Natural Resources & the Environment

Exterior of W.B. Young Building with spring flowers

A Classy Class: CAHNR Celebrates 2022 Grads

From barns to basketball, CAHNR's 2022 graduates share their favorite memories and hopes for their post-UConn lives

The UConn large letter sign at dusk on June 12, 2021. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn celebrates promotion and tenure of 69 faculty

Evaluations for promotion, tenure, and reappointment apply the highest standards of professional achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service for each faculty member evaluated.

Amanda Bunce, a graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources, inventories trees within the UConn Forest. (Tom Rettig/UConn Photo)

A Windy Workout: Stormwise Prescription Helps Strengthen Trees

Techniques that rely on adaptive silviculture can help trees become more resilient to severe storms

Young Building

CAHNR Celebrates Community with Annual Awards & Honors Event

CAHNR faculty, staff, students, and alums come together to be recognized for their contributions to the College

UConn Eversource Energy Center Partners with Dominion Energy

Last month, Dominion Energy signed an agreement with UConn to support a new, preliminary study focused on the development of an Outage Prediction Model (OPM) for Dominion Energy’s Virginia and North Carolina service territory.

Elise Bouthillier, a UConn alumna, wears her state Department of Environmental Protection uniform as she lifts a small boy, wearing an orange shirt.

Steward of the Land: Elise Bouthillier Protects and Serves Connecticut Wildlife and Natural Resources

How the James V. Spignesi, Jr. Memorial Scholarship changed the course of one student's life

Young Building in the snow

CAHNR Celebrates Students, Donors at Annual Scholars Night Event

The College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources celebrated student scholars and the donors who supported their studies at an annual event

Monitoring Arctic Permafrost with Satellites, Supercomputers, and Deep Learning

Arctic researchers and remote sensing experts use AI and HPC to characterize large, unexplored parts of the Earth

Woman buys food at a food truck

Proposed Center for Food Innovation Seeks Community Input

UConn is exploring the creation of a Center for Agriculture and Food Innovation to help businesses in this diverse sector

A former cranberry bog on the Coonamessett River in Falmouth, Massachusetts with one side showing it as it looked immediately following restoration work, and the other side showing it one year later (Photo courtesy of Sarah Klionsky).

Digging into the Finer Details of Retired Cranberry Bog Restorations

As cranberry farming shifts from New England, efforts are underway to restore the famous 'bogs' as beneficial wetlands