UD startup Biospection is working on technology to detect FOODBORNE pathogens like E. coli and salmonella in three to six hours, long before infected produce ever reaches consumers.

UD experts are teaching middle schoolers about GEOGRAPHY, helping kids understand that “it’s not memorizing places and states… It’s understanding what is happening where and why."

Spotted lanternflies are excellent HITCHHIKERS, according to new UD research on their reach and spread. 

UD Prof. Jeremy Firestone spent six weeks in ICELAND to teach and help shape wind-power policy in the so-called land of fire and ice. 

"Look up and remember what inspires you," Commencement speaker Mae JEMISON, engineer, physician, astronaut, and the first African American woman in space tells the Class of 2023. 

A UD lab utilizes a KINARM exoskeleton robot to assess and better treat upper-limb impairment in stroke survivors.

Men’s LACROSSE clinched their second straight CAA tournament title and broke the program record for most goals scored in an NCAA Tournament (25-10 over Marist).

Engineering student Temitope Idowu, EG28M, is using an artificial beach to study undersea MUNITIONS leftover from war, as well as the likelihood of these explosives washing ashore in a storm

Blue Hens Nolan Henderson, BE21, Thyrick Pitts, AS20, and Kedrick Whitehead, HS22, are NFL bound, having signed undrafted free agent contracts with the Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, respectively.

UD offers a free OCEAN Literacy course to Delawareans interested in the body of salt water that covers 70% of the Earth and contains 97% of the planet's water. 

Nursing student Lily Ramos, HS24, competed—and won—a college-edition episode of The PRICE IS RIGHT. 

UD’s new QUANTUM SCIENCE and Engineering program will train students for an industry where job postings currently exceed available talent by 300%.

Chris Grome, EG23, pitcher for UD Baseball, is also a ROCKET SCIENTIST with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission fellowship program.

A newly launched Office of SUSTAINABILITY will help advance sustainable approaches in all aspects of life at UD

A new research team is working to make TRANSPORTATION more equitable in the mid-Atlantic.

Astrophysicist and UD Prof. Federica Bianco is part of an 16-person NASA advisory panel on “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or what used to be known as UFOs.

Hats off to VINNY, a Black Lab service dog, who received an honorary health sciences “doggree” alongside owner Shawn Horrocks, HS23, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

A five-year research partnership with the U.S. Military Academy at WEST POINT explores music’s effects on military and athletic teams, brain injury recovery and more.

A UD team has joined an international effort to gather info on cosmic X-RAYS, important for understanding physical conditions in space, like temperature.

Engineering Prof. Mark Blenner is working to improve biomanufacturing in space, starting with YEAST strains currently on the International Space Station.

UD Prof. Saleem Ali has been appointed to the United Nations’ advisory board on ZERO waste, which refers to a systems-level redesign of global production and consumption