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How do you measure something almost impossible to detect?
Article by Hillary Hoffman | June 23, 2026
A five-year NSF-funded project aims to uncover hidden magnetic activity that could lead to advances in wearable devices, brain imaging and other technologies
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Advancing neurologic research and recovery
Article by Amy Cherry | June 22, 2026
New Delaware Center for Neurologic Rehabilitation and Recovery Research unites researchers and resources to accelerate discoveries in stroke, Parkinson’s disease
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Recognizing outstanding staff
Article by Jess Pieper | June 22, 2026
University of Delaware celebrates 2025–2026 Staff Excellence Award winners
Interdisciplinary Programs
Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement
Partnerships help us provoke new thinking in the classroom, pursue new insights in every field, translate our discoveries to innovation and engage with the community."
The Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement prepares educated, engaged citizens and scholars who can address critical community issues and contribute to the public good. This certificate is particularly beneficial as funding agencies increasingly require researchers to articulate their work’s relevance and wider societal impact.
Recorded on students' transcripts, the certificate creates a scaffold by which scholars integrate their academic study into community engagement experiences through participation in coursework, community-focused graduate research or creative work, and hands-on experience.
Scholars will maintain a portfolio that may contain reflection materials, research documents, a record of experiential hours and a final synthesis that documents their deepened understanding as community-engaged scholars.
The Graduate Community Engagement Summer Scholars program offers highly motivated graduate students the opportunity to immerse themselves in community-based research or creative projects. Scholars spend 10 weeks (20-25 hours/week) during the summer in full-time pursuit of their projects in partnership with a Delaware nonprofit, government, community-based action research or service-based corporate agency and simultaneously pursue academic reflection. At the conclusion of the program, scholars present their projects at a symposium and receive a stipend of $5,000.
This program is open to students from any academic discipline, providing a valuable opportunity to pursue community-engaged scholarship.
Advisement
Students will assess their projects with assistance from CEI. They will submit a final report upon completion of the project.
News
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Campuswide test of UD Alert
Article by Office of Emergency Management | June 18, 2026
UD to conduct test of UD Alert System on Friday, June 26
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Filling a gap in local news coverage
Article by Hilary Douwes | June 16, 2026
Statehouse News Fellows Program gives student journalists a front-row seat to Delaware government
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From performer to clinician
Article by Amy Cherry | June 17, 2026
A passion for singing led UD alumna to a career in pediatric voice care
Connect
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