Research & Discovery
Internal Grant Program Fosters Inter-Campus Research
The University is providing seed money to six research teams in 2012, and has distributed nearly $2 million since 2008.
August 21, 2012 | Stephanie Reitz
Chemist Improves Accuracy of Oral Cancer Detection
Chemistry professor James Rusling has developed a method to detect multiple proteins indicating that a person has oral cancer.
July 18, 2012 | Christine Buckley
Climate Change on Martha’s Vineyard
A UConn graduate student used GIS data to project what could happen on Martha’s Vineyard if sea levels rise dramatically.
July 12, 2012 | Cindy Weiss, CLAS Today
Bio-inspired Science
Chemistry professor Yao Lin is tapping into the concepts of nature to make novel synthetic materials.
July 2, 2012 | Christine Buckley
UConn Marine Scientists to Help Map the Sound
Scientific maps of the seafloor will help to better manage and protect Long Island Sound.
June 18, 2012 | Christine Buckley
Language Researchers Awarded $3M IGERT Grant
How do humans develop and learn language? UConn researchers have won an NSF ‘IGERT’ grant to train a new generation of scientists to answer that question.
June 13, 2012 | Cindy Weiss, CLAS Today
Breaking Down How We Breathe
Physiology and neurobiology professor Daniel Mulkey studies something most of us don’t think about – how we breathe.
May 15, 2012 | Cindy Weiss, CLAS Today
The Bike Path to Secondary Education
Can a bicycle keep a girl in school? A UConn economist is studying whether a bike incentive used in rural Bihar, India can do just that.
May 14, 2012 | Cindy Weiss, CLAS Today
Improving the Detection of Landmines
A chemical engineering doctoral student has developed a portable sensing system that can detect hidden explosives accurately, efficiently, and at little cost.
May 4, 2012 | Colin Poitras
Genomic Research Sheds New Light on Extinct Tasmanian Tiger
UConn biologist Andrew Pask has shown that the Tasmanian tiger had extremely low genetic variability, probably resulting from its isolation from mainland Australia.
April 18, 2012 | Christine Buckley