Mac Murray
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Trails and Active Living Program Expands Access to the Outdoors
A major initiative from UConn Extension, the UConn CT Trails Program is making it easier for wilderness explorers of all levels to hit the trails
September 25, 2023 | Mac Murray
‘Talking About Staying’: Groundbreaking Study Tracks Retention Among Women, POC, LGBTQ Engineers
With a nearly $1 million grant from the NSF, Visiting Assistant Research Professor Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo is exploring the experiences of underrepresented students and professionals in engineering
September 11, 2023 | Mac Murray
Solving for Y: Research Team Completes Long-Anticipated Genome Sequencing of Y Chromosome
Two breakthrough papers published today in Nature, featuring work from acclaimed UConn geneticist Rachel O’Neill and her lab, offer an in-depth analysis of the Y chromosome for the first time
August 23, 2023 | Mac Murray
Meet the Researcher: Marie Coppola, CLAS
Coppola’s language research with deaf people in Nicaragua sheds light on how linguistic structures and communities are formed
August 21, 2023 | Mac Murray
Summer School
Seventy students spent 10 weeks immersed in the world of research and entrepreneurship. At Summer Research Day 2023, they got to show off
August 7, 2023 | Mac Murray
UConn, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Sign Collaboration Memorandum
The formal collaboration agreement will link the two institutions for joint projects and funding opportunities
July 27, 2023 | Mac Murray
USDA Grant to Provide Career Opportunities, Sponsor CAHNR Students at UConn Waterbury and UConn Stamford
The CAHNR Fellows Program will connect undergraduate students from UConn Waterbury and UConn Stamford to scholarships, experiential learning, and career training in the fields of food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences
June 21, 2023 | Mac Murray, and Matt Engelhardt
UConn Researchers Join NASA-Funded International Biodiversity Monitoring Project
The BioSCape project is NASA’s first-ever biodiversity field program combining airborne spectroscopy, LIDAR, and field observations across South Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region, home to two global biodiversity hotspots rich with flora and marine species found nowhere else on Earth
June 21, 2023 | Loretta Waldman, Special to UConn Research
Microscopy on Ice with UConn Health’s New Cryogenic Equipment
Cryogenic electron microscopy, which can produce 3D pictures of minute quantities of biological material, is a new forefront of research capabilities at UConn School of Medicine
June 19, 2023 | Mac Murray
The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project: A National Example
Other states are now adopting the model of data analysis and intervention developed by the Project, which is housed at UConn’s Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy
June 7, 2023 | Mac Murray