Core Initiatives
Within 14 schools and colleges across all campuses, UConn faculty are conducting innovative research, scholarship, and creative works. Our culture of collaboration fuels interdisciplinary excellence and paves the way for discoveries that matter to our society, our health, and our economy. Learn about some of UConn's core research initiatives, which all aim to bring together faculty, industry, and the community to tackle emerging challenges and opportunities.
UConn continues to position itself as a national leader in cyber and physical security to protect society from data theft, computer hacking, and other acts of aggression that make our world cyber insecure. With multiple researcher centers addressing different types of serious cybersecurity threats, UConn helps find solutions for the financial sector, the integrity of electronic elections, mobile device security, and more. Through these collaborative centers, UConn investigates, develops, and promotes implementation-ready hardware and software for indispensable defense and commercial applications.
Centers
- Center for Hardware Assurance, Security, and Engineering
- Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center)
- Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation
- Connecticut Cybersecurity Center (C3)
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UConn continues to position itself as a national leader in cyber and physical security to protect society from data theft, computer hacking, and other acts of aggression that make our world cyber insecure. With multiple researcher centers addressing different types of serious cybersecurity threats, UConn helps find solutions for the financial sector, the integrity of electronic elections, mobile device security, and more. Through these collaborative centers, UConn investigates, develops, and promotes implementation-ready hardware and software for indispensable defense and commercial applications.
Centers
- Center for Hardware Assurance, Security, and Engineering
- Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center)
- Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation
- Connecticut Cybersecurity Center (C3)
Energy
At UConn, our history of preeminence in energy and sustainability plus longstanding collaborations with industry and government partners allows us to be at the forefront of these fields. Efforts at UConn are geared toward catalyzing the transformation of “Science-to-Systems” for a global sustainable energy economy. Alongside industry partners, UConn faculty are advancing leading-edge interdisciplinary research and technology to solve real-world problems associated with climate change, energy, and sustainability.
At UConn, our history of preeminence in energy and sustainability plus longstanding collaborations with industry and government partners allows us to be at the forefront of these fields. Efforts at UConn are geared toward catalyzing the transformation of “Science-to-Systems” for a global sustainable energy economy. Alongside industry partners, UConn faculty are advancing leading-edge interdisciplinary research and technology to solve real-world problems associated with climate change, energy, and sustainability.
The state of Connecticut is on the forefront of biomedical innovation, and UConn is a key driver of this activity. With an $864 million state investment to strengthen bioscience infrastructure, research, and academics, the Bioscience Connecticut initiative supports innovation, entrepreneurship, commercialization, and education in this growing sector to generate long term, sustainable economic growth and treatments for society’s most challenging health conditions.
Top scientists from UConn, UConn Health, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (JAX-GM) located on the UConn Health campus, and beyond team up on collaborative, interdisciplinary projects to tackle challenges for a brighter future with treatments based on the personalized genetic needs of each individual.
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The state of Connecticut is on the forefront of biomedical innovation, and UConn is a key driver of this activity. With an $864 million state investment to strengthen bioscience infrastructure, research, and academics, the Bioscience Connecticut initiative supports innovation, entrepreneurship, commercialization, and education in this growing sector to generate long term, sustainable economic growth and treatments for society’s most challenging health conditions.
Top scientists from UConn, UConn Health, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (JAX-GM) located on the UConn Health campus, and beyond team up on collaborative, interdisciplinary projects to tackle challenges for a brighter future with treatments based on the personalized genetic needs of each individual.
In order to combat disease, we need to both cure and prevent. There is no question that effective, evidence-based interventions and informed policy decisions save lives. At UConn and UConn Health, we have a deep bench of health behavior experts working to develop innovative, therapies, drug treatments, interventions, and policies to address conditions like obesity, HIV/AIDS, addiction, health disparities, and others that affect our society on an epidemic scale.
In order to combat disease, we need to both cure and prevent. There is no question that effective, evidence-based interventions and informed policy decisions save lives. At UConn and UConn Health, we have a deep bench of health behavior experts working to develop innovative, therapies, drug treatments, interventions, and policies to address conditions like obesity, HIV/AIDS, addiction, health disparities, and others that affect our society on an epidemic scale.
