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TAKING AIM AT PLASTIC WASTE

TAKING AIM AT PLASTIC WASTE

The Center for Plastics Innovation (CPI), led by Professors LaShanda Korley and Thomas H. Epps, III, will focus on chemically transforming plastic waste into fuels, lubricants and other valuable products in an energy-efficient manner. It is one of six new Energy Frontier Research Centers established across the U.S. and the second to be directed by the University of Delaware.

$18 MILLION FOR UD

$18 MILLION FOR UD

A new center at the University of Delaware will advance research to transform the way materials are made. The UD Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials (UD CHARM) will drive fundamental materials science research with the potential to enable critical innovations in biomedicine, security, sensing and more.

NIIMBL grants will accelerate COVID-19 response

NIIMBL grants will accelerate COVID-19 response

In a time of crisis, the ability to respond quickly can be the difference between life or death. Quick turns are not typical when the need is for new medicines, vaccines or diagnostic tests, though. Such advances usually require years, not months.

A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF PROTEIN MOVEMENT

A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF PROTEIN MOVEMENT

A team of engineers has shown that surface diffusion in protein transport into ion-exchange beads depends on adsorption affinity — a measure of attraction between the two materials.

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Babatunde Ogunnaike, William L. Friend Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, is joining leaders from other top universities as a member of the provisional committee for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology’s new three-year study: Chemical Engineering in the 21stCentury: Challenges and Opportunities.

NIIMBL GETS $8.9 MILLION FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE

NIIMBL GETS $8.9 MILLION FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE

The National Institute for Innovation in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing (NIIMBL) headquarters is in the new Ammon Pinizzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Building on the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. UD-based...

NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

UD students (left to right, top row first) Alexandra Oliveira, Ana Sheehan, Ariel Hannum, Brandon Vance, Elizabeth Smith, Emily Mongold, Patricia L. Hurley and Rebecca Davis were awarded fellowships by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

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