Director, Office of Communications

Jessica McBride, PhD

Dr. Jessica McBride is the Director of the Office of Communications at UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources. She is responsible for developing and implementing communications and marketing strategies to highlight the College's unique research strengths, outstanding academic offerings, and extensive community impact. An alum, Jessica earned her Ph.D. from UConn in 2017.


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Ultrafine Particles, Big Health Problem

UConn Health researcher Douglas Brugge has received a $2.5M grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for the first intervention on in-home ultrafine particle pollution.

A worker at Norm Bloom & Son Oysters offloads shellfish harvested from the company’s beds in Norwalk harbor.

CT Sea Grant Leads National Aquaculture Projects

Connecticut Sea Grant will lead two major new aquaculture initiatives and be a key contributor to two additional projects in the National Sea Grant’s $16 million award program for collaborative aquaculture projects. The awards, announced by National Sea Grant last week, will fund 42 research projects nationwide aimed at advancing sustainable aquaculture in the United […]

Mitchell Hornak '22 (ENG) (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo)

Driving Innovation: Mitchell Hornak ’22

At UConn, the sophomore has already won the Innovation Quest (iQ) award for an automated opioid dispenser designed to help prevent patients from overdosing.

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New Grant Helps Manage Pain and the Opioid Crisis

A research team from the Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering has received $1.8 million from the NIH to work towards the development of a non-opioid treatment for acute pain flare-ups.

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START Preliminary Proof of Concept Fund Recipients

Through a generous grant from the CTNext Higher Education Fund last year, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has been administering an early stage translational research funding program called the START Preliminary Proof of Concept Fund. Under the grant, funding is provided to investigators at Central Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State […]

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Making Digital Scholarship Mainstream

UConn’s Greenhouse Studios aims to reimagine disrupt longstanding academic workflows to better support scholarly publications for the digital age.

Meet the Researcher: Richard Ashby Wilson, Law and Anthropology

World events have always shaped Richard Wilson Ashby's research.

A new species of tapeworm described from Australia by Janine Caira and student Kirsten Jensen, showing the head-like scolex. (Image courtesy of Janine Caira)

‘A Spine for the Spineless, Gutless Worms’: Providing an Evolutionary Backbone for Tapeworms

A new NSF-funded project led by Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Janine Caira will help fill the gaps in the approximately 200 million years of evolution separating tapeworm lineages.

UConn's Biophysics Facility offers specialized equipment and expert technical support to move research projects forward. (Carson Stifel/UConn Photo)

Bridging Science at UConn’s Biophysics Facility

The University of Connecticut houses its very own Biophysics Facility, where expert technicians use specialized equipment to help UConn researchers better understand how biological systems work.

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Scholarship Facilitation Fund Announcement

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has recently finalized award decisions for the Scholarship Facilitation Fund (SFF) Program. Through this program, the OVPR is able to provide up to $2,000 to UConn faculty across all disciplines, on a competitive basis, to promote, support, and enhance research, scholarship and creative endeavors. The 2019 […]