{"id":237740,"date":"2025-11-10T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=237740"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:43:08","slug":"uconn-people-november-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/11\/uconn-people-november-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn People &#8211; November 12, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Achievement<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diego Cerrai<\/strong>, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and interim director of the Eversource Energy Center, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program grant award. \u00a0This award will support Cerrai\u2019s research aimed at deepening our understanding of snow and ice accretion on infrastructure. This understanding, in turn, enables the development of models capable of forecasting its occurrence, and accurately predicting power outages and their restoration during winter storms. Over the past four years, Cerrai has been collaborating with NASA to gather data on winter precipitation. Specifically, measuring the amount and density of falling snow and the number of particles of rain or snow present in a given volume.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Madison Doolittle<\/strong>, assistant professor in the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development at the School of Dental Medicine, recently received a grant from the American Federation for Aging and Research (AFAR) to support his research on accelerated tissue aging and test potential therapeutic treatments. AFAR\u2019s Grants for Junior Faculty Program provides up to $150,000 to junior faculty for 1-2 years to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts on the biology of aging.<\/p>\n<p><em>In Memoriam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Basil Stone<\/strong>, 89, of Ellington, Conn., a retired research technologist in rheumatology at UConn Health, on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to submit a passing, retirement, notable birthday, achievement or a family event of a UConn employee or retiree for consideration, please email to work@uconn.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-237740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 23:18:40","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\/237740","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237754,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237740\/revisions\/237754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237740"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=237740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=237740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}