<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/epiic.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>11/26/2025</pubDate><title>An EPIIC Move to Connect Faculty Researchers with Industry</title><description>With support from a three-year National Science Foundation grant, the University is strengthening connections between faculty innovators and companies that benefit from their expertise.</description><hide-description/><author>Susan Dowd</author><author-details>Contributing Writer</author-details><hide-author/><date>November 26, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/engineering/news/2025/fall-campus-photo.jpg" alt="fall-campus-photo"/></image><image-caption>EPIIC funding will help expand collaboration between University researchers and Connecticut’s leading industries</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-engineering</tag><tag>name-christopher-standish</tag><tag>name-ganesh-balasubramanian</tag><tag>name-ronald-harichandran</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>research</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>