers requested the students’ help so they could avoid the possibility of extensively harming the grass around campus.
The professor said the brothers look forward to finding out how their land really looks.
To the civil engineering students at UD, it’s all about making business fun again.
“It’s nice because it’s hands-on experience,” Don Wilson, a junior civil engineering major, said. “We’re starting to see the method to the madness.”
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Mary of Cana
The Mary of Cana statue by Marianist Hall from this angle appears to be looking at the pink flowers in the foreground. Could Mary also be looking forward to Mother’s Day this Sunday?
5-8-12 by Larry Burgess
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Happy face
A utility hole cover looked like a smiling gingersnap cookie in the area of the Humanities building the day after the 2012 UD graduation. Chalk drawings like this and inspirational sayings like: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” could be found on campus sidewalks from Saint Mary’s Hall to The Chapel and to Humanities.
5-7-12 by Larry Burgess
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