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- Healthy brain? More wild blueberries, please
- Students demonstrate UD pride as top competitors
- Truman Scholar connects social justice and computer science
- Virtual reality creates hands-on hospital simulations
- Unique achievement in musical performance
- Protecting water sources from heavy metal contaminants
- Transformative power of art and the sea
- Celebrating social and historical significance of Black dancers in film
- Center for Intercultural Engagement opens on UD campus
- Ensuring inclusive support for future students
- Expanding our understanding of intelligence
- Embarking on our next 100 years of study abroad
- Fulbright partnerships enable unique UD experiences
- Distinctive program combines study abroad with business internships
- Taking a comprehensive view of global education
- Doctoral research finds video games ‘most engaging’ intervention
- Working toward equity in fintech
- UD and national experts advance biopharmaceutical research
- Harnessing the power of AI for teaching, learning and research
- Bringing hospitality to veterans’ hospitals
- Telling the story behind the stitching
- Innovative music research aids children with autism
- National center raises profile of Africana scholarship
- Dance helps grow cultural understanding in the community
- Leading workforce development for MACH2
- Assessing community impacts and equity of offshore wind
- Advancing transistors for faster device performance
- Research shows electric vehicles can go the distance
- Teacher Residency Program prepares educators and strengthens schools
- Inspiring the journey of teacher preparation
- Research explores the limitations of ‘college-above-all’ culture
- New academy supports the executives who support the educators
- Professor recognized for scholarly inventiveness and impact
- Tiny robots could be deployed to revolutionize medicine
- Taking an entrepreneurial approach to teaching orthopedics
- UD-patented bacteria shown to protect vital crops
- Student advisors work toward University-wide goals
- Institute works to improve civic life for more than 50 years
- Top justices share insights into corporate law
- Assessing repair needs to inform an affordable housing strategy
- Reducing textile waste, spurring local economy
- Championing zero-waste initiatives worldwide
- Building coastal resilience in underserved communities
- Green Grants among efforts to advance UD’s sustainability goals
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Success Stories
- President’s Student Advisory Council
- ACE Initiative
- Annual Report 2021
- Annual Report 2022
- Annual Report 2023
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Strategic Plan
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Commitment to Five Pillars of Success
- Celebrating Scholarship Success Arynn Hernandez
- Opening the Doors of Access and Affordability
- Supporting Cybersecurity Scholars
- UD Recognized for First Gen Student Success
- A Twist to Study Abroad
- Global Entrepreneurs
- Crucial Conversations
- The future of clean hydrogen
- Fresh hope for chronic wounds
- Home again: Argentina
- UD celebrates opening of Center for Cultural Engagement
- Discovering new worlds
- Leading the way in sustainability
- UD leaps in sustainability
- Grad Student Recognized with Excellence in Community Engagement Award
- STEM Sisters
- Sustainable Concrete
- Focused on the Future SABRE Center
- Innovation in Action STAR Campus
- Global irrigation mapping
- College of Engineering welcomes DSU students pursuing engineering degrees
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Mission Statement
The University of Delaware exists to cultivate learning, develop knowledge, and foster the free exchange of ideas. State-assisted yet privately governed, the University has a strong tradition of distinguished scholarship, which is manifested in its research and creative activities, teaching, and service, in line with its commitment to increasing and disseminating scientific, humanistic, artistic, and social knowledge for the benefit of the larger society. Founded in 1743 and chartered by the state in 1833, the University of Delaware today is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university.
The University of Delaware is a major research university with extensive graduate programs that is also dedicated to outstanding undergraduate and professional education. UD faculty are committed to the intellectual, cultural, and ethical development of students as citizens, scholars and professionals. UD graduates are prepared to contribute to a global and diverse society that requires leaders with creativity, integrity and a dedication to service.
The University of Delaware promotes an environment in which all people are inspired to learn, and encourages intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, free inquiry, and respect for the views and values of an increasingly diverse population.
An institution engaged in addressing the critical needs of the state, nation, and global community, the University of Delaware carries out its mission with the support of alumni who span the globe and in partnership with public, private, and nonprofit institutions in Delaware and beyond.