Natural Resources & the Environment
Connecticut and UConn are Leaders in Clean Energy and Sustainability
Our leaders, innovators, and scholars have worked tirelessly to drive progress in sustainability, moving us toward independence from fossil fuels and steeling our power grid against severe weather and other risk factors.
August 2, 2023 | Matt Engelhardt, Office of the Vice President for Research, and University Communications
Bumble, Blue, and Everything Between: UConn Student Spending Summer Studying Bees at Mansfield Hollow
'Working on a farm made me really realize how important bees were – if there was no food, and nothing for the bees to eat, nothing flowering, nothing of ours would grow'
August 1, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance
$5M Google.org Grant Uses AI to Track Permafrost Thaw
As part of an international team, UConn remote sensing expert Chandi Witharana helps expand Permafrost Discovery Gateway
July 24, 2023 | Jessica McBride, PhD
Ph.D. Student Helps Protect Long Island Sound’s Marshes
With the Long Island Sound at particular risk, UConn researchers are using a method called thin layer placement to gradually increase marsh elevation
June 22, 2023 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
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
June 21, 2023 | Mac Murray, and Matt Engelhardt
Mapping Connecticut’s Understory from Outer Space
UConn researchers have performed one of the largest understory species mapping projects to date, and the findings are both surprising and promising
June 20, 2023 | Elaina Hancock
Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program Submission Finalists
The Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program submission finalists have been announced
May 26, 2023 | Combined Reports
Scenes from CAHNR Commencement
This weekend with friends, families, and faculty by their sides, 500 CAHNR students turned their tassels and embarked on their next chapter
May 12, 2023 | Jessica McBride, PhD
CAHNR Commencement Speaker Janie Simms Hipp Advocates for Farmers in Federal Position
A trailblazer in the field of agriculture law, Simms Hipp thinks the next wave of graduates are uniquely positioned to share new ideas and tackle the world's problems
May 2, 2023 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
UConn’s Class of 2023: By the Numbers
For 7,707 Huskies, this month's ceremonies cap years of hard work, determination, and passion
May 2, 2023 | Kim Krieger