CBCB affiliate faculty member, Kenneth E. Barner, honored as named professor
Kenneth E. Barner, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical Engineering This professorship honors Charles Black Evans, secretary-treasurer of the University’s Board of...
UD Teams Get Millions in NSF Funding
K. Eric Wommack’s group gets $6 million to study viruses The University of Delaware’s K. Eric Wommack, deputy dean in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, will lead a research team from four universities that has received a $6 million grant to probe how...
Grant Supports Deep Dive into Microbes
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...
Lima Bean Resistance
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...
Baffour-Akowuah and Bollar selected for UD’s 2017 Bridge to Doctorate Program
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) –...
Singh’s Nature paper highlights how random variations and reprogramming lead to cancer drug resistance
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...
New online graduate certificate in applied bioinformatics launched
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...
Chandrasekaran honored for excellence in high performance computing
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...
Wu named Highly Cited Researcher
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...
CBCB Welcomes Dr. Karen Hoober – Assistant Director for Graduate Education and Outreach
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...
CISTERS goes national
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...
Researchers receive funding to facilitate translation of biomedical data
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...