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USDA Grant to Provide Career Opportunities, Sponsor CAHNR Students at UConn Waterbury and UConn Stamford
The CAHNR Fellows Program will connect undergraduate students from UConn Waterbury and UConn Stamford to scholarships, experiential learning, and career training in the fields of food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences
UConn Researchers Join NASA-Funded International Biodiversity Monitoring Project
The BioSCape project is NASA’s first-ever biodiversity field program combining airborne spectroscopy, LIDAR, and field observations across South Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region, home to two global biodiversity hotspots rich with flora and marine species found nowhere else on Earth
Microscopy on Ice with UConn Health’s New Cryogenic Equipment
Cryogenic electron microscopy, which can produce 3D pictures of minute quantities of biological material, is a new forefront of research capabilities at UConn School of Medicine
The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project: A National Example
Other states are now adopting the model of data analysis and intervention developed by the Project, which is housed at UConn’s Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy
Pioneering Puppet Project ‘Feel Your Best Self’ Coming to More Screens Near You
The celebrated program, which uses puppets to help kids and their caregivers explore emotion-coping strategies with a free toolkit, has extended a license to New York's THIRTEEN public broadcasting channel
The Making of a UConn Startup
How “Encapsulate” co-founders went from the classroom to curing cancer in less than four years
What if Health Insurance Covered Mindfulness?
A $3.1 million NIH grant supports Professor Blair T. Johnson and collaborators from Brown University in analyzing the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) interventions
Field Research: How the Humble Protist Could Shore Up the World’s Food Supply
Researchers are looking to license protist tech as a fertilizing aid of the future
Using AI Algorithms to Streamline Orthodontic Care
Brace yourself for the future of AI-assisted diagnosis
Public Health Insurance for Parents Improves Children’s Reading Skills, UConn HDFS Study Finds
Assistant professor Caitlin Lombardi and her collaborators found that children whose parents became newly eligible for Medicaid coverage under the ACA demonstrated approximately 2.3% higher reading scores