Faculty
‘We the People’ Holds a Mirror to the US at 250
Smith traveled around the country the last three years for his photographic essay “We the People: America in the 21st Century”
July 14, 2026 | Kimberly Phillips
UConn Students Help Reimagine New Haven’s Farmington Canal Heritage Trail
Students from UConn’s landscape architecture program collaborated with the Community Placemaking Engagement Network (CPEN) to develop designs for reinvigorating a 56-mile stretch of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail
July 14, 2026 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Deep Roots
Worthley is working in partnership with the nonprofit Connecticut Humanities and it’s America 250 Connecticut program to distribute the the 100-or-so baby white oak tree seedlings, many the direct descendants of the original Charter Oak, to community partners around the state later this year
July 13, 2026 | Jaclyn Severance, and Izzy Harris
UConn Mechanical Engineering Professor Chang Liu Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
His research could improve the efficiency and reliability of technologies ranging from aircraft and transportation systems to electronics cooling and data centers
July 13, 2026 | Sarah Redmond - College of Engineering
Designating the State Rock: A Dazzling Educational Experience
Here's the stone-cold truth: a team effort by UConn and Mansfield educators has built a rock-solid foundation for holistic learning across the state
July 10, 2026 | Elaina Hancock - UConn Communications
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Tagging of the Horseshoe Crab
Getting muddy to discover more about a species older than dinosaurs
July 8, 2026 | Kim Krieger - UConn Communications, and Sydney Herdle
How School Leaders Learn
A new report sheds light on an understudied aspect of public school success
July 8, 2026 | Mac Murray
New Materials: New Possibilities
From smartphones and computers to medical devices and clean energy technologies, the future depends on materials that are faster, smarter, and more efficient
July 7, 2026 | Thomas Rettig
Preventing Religious Charter Schools is Simple. Let Local School Boards Govern Them
Getting buy-in to do that could be difficult, but UConn’s Preston Green warns that private school students might not have the same constitutional protections as their public school counterparts - and that’s the crux of the issue
July 6, 2026 | Kimberly Phillips
New Global Early Warning System Forecasts Biodiversity Exposure to Extreme Heat
'With El Niño expected to occur this summer, we expect another year of extreme threats to biodiversity'
July 6, 2026 | Combined Reports - UConn Communications