Research & Discovery

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UConn Symposium Seeks to Integrate Nutrition with Immune Function to Shape New Disease Treatments

“We’re trying to set the stage for integrating these ideas”

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Neag School Graduate Students Publish Third Issue of Education Research Journal

The editor-reviewed, open-access, annual journal is founded and run by graduate students at the Neag School and has published three articles in its Spring 2025 issue

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Stocking Up on Snacks: How Phytoplankton Prepare for the Future

'They don't have brains, so how does this past information influence their performance?'

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Eating Your Feelings? A New Study Offers Hope for Emotional Eaters

With a focus on weight gain prevention and appetite awareness, SATISFY study participants reported significantly lower emotional eating

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At UConn’s Queer Science Conference, New Futures Take Shape for Young Scientists

Fourth annual event offers high schoolers hands-on fun served up with a scoop of science

Board of Trustees member Philip Rubin

Board of Trustees Member Philip Rubin Continues Legacy of Research, Facilitation

Trustee Philip Rubin ’73 ’75 sees UConn and the state as well-positioned to continue groundbreaking research, even in challenging landscape

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It’s Not the Game, It’s the Group: Sports Fans Connect the Most Over Rituals

The study, by a UConn team of scientists, shows that levels of emotional connection and euphoria are on average higher during intense pre-game rituals than they are during the game itself

Physics Breakthrough to Evaluate Fundamental Theory of Nature

The Muon g-2 Theory Initiative has published a white paper on the theoretical calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, which will be compared with experimental results

“Chia-Ling Kuo et al. demonstrate the Healthspan Proteomic Score (HPS), derived from chronological age and the expression levels of 86 proteins, is a strong predictor of disease and mortality risk. Lower HPS values are associated with higher risks of disease and mortality. Pictured is a “biological clock” representation hinting that proteins inform the HPS, which can inform our healthspan. Here, the clock’s hand is a 3D rendering of growth/differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), a protein predictor of healthspan. Image credit: Bernard L. Cook III, PhD, who conceptualized, illustrated, and composed the final image, and Illustrate, the software used to render GDF15 (Goodsell DS, Autin L, Olson AJ (2019) Illustrate: Software for Biomolecular Illustration. Structure 27, 1716-1720).”

Scientists Develop New Blood-Based Proteomic Score to Predict Healthspan and Disease Risk

UConn School of Medicine study published in PNAS introduces Healthspan Proteomic Score as a biomarker for healthy aging

Natale Sciolino

Meet the Researcher: Natale Sciolino, CLAS

Assistant professor of physiology and neurobiology Natale Sciolino is fostering the next generation of UConn neuroscientists