Schools & Colleges
Students Invited to Go for Gold at the 2024 Experience Innovation Expo
'Everyone can be an innovator. The only prerequisite is having an alternative, creative view or idea'
$17.7 Million Contract Funds Development of Non-Invasive Biomarker Detection Technology
The contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will develop a sensor to detect heat acclimation for warfighters
InCHIP Funds Groundbreaking Pilot Projects, Planting Seeds for Future External Grant Success
InCHIP has funded 10 pilot projects that seek to improve public and human health consistent with UConn’s mission.
Meet Dimitris Xygalatas, New Director of the Cognitive Science Program
The new program director talks about the humanities and science sides of the field, about how cognitive science spawned AI, and how he studies UConn basketball games as an anthropologist.
Meet the Undergraduate Leader: Katherine Bates ‘25 (CLAS)
Panhellenic Council president Bates also organizes HackUConn, a yearly collaborative problem-solving competition open to all majors
Making Food Safe for Soldiers
For UConn alum Genevieve Flock, an interest in food microbiology turned into a successful public health research career that brings 'new, creative solutions for the soldier'
CAHNR Researcher Wins $3.8 Million NIH Grant to Develop Leptospirosis Vaccine
With no vaccine and no cure, leptospirosis kills an estimated 60,000 people every year. Elsio Wunder is working to change this
UConn Alumni, Car Fanatics Creating Marketplace for Second-Hand Auto Parts
'If you’re looking for specific wheels only made in 1973, you can’t just walk into a store and expect to find them'
Dr. Leslie Loew Named 2025 Biophysical Society Fellow
The Biophysical Society announced Leslie M. Loew, R.D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, is named a 2025 Biophysical Society Fellow for inventing fluorescent sensors of membrane potential and leadership in the development of computational cell biology.
UConn at the UN
Three UConn environmental science majors joined the global community at the UN's Summit of the Future to tackle urgent topics on the environment and sustainability