News Source: UConn Today Author: Matt Engelhardt Date: November 10, 2025 While “quantum” has become a buzzword representing cutting-edge and new technology, UConn has been active in related research stretching back decades. About two years ago, UConn brought together groups of faculty members dispersed across different schools who work in quantum and quantum-adjacent areas to […]
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Neag School Faculty Mentor Emerging Leader in Sport Through Global Exchange Program
News Source: UConn Today Author: Shawn Kornegay Date: November 6, 2025 Each year, the U.S. Department of State, the Center for Sport, Peace, and Society at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and espnW co-sponsor the Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP), a leadership initiative that empowers women to advance gender equity through sport. In 2025, GSMP paired 14 emerging female […]
UConn Law Attracts Fulbright Scholars
News Source: UConn Today Author: Diana Nearhos Date: November 4, 2025 In recent years, UConn Law has consistently attracted students through one of the world’s most prestigious academic opportunities. Four Fulbright scholars from outside the U.S. are seeking their LLM degrees at the law school this year, the most on record at UConn Law. The Fulbright Program […]
UConn Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin Delivers Plenary Lecture at the ACS Global Scientific Conference
News Source: UConn Today Author: Jon D’Arpino Date: October 31, 2025 Co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and IIT-Bombay, the conference brought the leading experts from around the world to discuss and explore the latest advancements in healthcare, medicine, chemical biology, and life sciences. Laurencin’s plenary lecture, “Regenerative Engineering: Frontiers of Convergence” perfectly reflected […]
Wolff Competition Awards Grand Prize to Company Using Seaweed to Replace Plastic
News Source: UConn Today Author: Claire Hall Date: October 30, 2025 SeaSol Technologies, a startup that is converting seaweed into compostable food packaging to replace plastic, was the grand prize winner at the Wolff New Venture Competition last week. CEO Yidan Zhang, a UConn Ph.D. candidate, was exuberant at receiving the top award, which includes […]
Being Seen, Feeling Seen: Summit Examined Complicated, Far-Ranging Intersections of Sport and Human Rights
News Source: UConn Today Author: Jaclyn Severance Date: October 28, 2025 John Carlos doesn’t want applause. He told a packed house in the Student Union Theatre as much as he sat on stage beside his fellow former Olympian, Tommie Smith, and the Hall of Fame sports journalist William C. Rhoden on the Wednesday-night opening of […]
UConn Cancer Care Startup Goes Global (and Beyond)
News Source: UConn Today Author: Mac Murray Date: October 13, 2025 When Armin Rad ‘19 Ph.D. and Leila Daneshmandi ‘20 Ph.D. set out to found Encapsulate in 2019, they couldn’t have foreseen where the next six years would take them. Now, their biochip-based cancer care company is taking on the world. Encapsulate’s proprietary technology allows for cancer tumors […]
Dr. Jaime Imitola of UConn Honored by the International Society of Stem Cell Research
News Source: UConn Today Author: Lauren Woods Date: October 9, 2025 Dr. Jaime Imitola of UConn School of Medicine and UConn Health has been appointed chair of the International Society of Stem Cell Research’s (ISSCR) Education Committee for the next three years. He previously graciously served as the Committee’s vice chair. As the world’s leading society […]
AI Across the Atlantic
News Source: UConn Today Author: Mac Murray Date: October 9, 2025 On Oct. 9, an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars gathered at the UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) to discuss “a deceptively simple question”: What are we talking about when we talk about AI? UCHI Director Anna Mae Duane introduced the symposium with this framing to illustrate […]
Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation Recognized as a Global Leader in Venture Creation
News Source: UConn Today Author: Claire Hall Date: October 8, 2025 UConn’s Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) has received the Outstanding Contributions to Venture Creation Award at the 2025 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Conference in Calgary, Canada. The award honors a university center that demonstrates excellence in supporting the launch and growth of startups […]