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A Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Getty Images)

A Cyborg Cockroach Could Someday Save Your Life

UConn engineers’ microcircuit could improve control of futuristic biobots.

When the swing tree was healthy, it was a popular place for students and visitors. (Sean Flynn/UConn File Photo)

UConn Taking Measures to Preserve Health of ‘Swing Tree’

Experts determined recently the tree that is home to two popular swings wasn’t absorbing enough water at the roots.

A young boy working at a light bulb factory in India. )Photo by Robin Romano/University Library Archives Special Collections)

Class: Human Rights and the Supply Chain

A human rights class for engineering and social sciences students encourages complementary approaches to social and environmental sustainability.

Kailin Lu '20 (CLAS), left, Emmanuel 'Manny' Chinyumba '20 (CLAS), and Princess Madu '19 (CLAS), tour guides at the Lodewick Visitors Center, are among the students talking about what they are looking forward to this year at UConn. (Julie Bartucca/UConn Photo)

Students, What’s in Storrs for You This Year?

Julie Bartucca of UConn360 Podcast asks students what they are looking forward to at UConn in 2018-19.

The UConn Film Club provides a place for students to learn about the filmmaking process and work on their own original productions.

Lights, Camera, Action: UConn’s Film Club

The UConn Film Club provides a place for students to learn about the filmmaking process and work on their own original productions.

The UConn Marching Band paid tribute to Alex Schachter, a Husky fan who played in his school marching band, by spelling out his name and performing his favorite song at halftime. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

School Shooting Victim Honored at Football Opener

The UConn Marching Band paid tribute to Alex Schachter, a Husky fan who played in his school marching band, by spelling out his name and performing his favorite song at halftime.

Natalie Munro's field site in Israel, located about two kilometers above the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. (Natalie Munro/UConn Photo)

Snapshot: Natalie Munro in Israel

Anthropology professor Natalie Munro shares her photos from an archaeological dig in Southern Levant.

Fumiko Hoeft speaks with Roeland Hancock at the Brain Imaging Resource Center on Aug. 1, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

In Dyslexic Children, Brain Features Can Predict Reading Comprehension

The amount of gray matter in a kindergartner’s brain can predict whether she will have trouble with reading comprehension as a third grader, according to UConn researchers.

Fumiko Hoeft stands near the fMRI at the Brain Imaging Resource Center on Aug. 1, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Fumiko Hoeft Joins UConn as New Brain Center Director

Hoeft uses advanced approaches such as machine learning and network analyses in her work on the neural basis of reading development and dyslexia.

A rendering of the School of Pharmacy's new medicinal garden, which will be dedicated Sept. 8. .

Pharmacy Returns to its Roots with Medicinal Garden

Like the medicinal plant garden that used to be located outside the former Pharmacy building, this new garden will serve as a teaching resource about drugs derived from nature.