Awards and Fellowships

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  January 14, 2026

  2025 Joy Cappel Young Investigator Award

  Smitty received the 2025 Joy Cappel Young Investigator Award at the 7th Annual Immune Modulation & Engineering Symposium (IMES) hosted by The School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. The award is sponsored by Rockland Immunochemicals and honors the legacy of Joy Cappel, who served as Rockland’s President and CEO for…

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  July 16, 2025

  Mikayla Receives Laird Merit Fellowship

  The Laird Fellowship is an award created to honor the memory of George W. Laird. This fellowship is awarded to a first-year student in the Graduate College of Engineering at UD, and it aims to encourage recipients to engage in intellectual pursuits that may extend beyond their chosen fields of study. The award is based…