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Project Goals
The UConn PIRE project brings people and resources together across disciplinary, cultural, and geographical boundaries to promote knowledge-driven and rights-based interventions that enhance food and water security in vulnerable settings. We promote a political-institutional model of science that links sociological and engineering methods for a people-centered approach. Our political-institutional approach integrates graduate and undergraduate education, professional training, and community outreach into the research program to develop the human capital and social connections between all stakeholders—scientists, farmers, policymakers and students in the United States and in Ethiopia. The project achieves its objectives through:
Provision of superior quality seasonal forecast information at a scale relevant to local farmers and water resource managers -- Learn More
Identifying political-institutional barriers that influence the uptake of new forecast information -- Learn More
Training a new generation of global expert that constitute competitive international workforce -- Learn More
The 3D-printed device, created by biomedical engineering major Jon Balyeat ’27, can show how microbial growth responds to oral treatments and implants without clinical trials
Caitlin Noonan ’26 (ENG) created a highly-porous material from biochar, ideal for trapping gas molecules like CO₂
Chinmaya Vobbineni ’26, Wyeth Haddock ’26, and Zhengyang Wei ’26 are helping heal wounds, designing space exploration material, and preventing turbulence for more efficient flights
Summer Research Day celebrates accomplishments of UConn student researchers in the TIP Innovation Fellowship and Health Research programs
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