Contact Us

The Delaware EPSCoR management team is advised and assisted by faculty representatives from each partner institution, who guide the program’s research mission. Additional teams focus on outreach, ethics and policy, and economic development.

Headquarters

Delaware Environmental Institute
221 Academy Street, Suite 250
Newark, DE 19716
DelawareEPSCoR@dbi.udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-4335

Project Director
Donald Sparks
(302) 831-4335

Associate Director
Amy Slocum
(302) 831-4335

Director of Education, Outreach and Diversity
Jeanette Miller
(302) 831-4167

Director of Evaluation
Cheryl Ackerman
(302) 831-8585

Communications Manager
Beth Chajes
(302) 831-6163

Education Program Manager
Yolanda Williams-Bey
(302) 831-3436

Principal Investigator
Donald Sparks
Plant & Soil Sciences, UD
(302) 831-4335

Co-Principal Investigators
Venugopal Kalavacharla
Agriculture & Natural Resources, DSU
(302) 857-6492

Kent Messer
Applied Economics & Statistics, UD
(302) 831-1316

John Rabolt
Materials Science & Engineering, UD
(302) 831-4476

Virginia Balke
Science & Laboratory Technology, DTCC
(302) 453-3792

Faculty Leadership Team

University of Delaware Paul Imhoff Civil & Environmental Engineering (302) 831-0541 Shreeram Inamdar Plant & Soil Sciences (302) 831-8877 Daniel Leathers Geography (302) 831-8764

University of Delaware (cont’d) George Luther School of Marine Science & Policy (302) 645-4208 John Madsen Geological Sciences (302) 831-1608 Holly Michael Geological Sciences (302) 831-4197 John Xiao Physics & Astronomy (302) 831-6547

Delaware State University Gulnihal Ozbay Geological Sciences (302) 857-6476 Wesley College Malcolm D’Souza Chemistry (302) 736-2528 Delaware Technical Community College Virginia Balke Science & Laboratory Technology (302) 453-3792