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Angela Hight Walker, 2024 Cohort of Sigma Xi Fellows Inductee

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

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.

Fresh Hope for Chronic Wounds

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

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.

M. Benjamin Jungfleisch secures NSF CAREER Award

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHARM 2022 REU

Summer REU applications are closed. We’re looking forward to welcoming our 2022 cohort in June!

CHARM Summer 2021 MRSEC REU Applications Closed

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...

Soft Matter for All

Soft Matter for All

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