University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT·Public·Medical school
31 labs on PI Pages. It spends $434M a year on research and awards 360 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 47,445: 38,552 undergraduates, 8,893 graduate
- Postdocs
- 242
- Faculty
- 2,180 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
S. Pamir Alpay
Physics
Build a regional innovation engine based on quantum information science that brings quantum computing, sensing and communications into the pharmaceutical, national security, and finance and insurance sectors.
Youngji Jo
Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Determine how an integrated HIV-noncommunicable disease care model affects clinical outcomes for people living with HIV who have at least one cardiometabolic condition, using Zambia's TASKPEN trial dataset.
Karolina Heyduk
Plant Science & Agriculture·Early-career
Develop a gene-expression-based screening tool to discover and catalog C3+CAM vascular plants, which use both normal and drought-adapted CAM photosynthesis.
Lakshmi Nair
Biomedical Engineering
Optimize where around the knee a new local anesthetic formulation is injected (periarticular placement), testing injection locations to find the one that gives the longest and strongest relief of osteoarthritis pain.
Penghua Wang
Microbiology & Immunology
Test whether unanchored lysine 48- and lysine 63-linked ubiquitin chains bind caspase-4/11 and promote its assembly and activation, using cell-free and biochemical assays.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.