Department News
RESEARCHERS WITH INFLUENCE
Three professors from the University of Delaware — Wendy Smith, Rodrigo Vargas and Yushan Yan — have been recognized as Highly Cited Researchers for 2021 by Clarivate, a global analytics company.
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEM SOLVING
Recognizing that real-world need, award-winning UD Professor Arthi Jayaraman has created a collaborative, cross-disciplinary traineeship that will provide selected doctoral students from the University of Delaware and Delaware State University with the technical and professional training they need to thrive in their careers after graduation.
ENGINEERING FUTURE VACCINES
‘Blue sky’ idea to boost vaccine efficacy earns Aditya Kunjapur the AIChE Langer Prize Most researchers hope they will be the one to discover the next big breakthrough advance for society, like finding a cure for cancer or climate change. But groundbreaking ideas...
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL
New hope for biodegrading plastics may lie in worm microbiome Fresh hope for new ways to biodegrade plastics may lie in an unusual place … the gut of the yellow mealworm, according to University of Delaware researchers Kevin Solomon and Mark Blenner. About an inch...
Prof. Norm Wagner to present Francis Alison Lecture
Wagner will speak Nov. 3 on nano and molecular engineering in service of exploration, education and entrepreneurship
IMMERSE DELAWARE LAB COMING TO UD
Partnership with Waters Corporation to focus on biopharma manufacturing needs
POWERING THE WORLD WITH HYDROGEN
It’s green, it’s clean and UD graduate Ashish Lele is working to bring this technology to India and beyond
EPPS NAMED ACS FELLOW
UD Engineering Prof. Thomas Epps selected for American Chemical Society 2021 Class of Fellows
DELIVERY OF MEDICINE IN THE BODY
UD Prof. Catherine Fromen will use moving models to study how medicines travel in the lungs and gut.
Making The Most of Yeast
In April, in recognition of these outstanding achievements, Blenner received the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society’s BIOT, or biochemical technology division, an honor reserved for researchers under 40.
THE HUNT FOR NEW MEDICINES
The hunt for new medicines to treat pain and fight disease is a critical and never-ending quest that Toni Akin-Adenekan, a University of Delaware chemical engineering major from Lagos, Nigeria, wanted to learn more about firsthand this summer.
A ‘HAT TRICK’ OF HONORS FOR UD’S JAYARAMAN
Three societies recognize her contributions to physics, chemistry, chemical engineering