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Library operations moved to the new Morris Library in 1963, and Memorial Hall now houses the UD Department of English. Situated at a prominent location at the center of the Green, the university's main common area, Memorial Hall is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, H-shaped building with a hipped-roofed central hall and gable-roofed wings.
The Mechanical Hall was renovated in 2004 to house the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art, donated by Atlanta, Georgia art collector Paul R. Jones. [2] Jones' gift of several hundred important works from his personal collection was the outgrowth of a relationship that University of Delaware professor William Homer established in the early 1990s.
A tavern was also built and became known as Aiken's Tavern after one of its owners. During the American Revolution, British forces under William Howe occupied the village following the September 1777 Battle of Cooch's Bridge, setting up their headquarters in the tavern and establishing a temporary field hospital at Pencader Church. [2]
The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a privately governed, state-assisted [1] [2] 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. [ 4 ]
Pencader Hundred: 1710: New Castle Hundred: Pencader (Welsh Tract) Church ... The University of Delaware Library (2001). The Hundreds of Delaware Archived 2015-09-08 ...
The Pencader Charter High School of Business & Finance was a high school in New Castle, Delaware that opened in August 2006. [1] It opened with 350 students (200 freshman, 150 sophomores) and was the first high school in Delaware with a business and finance focus.
Frederick Nelson (1932–2009), Professor of Geography and Director of University of Delaware's Permafrost Group; Debra Hess Norris, chair of the art conservation department and director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation; David L. Norton (1930–1995), Philosophy; R. Byron Pipes (b. 1941), Mechanical Engineering
Foster Hall opened in 1965 with dining hall facilities for over 1,000 students. It was dedicated to Dr. Charles Foster, who served as president of the institution from 1927 to 1936. [ 2 ] Currently, the Foster "Residential Restaurant" is an all-you-can-eat cafeteria with a variety of menu options. [ 51 ]