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blue whale in the ocean

Opening Protected Area Off New England Coast to Commercial Fishing Compromises Protections

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is wildlife-rich area

a student being interviewed by a tv crew in the North Reading Room of Wilbur Cross

UConn Featured in Episode of New ‘College Tour’ Series’ First Season

An Amazon Prime show that highlights the whole UConn experience, from academics to the Dairy Bar

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UConn Professors Tell Cicadas’ Story to the World

Whenever Brood X appeared in the news this spring, Christine Simon and John Cooley were right there with them

Women light candles during a protest against thousands of extrajudicial executions perpetrated by Colombian military forces, outside of The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Bogota on June 28, 2021. - Thousands of extrajudicial executions known as "false positives" were carried out in the biggest scandal of the Colombian military forces in their struggle of more than half a century against rebel groups.

Buen Vivir: Examining Well-being in Colombia at a Time of Protest and Police Violence

'Can we create new indicators of well-being using this Indigenous concept of Buen Vivir?'

Research involving fruit flies could yield dividends for human birth control.

UConn Researcher’s Work with Flies Could Be a Birth Control Boon

If a drug stops ovulation in both flies and mice, it’s likely to work in humans, too

UConn Magazine: Our American Girls

What do you do with a history doctorate and a pop culture obsession? If you’re these two alums, you create a hit podcast centering on ’90s nostalgia.

The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

NSF Funds NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center

A UConn researcher will investigate how supermassive black holes, a billion times the mass of our sun, merge

Flies smell using their antennae, and learning more about how that works yields important information for researchers.

Odd Smell: Flies Sniff Ammonia in a Way New to Science

Understanding how insects sense odors could help out humans and crops

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UConn Scholars Earn Gilman and CLS Scholarships

The scholarships demonstrate the inclusive opportunities available for every UConn student to develop intercultural competencies

The snake's flickering tongue generates two pairs of small, swirling masses of air, or vortices, that act like tiny fans, pulling odors in from each side and jetting them directly into the path of each tongue tip.

Smelling in Stereo: The Real Reason Snakes Have Flicking, Forked Tongues

Long misunderstood, snake tongues have fascinated naturalists for centuries