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Federal Stimulus Funds Spur UConn Science and Research Projects

UConn researchers have secured more than $33 million in federal stimulus funds through competitive grants awarded by federal agencies, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Afghan Carpets on Display at Benton Museum

A carpet in The Spirit of Afghanistan: Carpets of War and Hope exhibit on display at the Benton Museum through Dec. 18. Photo supplied by the Benton Museum

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]