Graduates

Fans watching a football game on TV. (iStock Photo)

NFL Games Can Affect Sponsors’ Stock Returns

Win or lose, professional sports outcomes have an impact on sponsors’ cash flow, according to a UConn School of Business study.

Linguistics researchers at UConn are asking children – with the help of a puppet – just how they learn to speak their native language. (Christine Buckley/UConn Photo)

A Child and a Puppet: How Children Learn Language

UConn linguistics researchers are using puppets to study how children learn a native language.

Myles Mocarski '16 (SFA) plays violin during a rehearsal of the University Symphony Orchestra at von der Mehden Recital Hall on Nov. 16, 2015. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

From Practice to Performance: UConn’s Concerto Competition

The competition culminates in a concert this Thursday at von der Mehden Recital Hall.

Professor Heidi Dierssen (right) and Ph.D. candidate Brandon Russell (left) use a custom-built dive spectrometer to measure the way light reflects and depolarizes the light from coral reefs in Curacao. (Jeff/Godfrey/UConn Photo)

Hiding in Plain Sight: Camouflage in Open Ocean Fish

A new study of how open ocean fish use polarized light waves shows there’s more to camouflage than meets the eye.

Baritone Ryan Burns, a graduate student, in rehearsal with members of the Jessica Lang Dance Co. at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

‘The Wanderer’ Combines Classical Music with Contemporary Dance

Baritone Ryan Burns, a graduate student, will perform a Schubert song cycle as soloist with the innovative Jessica Lang Dance Co.

A device to analyze blood for sickle cell disease on Oct. 13, 2015. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

An Easy Test for Sickle Cell Disease

A new device that can be attached to a smartphone uses magnetism to detect sickle cell disease – a critical need in regions of the world where advanced technology and training are scarce.

A student rests under a tree on the Great Lawn at the Storrs campus. (UConn File Photo)

Climate Change Could Affect Fall Foliage Timing

A century from now, autumn in New England may happen earlier in some places and later in others, according to a new UConn study.

A Better Way to Read the Genome

UConn researchers have sequenced the RNA of the most complicated known gene, using a hand-held sequencer no bigger than a cell phone.

Sahan Handunkanda, a graduate student in physics and first author on the paper published by the American Physical Society, holds up a crystal of scandium trifluoride. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Caution: Shrinks When Warm

Most materials swell when they warm. UConn physics researchers have been investigating a substance that responds in reverse.

Kartik Chandran '99 Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, on Sept. 19, 2015 in New York, N.Y. (Photo courtesy of John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

UConn Alum Named MacArthur Fellow

Environmental engineer Kartik Chandran ’99 Ph.D. is one of 24 individuals recognized this year with a MacArthur ‘genius grant.’