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New Technology Aims for Early Detection

A Small Business Innovation research grant helps open doors to new diagnostic technology for researcher Michael Lynes, professor of molecular and cell biology, and his associates.

Just Chillin’

When it’s hot outside, sometimes it’s good to be inside. Reading, studying, or just hanging out. (Paul Horton for UConn)

2011 UConn Cancer Research Golf Tournament to Support Technology Upgrade

Back for its 34th year, the 2011 UConn Cancer Research Golf Tournament tees off Monday, August 1, at the Tumble Brook Country Club in Bloomfield. This event, organized by a committee of volunteers in conjunction with the UConn Foundation, has raised more than $1.5 million for cancer research, prevention and education over its history. Proceeds […]

Confratute Brings Educators of Gifted and Talented to UConn

Joseph Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, addresses Confratute – a week-long institute devoted to enrichment education. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Honors Student Receives Young Botanist Award

Nikisha Patel is conducting research on a rare plant in the nightshade family.

Storrs Grants, May 2011

The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) in May 2011. The list represents only new proposals awarded, and excludes continuations. The list is supplied each month by OSP. Adler, D., Anthropology Late Middle Palaeolithic Life-ways in the Hrazdan Gorge, Armenia Leakey (Louis S.B.) Foundation, $13,460, 5/11-4/12 Aindow, M., Chemical, Materials, […]

2011 Summer—Alumni News and Notes 2000, 2010s

2000s Peter J. Karp ’00 (BUS) and his wife, Jocelyn, announce the birth of a daughter, Caitlyn Elizabeth Karp, on Feb. 18, 2011, in Hartford, Conn. The couple was married in 2009 and resides in Cromwell, Conn. Diane A. (Nesprido) Phelan ’00 (BUS) is director of product management and key account sales for Permatex, where […]

2011 Summer—Alumni News and Notes 1990s

  James Czapiga ’90 (BUS) is vice president and Connecticut and Rhode Island agency services manager at Stewart Title Guaranty Company. He has served for 15 years in the title insurance industry. Lawrence H. Davis ’90 M.A., ’01 Ph.D. is a professor of history and was awarded tenure at North Shore Community College in Danvers, […]

2011 Summer—Alumni News and Notes 1980s

  M. Jeffrey Spahr ’80 M.B.A. is president of the board for the Connecticut Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, in East Norwalk, Conn.  He is a major advocate for people with ADHD and learning disabilities and was the driving force behind former Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s issuance of an official statement […]

2011 Summer—Alumni News and Notes 1970s

  Christine Gelineau ’72 (CLAS) teaches poetry and American literature at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y., and is the author of her second full-length collection of poetry, Appetite for the Divine, published by Ashland Poetry Press in April 2010. She is on the core faculty of the low-residency Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University in […]