Research & Innovation

Here, you'll have direct access to emerging ideas, innovations, scholarship, and research that are shaping the fields you're preparing to enter. The result: an inside perspective on your future profession.

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Our professors are respected leaders in their fields, sitting on industry boards, publishing research, and setting standards for professional practice. They are working on the leading edge of shifts and evolutions that will determine the future of your profession.

Which means you won't be on the sidelines. Because they are your mentors, research partners, career guides, and personal advisors, you will know what they know. You'll become an expert on what's next.

This is true across all departments, from engineering to nursing to English to psychology. As our professors make their impact, they pass the related benefits and opportunities along to you.

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Student-Designed Mental Health Campaign and Research Wins International Award

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

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Undergrad Summer Research Aims to Advance Our Knowledge of COVID-19 Pandemic

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.

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Widener Biology Professor Awarded Grant to Develop Online Research Courses during COVID-19 Pandemic

Associate Professor of Biology Janice Krumm has been awarded nearly $200,000 in a National Science Foundation RAPID grant to develop online-based research experiences for hundreds to thousands of...

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Pride Perspectives

Collaborative research and scholarship with faculty creates opportunities for Widener students to inform the future of the fields they are preparing to enter.

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As I embark on a career as a human rights lawyer, these experiences have taught me everyone has a story, and you need to ask people about theirs to really begin to know and understand them.

Rebecca Westrom

Rebecca's Story

Widener has exposed me to opportunities that forever shaped my life. Now, as a well-traveled entrepreneur with a young but growing business, I am excited to see how Widener University is still preparing graduates toward a path of excellence.

Markevis Gideon

Markevis's Story

Classes are small. So you can actually have that deep conversation with professors. It turns into an almost individual class and becomes better in the learning process.

Luis Aguilar

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