Department News

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.

FACE MASK FIT MATTERS

When you wear a mask in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19), you protect others around you by keeping your exhalations, known as aerosols, and many of the potentially infectious particles within them, to yourself.

SOFT MATTER FOR ALL

The University of Delaware and Princeton University recently hosted a symposium to bring together a diverse group of scientists to discuss soft matter research.