Off the Grid

Off the Grid

UD researchers advance communication options Let’s say you are hiking the Adirondack Mountains in New York or the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. It is getting dark, you are miles from camp, and you sprain an ankle. You have no cell service. What do you do? Or maybe you...
Congratulations to 2020 CIS Honors’ Day Award Recipients

Congratulations to 2020 CIS Honors’ Day Award Recipients

CIS is celebrating our 2020 Honors’ Day ceremony virtually with our award recipients. Faculty, staff, award sponsors and donors participated in this special event to congratulate and commemorate our twenty-two award winners. Computer and Information Sciences...
Inclusive Programs Show Resilience

Inclusive Programs Show Resilience

Students with disabilities, staff adjust to remote learning amid coronavirus Melissa Gatti misses the Green. “I loved walking around campus, seeing the activities going on,” said the first-year computer and information sciences major, who is part of the University of...
Hearing Loss Drives UD Golfer

Hearing Loss Drives UD Golfer

A computer science major, Aashaka Desai helps with speech language research Aashaka Desai’s parents could tell something was wrong; when they called her name from the next room, she wouldn’t respond. A trip to the doctor revealed significant hearing loss, and at 13...
Exploring the Intersection of Communities and Technology

Exploring the Intersection of Communities and Technology

In February, before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit and prompted the need for social distancing, former Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx visited the Biden Institute and toured UD’s Scaled Smart City, led by Andreas Malikopoulos, Terri Connor Kelly and...
UD Engineering’s Next Era

UD Engineering’s Next Era

Levi T. Thompson shares vision as new dean of College of Engineering Levi T. Thompson joined the University of Delaware in early October as dean of the College of Engineering. It’s a homecoming for Thompson, who received a bachelor’s degree in chemical...