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NSF funds high-performance computing cluster for computational chemistry

A University of Delaware research team has been awarded a $451,051 grant from the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation program to acquire a high-performance computing cluster for use in the rapidly expanding field of computational chemistry.

Chemical engineering student modifies car to run on cooking oil

Colin Sweeney, a junior chemical engineering major, shows off his 1986 Mercedes SDL, which he has converted to run on cooking oil. Sweeney commutes to campus from Townsend, Del., every day, a 60-mile round-trip. The price of gas motivated him to initiate the project, but it was his passion for working on engines and his knowledge of fluid mechanics and heat transfer that enabled him to carry it out.