Sustainability

A view of the Thomas J. Meskill Law Library at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Law Creates Two New Master’s Degrees

The new degree programs in human rights and social justice and energy and environmental law are intended to meet emerging needs in society.

Jill Wegrzyn, ecology and evolutionary biology assistant research professor, at a Christmas tree farm. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Big Data and the Science of the Christmas Tree

A UConn bioinformatics researcher is helping develop tools that will enable more scientists to start finding meaning in massive amounts of data.

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Student Researchers Win EPA Sustainability Grant

A UConn student team has won a $15,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in the first phase of the national P3 competition.

Geoscientist Lisa Park Boush Joins UConn Faculty

The new director of the Center for Integrative Geosciences specializes in climate history over time, and how it affects ecosystems.

Emily McInerney '15 (CAHNR) takes air samples from wetland plots near the Kellogg Dairy Center on June 24, 2014. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Studying Wetlands as a Producer of Greenhouse Gases

Student researcher Emily McInerney '15 (CAHNR) is studying the emission of methane from wetlands.

Students saw the inside of a large storage building during a tour of a fertilizer plant at the Farmers Cooperative Company in Farnhamville, Iowa. (Photo courtesy of Tom Morris)

Learning About Agricultural Production in America’s Heartland

Six UConn students learned firsthand about how America produces its food, and why getting it from farm to table is a complex process.

Jason Henderson, associate professor of plant science and landscape architecture, and Ph.D. student Julie Campbell, check a plot of turf for crabgrass and weeds on June 6, 2014. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

The Quest for Pesticide-Free Playing Fields

UConn researchers are exploring alternative techniques for maintaining turf, in light of restrictions on the use of pesticides.

Silhouette of smoke stacks smoking up to the sky at sunset (iStock Photo)

Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Law professor Joe MacDougald discusses a recent Supreme Court decision that challenges the EPA’s authority to regulate emissions from power plants.

Prabhakar Singh, director of UConn’s Center for Clean Energy Engineering. (Christopher LaRosa/UConn Photo)

UConn Receives Gift for Global Energy Sustainability Program

A recent gift from alumnus Ed Satell will support a new research partnership in sustainable energy with Technion–Israel Institute of Technology.

Each year, 500,000 American golden plovers fly between Arctic North American and South America. These birds may carry hundreds of thousands of microscopic plant parts, called diaspores, in their feathers. (Photo by Jean-François Lamarre)

Migratory Birds Help Spread Plant Species: UConn Study

A new study by UConn researchers demonstrates how some plants travel between the hemispheres on the wings of migratory birds.