Culture Night 2019

Culture Night 2019

Filipino Student Association, led by engineering student, hosts evening for multicultural groups on April 12 Lauren Icarangal chose the University of Delaware because of its high ranking chemical engineering program. The University is close enough to her home in...
Advancing the Status of Women on Campus

Advancing the Status of Women on Campus

Engineering student recognized for her efforts Engineering student Erin Rezich received the Mae Carter Scholarship Award at the University of Delaware’s annual Women of Promise dinner. The March 19 event, held in the Trabant University Center, celebrated the...
Honor for Jill Higginson

Honor for Jill Higginson

Engineering professor named Fellow by American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering There’s a treadmill in the center of Professor Jill Higginson’s laboratory, and it’s not for impromptu workouts. Higginson studies human motion and gait so that she and...
Fighting Fires

Fighting Fires

Three UD students share their experiences as volunteer firefighters One fall afternoon, a handful of volunteer firefighters were scattered around Aetna Hose Hook and Ladder Company Station 9. University of Delaware students Olivia Alexander, Matthew Heebner and Conor...
Examining 2D Materials, Atom by Atom

Examining 2D Materials, Atom by Atom

Engineers uncover strength, toughness of hexagonal boron nitride From smartphones that bend to solar panels that wrap around houses, flexible electronics could make consumers very happy. But first, someone has to figure out how to make them. One important question is...
Unlocking The Mystery of Catalysts

Unlocking The Mystery of Catalysts

Exploration of metal oxides has potential to drive catalysis research to new heights Catalysis is, like many sciences, situational. This high-powered chemistry is all about accelerating chemical reactions, using catalysts to “turbocharge” the process and quickly...