The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) recently announced recipients in the 2019 Research Excellence Program (REP). The grants “provide seed funding to fuel innovative research, scholarship, and creative endeavors with strong potential for significant extramural funding and/or achievements consistent with the highest standards of accomplishment in the discipline,” according to an article […]
Animals
Scientists study health of Cape Cod’s gray seals
Assistant Research Professor Milton Levin, a faculty member in the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, is part of a team of scientists who conduct an annual health assessment of gray seal pups at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge off Chatham on Cape Cod, MA. The team members, from Tufts University, NOAA, UConn, Mystic Aquarium and […]
Meet new faculty member Indu Upadhyaya
When Abhi Upadhyay was featured on this blog as a new faculty member, he mentioned that he was grateful for direct flights to Nashville so that he could visit his daughter and wife, who was an assistant professor at Tennessee Tech University at the time. Now, it is Indu Upadhyaya’s turn to be the new […]
CAHNR in the news
Hartford Courant/Hartford Magazine featured Connecticut farms that grow or produce a variety of items. In the section about Syme Family Farm in Broad Brook, it mentioned active CAHNR alumna Jen Syme and depicted her daughter, Emily, who will be an incoming student majoring in plant science and agriculture. The enterprises of George Malkemus and Anthony […]
Meet new faculty member Lisa Streff
Because she grew up in Rochester, New York, Lisa Streff knows about dealing with snow. She also cares about horses. In a combination of those traits, she found the fortitude to move to UConn in the middle of the winter in order to be the new animal science horse unit supervisor and academic assistant. Here […]