Research & Discovery
Honors Freshmen Conduct Research Through Holster Scholars First Year Program
First year scholars discover the rewards of research in projects ranging from art to engineering to neuroscience.
Sociologist Studies How Residents of Venice, Calif. Cope with Diversity
From boardwalk to businesses, homeless shelters to havens for the wealthy, Venice, Calif. is a carnival of diversity. Andrew Deener studies how its residents cope.
Smart Robotic Drones Advance Science
A UConn engineering professor is developing unmanned vehicles that are autonomous and can navigate without assistance. Read the story.
Social Psychologist Rick Gibbons Joins UConn Faculty
Gibbons, coming from Dartmouth, brings expertise in health risk behaviors to the University, and a cohort of more than 3,000 people in a long-running family panel study.
UConn Wins Prestigious Federal Grants to Bolster Graduate Students in Critical Fields
The University has secured five awards in a highly competitive federal grant program to attract talented graduate students to critical areas of nursing, education, and engineering.
UConn Scientists Team Up to Conduct New Cancer Research
Researchers from Storrs and the Health Center are teaming up to pursue new avenues of research that could result in better diagnosis and treatment methods to combat cancer.
UConn Health Center Researcher Awarded $9.3 Million Grant for Human Genome Study
“We hope to better understand why a person develops a particular disease, and from there how to cure it,” says Brenton Graveley.
You Are What You Eat – And Where You Live
Geography faculty member Debarchana Ghosh studies how proximity to services, such as grocery stores and medical centers, affects people’s health.
Finding the Pathways to Drug-induced Liver Injury
UConn pharmaceutical researchers are searching for a genetic link to a significant public health concern – drug-induced liver injury.
UConn-Jackson Lab Symposium Features Genomics Research
Storrs, Farmington, and Jackson Laboratory researchers get together for two days of talks and strategy sessions.