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93-568: MMDF was originally developed at the University of Delaware in the late 1970s, and provided the initial means of operating CSNET , the predecessor to NSFNET . It grew in popularity throughout the 1980s, and was selected by the Santa Cruz Operation as the MTA it would distribute with SCO UNIX in 1989. It was also adopted as the basis for other commercial efforts, including the gateway used to connect

186-641: A charter from the colonial Penn government as the Academy of Newark in 1769. In 1781, the academy trustees petitioned the Delaware General Assembly to grant the academy the powers of a college, but no action was taken on this request. In 1818, the Delaware legislature authorized the trustees of the Newark Academy to operate a lottery in order to raise funds with which to establish a college. Commencement of

279-523: A circle (now called Magnolia Circle) instead of curving the straight paths, which rendered the misalignment unnoticeable to the pedestrian. Other major facilities that have opened since 2000 include: The University of Delaware Wilmington Campus is outside of the Wilmington city limits, in unincorporated New Castle County. In 2015, the UD Board of Trustees elected Dennis Assanis as the 28th President of

372-475: A collegiate department and an academic department, both of which were housed in Old College. In January 1835, the Delaware legislature passed legislation specifically authorizing the Newark Academy trustees to suspend operations and to allow the educational responsibilities of the academy to be performed by the academic department of Newark College. If, however, the college ever ceased to have an academic department,

465-561: A consequence of its historical origins. Among those sources is the State of Delaware budget. In fiscal year 2020, 10% of the university's revenue came from government grants. Tuition, room, board, and fees were 57% of the university's total revenue. The Delaware First fundraising and engagement campaign was the largest philanthropic campaign in UD history. Launched in November 2017, the campaign exceeded

558-606: A family debt. When Penn arrived in the New World later that year, he renamed the county as Sussex and the Hoernkills settlement as Lewes, in commemoration of the county and town in England . Lewes became and remained the county seat of Sussex County until 1791, when it was moved to a more west-central county location, the current town of Georgetown . The town was also known as "Lewistown" or "Lewestown". On April 6 and 7, 1813, during

651-468: A former Penn Central Railroad right-of-way. The Lewes Board of Public Works (BPW) provides electricity, water, and sewer service to the city. The BPW was established by an act of the Delaware General Assembly on March 15, 1901. Lewes formerly had a power plant that generated electricity for the city, but the plant's usage was reduced as the city brought in power from outside and the plant

744-508: A household in the city was $ 66,387, and the median income for a family was $ 72,605. Males had a median income of $ 39,500 versus $ 35,227 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 36,685. About 3.1% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 11.3% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over. Lewes is served by the Cape Henlopen School District . The Lewes School District

837-531: A passenger train route from Lewes that followed a path to the north of the DCL route. It followed a path through Milton, Ellendale, Greenwood, crossing the state border into Maryland, then continuing further west to Love Point , whereupon travelers would connect with a ferry to Baltimore. This service was replaced by bus service by early 1932. A rail with trail known as the Georgetown-Lewes Trail opened along

930-450: A result the state of Delaware established Delaware State College near Dover for black students, which opened in 1892.) In 1891 and 1893 Delaware College received appropriations from the State of Delaware for the construction of new buildings. One new building built with this money was Recitation Hall. As a result of this additional funding, Delaware College was invigorated. New buildings, improved facilities, and additional professors helped

1023-471: A short existence, as a local tribe of Lenape Indians killed all 32 settlers in 1632. The area remained rather neglected by the Dutch until, under the threat of annexation from the colony of Maryland , the city of Amsterdam made a grant of land at the Hoernkills (the area around Cape Henlopen, near the current town of Lewes) to a group of Mennonites for settlement in 1662. A total of 35 men were to be included in

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1116-543: Is 87.7 °F (30.9 °C) and a low of 70.6 °F (21.4 °C); in January, the average high is 46.2 °F (7.9 °C) with an average low of 30.2 °F (−1.0 °C). The month of highest average rainfall is July with 4.95 inches (125.7 mm) of rain, while February is historically the driest month, receiving an average of only 3.17 inches (80.5 mm) of rain. The highest official temperature ever recorded in Lewes

