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Benjamin Grosse '21 (BUS) (Nathan Oldham)

Company Man and College Student

Ben Grosse started his earbud business in a basement room. But he listened to demand, and the company is thriving.

Airplane landing on the runway at Gatwick Airport, London, U.K. (Getty Images)

Airlines Alter Social Media Strategy After Crash

When a company faces a crisis, competitors use social media to both reduce the negative spillover effect and to improve their advantage, a UConn study says.

Veteran struggles upon return home. (Shutterstock)

Married Veterans More at Risk of Suicide than Single Soldiers

The transition back to a domestic home environment—and all of the pressures, roles, and responsibilities that come with it—may add to veterans' internal struggles.

Boy eating school lunch. (Getty Image)

National School Lunch Program Aces Safety Test

Eating at school may be safer for your children than eating at home, UConn study says.

'War on the Benighted #6,' by L. Kasimu Harris, one of the works on display in the 'Still Separate – Still Unequal' exhibition at the Stamford Campus, which examines ongoing racial and economic disparities in the U.S. public school system.

Exhibit Explores Racial Disparities in Public School System

“It is imperative that we utilize the power of art and history to foster a necessary dialogue for social change,” says Larry Ossei-Mensah, co-curator.

Nicole Wagner, CEO of UConn TIP company LambdaVision, works in the lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Technology Incubation Companies Raise $60M in 2017

The majority of this investment into development of technology-based startups came from out-of-state sources.

Medical marijuana prescription on a coffee house table in Los Angeles. (Kristen Cole)

Op-ed: What Jeff Sessions Doesn’t Know About Medical Marijuana

Research on medical marijuana is clear: Marijuana has legitimate medical uses, writes UConn pharmacy professor C. Michael White.

UConn’s STEM Pipeline

Five years ago the General Assembly approved NextGen Connecticut, fueling opportunities in the STEM fields at the state's flagship university. UConn’s pipeline into those fields is now more robust than ever.

This biodegradable piezoelectric pressure sensor developed by the Nguyen Research Group at UConn could be used by doctors to monitor chronic lung disease, brain swelling, and other medical conditions before dissolving safely in a patient’s body. (Image courtesy of Thanh Duc Nguyen)

Biodegradable Sensor Monitors Pressure in the Body then Disappears

The new sensor is designed to replace existing implantable pressure sensors that have potentially toxic components, which must be removed after use.

An attendee walks by the Kodak booth during CES 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. CES is the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

The ‘Kodak Moment’ That Could Revolutionize Business

Business professor David Noble discusses the potential impact of Kodak's announcement that it will launch a cryptocurrency, which already boosted the company's shares by 300 percent.