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Keeping cancer cells dormant

Keeping cancer cells dormant

The Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition awarded a research travel grant to Shantanu Pradhan, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Delaware Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Your STEM toy shopping list

Your STEM toy shopping list

UD K-12 STEM education expert recommends holiday gifts If your child’s holiday wish list includes a robot, consider this: The best robot toys are the ones that kids can tinker with. “Kits often have prescriptive instructions, with one ‘solution’ to building,” said...

Cyber sages help small businesses tighten up

Cyber sages help small businesses tighten up

UD cybersecurity training goes national and student consultants go local While you're out there living your life, cybercriminals are at work trying to get something that isn't theirs - all day, every night, on weekends and holidays, 24/7. You can see the constant...

Preparing for the next crisis

Preparing for the next crisis

UD research team receives grant to study power outages, water shortages after natural disasters After hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, residents of storm-ravaged areas had to stand in long lines for water. Some spent days without power, and many still lack these...

Computer Science for Everyone

Computer Science for Everyone

Two UD professors watch governor sign law requiring public high schools to teach computer science A new law will require every public high school in Delaware to offer at least one course in computer science. When Delaware Gov. John Carney signed the bill, two...

UD Hosts Cybersecurity camp

UD Hosts Cybersecurity camp

At state of Delaware summer program, students learned how to outwit hackers When Jose Monsalve was 10, he used to tinker with his family’s computer — much to his mother’s dismay. In late July, Monsalve, who is now a UD graduate student in electrical and computer...

Engineering for Ability

Engineering for Ability

At UD summer camps, kids use engineering to help others Wielding power drills, pipe cleaners and rulers, a group of aspiring engineers re-wires the engines of toy cars. They swap the foot pedals for push buttons, pad rough edges with foam and deck out the vehicles...

A Foothold for Young Faculty

A Foothold for Young Faculty

Internet pioneer makes $2.2 million gift to the University of Delaware Always looking for the most interesting thing to do. That’s how David Farber describes the motivation behind his accomplishments, from pioneering telecommunications research and serving as chief...

Helping Kids Break The Code

Helping Kids Break The Code

NSF grants support community-based computer science programs to expand participation Teach kids how to program a toylike robot or a computer game and suddenly computer science looks like great fun. Coding – the letters and numbers that govern the robot's every motion...

May 5: Art In Science Opening

May 5: Art In Science Opening

Event to showcase cutting-edge research through unique scientific images Opening night for the University of Delaware’s second annual Art in Science exhibit will take place at the Blue Ball Barn in Wilmington’s Alapocas Run State Park on Friday, May 5, from 5:30-8:30...

Summit For Computer Science Education

Summit For Computer Science Education

Event attracts state leaders, teachers, administrators, industry partners More than 75 teachers, administrators, business partners and state leaders convened at the University of Delaware on Thursday, March 23, for a daylong conference on computer science education....