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Implantable Glucose Sensor Could Spell Relief for Millions of Diabetics
UConn researchers have developed a tiny wireless device that can be inserted under a patient’s skin to monitor blood glucose levels over a period of several months.
November 2, 2009 | Colin Poitras
Healthy Environments for Children Initiative, National Award for Public Service Announcement
An animated public service announcement, “Henry and Fred Learn About Lead,” produced by the Healthy Environments for Children Initiative in the Department of Extension, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has won second prize in a national video contest sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and […]
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
Lawrence Armstrong, Keynote Speaker, Swiss Society of Sports Medicine Congress
Lawrence Armstrong, a professor of kinesiology in the Neag School of Education, presented a keynote lecture titled “Exertional Heatstroke: Lingering questions and research frontiers” at the Swiss Society of Sports Medicine Congress in Interlaken, Switzerland, on Oct. 23, 2009. Three hundred European physicians and physiologists attended the meeting.
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
Lawrence Goodheart, Fulbright Senior Lecturer
Lawrence Goodheart, a professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, based at the Greater Hartford Campus, is a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Hacettepe University in Ankara from 2009-2010.
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
Kelly Dennis, Ansel Adams Research Fellowship
Kelly Dennis, an associate professor of art and art history in the School of Fine Arts, was awarded the Ansel Adams Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, for her research on Ansel Adams’ color photography for Arizona Highways. As an Ansel Adams Research Fellow, Dennis was in residence […]
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
James Rusling, ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry, American Chemical Society
James Rusling, professor of chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of cell biology at the UConn Health Center, received the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award recognizes “an individual who through scholarly activity has definitely and uniquely advanced the field […]
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
Kenneth Gouwens, Helen Watson Buckner Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library
Kenneth Gouwens, an associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Helen Watson Buckner Fellowship to spend two months at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, R.I., researching accounts of simians in early modern European travel narratives.
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
Margaret Higonnet, Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society
Margaret Higonnet, professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, in honor of her historical work on American women in World War I. Higonnet is editing the memoir of Margaret Hall, a Red Cross worker during World War I, for publication by the […]
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
Kunter Gunasti, Thomas C. Kinnear Journal of Public Policy & Marketing Award
Kunter Gunasti, an assistant professor of marketing in the School of Business, and Marvin Goldberg of Pennsylvania State University have received the Thomas C. Kinnear/Journal of Public Policy & Marketing Award for their article, “Creating an Environment in which Youths are Encouraged to Eat a Healthier Diet,” which was published in the fall 2007 issue […]
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports
New Books by Beall, Burke, Pedneault
Jc Beall, Spandrels of Truth (Oxford University Press, 2009). Beall is a professor of philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a member of the UConn Logic Group. Beall is also author of Revenge of the Liar (Oxford University Press, 2007). Mary Burke, ‘Tinkers’: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish […]
October 30, 2009 | Combined Reports