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Review of Student Fees Announced

A committee will review undergraduate and graduate fees that pay for non-academic programs ranging from student health services to transportation, room and board, and technology infrastructure.

Chemistry Ph.D. student Islam Mosa holds an ultrathin implantable bioelectronic device he developed that is powered by a novel supercapacitor capable of generating enough power to sustain a cardiac pacemaker. It is more biocompatible and lasts much longer than existing pacemaker batteries. (Photo courtesy Islam Mosa)

Innovative Device Could Offer New Hope for Heart Patients

A UConn graduate student is developing a new micro-scale power source that is significantly smaller and more efficient than the batteries used in most cardiac pacemakers today.

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Supporting Undocumented Students at UConn

President Herbst responds to concerns expressed since the election about potential changes in federal policy that could affect undocumented students.

Winter has arrived in Standing Rock at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota, the day after the Army Corps of Engineers denied the easement needed to build the pipeline. Despite driving snow and 40-plus mile an hour wind a group of 700-plus veterans and water protectors marched toward the barricade on highway 1806. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

UConn Expert on the Pipeline Protest at Standing Rock

Professor Barbara Gurr calls Sunday's ruling in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's battle to defend their land, their water, and their treaty rights, a "pause."

EM Drive in forward thrust configuration. (NASA Photo)

To Mars in 70 Days. Science Fiction or Fact?

Radical new propulsion system researched by NASA violates physics. UConn expert Brice Cassenti discusses whether the 'impossible' EM Drive is possible.

Through a virtual architectural design, a UConn professor takes an ironic look at the relationship between border walls and the philosophical concept of a state. (Image by Augustin Avalos, Estudio Pi S.C., Hassanaly Ladha)

What Might a Wall with Mexico Look Like?

Through a virtual architectural design, a UConn professor takes an ironic look at the relationship between border walls and the philosophical concept of a state.

Nine players from the Connecticut Agricultural College football team, known as the 'Aggies,' in 1927.

UConn Orange? How the Huskies Almost Became ‘Orangemen’

A look back at the time when the school colors were a matter for debate.

A collage made up of newspaper clippings pertaining to the December 2012 school shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn. (Allkindza/Getty Images)

UConn Student Navigates New Role in Years After Sandy Hook

Elizabeth Charash '18 (CLAS) was a high school student in Newtown at the time of the Sandy Hook school shootings. The tragedy has shaped her academics and activism.

Football Pair Named to All-American Athletic Conference Teams

Seniors Obi Melifonwu and Noel Thomas Jr. earned the honors.

Senate pages carry bound wooden boxes containing the Electoral College votes from the 50 states into the House of Representatives chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 4, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Electoral College Vote: A Ritual of American Democracy

Looking ahead to Dec. 19, when electors in each state will cast their ballots, a UConn political scientist discusses the constitutional anomaly that the person elected as U.S. President may not be the winner of the popular vote.