Schools & Colleges
Cooling Off Chemotherapy’s Side Effects
UConn Health’s Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center now offers its breast cancer patients scalp-cooling therapy to reduce their chances of hair loss from chemotherapy.
UConn Collaborates with Duke for Brain Tumor Care
UConn Health has formed a new clinical collaboration with Duke's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center to bring Connecticut patients access to the most advanced brain tumor care available.
Following in the Footsteps of Physicians for Human Rights
This fall UConn School of Medicine students are starting the UConn Immigration Rights Initiative (UIRI) to assist asylum seekers in their pursuit of safe haven in the U.S. Learn how their advocacy efforts have been guided by the internationally renowned Physicians for Human Rights, winners of the 2017 Dodd Prize who are set to be honored Nov. 2-3 at UConn and UConn Health.
New 3-D Fabrication Technique Could Deliver Multiple Doses of Vaccine in One Shot
A new 3-D fabrication technique invented by a UConn engineering professor could provide a safe and convenient way to deliver multiple doses of a drug over an extended period of time with a single injection. Other 3-D printing techniques have been limited for such applications because they rely on printable inks that are potentially toxic […]
Physical therapy program provides care to migrant farmers at health clinics
Students and faculty from the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) have been volunteering since 2008 to help bring health care to Connecticut’s migrant and seasonal farm workers, a medically underserved population. Every year thousands of migrant agricultural laborers journey to Connecticut to work at the state’s farms, orchards, […]
Resilience in the Face of Evil
Social work professor Megan Berthold says people who survive human rights violations and trauma often have enormous strength and resilience.
New 3-D Fabrication Technique Could Deliver Multiple Doses of Vaccine in One Shot
'In the developing world, that might be the difference between not getting vaccinated and receiving all of your vaccines in one shot.'
If You Slash the Price, They Will Come
But not all discounted items are equal, marketing researcher Joseph Pancras found, and some can even decrease a store’s profit margin.
Explosive Research: Eliminating ‘What Ifs?’ in Space Travel
UConn researchers are adapting methods for studying forces in earthly structures for use in spacecraft. Civil and environmental engineering professor Richard Christenson and his research group, in partnership with Pioneer Aerospace, are using a cyber-physical test method to study the reaction forces involved in launching the parachutes that help spacecrafts land on distant planets. They hope […]
Explosive Research: Eliminating ‘What Ifs?’ in Space Travel
UConn researchers are adapting methods for studying forces in earthly structures such as bridges and skyscrapers, for use in spacecraft.