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Building a Better Plant: UConn Researcher Develops Improved Technology for Grafting

UConn researcher Yi Li has invented a novel grafting technique that improves several factors important for healthy plant growth

The sign in front of FDA headquarters in the Washington, D.C. area.

Why is the FDA Funded in Part by the Companies It Regulates?

Nearly half the agency's budget now comes from 'user fees' paid by companies seeking approval for medical devices or drugs

headshot of Dr. Andrew Agwunobi

UConn Health CEO Dr. Andrew Agwunobi Selected as University’s Interim President

UConn Health CEO Dr. Andrew Agwunobi will begin as UConn's Interim President beginning on July 1, 2021

Novel Immune Checkpoints Have Applications for Cancer, Autoimmune Disease Treatment

UConn researcher Laijun Lai has developed recombinant proteins and antibodies to combat autoimmune diseases and immunosuppression in cancer patients

An illustration that blends physics equations with a picture of a distant galaxy.

UConn Physicists Focus on a Law-Breaking Particle

Experiments with particles known as muons suggest forms of matter and energy that are not yet known to science

Tash Archibald ’21 SFA, whose concentration in art was in illustration/animation, designed a calendar themed assemblage as her senior project. She used party hats, snowflakes and a portrait she drew of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to illustrate January. Assemblage Design by Tash Archibald.

Moving BFA Exhibit Online Illustrates Post-Graduate Life for Art Majors

'If you missed this deadline, you wouldn't be in this catalog. There were more real-world consequences'

An out of service bag covers a pump handle at a gas station May 12, 2021 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack a Warning of Infrastructure’s Vulnerability

Organizations need to shift thinking from 'if we get attacked' to 'when we get attacked'

Associate Professor of Physics Cara Battersby talks to attendees at a solar eclipse viewing on Horsebarn Hill in 2017. Her work uses high-performance computing to understand astronomical questions

The Study of Big Data: How CLAS Researchers Use Data Science

UConn researchers are using big data to attack issues of climate, space, genetics and public health

UConn Forestry crew hauling pine boards out of the forest

Homegrown Conservation Projects Underway, Courtesy of the UConn Forest

How a couple of fallen trees led to a dynamic opportunity for Connecticut students

Cannabis shoots in culture. UConn researchers are pioneering micropropagation techniques for cannabis.

One Step Closer to Efficient Cannabis Production

Bringing a technique that has been a boon to other plants to the budding cannabis industry