A new type of sensor could lead to artificial skin that someday helps burn victims ‘feel’ and safeguards the rest of us, University of Connecticut researchers suggest in a forthcoming paper in Advanced Materials. Our skin’s ability to perceive pressure, heat, cold and vibration is a critical safety function that most people take for granted. But […]
Art at the Mall
On December 18, 2018, The Chronicle featured Kumar Group’s NanoArt display at the Windham Regional Art Gallery. The front-page article, “Art at the Mall,” highlighted the Jumar Group’s display, as well as the work of other local artists. The NanoArt collection showcases colored electron microscope images that capture proteins in a new light. “The art […]
International Space Station Research Aims to Treat Blindness
On Tuesday, December 4th, a product of a UConn Chemistry start-up will be launching into space on the SpaceX CRS-16! With the support of a 2016 MassChallenge CASIS/Boeing Award, a retinal implant developed by LambdaVision will be the subject of research conducted by the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory. As the ISS orbits […]
UConn CLAS Alumni Help Undergraduates Navigate the Career Landscape
Alumni Panel Offers Insights in Industrial Career Paths So as to build a bridge between students interested in industrial career paths and professionals in industry, the UConn Department of Chemistry — in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) and the UConn Foundation — offered students an opportunity to network with CLAS […]
Energy Storage & Isotope Determinations: An Interdisciplinary Success Story
Alfredo Angeles-Boza is featured in a Nature Research: Chemistry Community article for his recent work with energy storage and kinetic isotope effects that contributed to a publication in Nature Communications. “Interdisciplinary work can be frustrating – scientists in related, yet distinct, fields often have distinct educational backgrounds and may consider different aspects of a given research problem […]
2017-2018 Graduate Student Awards
Bobbitt-Chou Graduate Summer Research Fellowship Lei Jin, He Group Outstanding Research and Service Award for outstanding performance in service and research Sam Juliano, Angeles Group Connecticut Chemistry Research Award for outstanding performance in research Hailin Fu, Lin Group Waring Award for outstanding academic performance Anne Mirich, Suib Group Masterton-Hurley Teaching Award […]
Engaging Future Scientists
As part of Homecoming Weekend, children ages 5 to 12 joined UConn faculty, staff, and students for an afternoon of STEM experiments. The UConn Science Salon Jr. featured manipulations in chemistry, engineering creations, and environmental adventures. The event is an offshoot of the popular UConn Science Salon series, café events designed to encourage public discourse at the intersection […]
A Copper Bullet for Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a sneaky disease. The bacteria hide from antibiotics inside the very immune cells that are supposed to kill them, making treatment long and difficult. But in the November issue of ACS Infectious Diseases, UConn chemists report a new antibiotic that can find and kill tuberculosis bacteria where they hide. Tuberculosis is the number one cause […]
Polymorphism in Benzene-1,3,5- Tricarboxamide Supramolecular Assemblies in Water
Dr. Yao Lin, Associate Professor of Chemistry/Polymer Program, and fellow collaborators were recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Below is a description of the research: The control of reaching a specifically designed morphology in supramolecular assembly is one of the key aspects for future success in the area of supramolecular materials, […]
Smart Phone Soup
In the bottom drawer of your desk at home lie all the “must-haves” of yesteryear — a bundle of knotted earphones, a broken computer mouse, some overplayed CDs, a flip phone, an iPod. A study in The Global E-waste Monitor 2017 reported that in 2016 humans generated 44.7 million metric tons of electronic waste (e-waste). And in […]