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Combating plastics waste
POSTED: April 22, 2021
UD researchers report possible solutions for hard-to-recycle plastics

Green energy technology
POSTED: April 21, 2021
UD spinoff selected for Shell GameChanger Accelerator program

Great White feeding ground
POSTED: April 21, 2021
New study examines the presence of Great White Sharks in a previously unreported location

Friends of a needy planet
POSTED: April 20, 2021
UD researchers and students working to ‘Restore our Earth’

Learning and assessment
POSTED: April 20, 2021
UD professor serves as policy expert on national report about equitable educational assessments

Blue Hens capture the flag
POSTED: April 16, 2021
Inaugural UD cybersecurity competition engages more than 2,000 participants

Materials Research Society Fellow
POSTED: April 15, 2021
Engineering professor developing materials to link humans, machines

Allies in overcoming stroke
POSTED: April 13, 2021
Researchers use robotics to help stroke survivors recover

When cars talk
POSTED: April 10, 2021
In the future, self-driving cars will communicate to save fuel, improve safety

Helping children move more freely
POSTED: April 10, 2021
UD post-doctoral fellow works to commercialize novel foot brace for cerebral palsy

Volume 8.2
From the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation: Moving Forward
The UD research community continues to navigate COVID-19, with health and safety the highest priority. In spite of hardships, we’re facing the pandemic with vigilance and resilience.
News Briefs
Check out our COVID-19 research, a virtual visit with the editor-in-chief of Science, and undergrads at work on the Frontiers of Discovery.
Honors: Celebrating Excellence
UD faculty and students have won major recognition for their expertise and contributions.
Guess Who’s Powering Up UD’s Research Engine?
This issue of the University of Delaware Research magazine introduces you to a critical creative force at UD — our graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Their ingenuity is lighting new routes to discovery and solutions.
Front Edge of Discovery: Strengthening democracy for a better world
It all began with a Joseph Conrad novel. Doctoral student Pablo McConnie-Saad discusses his journey to better understand democracy, as the first Whittington Graduate Fellow at the Biden Institute.
Front Edge of Discovery: Developing resilient Black girls
Doctoral student and Graduate Scholar Nefetaria Yates is examining school discipline and the tactics Black girls have developed for dealing with the pressures they face. Her ultimate goal is to elevate voices that have been silenced.
Front Edge of Discovery: Helping children move
Entrepreneur Ahad Behboodi wants to see kids with cerebral palsy move more freely. He plans to commercialize a robotic foot device with the power to help them.
Front Edge of Discovery: A clinical science approach
Lexie Tabachnick, in her fifth year of doctoral studies, helps to mentor other grad students and undergraduates while she studies the powerful impact a UD-developed family intervention program is having on vulnerable kids.
