Sustainability
Heat Stress to Bring Big Changes to the US Corn Belt
'In the near term, drought-resistant crops are important, but when you look at the long term, we need heat-resistant crops'
Surf’s Up! Using Mushrooms to Make a More Sustainable Surfboard
Protecting the oceans one mushroom surfboard at a time
Zhou to Lead Clean Energy Engineering Efforts at UConn
Xiao-Dong Zhou, incoming director of the Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2) will serve as a special advisor on sustainable energies to President Radenka Maric and Vice President for Research Pamir Alpay
Managing Roadside Forests One Video at a Time
UConn PhD student Durga Joshi is commercializing technology to better manage trees and the damage they can cause during extreme storms
Connecticut and UConn are Leaders in Clean Energy and Sustainability
Our leaders, innovators, and scholars have worked tirelessly to drive progress in sustainability, moving us toward independence from fossil fuels and steeling our power grid against severe weather and other risk factors.
New Preventative Treatment for Porcine Virus Could Save Billions for Farmers
Using AI, researchers hunted through millions of compounds to find a specific receptor, CD163, to stop cells from becoming infected
UConn and Bridgeport Partner for Greener Schools
'A great opportunity to strengthen our green energy and climate change research' while supporting Connecticut communities
$5M Google.org Grant Uses AI to Track Permafrost Thaw
As part of an international team, UConn remote sensing expert Chandi Witharana helps expand Permafrost Discovery Gateway
Greenland Melted Recently, Shows High Risk of Sea Level Rise Today
Long-lost ice core reveals that much of Greenland was green 416,000 years ago
UConn Selected to Lead Clean-Energy Project to Help U.S. Industries in Decarbonizing Efforts
'Investments in net-zero-carbon technologies and industry decarbonization can strengthen U.S. and Connecticut manufacturing competitiveness, which then creates new jobs and economic opportunities that improve quality of life'