The core of my experience in higher education: documenting the research, teaching, and academic life of students, faculty, and staff at the University level.
A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives under the surface of an indoor pool as part of a demonstration by researchers in the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.Biomedical engineering doctoral student N’Dea Irvin-Choy working with nanoparticles to deliver drugs for preventing miscarriages and treating a number of conditions, from bacterial infections to chromosomal disorders, which can affect mothers and their babies.A researcher aboard the University of Delaware’s R/V Hugh R. Sharp coastal research vessel gets an early morning start on analyzing side scan sonar data.
[Left] Art conservation master’s student Amanda Kasman uses a CT scanner at Christiana Hospital to investigate a painting. [Right] First-year graduate students in the Winterthur / University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) program work to stabilize and restore photos recovered after devastating flash-floods in Wimberly, TX.A 3D motion tracking system in use at the University of Delaware’s Human Performance Lab to analyze and improve the gait of a patient with a prosthetic limb.
[Left] Glass office walls replace more traditional white boards in the graduate student offices in UD’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory (ISE Lab). [Right] Researchers working in the Class 100 section of the state-of-the-art 8,500 square foot Nanofabrication Facility (UDNF), also housed in the ISE Lab.Students in a master's level landscape ecology class take a flight in a hot air balloon to get a bird's-eye view of the various types of ecosystems around Pottstown, PA.Students in a College of Health Sciences functional human anatomy class performing cadaver dissections in a brand new and exceptionally modern anatomy lab.An undergraduate student provides medical care in an ambulance as a volunteer emergency medical technician with the Christiana Fire Company. A partnership program with with local fire and ambulance companies allows student to receive training, college credit, and patient-contact hours while volunteering for local emergency medical service providers.
[Left] Undergraduate biomedical engineering major Zach Sexton working to develop microfluidic models for fluid stresses in complex epithelial networks. [Right] Reetika Dutt, a doctoral student in Chemistry and Biochemistry, conducts glioblastoma research to model how cancer cells move and spread.
