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Of Science and Squid Emojis

UConn's Sarah McAnulty talks about making science communication better - and what's wrong with a squid emoji.

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Pandemic Prompts Largest Class in UConn History

UConn is currently offering undergraduate students a one-credit online course that studies the COVID-19 pandemic and it has reached an enrollment of over 4,000 – easily the largest in school history.

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Help For Owners of Small Businesses During Pandemic

The Connecticut Small Business Development Center is helping owners and entrepreneurs throughout Connecticut navigate the pandemic economy.

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Three Members of UConn Nation Among HBJ’s Women in Business Honorees

Three extraordinary UConn women have been honored by the Hartford Business Journal.

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UConn Research Team Developing Emergency Ventilator Prototype

UConn researchers have developed a prototype of an emergency ventilator that could be manufactured to meet surges in demand stemming from the coronavirus crisis.

How Mapping COVID-19 Could Help Drug Companies

UConn's Ranjan Srivastava aims to mathematically model how the novel coronavirus replicates within an infected cell and how the infection spreads within the human body, boosting efforts to find effective treatments.

Student entrepreneur Peter Goggins poses near some barrels containing fish whose feed he is experimenting with.

UConn Student Entrepreneur Asks: Shouldn’t the Fish We Eat Be Fed Healthier Food?

A UConn student has started a business aimed at changing the way fish are fed.

Recreation of Thoreau's Cabin at Walden Pond in Massachusetts. (Getty Images)

Op-Ed: What ‘Walden’ Can Tell Us About Social Distancing

Henry David Thoreau's classic meditation on life's essentials finds new resonance in the age of social distancing.

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Faculty Fulbright Scholars Explore Diverse Subjects

One month after UConn was recognized as a top producer of Fulbright scholars, five CLAS faculty have been awarded Fulbright awards for 2020-21.

A dead coral reef in the Maldives, the result of climbing global temperatures.

Climate Change Could Cause Sudden Biodiversity Losses Worldwide

A new study finds that biodiversity losses from climate change could occur suddenly across the globe.