Research & Discovery
Symposium to Highlight Research Partnership with Jackson Labs
Two days of presentations by UConn and Jackson Lab researchers will focus on aspects of systems genomics.
Internal Grant Program Fosters Inter-Campus Research
The University is providing seed money to six research teams in 2012, and has distributed nearly $2 million since 2008.
Chemist Improves Accuracy of Oral Cancer Detection
Chemistry professor James Rusling has developed a method to detect multiple proteins indicating that a person has oral cancer.
Climate Change on Martha’s Vineyard
A UConn graduate student used GIS data to project what could happen on Martha’s Vineyard if sea levels rise dramatically.
Bio-inspired Science
Chemistry professor Yao Lin is tapping into the concepts of nature to make novel synthetic materials.
UConn Marine Scientists to Help Map the Sound
Scientific maps of the seafloor will help to better manage and protect Long Island Sound.
Language Researchers Awarded $3M IGERT Grant
How do humans develop and learn language? UConn researchers have won an NSF ‘IGERT’ grant to train a new generation of scientists to answer that question.
Breaking Down How We Breathe
Physiology and neurobiology professor Daniel Mulkey studies something most of us don’t think about – how we breathe.
The Bike Path to Secondary Education
Can a bicycle keep a girl in school? A UConn economist is studying whether a bike incentive used in rural Bihar, India can do just that.
Improving the Detection of Landmines
A chemical engineering doctoral student has developed a portable sensing system that can detect hidden explosives accurately, efficiently, and at little cost.