Widener University

Widener University is a private, metropolitan university serving about 5,800 students across undergraduate, graduate, and professional education, with a career-oriented and community-engaged character. Its Chester campus sits near Philadelphia, connecting corporate R&D teams to faculty, student talent, and regional employers through paid co-ops, internships, advisory relationships, and applied research collaborations. Widener also operates clinics, a university-run lab school, and other community-facing services that create practical settings for evaluation, training, and translation. Research support is coordinated through a dedicated Grants Office and draws on competitive federal funding, including National Science Foundation awards, as well as state, corporate, and foundation sources. An engineering makerspace and machine shop add industry-level prototyping and rapid-manufacturing capacity.