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Dr. Darrin Pochan, IRG1 co-lead, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his contributions to the innovation and invention of soft materials. This honor represents the highest professional distinction awarded exclusively to...

Congratulations to CHARM's Prof. Benjamin Jungfleisch on winning a NSF CAREER Award for brain inspired tech.  Read UDaily article detailing Dr. Jungfleisch's work here.

Congratulations to Angela Hight Walker, CHARM NIST affiliate, for being being included in the 2024 cohort of Sigma Xi Fellows. They will be recognized during the 2024 International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE) taking place November 14–17, in Washington, DC....

Inaugural summer outreach program hosted by UD’s Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials (CHARM) provides local high school students, teachers with hands-on experience across a variety of STEM fields. Read full article here.

Congratulations to Dr. Quang To who has been named the recipient of this year's College of Engineering Post-Doctoral Researcher Excellence Award.  It is a well deserved honor that reflects his outstanding contributions to IRG 2.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new wound management products that include patented hydrogels invented by UD material scientist Darrin Pochan and Joel Schneider, a former UD faculty member now at the National Cancer Institute. Licensed for use...

Congratulations to IRG1's April Kloxin for being inducted to the 2024 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.  Read more here.

Congratulations Dr. Epps for being honored with AIChE's Minority Affairs Community's Eminent Chemical Engineers Award. This is the Minority Affairs Community’s highest award and recognizes outstanding achievements from a professional in a traditional chemical...

Congratulations to IRG 2's Benjamin Jungfleisch for securing an NSF CAREER Award: Toward energy-efficient bio-inspired magnonic processing with nanomagnetic arrays.  Details can be found here.

Researchers in the lab of April Kloxin, Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Development Professor, are engineering unique materials as well as 3D cell culture and disease models. Now, the group is using Inventia’s RASTRUM™ 3D cell culture platform to scale up the speed of the...

CAMPUS INNOVATOR HONORED FOR INVENTIONS Joseph Fox, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Fox is a world-class scientist whose research and inventions have application in...

Congratulations Prof. Joseph Fox for being honored with the 2023 Francis Alison Award! Joseph Fox, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, whose tetrazine ligation reaction was cited as essential to the 2022 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, has received UD’s highest...

Kids CHARMed by UD scientists lessons Posted 9/14/2023 By August Ryan "Ice cream, magnets and a bicycle tire may not seem to have anything in common, but on Sept. 9, all were used to bring science, mathematics, engineering and technology principles to life for kids at...

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, UD’s materials science and engineering department focuses on 21st century tools. From creating lightweight yet durable prosthetics to designing new types of solar panels and batteries, materials engineers combine their expertise in...

New graduate program puts UD in select company with in-demand degrees. CHARM PI and MSE professor, Matt Doty talks about the new interdisciplinary Quantum Science and Engineering program at UD. Read more here.

CHARM Director Thomas Epps, III has been selected as a member of the new class of PMSE Fellows for 2023. Congratulations to Thomas for his incredible work and selection for this distinguished honor! "For outstanding contributions...

Congratulations to Nicole Halaszynski (IRG1), Wilder Acuna (IRG2), and Yongchen Liu (IRG2) for receiving 2021 CHARM Graduate Student Awards for their outstanding contributions to the center. Nicole's research focused on the ability to mimic the intricacies of nature...

Dr. Joseph Fox's foundational work in bioorthogonal chemistry was cited in Nobel's scientific background press release. Click on the portrait above to read more on UDaily about his contributions. A big congratulations to Dr. Fox from CHARM!

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Darrin Pochan, UD CHARM's IRG 1 Co-Lead, and Prof. Wilfred Chen, CHARM Seed Project PI, for being recognized by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) as members of the 2022 College of Fellows. ...

  UD CHARM IRG 1 co-lead, Prof. April Kloxin, Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Development Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the Mid-Career Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award by the UD Faculty Senate. Please join us in...

Congratulations to Prof. Thomas H. Epps, III, UD CHARM Director and Allan & Myra Ferguson Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, for being awarded the UD College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and...

Prof. LaShanda Korley honored for contributions to polymer science and engineering.

CHARM Director celebrated for innovation and entrepreneurship.

CHARM Co-Director, Prof. LaShanda Korley, has received the Gerry Lessells Award in honor of past AIChE director.

Thomas H. Epps, III, has been named to the ACS’s 2021 Class of Fellows. 

Prof. Joe Fox is named an ACS 2022 Arthur C. Cope Scholar.

Dr. Julius Korley co-leads I-Corps Northeast Hub with Princeton and Rutgers.

CHARM celebrates National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

UD CHARM professor is honored as 2021 AVS Fellow.

UD CHARM professor honored for excellence in molecular beam research.

Summer 2021 MRSEC Research Experiences for Undergraduates  Research opportunities in both experimental and computational soft and hard materials, along with professional development and skills-building in innovation and entrepreneurship.  Program overview Research...

American Chemical Society celebrates Black chemists, highlighting CHARM Director Thomas Epps, III.

UD and Princeton partner to give voice to diverse group of early-career researchers.

Two MRSECs team up for a diversity-driven soft matter workshop.

Federally-funded center to advance materials research.

Professor named Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

UD engineer part of international collaboration that explains aging in paste materials.

New hires joining in 2021 bolster ranks in soft matter, synthetic biology.

UD student Alice Amitrano researches plant-powered replacements for plastics.