1209-411: Is an MTA oriented around the idea of channels. Each means of formatting and transporting mail into or out of the mail system is a channel, and is implemented by a separate executable. This makes MMDF a highly modular system, with each module having all of the idiosyncratic syntax and semantic information necessary for a particular email technology or network, as well as the least privilege necessary, with

1302-571: Is an organization that promotes and maintains the beauty of Historic Lewes. Lewes in Bloom won America in Bloom's contest in 2003, 2005, 2010 and 2015 for cities with population under 5,000. In 2012 and 2015 Lewes in Bloom was honored in the AIB “Circle of Champions”. United States Lightship Overfalls (LV-118/WAL-539) , one of nine surviving lightships at museums in the United States , is moored in Lewes along

1395-480: Is considered legacy software . University of Delaware The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD , UDel , or Delaware ) is a privately governed, state-assisted land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware , United States. UD offers four associate's programs, 163 bachelor's programs, 136 master's programs, and 64 doctoral programs across its ten colleges and schools. The main campus

1488-641: Is hockey team competes in the ESCHL. The University of Delaware traces its origins to 1743, when Presbyterian minister Francis Alison opened a "Free School" in his home in New London, Pennsylvania . During its early years, the school was run under the auspices of the Philadelphia Synod of the Presbyterian Church. The school changed its name and location several times. It moved to Newark by 1765 and received

1581-649: Is home to seven academic departments offering bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree programs. Areas of research focus include advanced manufacturing and materials, coastal and environmental engineering, translational biomechanics, engineered therapeutics and scholarship of engineering education. Undergraduate degrees are offered in biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, construction engineering and management, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, information systems, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering. As of fall 2019,

1674-629: Is in Newark, with satellite campuses in Dover , Wilmington , Lewes , and Georgetown, Delaware . With 24,221 students as of Fall 2023 , UD is the largest university in Delaware by enrollment. UD is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation , UD spent $ 186 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 119th in

1767-484: Is north of Delaware Avenue, contains the original men's dormitories (now co-educational) of what was then Delaware College, as well as several classroom buildings north of Main Street in what had been the original Engineering departments. "Central," which lies between Delaware Avenue and Memorial Hall, contains many large classroom buildings and laboratories. "South Central," which extends from Memorial Hall to Park Place, houses

1860-401: Is not in the city but is in the nearby city of Georgetown . The Lewes School first opened as a multi-grade school in 1921 and became Lewes High School by 1946. It initially held Cape Henlopen High School when it opened in 1969. Lewes School will be repurposed as the new Richard A. Shields Elementary. Lewes serves as a vacation and resort spot popular with residents of Washington, D.C. , and

1953-446: Is performed by hard-coded software, with configuration limited to choices among existing rewriting alternatives. This makes configuration simpler and safer for administrators, who use simple key-value textual tables. It also takes more effort to create a new rewriting choice, but that effort needs to occur only one time, by a single technical expert. The main types of tables are domain, channel, and alias tables. DNS can be and usually

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2046-547: Is primarily residential. It is the former home to the Pencader Complex, which was demolished and replaced by three new residence halls. A total of four residence hall buildings have been built, three named after the three University alumni who signed the Declaration of Independence ( George Read , Thomas McKean , and James Smith , who signed for Pennsylvania); the fourth residence hall was named Independence Hall. In addition,

2139-476: Is ranked 352nd (tie) globally according to U.S. News & World Report (2023). The university is ranked between 401st and 500th globally according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2024). The U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Delaware's engineering graduate program as #47 for 2022 and the undergraduate program as #53 for 2021. U.S. News & World Report ranked

2232-575: Is the largest of UD's colleges, with 6358 undergraduate students, 1132 graduate students and more than 600 faculty members, as of fall 2019. The College of Arts and Sciences includes one of six undergraduate programs in Art Conservation in North America. The College of Earth, Ocean and Environment is made up of the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, the Department of Earth Sciences, and

2325-443: Is used for these purposes as well, in the form of "DNS tables" that have the same key-value form. The meaning and effect of entries in these tables are more obvious than the configuration data of more generalized MTAs, but their restricted form also limits the effects that can be produced. By the end of 2006, MMDF had a market share well behind other mailers such as sendmail , postfix , qmail , exim , and Microsoft Exchange . MMDF

