Eli Freund
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USDA Grant to Fund Research in 3D Printing Novel Food Products from Sustainable Sources
Armed with a four-year, $470,000 grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, National Science Foundation (NSF) SHAP3D Center Site Director and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Polymers Anson Ma—and his collaborator, Qian Yang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering—are working on creating pulse-based food products with novel textures and customized nutritional profiles using machine learning and a specially designed 3D printer.
October 26, 2020 | Eli Freund
Remembering Brilliant Engineer, Art Lover, and Alumnus Bill Romanauskas
Romanauskas, William (“Bill”) Andrew. Born June 4, 1928, in Waterbury, and passed on September 5, 2020. Bill was a 1946 Graduate of Leavenworth Technical High School in Waterbury, and thereafter served honorably in the United States Navy from 1946 to 1948. Following his Navy service, Bill returned to Connecticut to get a degree in […]
September 22, 2020 | Eli Freund
UConn Engineering Virtually Inducts 2020 Academy of Distinguished Engineers Class
By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering For the first time in the event’s history, the University of Connecticut School of Engineering virtually inducted ten exemplary engineers during the annual Academy of Distinguished Engineers ceremony. Although virtual, the ceremony featured a close-knit and special atmosphere, where the ten inductees were able […]
September 21, 2020 | Eli Freund
New Invention From UConn Alumni Gives Elderly a Boost
By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering If you’re young and able-bodied, the bathroom is considered a relaxing space, where we go to refresh and rejuvenate. But for disabled and elderly people, the bathroom can be an accident waiting to happen. For the elderly, the bathroom is so dangerous that according […]
September 14, 2020 | Eli Freund
Engineering a Better Connecticut Scholarship Initiative
UConn Engineering is launching the Engineering a Better Connecticut Scholarship Initiative to create need-based scholarships for Connecticut students under-represented in the field of engineering. COVID-19 has made scholarships more important than ever, especially, for these young men and women. We want to do better for all our students. By supporting the Engineering a Better Connecticut Scholarship Initiative, you are making a difference and investing in […]
September 8, 2020 | Eli Freund
School of Engineering Welcomes 12 New Faculty
By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering The University of Connecticut School of Engineering is proud to announce that 12 new faculty–including five new faculty members in the Computer Science and Engineering Department and one new faculty member in the brand-new Krenicki Arts and Engineering Institute–are starting this academic year. The new […]
September 2, 2020 | Eli Freund
Digging Into a More Cost-Effective Solar Technology
By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering Solar panel technology has seemingly boomed over the last 20 years, but when you dig into the numbers, only six percent of U.S. homes have panels installed on their roofs. The prevailing material used in solar cells is silicon, which is easy to manufacture […]
August 17, 2020 | Eli Freund
Santos Appointed Associate Director of EDOC, Assistant Professor-in-Residence in BME
Last week, Stephany Santos, a recent Ph.D. graduate in Biomedical Engineering, was appointed associate director of the Engineering Diversity and Outreach Center and made an assistant professor-in-residence in the Biomedical Engineering Department.
May 14, 2020 | Eli Freund
A Message from Dean Kazerounian on Coronavirus Efforts (Update #2)
A message from Dean Kazerounian on the School's Coronavirus efforts.
April 22, 2020 | Eli Freund
How Mapping COVID-19 Could Help Drug Companies
When the spread of COVID-19 started to affect the University of Connecticut, the state, and the country, Ranjan Srivastava, department head for Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, knew he had to spring into action. Drawing on his previous work in mathematically modeling how the Hepatitis B virus spreads, Srivastava realized he could apply the principles of what he knew to the behavior of COVID-19, which could be useful to other researchers and drug companies.
April 15, 2020 | Eli Freund