College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
$3M NSF Research Training Grant to Build Resilience in East Coast’s Megalopolis
UConn researchers have won a prestigious National Science Foundation to study environmental resilience in the sprawl of the East Coast's urban density.
Summer Undergraduate Researcher Emma Burleigh ’21 (CLAS)
UConn rising senior Emma Burleigh is looking for a better understanding of the neuro networks for psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, PTSD, and depression.
UConn Research: More Carbon in the Ocean Can Lead to Smaller Fish
As the world's oceans absorb more carbon from human activity, one result could be smaller fish, according to UConn researchers.
Summer Undergraduate Researcher Rachel Bahouth ’21 (CLAS)
UConn senior Rachel Bahouth is researching parasite community composition across the geographic range of Eastern bluebirds.
Op-Ed: How Studying Racism Helped Us Become Anti-Racist Activists
Twelve students collaborated on an op-ed piece explaining how their coursework prepared them to respond to the police brutality that sparked protests around the world this summer.
CLAS Undergraduates Learn to Do Research From Home
Aquia Providence ‘21 (CLAS) loved her research routine. For three years as an undergraduate in assistant professor Julie Fosdick’s geoscience laboratory, she got to examine samples of four-billion-year-old rocks. And she was crushing it. “I could do rock crushing, which is where you crush rocks in a metal bowl with your hands, or I could do gold […]
Meet Evelyn Tribble: Shakespeare Fanatic, Hammer Thrower, and New CLAS Associate Dean for Humanities and Undergraduate Affairs
Tribble aims to enhance humanities research and introduce new methods of multi-media student evaluation.
New Sea Grant Fellowship Supports Diverse Undergraduate Researchers
Three undergraduate students helping pave the way for greater diversity in the sciences have been chosen as the first recipients of Connecticut Sea Grant’s new summer undergraduate research fellowships for underrepresented and underserved students in marine and coastal scientific research. UConn students Andrew Tienken ’22 (CLAS) and Larissa Tabb ’22 (CLAS) and Western Connecticut State […]
Researchers Receive $3M Grant to Study How Yoga Helps People with Chronic Low Back Pain
UConn researchers Angela Starkweather and Crystal Park are turning their attention to some of the non-pharmacological methods for pain treatment — specifically, studying how yoga helps individuals with chronic low back pain.
Summer Undergraduate Researcher Hanna Englander ’21 (CLAS)
A rising senior is spending her summer investigating how bacterial persisters survive lethal antibiotic treatments and contribute to infection relapse.