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UD’s Trammell looks at similarities, differences among American lawns
As cities and suburbs have sprawled across the United States, they have not only provided new housing and developments but also given rise to what researchers are calling the American residential...
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UD researchers look at population history of sika deer in Delmarva
On first glance, Yakushima Island in Japan and Dorchester County, Maryland, wouldn’t appear to have a lot in common, but a closer ecological look reveals one stark similarity: both are home to...
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Injured plants warn neighbors of danger, UD study finds
When Harsh Bais, a botanist at the University of Delaware, emailed Connor Sweeney to tell the high school student he would be willing to mentor him on a research project, Sweeney, a competitive...
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UD researchers travel to Brazil to study heat stress in poultry
University of Delaware undergraduate student Blair Schneider spent time in Brazil earlier this year getting samples from chickens to help with research looking to see if there is something genetically...
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NSF grant to support development of cyberinfrastructure tools for precision...
Modern precision agriculture requires an understanding of how climate-related factors such as soil moisture, precipitation, and temperature impact agricultural productivity. “As we enter an era of...
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UD’s Buler takes class up in hot air balloon to study landscape ecology
To best understand landscapes and how different ecosystems interact with one another, sometimes it’s necessary to take a bird’s-eye view. It was with that in mind that the University of Delaware’s Jeff...
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UD researchers work to predict disease resistance in lima beans
When downy mildew epidemics strike, they are a plague to lima bean growers in Delaware, which produces over 60 percent of the nation’s crop for canning and freezing. Downy mildew is caused by the...
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K. Eric Wommack’s group gets $6 million to study viruses
The University of Delaware’s K. Eric Wommack, deputy dean in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, will lead a research team from four universities that has received a $6 million grant to...
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UD’s Hiltpold looks at adding silicon to soil to strengthen plant defenses
To help plants better fend off insect pests, researchers are considering arming them with stones. The University of Delaware’s Ivan Hiltpold and researchers from the Hawkesbury Institute for the...
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UD study looks to clean up subsurface phosphorus risk assessment
Soil cores collected from Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. When it comes to advancing nutrient management planning for croplands across the United States, it is important to evaluate phosphorus indices...
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UD’s Arsenault uses lab to improve gut health of livestock animals
Casey Johnson, Ryan Arsenault, and Bridget Aylward skating on Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada during a break at the Keystone Symposium “Pattern Recognition Signaling: From Innate Immunity to...
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UD Cooperative Extension teams with University of Maryland Extension to...
With over 105,000 acres of small grain crops planted in Delaware in 2016, at a value of $24 million, it is vital to keep the industry up to date on the latest developments in disease resistance. One...
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UD’s Jaisi Receives NSF EPSCoR Research Fellowship
Deb Jaisi, associate professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware, has received a research fellowship through a new National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative...
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UD’s Sherrier receives $5.9 million NSF grant to conduct research on...
The University of Delaware’s Janine Sherrier is a co-leader of a multi-institutional team that recently received a four-year, $5,972,497 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research...
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UD’s Rodrigo Vargas receives National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career...
The world’s coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon. Because of...
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Research explores the positives and negatives of food labels
When customers walk down aisles of grocery stores, they are inundated with labels such as organic, fair-trade and cage free, just to name a few. Labels such as these may be eye-catching but are often...
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UD’s Desiree Narango looks at how residential yards impact food webs
University of Delaware doctoral student Desiree Narango is researching trees and shrubs planted in the lawns of homeowners throughout the Washington D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia areas to assess...
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UD professors team with Brandywine Zoo to test cameras for wildlife...
When conducting research in remote areas to get population estimates on elusive animals, it’s important to make sure that the camera traps which will capture images of those animals are set up...
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UD’s Palm-Forster looks to incentivize environmental improvements for farmers
Throughout the United States, toxic algal blooms are wreaking havoc on bodies of water, causing pollution and having harmful effects on people, fish and marine mammals. One of the main contributors to...
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Fulbright Scholar learns research techniques at UD
Visiting Fulbright Scholar Nicolas Carlotto had read many research papers by the University of Delaware’s Jung Youn-Lee during his time studying for his doctorate at the University of Buenos Aires in...
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