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Pharmacy Graduate Recognized for Alzheimer’s Research
David Butler, a recent graduate of the School of Pharmacy’s neurosciences doctoral program in pharmacology and toxicology, is one of five researchers in the country to be recognized as an outstanding young investigator by the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation.
February 2, 2009 | Colin Poitras
Two Liberal Arts Faculty Receive NEH Fellowships
Two faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have received National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships to undertake scholarly projects. They are among 74 faculty from around the country to receive NEH fellowships or faculty research awards this year.
February 2, 2009 | Cindy Weiss, CLAS Today
Health Center’s Online Program Helps Patients Help Themselves
A new online tool designed to help patients maximize the quality of their health care is being offered through the Health Center. Believed to be the first of its kind, HealthEcademy is a convenient, free program that can be accessed through the Internet at any time of day or night.
February 2, 2009 | Carolyn Pennington
Study Pegs UConn’s Impact on State Economy at
$2.3 Billion
A nine-month study by a state economist indicates that ongoing operations at the University of Connecticut and its Health Center added $2.3 billion to Connecticut’s gross domestic product in fiscal year 2008. The University also generates more than 29,000 jobs across the state and produces a net financial gain for the state of more than $76 million each year, the study found.
January 26, 2009 | Combined Reports
Genomics Researcher Named Among Handful at Top of Field
Xudong Yao, an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is being honored by Genome Technology magazine as one of the world’s 30 top young investigators in the field of genomics and related sciences.
January 26, 2009 | Scott Brinckerhoff
Health Center Program Uses Holistic Approach to Ease Pain
A new initiative is underway at the John Dempsey Hospital to meet the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of patients who are seriously ill or coping with persistent pain.
January 26, 2009 | Maureen McGuire
New Online Site Connects Colleagues for Carpooling to Storrs Campus
Two years ago, Scott Nixon, a web developer in the Department of Human Resources, decided to join forces with a friend and carpool to work from Plainville, about an hour’s drive from Storrs. Both Nixon and his colleague saved money just as gas prices were beginning to soar, and the partnership gave each of them somebody to talk to during the ride.
January 26, 2009 | Richard Veilleux
Law Professor One of Nation’s Leading Experts on Subprime Lending
When Patricia McCoy was a law professor in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1990s, each day she drove through a neighborhood called Hough that was changing before her eyes. Once stricken by poverty and riots and long-sullied by empty storefronts and ramshackle homes, it began undergoing a transformation, thanks to new public and private investment in the area.
January 26, 2009 | Michael Kirk
Safety Comes First for UConn’s Director of Scientific Diving
His job has a simple bottom line. Or rather, line to the bottom. Everyone who goes down must come up. But for Jeffrey Godfrey, director of scientific diving for UConn’s marine sciences programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, getting to the bottom and back up again requires planning, planning, and more planning. Training and more training. Testing and re-testing of equipment. And even calling the dive off when things don’t look exactly right.
December 8, 2008 | Karen A. Grava
Ancient Grave Unearthed in Israel
A 12,000 year-old grave unearthed in the Middle East contains the remains of a woman who provides some of the world’s earliest evidence of a religious practitioner, according to a recently published study by researchers from Israel and the University of Connecticut.
December 8, 2008 | Michael Kirk