Ben Wilhite Captures NSF CAREER Award

Assistant professor of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering Benjamin Wilhite has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award that will support his research aimed at improving the harvesting of hydrogen from green hydrocarbons (biofuels). Read More

NSF Funding to Improve Underwater Communications

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the School of Engineering and UConn's Marine Sciences department at the Avery Point campus has been awarded $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the development of instrumentation that will improve their scalable autonomous underwater sensor network system. Read More

Visit Us During Fall Open House

On Sunday, September 21, the University of Connecticut will host thousands of prospective students and their families visiting campus to get acquainted with UConn and its spectrum of degree programs, residential options, study-abroad and other educational opportunities available to students. Read More

Team Awarded $1 M for Electron Microscope

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has won a large Department of Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award totaling $700,000 that will fund acquisition of a dual beam focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope (FIB/SEM). Read More

Faculty Make a Difference with Mentor Connection

Over the summer, a number of engineering faculty members and associates hosted high school juniors and seniors from across the world, welcoming them into research labs and providing mentorship that may nurture future engineering leaders. Read More

Engineering to Host Fall Career Fair

The School of Engineering will host its first school-wide Career Fair on Tuesday, October 28th and Wednesday, October 29th, 2008. The Tuesday event will take place in the Rome Commons Ballroom, and the Wednesday fair will be held in the Student Union Ballroom. Read More

Dr. Liu Receives Army Corps Award

Associate professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Lanbo Liu received a Research & Development Achievement Award from the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) of the Army Corps of Engineers. Read More

Doctoral Students Capture Honors

Three doctoral students in engineering, Claire Weiss, Mehdi DaneshPanah and Bob Schulein, have received major honors in recognition of their scholarly achievements. Read More

Iconic UConn

In this 1922 photo, students listen to a broadcast of the baseball World Series on radio equipment built by what famous alumnus?

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