Project ABLE

Project ABLE

DSI Affiliated Faculty Fabrice Veron (interim dean of CEOE): CEOE was awarded project ABLE, a two-year, $1.3 million grant from NOAA to make Delaware a leading national center in the application and development of autonomous systems, artificial intelligence and...
Tackling plastic waste

Tackling plastic waste

DSI Affiliated Faculty Mark Blenner is leading a multi-institutional team of researchers exploring ways to engineer microbes from the gut of the yellow mealworm to degrade non-recyclable plastics. The work is supported with $9M funding from the Department of Energy....
Preparing for a changing climate

Preparing for a changing climate

Jack Puleo, chair of the University of Delaware’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and DSI Affiliated Faculty, is leading a research effort that could have broad implications for coastal communities and calculating risk in the face of a changing...
Mechanical Cures

Mechanical Cures

Sambeeta Das, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UD and DSI affiliated faculty member, was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award program, which is part of the NIGMS, to support...
The impact of highway construction

The impact of highway construction

With support from a Partnerships for Arts and Culture Grant, Nina David, associate professor in UD’s Biden School and DSI affiliated faculty member, and her research team co-sponsored an event on Oct. 8 in which they closed off the 9th Street bridge in Wilmington to...