Research & Discovery
UConn School of Social Work Lands $587,633 Mental Health Training Grant
Grant will support 50,000 students in under-resourced Connecticut school districts
Some Senescent Cells Heal, Others Hinder
In a new study, UConn School of Medicine researchers describe how to distinguish between senescent cells that speed wound healing and those that hinder it
Feel Your Best Self Goes to High School
School counselors explore opportunities to integrate Feel Your Best Self into secondary settings at UConn’s School Counselor Day
A Better Way of Taking Marine Mammal Blood Samples
Milton Levin will evaluate if dried blood spot cards can be used to collect and archive samples from marine mammals
52 UConn Engineering Faculty Among World’s Top 2% of Scientists
Scholars who place within the top 100,000 worldwide based on these metrics, or who rank within the top 2% in their specific subfields, are included on this prestigious list
Giving Latine Families an ‘Early Head Start’
Vanessa Esquivel, a Ph.D. student in the department of human development & family sciences, has received a major federal grant to study early childhood services for Latine families
New Approach Could Help Alzheimer’s Research
Clues that a different than expected type of cell is involved in the earliest stages of the disease
Waste to Resource: How A State-of-the-Art Facility Helps UConn Save Water
Since the Reclaimed Water Facility came online, it has reclaimed hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater for reuse on campus
Nerve Regrowth in Sight
The findings could lead to a potential treatment for a common cause of blindness
Exhibition Pairs the Unlikely – Photography, Physical Therapy – to Help Those with Parkinson’s
'Not enough people know that even though this is a progressive neurological disease there is something that can be done to help you manage it, live your life with it, maintain a high quality of life, and find some level of joy, happiness, engagement in spite of it'