Alumni & Friends

Cultivating a legacy


Our community is strong. Our relationships sustain us. Alumni, friends, families and students of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources work together to create a lasting legacy and fulfill our land-grant mission of teaching, research and extension.

Alumni have gone on to become successful growers, agribusiness leaders, scientists and policy makers. They've conducted pioneering research that has shaped our food and our planet.

Supporters have provided the resources to get them there. With new state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities on the horizon, your gift today will impact student success for decades to come.

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Alumni in the news
  • William J. Benton in a 1992 photo

    In memoriam: William J. Benton

    December 18, 2024 | Written by Dante LaPenta
    Retired faculty member and alumnus William J. Benton passed away on Dec. 10. The University, former colleagues and his students remember the impact of his career.
  • To The Bat Cave

    December 03, 2024 | Written by Molly Schafer
    Rebekah Kading, associate professor at Colorado State University, studies vector-borne pathogens and emerging arboviruses. The UD alumna says her teaching methodology is influenced by the months she spent in UD’s Ecology Woods, assisting Professor Emeritus Roland Roth with his famous study of the wood thrush.
  • UD online master’s program in applied statistics alumna Anaise Higgins took the unconventional path to data science

    November 21, 2024 | Written by Nya Wynn
    Anaise Higgins, a UD Class of 2023 graduate of the online master’s program in applied statistics, successfully transitioned into a data science career after completing her degree. The program's flexibility allowed her to work full time while gaining essential skills in areas such as machine learning and statistical methods, which she now uses as a data scientist with a top national insurance company.

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The Office of Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) engages donors, alumni, friends, parents, faculty, staff and students in a lifelong relationship and fosters a tradition of philanthropy to strengthen the University of Delaware's legacy as one of the great public institutions of higher education in America.

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