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Buddleia ‘Summer Skies’

New UConn Butterfly Bushes Land on the Market

Royalties from plant cultivars help to fund continued research by students.

A couple walking. (Sam Edwards, Caiaimage via Getty Images)

Lifting Spirits Doesn’t Require Many Reps

You will get the best "bang for your buck" with light- or moderate-intensity physical activity, according to a new UConn study.

UConn Nation Celebrates

Hundreds of members of UConn Nation came together Wednesday for an Employee Appreciation Event.

UConn Names Swimming and Diving Coach

Chris Maiello has successful experience at every level of the sport.

Mayor 'Buddy' Cianci, a codefendant in the Operation Plunder Dome trial, talks with then-Providence Journal reporter Mike Stanton on the steps of the federal courthouse on Kennedy Plaza while the jury in the trial continued negotiations.

Journalism Professor Relishes Supporting Role in Popular Podcast

“Hopefully it creates some excitement about journalism, and shows that the reports of its demise are greatly exaggerated," says Michael Stanton, associate professor of journalism, about the podcast "Crimetown," set in Providence, R.I.

NIH postdoctoral fellow Virginia Hawkins looks though a microscope at the Pharmacy/Biology Building. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

The Veins in Your Brain Don’t All Act the Same

UConn researchers, including undergraduate students, have discovered that the blood vessels in one part of the brain act differently than elsewhere in the body, in order to keep us breathing.

Snap! Commencement 2017

Members of the Class of 2017.

Sights and Sounds of Commencement 2017

More than 9,000 degrees – both undergraduate and graduate – will be awarded this year, which is the highest number of degrees conferred at UConn in the University's 136-year history.

Kim Jong Un of North Korea. (KNS/AFP/Getty Images)

Op-ed: What Makes Kim Jong Un Tick?

'History tells us that to influence Kim, we must empathize (note: not sympathize) with him,' says political science professor Stephen Dyson.

A construction worker lowers the time capsule into an ultra-high performance, fiber-reinforced concrete vault that will hold it for the next 100 years. (Christopher LaRosa/UConn Photo)

Engineers Bury Time Capsule

A time capsule encasing examples of technology from the past was buried on the grounds of the new Engineering and Science Building, to be opened 100 years from now.