Kumar Group Uses Electron Microscopes to Create Awe-Inspiring Images Nature is a masterful artist, responsible for the sweeping vistas around us. Nature’s hand is also evident on the microscopic level when microscopic objects are magnified a billion times over. Using high power electron or optical microscopes, Professor Challa V. Kumar and his Ph.D. students capture […]
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New Compound Helps Activate Cancer-Fighting T Cells
By Colin Poitras, UConn Communications Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are powerful weapons our body’s immune systems count on to fight infection and combat diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis, and lupus. Finding ways to spark these potent cells into action could lead to more effective cancer treatments and vaccines. While several chemical compounds have shown […]
New Method Unearths Climate Data from Ancient Soils
By Elaina Hancock, UConn Communications In Scientific Reports today, UConn researchers report a novel approach to reconstructing ancient climates using analyses of organic compounds in sediments and soils. This method was developed by former UConn postdoctoral scientist Yvette Eley (now in the Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, U.K.) […]
Prof. Emeritus Mike Smith Wins TAA Award
Organic Synthesis, 4th ed. by Michael Smith (Elsevier/Academic Press) was awarded a 2018 Textbook Excellence Award in the college division from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association. The Textbook Excellence Award recognizes excellence in current textbooks and learning materials. Congratulations, Mike!
Prof. Robert Mason Awarded Grant
Dr. Robert Mason, a chemistry and marine sciences professor at the University of Connecticut, and his team were recently awarded a $200,000 grant to study methylmercury levels in local waterways and to what extent humans may play a role in recent level increases. Read more>>>
Professor Kumar Wins Provost Award
Professor Challa Kumar’s proposal to The Provost’s General Education Course Enhancement Grant Competition entitled “Science Writing: Portable, adoptable and comprehensive writing course for various science departments” has been selected for funding. The proposal offered an explicit fit to the competition objectives and had multiple innovative elements, including flipped classroom exercises in which videos were combined […]
Chemistry Professor Nationally Recognized for Inventions
By Jessica McBride, Office of the Vice President for Research Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Steven L. Suib has some advice for early career faculty and student researchers who are interested in inventing. Given that Suib was recently named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), it would probably be smart […]
Tailoring Treatment to Combat Diseased Cells at the Genetic Level
By Jessica McBride, Office of the Vice President for Research A new drug delivery system that uses a synthetic-biological hybrid nanocapsule could provide a smart technology for targeted treatment of a variety of serious diseases at the genetic level. The hybrid offers a way to correct diseased cells at the genetic level – while at […]
Professor Flavio Maran Wins Baizer Award
Professor Flavio Maran, who leads the Molecular Electrochemistry and Nanosystem Group at the University of Padova and is a Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut, is the new winner of the Manuel M. Baizer Award, awarded by the Electrochemical Society (ECS), which is the largest electrochemical society. The Baizer […]
Fishing for New Antibiotics
Kim Krieger, UConn Communications Two potent antibacterials found in fish do their dirty work in unexpected ways, report UConn chemists and colleagues in a paper accepted by the FEBS Journal. The research could point the way to entirely new classes of antibiotics. Fish suffer from bacterial infections just like humans do. It’s an especially tough […]