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UD GRADUATE PROGRAMS RANKED AMONG BEST IN THE NATION
The University of Delaware has 21 graduate programs among the 100 best in the nation, according to the 2022 edition of Best Graduate Schools, U.S. News and World Report.
‘LET’S GO CHANGE THE WORLD TOGETHER’
“If you’re solving problems for humanity, then you better know something about the humanity for which you’re solving the problem.”, said Ogunnaike.
FOCUSING ON MUSCULOSKELETAL RESEARCH
UD wins NIH grant for new center with female professors leading the way
REDUCE FOOD WASTE, CHANGE THE WORLD
Elvis Ebikade, a fifth-year doctoral student studying chemical engineering at University of Delaware, says he thinks potato peels hold a lot of promise. Leveraging science developed at the University of Delaware’s Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI)
Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis
Dionisios Vlachos, the Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, has been selected to receive the Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis award from the Catalysis Science and Technology Division (CATL) of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
HIGH HONORS
Thomas H. Epps, III, the Allan and Myra Ferguson Distinguished Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been named to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
OPTIMIZING SUCCESS
Ever since she completed a research project in high school looking at ways to shorten the extraction time of chemical warfare agents in soils, University of Delaware senior Afsa Simpson was drawn to chemical engineering.
INSPIRING INNOVATION
As we celebrate National Innovation Day on Tuesday, Feb. 16, UDaily asked several University of Delaware researchers who are fellows of the National Academy of Inventors to share their successes, stumbling blocks and suggestions on what it takes to innovate, invent and inspire new solutions to challenges facing society and the world.
INNOVATION ENGINE
As the nation celebrates National Innovation Day on Tuesday, Feb. 16, UD leadership recognized the innovation and commercialization efforts of 232 inventors hailing from all corners of our campus community — faculty, researchers and students.
KELLY, THOMPSON ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
Two University of Delaware alumni and current leaders — Terri L. Kelly (left), vice chair of the UD Board of Trustees and Levi T. Thompson, dean of the College of Engineering — have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
AN ESSENTIAL CONNECTOR
The Delaware Small Business Development Center (SBDC) has been helping Delaware’s technology-based businesses grow and thrive since 1984.
UD ONLINE GRADUATE PROGRAMS AMONG TOP IN NATION
Three University of Delaware online graduate programs are ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its 2021 U.S. News Best Online Programs.