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Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, told members of the Class of 2013 to "be ambitious." "Be ambitious.

Magnets are the sums of their parts, specifically electrons, as the negatively charged particles have their own small magnetic fields that can align and combine to create the larger ones we are familiar with.

University of Delaware women's outdoor track & field standouts Latoya James and Amira Idris have extended their seasons for at least one more week as both will compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field East Regional Championship this week at North Carolina A&T University.

With little in the way of discussion and even less ceremony, the Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education voted 7-2 Monday night to approve a new two-year contract with the the district's teachers.

Throughout history, cultures around the world have created the concept of the evil forest, a dark, scary place where bad things happen.

Speaking to the Today programme's Evan Davis, Ben Yagoda a professor of English at the University of Delaware who writes a blog about British-isms that have entered language in the States, said people use British-isms when they want to sound a "little bit different" or "clever". Dr Lynne Murphy, a reader in linguistics at the University of Sussex ... (more)

His ordeal has a happy ending, but what an ordeal it's been: A near fatal encounter with a deadly flower; renal failure; four weeks of kidney dialysis and, finally, a $15,000 kidney transplant at the University of Pennsylvania.

There's a major project brewing in Delaware, with a group called The Data Centers LLC planning a sizeable data center near Newark.

More than 660 students received degrees and certificates at Oakton Community College' s 42nd Annual Commencement, held May 14, at the College's Des Plaines campus.

Federal environmental programs have drastically overestimated the poultry industry's contributions to water pollution, according to a University of Delaware-led study.

A University of Delaware-led study has found that decades-old federal standards overestimate current poultry industry contributions to water pollution.

In the June issue of Scientific American, Ronald Martin of the University of Delaware and Antonietta Quigg of Texas A&M University at Galveston explain how increases in the quantity and nutrient content of tiny plants called phytoplankton probably helped power the rise of the modern marine mammals.

Kudosa Na'jee Wilson who was recently selected as the 2013 Boys & Girls Clubs of Vineland Youth of the Year.

According to Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye , University of Delaware, "there has been no scholarly work that explores African landscapes that doesn't somehow implicate the Europeans." That statement may be less true given a recent conference on cultural landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa at Dumbarton Oaks .

Darin E. Fields will join the University of Findlay in July as vice president for academic affairs.

The Newark Police Department made an arrest Monday in connection with the Sunday morning stabbing of Delaware senior quarterback Trevor Sasek.

The Delaware BioScience Association will host its 2013 Annual Awards Gala on May 22 at the DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, DE.

Police say a 22-year-old University of Delaware student was arguing with another man Sunday around 1 a.m. in a parking lot on 54 East Delaware Avenue in Newark, Delaware.

Police say the 22-year-old student was stabbed several times in the chest and abdomen early Sunday morning.

The suspect, who fled, is described as a white male, 18 to 22-years-old, 5'11" to 6'00" tall, 185 to 190 pounds.