Grad Student Brunah Otieno (Rusling Group) is the recent recipient of a Sensors Travel Award. This award recognizes research accomplishments and potential for future success in the field of biosensors. The Sensors Travel Award will support travel to any academic conference during 2016, where Brunah will be able to interact with other researchers and share […]
Dr. Mark Peczuh Receives Provost’s Teaching Innovation Mini Grant Competition Award
Dr. Mark Peczuh received a grant for the following proposal: Title: “Don’t Flip Out – It’s Just Organic Chemistry” Summary: In the project we will develop a version of second semester organic chemistry that is flipped. Lecture content will be delivered online and meeting times will be dedicated to problem solving and group work in […]
Grad Student Sourav Biswas Receives Best Poster Award
Graduate Student Sourav Biswas (Suib Group) has received a Best Poster Award at the Pacifichem 2015 meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. 50 posters received a Best Poster Award among a total of 3,500 posters submitted.
Boosting The Efficiency of Solar Panels
Dr. C. Vijay Kumar is the focus of a recent UConn Today article highlighting his research to improve the efficiency of solar panels. Dr. Kumar has developed a light-harvesting antenna that could double the efficiency of existing solar cell panels and make them cheaper to build. UConn Today A UConn researcher has developed a light-harvesting […]
Suib & He Group Research Highlighted on Chemistry of Materials Cover
A paper entitled “Colloidal Amphiphile-Templated Growth of Highly Crystalline Mesoporous Nonsiliceous Oxides” from the Suib and He groups (Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 6173–6176) was featured on the front cover of Chemistry of Materials. They highlighted the utilization of polymer-tethered silica nanoparticles for the preparation of thermally stable and highly crystalline mesoporous transition-metal oxides with uniform […]
Graduate Student Discusses “Resistance: How VanA Strains Get Away With It”
During the Spring 2015 semester, Graduate Student Matthew Guberman-Pfeffer had been enrolled in Dr. Mark Peczuh’s Physical Organic Chemistry class. In that class, Matthew examined the physical basis behind the difference in affinities of D-Ala-D-Ala and D-Ala-D-Lac terminating peptides to vancomycin. Thus, “Resistance: How VanA strains get away with it,” was born. Part 1 of […]
Novel “Green” Antenna Could Double Solar Efficiency
The Kumar Group and He Group have reportedly developed a unique “green” antenna that could potentially double the efficiencies of certain kinds of solar cells. Efficient solar cells maximize the absorption of the sun’s wavelengths. However, current silicon solar cells are not efficient in the blue part of the light spectrum. In response, Kumar’s team […]
New Peanut Allergy Test Goes Beyond Scratching the Surface
UConn Today Current peanut allergy tests are not very reliable when it comes to diagnosing the severity of an individual’s allergic reaction, which can range from hives to life-threatening anaphylactic shock. With an estimated three million people in the United States allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, having a more precise and reliable allergy test […]
UConn Welcomes Assistant Professor Jessica Rouge
About Dr. Jessica Rouge Dr. Jessica Rouge is originally from the east coast, growing up on Long Island, NY. She earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from Boston College in 2006. After graduating from BC, she headed west to the University of Colorado, where in 2012 she earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry working with Prof. Bruce […]
UConn’s 500 MHz NMR Instrument Gets Smart
Over this summer, the Bruker Avance 500 MHz NMR spectrometer located in Pharmacy has undergone a major upgrade. We purchased and installed a new 5mm SmartProbe and performed the necessary console and shim upgrades to make the probe work. The probe has increased sensitivity of the 500 for 1H by several fold and also increased […]