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.


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Mechanical/Glass: Design and Fabrication Facility (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo)

Mechanical/Glass: Design and Fabrication Facility

UConn’s answer to the call for an affordable way to design, manufacture, and repair equipment is the Mechanical/Glass: Design and Fabrication facility, which can save researchers thousands of dollars and keep their projects moving forward.

Parent and adolescent girl outside in winter. Photo courtesy of Pixabay

All in the Family: Parental Influence on Language Acquisition in Children with Autism

Letitia Naigles, a professor of psychological sciences, has received $1.6 million from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to investigate variation of language usage among school age children with autism spectrum disorder.

Syringe photo. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

UConn Health Startup Wins Patent for Heart and Immune Disease Biologic

Faculty inventor, Annabelle Rodriguez-Oquendo, believes this technology will be another therapeutic option for patients at risk for cardiovascular and immune diseases.

Ken Thompson, assistant professor-in-residence of game design, taking 3D Scans of Courtroom 600 in the Justizpalast in Nuremberg, Germany. (Photo courtesy of Ken Thompson)

Reviving Holocaust History with Virtual Reality

UConn researchers are developing an immersive learning experience using VR and game design to bring to life archival materials from the Nuremberg Trials.

Legislators view the Titan Themis at the Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) on Dec. 10, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

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.

Materials science and engineering graduate student Marco Echeverria (seated) and Rajesh Kumar, postdoctoral researcher in materials science and engineering and the Institute of Materials Science. (UConn Photo)

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.

Photos of plastic in the ocean. Courtesy of Pixabay

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.

Elderly woman's hands

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.

UConn's Electrical/Electronics: Technology and Repair facility offers consultation, support, development, and repairs to help researchers find cost-effective solutions. (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo)

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).

Students from across Connecticut attended a November ConnectNext speaker event at UConn Stamford with Eric Urquhart from Blue Sky Studios (UConn Photo).

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.