2418-974: The Broadkill River , adjacent to the Roosevelt Inlet. Lewes is primarily policed by the Lewes Police Department and Delaware State Police . For EMS Lewes is serviced by the Lewes Volunteer Fire Department. The town also see the occasional Delaware Natural Resource Police officer patrolling the waterways, and the state park. Lewes also has a United States Coast Guard Marine safety detachment Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) passes just outside city limits at Five Points where DE 1, U.S. Route 9 (US 9), DE 404 , DE 23 and DE 1D (Plantation Road) intersect. There are three main arterial roads that connect Lewes to DE 1: New Road, Savannah Road ( US 9 Business ) and King's Highway (US 9). US 9 passes to

2511-689: The Lewes Transit Center park and ride just outside Lewes along DE 1. The transit center serves local bus routes providing service across Sussex County, with expanded Beach Bus service to the Delaware Beaches in the summer months, and inter-county bus service to other part of Delaware. This park and ride serves the Route 201 bus to the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk, the Route 204 bus which heads along Savannah Road into Lewes to Cape Henlopen Drive and

2604-699: The Lewes and Rehoboth Canal Lewes is home to several iconic Lighthouses in the Delaware Bay. Just offshore lies the National Harbor of Refuge which is home to the Delaware Breakwater East End Light and the Harbor of Refuge Light . Lewes is adjacent to Cape Henlopen State Park . Lewes also maintains several parks within the city limits: DNREC maintains a boat ramp just outside the city limits along

2697-688: The MCI Mail service to Internet mail. A re-coded variant of MMDF, called Pascal MDF ( PMDF ) was written at the University of Pennsylvania for VMS and was eventually commercialized through Ned Freed 's Innosoft, which subsequently ported PMDF to Tru64 Unix and Solaris . In 1999 PMDF was translated from Pascal to C . The C version of PMDF became the basis of the Sun Java System Messaging Server of Sun Microsystems , while rights to PMDF itself were purchased by Process Software, which then ported PMDF to Linux . As its name denotes, MMDF

2790-603: The National Register of Historic Places . Six men who served as Delaware governor were born in or made their home in Lewes. Three of those men lived on Lewes' Second Street. Brothers Daniel and Caleb Rodney, sons of John Rodney, first cousin of Caesar Rodney , each served as governor of Delaware. Each a member of the Federalist Party , Daniel served from 1814 to 1817, while Caleb served as acting governor from 1822 to 1823. Ebe Walters Tunnell moved to Lewes in 1873 to enter

2883-699: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.3 square miles (11 km ), of which 3.7 sq mi (9.6 km ) is land, and 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km ) (14.7%) is water. Situated on the Atlantic Coastal Plain , Lewes's weather is moderated by the Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay. Lewes has a mild humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) consisting of hot, humid summers and mild winters. The average daytime high in July

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2976-564: The War of 1812 , Royal Navy vessels led by HMS Poictiers under the command of Captain Sir John Beresford briefly and ineffectually bombarded the town. A cannonball from the bombardment is lodged in the foundation of Cannonball House, which now serves as the town's maritime museum. Lewes was incorporated by an act of the state assembly on Feb. 2, 1818. The act provided for five persons to be chosen as commissioners to be known as "Trustees of

3069-455: The 20th century. After World War II, UD enrollment skyrocketed, thanks to the G.I. Bill. In the late 1940s, almost two-thirds of the students were veterans. Since the 1950s, UD has quadrupled its enrollment and greatly expanded its faculty, its academic programs and its research enterprise. In 2010–11, the university conducted a feasibility study in support of plans to add a law school focused on corporate and patent law . At its completion,

3162-463: The 60% of the incoming freshman class who submitted SAT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1170–1350. Of the 11% of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted ACT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 26 and 31. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 2 freshman students were National Merit Scholars . USNWR graduate school rankings (as of 2020) USNWR departmental rankings (as of 2020) The university

3255-672: The Cape May–Lewes Ferry terminal and south to Rehoboth Beach, the Route 206 bus to Georgetown, and the Route 208 bus to Ocean City, Maryland . The Route 305 "Beach Connection" bus provides service on weekends and holidays in the summer to the Lewes Transit Center Park and Ride from Wilmington , the Christiana Mall , Middletown , and Dover . The Route 307 bus provides year-round service to Milford , Frederica , and Dover. The Delaware Department of Transportation built

