Faculty

UConn landscape architecture students developed plans for preserving the historic Meadowood farm and presented their ideas at an open house at the Simsbury library.

UConn Students Imagine Potential Futures for a Remarkable Piece of Land in Simsbury

Designing for the future while also paying homage to the past

The Legislative Office Building in Hartford.

Conference to Connect Lawmakers, Scientists in Unified Mission to Bolster Connecticut

Knocking down the obstacles between policymakers and cutting-edge research

The Clothing for All closet at the Stamford campus

UConn Stamford Clothing Pantry Offers Students Range of Everyday Wear, Professional Attire

'We’re just trying to break down barriers so they can access things that will enrich their lives'

A stone wall along RT 195 near the Jacobson Barn.

New England Stone Walls Deserve a Science of Their Own

Region's ubiquitous stone walls - long enough to circle the globe 10 times - have fallen through disciplinary cracks for too long

Oscar Guerra, the award-winning filmmaker and associate professor of film and video at UConn Stamford, with Christopher Orrico ’23 (SFA), Guerra's director of photography, and Ruth - the main participant in Guerra's new documentary project focused on mental health in the Latino community.

UConn DMD Professor Documents Story of Latino Mental Health through Humanities Institute Fellowship

Oscar Guerra's new project explores mental health and the social, cultural, and political factors that affect it

A woman sitting on the edge of her bed, feeling unwell, while her partner sleeps behind her.

More than Morning Sickness: UConn Researcher Studies Hyperemesis Gravidarum Survivor Stories

'Our patients are so complex that to really understand whatever the topic is you are researching, you need both quantitative and qualitative together to really give you the complete picture'

Thomas Long, professor-in-residence emeritus and director of the Nursing Learning Community, holds a leaf from the Beauvais Missal, which he recently donated to the Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, in the Dodd Center for Human Rights

Page From Storied Beauvais Missal Added to UConn’s Archives; Donation Courtesy of Professor Emeritus

'From the first time I saw this beauty, I knew it was a genuine manuscript page'

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Liisa Kuhn and a student

Kuhn Develops Patent-Pending Process to Create Comfortable Prosthetics for Breast Cancer Survivors

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Liisa Kuhn uses a 3D bioprinter to fabricate breast prosthetics that are lightweight, flexible, and porous

Fruit flies on a rotting wrinkled peach.

Fat Flies Live Longer On a Diet At Any Age

Switching the flies’ diet to a low calorie one remained a reliable way to extend lifespan even for old flies in ill health

Rebecca Puhl of the UConn Rudd Center (center) participates in a panel discussion on weight stigma and the media in New York along with Deborah Roberts, Al Roker, David Sloan, and Holly Lofton. (contributed photo).

Taking On Stigmatization and Body-Shaming in the Media

Rebecca Puhl of the UConn Rudd Center was a panelist along with national media figures to discuss the ways in which body weight and obesity are covered and portrayed in the press