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UD RESEARCH TEAM wins prestigious $1 million Keck Foundation grant to unlock microbial ‘black box’ Even in sediment cores extracted more than a mile beneath the ocean floor, you’ll find them. Tiny organisms only a cell in size chug along ever so slowly. Jennifer...

UD RESEARCHERS INCLUDING SHAWN POLSON work to predict disease resistance in lima beans When downy mildew epidemics strike, they are a plague to lima bean growers in Delaware, which produces over 60 percent of the nation’s crop for canning and freezing. Using a...

NSF GRANT SUPPORTS DOCTORAL DIVERSITY UD gets more than $1 million to help students reach top academic degree A new $1 million NSF grant, UD is well positioned to offer significant support to more students. The grant – known as the Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) –...

INFERRING INTERACTIONS Singh's Nature paper highlights how random variations and reprogramming lead to cancer drug resistance Abhi Singh, CBCB Affiliated Faculty is developing a variety of novel computational and mathematical methods for studying and characterizing...

BIOSCIENCES BIG DATA New online graduate certificate in applied bioinformatics launched The completion of the human genome sequence early in the 21st century marked the beginning of a big data explosion in life sciences research. The resulting interdisciplinary field...

Sunita Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Delaware, has won a 2016 IEEE-CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing. Original Article...

UD's Cathy Wu has been named a Highly Cited Researcher. Highly Cited Researcher UD’s Cathy Wu ranked among top one percent in Web of Knowledge January 10, 2017 The University of Delaware’s Cathy Wu has been named a 2016 Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters. The...

January 1, 2017– The Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology is extremely delighted to welcome Dr. Karen Hoober as our new Assistant Director for Graduate Education and Outreach. As the Assistant Director, Dr. Hoober will serve as a primary resource for...

The CISTERS organization at the University of Delaware has become an ACM-W student chapter. CISTERS goes national UD group for women in technology becomes official ACM-W student chapter September 19, 2016 CISTERS, a group that brings together women in...

UD researchers Cathy Wu and Vijay Shanker are working to best use big data for precision medicine. Big data for better medicine Researchers receive funding to facilitate translation of biomedical data August 29, 2016 Big data has become a big deal. Advanced computing...