3348-449: The Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), Delaware received 33,965 applications and accepted 24,679 (72.7%). The university is need-blind for domestic applicants. Of those accepted, 4,617 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 18.7%. Delaware's freshman retention rate is 91.5%, with 83.6% going on to graduate within six years. Of

3441-497: The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources had 81 faculty, 892 undergraduate students and 212 graduate students. The college includes a 350-acre outdoor classroom in Newark that includes a dairy farm, equine barns, statistics and experimental economics labs, botanic gardens, greenhouses, ecology woods, an apiary, farmland, forests, grasslands, wetlands, and a creamery. The College of Arts and Sciences has 23 academic departments. It

3534-767: The College of Engineering had 177 full-time faculty, 2,492 undergraduate students and 927 graduate students. The College of Health Sciences is home to seven academic departments, including newly created Epidemiology. The College of Health Sciences offers bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree programs that take evidence-based research and translate it into person-centered care. Undergraduate degrees are offered in applied molecular biology and biotechnology, exercise science, health behavioral science, medical diagnostics, medical laboratory science, nursing, nutrition, nutrition and dietetics, nutrition and medical sciences, and sports health. Pre-physician's assistant and occupational therapy tracks are also available. As of fall 2019,

3627-460: The College of Health Sciences included 148 faculty, 2,715 undergraduate students and 504 graduate students. Lewes, Delaware Lewes ( / ˈ l uː . ə s / LOO -əss ) is an incorporated city on the Delaware Bay in eastern Sussex County, Delaware , United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 3,303. Along with neighboring Rehoboth Beach , Lewes is one of

3720-468: The Delaware Bay to North Cape May, New Jersey , and serves as part of US 9. The ferry crossing is 17 miles (27 km) long and takes 85 minutes. Cape Water Tours & Taxi operates a round-trip water taxi service between Lewes and Dewey Beach via the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal on Friday evenings in the summer months, offering access to dining and nightlife in Dewey Beach. DART First State operates

3813-752: The Delaware Technology Park, is a 15-acre site home to the Early Learning Center (ages 6 weeks to third grade), the Lab School (ages 6 months to kindergarten) and The College School (first to eighth grades). Also located on-site are UD's Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners Program and the Center for Disabilities Studies. In 1891, prominent Philadelphia architect Frank Furness designed Recitation Hall. Several buildings (Wolf, Sussex, and Harter Halls) were designed by Frank Miles Day , who also designed

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3906-822: The East Coast headquarters of Bloom Energy . In 2020, UD opened the Ammon Pinozzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Center, which became the new home of the UD-led National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals . Also, Chemours recently opened its global research and development facility, known as the Discovery Hub, on the STAR Campus in 2020. The new Newark Regional Transportation Center on

3999-486: The English captured New Netherland from the Dutch, and they ordered the settlement razed with reports indicating that “not even a nail” was left there. The Dutch colonists proved slow to regroup, but a new settlement gradually regrew around the Hoernkills. In late December 1673, when the area was briefly held again by the Dutch, the settlement was attacked and burned down again by a group of Maryland colonists . In 1680, under

4092-504: The First State." Lewes is named after the town of Lewes in England, which is situated in a county named Sussex (from which Sussex County, Delaware, takes its name). Lewes, Sussex, England, also has the same seal. Lewes is located at 38°46′28″N 75°08′22″W  /  38.77444°N 75.13944°W  / 38.77444; -75.13944 (38.7745565, –75.1393498). According to

4185-555: The Lewes Transit Center Park and Ride, with groundbreaking taking place on March 9, 2016 and the park and ride opening in May 2017. The Delaware River and Bay Authority operates a shuttle bus route in the summer months that connects the Cape May–Lewes Ferry to the Tanger Outlets and Rehoboth Beach. The city of Lewes formerly operated the Lewes Line bus service serving points of interest in

4278-559: The Men's and Women's campuses and gave rise to the legend of the Kissing Arches (where students would kiss good night before returning to their respective residence halls). In 1921, Delaware College was renamed the University of Delaware. It officially became a coeducational institution in 1945 when it merged with the Women's College of Delaware. The university grew rapidly during the latter half of

