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3 weeks ago | 
udel.edu | Beth Miller |Karen Roberts |Tracey Bryant |Katie Peikes
Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with many other sciences, such as chemistry, physics and mathematics, which help us to better understand cells, genetics, evolution and the interaction of many living systems.
Synthetic biology, a rapidly growing area of science, aims to take it all to another level, drawing on innovative techniques from biology and engineering, including the use of DNA sequencing and synthesis.
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Nya Wynn |Beth Miller |Tracey Bryant
Mimicking the complex structure and function of the lung in a lab setting is inherently challenging. The UD-developed 3D lung model is unique in several ways. First, the model breathes in the same cyclic motion as an actual lung. That’s key, Fromen said. The model also contains lattice structures to represent the entire volume and surface area of a lung.
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Tracey Bryant |Katie Peikes |Amy Cherry |Jessica Henderson
Some fascinating events marked the year 1995: The comet Hale-Bopp was discovered, the first full-length movie created entirely using computer animation, Toy Story, premiered, and the global pop star Dua Lipa was born.
At the University of Delaware, a program to develop a new kind of researcher for the scientific workforce also began ramping up then, with support from UD and America’s largest medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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2 months ago | 
udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Amy Cherry |Nya Wynn |Tracey Bryant
University computer science (CS) courses serve as important bridges into further CS study and careers in STEM. Yet many women and underrepresented students with interests in STEM turn away from these career paths in college. With new research in CS education, University of Delaware researchers are uncovering more effective ways for instructors to support all student learning and encourage persistence in the field.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Tracey Bryant
Following a national search, Pamela Norris, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and former vice provost of research at George Washington University (GWU), has been named the next dean of the University of Delaware College of Engineering, UD President Dennis Assanis and Provost Laura Carlson announced today. Norris will be the first woman to serve as dean of UD's highly ranked engineering college, and her appointment will be effective March 1, 2025.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Karen Roberts |Tracey Bryant |Amy Cherry
Tires are an indispensable part of daily life. Without them, our vehicles would just be a bunch of assembled parts — convenient to sit in, but not effective for getting where you are going.
While their usefulness is undisputed, tires do come with some problems. A 2016 Federal Highway Administration report found 280 million tires are discarded annually in the United States.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Tracey Bryant |Amy Cherry |Karen Roberts
Three University of Delaware professors — Yushan Yan, Wendy Smith and Kelvin Fu — have been named Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, the analytics company, for demonstrating “significant and broad influence in their fields of research.” Each researcher has authored multiple scientific papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and publication year over the past decade in the Web of Science, a bibliographic database of scholarly articles from 22,000 peer-reviewed journals...
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Tracey Bryant |Amy Cherry |Karen Roberts |Hilary Douwes
Building an RSE group at UD has been a goal of Rudi Eigenmann’s since he joined the faculty in 2017. “Science needs RSEs because chemists, for example, need to concentrate on chemistry, and it takes so much just to learn the chemistry,” said Eigenmann, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-investigator on the grant. “With more and more work being done computationally, chemists also have needed to become computational experts.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Lisa Walenceus |Beth Miller |Adam Thomas |Tracey Bryant
When Michael Vaughan, vice provost for equity at the University of Delaware, introduced the program for the Graduate College’s sixth Spark! Symposium and its theme, “Connecting Our Research to Our Community,” he emphasized that research connected to community needs is a gift.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Beth Miller |Adam Thomas |Tracey Bryant |Amy Cherry
The human brain is an astonishing organ, as any neuroscientist can attest. And its ability to collect, store, analyze and use information is intriguing to physicists, engineers and computer scientists, too.
Benjamin Jungfleisch, associate professor of physics at the University of Delaware, is among them.
Jungfleisch, who joined UD’s faculty in 2018, is an expert in magnon spintronics.
