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Two University of Delaware researchers — Curtis Johnson (left), associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Austin Brockmeier (right), assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering — have found that measuring brain stiffness is a reliable way to predict brain age. In these images, you see a scan of a young adult’s brain in the top row and an older adult’s brain in the bottom row. The brain’s basic anatomy is shown in the scan on the left, its stiffness on the right. The younger brain is much stiffer than the older brain, with the warmer colors reflecting that stiffness.
How old is your brain?
University of Delaware Assistant Professor Catherine Fromen and current graduate student Dominic Hoffman work with an adaptable lung model that can replicate realistic breathing maneuvers and offer personalized evaluation of aerosol therapeutics under various combinations of breathing conditions, formulations and parameters. They are testing to see the effectiveness of inhalable medications in the model.
Advancing lung research
University of Delaware computer science students have developed a digital interface as a two-way system that can help nurse trainees build their communication skills and learn to provide patient-centered care across a variety of situations. This virtual reality training tool would enable users to rehearse their bedside manner with expectant mothers before ever encountering a pregnant patient in person.
Practicing patient-centered care

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