Research & Discovery

UConn Researchers Develop Pioneering Monitoring Technique to Help Build Mangrove Resilience

Mangroves are like armor to protect us from climate change, but faced with sea level rise and extreme weather, will these important habitats survive?

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Math Department Wins GAANN: Full Funding for Five Ph.D. Fellows

The national award will allow the department to grow in size, diversity, and research output

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Seeking Climate JUSTICE for All

A team of UConn researchers is changing climate conversations for good

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Neag School Researcher Receives Funding to Develop New School District Integration Plans

Alexandra Freidus to lead team supported by the Spencer Foundation and the American Institutes for Research

Meet the Researcher: Elias Uddin, CAHNR

Elias Uddin's research focuses on making ruminant agriculture more sustainable

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Mandating an Elective? The Implementation of Black and Latino Studies Courses in Connecticut High Schools

Researchers with the Neag School’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation prepared the following research brief regarding Connecticut mandating an elective course on Black and Latino studies

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Quantum UP! Winners Span Universities Throughout the Region

Competition for non-STEM majors awards thousands in prize money.

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Can We Heal Injured Veterans by Studying Basketball?

UConn’s basketball teams aren’t the only ones leaving a lasting impact at Gampel Pavilion. Deep in the belly of the iconic domed building where championship banners line the rafters, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Department of Kinesiology and the Institute for Sports Medicine employs high-tech sensors to learn more about how people move with the goal of helping athletes, active-duty service members, veterans — and eventually, all of us — heal and avoid injury.

UConn Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Marine Sciences Professor Pieter Visscher researches stromatolites, which are fossilized biofilms where Earth's earliest life forms evolved.

Microbial Slime: The Ultimate System to Understand Our Planet

'These biofilms are just remarkable. They may be the ultimate system to study to understand our planet'

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The Mechanics of Ovulation, Explained

It’s a lot like squeezing a tube of toothpaste