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Driven to research
POSTED: July 12, 2024
Undergraduate researcher Atif Bacchus works to find new screening methods and therapies for breast cancer
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Living Aloha
POSTED: July 11, 2024
UD doctoral student Abigail Nalesnik reflects on time living in Hawaii studying volcanoes
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A sharper look at shark teeth
POSTED: July 10, 2024
UD undergraduate student Caitlin Bailey examines sand tiger shark teeth
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Renaissance woman
POSTED: July 8, 2024
Lauren Mottel, a first-year biomedical engineering doctoral student and UD engineering alumna, is the recipient of the 2024 Laird Fellowship
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Performance under pressure
POSTED: June 27, 2024
UD researchers and collaborators explore how deep-sea animals perform under pressure
Unearthing an understudied disease vector in Delaware
POSTED: June 25, 2024
UD researcher to study kissing bugs in Delaware after insects found in a New Castle County home
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2024 BioGENEius Award winners
POSTED: June 17, 2024
High school students honored for biotech ingenuity
Powering precision medicine
POSTED: June 11, 2024
UD-developed method enables next-generation proteomics
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Computers and chemistry
POSTED: June 6, 2024
UD’s interdisciplinary graduate traineeship provides students with key communication and technical skills needed to address complex, real-world problems
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The mentor’s message: ‘You belong here’
POSTED: June 4, 2024
UD hosts 10th gathering of Regional Undergraduate Student Research Conference
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Sustainable concrete
POSTED: June 3, 2024
UD engineers create sidewalk pavers using non-recyclable plastics, reducing natural resource usage while keeping plastic waste out of landfills
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Future leaders and innovators
POSTED: May 28, 2024
12 UD students, alumni awarded 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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Today, UD. Tomorrow, the world
POSTED: May 24, 2024
For doctoral graduates, getting the highest degree is just the start
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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.