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The 10-story Tower at STAR—which opened this past fall—is designed to support novel learning experiences through interdisciplinary collaboration and translation, shaping the future of health care. UD’s College of Health Sciences occupies the second through seventh floors, while the remaining space is dedicated to a mix of private companies and community resources.
Nearby, buildings are under construction with equally lofty aims: the six-story Ammon Pinizzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Center will advance the manufacture of life-saving drugs, and the Chemours Discovery Hub will be the future home of this Fortune 500 company’s global R&D operations.
“As a vibrant hub for research, innovation, teaching and service to the community at the University of Delaware, the STAR Campus continues to evolve at a grand scale,” UD President Dennis Assanis said. “It will help advance UD’s impact as a powerful driver of economic development throughout Delaware and beyond.”
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From the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation
A disruptor prevents things from proceeding as usual. But that’s not always bad. In research and education, we’re always turning ideas and methods on their ear in the quest to learn something new…
Innovation In Motion
UD researchers partner with Reebok to build a “smart” sports bra — a sports bra engineered to actually do its job!
Disruptors
This issue of the University of Delaware Research magazine puts new faces on this idea of disruption, highlighting the innovative way our researchers are tackling complex problems. Learn about their work and what drives them and how the disruption they cause can produce real benefit for our world.
Test Your Knowledge: Innovation
As a growing research institution, the University of Delaware is a place where you’ll find new ideas constantly sparking solutions to challenges once deemed impossible.The wonder of innovation is all around us, but what do you really know about it? Try your hand at these questions.
Art In Science
Now in its fourth year, this annual exhibit offers a captivating glimpse into a vast world of discovery at the University of Delaware.
The Baltimore Collection
Something truly special emerged from a box that no one expected until Julie McGee, associate professor of Africana Studies and Art History, and her University of Delaware students got their hands on the 53 photographs inside.
Disruptors: Probing the Power of Paradox
A professor of management at UD’s Lerner College of Business and Economics, Wendy Smith focuses on how leaders and teams can effectively respond to contradictory agendas.
Disruptors: Defending Equal Access to Food
How does a new supermarket impact people who live nearby? Can healthy options be found in the little store down the street? These are questions that Allison Karpyn ponders regularly.
Disruptors: Cracking a Cell’s Secret Code
Jason Gleghorn has held a variety of jobs since college—teacher, firefighter, medic, engineer. Today, he’s an interpreter of sorts, too, deciphering the language that cells use to communicate in hopes of advancing new treatments for congenital birth defects, pediatric diseases and more.
Disruptors: Making Our Way
Professor of Africana studies at UD and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Monica A. Coleman focuses on the role of faith in addressing critical social and philosophical issues.
Disruptors: Moving Forward with Autism
With skills in physical therapy, behavioral neuroscience and biomechanics, Anjana Bhat brings expansive expertise to her work developing creative therapies for those living with autism spectrum disorders.
Disruptors: Expanding Our World View
These co-founders of the Robotic Discovery Laboratories in UD’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment manage a growing robotics fleet for use on land, in air and under the sea. They explore questions along the coast, at the poles and in deep regions of the ocean.
Disruptors: Harnessing Beneficial Microbes
So, what do a virologist, botanist and soil physicist have in common? This team from UD’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is leveraging their collective expertise to ensure that our food supply is safe and abundant, now and in the future.
Honors
UD researchers have been recognized recently by the National Institutes of Health, American Political Science Association, TED Fellows program, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Inventors and the Gates Cambridge Scholarship program.
News Briefs
Check out some recent developments, from the launching of major research programs to address environmental and health issues in the First State, to the preservation of a pair of 1909 mittens with a hallowed history.
CONTACT
Tracey Bryant
Senior Director, Research Communications
Email: tbryant@UDel.Edu
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