Student Spotlight: Olivia Powell

Student Spotlight: Olivia Powell

This fourth-year mechanical engineering student excels in research and service As an undergraduate research assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Jason Gleghorn, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Olivia Powell is developing a microfluidic storage platform to...
Honor for Jill Higginson

Honor for Jill Higginson

Engineering professor named Fellow by American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering There’s a treadmill in the center of Professor Jill Higginson’s laboratory, and it’s not for impromptu workouts. Higginson studies human motion and gait so that she and...
Harnessing UD’s Growing Neuroscience Network

Harnessing UD’s Growing Neuroscience Network

Symposium reveals potential for new partnerships If you can read this, breathe in and out, stand up, sit down, twist and shout – you can thank your neurons and the wildly complex pathways and lightning speed with which they traverse your entire self, carrying messages...
New Weapon Against Breast Cancer

New Weapon Against Breast Cancer

Light-triggered therapies work better together than separately against triple-negative breast cancer Two University of Delaware researchers have developed a new approach to attack cancer, using two light-activated treatments that appear to be more effective together...
Doctoral Dissertation Defense  – Aalap Verma

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Aalap Verma

When:  Tuesday, March 19th  @ 10:30 am Where: Colburn Lab Room 366 Committee Chair:  Dr. Babatunde Ogunnaike and Dr. Rajanikanth Vadigepalli Committee:  Dr. Ryan Zurakowski, Dr. Abhyudai Singh, Dr. April Kloxin Title: MODELING CALCIUM SIGNALING DYNAMICS IN THE LIVER:...
Doctoral Dissertation Defense  – Aidan Zerdoum

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Aidan Zerdoum

Aidan Zerdoum Graduate Student Aidan Zerdoum will be defending his dissertation on Tuesday, March 19th  @ 2:00 pm  at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (15 Innovation Way) Room 102 Title: DIRECTING STEM CELL BEHAVIOR IN AN ENGINEERED VOCAL FOLD-LIKE...