Research & Discovery

Student Poster

Summer Research Experiences Give Students Career-Building Boost

Posters and presentations at 2026 Summer Research Day highlight impact of mentored, hands-on student experiences at UConn Health.

Members of a football team kneeling in yellow and burgundy uniforms

Home or Away? NFL Stadium Attendance Protest Impact Depended on Who Visited, Researchers Find

How do player politics affect fan attendance? The answer is complicated

A man jogging on a treadmill while a woman watches

UConn Institute for Sports Medicine: The Science of Motion

The data-driven insights help support recovery, enhance performance, and reduce injury risk

A view of the Innovation Partnership Building on Aug. 6, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

A New Path for Rising Tech Talent

New Tech Park Talent Incubator presents UConn first-year students with early chance to establish career path

A black and white cow grazing in a field of tall grass

A Better Test for Leptospirosis in Cattle

Elsio Wunder awarded BARD grant to improve understanding of costly disease

John Inguagiato with event participants

Turfgrass Field Day Unites UConn Researchers, Industry Professionals

Over 240 members of the turfgrass industry learned about the latest research at UConn and technologies on the market

Grand Challenges Grant Foundation

Development of Algae-Based Food Product Earns Prestigious Award

Mingyu Qiao, UConn Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, will lead a global team using a novel strain of microalgae grown on spent brewer waste to develop a lower cost version of an essential omega-3 fatty acid critical to fetal and infant brain and eye development

Sir Cato T. Laurencin of UConn.

Sir Cato T. Laurencin of UConn Featured in America 250 Film on the Future of Biomedical Engineering

National documentary spotlights Laurencin’s contributions to biomedical engineering and regenerative engineering

Yellow flowers in the sunshine outside a UConn building

Research Development – It Takes a Village

New England Public Research Leaders Collaborative takes home NORDP leadership award

Jose Figueroa

The Power of UConn Collaborating for Parkinson’s Disease Patients

UConn Health Parkinson's disease patients like Jose Figueroa are experiencing the power of a UConn-made protein shake being tested by the UConn research team in an FDA clinical study.