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1 month ago | 
udel.edu | Hilary Douwes |Amy Cherry |Jessica Henderson
When University of Delaware senior Jamie Klemm crosses the stage at Convocation in May she won’t be alone. She’s planning to have Morado, a future service dog she has raised, by her side, just as he’s been all spring.
Klemm is the vice president of Collar Scholars, one of three UD student organizations that raises puppies to eventually help people in need.
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1 month ago | 
udel.edu | Jamie Washington |Hilary Douwes |Amy Cherry |Jessica Henderson
The high cost of textbooks and other course materials can make college less affordable for all students, so the University of Delaware’s Open and Affordable Teaching Materials (OATM) initiative is working to ease that financial burden.
A program of UD’s Library, Museums and Press since 2017, OATM offers a variety of grants to eligible faculty and instructors to help them create and curate open and affordable educational resources and library collections.
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Megan Everhart |Amy Wolf |Hilary Douwes |Jessica Henderson
While at UD, he worked with historic textiles during internships at Winterthur Library, Museum and Garden, and the American History Museum in Washington, D.C. He conducted fiber identification on 14 textile fragments associated with human remains that were found in an unmarked cemetery in Philadelphia for his senior thesis.
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Amy Wolf |Hilary Douwes |Jessica Henderson |Artika Casini
Old College, where a self-emancipated Black person sought shelter in the winter of 1853. Evans Hall, where the first Black student known to attend the University of Delaware took electrical engineering classes in 1949. And Newark’s Main Street, where in 1961 UD students fought to desegregate the iconic thoroughfare’s shops and restaurants.
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Hilary Douwes |Jessica Henderson |Artika Casini
Three University of Delaware students were recently awarded scholarships by the Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF), the nation’s most prestigious fashion education-oriented nonprofit.
Seniors Megan Alleborn and Gabriella Gooden and junior Mackenzie Speed were among 160 winners from 671 submissions to the 2025 FSF case study competition.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Lisa Walenceus |Nya Wynn |Hilary Douwes
Less than a year into her role with an engineering and design firm in Newark, DEDC, electrical engineer Joy Dufitumukiza embarked on another new journey: earning a project management certificate through the University of Delaware’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies (UD PCS). She had already been recognized in Electrical Construction and Maintenance magazine’s 2023 “30 under 30,” but she was determined not to rest on her achievements.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Nya Wynn |Hilary Douwes |Kelly Cofrancisco
Yaxi Huang, who is originally from China, worked as a nurse for six years before moving to the U.S. When she arrived, she wanted a career change, and she zeroed in on a career as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry.
“As a nurse, I had been involved with clinical studies, giving the patient medicine and recording their response to it,” Huang said.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Hilary Douwes |Kelly Cofrancisco |Ken Mammarella
For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent publications and honors include the following:
Margaret D.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Hilary Douwes |Kelly Cofrancisco |Ken Mammarella |Christy Selagy
A class of University of Delaware communication students put theory into practice last semester by partnering with a nonprofit organization in Lewes, Delaware, on a project to save the last forested area in the popular coastal town.
The students in professor Steve Momorella’s public relations campaign planning class joined forces with the Greater Lewes Foundation’s Open Space Alliance to create a public relations campaign about the Fourth Street Preserve project.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Molly Schafer |Hilary Douwes
There’s little debate that the monarch’s epic yearly migration is in trouble. Analyses of fall-migrating monarchs collected through the Journey North program, in which citizen scientists report the number and location of large groups of monarchs resting in trees at night during their southward trip, show that the number of monarchs traveling to Mexico fell by 80% or more between 2007 and 2023. It is not clear why monarchs are failing to migrate, but there are several possible culprits.
