The DSU Agilent partnership aims to create STEM opportunities for underrepresented communities. (Photo from DSU Day 2023)

DSU celebrates Agilent partnership for STEM students

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Delaware State University is hosting a celebration Thursday to highlight the third year of a partnership that’s given the school $3 million in scholarships and focused on providing STEM opportunities to underrepresented communities.  In 2022, DSU, a Historically Black College or University, began its collaboration with Agilent Technologies, a global consumer electronics company focused on science. The purpose of the …

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Agilent, Incyte seek way to predict effectiveness of drugs

Betsy PriceBusiness, Headlines

Agilent Technologies and Incyte have begun working together to create tests that will help a patient understand how good a candidate he or she may be for Incyte’s immunotherapy treatments. Incyte, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Delaware, specializes in drugs that treat unusual and rare cancers. Agilent, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a campus near Greenville off Lancaster Pike, …

The partnership between Agilent and DSU was made official a year ago.

DSU, Agilent salute partnership to diversify STEM industry

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Destinee Thomas, a third-year PhD candidate at Delaware State University, said a recent scholarship partnership between the college and Agilent has given her a chance to live out her dreams.  In September 2022, DSU celebrated its collaboration with Agilent, a global company headquartered in California that provides instruments, software, services and more for laboratories.  RELATED: DSU double: New ag building, …

DSU officials and community members, leaders gathered on the site of the new agriculture building. (Delaware State University).

DSU double: New ag building, $1 million in scholarships 

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

It was a two-fer day of celebration Thursday at Delaware State University, as officials broke ground for a new $10 million agriculture building and unveiled a $1 million grant that will pay full tuition for 21 STEM students. “We want to produce agriculture professionals and agriculture scientists, and we believe the addition of this building will provide a greater environment …