Dr. Robin W. Morgan serves as dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Delaware-and as director of its Agricultural Experiment Station- since July 1, 2002. She served as associate dean for research and associate director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Before these assignments, Dean Morgan was assistant chair and professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences with joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Biology at the University of Delaware.

Dean Morgan received a bachelor degree in Biology from Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1977 and her doctorate in Biology in 1982 from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Morgan was a post-doctoral fellow in Biochemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, California.

Dr. Morgan is an accomplished research scientist and excellent teacher. She has an international reputation in the areas of Marek's disease, an avian virus that affects poultry. She has several patents from her work in this area. Dr. Morgan is renowned for her work in genomics. Graduate and undergraduate students work with her on the cutting edge of discovery. Her laboratory is located at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute at the University of Delaware.

Dr. Morgan has written and published numerous articles in publications such as Radiation Research, Mutation Research, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Research, Environmental Mutagenesis, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Virology, Avian Diseases, Veterinary Microbiology, Virus Genes, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

In Delaware, agriculture is an $8 billion per year business that is fundamentally tied to Delaware's economy. Today, many consumers prefer to eat locally grown food, they are concerned about food safety and quality, and they care about the intersection of food production with environmental stewardship. Opportunities for local and community agriculture are increasing in number and gaining momentum. These include farm markets, community gardens, community-sponsored agriculture, urban agriculture, and built-landscape farming. These efforts and others are likely to continue to expand, and they predict a vibrant future for agriculture.

Kelly Cobb is a Philadelphia-based designer and Instructor of Fashion and Apparel Studies at The University of Delaware, where she teaches CAD, Product Development and Management Studio and Creative Design Methods. In collaboration with her design students, Gildan Activewear, the Fair Labor Association, and the Instituto Politecnico Centroamericano in Honduras, Cobb carried out an "ethical fashion" project that demonstrated ground-up thinking about sustainability in the product development process. Cobb has designed functional prototypes for children's sportswear and women's RTW. As well, she has developed and coordinated sample production of surface designs for Couture and RTW markets. Cobb describes her approach to design and teaching as steeped in technique and compelled to innovate. She holds a BFA in Textiles from The Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MFA from The University of Florida.

In this workshop Designer/Educator Kelly Cobb will demonstrate three accessible tech niques for adding value and style to clothing items that need some re-invigorating. You will have the opportunity to refashion something from home-bring a garment that "needs something" or bring a plain t-shirt to experiment with. The workshop will consist of demonstration and workshop atelier where you can work side by side with other workshop participants and student design assistants. According to the EPA Office of Solid Waste, Americans throw away more than 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per person per year, and clothing and other textiles represent about 4% of the municipal solid waste. But this figure is rapidly growing (Claudio, 2007). This workshop promotes (and will demonstrate) straightforward efforts for upcylcing garments that you can use and share!

John Byrne is Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) and Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware. He has contributed to Working Group III of the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1992 and shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Panel's authors and review editors. He is co-founder and co-executive director of the Joint Institute for a Sustainable Energy and Environmental Future, an innovative research and policy advocacy organization headquartered in South Korea with the mission of promoting sustainable policy options in East Asia. He is also a founding member of and served as the first research chair for the International Solar Cities Initiative - a pioneering program to assist cities around the world in building sustainable futures. In 2011, he was appointed Distinguished Professor at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, a new university created by South Korea to lead its plan for green energy technology and policy development. He presently co-chairs the Sustainable Energy Utility Oversight Board, created by the Delaware General Assembly, and is the architect of this innovative concept for the promotion of energy efficiency, conservation, and distributed renewable energy generation. His work has been funded by the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the Asia Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund, the National Science Foundation (U.S.), U.S. Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, among others.

Dr. Byrne is co-editor in chief of the invitation-only journal, Energy and Environment, a new WIRE reference work series published by Wiley & Sons. Since 1983, he has been the editor of the annual book series Energy and Environmental Policy, published by Transaction Books. His recent books for the series include: Energy and Environment: The Policy Challenge, which addresses the global warming debate; Environmental Justice, which examines international linkages between social and environmental inequality; and Transforming Power, which explores the prospects for, and social and environmental (especially carbon) implications of, significant changes in the world energy system. He has published 17 books and over 150 research articles.