Research & Discovery
IES Awards $6.9M for Neag School Research
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) announced last week that researchers from the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education have been awarded $6,896,988 over five years for three research projects related to special education.
Horseshoe Crabs – The Fortunate Ones?
The horseshoe crab has persisted, unchanged, for hundreds of millions of years. But now, its survival is threatened by the harvesting of its prized baby-blue blood. A team at UConn seeks to map its DNA and save it from extinction.
Series: Meet the Researcher
Read about the paths that led researchers to their areas of expertise, and how their work leads to discoveries that impact scholarship, the economy, and our society.
Meet the Researcher: Nora Madjar, Management
Nora Madjar has devoted her career to studying how creativity and negotiation can get employers and employees the best deal.
Summer Undergraduate Researcher Sarah Baker ’20 (CLAS)
Baker, a SURF award recipient, is researching the eastern red-backed salamander, which is found in woodlands close to the Storrs campus.
Opportunities Exist to Restore Tropical Rainforests – Here’s How We Mapped Them
Using high-resolution satellite imagery and the latest peer-reviewed research, experts integrated information about four benefits from forest restoration: biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation and water security.
Tracy Rittenhouse Knows Where the Wild Things Are
Bobcats have been spotted on campus. Students who took pictures of them showed them to Rittenhouse, who is helping analyze data for the state's Bobcat Project.
Study: More Pharma Money, More Gabapentin
Gabapentin manufacturers paid physicians – mostly pain doctors and general practitioners – $11.5 million between 2014 and 2016, according to UConn research.
NYC Ridesharing Study Has Implications for Policymakers
A new UConn study found that ridesharing services are changing New York City, especially in neighborhoods that are typically home to minority and low-income people who do not own vehicles of their own.
Combined Computing: New Grant Tackles Major Topics in Theoretical Mathematics
UConn mathematics professor, Damir Dzhafarov, has received an NSF Focused Research Group (FRG) grant to to strengthen the connections between two prominent branches of theoretical mathematics: computability theory and combinatorics.