Research & Discovery
Social Media Offers Venue for Crowds of Sports Fans
'Social networking is a valid way for fans to further identify with their favorite sports teams.'
Innovative Device Could Offer New Hope for Heart Patients
A UConn graduate student is developing a new micro-scale power source that is significantly smaller and more efficient than the batteries used in most cardiac pacemakers today.
UConn Student Navigates New Role in Years After Sandy Hook
Elizabeth Charash '18 (CLAS) was a high school student in Newtown at the time of the Sandy Hook school shootings. The tragedy has shaped her academics and activism.
Divining Tumor Markers from DNA
UConn Health researchers are part of a cutting-edge initiative to discover cancer markers known as neoantigens, that will further the search for cancer immunotherapies.
Mind Over Bladder: The Brain-Organ Connection
UConn Health's Dr. Phillip P. Smith is conducting research on the brain's connection with bladder function as we age.
Black Sea Project Discovers Unseen Medieval Ship
UConn nautical archaeologist Kroum Batchvarov says seeing the medieval shipwreck for the first time was 'a truly thrilling moment.'
Of Parking Garages, Nuclear Pasta, and Cosmic Connections
A unique cellular structure named after a UConn professor may also exist in the outer crust of neutron stars thousands of light-years away. Physicists are trying to figure out why.
Reproductive Biologist Wins Gates Foundation Grant for Contraceptives Research
Jianjun Sun will test existing drugs for contraceptive properties that could eliminate mental health side effects.
Worth a Thousand Words: Connecticut’s Coastline Changes
From early hand drawings and aerial photos to today's drone images, a new website tells the story of changes in the Connecticut coastline over the past century.
Pneumonia Rates Linked to Hospital Ventilators Have Not Dropped, Says Study
Contrary to data published by the CDC, a study led by a UConn Health researcher concluded that ventilator-associated pneumonia is still a significant risk to patients.