Amy Cherry

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.

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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.