Mikayla

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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…

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  March 11, 2025

  Lab Launch

  It’s been exciting to launch the Oakes Lab at the University of Delaware this past Fall. Working with the first PhD students on the team, Lauren Porter and Mikayla Jackson, has been the highlight! Lauren is working on a new platform for regulating cancer metastasis. Mikayla is working on a drug delivery system that spans…