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Professor Penny Vlahos, and graduate assistant Joe Warren recipients of a grant from the University’s new National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Site, Accelerate UConn on Aug. 18, 2016. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

New Device Improves Measurement of Water Pollution

UConn scientists are commercializing a technology they developed to more easily measure contaminants in water.

Yulia Kuzovkina-Eischen, associate professor of plant science & landscape architecture, and John Campanelli, a graduate student, inspect the growth of native species planted on DOT property along U.S. RT 6 in North Windham on Aug. 29, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

The Road to Native Vegetation in Highway Design

A graduate student is commercializing new software he developed to make roadside native plantings more successful.

Child looking at chips in a bag. (iStock Photo)

Look-alike ‘Smart Snacks’ Confuse Students, Parents

A UConn researcher says selling look-alike Smart Snacks in schools is a tool for marketing junk food brands to children.

George Washington from the National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans, Vol. I, 1862. (iStock Image)

UConn Reads: Religion and the Promise of the United States

The subject of religion is as relevant today as it was in the time of the nation's first president.

Dr. Courtney Townsel, left, looks on as Dr. Winston Campbell performs an ultrasound on an expectant mother. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

New Product Seeks to Prevent Premature Labor

With support from UConn's Innovation Corps program, a UConn Health doctor hopes to commercialize a new technology to address a rare but serious condition of pregnancy.

Student mentor Lisa Iwanicki '18 (NUR) shows Troy Stefanski '18 (CLAS) the Major Experience program's online tool at The Beanery café. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

New Program Helps Students Choose Major with Confidence

The Major Experience provides information and advice to students as they explore possible college majors – even if they have already declared their major.

The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine at the UConn Health campus in Farmington. (©Derek Hayn/Centerbrook Architects)

Intern Finds Calling in Research

Mice may be a nuisance in the home, but Jennifer Allocco ’17 (CLAS) is learning that they’re very important in the lab. This summer, Allocco, a biological sciences and German double major, is working as an intern in The Serreze Lab at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Working alongside postdoctoral associate Maximiliano Presa, […]

UConn Alumni welcome sign. (Defining Photo for UConn Foundation)

UConn Foundation Reports Second Largest Fundraising Total

The Foundation brought in $78.3 million in FY16.

IBM Interns: Jason Barry on June 15, 2016. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

IBM Internship Changes Student’s Career Plans

The rising junior went into his internship planning to be a software developer. Now he hopes to become a technology manager.

UConn alumna and Canadanian Phylicia George (left) competes in the women's 100-metre hurdle semifinals at the Olympic Stadium during the Summer Olympics in London in 2012. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)

Alumnae On Track and On Field at Olympics

Phylicia George '10 and Stephanie Labbe '10 of Canada are among the former Huskies competing in Rio.