Research & Discovery

A UConn landscape architecture student has applied the concept of resilience in developing a landscape plan for a test site that aims to integrate refugees into the local community, while developing resources they can use. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

A New Approach to Social Resilience – Through Landscape Architecture

A project led by graduate student Tao Wu aims to integrate refugees into the local community, while developing resources they can use.

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DOE Grant Aims to Increase Resilience of Distributed Energy Resources

UConn engineers are working to develop a computational method to bolster the resilience of the nation's power grids.

A protester holding a placard saying 'We The People' in front of the U.S. Capitol Building. (Getty Images)

Better Understanding of Government Would Benefit Nation

UConn political scientist Brian Waddell says partisan battles about the proper role of government are based on a lack of understanding of what American Government actually does.

Two little girls eating lunch. (iStock Photo)

Federal Subsidies Promote Healthy Eating in Child Care Centers

Connecticut child care centers participating in a federal food assistance program do a better job at feeding preschoolers healthy foods than non-participating centers, according to a new study by the Rudd Center.

Reinhard Laubenbacher is professor in the Department of Cell Biology and co-director of the Center for Quantitative Medicine at UConn Health. He is also professor of computational biology at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine. (The Jackson Laboratory Photo)

Controlling Biofilms with Predictive Mathematical Models

The joint project between UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory will develop a predictive mathematical model to design optimal controls for fungal growth in communities of bacteria called biofilms.

Vince Pistritto '18 (CLAS, SFA), one of six current UConn undergraduates who have won NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, at the Chemistry Building. Pistritto plans to pursue a Ph.D. in chemical catalysis. (Ellen Yang '18 (CLAS)/UConn Photo)

A Dozen UConn Students, Alums Win NSF Graduate Fellowships

UConn students in fields as varied as chemical engineering, physics, and political science, have earned support from the National Science Foundation for their graduate work.

Katie Bradley '18 (BME) tests her device in the Arthur B. Bronwell Building (Eli Freund/UConn Photo)

Senior Design: Using Vibrational Therapy to Change the Outlook for Cerebral Palsy Patients (Part 2)

Entering the final stretch of their Senior Design journey, the biomedical engineering team of Brianna Perry, Morgan DaSilva, Brittany Morgan, and Katie Bradley are realizing the crushing realities of real-world results versus perfect-world expectations.

Kelly Pfeiffer ’18 (CLAS) examines aquaponic lettuce growing in a greenhouse at the Spring Valley Student Farm on April 27, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Growing with Aquaponics at UConn

A new student-led aquaponics system at the Spring Valley Farm is proving fertile ground for research and interdisciplinary projects in addition to fresh produce.

Vijay A. K. Rathinam, an assistant professor in UConn Health’s Department of Immunology recently received funding from the NIH to study an ill-understood response to bacterial infection. (Open Source Image)

Searching for Sepsis Interventions

By studying the regulation of innate immune responses during bacterial infection and sepsis, this project has the potential to identify new biomarkers and targets to intervene before the condition can severely harm the host.

The decision to acknowledge sponsorship of a cyberattack is often linked to whether the attacker hopes to draw attention to a cause or to actually influence events, says political scientist Evan Perkoski. (Getty Images)

Claiming Credit for Cyberattacks

The decision to acknowledge sponsorship of an attack is often linked to whether the attacker hopes to draw attention to a cause or to actually influence events, says political scientist Evan Perkoski.