UD-licensed technology addresses Air Force need In the old days, a slingshot, BB gun, rifle or cannon was only as smart as the marksman taking aim. Now, many weapons are guided to their targets with the precision of infrared sensors and lasers. The technology...
UD Teams Get Millions in NSF Funding
K. Eric Wommack’s group gets $6 million to study viruses The University of Delaware’s K. Eric Wommack, deputy dean in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, will lead a research team from four universities that has received a $6 million grant to probe how...
iSuite
New facility fosters innovation, collaboration in electrical and computer engineering A ransomware attack launched in Europe on Friday, May 12, infected as many as a quarter million computers in more than 150 countries, underscoring the growing need for cybersecurity...
Biosciences Big Data
New online graduate certificate in applied bioinformatics launched The completion of the human genome sequence early in the 21st century marked the beginning of a big data explosion in life sciences research. The resulting interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics...
Safe and Sound
Delaware Center for Transportation engineers recognized for work to improve traffic safety Highway safety has become a complex issue in an era when roads built primarily for cars are now being shared by increasing numbers of pedestrians, cyclists, and skateboarders....
Discovery Could Transform Industries
Researchers invent process to make sustainable rubber, plastics Synthetic rubber and plastics – used for manufacturing tires, toys and myriad other products – are produced from butadiene, a molecule traditionally made from petroleum or natural gas. But those manmade...
Building Security With Resilience
International 'Resilience Week' Conference puts focus on cybersecurity, controls, grids, human dynamics You remember those roly-poly dolls -- Weebles were a popular type some years back -- designed with a center of gravity that keeps them bouncing back no matter how...
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....