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Graduate Programs Virtual Open House – January 2026
November 6, 2025Learn How Our Graduate Programs Can Help You Advance Your Career! Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. EST 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. General information for all participants; panel of current students 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Breakout sessions by ac …
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Winter is coming: Enroll now
October 24, 2025Registration for Winter Session is open October 24, 2025 When Mackenzie Wilson decided to enroll in Winter Session last year, she had three goals: to get ahead, finish the final requirement for her minor in human services and lessen her future courselo …
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Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth
October 21, 2025Assistant Professors Eric Layland and Brittany Zakszeski share guidance for parents, teachers and school leaders October 10, 2025 During adolescence—a period defined by rapid physical, emotional and social development—LGBTQ+ youth often grapple with th …
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Graduate Programs Virtual Open House
October 21, 2025Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. EST 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. General information for all participants; panel of current students 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Breakout sessions by academic program Graduates of our master’s and doctoral programs emerge wi …
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Research Spotlight: Eric Layland
October 21, 2025Assistant Professor Eric Layland finds elevated mental health symptoms and underage substance use among Delaware LGBT+ youth October 10, 2025 National Coming Out Day continues to be a reminder that LGBTQ+ individuals make a brave decision to disclose t …
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Whitaker and Kunjapur named Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars
September 29, 2025Young, promising scholars recognized for their outstanding research September 18, 2025 From the tiniest microbes to the earliest years of human life, Aditya Kunjapur, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Anamarie Whitaker, …
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Graduate Programs Virtual Open House
September 29, 2025Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. EST 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. General information for all participants; panel of current students 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Breakout sessions by academic program Graduates of our master’s and doctoral programs emerge w …
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Swimming with Sharks
June 30, 2025Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build a robot that travels through water, mimics the chara …
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Championing student speech
June 17, 2025UD alumnus’s career as speech-language pathologist inspired by his sister, shaped by UD For University of Delaware alumnus Jon Tressler, the inspiration behind his career as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) has always been close to home — his younge …
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Celebrating UD’s newest doctors
May 28, 2025Doctoral Hooding Ceremony recognizes study, sacrifice and perseverance Alexis Omar’s father, aunt and grandfather all earned University of Delaware degrees, so Blue Hen pride was instilled in her at a young age and reinforced throughout her youth. Visi …
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