2024 UConn Research Highlights

UConn’s groundbreaking research is doing more than transforming Connecticut. Together with partners in academia and industry, UConn’s experts are meeting the challenges posed by a changing world, addressing the needs of the present and future. 

In 2024, UConn made its greatest-ever investment in research and innovation. Here are just a few examples of the success of the enterprise, and how Connecticut’s flagship university is transforming the state.

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UConn Keeping Air in Connecticut Classrooms Safe

$11.5 million in state support awarded to University of Connecticut to deploy effective and inexpensive build-it-yourself air filter technology to every public school classroom across the state.

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A Long, Long Time Ago, in Galaxies Near and Far

UConn astrophysicist Cara Battersby is a leader on NASA-selected interstellar probe team

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Nguyen a Biomedical Engineering Star

The National Institutes of Health is funding four significant projects for UConn researcher Thanh Nguyen, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation further supporting his work

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With Record Success, UConn Research Looks to Make Profound Impact

UConn’s Research Enterprise celebrated a stellar year in 2024, eclipsing previous marks for expenditures and rising to meet global challenges.

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UConn Sustainability Action Plan Taking Wide-Ranging Approach to ‘Green’ Future

A framework for environmental responsibility, social equity, and economic viability

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Pandemic Journaling Project Archive Opens for Research

A repository of data detailing the personal experiences of more than 1,800 people living during the COVID-19 pandemic is available to researchers for the first time

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UConn, Yale Push Connecticut to Quantum Reality

The state’s two premiere research universities are answering NSF’s call to catalyze regional economic and societal well-being through technological innovation.