In Memoriam: Jerold (Jerry) Schultz

In Memoriam: Jerold (Jerry) Schultz

Jerold (Jerry) M. Schultz, emeritus C. Ernest Birchenall Professor of Chemical Engineering with a joint appointment in materials science and engineering at the University of Delaware, died on October 20, 2018. He was born in 1935 in San Francisco and attended the...
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...
Quantum Momentum

Quantum Momentum

UD team gets $1 million from NSF to help research quantum technology A technology revolution is coming, and the University of Delaware is on the leading edge as the recipient of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop the quantum...
Developing Diverse Leaders

Developing Diverse Leaders

Workshop prepares next generation of faculty in chemistry, engineering and more When LaShanda Korley was six years old, she stood at a blackboard, handed out papers, and gave her student — her grandmother — tests. She even logged the grades in a gradebook. “I’ve...
Science At The Surface

Science At The Surface

UD’s Anderson Janotti predicts surface structure of advanced electronic materials The next great technological innovation, the color television or iPhone of our time, might be enabled by novel advanced electronic materials called Heuslers. What are Heusler materials?...
Inside a solar-cell startup’s success

Inside a solar-cell startup’s success

Horn Entrepreneurship venture wins green technology competition A startup that’s figured out how to make solar cells at a very low temperature is following the entrepreneurial process at the University of Delaware because of its international renown for research and...