Schools & Colleges
After-School Exercise and Nutrition Program Reaches Out to Urban School Children
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Neag School of Education have joined forces to bring an after-school program to urban children.
Teacher-Turned-Author Inspired by Personal Experiences
Lynda Mullaly-Hunt, Neag graduate and former third-grade teacher, admits that she wasn’t always an aspiring author. “Most authors say that they’ve wanted to write since they could chew on a crayon,” says Mullaly-Hunt, “but that wasn’t true for me.” She says she wrote One for the Murphys, a middle school-aged novel published in May by Penguin […]
Engineer has NSF EAGER Award to Study Nanoparticle Flow in Bloodstream
Anson Ma's research will help determine whether nanoparticles can improve the delivery of cancer-fighting drugs to tumors.
Trustees Approve Formation of Two Departments
During its mid-November meeting, the UConn Board of Trustees approved the establishment of two new departments in the School of Engineering: Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE). The departments will emerge as separate units from the current Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering effective July 1, 2013.
Alumnus Creates Scholarship for Structural Engineering, Helping the Next Generation
Keith Kesner (B.S. Civil Engineering,'92) knows firsthand how difficult it is for students to afford college. As an undergraduate, he worked multiple construction jobs over the course of a summer to pay for the coming year at UConn.
UConn Students Design Sensory Board for Adam’s Adventure Playground
Three UConn biomedical engineering students are using their college education to assist a Tolland endeavor: the creation of a handicap-accessible playground at the Cross Farms Recreation Center. Seniors Alyssa Smith, Christine Wakefield and Danielle Napoli are designing a sensory board for the children to interact with at the playground as part of their senior design project.
Student Snap: Kathryn Gosselin
"UConn's a really up-and-coming university where we're leaps and bounds ahead of where we were ten years ago and there's just so much research money coming in and people are starting to look at UConn as a great engineering school," says alumna and graduate student Kathryn Gosselin, a Ph.D. candidate working in the Optical Diagnostics Laboratory under the thoughtful guidance of Dr. Michael Renfro.
Celebrating Women Engineers
On Friday, November 30th, UConn celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Women's Center. In concert with the day's events, the School of Engineering hosted a panel of four female engineering alumnae representing four decades of experience.
Student Contributes to Tumor Detection Device
Umar Alqasemi, a graduate student advised by Dr. Quing Zhu in UConn's Optical and Ultrasound Imaging Laboratory, is working on technology that combines photo-acoustic imaging with ultrasound imaging to help physicians more accurately detect tumors.
Engineering Captures Top Environmental Honors
Dr. Allison MacKay, doctoral student Udayarka Karra, and UConn's chapter of Engineers Without Borders - Nicaragua Team, along with undergraduate Nirav Patel and Ph.D. student Carlo Santoro, were honored recently during the 2010-2012 Environmental Leadership Awards ceremony.