Science & Health

• Breaking Down How We Breathe Physiology and neurobiology professor Daniel Mulkey studies something most of us don’t think about – how we breathe.
  

• May 8, 2012 Director of Federal Energy Research Agency Tours UConn Engineering Facility The director of the nation’s only federal agency devoted to transformational energy R&D visited UConn’s Center for Clean Energy Engineering last week.
• May 4, 2012 Improving the Detection of Landmines A chemical engineering doctoral student has developed a portable sensing system that can detect hidden explosives accurately, efficiently, and at little cost.
• May 3, 2012 ‘Frequent Flyers’ Raise Social, Health Care Economics Concerns Between 5 and 9 percent of hospital admissions each day are patients who are repeat visitors to the emergency department.
• April 25, 2012 Experienced Surgeon Is Crucial When Removing Skin Cancer from the Face Mohs micrographic surgery, available at the Health Center, removes the cancer one layer at a time, sparing tissue while ensuring complete removal of cancer cells.
• April 18, 2012 Genomic Research Sheds New Light on Extinct Tasmanian Tiger UConn biologist Andrew Pask has shown that the Tasmanian tiger had extremely low genetic variability, probably resulting from its isolation from mainland Australia.
• April 13, 2012 Sandra Weller: From Fruit Flies to Life-Saving Research The UConn Health Center professor is the first woman to serve as vice president/president-elect of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

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• More Patients Choosing Robotic-Assisted Surgery April 11, 2012
• Two UConn Faculty to Advise Nation’s Policymakers on Science Issues April 4, 2012
• Building a Smart Hospital that Stays Smart Well into the Future April 3, 2012
• Science Olympiad Challenges High School Students April 3, 2012