College of Agriculture, Health & Natural Resources

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Industry Partnerships Create Policy Tools to Protect Outdoor Laborers in Extreme Heat

Korey Stringer Institute CEO Douglas Casa has worked with industry partners to develop heat safety policies that will protect workers who work in extreme heat

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Ask UConn Extension: What Do Food Labels Really Tell Us?

Sell by, use by, best by -- Oh my! UConn Extension demystifies what all those food label dates really mean

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Connecticut and UConn are Leaders in Clean Energy and Sustainability

Our leaders, innovators, and scholars have worked tirelessly to drive progress in sustainability, moving us toward independence from fossil fuels and steeling our power grid against severe weather and other risk factors.

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Karina Cangas: Using Economic Analysis to Support Local Food Procurement

Studying the economics of local food procurement has given Karina Cangas a taste for the future

Hailey Baranowski ’24 (CAHNR/CLAS) and David Wagner, an entomologist and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UConn out in the field studying bumble bees.

Bumble, Blue, and Everything Between: UConn Student Spending Summer Studying Bees at Mansfield Hollow

'Working on a farm made me really realize how important bees were – if there was no food, and nothing for the bees to eat, nothing flowering, nothing of ours would grow'

The child examines blue flowers through a magnifying glass - common eryngium.

Ask UConn Extension: Tips to Keep Kids Active and Learning this Summer

School may be out, but that doesn't mean the learning has to stop. Check out some tips to keep your kids engaged from UConn 4-H

Huijie Gan, an assistant research professor in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, holds a soil sample and sensor she used for a project to assess soil health amidst a collection of other soil samples

Filling the Holes in Our Knowledge about Soil Health

Absolutely key to life on earth, assessing soil has been a challenging task, something UConn researchers hope to remedy

DeBacco and students work in the controlled laboratory greenhouse perfecting hands-on skills.

UConn Magazine: Advanced Cannabis Horticulture

Matt DeBacco wants each of his students to come out of this class with the chemistry, horticulture, and business know-how for a successful grow-out

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New Preventative Treatment for Porcine Virus Could Save Billions for Farmers

Using AI, researchers hunted through millions of compounds to find a specific receptor, CD163, to stop cells from becoming infected

UConn researcher Chandi Witharana is using remote sensing as 'a virtual passport' to monitor vast expanses of land in remote areas, including the Arctic tundra. (Chandi Witharana)

$5M Google.org Grant Uses AI to Track Permafrost Thaw

As part of an international team, UConn remote sensing expert Chandi Witharana helps expand Permafrost Discovery Gateway