{"id":222733,"date":"2025-01-05T19:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=222733"},"modified":"2024-12-20T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:42:40","slug":"cahnr-recognizes-research-success-at-annual-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/01\/cahnr-recognizes-research-success-at-annual-event\/","title":{"rendered":"CAHNR Recognizes Research Success at Annual Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (<a href=\"https:\/\/cahnr.uconn.edu\">CAHNR<\/a>) recently celebrated another year of innovative research during an event organized by Kumar Venkitanarayanan, CAHNR\u2019s associate dean for research and graduate education, and his team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These grants support projects that address critical issues in sustainable agriculture, human, animal, and environmental health, and many other areas,&#8221; says Indrajeet Chaubey, CAHNR dean. &#8220;They also support the goal that underlies everything we do at CAHNR: to find solutions that benefit communities here in Connecticut and far beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wonderplugingallery-container\" id=\"wonderplugingallery-container-449\" style=\"max-width:1200px;margin:0 auto;\"><div class=\"wonderplugingallery\" id=\"wonderplugingallery-449\" data-galleryid=\"449\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"800\" data-skin=\"light\" data-playsinline=\"false\" data-mutevideo=\"false\" data-random=\"false\" data-autoslide=\"true\" data-autoplayvideo=\"false\" data-schemamarkup=\"false\" data-stopallplaying=\"false\" data-reloadonvideoend=\"false\" data-donotuseposter=\"false\" data-enabletabindex=\"false\" data-loadnextonvideoend=\"false\" data-hidetitlewhenvideoisplaying=\"true\" data-disablehovereventontouch=\"false\" data-autoslideandplayafterfirstplayed=\"false\" data-html5player=\"true\" data-responsive=\"true\" data-fullwidth=\"false\" data-showtitle=\"true\" data-showdescription=\"true\" data-showplaybutton=\"true\" data-showfullscreenbutton=\"true\" data-showtimer=\"true\" data-showcarousel=\"true\" data-galleryshadow=\"false\" data-slideshadow=\"true\" data-thumbshowtitle=\"false\" data-thumbshadow=\"true\" data-lightboxshowtitle=\"true\" data-lightboxshowdescription=\"true\" data-specifyid=\"true\" data-donotinit=\"false\" data-addinitscript=\"false\" data-triggerresize=\"false\" data-thumbcolumnsresponsive=\"false\" data-thumbverticalmiddle=\"true\" data-removeinlinecss=\"true\" data-switchonmouseover=\"false\" data-showcategory=\"true\" data-showimgtitle=\"false\" data-titlesmallscreen=\"false\" data-initsocial=\"true\" data-showsocial=\"false\" data-showemail=\"false\" data-showfacebook=\"true\" data-showtwitter=\"true\" data-showpinterest=\"true\" data-socialrotateeffect=\"true\" data-doshortcodeontext=\"false\" data-loop=\"0\" data-duration=\"1500\" data-slideduration=\"1000\" data-slideshowinterval=\"6000\" data-googleanalyticsaccount=\"\" data-resizemode=\"fill\" data-imagetoolboxmode=\"mouseover\" data-effect=\"fade\" data-padding=\"12\" data-bgcolor=\"\" data-bgimage=\"\" data-thumbwidth=\"48\" data-thumbheight=\"48\" data-thumbgap=\"8\" data-thumbrowgap=\"16\" data-lightboxtextheight=\"72\" data-lightboxtitlecss=\"{color:#333333; 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(Jason Sheldon\/UConn Photo)\" data-title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\"><\/a><div class=\"html5gallery-info\"><div class=\"html5gallery-alt\">From left, Maria Gracia Gervasi from the Department of Animal Science, Indu Upadhyaya from UConn Extension, Abhinav Upadhyay, and Elias Uddin, both from the Department of Animal Science. (Jason Sheldon\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><a class=\"html5galleryimglink\" href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSC_4507-edited-scaled.jpg\" data-mediatype=1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"html5galleryimg html5gallery-tn-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSC_4507-edited-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Chief of Staff Michelle Williams (left), CAHNR Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Kumar Venkitanarayanan (center), and Head of the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science Paulo Verardi (right)\" data-title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\"><\/a><div class=\"html5gallery-info\"><div class=\"html5gallery-alt\">Chief of Staff Michelle Williams (left), CAHNR Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Kumar Venkitanarayanan (center), and Head of the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science Paulo Verardi (right)<\/div><\/div><a class=\"html5galleryimglink\" href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSC_4611-edited-scaled.jpg\" data-mediatype=1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"html5galleryimg html5gallery-tn-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DSC_4611-edited-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Nash, head of the Department of Allied Health Sciences. 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Additionally, research expenditures reached a five-year high at nearly $34.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am immensely proud of our faculty and staff whose dedication and innovation contributed to the incredible success in securing grants&#8221; says Venkitanarayanan. &#8220;It is a testament of the impact of their research in advancing the frontiers of knowledge and solving real-world challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The celebration brought together leaders from across UConn, including Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Pamir Alpay and Chief of Staff Michelle Williams, to recognize the faculty\u2019s accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CAHNR continues to embrace UConn\u2019s proud history as an agricultural school while building programs and conducting research into the fields that are changing the world for the better,&#8221; says Alpay.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/uconncahnr_social\"><em>UConn CAHNR<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0on social media<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources recognized the innovative work of faculty and the dedicated contribution of staff to CAHNR&#8217;s research enterprise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":222924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2296,2298,2224,2304,2299,2300,2301,2302,2303,2076],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2140],"class_list":["post-222733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agricultural-resource-economics","category-allied-health-sciences","category-animal-science","category-cahnr","category-extension","category-kinesiology","category-natural-resources-environment","category-nutritional-sciences","category-pathobiology-veterinary-science","category-plant-science-landscape-architecture","category-research"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 11:19:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222733"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223025,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222733\/revisions\/223025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/222924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222733"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=222733"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=222733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}