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UConn Celebrates Economic Benefits of Innovation at Inaugural Ceremony

Awards highlight the University's commitment to bringing research where it benefits people.

UConn student Alex Badalucco leads a "knot" activity involving team building skills, during the Read & Raise recognition event April 23. (Shawn Kornegay/UConn Photo)

UConn Celebrates Young Readers

The top performers in a reading initiative for Hartford Public School students were recognized on campus for their achievements on Monday.

Man playing a clarinet.

UConn in the Big Easy

About 50 UConn students help out by renovating homes in the Upper Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans.

Kay Ryan, winner of a 2011 Pulitzer Prize and former Poet Laureate of the U.S. is the 49th Wallace Stevens Poet. (Don J. Usner Photo)

Wallace Stevens Program to Feature Poet Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and is former Poet Laureate of the U.S., will read her work and meet with students on April 9.

Sara Harkness and David Benson.

Two UConn Faculty to Advise Nation’s Policymakers on Science Issues

Two UConn professors are among 13 scientists from around the nation selected to spend the next year in D.C., contributing their expertise as Jefferson Science Fellows.

Students from high schools across the state compete in a series of science challenges at the Connecticut Science Olympiad in the Classroom Building on March 31, 2012. (Ariel Dowski/UConn Photo)

Science Olympiad Challenges High School Students

Teams from 18 Connecticut high schools vied for medals at the Connecticut Science Olympiad at UConn on Saturday.

The town of Zunil is the location of one of Central America's most important wholesale markets. (Rachael Shenyo Photo)

Graduate Student Helping Others Adapt to Climate Change

A UConn master's student is working with Guatemalan villagers and policy makers to suggest strategies for agricultural adaptation in the face of major crop losses.

Approximately 50 UConn undergraduates worked in the Upper Ninth Ward in New Orleans during their alternative spring break.. (Bret Eckhardt/UConn Photo)

Herbst: UConn Reaching Out to the Community

From offering assistance on a local farm to taking part in hands-on service projects all over the country, UConn students amaze me with their dedication to serving the community.

Gregory J. Weidemann, dean of the college of agriculture and natural resources stands outdoors with the Poultry Unit and Jacobson Barn over his shoulder on March 13, 2012. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

A Land Grant University for the 21st Century

UConn's mission as a land grant university has developed far beyond the focus on family farming and 'mechanical arts' envisaged when the Morrill Act created the land grant system of education 150 years ago.

Tom Worthley, assistant extension professor in the department of extension in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources,reaches for a berry on Japanese Barberry bush in the UConn forest near Horsebarn Hill. (Ariel Dowski/UConn Photo)

Controlling Japanese Barberry Helps Stop Spread of Tick-Borne Diseases

The UConn Forest provides an ecological classroom to study the spread of the invasive Barberry plant.