In Two-Way Charging, Electric Cars Begin to Earn Money From the Grid

In Two-Way Charging, Electric Cars Begin to Earn Money From the Grid

WASHINGTON — Finally, payback for the plug-in. A line of Mini Coopers, each attached to the regional power grid by a thick cable plugged in where a gasoline filler pipe used to be, no longer just draws energy. The power now flows two ways between the cars and the...
SSSP Honorees

SSSP Honorees

9:30 a.m., April 16, 2013–The University of Delaware Student Support Services Program has announced that two UD students — seniors Nicole Mozee and Geoffrey Johnson — have received state honors. Mozee, a double major in political science and...
Putting Ideas into Action

Putting Ideas into Action

4:10 p.m., April 1, 2013–The images in her photographic campaign are shocking. Her message is simple: “Junk kills. Eat responsibly.” “Today, one in every three children in America is overweight or obese,” says Marta Shakhazizian, the campaign’s creator, an...
NSF Award

NSF Award

10:52 a.m., March 25, 2013–The unending quest for new electronics applications and greater computational power is pushing researchers to produce computer chips that perform better and consume less power. However, as computer chips shrink — and more devices are...
Smart Ship Structures

Smart Ship Structures

9:42 a.m., March 13, 2013–The U.S. Navy envisions the ship of the future having electromagnetic devices such as antennas integrated directly into the load-carrying structure, and researchers at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials(CCM) are...
Coding Honors

Coding Honors

5:43 p.m., March 8, 2013–University of Delaware students swept winning honors at JPMorgan Chase’s Delaware Code for Good Challenge, a codefest where teams of students worked for 14 continuous hours to create a wide range of innovative applications and technical...