Research & Discovery
State Legislators Visit UConn Innovation Partnership Building
Returning and newly elected state legislators met with university officials at the Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) this week to tour the unparalleled facility and to discuss many of UConn’s core research and educational programs.
Nature is a Rich Source of Medicine – If We Can Protect It
Conservative estimates suggest that we are losing one important drug every two years because of our onslaught on the natural world, according to UConn's John Malone and counterparts.
UConn Partners in $12.5M DOE Research Center on US Nuclear Security
UConn material scientist, Avinash Dongare, will serve as one of the principal investigators for the Center, which has received $12.5 million over five years.
Envisioning the Invisible: Microplastics in the Long Island Sound
With governmental and non-governmental agencies, UConn scientists from the Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering have secured financial support from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund to study microplastics along Connecticut's coast.
Disrupting Alzheimer’s Protein BACE
Dr. Riqiang Yan, chair of the UConn Health Department of Neuroscience, has received a competitive renewal grant of $3.2 million from the National Institute on Aging to study a potential treatment that gets to the core of the physiological processes responsible for Alzheimer’s.
Favoring Female Flowers in Hemp Horticulture
A UConn plant science professor working with hemp plants has developed a way to maximize the production of female flowers, which produce significantly higher quantities of cannabinoids than male flowers.
Breathing New Life into Aging Electronics
The Electrical/Electronics: Technology and Repair facility is a part of the Center for Open Research Resources and Equipment (CORE).
Core Samples Dig Deep into History of Horsebarn Hill
Samples taken from an iconic campus location are helping undergraduates in a geology lab course learn how to read the history of geologic layers going back tens of thousands of years.
Growing Connecticut’s Digital Media Pipeline
Digital Media CT provides workforce development and networking opportunities to bolster the state's growing film and digital media industries.
UConn Professor Recognized for ‘Improving World Order’
Susan Randolph, the Gladstein Committee Member and Professor Emeritus in Economics, was jointly recognized for the 2019 award from the University of Louisville.