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6 days 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.
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6 days 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).
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1 week 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 | Jen Hendrickson |Kevin Tritt |Jamie Washington |Jessica Henderson
Earlier this month, before a striking backdrop of 171 portraits of extraordinary women who have made a lasting impact on the state, Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer and Lt. Gov. Kyle Evans Gay officially proclaimed Women’s History Month.
The signing, held at the Delaware Women's Hall of Fame Portrait Gallery, currently on display at the University of Delaware, was more than just a ceremony.
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1 month ago | 
udel.edu | Kevin Tritt |Jamie Washington |Jessica Henderson |Margo Mcdonough
The Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware was once again recognized as a top undergraduate business school by Poets&Quants for Undergrads, a leading publication, by placing No. 52 in the 2025 rankings.
Lerner College jumped 13 spots from last year, one of just six schools to post double-digit rises from 2024, to rank 52nd out of 104 participating schools.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
udel.edu | William Sullivan |Kevin Tritt |Sophonie Milord
Prof. Conrade joined the University’s Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management (now the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management in the Lerner College) in 1996, retiring in 2009. After retirement, he continued to teach in the department as adjunct faculty for another seven years. His colleagues shared their reflections. Fred Demicco, Aramark Endowed Chair Emeritus: “George was always eagerly involved in our new innovative projects in HRIM.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Kevin Tritt |Sophonie Milord
Dear UD Community,
I am incredibly saddened to share the news that several members of the figure skating community connected to the University of Delaware were among those who tragically lost their lives in an aircraft collision last night in Washington, DC.
At this time, we are aware that Sasha Kirsanov, a former UD Figure Skating Club coach, was on the airplane. We believe two young skaters who were members of the UD Figure Skating Club also were on board.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
udel.edu | Kevin Tritt |Sophonie Milord |Michele Walfred |Katie Peikes
The University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics has secured a grant with the Delaware Workforce Development Board to give Lerner students a unique opportunity to gain real-world experience while continuing their academic learning.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Kevin Tritt
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During a roundtable at the Siegfried Youth Leadership Program (SYLP) held at the University of Delaware’s Clayton Hall in October, high school students discussed how they could become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Christian Cobb, a student at Howard High School, mentioned entering an EntreX Lab competition held at UD last spring and presenting in front of judges for the first time.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
aacsb.edu | Kevin Tritt |Alfred Lerner College
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Taylor Swift-themed workshops use a pop-culture-based curriculum to inspire students to develop their data analysis skills.
An economics professor at the University of Delaware uses information about Taylor Swift’s Spotify streams and album sales to introduce undergraduates to data visualization methods and programming languages.
