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April 16, 2026

Innovation

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First-Year Business Student Invites UConn Diners to ‘Swipe’ for Easy Dining Hall Nutrition Info

Each day, Swipe collects data from Dining Services about the menu items offered in each location and serves it up through an easy-to-use interface

April 16, 2026 | Jaclyn Severance

Entrepreneurship

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UConn Engineering Offering AI Short Course For Workforce Development

AEGIS is a new cross-disciplinary micro-credential designed to prepare Connecticut’s engineering workforce to design, deploy, and govern agentic AI systems that complete multi-step engineering tasks

March 5, 2026 | Claire Galvin

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mRNA’s Matryoshka Move

Researchers copy viral strategies to get mRNA medicines into cells in one piece

February 23, 2026 | Kim Krieger - UConn Communications

Research & Discovery UConn Health

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All Roads Lead to AI at HackUConn 2026

This year’s hackathon will begin at 5:00 p.m. on February 27

February 13, 2026 | Jaclyn Severance

Entrepreneurship

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Innovation Quest Turns Ambitious UConn Students into Entrepreneurs

Kickoff workshops begin Feb. 4; no previous experience required

February 2, 2026 | Claire Hall

Alumni Entrepreneurship

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A Research-Based Roadmap to Meaningful Work

UConn School of Business helps students build clarity and confidence in career-seeking

January 27, 2026 | Mac Murray

Research & Discovery

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UConn’s Quantum Leap Defines Research in 2025

The University committed to advancing Connecticut’s quantum economy and innovation

December 31, 2025 | Matt Engelhardt

Community Impact Research & Discovery UConn Health

innovation partnership building

UConn Tech Park Poised to Become a Hub of Global Semiconductor Research and Innovation

Tescan Group’s purchase of UConn startup FemtoInnovations will accelerate research, uses of critical laser technologies

December 2, 2025 | Stephanie Reitz - UConn Communications

Entrepreneurship Research & Discovery

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UConn is Built for This Moment: Fuel Cells Proven on Campus, Ready for Data Centers

UConn has become a living laboratory for the technology and home to some of its most renowned experts

December 1, 2025 | Xiao-Dong Zhou and Stephanie Reitz

Research & Discovery

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Breakthrough Materials Master Sound Waves

UConn researchers design a programmable metamaterial that can morph into more configurations than there are atoms in the universe, in a blink of an eye

November 25, 2025 | Mac Murray

Research & Discovery

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