Research & Discovery
2,000-year-old Ship Found Intact by UConn Expert, Colleagues
Avery Point-based Kroum Batchvarov is co-director of the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project, which has discovered more than 60 shipwrecks so far.
New Lab Opens to Test Human Performance Limits in Heat
The new MISSION Heat Lab at UConn’s Korey Stringer Institute, which is outfitted with the latest in climate control technologies and human performance monitoring systems, opens today.
Science in Seconds: UConn Health’s 3-D Print-out of Brain
Using brain scans and a 3-D printer, a UConn team made a life-size model of the arteries surgeons must navigate to pull blood clots from stroke victims.
UConn Health’s New 3-D Printed Model Allows Brain Surgeons to Practice
A team of researchers at UConn Health converted MRI brain scans into something a 3-D printer could interpret, enabling them to print an inexpensive, true-to-life teaching model of the brain’s major arteries.
Teaching Robots to Think
UConn engineers are probing the frontier of artificial intelligence to advance manufacturing.
Lab Identifies Way to Reduce Salmonella Outbreaks in Mangoes
A UConn lab recently processed 4,000 mangoes and water samples to test the efficacy of three disinfectants commonly used by the industry to reduce contamination. What they found surprised them.
One-third of Parasites May Become Extinct in Our Lifetime
Admittedly, parasites—tapeworms, roundworms, ticks, lice, fleas and other pests—have a bad reputation. But they play an important role in the ecosystem.
Study: Racism Rooted in Small Things People Say and Do
New study looks at prejudicial attitudes toward blacks among undergraduates at a university in the South.
New Device for Testing Heart Health
UConn engineering researchers have developed a device to test an important indicator of heart health that is often ignored – blood viscosity.
Super PACs ‘Based on Ideology Rather than Business’
Super PACs created to influence presidential and congressional election campaigns are primarily associated with ideological and issue-based causes rather than businesses, say UConn researchers.