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Changing the stories of substance use

Recent master of communications graduate Dan Sweeney has partnered with atTAcK addiction to gather and tell the stories that ...
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Making the invisible visible

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...
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Rising in MBA rankings

The Poets&Quants recognition builds on a series of recent national rankings for Lerner’s online MBA program. In January 2025, ...
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Innovation Ambassador: Sagar Doshi

For thousands of years, our clothing has primarily been used for protective and aesthetic uses. University of Delaware ...
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Connection through cognition

Hall, a 2024 graduate, has long been fascinated by the brain-body connection. As an undergraduate, she studied the impact ...
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Career cowboy

University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) distinguished alumnus Dennis Byrne helped start ...
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Coast Day

Coast Day 2025 was a big success! Thanks to all who made Coast Day 2025 a smash hit: our faculty, staff, students, volunteers, and everyone who visited to see the work being done to protect our coasts ...
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Winter is coming: Enroll now

When Mackenzie Wilson decided to enroll in Winter Session last year, she had three goals: to get ahead, finish the final requirement for her minor in human services and lessen her future courseload.
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University of Delaware president announces plans to step down

Editor’s note: On May 13, 2025, the University of Delaware Board of Trustees voted unanimously to recognize President Assanis’ service to UD by bestowing on him an honorary doctorate and the title of ...
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$71.5 million gift to University of Delaware

The University of Delaware has received the largest philanthropic contribution from an individual or family in the University’s 282-year history. The $71.5 million commitment from Robert L. Siegfried, ...
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Social media use and academic achievement

UD Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon finds that frequent social media use is associated with decreased academic achievement among early adolescents While most people think about older teens and ...
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Woman the hunter

It’s a familiar story to many of us: In prehistoric times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women were not physically capable of hunting because their anatomy was different from men. And ...