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Daily HeadlinesAugust 30, 2018

Fumiko Hoeft speaks with Roeland Hancock at the Brain Imaging Resource Center on Aug. 1, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

In Dyslexic Children, Brain Features Can Predict Reading Comprehension

The amount of gray matter in a kindergartner’s brain can predict whether she will have trouble with reading comprehension as a third grader, according to UConn researchers. Read more.

Fumiko Hoeft stands near the fMRI at the Brain Imaging Resource Center on Aug. 1, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Fumiko Hoeft Joins UConn as New Brain Center Director

Hoeft uses advanced approaches such as machine learning and network analyses in her work on the neural basis of reading development and dyslexia. Read more.

A rendering of the School of Pharmacy's new medicinal garden, which will be dedicated Sept. 8. .

Pharmacy Returns to its Roots with Medicinal Garden

Like the medicinal plant garden that used to be located outside the former Pharmacy building, this new garden will serve as a teaching resource about drugs derived from nature. Read more.