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

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.

Artwork depicting the International Space Station and shuttle. (Leonello Calvetti/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)

UConn Research Project at the International Space Station

An experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision was launched into space this month.

PhD student Rishabh Kejriwal helps UConn undergrads observe their bacteriophage concentrations in an electron microscope in the lab during a ‘Virus Hunters’ class. (UConn Photo)

‘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.

Woman at dentist

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.

The UConn-Wesleyan Stem Cell Core aims to advance stem cell research throughout the state. (Lanny Nagler for UConn Health)

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.

UConn Health researchers developed and patented voltage-sensitive dyes in the lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington. Now they have launched a startup to spread their product, which has potential in the process of drug discovery, beyond academia. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Startup Wins R&D Grant for Voltage-Sensitive Dyes

Potentiometric Probes, a biotech startup based on UConn Health technology, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new class of voltage-sensitive dyes.

Glucowizzard, 24/7 continuous glucose monitoring implant. (Biorasis Photo)

UConn Spinout, Biorasis Receives $3M from Helmsley Charitable Trust

Invented by UConn professors, Biorasis’ technology responds to significant clinical and societal needs related to Type 1 diabetes, which affects over 30 million Americans.

Lisa Eaton, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Human Development & Family Studies and an affiliate of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP). (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo).

Meet the Researcher: Lisa Eaton, Human Development and Family Studies

Researcher Lisa Eaton has dedicated her career to combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic among gay/bisexual black men in the southeastern United States.