Achievement

Diego Cerrai, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and interim director of the Eversource Energy Center, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program grant award.  This award will support Cerrai’s research aimed at deepening our understanding of snow and ice accretion on infrastructure. This understanding, in turn, enables the development of models capable of forecasting its occurrence, and accurately predicting power outages and their restoration during winter storms. Over the past four years, Cerrai has been collaborating with NASA to gather data on winter precipitation. Specifically, measuring the amount and density of falling snow and the number of particles of rain or snow present in a given volume.

Dr. Madison Doolittle, assistant professor in the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development at the School of Dental Medicine, recently received a grant from the American Federation for Aging and Research (AFAR) to support his research on accelerated tissue aging and test potential therapeutic treatments. AFAR’s Grants for Junior Faculty Program provides up to $150,000 to junior faculty for 1-2 years to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts on the biology of aging.

In Memoriam

Basil Stone, 89, of Ellington, Conn., a retired research technologist in rheumatology at UConn Health, on Nov. 2.