Diabetes and bone health

Diabetes and bone health

High blood sugar may inhibit positive effects of exercise on bone health in people with diabetes Diabetes, which now affects almost 30 million Americans, can cause serious health complications, including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and lower-extremity...
Better Bone Health

Better Bone Health

NIH grant to support continuing research on exercise and bone quality More than 50 million Americans have osteoporosis, which is responsible for two million broken bones and $19 billion in related costs every year. Exercise is one of the best defenses against low bone...
Up on the roof

Up on the roof

Study investigates use of solar on hybrid fuel cell shuttle buses Solar panels are popping up everywhere from rooftops and roads to highway signs and even cars. At the University of Delaware, a team of researchers has begun to investigate the use of solar power on the...

‘Preforming’ magic

Research team explores a novel way to fabricate preforms for composites In the 1967 movie The Graduate, young Benjamin Braddock gets a now-famous one-word piece of advice about the future from a family friend: plastics. At about the same time, the University of...

Top educator

UD’s Advani named Society of Plastics Engineers’ Composites Educator of Year Engineering students of the University of Delaware’s Suresh Advani who wonder what happens when polymers are mixed with fibers to make a composite can read his textbook, model the...
Mirai Experience Tour

Mirai Experience Tour

Outreach tour for new Toyota fuel cell vehicle stops at UD Sales of Toyota’s new fuel cell vehicle, Mirai, will begin later this year in California, where the infrastructure for hydrogen fueling already exists. But on Tuesday, March 16, University of Delaware faculty,...