4371-594: The Morrill Land-Grant College Act granted public lands to each state in order to establish schools to teach agriculture and engineering. On Jan. 12, 1869, the Board of Trustees of Delaware College signed an agreement to become the state's land-grant institution. In exchange, the state received a one-half interest in the property of the college and the authority to appoint half of the members of the board of trustees. The Morrill Land-Grant College Act granted Delaware

4464-578: The Northeast rail corridor and north of Christina Parkway ( Delaware Route 4 ) The Delaware Technology Park, which lies to the far east of Main Campus, is located north of the train tracks, south of Wyoming Road, east of Library Avenue ( Delaware Route 72 ) and west of Marrows Road and has several research laboratories, classroom buildings, and offices. The Children's Campus, located across the Library Avenue from

4557-530: The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. For the 2022–23 academic year, undergraduate tuition per semester is $ 14,822 for Delaware residents and $ 36,082 for non-residents. The total cost of attendance for the 2022–23 academic year (tuition, mandatory fees, room and board) is $ 32,444 for Delawareans and $ 54,964 for non-residents. The university receives funding from a variety of sources as

4650-418: The STAR Campus will serve passengers of Amtrak and regional rail. The campus itself is divided into four areas: Main, Laird, and South campuses, as well as the Delaware Technology Park. Main Campus, which has most of the academic and residential buildings, is centered on a roughly north–south axis between South College Avenue and Academy Street. At the center of the campus is Memorial Hall, which once divided

4743-470: The School of Marine Science and Policy. There are four programs in the School of Marine Science and Policy: Marine Biosciences, Oceanography, Physical Ocean Science and Engineering, and Marine Policy. The college offers over nine undergraduate majors, 17 graduate degrees and two professional certificates. Fall 2019 enrollment included 397 undergraduate students and 183 graduate students. The College of Engineering

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4836-638: The Town of Lewes." Lewes Beach itself was an important stop on the Underground Railroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War . As a "border state," Delaware was not part of the Confederacy , but was still quite dangerous for fugitive slaves. Several houses in Lewes thus housed escaping slaves; these "safe houses" were identified by the residents placing a single candle in the top window of

4929-669: The University of Delaware signed an agreement with Chrysler to purchase a shuttered vehicle assembly plant adjacent to the university for $ 24.25 million as part of Chrysler's bankruptcy restructuring plan. The university has developed the 272-acre (1.10 km ) site into the Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. The site is the new home of UD's College of Health Sciences, which includes teaching and research laboratories and several public health clinics. The STAR Campus also includes research facilities for UD's vehicle-to-grid technology, as well as Delaware Technology Park, SevOne, CareNow, Independent Prosthetics and Orthotics, and

5022-625: The University of Delaware. UDECU operates one basic life support ambulance (UD-1), one first response vehicle (UD-2), and a bike team. Advanced life support is provided by New Castle County Emergency Medical Services. The University of Delaware Police Department is responsible for law enforcement on UD's three campuses. The police represent one branch of the University of Delaware Department of Public Safety, whose employees also include security officers , as well as dispatchers , EMTs , and Police Cadets. The University of Delaware operates multiple shuttle routes called "UD Shuttle" that serve

5115-410: The University of Delaware; he took office in June 2016. He succeeded Nancy Targett, former dean of the university's College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, who served as interim president in 2015–16. She was named 27th president of the university near the end of her service; she was the institution's first female president. Targett served after the departure of President Patrick Harker in 2015 to serve as

5208-444: The Women's College from Delaware College. North and south of Memorial Hall is a large, roughly rectangular green space known either as "The Green" or "The Mall," around which are many of the oldest buildings on campus. Though the buildings were constructed at various times over the course of more than a century, they follow a cohesive Georgian design aesthetic. The Green area is further subdivided into three areas. "North Central," which

5301-494: The academy trustees petitioned the Delaware legislature to incorporate the college and on February 5, 1833, the legislature incorporated Newark College, which was charged with instruction in languages, arts and sciences, and granted the power to confer degrees. All of the academy trustees became trustees of the college, and the college absorbed the academy, with Newark Academy becoming the preparatory department of Newark College. Newark College commenced operations on May 8, 1834, with

