Department News
Engineering honors
Epps receives Owens-Corning Award for groundbreaking polymer research 12:58 p.m., June 8, 2015--Thomas H. Epps, III has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Owens-Corning Early Career Award by the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division (MESD) of the American...
Building engineers
UD College of Engineering embraces national Maker Movement 11:16 a.m., June 17, 2015--Creative people across the globe are using off-the-shelf products and materials to design and build novel devices ranging from robots that carry out simple household chores to...
Broad impact
Museum kiosk and radio show bring science from UD lab to the public 11:04 a.m., May 28, 2015--April Kloxin thinks science rocks, and she wants everyone from grade-schoolers to grandparents to think that too. So her research group at the University of Delaware is...
UDEI symposium
UD Energy Institute event addresses clean energy challenge 10:53 a.m., May 18, 2015--Termites strike terror into the hearts of homeowners, but they could provide a nonpolluting way to convert coal to methane if microbes from their gut can be sent below ground as tiny...
Engineering role models
Haines fund continues to support women in engineering 11:10 a.m., April 28, 2015--When Richard Haines graduated from the University of Delaware in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering, the number of women graduates in engineering could literally be counted on...
Biotech understanding
Gov. Markell announces Delaware BioGENEius Challenge winners 8:57 a.m., April 17, 2015--Gov. Jack Markell joined Kelvin Lee, director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), to recognize the finalists, an honorable mention awardee and three winners of the...
Research grants
Three UDRF Strategic Initiative grants support health-related research 2:11 p.m., April 7, 2015--Three early-career researchers have won Strategic Initiative Grants from the University of Delaware Research Foundation, supporting their work on longstanding problems in...
Small changes, big effects
Delaware Biotechnology Institute stimulates science interest in Sussex County 4:41 p.m., April 2, 2015--The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), in partnership with the Sussex County Science Fair Committee, hosted a Family Science Night on Monday, March 30, at...
Better battery membranes
UD researchers develop safer electrolytes and use novel technique to assess them 11:54 a.m., April 2, 2015--Most of us have seen dramatic photographs of laptops and even cars that have burst into flames due to failures in lithium-ion batteries. On a much larger scale,...
Ebola diagnostics
Company co-founded by UD alumnus gets FDA authorization for rapid Ebola testing 10:39 a.m., March 27, 2015--Cepheid, a leading molecular diagnostics company, announced earlier this week it has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug...
Self-assembled materials, InSPACE
UD's Eric Furst, colleagues imagine the next generation of smart materials 11:35 a.m., March 24, 2015--The great thing about science, says University of Delaware engineer Eric Furst, is that “every question you ask, you start to answer, and end up with 10 more...
Hydrogen fuel
Inexpensive, efficient bi-metallic electrocatalysts may open floodgates for hydrogen fuel 12:49 p.m., March 16, 2015--University of Delaware researchers have discovered a cheap and efficient catalyst for converting water to hydrogen fuel (known as hydrogen evolution),...