Every Memorial Day, Kendra Lynn is taken back to the moment on a late April morning in 2007 when she received the call that her brother, Army Staff Sgt. Steven Tudor, was killed in Iraq. "And she said, 'Kendra, you need to call Shane,' which is my husband. And I'm like, 'Just don't tell me.' I don't even remember her telling me. But we just knew." Tudor graduated from Dunmore High School in 1989 and immediately joined the army. At 17 years old,.
University of Delaware alumna Sierra Patterson reflects on her time at UD, her love of rocks and her recently published research project looking at the alteration of mineral assemblages from Gakkel Ridge, a tectonic plate boundary located on the floor of the Arctic Ocean.
Rock alterations Article by Adam Thomas Photos and illustration courtesy of Jessica Warren and Tammy Beeson May 20, 2021
Alumna turns hobby into career via UD geological sciences program
Recent University of Delaware graduate Sierra Pattersonâs interest in rocks began when she was a child and her great uncle would mail Pattersonâs grandmother letters from his home in Arizona. With those letters, he would also send a rock. Her grandmother would read Patterson the letters, show her the rocks and, eventually, started giving her the rocks to keep.
The following arrests were highlighted by the police department:
⢠Tony Sargent was arrested on May 5 for charges of Burglary 1st Degree and Criminal Mischief 3rd Degree. On April 15, an unknown individual broke into a residence on Woodridge Circle in Rainsville and Physically Assaulted the person living there. After an investigation into the break in warrants were issued for Tony Ray Sargent and he was arrested on May 5 at his residence on Woodridge Circle.
⢠On May 1, Darrell Davis, Marissa Davis-Monney and Charles Matchen were arrested on a search of their vehicle after a traffic stop in Rainsville. Davis was charged with two counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance and one count of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Davis-Mooney was charged with three counts of Possession of Controlled Substance, one count of Promoting Prison Contraband (bringing drugs into the jail) and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Matchen was charged with Tampering with Physical Evidence,
Release Date:
February 11, 2021
The next USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) Scientist-in-Charge (SIC) has been named, and it’s a name that Island of Hawai‘i residents may be familiar with Dr. Ken Hon! Ken will be the 21
rst Scientist-in-Charge filling a position originally created by Thomas A. Jaggar, who founded HVO in 1912 and directed it until 1940.
Ken Hon, Scientist-In-Charge of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. HVO monitors the active volcanoes in Hawaii and is located in Hilo, Island of Hawai‘i.
(Credit: Cheryl Gansecki. Public domain.)
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