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Storrs Grants, August 2011

The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) in August 2011. The list represents only new proposals awarded, and excludes continuations. The list is provided each month by OSP. Aindow, M., Chemical, Materials, & Biomolecular Engineering Transmision Electron Microscopy (TEM) Characterization of SAM Al DOD/DARPA/United Technologies-Pratt & Whitney, $50,000, 8/11-12/12 Ammar, […]

Nick Trautmann: His Music does the Talking

[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lECUOw_l7KM’]   This week on One Student. One Story, we explore the music of sophomore Nick Trautmann. He is involved in UConn’s Jazz Ensemble, the Steel Pan Ensemble and participated in rock bands in high school.  In this piece, we let the instruments tell the story. All of the music in the feature is […]

Tiffany Daley, IABA scholarship winner. (credit: (Daniel Buttrey/UConn Photo))

Recruiting Minorities is Actuarial Scholarship Goal

Tiffany Daley is the first recipient of a new scholarship intended to increase the number of black actuaries in a profession where they are underrepresented.

UConn's Carlos Alvarez Juggles a Soccer Ball.

Soccer Warm Up

Carlos Alvarez ’13 (CLAS), a midfielder for the #1 Huskies men's soccer team, warms up before the Oct. 12 game vs. Providence. UConn won 2-1.

Dr. Runjhun Misra is a second-year resident at UConn Health Center. (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health Center Photo)

UConn Medical Resident Examines New Work-Hour Guidelines

“As with most changes, this change too, is a double-edged sword.”

As part of National Primary Care Week, Michelle Pheng, at the time a second-year pharmacy student, sees a patient at the South End Senior Wellness Center in Hartford. (Connie Cantor/UConn Health Center Photo)

Primary Care Week to Focus on Innovation

UConn’s observance will include a keynote address from Gov. Malloy Oct. 17.

The focus is on seals off the Isle of Shoals, located approximately six miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire._lg

Pathobiology Grad Student Making Waves

Ph.D. candidate Andrea Bogomolni is studying diseases among marine mammals and their implications for the environment.

Biologist Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Robert Colwell, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was recognized for his contributions to tropical biology.

Meghan McCain Discusses Politics, Civility, and LGBTQ Equality

The well known blogger and daughter of U.S. Senator and former Republican presidential candidate John McCain spoke to UConn students at the Jorgensen.

UConn Hosts Biomedical Engineering Society’s Annual Meeting

The Health Center’s Don Peterson is vice chair of the event taking place at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.