Research & Discovery

Erosion along the banks of Wamassee Creek on St. Catherines Island caused a tree to fall in 2013, exposing a burial ground from the period just before and just after European contact. Intensive excavations followed to recover and protect burials threatened by erosion. Following consultation with appropriate Indigenous representatives, the St. Catherines Island Foundation partnered with multiple research groups to explore the archaeology, bioarchaeology, ancient DNA, stable isotopes, geophysics, radiocarbon dating, geoarchaeology, and ancient proteomics at the Fallen Tree site. Photo by Caitria O’Shaughnessy.

Snapshot: Deborah Bolnick, St. Catherines Island

A glimpse into a UConn research project located off the coast of Georgia, on an island inhabited by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

Yu Lei, Centennial Professor of chemical & biomolecular engineering, left, and graduate students in the lab. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

OVPR Announces Inaugural Convergence Awards for Research in Interdisciplinary Centers (CARIC) Recipients

The Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced recipients of funding in the inaugural cycle of CARIC (Convergence Awards for Research in Interdisciplinary Centers).

Frank Nichols, clinical professor, at his lab at UConn Health in Farmington on Oct. 30, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Bad to the Bone: Bacterial Lipids, Bone Loss, and Periodontal Disease

UConn Health researchers have received $1.5 million from the NIH for a project that could lead to the development of treatments to prevent the progression of periodontitis and to help restore gum tissues and bone lost through the progression of gum disease.

A severed 3D-printed shoe pad repairing itself (Submitted Photo/An Xin and Kunhao Yu)

Where the Rubber Hits the Road, Breaks, and Repairs Itself

Researchers at UConn and USC put the rubber objects through strength tests that proved not only was regeneration possible, but regeneration at nearly 100 percent strength.

Meaghan Perdue, a developmental psychology graduate student, who gave birth to a child in November.

First Steps: UConn Partners on Child Care Fellowship

A new private-public fellowship program is intended to make it easier for new UConn parents to return to research.

Associate professor of anthropology Deborah Bolnick and graduate student Sam Archer, in the laboratory. Bolnick is one of a group of anthropologists who have documented how bringing diverse perspectives into scientific inquiry goes beyond increasing representation in the lab: diversity transforms the very practice of science. (Photo by Bret Brookshire)

Science is Better When it’s Diverse

A group of anthropologists document how bringing diverse perspectives purposefully into scientific inquiry goes far beyond increasing representation in the laboratory: diversity transforms the very practice of science.

Portrait Of Female Teacher Holding Digital Tablet Teaching Line Of High School Students Sitting By Screens In Computer Class

Leading While Black, the Experience of Black Female Principals

With a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation, UConn researchers will study how microaggressions and discrimination affect the experiences of 25 black, female principals.

Neurons. (Matt Wimsatt/JAX Medical Illustration)

Exploring Hypothalamic Circuits, One Neuron at a Time

A new study by UConn and JAX Genomic Medicine provides important clues for understanding certain neural circuits in the brain and the potential for the development of targeted neuropsychiatric therapies.

Nearly a week after Hurricane Irene drenched New England with rainfall in late August 2011. The Connecticut River was spewing muddy sediment into Long Island Sound and wrecking the region’s farmland just before harvest. (NASA Earth Observatory image, using Landsat 5 data from the U.S. Geological Survey Global Visualization Viewer)

A Policy Proposal That Could Curb Remote Sensing Research

Zhe Zhu says a potential change in federal policy to begin charging again for Landsat satellite data would be hugely detrimental to scientific research.

Students in the hallway between classes at a charter school in East Los Angeles. (David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images)

Report Recommends Ways to Promote Equity in Charter Schools

The federal government should grant awards to charter schools that clearly describe their strategies to serve a diverse set of learners, say researchers at UConn and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.