Colin Poitras


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Electronic Voting. (cmannphoto/Getty Images)

Electronic Voting and the Risk of Cyberattacks

Could a cyberattack disrupt this year’s presidential election? UConn expert Alexander Schwarzmann discusses this concern and what's being done.

An athletic trainer attends to an injured football player. (Photo by Logan Stanford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Korey Stringer Institute to Lead National Grant Program for High School Athletic Trainers

UConn’s Korey Stringer Institute is overseeing a national pilot program intended to encourage the use of athletic trainers in public high school football programs across the country.

Phoebe Szarek '17 (ENG) helps eighth grade students from Carmen Arace Middle School in Bloomfield build robotic hands at the Student Union Ballroom on Oct. 5, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn a Leader in Closing the Engineering Gender Gap

A recent report in The Washington Post says UConn saw the largest five-year gain in female engineering graduates among 90 public institutions nationally.

Researchers in engineering professor Anson Ma’s Complex Fluids Lab used a fluorescence microscope to illuminate a microfluidic device that simulates a blood vessel. The research team was then able to observe and measure how particles of different sizes behave in the bloodstream. (Anson Ma/UConn Photo)

When Push Comes to Shove: Size Matters for Particles in Bloodstream

A UConn engineer’s quantitative analysis of particles in the bloodstream could aid the development of more effective cancer drugs.

University of Connecticut researcher Justin Luria observes a sample of a cadmium telluride solar cell that is being tested under artificial sunlight in UConn’s NanoMeasurements lab. (Photo by Ryan Glista/UConn)

UConn Scientists Find Material’s Defects Improve Solar Cell Performance

Using a novel mapping technique developed at UConn, researchers have discovered new conductive properties in cadmium telluride.

The Atlantic

The Road to Higher Education With an ‘Invisible Disability’

Connecticut Law Tribune

Hats Off to the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee

WNPR

UConn Exhibits Mark 35 Years of HIV/AIDS

The Day

Cardboard boat races

The Christian Science Monitor

Has Sean Hannity crossed the line with his support of Trump?