CANR News

Category: Applied Economics and Statistics

September 13, 2024 Written by Dante LaPenta | Illustration by Jeff Chase

A game-changing tool

April 15, 2025 | Written by Amy Cherry

Identifying vulnerable athletes has always been a mystery, until now. Using AI, University of Delaware researchers, including Wei Qian, associate professor of statistics, have developed a machine learning model that predicts an athlete’s risk of injury after concussion with high accuracy. The model has revealed that individual factors are just as important as the sport played.
Farm-to-glass brewery

April 02, 2025 | Written by Molly Schafer

Since the 1920s, the Hopkins Family has farmed the same plot of land in Havre De Grace, Maryland. David grows the barley, and his son Aaron Hopkins, a UD Class of 2012 UD food and agribusiness marketing and management alumnus, uses it to create a unique range of craft beers. The father and son UD alumni duo are joined in their endeavors by David’s siblings, Alice Hopkins Puckett and Daniel Hopkins, who are co-owners of the farm and managing partners of Hopkins Farm Brewery.
Nurse to statistician

January 14, 2025 | Written by Nya Wynn

Yaxi Huang worked as a nurse before moving to the U.S. She applied to the University of Delaware's Online M.S. in Applied Statistics because the program fit her family and work schedule. Through UD's program, Huang secured an internship with specialty pharmaceutical company Endo International.