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State Legislators Visit UConn Innovation Partnership Building
Returning and newly elected state legislators met with university officials at the Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) this week to tour the unparalleled facility and to discuss many of UConn’s core research and educational programs.
UConn Partners in $12.5M DOE Research Center on US Nuclear Security
UConn material scientist, Avinash Dongare, will serve as one of the principal investigators for the Center, which has received $12.5 million over five years.
Envisioning the Invisible: Microplastics in the Long Island Sound
With governmental and non-governmental agencies, UConn scientists from the Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering have secured financial support from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund to study microplastics along Connecticut's coast.
Disrupting Alzheimer’s Protein BACE
Dr. Riqiang Yan, chair of the UConn Health Department of Neuroscience, has received a competitive renewal grant of $3.2 million from the National Institute on Aging to study a potential treatment that gets to the core of the physiological processes responsible for Alzheimer’s.
Breathing New Life into Aging Electronics
The Electrical/Electronics: Technology and Repair facility is a part of the Center for Open Research Resources and Equipment (CORE).
Growing Connecticut’s Digital Media Pipeline
Digital Media CT provides workforce development and networking opportunities to bolster the state's growing film and digital media industries.
UConn Research Project at the International Space Station
An experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision was launched into space this month.
‘Virus Hunters’ Get Hands Dirty in UConn Class
Through the SEA-PHAGES program administered by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, six UConn freshmen have the unique opportunity to hunt for new viruses and gain valuable hands-on experience in the lab.
Getting to the Root (Canal) of Dentin Regeneration
Dr. Mina Mina, UConn Health professor of pediatric dentistry, has received $449,125 to better understand the roles of signaling pathways that regulate regeneration of the dentin-pulp complex, two layers that make up our teeth.
UConn-Wesleyan Stem Cell Core: Past, Present, and Future
Established in 2006, the UConn-Wesley Stem Cell Core aims to advance stem cell research throughout the state.