5394-488: The authority of each module partitioned from others. An inbound channel receives messages (via the protocol and in the format it implements) and an outbound channel delivers messages (via its relevant protocol and mapping into the relevant format). Internally, MMDF uses a canonical representation for message content and header, including addresses. Some examples of MMDF channels are SMTP , UUCP , and local (for delivering mail into local mailboxes and accepting mail submitted on

5487-458: The authority of the Duke of York , who had been granted such authority by his brother, King Charles II , the village (and county) was reorganized and known for two years as New Deale, Deale County, Delaware. A log courthouse was authorized to be built at this time. An Anglican congregation was established by 1681 and a Presbyterian church was built in 1682. In 1682, the Delaware colonies were given to William Penn by King Charles II as payment for

5580-430: The campus. The university offers more than 150 undergraduate degree programs and, due to the number of academic options, many students complete dual degrees as well as double majors and minors. UD students have access to work and internship opportunities, worldwide study abroad programs, research and service learning programs . The student body at the University of Delaware is primarily an undergraduate population. For

5673-405: The city daily from May to September. Lewes was served by a branch of the Delaware Coast Line Railroad that originated in Georgetown, whereupon transfers could be made to trains north to Dover and Wilmington. Passenger trains operated on this branch by its predecessor company, the Pennsylvania Railroad , but ended between 1936 and 1938. The Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railway operated

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5766-564: The city was 87.3% White , 9.9% African American , 0.1% Native American , 1.0% Asian , <0.1% Pacific Islander , 0.7% from other races , and 0.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.7% of the population. There were 1,338 households, out of which 15.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.3% were married couples living together, 8.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.4% were non-families. 35.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.4% had someone living alone who

5859-456: The college attract more students. Student life also became more active during this period. In 1889 the first football game involving a team representing the college was played. Also in 1889, the college adopted blue and gold as the school's colors. It was not until 1914, though, that the Women's College opened on an adjoining campus, offering women degrees in Home Economics, Education, and Arts and Sciences. Brick archways at Memorial Hall separated

5952-452: The college between 1872 and 1885. In 1887, Congress passed the Hatch Act, which provided Delaware College with funding with which to establish an agricultural experiment station. In 1890, the college purchased nine acres of land for an experimental farm located next to its campus. In 1890 the college became the recipient of more federal aid when the New Morrill Act was passed. It provided for annual payments to support land-grant colleges. Under

6045-405: The construction of a Marriott Courtyard run by the Hospitality Business Management department expanded the campus. South Campus has the agricultural school, all of the sports stadiums (including Delaware Stadium and the Bob Carpenter Center ), and the Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus, which is built on the site of a former Chrysler vehicle assembly plant. It lies south of

6138-437: The drug and hardware business in part of the old Caleb Rodney House on Second Street. Tunnell worked his way up the state government hierarchy before unsuccessfully running for governor in 1892. Four years later, the Democrat won the election, and served from 1897 to 1901. As Lewes was the earliest settlement in the state, and Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, the town refers to itself as "The First Town in

6231-424: The formal campus landscape. From 1918 to 1952, Marian Cruger Coffin was appointed the university's landscape architect, a position which required her to unite the university's two separate campuses (the men's to the north and the women's to the south) into one cohesive design. This was a challenge since the linear mall design of each was out of alignment with the other. Coffin solved this problem by linking them with

6324-510: The goal of $ 750 million ahead of schedule, and extended the goal to $ 1   billion in October 2021. The Campaign concluded in June 2023 with a record-breaking 113,402 University supporters contributing more than $ 1.05 billion. The University of Delaware Emergency Care Unit (UDECU) is a registered student organization at the university, which provides emergency medical services to the campus and surrounding community. UDECU has approximately 50 members, all of which are volunteers and students at

6417-451: The house. In 1941, the United States built Fort Miles on Cape Henlopen , immediately east of Lewes, to defend Delaware Bay and the Delaware River and the oil refineries and factories on its shores, as well as the city of Philadelphia . Fort Miles never saw any major action; except for range practice, it fired its guns only once between its establishment and the end of World War II . Fort Miles ceased operation altogether in 1991 and

6510-523: The law, the State of Delaware initially received $ 15,000 per year, which was to be increased by $ 1,000 per year until it reached $ 25,000. Delaware College received 80% of this money. (It did not receive all of it because the law provided that in states in which land-grant colleges did not admit black students, an equitable amount of the granted money had to be used to educate the excluded students. Delaware College had never admitted black students (although it had admitted Native American and Asian students), and as

