Graduates
A Message From President Herbst Concerning Next Generation Connecticut
President Herbst addresses the importance of Next Generation Connecticut to the entire University community.
Geoscience Graduate Student Wins First Prize in Innovation Quest Competition
Mark Smith plans to establish a start-up to produce an imaging device that can capture ultra-high-resolution images of micro-macroscopic objects in two and three dimensions.
Graduate Student Working to Develop New Anti-Cancer Agents
Sophia Nnenna Ononye, a Ph.D. student in pharmaceutical sciences, hopes her research will pave the way for more effective cancer therapy in the future.
UConn Wins Prestigious Federal Grants to Bolster Graduate Students in Critical Fields
The University has secured five awards in a highly competitive federal grant program to attract talented graduate students to critical areas of nursing, education, and engineering.
Climate Change on Martha’s Vineyard
A UConn graduate student used GIS data to project what could happen on Martha’s Vineyard if sea levels rise dramatically.
Improving the Detection of Landmines
A chemical engineering doctoral student has developed a portable sensing system that can detect hidden explosives accurately, efficiently, and at little cost.
UConn Patented Instrument Helps Reduce Risks in Drug Development
A team of faculty and students from pharmacy and engineering has invented an instrument that could help pharmaceutical companies develop new medicines more efficiently.
Psychology Grad Students Benefit from Legacy of Longtime Professor
The late Maurice Farber, who taught psychology at UConn for 29 years, established a $2.2 million trust for graduate students. The first two Farber fellows were chosen this fall.
Cooling Down Global Warming
A UConn chemist has a patent for a new process to capture carbon, a hot topic in global warming.
Coping with Climate Change
Connecticut's cities and towns are taking up the challenges of climate change at a local level.