Department News
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.
AN HONORED INVENTOR
National Academy of Inventors elects UD’s Terry Papoutsakis to 2020 Fellows class
NEW AAAS FELLOWS
UD Professors Kristi Kiick, Eric Furst honored for scientific contributions
$11 MILLION FROM NIH FOR RESEARCH
UD’s COBRE Center to add five investigators with five-year grant extension
HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS
Seven University of Delaware professors have been named to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate, the global analytics company.
HEALING CHRONIC WOUNDS
Prof. Millie Sullivan receives Fulbright Award to study gene therapies promoting wound healing at University of Melbourne
SMARTER MODELS, SMARTER CHOICES
They call it artificial intelligence — not because the intelligence is somehow fake. It’s real intelligence, but it’s still made by humans. That means AI — a power tool that can add speed, efficiency, insight and accuracy to a researcher’s work — has many limitations.