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Aug 23, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Eric Ruth |Jessica Henderson |Amy Cherry |Marina Jones
“One of the big advantages of UD is we bring the world to you,” Assanis told the students. “Take advantage of this. Network with each other, embrace international students, and they will contribute to you just as much as you contribute to them.”Assanis said that each of those unique student stories needs to be shared so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of diverse perspectives.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Marina Jones |Katie Peikes
The bustling back-to-school season is often an exciting time as teachers and students prepare for a new academic year and return to their favorite fall activities. But this transitionary period can also be a stressful one, as people adopt new routines, join new school communities or establish new goals. For this reason, it’s important for teachers, students and families to focus on their well-being, especially given the rising mental health needs among young people nationally.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Amy Cherry |Jessica Henderson |Marina Jones |Katie Peikes
It was a hot summer day on June 6, 2019, when Kim Ford felt so incredibly hot that she couldn’t keep her clothes on. She was working from home in customer care when she tripped and couldn’t get up. Before she knew it, she was in an ambulance, heading to Christiana Hospital, where EMTs pointed to her husband’s wrist and asked her what was on it. She couldn’t answer them.
Ford, who was 50 years old at the time, had what doctors described as a one-in-a-million stroke.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Marina Jones |Katie Peikes |Erica K. Brockmeier
Every summer, the University of Delaware opens its doors to a different kind of student: Dozens of area high school students use the university as their home base as part of the nationally recognized Upward Bound program. For five weeks, students from high schools all over New Castle County gather to take courses, stay in dorms and discover new potential career paths as part of the program.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Megan Everhart |Jessica Henderson |Marina Jones
Margaret Armstrong, an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware, remembers sitting in her fiction writing class and hearing her professor tell the class there weren’t any restrictions on what the students could write. No topic was off limits. She also knows that aspiring writers in the early 20th century heard vastly different advice about how to be successful.
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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.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Nya Wynn |Tabitha Groh |Marina Jones
The University of Delaware’s 4+1 programs provide students with a fast-tracked path to both an undergraduate and master’s degree. Although relatively new, the B.S./M.S. in Statistics 4+1 program is launching Blue Hens into a wide range of careers.
With the high demand for statisticians in seemingly every major industry, two degrees in five years seemed like a rigorous but financially smart opportunity for students like Audrey Bufano.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Nya Wynn |Tabitha Groh |Marina Jones
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 12% of children and adolescents between the ages of 3 and 17 experience an anxiety or mood disorder, and symptoms can begin even before elementary school. Our schools can play an important role in addressing anxiety disorders, but educators need programs that are effective, feasible and easily implemented without specialized support.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Marina Jones |Tabitha Groh
Dr. Terry McKinley Whittaker, a former University of Delaware assistant provost with over 33 years of service to the university, passed away on Jan. 31, 2024, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of 73.
Dr. Whittaker’s time at UD began in 1983 when he became director of the Resources to Insure Successful Engineers Program (RISE) within the College of Engineering.
