Research & Discovery

Jessica Lubell, associate professor of plant science, with hemp plants at the Floriculture Greenhouse. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Favoring Female Flowers in Hemp Horticulture

A UConn plant science professor working with hemp plants has developed a way to maximize the production of female flowers, which produce significantly higher quantities of cannabinoids than male flowers.

UConn's Electrical/Electronics: Technology and Repair facility offers consultation, support, development, and repairs to help researchers find cost-effective solutions. (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo)

Breathing New Life into Aging Electronics

The Electrical/Electronics: Technology and Repair facility is a part of the Center for Open Research Resources and Equipment (CORE).

Professor Will Ouimet, center, and students from his undergraduate geology lab course insert the core into the soil at the base of Horsebarn Hill. (Tom Rettig/UConn Photo)

Core Samples Dig Deep into History of Horsebarn Hill

Samples taken from an iconic campus location are helping undergraduates in a geology lab course learn how to read the history of geologic layers going back tens of thousands of years.

Students from across Connecticut attended a November ConnectNext speaker event at UConn Stamford with Eric Urquhart from Blue Sky Studios (UConn Photo).

Growing Connecticut’s Digital Media Pipeline

Digital Media CT provides workforce development and networking opportunities to bolster the state's growing film and digital media industries.

Blue world map.

UConn Professor Recognized for ‘Improving World Order’

Susan Randolph, the Gladstein Committee Member and Professor Emeritus in Economics, was jointly recognized for the 2019 award from the University of Louisville.

Artwork depicting the International Space Station and shuttle. (Leonello Calvetti/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)

UConn Research Project at the International Space Station

An experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision was launched into space this month.

Truck plowing snow. (Getty Images)

Saltier Waterways Creating Dangerous ‘Chemical Cocktails’

A new study found that salty, alkaline freshwater releases a variety of harmful substances that together have more devastating effects on drinking water and ecosystems than individual contaminants.

PhD student Rishabh Kejriwal helps UConn undergrads observe their bacteriophage concentrations in an electron microscope in the lab during a ‘Virus Hunters’ class. (UConn Photo)

‘Virus Hunters’ Get Hands Dirty in UConn Class

Through the SEA-PHAGES program administered by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, six UConn freshmen have the unique opportunity to hunt for new viruses and gain valuable hands-on experience in the lab.

Woman at dentist

Getting to the Root (Canal) of Dentin Regeneration

Dr. Mina Mina, UConn Health professor of pediatric dentistry, has received $449,125 to better understand the roles of signaling pathways that regulate regeneration of the dentin-pulp complex, two layers that make up our teeth.

Thomas Buckley, UConn associate clinical professor of pharmacy practice, one of several UConn researchers working with survivors of the Khmer Rouge, at a rural village health clinic in Cambodia during a sabbatical leave. (Courtesy of Tom Buckley)

Helping Victims of Genocide in Cambodia – 40 Years On

'We never talk about trauma after it's over,' says Mary Scully of Khmer Health Advocates. UConn researchers are working to improve the health of refugees who have survived trauma.