Research & Discovery
Building a Better Plant: UConn Researcher Develops Improved Technology for Grafting
UConn researcher Yi Li has invented a novel grafting technique that improves several factors important for healthy plant growth
Novel Immune Checkpoints Have Applications for Cancer, Autoimmune Disease Treatment
UConn researcher Laijun Lai has developed recombinant proteins and antibodies to combat autoimmune diseases and immunosuppression in cancer patients
Meet the Researcher: Natalie Munro, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Natalie Munro uses what our human ancestors discarded to learn about how we started to domesticate animals.
UConn Physicists Focus on a Law-Breaking Particle
Experiments with particles known as muons suggest forms of matter and energy that are not yet known to science
UConn Study: Connecticut’s Medication-assisted Opioid Treatment Programs Retain Patients at Higher Rates
New strategies are needed to help boost retention rates among younger people
The Study of Big Data: How CLAS Researchers Use Data Science
UConn researchers are using big data to attack issues of climate, space, genetics and public health
Escape From the Endosome!
An innovative approach that prove valuable for developing new medicines
Pharmacy Graduate Students Sweep 2021 AAPS-NERDG Awards
UConn School of Pharmacy graduate students took the top three places for their oral presentations at Academic Research Award in the AAPS Northeastern Regional Discussion Group (NERDG) Annual Meeting April 16, 2021: First prize – Karishma Dhuri, Dr. Raman Bahal Lab Dhuri’s research focuses on developing novel therapeutics for lymphoma therapy, combining nucleic acid chemistry and […]
Neag School Researchers Developing Computational Thinking Unit for High School Biology Classes
As computational thinking becomes an increasingly important part of STEM fields, a group of researchers is developing a program to prepare high school students with these skills.
Is the Secret to a More Effective COVID-19 Vaccine in Our Gut? A School of Nursing Researcher Hopes to Find Out
Wanli Xu wants to see how the nearly 100 trillion microbes in a person’s digestive system affect immunity induced by the COVID-19 vaccine.