Schools & Colleges
Tiny Microchip Monitoring Heart Failure Patients at Home
Cardiologists at UConn Health are now using tiny, implantable sensors to remotely monitor heart failure patients at home daily to discover immediately if their heart condition worsens and before symptoms arise.
October 17, 2017 | Lauren Woods
Fueling the Future with Seaweed
UConn researchers are part of a federally funded project to boost seaweed production for use as a biofuel.
October 17, 2017 | Combined Reports
Op-ed: Gentrification? Bring it
Hartford will never become New York. But why not look to North Adams, Pittsburgh, or Columbus for examples of a different kind of gentrification?
October 17, 2017 | Andrew Deener, UConn Department of Sociology, & Jonathan Wynn, UMass-Amherst
Campbell Named Co-Editor, Journal of Science Teacher Education
Todd Cambpell, professor of science education, has been named editor of the Journal of Science Teacher Education, the flagship journal of the Association for Science Teacher Education.
October 16, 2017 | Stefanie Dion Jones
Skype a Scientist
A program to engage schoolchildren in science has grown in 8 months from one graduate student in one UConn lab to thousands of scientists across 12 time zones and all 50 states.
October 16, 2017 | Kim Krieger, University Communications, with illustrations by Kailey Whitman
Using Social Media to Take on Climate Change
On a typical Friday night, most graduate students would be thinking about their weekend plans to see friends and blow off steam. Instead two UConn Ph.D. candidates are devoting their downtime to tackling climate change one video at a time.
October 12, 2017 | Cindy Weiss, CLAS Today
Congressional Delegation Lauds New Undersea Engineering Program
UConn students who pursue careers through the University’s new undersea engineering program will play a vital role in our national defense and have opportunities to work on some of the most sophisticated submarines in the world, three members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation said during a rare group visit to Storrs Friday.
October 12, 2017 | Eli Freund
Teaching Robots to Think
In a research building in the heart of UConn’s Storrs campus, assistant professor Ashwin Dani is teaching a life-size industrial robot how to think.
October 12, 2017 | Eli Freund
New Device for Testing Heart Health
UConn researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed a device that tests an important indicator of heart health that is often ignored – blood viscosity. Blood can be a window into the health of your heart. Doctors are often on the lookout for some common signs that might point to an issue, like […]
October 12, 2017 | Eli Freund
Nine Engineering Faculty Recognized for their Inventions
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) established a UConn chapter on Friday, September 29, in an induction ceremony at The Lyceum in Hartford.
October 12, 2017 | Eli Freund