Connecticut has a long history of innovating in the field of manufacturing. UConn drives this innovation through collaborations with industry leaders, federal defense agencies, and local businesses to fuel the manufacturing renaissance in Connecticut and beyond. Through longstanding relationships, our industry and government partners access comprehensive expertise and specialized instrumentation to move their products and manufacturing processes forward. From prototyping to advanced powder bed manufacturing technologies and high-end simulation and modeling technology, UConn has the manufacturing expertise and infrastructure to move technologies forward.
Centers
- Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center
- Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center
- Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster
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- Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster Forms Partnership between Loos & Co. and UConn School of Engineering
- Senator Murphy Highlights Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster
- UConn Researchers Lead National Effort to Improve Drug Manufacturing
- UConn Joins National Smart Manufacturing Initiative
- UConn Receives National Award to Improve Precision Manufacturing
Connecticut has a long history of innovating in the field of manufacturing. UConn drives this innovation through collaborations with industry leaders, federal defense agencies, and local businesses to fuel the manufacturing renaissance in Connecticut and beyond. Through longstanding relationships, our industry and government partners access comprehensive expertise and specialized instrumentation to move their products and manufacturing processes forward. From prototyping to advanced powder bed manufacturing technologies and high-end simulation and modeling technology, UConn has the manufacturing expertise and infrastructure to move technologies forward.
News
- Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster Forms Partnership between Loos & Co. and UConn School of Engineering
- Senator Murphy Highlights Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster
- UConn Researchers Lead National Effort to Improve Drug Manufacturing
- UConn Joins National Smart Manufacturing Initiative
- UConn Receives National Award to Improve Precision Manufacturing
Image courtesy of Ezra Feilden, Imperial College of London, Aerospace Engineering
Advances in materials science fuel the growth of new products, or even new industries, and allow existing sectors to continue to innovate and optimize. From biomaterials for clinical therapies to novel materials used in additive manufacturing, breakthrough discoveries in materials science could impact the future of countless technologies and industries. With strong partnerships with businesses of all sizes, UConn’s preeminent, multidisciplinary materials science faculty are leading the way to tackle present and future challenges.
Centers
- Institute of Materials Science
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Institute for Regenerative Engineering
- Industrial Affiliates Program
News
- Full Speed Ahead: Using Additive Manufacturing to Repair Ships at Sea
- UConn Professor Announces Goal to Regrow Human Limb in 15 Years
- Researchers Discover Super-Elastic Shape-Memory Material
- UConn Chemist Nationally Recognized for Inventions
- We May Finally Have a Way to Cheaply Manufacture Pure Graphene
Image courtesy of Ezra Feilden, Imperial College of London, Aerospace Engineering
Advances in materials science fuel the growth of new products, or even new industries, and allow existing sectors to continue to innovate and optimize. From biomaterials for clinical therapies to novel materials used in additive manufacturing, breakthrough discoveries in materials science could impact the future of countless technologies and industries. With strong partnerships with businesses of all sizes, UConn’s preeminent, multidisciplinary materials science faculty are leading the way to tackle present and future challenges.
News
- Full Speed Ahead: Using Additive Manufacturing to Repair Ships at Sea
- UConn Professor Announces Goal to Regrow Human Limb in 15 Years
- Researchers Discover Super-Elastic Shape-Memory Material
- UConn Chemist Nationally Recognized for Inventions
- We May Finally Have a Way to Cheaply Manufacture Pure Graphene
UConn and UConn Health are home to internationally recognized leaders in the fields of neuroscience, psychological sciences, neuroimaging, gerontology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, and pharmacy – all with expertise in brain-related research. Interdisciplinary UConn research teams are working with global collaborators to find solutions to some of the most devastating diseases and conditions we face today, such as autism, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, child trauma, deafness, and more.
Specialized equipment, imaging facilities, and close collaboration between some of the nation's top minds fuel basic and applied research to drive scientific discovery.
UConn and UConn Health are home to internationally recognized leaders in the fields of neuroscience, psychological sciences, neuroimaging, gerontology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, and pharmacy – all with expertise in brain-related research. Interdisciplinary UConn research teams are working with global collaborators to find solutions to some of the most devastating diseases and conditions we face today, such as autism, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, child trauma, deafness, and more.
Specialized equipment, imaging facilities, and close collaboration between some of the nation's top minds fuel basic and applied research to drive scientific discovery.
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