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Research worth funding
POSTED: May 20, 2022
UD Engineering’s Aditya Kunjapur earns two prestigious awards for innovative research

How do microplastics affect Delaware's blue crabs?
POSTED: May 20, 2022
Doctoral student studies possible threats to mid-Atlantic crab

A novel approach to teaching Algebra
POSTED: May 19, 2022
UD’s Teo Paoletti receives NSF CAREER award to help students develop reasoning skills with digital tools

Living with osteoarthritis
POSTED: May 18, 2022
UD physical therapy professor dispels myths about exercise and joint pain

The real spider man
POSTED: May 14, 2022
UD alumnus George Uetz details illustrious career in spider biology

5 things all inventors should know
POSTED: May 13, 2022
Top tips, tools and techniques for protecting your ideas and inventions

Controlling proteins
POSTED: May 12, 2022
Engineering’s Wilfred Chen publishes new CRISPR concept in Nature Chemical Biology

Searching for solutions in soybeans
POSTED: May 11, 2022
DENIN Environmental Fellow and doctoral student Vanessa Richards studies plant cooperation at the root level

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.
