Leveraging Biology to Power Engineering Impact

Leveraging Biology to Power Engineering Impact

UD hosts Engineering Research Visioning Alliance event to help identify priorities at the intersection of biology and engineering From advances in genome editing with CRISPR to new robotic designs that take inspiration from the animal kingdom, innovations at the...
Institute for Engineering Driven Health names new director

Institute for Engineering Driven Health names new director

College of Engineering’s Higginson earns inaugural honor Jill Higginson, mechanical and biomedical engineering professor, has been named the inaugural director of the University of Delaware’s new Institute for Engineering Driven Health. The Institute was recently...
Delaware First: Engineering the Future

Delaware First: Engineering the Future

David and Connie Helwig, both 1973 UD graduates, committed a multimillion gift to launch the Institute for Engineering Driven Health at UD. Transformational gift from David and Connie Helwig will establish UD’s new Institute for Engineering Driven Health With rapid...
Engineering Future Vaccines

Engineering Future Vaccines

‘Blue sky’ idea to boost vaccine efficacy earns Aditya Kunjapur the AIChE Langer Prize Most researchers hope they will be the one to discover the next big breakthrough advance for society, like finding a cure for cancer or climate change. But groundbreaking ideas...
Immerse Delaware Lab Coming to UD

Immerse Delaware Lab Coming to UD

Partnership with Waters Corporation to focus on biopharma manufacturing needs The University of Delaware is a growing powerhouse in research, education and workforce development focusing on biopharmaceuticals. These complex medicines produced from living cells — from...
Delivery of Medicine in the Body

Delivery of Medicine in the Body

UD Prof. Catherine Fromen will use moving models to study how medicines travel in the lungs and gut The human body has built-in protections to keep pathogens out. That sneezing fit or stuffy nose when you have a cold? That’s your body leveraging mucosal linings in...