Schools & Colleges

UConn School of Dental Medicine Welcomes New Faculty

The UConn School of Dental Medicine has enjoyed robust growth, adding seven new faculty members to its ranks over the past few months.

Marlena Takes

One Health: Communicating Connections Between Human, Animal, and Environmental Health

Takes is the first to hold this new internship focused on One Health with UConn Extension

Carson Hill ’21 (CLAS), on the quarterdeck at the rear of the ship at sunset. The island of Maui is behind me. (Photo courtesy of Sea Education Association | SEA Semester ®)

One Student’s Transformative Experience at SEA

'The whole goal of the trip is to do ship-based oceanographic research. So being able to accomplish that as an undergrad is pretty special'

Getting kids back into dental chairs

Learn more about pediatric dentistry from UConn School of Dental Medicine faculty member Dr. Katherine Fleming.

UConn researchers Thanh Nguyen, left, and Yang Liu, with the tissue scaffold made out of a biodegradable polymer that they say holds promise for treating ailments like arthritis.

Regrowing Cartilage in a Damaged Knee Gets Closer to Fixing Arthritis

A new 'tissue scaffold' that holds the potential for a bioengineering breakthrough

New Ideas in Insurance: A Virtual ILC Speaker Series

Insurance Law Center Announces Second Round of New Ideas in Insurance

Topics will include racial discrimination in insurance, ransomware insurance, firearm safety, third party moral hazard, adverse selection and the transfer of financial risk from government and businesses onto individual households.

Catherine Pomposi at the U.S. Capitol Building.

UConn Alum Shapes U.S. Climate Policy

By staying curious and saying yes to opportunities, Catherine Pomposi ’10 (CLAS) translated her degree in statistics and environmental analysis into a Ph.D. in climate science and a career on Capitol Hill.

Graduate students Wahane and Kasina Receive ’21 NIPTE Research Prizes

Congratulations to our graduate students Aniket Wahane and Vishal Kasina who received first and second place prizes in the research poster presentation at the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology & Education (NIPTE) 2021 Conference.

Winter means road salt, which means a range of effects on our environment, according to UConn researchers (Adobe Stock).

Too Much Salt: Good for Winter Travel, but with Consequences for Environmental and Human Health

An overuse of road salt in the winter has potentially harmful effects for everything from wildlife to groundwater

The coronavirus’s spike protein helps it against even effective vaccines. The spikes coat the virus, and are so wiggly and flexible that they slip through the clutches of antibodies (Adobe Stock).

Catching the Covid Wiggle

Visualizing the way spike protein shows off its moves