Faculty

Students at the UConn School of Social Work.

UConn School of Social Work Lands $587,633 Mental Health Training Grant

Grant will support 50,000 students in under-resourced Connecticut school districts

Fish farm in the sea

Researchers Explore Carbon Capture in Fish Farms to Address Climate Change

Tons of carbon dioxide could be captured from the environment while removing toxic sulfide from fish farms 

UConn Health's Cell and Genome Sciences building

Some Senescent Cells Heal, Others Hinder

In a new study, UConn School of Medicine researchers describe how to distinguish between senescent cells that speed wound healing and those that hinder it

Confused concerned young woman getting problems with mobile phone while working at home, feeling stressed, frustrated

Campaign to End Loneliness on Campus Draws from Humanities’ Lessons on Human Connection

'Everyone knows we should have friends, like we know we should eat our vegetables and sleep eight hours, but we’re not doing it'

A Better Way of Taking Marine Mammal Blood Samples

Milton Levin will evaluate if dried blood spot cards can be used to collect and archive samples from marine mammals

MRI or magnetic resonance image of head and brain scan.

New Approach Could Help Alzheimer’s Research

Clues that a different than expected type of cell is involved in the earliest stages of the disease

Dean Elliott with several students listening to a presentation at the Global Business Leadership in Sustainability Summit

School of Business Dean John A. Elliott To Step Down, Rejoin Faculty

Dean John A. Elliott Heralded as ‘The Perfect Business Dean at the Right Time’

An aerial view of UConn's Wastewater Treatment Plant and Reclaimed Water Facility

Waste to Resource: How A State-of-the-Art Facility Helps UConn Save Water

Since the Reclaimed Water Facility came online, it has reclaimed hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater for reuse on campus

Cristina Colón-Semenza, assistant professor in UConn’s Department of Kinesiology, talks with Clare Benson, a former UConn assistant professor of photography, at the Nov. 7 opening of their exhibition, "On the Move: Photographic Interventions in the Future of Parkinson's Disease," at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art at UConn Avery Point.

Exhibition Pairs the Unlikely – Photography, Physical Therapy – to Help Those with Parkinson’s

'Not enough people know that even though this is a progressive neurological disease there is something that can be done to help you manage it, live your life with it, maintain a high quality of life, and find some level of joy, happiness, engagement in spite of it'

Panelists at the "Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Connecticut: Challenges and Opportunities" event

Rudd Center’s Marlene Schwartz Featured on Panel about Food Insecurity in Connecticut

Speakers at the Hartford event discussed strategies to help families across the state facing food and nutrition insecurity.