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Provost Lejuez, Eight Other Faculty Named As Inductees to CASE

Those elected to CASE were lauded for significant contributions made to their respective fields.

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UConn Offers New Online Master Program in Personalized Nutrition

The Master of Science in Personalized Nutrition will prepare students for promising careers in health care, academia, and industry

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There Was a Time Reparations Were Actually Paid Out – Just Not to Formerly Enslaved People

The payments went to former slave owners and their descendants, not the enslaved or their legal heirs.

Pregnant ICU Patient Recovers from COVID-19

It was the scariest time of her life for Melissa Vicchitto as she fought COVID-19 in the ICU to save herself and her unborn baby.

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High-Profile Brain Tumor Therapy Trial Chooses UConn Health

An immunotherapy derived from the polio virus has shown improved survival rates in early-phase trials in patients with an aggressive type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma. UConn Health will be one of a select few sites in the U.S. for the second phase, which will pair it with the cancer immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda).

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Meet undergraduate student Sarah Proto

This article originally appeared on CAHNR Newsroom. By Maria Buzzelli. Sarah Proto, a senior majoring in agricultural and resource economics, was drawn to a few career paths after transferring to UConn. She quickly realized that the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) program offered exactly what she was looking for. Proto is a multifaceted […]

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The Research of Difference: How UConn Researchers are Tackling Anti-Racism

Black women and heart disease. Asian Americans and plantations. Slavery and…monsters? Find out how these anti-racism scholars are tackling issues of difference at UConn.

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Groundwater Information is No Longer Out of Depth

A UConn Ph.D. candidate and a faculty member have developed a novel way of gathering data about streams fed by groundwater that provide important insights about the possible effects of climate change.

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Testing the Success of Their Communication Class, Scientists are Surprised

How do you measure the success of a science communication class? The answer is more complex than it may seem.

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How Safe is Baby Food? Company Reports Show Arsenic, Lead, and Other Heavy Metals

Since the amount of heavy metals varies so dramatically, food choices can make a difference.