UConn Storrs
If You Slash the Price, They Will Come
But not all discounted items are equal, marketing researcher Joseph Pancras found, and some can even decrease a store’s profit margin.
October 24, 2017 | Claire Hall
Explosive Research: Eliminating ‘What Ifs?’ in Space Travel
UConn researchers are adapting methods for studying forces in earthly structures such as bridges and skyscrapers, for use in spacecraft.
October 23, 2017 | Elaina Hancock
Men At the Top Play By Different Rules
Is the answer more female CEOs, asks School of Business expert Gary Powell.
October 20, 2017 | Claire Hall
Should the Vegas Mass Murder Be Memorialized?
'One of the real tensions is that by drawing attention to the killing, it also draws attention to the killer,' says geography professor Ken Foote, who has written a book about memorialization of place.
October 19, 2017 | Kenneth Best
Embrace Opportunity: A Day in the Life of Bridget Oei ’18
For researcher and dancer Bridget Oei '18 (CLAS), UConn offers a perfect mix of possibilities.
October 19, 2017 | Julie (Stagis) Bartucca '10 (BUS, CLAS), '19 MBA
Our Calculator Will Guess How Many Healthy Years of Life You Have Left
We are living longer than ever. But for how many of those years will we be healthy?
October 18, 2017 | Jay Vadiveloo, Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research at UConn
Op-ed: Gentrification? Bring it
Hartford will never become New York. But why not look to North Adams, Pittsburgh, or Columbus for examples of a different kind of gentrification?
October 17, 2017 | Andrew Deener, UConn Department of Sociology, & Jonathan Wynn, UMass-Amherst
Skype a Scientist
A program to engage schoolchildren in science has grown in 8 months from one graduate student in one UConn lab to thousands of scientists across 12 time zones and all 50 states.
October 16, 2017 | Kim Krieger, University Communications, with illustrations by Kailey Whitman
Schedule Changes on North Eagleville Road Infrastructure Project
UConn has had to extend the schedule on the project due to unforeseen complications, including the need to break up and haul away massive amounts of underground rock.
October 16, 2017 | Stephanie Reitz
New Tool Links UConn Experts and Media
Launched in October and currently in pilot phase, the database features an initial 50 faculty members across a range of academic disciplines.
October 13, 2017 | Kristen Cole