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Oct 4, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Katie Peikes |Amy Cherry |Brenda Lange
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology invented at the University of Delaware enables the batteries in electric vehicles to do more than charge – V2G enables otherwise idle batteries to share energy back to the electric grid when its most needed.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Katie Peikes |Amy Cherry |Brenda Lange |Hilary Douwes
UD’s CEAE, in particular, is somewhat of an anomaly. The center not only serves as a space for research and experiments, but it’s also an effective space for mentorships, with a large number of faculty specifically dedicated to working on experimental and applied economics with an environmental focus. “Not many universities have a Center like we have here at UD,” said Kent Messer, the S. Hallock du Pont professor of applied economics.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Amy Cherry |Brenda Lange |Hilary Douwes |Karen Roberts
Harris and coauthors also used genome sequencing on a subset of positive tests to explore differences in who was more likely to test positive for novel variants of concern like alpha, delta, and omicron. They found the omicron variant was more prevalent in racial and ethnic minority groups during its emergence, especially in urban settings.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Brenda Lange |Hilary Douwes |Karen Roberts |Adam Thomas
Michelle Yatvitskiy, a recent graduate of the fashion and apparel studies master’s program (center), holds a strip of a new fabric for the outer layer of space suits that was the result of a collaboration between the fashion and chemical engineering departments and a company founded by Blue Hen alumni. Yatvitskiy is accompanied by Huantian Cao, chair of the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies (left), and chemical engineering professor Norm Wagner (right).
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Andrew Sharp |Nya Wynn |Brenda Lange
The COVID-19 pandemic upended everyday life as families within Delaware and across the nation grappled with school closures, struggled with rising rates of unemployment, and navigated new physical and mental health challenges. While the most acute challenges of the pandemic are now behind us, many communities are still contending with its economic, social and mental health effects.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Andrew Sharp |Nya Wynn |Brenda Lange |Artika Casini
Nobody can see the future, but University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics students sometimes give it their best shot.
The Lerner College doesn’t offer a course in fortune telling. Instead, the prediction in question is part of a revenue management class run by Zvi Schwartz, professor of hospitality business management.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Nya Wynn |Brenda Lange |Artika Casini
A decade ago when Zach Jordan was a first-year student at the University of Delaware, he was certain he wanted to be an engineer. But after discovering the creative rush of landscape architecture, he switched his major and never looked back.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Brenda Lange |Artika Casini |Molly Schafer
When he was just 4 or 5 years old, Timothy “TJ” Tomaszewski lay in the grass one warm summer evening mesmerized by the glowing full moon and the stars moving across the sky.
“I clearly remember taking it all in, the majesty of the night sky and space and what might be up there … space has always symbolized the future to me,” he said.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Marina Jones |Brenda Lange
Layland, an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, shared his thoughts on the importance of this research, his Queer Joy Project, and how parents, educators and community members can support LGBTQ+ youth. What was the most important takeaway from your recent study?
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Marina Jones |Brenda Lange |UD Library |Andrew Sharp
In “Portraits of Fatherhood: Depictions of Fathers and Father–Child Relationships in Award-Winning Children’s Literature,” Lewis and Cutler looked at more than 80 children’s books to analyze how authors and publishers depicted fathers and fatherhood. What they found was that over a span of nearly 20 years, from 2001 to 2020, these books presented "a narrow view of fatherhood," both in what roles fathers have in familial units and which types of fathers are presented.
