Out of the Blue

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UConn Magazine: Andi Duro’s Two Cents

A social network where your net worth is your handle? Andi Duro’s twocents is changing the way people talk about wealth

The entrance to the Museum of Connecticut History's "Connecticut's Revolution" exhibition

Curating the 250th: History Professors Mark Country’s Anniversary with Museum Exhibitions

Manisha Sinha curated the latest exhibition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, while Andy Horowitz was a member of the curatorial team that put together the show at the Museum of Connecticut History

Six moments of a melting snowflake, captured with a lensless chip on a nanometer-scale.

Christmas in July: UConn Engineers Capture Gigapixel 3D Video of Snowflakes

Instead of treating movement over time as a limitation, the system uses those changes to show more detail than a conventional camera could, opening up new possibilities for studying cells, and (even in the summer) snowflakes

Two students working on a table sewing a quilt

Connectedness and Responsibility: Outgoing Institute Director Weighs in on the Current Significance of Human Rights Education

Libal talks about some of the most pressing human rights issues we’re currently facing, the importance of human rights education, and what students as well as average community members can do to help enact change

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New UConn Survey Finds 53% of Connecticut Parents Say Childcare is Too Expensive

Statewide survey conducted by UConn and the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood provides an updated benchmark for tracking childcare access and affordability

A group of four people, two men, Leonard Blanks and Otis Wade, and two women Courtney and Solé Blanks, pose proudly for a photo. They are all dressed in suits. The two women have one hand on each shoulder of the elder gentleman, Otis, sitting at a table in the foreground of the group shot.

UConn Magazine: “Blue-and-White Blood”

On Mother’s Day 2025, Solé Blanks ’25 (CLAS), ’26 MA, draped in blue regalia, stepped across the floor of Gampel Pavilion when her name was called, continuing a family legacy as the fourth generation to graduate from UConn

Students in the CVMDL testing ticks

I Love CT, But It’s the Season of the Ticks

Stick Season has nothing on Tick Season. UConn experts share insights about how this year is shaping up

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Celebrating the Stories of the Everyday Revolutionaries of Concord

UConn author celebrates 50 years since the publication book that details the lives of the everyday people of the Revolution

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Sleeping Sickness Parasite Has a Newly Discovered Weak Spot

UConn researchers have found that a crucial enzyme could be the key to safer, more effective medicines

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How Brain Chemistry Changes What We Taste

NIH R01 grant awarded to assistant professor Natale Sciolino to explore the neuroscience of taste