The redesigned University of Delaware Magazine hit mailboxes this week, with a refreshed look in response to reader feedback and content celebrating UD’s “True Blue Grit.”   

The revamped look and feel of the magazine was guided in part by more than 1,000 reader responses to a feedback survey, and features shorter stories, an enhanced visual style, and elements of UD’s refreshed brand identity, from new fonts to bolder images. Perhaps most notably, the name has changed from Messenger to simply, Magazine.  

“Our goal is to produce a sleeker, more digestible publication that is still rich in content,” said Artika Casini, the magazine’s managing editor. “Readers are busy, and their time is precious. But we still aim to tell stories that educate, inspire and connect them back to UD in meaningful ways.”

To that end, the latest issue shines a light on Blue Hen perseverance and grit, with profiles on:

• A Lerner graduate who quit a lucrative job to run marathons across every national park in the country.

• A former administrator who forever changed campus culture through verve and will.

• An alumnus who overcame unlikely odds time and again before his bestselling book hit the big screen this summer.

• An alumna whose tireless fight against domestic violence resonated with fellow Blue Hen Joe Biden, who drafted national legislation to investigate and prosecute violence against women.

Other notable features include: Alumni who are not quite 30 years old but are revolutionizing jet travel; a look back on campus radio, as WVUD celebrates its 50-year anniversary; and a peek inside the office of a professor who combines her love of teaching with a passion for travel.

To read the next issue, visit https://www.udel.edu/home/magazine/.