Graduates

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.’

Graduate students in engineering socialize during an ice cream social hour. (Christopher LaRosa/UConn Photo)

Sage Advice for Graduate Students: Be Social

The Student Association of Graduate Engineers emphasizes social interaction as an important part of professional development.

Lake Melville from Rigolet.

The Human Cost of ‘Clean’ Energy

UConn and Harvard researchers have shown that hydroelectric energy may be more damaging to northern ecosystems than climate change.

BioBlitz: A Race Against Time

During a 24-hour survey of biodiversity on and around the Storrs campus, UConn scientists and the public tallied nearly 1,200 species.

Piecing Together a 12,000 Year-old Way of Life

Archeological researchers recently uncovered hundreds of artifacts thought to be the oldest in Connecticut.

A row of lockers in an empty school hallway. (iStock Photo)

New Graduate Program Combines Educational Leadership, Law

The program will prepare professionals to manage the wide variety of legal issues that school administrators face.

Sarah Nolen, a graduate student in puppet arts, directs the production of "Treeples," a TV show about girls facing their fears on May 15, 2015. This project was funded by an Idea Grant. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Puppetry Graduate Branches Out into Children’s TV

Sarah Nolen '15 MFA is completing a project for a children's television show with Treeples puppets.

A brain bit grown in Stormy Chamberlain’s lab. The neural stem cells are red, neurons green, and the nuclei blue. (Noelle Germain/UConn Photo)

Walking with Angelman, From the Cellular to the Human

Researcher Stormy Chamberlain studies the genetic basis of brain disorders, but she never forgets the families who have a personal stake in her work.