6603-425: The local system). MMDF was used on the CSNET network. A message that flows through MMDF will typically follow this path: MMDF approaches administrative configuration differently than other popular MTAs. In the choice between placing specialized knowledge into the software, versus requiring that it be created through administrator's configuration instructions, MMDF chose the former. Hence, arbitrary header rewriting

6696-422: The lottery, however, was delayed until 1825, in large part because some trustees, several of whom were Presbyterian ministers, objected to involvement with a lottery on moral grounds. In 1832, the academy trustees selected the site for the college and entered into a contract for the erection of the college building. Construction of that building (now called Old College) began in late 1832 or in 1833. In January 1833

6789-731: The nation. It is recognized with the Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UD students, alumni, and sports teams are known as the "Fightin' Blue Hens", more commonly shortened to "Blue Hens", and the school colors are Delaware blue and gold. UD sponsors 21 men's and women's NCAA Division I sports teams and have competed in the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) since 2001. The men’s division 1

6882-596: The original Women's dormitories, as well as some classroom buildings and the Morris Library. Other areas around the Main Campus include "Harrington Beach," a large grassy quadrangle on the east side of main campus that serves as a common meeting and recreation place for students, and is surrounded by three large dormitory complexes and the Perkins Student Center. Several more classroom and laboratory buildings line

6975-526: The principal cities of Delaware's rapidly growing Cape Region . The city lies within the Salisbury, Maryland–Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area . Lewes proudly claims to be "The First Town in The First State." Lewes was the site of the first European settlement in Delaware , a whaling and trading post that Dutch settlers founded on June 3, 1631, and named Zwaanendael (Swan Valley). The colony had

7068-585: The railroad line on October 19, 2016, with future plans to extend the trail to Georgetown. In 2017, it was announced the Delaware Coast Line Railroad would be abandoned between Cool Spring and Lewes after the swing bridge over the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal was closed due to being structurally unsound and repairs were determined to be too costly. The Junction and Breakwater Trail is a rail trail for bicyclists and hikers that connects Lewes and Rehoboth Beach, running 6 miles (9.7 km) mostly along

7161-614: The school deteriorated further. After a student fracas in 1858 resulted in the death of a student, the college suspended operations in 1859, although the academy continued to operate. The Civil War delayed the reopening of the college. In 1867, college trustees lobbied the Delaware legislature for Delaware College to be designated as Delaware's land-grant college pursuant to the Morrill Land-Grant College Act . Introduced by Congressman Justin S. Morrill of Vermont in 1857 and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862,

7254-471: The second largest of UD's eight colleges, Lerner includes 3,368 undergraduate students, 872 graduate students, 209 faculty and staff (2019 statistics), and more than 34,000 alumni across the globe. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs across four departments: animal and food sciences, entomology and wildlife ecology, plant and soil sciences, and applied economics and statistics. As of fall 2019,

7347-559: The settlement, led by a Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy of Zierikzee and funded by a sizable loan from the city to get them established. 41 persons came with Plockhoy from the Netherlands to the Hoernkill onboard the Dutch ship the Sint Jacob, one of whom was Otto Wolgast from the town of Wolgast , Pomerania . The settlement was established in 1663, and lasted until the very next year; in 1664,

7440-567: The southeast of downtown on the Theodore C. Freeman Memorial Highway. Parking meters are in effect for on-street parking and parking lots in the downtown area between May 1 and October 14 and at parking lots at Lewes Beach between May 1 and September 30. The southern terminus of the Cape May–Lewes Ferry is located in Lewes. The ferry provides passenger and automobile ferry service between southern Delaware and southern New Jersey , crossing

7533-502: The streets on either side of The Green, and there exists an area of closed dormitories (the former Dickinson and Rodney dormitory complexes) that lie at the outer edge of Main Campus across South Main Street. Laird Campus, which has several dormitories as well as a conference center, hotel, and the Christiana Towers apartment complex (currently closed), lies north of Cleveland Avenue between New London Road and North College Avenue. It

7626-435: The study suggested that the planned addition was not within the university's funding capability given the nation's economic climate at the time. Capital expenses were projected at $ 100 million, and the operating deficit in the first ten years would be $ 165 million. The study assumed an initial class of two hundred students entering in the fall of 2015. Widener University has Delaware's only law school. On October 23, 2009,

