The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is dedicated to the support and advancement of best practices in teaching and learning at the University of Connecticut. The staff of CETL work with individual faculty, teaching assistants, students, departments and the academic administration to create a culture which values teaching and learning, supports and rewards faculty for innovation in teaching, encourages respect for differences in learners and provides an environment where faculty, staff, and students work together to accomplish learning objectives. The connections that CETL has developed provides unparalleled support for faculty seeking connections for scholarship, relationship, and project development.

The Center for Open Research Resources and Equipment (COR²E) promotes and supports the growth of research at UConn by serving the University’s world-class research faculty, as well as the rest of the UConn community and UConn partners.

The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation helps UConn students and faculty develop the skills needed to become successful entrepreneurs. CCEI offers entrepreneurial training and new venture support programs for faculty, staff and students across the University. Programs such as Accelerate UConn, Verge Consulting, the CCEI Summer Fellowship program, and the Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Initiative help aspiring entrepreneurs identify and analyze the market opportunity for new products and technology, and once proven, build scalable and sustainable business models that help bring game-changing new products, services, and technologies to market.

CCEI also works in partnership with and supports several other entrepreneurial initiatives within the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, including the TIP Summer Internship Program, the Nursing Shark Tank event, HackUConn, reSET Summer Internship Program, the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, and the xCITE women’s entrepreneurship conference.

Hosted by the Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation at the University of Connecticut (CSI), the CyberSEED conference brings together top information security professionals and business leaders to discuss emerging cybersecurity trends and formulate best strategies for tackling current and future threats. In the same academic setting, dozens of universities and colleges compete in unique cybersecurity challenges for prizes.

The Institutional Insights & Innovation (i3) team provides custom software development, web design, design thinking, and other innovation services in support for improving UConn’s business processes, academic operations, and research enterprise.

The Krenicki Arts and Engineering Institute is an innovative and interdisciplinary partnership between the School of Engineering and School of Fine Arts focused on offering groundbreaking classes in entertainment engineering and industrial design. This unique approach gives students from both schools the opportunity to cultivate their latent creative and technical potential through innovative and dynamic explorations. whether the focus is on developing unique industrial designs or gaining technical skills and artistic approaches in the field of entertainment.

The Nursing and Engineering Innovation Center fosters and advances healthcare, workforce, and economic development through interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships between nursing and engineering to promote the ideation, creation, and commercialization of new evidence-based healthcare technologies that address clinical unmet needs for the betterment of healthcare quality (e.g., safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient-centered).