Research & Discovery

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Meet the Researcher: Patricia Hare, School of Dental Medicine

Patricia Hare, a student in the DMD/Ph.D. program at the UConn School of Dental Medicine, wants her work to have a positive impact on people's lives.

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Sun and Sea: UConn Professor Advances in National Solar Desalination Contest

University of Connecticut professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering Jeff McCutcheon is a quarter finalist in the American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize administered by the U.S. Department of Energy. High salinity brines from oil and gas production, mining and industrial wastewaters are challenging to treat with conventional desalination technologies. Scientists have been working on various […]

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Multi-University Program Enables At-Home Hearing Assessments for Children

An innovative program administered by UConn has helped researchers at other public universities enhance their research through commercialization.

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Meet the Researcher: Greg Sartor, School of Pharmacy

Greg Sartor, an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Pharmacy, has dedicated his career to understanding how molecular-scale events in the brain drive substance use disorder.

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UConn Researcher Developing Rapid COVID-19 Testing

UConn researcher Bahram Javidi is developing a rapid, portable method of testing for COVID-19 that could be a boon to health care providers and patients alike.

Ran Xu

Statistician studies effects of weather and air pollution in transmission of COVID-19

As the pandemic ramped up in Connecticut in March 2020, Ran Xu, assistant professor in CAHNR’s Department of Allied Health Sciences, met with researchers from Harvard, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Copenhagen and Virginia Tech to study the impact of weather and air pollution on COVID-19 transmission. The two-month collaborative study examined the […]

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UConn Management Professor: Workplace Interruptions Jeopardize Productivity

UConn management expert Nora Madjar says even seemingly small interruptions in the workplace can end up having negative effects on workers.

Meet the Researcher: Ashwin Dani, Electrical and Computer Engineering

UConn researcher Ashwin Dani is proving that robots have a place in everything from factories to lunar missions.

Faculty member Xiuling Lu speaks with a student in a laboratory inside the UConn School of Pharmacy

Ph.D. candidates Tingting Li and André Beringhs win 2020 IPEC Americas Foundation Awards

Tingting Li, a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Diane Burgess’ laboratory, and André Beringhs, a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Xiuling Lu’s laboratory, were recently awarded the 2020 International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas Foundation (IPEC) award for graduate students. Li and Beringhs were two of five Ph.D candidates nationally to receive the award. Their awards […]

Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory on Jan. 14, 2019. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn, Mystic Aquarium Work Together to Enhance Animal Health

The Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at UConn and Mystic Aquarium have an education and animal health partnership that dates back almost 30 years.