Welcome to UD RESEARCH

This exciting magazine showcases the discoveries, inventions and scholarly excellence of UD's faculty, staff and students. Our latest issue highlights a variety of environmental research across the UD campus, with impacts locally and around the world. Keep up with UD's growing research enterprise.

ISSUE CONTENTS

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1. From the President
2. A laboratory for the nation
3. Dare to be first
4. Engineering the perfect cell
5. Innovation on the rise
6. Evozym Biologics
7. Going green
8. New spin on clean energy
9. Agent of change: policy leader
     guides sustainability efforts
10. Targett steers college into future
11. The view from the pilothouse
12. The great eco-quest
13. New observatory explores
       Earth's "critical zone"
14. The rising tide
15. Greenland glacier calves ice island
16. In the field at Toolik Field Station,
       Alaska: A tundra ecosystem and
       its effects on global warming
17. Perils of thawing permafrost
18. The largest oil spill in history:
       UD scientists respond
19. Presidential disaster
      declarations on the rise
20. Discovery learning comes of age
21. The search for solutions to
       air pollution
22. Historian shows that recycling is an
       idea that's coming around (again)
23. UD works to improve water quality at
       its doorstep and 10,000 miles away
24. Native son: Landscaping for
       butterflies, birds and a better life.
25. Can a weevil put the brakes on
       a speeding weed?
26. First person: the initial hours
       are critical for disaster researchers
27. Year in review: Faculty Honors
28. Year in review: Student Honors
29. Year in review: University Books
30. Test your knowledge: Who’s who