Research & Discovery

Mark Smith '13 MS Geoscience major and Innovation Quest award winner looking at his website on April 29, 2013. (Sheila Foran/UConn Photo)

Geoscience Graduate Student Wins First Prize in Innovation Quest Competition

Mark Smith plans to establish a start-up to produce an imaging device that can capture ultra-high-resolution images of micro-macroscopic objects in two and three dimensions.

Zhaohui Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering, sits in a lab next to the OFDM underwater modem on April 30, 2013. (Ariel Dowski/UConn Photo)

Ph.D. Candidate Specializes in Underwater Acoustic Communications

While at UConn, Zhaohui Wang '13 Ph.D. has published 12 journal articles, 17 conference papers, worked on two NSF-funded proposals, and co-authored a textbook.

Transportation Safety Research Center Established at UConn

A new transportation safety research center at UConn aims to improve roadway safety through research, technology, and community outreach.

How Robots Can Help Children with Autism Learn and Communicate

A UConn-affiliated researcher is preparing to take his work on robots and autism out of the lab and into the marketplace.

Ragini Phansalkar (CLAS & ENGR ’14) dual-degree student majoring in computer science and biology with Nicholas Gallo (CLAS ’14) majoring in physiology and neurobiology with minors in mathematics and molecular and cell biology on April 8, 2013. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Science Students Win National Goldwater Scholarship, Honorable Mention

Ragini Phansalkar '14 (CLAS & ENG) has won a national Goldwater Scholarship, and Nicholas Gallo '14 (CLAS) earned an honorable mention for the prize.

Meg Gerrard, research professor of psychology on March 28, 2013. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Expanding Cancer Research at UConn

New faculty member Meg Gerrard, who previously worked at Dartmouth's comprehensive cancer center, hopes to build new cancer research programs at UConn.

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DNA Sequencing: Changing the Landscape of Science and Biology

Health Center researchers are at the forefront of new discoveries about the smallest molecules that have a major impact on human health.

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UConn Research Suggests Complex Genetic Heritage in Three Cicada Species

The research, published in the journal PNAS, is based on DNA analysis of 30 years of frozen samples in UConn's collections.

Opening New Areas of Scholarship in Study of Logician Gottlob Frege

Philosophy professor Marcus Rossberg is co-editor of a new translation of Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic, to be published this summer by Oxford University Press.

UConn Student Wins National Goldwater Scholarship

Molecular and cell biology major Anna Green, of Storrs, Conn., won the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship during her junior year at UConn.