Research & Discovery

Jessica Rouge, assistant professor of chemistry, talking with graduate student Josh Santiana in her research lab in the Chemistry Building. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Tailoring Treatment to Combat Diseased Cells at the Genetic Level

A UConn researcher developed a new drug delivery system using a synthetic-biological hybrid capsule that leaves healthy cells alone, increasing effectiveness and reducing unwanted side effects.

Xiuchun 'Cindy' Tian stands next to a roadsign bearing the name of her late husband, UConn researcher Jerry Yang, who is known for his pioneering work in animal cloning. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

University Honors Memory of Research Great Jerry Yang

The University has named the street that leads to the UConn Dairy Bar from Route 195 'Jerry Yang Road.'

Engineers and technicians assemble the James Webb Space Telescope on Nov. 2, 2016 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The telescope, designed to be a large space-based observatory optimized for infrared wavelengths, will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

UConn on the Front Line to Glimpse Farthest Reaches of Universe

Two UConn physics professors will be among the world’s first scientists to explore the universe using the new James Webb Space Telescope.

A teacher goes over a lesson with a student from New Orleans in English class, at a school in Pflugerville, Texas. (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc./Corbis via Getty Images)

Hurricane Aftermath: Lessons from Katrina that are Relevant Now

Teachers will be part of the healing process for children relocating after Hurricanes Maria and Harvey, says UConn's Edith Barrett.

A UConn business professor has developed a strategy to optimize the decision-making process for NFL Survivor Pools that also has applications for endeavors such as airport screening and determining kidney transplant recipients. (Shutterstock Image)

A Winning NFL Football Pool Strategy

A UConn business professor developed a strategy to optimize the decision-making process for NFL Survivor Pools.

A UConn Stamford business professor has developed software that can comb the internet, including the dark web, and identify radical, violent content. (Shutterstock Photo)

New Software Can Pinpoint Hate Groups’ Radicalization Sites

A UConn Stamford business professor has developed software that can comb the internet, including the dark web, and identify terrorist content.

Fast food restaurants thrive in one of the poorest areas of Los Angeles. South LA has the highest concentration of fast-food restaurants of the city, about 400, and only a few grocery stores. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts

A new UConn Rudd Center study found that easy access to fast- and junk-food outlets was a better predictor of high obesity rates than lack of access to affordable, nutritious food.

California Scrub-Jay nestlings on their nest in Berkeley, California, May 20, 1921. (With the Permission of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley)

How Birds are Rescheduling their Lives Around Climate Change

'We were expecting them to only move in space, but we’ve demonstrated they also move in time,' says UConn researcher Morgan Tingley.

Cover of Anne Dailey's book, Law and the Unconscious

Law Professor’s Book Connects Psychoanalysis and the Law

Anne Dailey addresses popular misconceptions about psychoanalysis, including the idea that psychoanalytic ideas about the unconscious directly conflict with the law’s presumption that each individual, unless insane or coerced, acts upon the basis of free will.

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

Bacterial Fats, Not Dietary Ones, May Deserve Blame for Heart Disease

A new study by UConn scientists suggests that the fatty molecules linked to heart disease may come not only from what you eat, but from the bacteria in your mouth. The research may explain why gum disease is associated with heart trouble.