Schools & Colleges
UConn Fuels Insurtech Boom with Innovative New Program
When Hartford Innovation Places announced a plan to make the state capitol a center for the burgeoning insurtech industry, professor Timothy Folta, faculty director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI), was listening very carefully.
Coveted Class: Marine Biology, MARN 3014
A course at UConn Avery Point gives students the opportunity to learn firsthand about potential jobs in the marine sciences and to conduct research at Mystic Aquarium.
Puppet Workshop Spotlights Local ‘Sheroes and Heroes’
UConn held two days of puppet-building workshops in preparation for the parade and pageant "Sheroes, Heroes, and other Champions of the Mansfield Community" that will take place Sunday in Dowtown Storrs.
When More Bone-making Cells Equal Less Bone
Researchers at UConn Health have shown how a mutated gene causes excess bone resorption in a rare bone disease known as Lehman Syndrome.
UConn Spinout Wins NIH R&D Grant for Artificial Salivary Gland
A startup based on UConn Health technology has won highly competitive funding from the NIH to address chronic dry mouth, a condition impacting millions of people worldwide.
A Cyborg Cockroach Could Someday Save Your Life
UConn engineers’ microcircuit could improve control of futuristic biobots.
Human Rights and the Supply Chain
A human rights class for engineering and social sciences students encourages complementary approaches to social and environmental sustainability in the supply chain for manufacturing businesses, addressing such issues as child labor and pollution.
MSW Student Awarded Minority Fellowship from CSWE
MSW student Danielle Leblanc is an award recipient of the Council on Social Work Education’s Minority Fellowship Program (CSWE MFP). The Master’s Minority Fellowship Program is a program designed to enhance the training of full-time, master’s-level, direct practice social work students in their final year of study. MFP award recipients must identify mental health and/or substance […]
Class: Human Rights and the Supply Chain
A human rights class for engineering and social sciences students encourages complementary approaches to social and environmental sustainability.
New $3M NIH Grant Targets Respiratory Infection with Mathematical Modeling
When an otherwise harmless fungus like Aspergillus fumigatus invades the lungs of people with compromised immune systems, it can cause severe respiratory problems. A new NIH grant will employ specialized mathematical and computer modeling to improve understanding about our biological defense system.