Research & Discovery
A Vaccine for Nicotine?
A UConn scientist has received NIH support to develop a vaccine against the effects of nicotine.
Why HIV Patients Might Neglect Treatment
A Ph.D. student in psychology is conducting research on why some HIV patients neglect treatment and how that can be changed.
Divorce is Costly for Women
A UConn economics professor analyzed Social Security data on 600 women from their divorces in the 1970s through retirement. Divorce cost them dearly.
Study Authored by Health Center Physician-Scientist Shows Positive Results for Herpes Vaccine
The research by Dr. Pramod K. Srivastava, director of the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, is published in two back-to-back papers in the current issue of Vaccine.
Sniffing Out Parkinson’s
Neuroscience researchers at UConn have found an unexpected link between the sense of smell and Parkinson’s disease in the brain.
Mark Their Words
Linguist Jonathan Bobaljik, an expert on the nearly extinct language Itelmen, says up to 90 percent of the world’s languages could vanish in the next 100 years.
UConn Researchers Find Incentives Effective for Weight Loss
A study published in The American Journal of Medicine shows those given the chance to win a prize for meeting goals lost more weight.
It’s Not the Time Spent in School, It’s How It’s Used
Quantity of time can’t be translated into quality of learning, says a UConn education professor.
What Makes a Kangaroo a Kangaroo
Two UConn biologists are part of an international team that sequenced a kangaroo genome for the first time.
Gov. Malloy on Campus for Tech Park Bill Signing
Funding for the new tech park at UConn was approved Friday.