Sustainability
Taking Care of Business, Sustainably, at UConn’s Spring Valley Student Farm
When nature calls, farm visitors will soon be able to answer sustainably, by using UConn’s first ADA-compliant composting privy
September 16, 2022 | Elaina Hancock
UConn Applies Clean Energy Expertise to Multi-State Hydrogen Hub
UConn joins six northeastern states, dozens public and private institutions and agencies seeking billions of funding through the U.S. Department of Energy
September 14, 2022 | Matt Engelhardt
A Darker Shade of Green: Understanding Ecofascism
A UConn expert explains how environmentalist ideas can be weaponized in pursuit of a fascist political agenda
September 7, 2022 | Elaina Hancock
COVID Rekindled an Appreciation of Nature for Many
An opportunity to rediscover why the great outdoors are so great in the first place
September 2, 2022 | Elaina Hancock
Swap, Don’t Shop: Sustainable Fashion is Coming to UConn
A secondhand clothing store, the first of its kind, is coming to the Storrs campus this fall to help students learn about, and counteract, fast fashion
August 31, 2022 | Elaina Hancock
Designing a Lighter Fuel Cell with Higher Current Density
A team of UConn engineering researchers is working with Technology Commercialization Services to bring a tubular design of a fuel cell to market.
August 25, 2022 | Loretta Waldman, Special to the Office of the Vice President for Research
E-STEAM Ahead: CT High Schoolers to Become ‘Eco-Digital’ Storytellers Through Interdisciplinary Grant
An interdisciplinary group of UConn researchers is leading an effort to empower high school students to become "Eco-Digital" storytellers in their communities.
August 10, 2022 | Anna Zarra Aldrich '20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research
For Advance Drought Warning, Look to the Plants
UConn researchers find signals in vegetation can help forecast devastating 'flash' droughts
August 5, 2022 | Elaina Hancock
For Popular Trail, There’s Light at the End – and the Beginning, and the Middle – of the Tunnel
UConn students' Service Learning project will help make the Hop River Trail safer for the thousands of bikers and pedestrians who use it
July 12, 2022 | Jaclyn Severance
Algae Agreement Offers an Ocean of Research Possibilities
UConn's Technology Commercialization Services brokered an agreement with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Services to preserve an extensive collection of algae
July 12, 2022 | Loretta Waldman, Special to the OVPR