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Undersung Research Stories of 2025

UConn's quiet innovations making big waves

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Water’s Age and What It Can Tell Us

An extra level of information gives new insights into a longstanding assumption

Postgrad Research Day

Postdoc Research Shines in Storrs

Event highlights the unheralded yet important work conducted by UConn postdoctoral researchers

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UConn Leverages AI to Personalize Learning for Student Success

An AI-powered approach to help neurodiverse students succeed in learning

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UConn Tech Park Poised to Become a Hub of Global Semiconductor Research and Innovation

Tescan Group’s purchase of UConn startup FemtoInnovations will accelerate research, uses of critical laser technologies

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Breakthrough Materials Master Sound Waves

UConn researchers design a programmable metamaterial that can morph into more configurations than there are atoms in the universe, in a blink of an eye

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Magnetically Reconfigurable Ribbons Let Scientists ‘Program’ Liquids on Demand

Wang lab’s collaborative research of multistable soft structures steer flows and choreograph droplets in work published in Device

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UConn Engineering Researchers Reducing Wave Radiation

Beyond reducing the negative impact of EM wave radiation to the human population, this research may aid the Air Force by opening up research opportunities for lightweight radar-absorbing material for aircraft and naval vessels

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UConn Cancer Care Startup Goes Global (and Beyond)

Encapsulate, a MedTech company founded by UConn alumni, closes seed round and aims ever higher

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Startup ‘SeaSol’ Seeks to Convert Seaweed into Compostable Food Packaging, Replacing Plastic

The technology not only prevents exposure to microplastics for the consumer but also creates a biodegradable package