Four Engineering Professors Honored

Four Engineering Professors Honored

Professors Chen, Day, Pochan and Wang recognized for excellence in medical and biological engineering Four faculty members from the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering have been recognized by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering...
Fine-Tuning Touch Technology

Fine-Tuning Touch Technology

UD’s Charles Dhong gets $1.9 million to develop new tactile aids Bumps and lines make up touch-based technology such as Braille. But the human sense of touch is keen enough to detect differences that are much smaller. Research by Charles Dhong and his group at the...
Tackling the Plastics Problem

Tackling the Plastics Problem

Collaborative project aims to find sustainable ways to create, destroy plastics Despite the society-changing improvements that plastic materials have brought to humanity, there’s no question that they also present us with new challenges regarding what to do with the...
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving

Interdisciplinary Problem Solving

Computing, engineering and polymer sciences converge in new NSF doctoral traineeship Big-name chemical companies like DuPont and W.L. Gore have complex materials problems to solve. The trouble is they’re in need of well-rounded researchers to find the solutions...
Manipulating Molecules

Manipulating Molecules

Manipulating molecules is tricky business, but two University of Delaware professors have earned international recognition for “outstanding scientific and technical contributions” to their respective science and engineering fields by being named 2021 AVS Fellows. The...
A ‘Hat Trick’ of Honors for UD’s Jayaraman

A ‘Hat Trick’ of Honors for UD’s Jayaraman

Three societies recognize her contributions to physics, chemistry, chemical engineering With a passion for polymer research and teaching, Arthi Jayaraman of the University of Delaware often finds herself wearing a lot of hats — figuratively, at least. “My research has...