The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press is excited to announce the 2025 Open and Affordable Teaching Materials grant recipients.

These grants are made possible in part through support from the Unidel Foundation and donors to the Library, Museums and Press. Thanks to this support, students have saved more than $500,000 in textbook costs to date.

Authoring grant recipients:

• Nigel Caplan, professor and the assistant director for teacher-training programs at the English Language Institute
• Jin Yao Kwan, assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
• Christian Dewey, assistant professor of environmental soil chemistry
• Sebastian Cioaba, professor; Novi Bong, assistant professor; Robert Coulter, professor, all in the Department of Mathematical Sciences
• Elizabeth Sargent, assistant professor in the School of Marine Science & Policy
• Tara Smith, instructor in the Department of Communication

Transition grant recipients:

• Bharat Patil, assistant professor of operations management
• Lara Boyero, assistant professor of Spanish
• Donna Woulfe, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences
• Jill Ewing Flynn, professor; Deborah Bieler, professor; Kisha Porcher, associate professor, all in the Department of English
• Dana Veron, associate provost of faculty affairs and professor in the School of Marine Science & Policy
• Kyle McCarthy, professor; Angela Holland, assistant professor; Phillys Gichuru, instructor, all in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology
• Melissa Stevens, adjunct faculty in the Department of Anthropology
• Heather Doty, associate professor in the College of Engineering

All authoring projects will leverage the Library’s subscription to Pressbooks.