Faculty
UConn-led Project Promotes Climate-Resilient Coastal Communities
Funded by a $500,000 NSF grant, the two-year initiative spearheaded by researchers at UConn-based Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) will ensure coastal communities have access to the expertise and tools needed to develop and implement strategies and policies that make them more resilient to the effects of extreme weather and climate change
December 15, 2025 | Loretta Waldman
Understanding the Scars of Kidney Disease
About one in seven American adults has chronic kidney disease
December 10, 2025 | Kim Krieger - UConn Communications
UConn Engineering Selected to Receive $3M in Federal Funding for Wastewater Research
This fund is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Program to eliminate waste of essential minerals and increase domestic resiliency
December 9, 2025 | Claire Galvin
Following the Fisher: Tracking a Solitary Forest Inhabitant
A new study aims to gain more knowledge about the fisher, a mysterious and nimble animal often mistaken for a cat, and understand why their population is in decline
December 8, 2025 | Jason Sheldon - College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
When Navigating a Timeline Full of Crises, It’s Good to Have a Halo
Crisis communication and research are growth industries
December 4, 2025 | Elaina Hancock - UConn Communications
UConn Tech Park Poised to Become a Hub of Global Semiconductor Research and Innovation
Tescan Group’s purchase of UConn startup FemtoInnovations will accelerate research, uses of critical laser technologies
December 2, 2025 | Stephanie Reitz - UConn Communications
UConn is Built for This Moment: Fuel Cells Proven on Campus, Ready for Data Centers
UConn has become a living laboratory for the technology and home to some of its most renowned experts
December 1, 2025 | Xiao-Dong Zhou and Stephanie Reitz
Breakthrough Materials Master Sound Waves
UConn researchers design a programmable metamaterial that can morph into more configurations than there are atoms in the universe, in a blink of an eye
November 25, 2025 | Mac Murray
Magnetically Reconfigurable Ribbons Let Scientists ‘Program’ Liquids on Demand
Wang lab’s collaborative research of multistable soft structures steer flows and choreograph droplets in work published in Device
November 24, 2025 | Rhonda Ward for the Institute of Materials Science
Manisha Sinha Brings Global Perspectives on Abolition to China
UConn Draper Chair of American History Manisha Sinha discusses global perspectives on abolition and democracy following a lecture tour celebrating the Chinese edition of her acclaimed book, 'The Slave’s Cause'
November 24, 2025 | Bri Diaz - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences