Director, Office of Communications

Jessica McBride, PhD

Dr. Jessica McBride is the Director of the Office of Communications at UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources. She is responsible for developing and implementing communications and marketing strategies to highlight the College's unique research strengths, outstanding academic offerings, and extensive community impact. An alum, Jessica earned her Ph.D. from UConn in 2017.


Author Archive

Dr. Rajesh Lalla, professor of dental medicine; Diane Burgess, professor of pharmaceutical sciences; and Tingting Li, pharmaceutical graduate student. (Dr. Rajan Jog/UConn Photo)

New Therapy Targets Painful Side Effect of Cancer Treatment

Collaborators are close to replacing the 'sledge hammer' with a more precise and effective treatment option that doesn’t include risk of addiction or abuse.

Yu Lei, Centennial Professor of chemical & biomolecular engineering, left, and graduate students in the lab. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

OVPR Announces Inaugural Convergence Awards for Research in Interdisciplinary Centers (CARIC) Recipients

The Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced recipients of funding in the inaugural cycle of CARIC (Convergence Awards for Research in Interdisciplinary Centers).

Frank Nichols, clinical professor, at his lab at UConn Health in Farmington on Oct. 30, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Bad to the Bone: Bacterial Lipids, Bone Loss, and Periodontal Disease

UConn Health researchers have received $1.5 million from the NIH for a project that could lead to the development of treatments to prevent the progression of periodontitis and to help restore gum tissues and bone lost through the progression of gum disease.

Portrait Of Female Teacher Holding Digital Tablet Teaching Line Of High School Students Sitting By Screens In Computer Class

Leading While Black, the Experience of Black Female Principals

With a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation, UConn researchers will study how microaggressions and discrimination affect the experiences of 25 black, female principals.

New Grant Trains Future Researchers in Communication Disorders

A team of UConn researchers has received a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in communication disorder research skills and methods.

Manicured lawn. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

Phosphorus Leaching? Not on UConn’s Turf

The Connecticut Institute of Water Resources has granted funding to two UConn researchers to study phosphorus leaching from lawns treated with organic compost.

Students in a library classroom.

Incorporating Cultural Responsiveness into Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support Framework

Researchers from the University of Alabama and UConn's Neag School of Education have received a $2.4 million grant to incorporate cultural responsiveness into the SWPBIS (Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support) educational framework.

Mark Litt portrait photo

Meet the Researcher: Mark Litt, UConn Health

“Why do we do that?” Substitute “do that” with any number of behaviors: smoking cigarettes even though we know it’s bad for us, drinking too much, picking up a vaping habit, and you have what Mark Litt has dedicated his life to investigating. Litt, a professor of oral health and diagnostic sciences and psychiatry in […]

Mark Litt portrait photo

Meet the Researcher: Mark Litt, UConn Health

UConn Health professor Mark Litt has dedicated his career to investigating why we engage in behaviors like smoking that we know are harmful to our health.

Mostafa Analoui, executive director of venture development, speaks with Kashmira Kulkarmi, chief scientist, and Alex Tikhonov, senior scientist at Azitra's technology incubator lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington on Feb. 8, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Venture Development Helps Foster CT Business Opportunities

UConn's Mostafa Analoui sits down with MetroHartford Alliance to discuss how the University's entrepreneurship and venture development programs support business opportunities in the state.