Sep 4, 2020
UD researchers study biological roots for adolescent risk-taking As any parent will tell you, no two children behave in exactly the same way. It is part of what makes each individual unique. So, why do some adolescents take more risks than others? University of...
Aug 6, 2020
Ten years ago, award-winning mentor Dawn Elliott founded UD’s biomedical engineering department Dawn Elliott is having a banner year. As an academic, she’s winning awards, reaching milestones and receiving major kudos from students and colleagues who’ve benefited from...
Mar 24, 2020
Engineer will develop micro-sized devices to understand the body’s immune system Lymph nodes are important organs that train a body’s immune cells to fight off infection from bacteria and viruses. When they get inflamed, it is a signal that immune cells...
Feb 26, 2020
Engineering’s Fabrizio Sergi Lands NSF CAREER Award for work that could help rehabilitation Fabrizio Sergi, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to support...
Jan 15, 2020
UD’s Emily Day among researchers funded through Science Center program University of Delaware biomedical engineer Emily Day is working on technology that may one day replace bone marrow transplants. Currently, bone marrow transplants are used to replace damaged bone...
Jan 14, 2020
Through Senior Design, engineering students flex their skills Megan Mannino, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering, was intrigued by microfluidics—the study of fluid behavior at a submillimeter scale—when she first learned about the subject during a technical...
