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Jungfleisch wins NSF CAREER Award for brain-inspired tech
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.
Angela Hight Walker, 2024 Cohort of Sigma Xi Fellows Inductee
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....
Forging Stem’s Next Generation
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.
2024 COE Post-Doctoral Researcher Excellence Awarded to Dr. To
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.
Fresh Hope for Chronic Wounds
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...
Bio-inspired Innovations
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.
Epps receives AIChE’s Minority Affairs Community’s Highest Award
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...
M. Benjamin Jungfleisch secures NSF CAREER Award
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.
High-Throughput Innovation
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...
UD’s Joseph Fox elected to National Academy of Inventors
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...
2023 Francis Alison Awarded to Prof. Joseph Fox
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...
CHARM Community Engagement Highlighted in Newark Post
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...
Congratulations to the ACS Fellows Class of 2023!
American Chemical Society names ACS Fellows for 2023 News Release July 27, 2023 10:00 AM EDT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, July 27, 2023 — The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named 42 members as ACS Fellows. The fellows program began in 2009 as a way to...
MATERIALS SCIENCE INNOVATIONS
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...
QUANTUM COMPUTING WORKFORCE
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 Epps selected as 2023 PMSE Fellow
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...
CHARM Graduate Students Honored
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...
Co-Director Korley appointed as a US Science Envoy for 2023
LaShanda Korley, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been appointed a U.S. Science Envoy for 2023. The announcement was made by the U.S. Department of State on...
CHARM Co-Director LaShanda Korley elected as 2022 APS Fellow
Prof. LaShanda Korley, CHARM Co-Director and Distinguished Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been elected by her peers as a 2022 American Physical Society Fellow. Each year, APS recognizes members who, "have made advances...
IRG1’s Fox Cited in Nobel’s Chemistry Announcement
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!
CHARM IRG1 Co-Lead and Seed PI Honored
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. ...
CHARM – IRG 1 co-lead receives award
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...
CHARM Director receives Award
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...
CHARM 2022 REU
Summer REU applications are closed. We’re looking forward to welcoming our 2022 cohort in June!
CHARM Co-Director Korley selected as 2022 PMSE Fellow
Prof. LaShanda Korley honored for contributions to polymer science and engineering.
Epps, Lee Honored by National Academy of Inventors
CHARM Director celebrated for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Co-Director Korley receives AIChE 2021 Gerry Lessells Award
CHARM Co-Director, Prof. LaShanda Korley, has received the Gerry Lessells Award in honor of past AIChE director.
CHARM Director Epps Named 2021 ACS Fellow
Thomas H. Epps, III, has been named to the ACS’s 2021 Class of Fellows.
IRG1’s Fox named 2022 Arthur C. Cope Scholar
Prof. Joe Fox is named an ACS 2022 Arthur C. Cope Scholar.
Tech Development Director Korley co-leading NSF I-Corps Hub
Dr. Julius Korley co-leads I-Corps Northeast Hub with Princeton and Rutgers.
Early Career MRSEC Professional Development Workshop on Nov. 4th
CHARM partners with Princeton and Chicago MRSECs on early-career professional development workshop on Nov. 4th.
Celebrating our Postdoctoral Fellows
CHARM celebrates National Postdoc Appreciation Week.
Soft Matter for All Returning in October 2021
Registration is open for this year’s Soft Matter for All and Rising Stars events — an early career development partnership between three MRSECs.
AVS Fellow Honor
UD CHARM professor is honored as 2021 AVS Fellow.
CHARM Welcomes Dr. Quang To to IRG 2
New postdoc joins hard materials team.
Young Investigator Award
UD CHARM professor honored for excellence in molecular beam research.
CHARM Summer 2021 MRSEC REU Applications Closed
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...
ACS Celebrates Black Chemists
American Chemical Society celebrates Black chemists, highlighting CHARM Director Thomas Epps, III.
Soft Matter for All
UD and Princeton partner to give voice to diverse group of early-career researchers.
Grad Recruitment in Soft Materials
Interested in grad studies in soft materials? We’ve posted slides from our virtual graduate recruitment event on Nov. 19th!
Influential Researcher, Passionate Mentor
UD’s Epps honored with Percy Julian award for science excellence.
CHARM Partners with Princeton on Oct 23rd Workshop
Two MRSECs team up for a diversity-driven soft matter workshop.
$18 Million for UD center to advance materials research
Federally-funded center to advance materials research.
Engineering Honor for LaShanda Korley
Professor named Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Why Toothpaste and Cement Harden Over Time
UD engineer part of international collaboration that explains aging in paste materials.
New Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Faculty
New hires joining in 2021 bolster ranks in soft matter, synthetic biology.
Petrochemical Replacements
UD student Alice Amitrano researches plant-powered replacements for plastics.