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Diabetes Drug Shown Not to Increase Heart Failure Risk

The study, published in The Lancet, is based on data from a global clinical trial led by a UConn Health physician-researcher.

Ron Mallett, professor of physics, and an expert on time travel. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo)

Theories of Time Travel

One hundred years on from Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, are we closer to achieving time travel? UConn's Ron Mallett says theoretically, yes.

A child with bottles of sugary drinks. (iStock Photo)

Parents Misled by Marketing of ‘Healthy’ Drinks, Study Says

Nutritional claims on packaging, such as the use of terms such as 'real,' 'natural,' 'containing vitamin C,' 'antioxidants,' and 'low in calories,' are important factors in parents' purchasing decisions.

UConn takes delivery of a new Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine that will enhance opportunities in brain and cognitive research. (Bret Eckhardt/UConn Photo)

UConn Takes Delivery of Advanced Brain Scanner

The MRI machine, centerpiece of UConn's new Brain Imaging Research Center, is part of the University's ongoing rise to prominence in cognitive and brain sciences.

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UConn Considering New Approach to Realign, Expand Alumni Outreach

The University is working with the UConn Foundation and UConn Alumni Association to improve outreach to the more than 230,000 UConn alumni worldwide.

Violence Against Women: The Scope and Strength of the Law

A UConn human rights researcher discusses his new book on international and domestic laws to protect women against violence.

Lan-Hsuan Huang, assistant professor of mathematics, uses complex math at the intersection of geometry and calculus to understand the shape of the universe. (Christine Buckley/UConn Photo)

The Shape of the Universe

Mathematician Lan-Hsuan Huang draws on Einstein’s theories of gravitation and relativity to understand what shapes are possible in the universe.

The Atlantic Silverside, Menidia menidia. (Photo courtesy of: Chris Pickerell, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, Seagrassli.org)

Evolving to Cope with Climate Change

A UConn marine sciences professor is measuring the potential of an important fish species to adapt to an increasingly acidic ocean.

Students Throw Away Less Food With New Healthier School Lunches

A UConn study shows that USDA's revised school meal standards helped students eat healthier and waste less.

Engineers took the ordinary QR code and transformed it into a high-end cybersecurity application that can protect the integrity of computer microchips.

QR Codes Engineered into Cybersecurity Protection

Engineers took the ordinary QR code and transformed it into a high-end cybersecurity application that can protect the integrity of computer microchips.