
Faculty Innovation Helps Athletes Get Back in the Game
When COVID-19 prevented athletes from competing, Physical Therapy Professor and colleagues created the Achieve Mask to help players and sports teams safely return to play.

When COVID-19 prevented athletes from competing, Physical Therapy Professor and colleagues created the Achieve Mask to help players and sports teams safely return to play.

Where can you use Nobel Prize-winning 鈥済enetic scissors鈥 to research the impact of heat stress on commercial chickens or fat formation in fruit flies and humans? In Widener鈥檚 undergraduate biology and biochemistry labs.

Political science students Clo毛 A. Di Flumeri 鈥23 and Jack Heavner 鈥21 harness SURCA research findings to gain a deeper understanding to American politics at the state and national levels.

An interdisciplinary research team comprised of faculty, undergraduates, and a Widener graduate published findings that may aid in the fight against COVID-19.

As part of a new partnership with Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research, Inc., a student-faculty chemistry team are testing detergents to determine which is most effective at cleaning oil from the feathers of affected wildlife.

Widener's innovative faculty stepped up to provide two virtual camp experiences for middle- and high school-age students around the world.

A faculty-student research team was awarded $50,000 in state funding to develop innovative solutions to a leading problem in 3D printing and manufacturing.

Internships, co-ops, research, and clinical experiences are continuing in various formats, with Widener students learning invaluable lessons in this new environment.

A student-designed mental health campaign, called Breathe, has won an international award and been praised as a national model for other institutions.

Many projects at Widener this summer have not only adjusted their format to a virtual setting, but have planned their research topics to advance our understanding of COVID-19.