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4 days ago | 
udel.edu | Tracey Bryant |Karen Roberts |Amy Cherry |Adam Thomas
At a time when artificial intelligence is being developed behind closed doors — generating “black box” systems that make it impossible to see how decisions are made and whose values are embedded in them — the University of Delaware is taking a different approach.
With the launch of the First State AI Institute, UD will advance an open, human-centered vision of AI — one rooted in transparency, accountability and the public good.
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5 days ago | 
udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Amy Cherry |Adam Thomas |Beth Miller
Dan Freeman, founding director of UD’s Horn Entrepreneurship program, explained that innovations can be translated to society in many ways. It isn’t always about starting a company. Maybe it’s the distillation of best practices that others can adopt, such as those provided to the biomedical training community through The Perry Initiative, co-founded by UD mechanical engineer Jenny Buckley.
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1 month ago | 
udel.edu | Kevin Tritt |Karen Roberts |Adam Thomas |Lisa Walenceus
As a University of Delaware graduate student working toward her MBA and Ph.D. in biology, Malek Elsayyid certainly already had enough on her academic plate.
But when she received an email from Andrea Hartman, the Lerner College’s graduate business academic program manager describing a new Introduction to AI course being offered in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, she was intrigued.
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1 month ago | 
udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Adam Thomas |Lisa Walenceus |Beth Miller
Miguel Garcia-Diaz, University of Delaware’s vice president for research, scholarship and innovation, and Michael Bailey, director of the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Chemical Biological Center, sign a joint educational partnership agreement Thursday, April 21, 2025.
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Adam Thomas |Lisa Walenceus |Beth Miller |Jessica Henderson
University of Delaware doctoral candidate Manan Sarupria has developed a machine learning algorithm combined with field data to examine the proportion of Delmarva farmland land cover that was identified as salt patches or marshes.
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Lisa Walenceus |Adam Thomas |Beth Miller |Jessica Henderson
The seventh Graduate College Spark! Symposium, themed “Within and Beyond Our Senses: Art, Exploration and Sustainability,” showcased diverse endeavors, from underwater exploration off Antarctica to studying old masters' techniques in Italy. These pursuits were united by the sense of awe and wonder experienced in moments of discovery.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Amy Cherry |Adam Thomas |Karen Roberts |Christy Selagy
After a thorough content analysis, Lobo identified the need for a quality play curriculum. She reviewed thousands of play activity recommendations available to parents, including from vetted sources such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control. “Most play activities recommended were not deep or were poor quality,” Lobo said.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Adam Thomas |Karen Roberts |Christy Selagy
UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a research cruise to the Arctic Ocean in the fall of 2024. Within the square that is cleaned by the shovel, the team measured the thickness of the snow layer and drill into the sea ice.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Nya Wynn |Adam Thomas |Molly Schafer
Entomologist Brian Kunkel and plant diagnostician Jill Pollok work together to diagnose plant diseases and identify invasive species threatening ecosystems. Jill Pollok, Brian Kunkel and UD undergraduate students team up to stay ahead of invasive species throughout Delaware Invasive species impact environments by preying on native species, causing or carrying disease and killing plant life and crops in an area.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Adam Thomas |Molly Schafer
UD assistant professor Kyle Davis (center) and doctoral candidate Bhoktear Khan (center right) recently had a paper published in Sciences Advances that focuses on cropland expansion in Nigeria. Davis and Khan traveled to Nigeria to conduct fieldwork in 2024. During that time, they visited farmers' fields and interviewed farmers about their farming practices. They are pictured with a farmers’ cooperative.
