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Mark Driscoll holds the product that Shoreline Biome is developing -- a kit for identifying and quantifying the bacteria in the human microbiome. This kit takes 96 samples, such as human stool, cracks open the bacteria, and selects a 'fingerprint' region of the bacterial DNA to send off to DNA sequencing. The fingerprint region allows the bacteria to be identified down to the subspecies level. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

UConn Incubator Companies Raise $39.9 Million in 2016

The University’s Technology Incubation Program experienced record growth last year.

Honors student and marketing major Margo Bailey has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the prestigious IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. (Nathan Oldham for UConn)

Business Student Among Six UConn Fulbright Winners

Marketing major Margo Bailey was awarded a highly competitive Fulbright Scholarship to the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.

Jeannette Wick Earns CETL Teaching Award

Center for Teaching and Learning honors Jeannette Wick with Adjunct Faculty Award.

Researchers Ross Turner, Adam Wilson, Cory Merow (l to r) conducting field work at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Stuart Hall also pictured.

The New Game of Russian Roulette for Fire-Prone Ecosystems

The findings of a new study are a concern for fire-prone ecosystems, including those in the United States, Australia, and South Africa.

Size Matters for Drug Particles

An Engineering professor has uncovered new information about how particles behave in the bloodstream, which could lead to more effective cancer drugs.

2017 GE Global Fellows Milin Chhanechhara, Nidhi Jaswal, Leonard Borriello, and Michael Ballard (Nathan Oldham/UConn photo)

GE Fellowship Recipient: ‘I Feel Very Privileged’

The four UConn MBA students who were awarded 2017 GE Global Fellow Scholarships to pursue their global business research interests presented their findings to faculty and administrators on April 7.

Students describe the ideas they turned into reality with funding from UConn's IDEA Grant Program.

UConn Student Entrepreneurs

Students describe the ideas they turned into reality with funding from UConn's IDEA Grant Program.

Graduate student Daniel Hoying at the Physics Building. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Grad Student Headed to Brookhaven Lab

Daniel Hoying receives the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award for his work in high energy physics.

Marketing major Margo Bailey was awarded a highly competitive Fulbright Scholarship to the Instituto de Empress Business School in Madrid Spain. (Nathan Oldham/UConn photo)

UConn Senior Margo Bailey Awarded Fulbright

How do you top a college career that includes two study-abroad trips, internships at international companies, and a three-part honors thesis exploring bilingual advertising and the toy industry? Margo Bailey, a senior honors student majoring in marketing, did it by earning a Fulbright Scholarship.

DMD Student to Premiere Comedy TV Pilot, BuyTown

Ivan and Theo are employees in a small grocery store in Eastern Connecticut surviving what appears to be another mundane shift (unruly customers, power failure, wild animals, bathroom duty, etc.) until they discover that the newly hired cashier is not as innocent as he seems to be. BuyTown is a half hour comedic television pilot episode […]