Three College of Agriculture and Natural Resources students and one alumnus met during Helena’s internship training week in Columbia, South Carolina, last summer. From left to right, Dominic Lopergolo, Aaron Doll, Jarrett Robinson and Carson Mears.

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Cultivating versatility

October 10, 2025 | Written by Molly Schafer | Photos by Michele Walfred

At the University of Delaware Carvel Research and Education Center, Borel Global Fellow Mary Starford Matovolwa studies amaranth’s tolerance to drought and cold in an effort to improve global food security.
Sweeping the Competition

October 09, 2025 | Written by: Nya Wynn | Photos courtesy of: Qingwu Meng

Undergraduates and graduate students alike from Assistant Professor Qingwu Meng’s lab swept the competition at this year’s American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Conference, highlighting UD’s plant and soil sciences program. Their research advances sustainable, efficient crop growth through controlled-environment agriculture.
Informing landscape decisions

September 18, 2025 | Written by Katie Peikes | Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

Aleena Sabir is a senior studying landscape architecture. Over the summer, she researched campus maintenance related to planting for UD’s grounds crew. She inventoried plants and worked to create a landscape maintenance plan related to species in an area of campus called The Grove. Her work is the start of a landscape maintenance plan that will directly impact campus.

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Photos of Don Sparks, the S. Hallock du Pont Chair in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Francis Alison Professor, director of the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) and a leader of the University’s Environmental Soil Chemistry Group, and recently named the 2015 American Chemical Society medalist; photographed in his office and with some of his graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Lab for an Excellence Postcard. UNEDITED IMAGE

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University of Delaware students enrolled in AGRI 130 spent their third Saturday field trip driving specialized farm equipment (combine and tractor) equipped with precision agriculture. With prices exceeding in some cases more than three-quarters of a million dollars, it was a unique hands-on experience.

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