Department News
Student Spotlight: Elaine Stewart
Many engineers dream of working for NASA someday, and chemical engineer Elaine Stewart didn’t wait for graduation to start that mission.
GradImpact: Improving Battery Performance while Maintaining Safety and Stability
Priyanka Ketkar, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, is working to create a battery that takes minutes to fully charge. Ketkar, as part of the Epps Research Group, intends to produce flexible, safer,...
Recognition for Biotechnology Influencer
Kelvin Lee receives Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology As the director of NIIMBL, the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, Kelvin Lee is a changemaker in the biomanufacturing industry, which has the...
Could Termites Power a ‘Clean Coal’ Revolution
Termite-gut microbes extract clean energy from coal Termites generally don’t elicit a whole lot of love. But surprisingly, this wood-eating insect may hold the key to transforming coal — a big polluting chunk of the global energy supply — into cleaner energy for the...
Greener Hydrogen from Water
UD innovator explores catalysts that pull their weight and serve the environment The idea of using hydrogen as the basis of a clean sustainable energy source, often termed a hydrogen economy, has been a topic of conversation for decades. Hydrogen fuel, for example,...
Engineering’ Yan Named Nai Fellow
UD chemical engineer honored by National Academy of Inventors Yushan Yan, Distinguished Engineering Professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Entrepreneurship in the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering, has been...
Cleaner, Greener U.S. Manufacturing
UD to help boost energy efficiency and modular manufacturing with RAPID grants
Wilfred Chen and DNA Computers
UD Engineering professor recognized for work in protein engineering, synthetic biology
Catalyzing Excellence
Bingjun Xu recognized as an influential researcher
Faster Charging, Safer Batteries
UD invention aims to improve battery performance
A New Way to Use Crispr
UD engineers develop methods to use CRISPR technology for conditional gene regulation A team of engineers at the University of Delaware has developed a method to use CRISPR/Cas9 technology to set off a cascade of activities in cells, a phenomenon known as conditional...
Remembering the 41st U.S. President
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