Colin Poitras
Author Archive
Taking the Wheel: The Rise of Self-Driving Cars
A UConn transportation safety engineer discusses the brave new world of driverless vehicles.
March 20, 2017 | Colin Poitras
Accounting for Extreme Rainfall
A UConn climate scientist says more intense and frequent rainfall is coming, with no drop-off.
March 6, 2017 | Colin Poitras
To Market, To Market, with Science Solutions
A Connecticut startup company’s journey in the land of innovation through UConn's Technology Incubation Program.
February 27, 2017 | Colin Poitras
When Pills are the Problem: The Movement to Deprescribe
Do you still need all the meds you're taking? Clinical professor Sean Jeffery recommends reviewing your medications with your physician every year.
February 16, 2017 | Colin Poitras
Feeling the Heat: The Urban Response to Climate Change
A survey of low-income Hartford residents shows many are concerned about climate change and want to learn more about it to protect themselves and their families.
December 19, 2016 | Colin Poitras
Innovative Device Could Offer New Hope for Heart Patients
A UConn graduate student is developing a new micro-scale power source that is significantly smaller and more efficient than the batteries used in most cardiac pacemakers today.
December 7, 2016 | Colin Poitras
To Mars in 70 Days. Science Fiction or Fact?
Radical new propulsion system researched by NASA violates physics. UConn expert Brice Cassenti discusses whether the 'impossible' EM Drive is possible.
December 6, 2016 | Colin Poitras
Of Parking Garages, Nuclear Pasta, and Cosmic Connections
A unique cellular structure named after a UConn professor may also exist in the outer crust of neutron stars thousands of light-years away. Physicists are trying to figure out why.
November 17, 2016 | Colin Poitras