Cybersecurity grants

Cybersecurity grants

UD CSI awards funds to support multidisciplinary cybersecurity concepts The University of Delaware Cybersecurity Initiative has awarded six grants to support research projects addressing a range of issues from bio-cybersecurity and drone navigation to the use of...
Chicken Fat

Chicken Fat

Research provides insights into genetic basis of obesity Just as poultry is steadily gaining in popularity on dinner plates, the chicken is growing in attractiveness as a biomedical model for studying health issues ranging from headaches and ovarian cancer to cystic...
International ethics

International ethics

Interdisciplinary team to address global issues in STEM research The University of Delaware has been awarded more than $200,000 by the National Science Foundation to collaborate with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on an international research ethics...
NSF Graduate Research Fellows

NSF Graduate Research Fellows

Five UD students receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Matthew Fischel, a doctoral student at the University of Delaware, is busy this summer researching the ability of wetland plants to sequester heavy metal contaminants in the face of sea level rise at a...
Driver’s ed for robots

Driver’s ed for robots

UD joins research team teaching robots to respond in disaster emergencies How do you teach a robot to get into vehicle and drive it? Three University of Delaware professors plan to figure it out by the end of next year. Christopher Rasmussen, Ioannis Poulakakis and...
Paths to science careers

Paths to science careers

Hands-on research puts student scholars on paths to STEM careers You could hear the excitement in Michelle Francis’s voice as the University of Delaware senior described her research in the Department of Medical Technology to crosslink snake venom protein to melanoma...