Amy Cherry

Boston, Wilmington

Communications Manager at UDaily

Telling the stories behind my big sunglasses | #UDel | #Frenchie mom | 🌎 Traveler | Award-winning investigative journalist @WDEL + @wbznewsradio

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Articles

Path to publication

2 weeks ago | udel.edu | Hilary Douwes |Karen Roberts |Amy Cherry

University of Delaware senior Sarah Garner has been published in academic journals three times during her time as a Blue Hen. It’s an impressive feat, as the process can take several months, depending on the publication. And she’s the first to tell you she couldn’t have done it without the mentoring and unique culture of collaborative learning she has received from faculty and graduate students along the way.
Future knowledge experts

3 weeks ago | udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Amy Cherry

Diabetes is a condition that results when the body’s blood sugar is too high. It affects 10% of the population worldwide, according to the National Institutes of Health. For some individuals, this blood sugar imbalance can cause diabetic foot ulcers, a type of chronic wound that can increase a person’s mortality risk. While there are ways to manage diabetic foot ulcers, few methods exist to effectively treat them. University of Delaware senior Altaf Bacchus hopes to change that.
The power of play

4 weeks ago | udel.edu | Amy Cherry |Kevin Tritt |Karen Roberts

Step into physical therapy professor Anjana Bhat’s colorful Move 2 Learn Innovation Lab on the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus, and you may see children moving to the beat or leaping over structures as part of an obstacle course. For them, it’s fun and games. But for researchers like Bhat, it’s an exploration of how play affects cognitive functioning in children with autism.
Seafloor eruption

4 weeks ago | udel.edu | Amy Cherry |Kevin Tritt |Karen Roberts

Three people — two scientists and a pilot — customarily dive for eight to 10 hours per day to a maximum depth of 6,500 meters (4 miles).
Leveling the playing field

1 month ago | udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Karen Roberts |Katie Peikes |Amy Cherry

In recent years, discussions about inequality in the college admissions process have focused on the use of standardized tests like the SAT. But few discussions have focused on another important part of the college application: the listing of extracurricular activities.
In pursuit of lifelong AI

1 month ago | udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Katie Peikes |Amy Cherry

Eric Eaton, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, hopes there will be a robot to help take care of him in the future when he is old. Mind you, he wants the robot to do more than learn to put the dishes away, and he doesn’t want to spend all his time training it. Rather, Eaton is after a robot that can learn and adapt to his needs, allowing him to age in place even as his requirements change over time.
A game-changing tool | UDaily

1 month ago | udel.edu | Amy Cherry |Karen Roberts |Jessica Henderson

Athletes who suffer a concussion have a serious risk of reinjury after returning to play, but identifying which athletes are most vulnerable has always been a bit of a mystery, until now. Using artificial intelligence (AI), University of Delaware researchers have developed a novel machine learning model that predicts an athlete’s risk of lower-extremity musculoskeletal (MKS) injury after concussion with 95% accuracy.
For the Record, Friday, April 25, 2025

2 months ago | udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Amy Cherry

For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni. Recent honors, publications and presentations include the following: Laura E. Helton, associate professor of English and history, was recently featured on the National Humanities Alliance site "NEH for ALL," which highlights the impact of National Endowment for Humanities funding across the United States.
Action News' Matt O'Donnell to speak at UD Commencement

2 months ago | udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Amy Cherry |Molly Schafer

Matt O’Donnell, co-anchor of “Action News Mornings in Philadelphia,” will return to his alma mater to deliver the University of Delaware Commencement address to the Class of 2025, UD President Dennis Assanis announced today. “We are thrilled to welcome back to campus a proud UD alumnus who is an accomplished broadcast journalist covering the latest news,” Assanis said.
Faculty Senate March 2025 meeting

2 months ago | udel.edu | Jamie Washington |Jessica Henderson |Margo Mcdonough |Amy Cherry

The University of Delaware’s budget and financial situation is more easily accessible to faculty and staff because of recent efforts to increase transparency, Faculty Senate President Vickie Fedele said at the Faculty Senate meeting on March 3.