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Celebrating UConn Inventors

In honor of National Inventors' Day, here's to all of UConn's faculty, staff, and student inventors.

Stephanie Bealing speaking at a women’s entrepreneurial conference at UConn. (Courtesy of UConn Materials Science and Engineering Department)

40 Under 40 Entrepreneur Uses Engineering Skills To Bring People Affordable Glasses

The daughter of an optometrist and a Farmington native, MSE alumna and Connecticut businesswoman Stephanie Higgins Bealing is using her materials science and engineering experience to push the gauntlet on the eyeglasses industry, winning her numerous awards, getting herself named as one of Connecticut’s 40 under 40, and netting her national recognition for her business, Replacement Lens Express.

Olgac Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Czech Technical University

In recognition of his 35-plus years of high impact scholarly work and collaborations with Czech scientists, University of Connecticut Mechanical Engineering Professor Nejat Olgac was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Czech Technical University in Prague, in a ceremony taking place on January 29.

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Medical School Announces New Institute for Regenerative Engineering

Following is an announcement from Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, director of the new Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering, and Associate Director Lakshimi Nair.

Olgac, right, receives his doctorate in a ceremony that took place on January 29. (Photo Courtesy of Czech Technical University )

Olgac Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Czech Technical University

In recognition of his 35-plus years of high impact scholarly work and collaborations with Czech scientists, University of Connecticut Mechanical Engineering Professor Nejat Olgac was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Czech Technical University in Prague, in a ceremony taking place on January 29.

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Simulating Soil: UConn Researchers’ Technology Moves Sustainable Agricultural Research Forward

UConn researchers invented a technology that allows researchers a new way to study microbes and potentially improve seedling growth and plant survival.

Senior Design Journey 2019: Protecting The Elbows of Young Pitchers, Part 1

When elbow overuse comes from pitching a baseball, something done with maximum effort in practices and games by youth pitchers, the risk for career-derailing injuries like ulnar collateral ligament tears—a crucial connector ligament which stabilizes the elbow—becomes a growing issue. Through that growing concern, UConn Biomedical Engineering seniors Tim Gutowski, Chris Imbriaco, Jenna Clum-Russell, and Jared Hill, with faculty advisor Dr. Matthew Solomito, have set out to build a device to mitigate that risk for youth, high school, and college pitchers, through a wearable wristband they’re creating for Connecticut Children's Medical Center.

Gutowski (left) and Hill (right) study their coding work, while Hill holds the crucial bluetooth sensor used in the device. (Eli Freund/UConn Photo)

Senior Design Journey 2019: Protecting The Elbows of Young Pitchers, Part 1

When elbow overuse comes from pitching a baseball, something done with maximum effort in practices and games by youth pitchers, the risk for career-derailing injuries like ulnar collateral ligament tears—a crucial connector ligament which stabilizes the elbow—becomes a growing issue. Through that growing concern, UConn Biomedical Engineering seniors Tim Gutowski, Chris Imbriaco, Jenna Clum-Russell, and Jared Hill, with faculty advisor Dr. Matthew Solomito, have set out to build a device to mitigate that risk for youth, high school, and college pitchers, through a wearable wristband they’re creating for Connecticut Children's Medical Center.

Vials in a mass spectrometer

UConn’s Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility Gives Faculty a Complete Cellular Picture

UConn's Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility houses multiple mass spectrometers and provides faculty expert support to see the full cellular picture.

Laurencin, a pioneering expert in the field of regenerative engineering, spoke at MS&T 18 about how novel systems using graphene-ceramics, for example, could provide new possibilities for bone regeneration. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Receives 2019 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize

The Abelson Prize recognizes Dr. Cato Laurencin's global leadership in biomedical technology innovation, public service in shaping United States technology policy and invaluable mentorship to a generation of minority scientists.