CAS Faculty profile pages: process and best practices

CAS faculty faculty-profile web-updates

CAS OPERATIONS

Services Model
Communications

Who is eligible

With more than 500 faculty affiliated with CAS, the CAS Communications team creates and maintains profile pages for faculty only. We do not create profiles for retired faculty, student teaching assistants, graduate students or postdoctoral researchers. These individuals are listed in a table with links to accessible curricula vitae (CVs) or personal sites.

Request a faculty profile page

Submit the CAS Communications Work Request Form.
Select Web/Digital communications.
In the description, note that you need a faculty profile page and include your bio and headshot.

Recommended profile structure

Departments may tailor content, but a consistent format helps visitors find and compare information.

Short biography (150–200 words): career trajectory and current focus.
Education: institutions, degrees and completion years.
Areas of expertise and research interests: keywords with brief, accessible descriptions.
Professional affiliations: current society memberships or leadership roles.
Grants and awards: significant recognitions from the last five years.
Selected publications: up to five key works with complete citations.
Resources and links: UD‑hosted or scholarly profiles such as ORCID, Google Scholar, UDSpace, social media, lab website or personal website.

Tip: Keep the page scannable. Use concise sentences and parallel lists.

Headshot guidelines

Provide a clear, well‑lit head‑and‑shoulders image with space around the subject for cropping.
Submit a high‑resolution file (500 KB or larger) that can be cropped to a square.
We will resize images to 300 × 300 pixels at 72 dpi.
For general tips, see Photo and Video Best Practices.

Publications and linking

On the profile, list up to five representative publications.
For comprehensive lists, link to noncommercial, stable sources (e.g., DOI, UDSpace, Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, ResearchGate).
Links from UD web pages to third‑party commercial sites are generally not permitted. When possible, use a DOI link so readers can locate a work even if its web location changes.
To find a DOI, use a DOI lookup tool and link the DOI itself, not the lookup site. We recommend using https://www.scribbr.com/ to pull a DOI link if a link is desired.
We can also link to your publications on the UD Library's UDSpace Institutional Repository, which collects and disseminates open-access research material by UD authors.
- To learn more, read UDSpace: 20 Years of Free Scholarly Research.

Make your CV digitally accessible

UD websites will only link to accessible documents.

Use clear headings and built‑in styles; avoid manual formatting.
Ensure sufficient color contrast; do not convey meaning with color alone.
Provide alt text for images and graphics.
Choose readable fonts, adequate spacing and left‑aligned text.
Write descriptive link text (avoid “click here”).
Test with an accessibility checker (Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat) and, if possible, a screen reader.
See UD Accessibility for guidance and tools.

Share news mentions

We can add a Media Mentions list to your profile featuring your five most recent stories, with a link to read more news.

Submit a CAS Communications Work Request Form with links to your coverage.
We will tag items to appear on your profile page, your department home page and other relevant CAS sites.

Update your profile

Faculty own their profile content. When updates are needed (bio, headshot, links, publications, media mentions), submit the CAS Communications Work Request Form and provide the revised materials.