Faculty

Ph.D. candidate Francis Vásquez and thermal imaging equipment

Making Electronic Devices Faster, More Powerful, and Better at Staying Cool

In a paper published as an Editor's Pick in Applied Physics Letters, College of Engineering's Georges Pavlidis outlines ways to manage heat in high-speed electronics

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UConn Adopts New Budget with Strategic Adjustments to Address Funding Shortfalls

'In this and everything we do, we will ask ourselves: Is this helping our graduation rate? Is this supporting student success?'

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A ‘Blueprint for Mass Cybercrime’

New data breach, affecting 16 billion passwords and usernames, is an expansive threat for both individuals and institutions

Thanh Nguyen, associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, and his team of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

Nguyen’s Injectable Piezoelectric Gel Could Treat Osteoarthritis without Surgery

Backed by a $2.3M grant from the NIH and NIH/NIBIB, Thanh Nguyen will stimulate cartilage regeneration in large animal models

Portrait of UConn President Radenka Maric in front of a table and a glass wall

President Radenka Maric Named a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society

Maric is a world leader in electrochemistry at surfaces and interfaces

Elementary school students line up in a cafeteria for lunch.

Cuts to School Lunch and Food Bank Funding Mean Less Fresh Produce for Children and Families

During the 2022-2023 school year, about 28 million children ate lunch at school, with more than 14 million eating breakfast there

a person stands in a lab next to a metal shelf with growing lights attached.

Stocking Up on Snacks: How Phytoplankton Prepare for the Future

'They don't have brains, so how does this past information influence their performance?'

A multicolored, wooden sculpture sits on a pedestal in an art gallery with other framed art in the background.

International Melville Conference at UConn Avery Point to Celebrate ‘Moby-Dick’ Author

About two dozen framed artworks on loan from The Melville Society are part of a concurrent exhibition at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art from now through June 19

A fan of Brazil celebrates with soccer balls around his face, and his face painted with the Brazil flag

It’s Not the Game, It’s the Group: Sports Fans Connect the Most Over Rituals

The study, by a UConn team of scientists, shows that levels of emotional connection and euphoria are on average higher during intense pre-game rituals than they are during the game itself

Physics Breakthrough to Evaluate Fundamental Theory of Nature

The Muon g-2 Theory Initiative has published a white paper on the theoretical calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, which will be compared with experimental results