Star Power
How a team of employees, students, researchers, an alum, and an elite telescope builder brought an important piece of research equipment — and UConn history — back to life.
Category: Science
The Anatomy of a Fruit Fly
Two professors and a grad student devise a class to help students get the wet lab experience they need for grad school — with an assist from the mighty fruit fly.
Eye Candy
Bet you can’t guess the subject of these colorized macroscopic shots …
Period Pieces
View our astonishing images of some of the mini element collections being housed in a new Chemistry Building periodic table display.
The Shape of Copper
Chemistry Ph.D. student Lamya Tabassum’s prize-winning photo of copper sulfide nannoarrays was a happy accident.
Revenge of the Data Scientists
Talitha Washington ’98 MS, ’01 Ph.D. is turning tables on the data science that has worked against Black and Brown people — by creating science and math pathways for students of color.
Engineering to Offer Robotics Major
Next fall, prospective and existing UConn students will be able to declare majors in robotics engineering and UConn will become only the second research-intensive university in the U.S. to offer the specific major.
Helping Kids Decode Their Brains
After nine months of Covid-19 quarantine and endless online meetings, Fumiko Hoeft has webinars on the brain.
Golden Eggs
Kumar Venkitanarayanan wants to feed the world — with chickens raised without antibiotics. His chance for success increased this August when the USDA awarded his project $10 million.
Married to the Arts, Engineering — and Each Other
Long before a new institute at UConn bore their name, Donna Samson ’84 (SFA) and John Krenicki ’84 (ENG) were juniors living in McMahon Hall.
Abby Beissinger, Plant Detective
Farmers and gardeners bring, mail, and post samples of their sick plants to Beissinger who often drills down to a cellular level to make a diagnosis.
“Mighty Mice” Return From Space
Why a pair of UConn Health researchers sent their mice into space.
Berk Alpay ’21 (ENG, CLAS)
Ever wondered what your high school teachers think of you now? We asked Berk’s.
Conifers
Why you might want a rifle to plant pine trees
More Robots, Happier Cows?
Watch UConn’s new robotic milkers in action
The Everything Algorithm
How to win your NFL pool, thwart a terrorist, maximize your delivery routes and find the perfect kidney match
CSI: Boston via UConn
On the job with Joe Ross ’04 (CLAS)
Concrete Canoes
Engineering the improbable
A Mystic Aquarium Classroom
Why we love Marine Biology 3014
The First Science Salon Junior is an Explosive Hit
The popular UConn Science Salon series traded cocktails and conversation for kid-focused experimentation at its first Science Salon Junior.
Remember Jerry & Amy
The road to the UConn Dairy Bar is the perfect place for a tribute to Jerry Yang and Amy, the first cloned farm animal in the U.S.
Building a Better Race Car
What’s the best part of being a member of UConn’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE)? For many it’s a day in mid-July.
A UConn Engineer is Helping Nasa Get to Alpha Centauri — and Beyond
Story from UConn Today In Development A UConn Engineer is Helping Nasa Get to Alpha Centauri — and Beyond Exploring beyond our solar system requires traveling enormous distances. The nearest star system to ours — Alpha Centauri — is 4.37 light years away, or 25 trillion miles; and distant star systems will take hundreds or […]