7719-491: The surrounding suburbs. Even though the city limits primarily sit on the lower reach of the Delaware Bay, it is nonetheless considered an ocean resort, particularly as the ocean is nearby at Cape Henlopen . Lewes is among those communities which have banned smoking in its public parks . Lewes is the home of the Zwaanendael Museum , which features exhibits about Delaware's history. Savannah, Second and Front Streets are

7812-596: The title to 90,000 acres in Montana which it sold and invested the profits into bonds used to fund the college. Delaware College's new status as a semipublic college led to the termination of its official connection with the private academy. In 1869, the Newark Academy was revived as a separate institution operating under the 1769 charter. In 1870, Delaware College reopened. It offered classical, scientific and, as required by its land-grant status, agricultural courses of study. In an effort to boost enrollment, women were admitted to

7905-498: The town's main streets and have many shops, restaurants, parks and historical venues. Fisherman's Wharf is a dock that stretches along the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal . It features multiple restaurants and bait shops, and in season the dock hosts hundreds of boats from all over. The Lewes Historical Society promotes the preservation, interpretation and cultural enrichment of the Lewes region through museum exhibits, educational programs, historical research and publications. Lewes in Bloom

7998-466: The trustees of the academy were required to revive the academy. In 1841 and 1842 separate classroom and dormitory buildings were constructed to teach and house academic department students. These buildings would later form the east and west wings of the Newark Academy Building located at Main and Academy Streets. In 1843, the name of the college was changed to Delaware College. The college

8091-475: The undergraduate chemical engineering program #7 in the country for 2021 and the graduate chemical engineering programs as #8 in the country for 2022. The university is organized into ten colleges: The Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs across seven departments: accounting and MIS, business administration, economics, finance, hospitality business management, sport management, and enterprise. As

8184-435: Was 102 °F (38.9 °C) in 1997. The lowest official temperature ever recorded in Lewes was −11 °F (−23.9 °C) in 1982. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,932 people, 1,338 households, and 797 families residing in the city. The population density was 801.5 inhabitants per square mile (309.5/km ). There were 2,368 housing units at an average density of 647.3 per square mile (249.9/km ). The racial makeup of

8277-449: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.99 and the average family size was 2.53. In the city, the population was spread out, with 13.6% under the age of 18, 3.7% from 18 to 24, 18.0% from 25 to 44, 31.5% from 45 to 64, and 33.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 55 years. For every 100 females, there were 78.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 76.1 males. The median income for

8370-527: Was consolidated into the Cape Henlopen district in 1969. Lewes is zoned to: Sussex Consortium , a school for students with autism previously in the former Lewes School, is now in an unincorporated area with a Lewes address. The University of Delaware 's Hugh R. Sharp Campus is also within the city. This is home to the University's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. Lewes students are also eligible to enter Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences, which

8463-726: Was deeded to the State of Delaware. In addition to Fort Miles, the Cape Henlopen Archeological District , Coleman House , Cool Spring Presbyterian Church , De Vries Palisade , Delaware Breakwater and Lewes Harbor , Fisher Homestead , Fisher's Paradise , Col. David Hall House , Hopkins Covered Bridge Farm , Lewes Historic District , Lewes Presbyterian Church , Lightship WAL 539 , Maull House , National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District , Pagan Creek Dike , Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck , William Russell House , St. George's Chapel, Lewes , Townsend Site , and Wolfe's Neck Site are listed on

8556-545: Was shut down in the 1970s due to rising fuel costs. Lewes currently purchases power from Constellation which is transmitted to the city over Delmarva Power lines. The BPW is a member of the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation . Trash collection is provided by the city while recycling collection is provided under contract by Republic Services . Natural gas service in Lewes is provided by Chesapeake Utilities . Beebe Healthcare Medical Center

8649-418: Was supported by a state authorized lottery until 1845. By the late 1840s, with the loss of lottery proceeds, the college faced serious financial problems. A scholarship program was adopted to increase enrollment and revenues. Although enrollment did increase to levels that would not be surpassed until the 1900s (there were 118 college students in 1854), the plan was fiscally unsound, and the financial condition of

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