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AI meets real intelligence at UD hackathon
POSTED: November 13, 2025
UD students and industry leaders team up to solve fintech challenges
Stronger by design
POSTED: November 13, 2025
UD awarded NSF grant to build next-generation secure computer chips
Influential researchers
POSTED: November 12, 2025
Highly Cited Researchers list honors scholars whose work ranks in top 1%
Innovation Ambassador: Catherine Fromen
POSTED: November 11, 2025
Advancing novel technologies along the commercialization pathway
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Why Achilles tendon injuries resist treatment
POSTED: November 7, 2025
UD researchers seek to uncover how anatomical differences may influence recovery
Ship to shore
POSTED: November 4, 2025
UD researchers engage future marine scientists during video call from aboard the R/V Roger Revelle, currently at sea off the coast of West Africa
The moth defender
POSTED: November 4, 2025
UD undergraduate student looks at how mosquito control methods threaten caterpillars
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Biotechnology solutions for plastics problems
POSTED: November 3, 2025
UD chemical engineer wins the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably
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Engineering a clearer view of bone healing
POSTED: October 31, 2025
UD engineer Michael Hast leads an NIH-funded effort to identify impaired bone healing earlier with MRI-based computer models
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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.