For The Record
Jack Puleo, professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received a highly competitive short-term research grant from DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service.
IEEE Early Career Research Award
The Early Career Researcher Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing, within just five years of earning their doctoral degrees.
Breaking the Rules of Brain Cancer
The collaboration of a chemical engineer and a neurobiologist has produced a new and freely available computer program that predicts cancer cell motion and spread with high accuracy.
Papoutsakis Elected to National Academy of Engineering
The chemical engineer was selected “for contributions to metabolic engineering, especially the industrial biotechnology of Clostridia, and to biomanufacturing of therapeutic proteins.”
Detecting Hidden Threats
UD professor and post-doctoral fellow are developing technology to detect explosive devices from a distance, thanks to a five-year, $1M grant from the U.S. Army Research Office.
Feb 20: Graduate Engineering Career Panel
STEM panel will spark conversations about how to create inclusive work environments that support underrepresented groups in those fields.
Feb 18 to 24: Engineers Week
UD will join organizations across the country in celebrating the wonders of engineering during National Engineers Week.
Starving Liver Cancer
Scientists have found a new way to kill liver cancer cells and inhibit tumor growth. This research could accelerate the development of new treatments for liver cancer, which is currently difficult to cure.
Matchmaking for Cancer Care
A team of computer scientists has developed a new system to rapidly determine which cancer drugs are likely to work best given a patient’s genetic markers. It is the first publicly available system of its kind.
Building the Future of Railroads
Allan M. Zarembski has received the 2017 Fumio Tatsuoka Best Paper Award from the journal Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology for his contributions to track engineering.
John Slater Named ‘Rising Star’
Slater is one of eight Rising Star award winners selected from early-career researchers nationwide who focus on engineering molecules and cells to enhance the understanding of biology and practice of medicine.
Discovering How Cells Divide
UD professor part of a new three-year, $675,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to understand cell-size control in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlamydomonas).