Schools & Colleges
UConn Health Awards and Honors
Read the latest ways the excellence of UConn Health, UConn School of Medicine, and UConn School of Dental Medicine physicians are being recognized around the nation and world.
$2M NIH Grant to Study Genetic Mechanisms of Inherited Heart Muscle Disorders
Dr. John Travis Hinson, a joint faculty member at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine has received more than $2 million from the NIH to study a serious and often fatal heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Found in Translation
Peter Constantine, director of UConn's Literary Translation Program, says translation opens up the windows and doors to the world.
‘Smart’ Machine Components Alert Users to Damage and Wear
UConn and UTRC scientists are using advanced additive manufacturing to create novel wear sensors that can be embedded into machine parts.
Sean Jeffery ’95 Elected APhA Board Trustee, a Connecticut First
Sean Jeffery ’95 (Pharm), Pharm.D., BCGP, FASCP, AGSF, Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at Integrated Care Partners and Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the UConn School of Pharmacy, has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). His term begins in March, 2019. Founded in […]
Alumni News for July 2018
From moving up the career ladder, to awards, our alumni are making their mark on the world! Check out some of their recent notable achievements in this latest installment of UConn Engineering's Alumni News.
McNair Scholars Present Research at Annual Poster Exhibition
The program trains students from underrepresented and underprivileged backgrounds for careers as scientists.
Targeted Gene Editing Cures Blood Disorder in Fetal Mice
The technique offers a potential new approach for early treatment of genetic disorders.
Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Help Track State’s Animal Populations
In order to conserve the species that are here, we have to know more about what we have. UConn researchers are collecting data on animals and birds in the state.
Tracking Opioid Overdoses in Real-Time to Save More Lives
A new pilot program led by the Connecticut Poison Control Center and UConn Health’s Emergency Medicine Department is now tracking opioid overdoses in Hartford in real-time to help save more lives.