Out of the Blue

Connecticut State Capitol building in Hartford, Connecticut.

Designating the State Rock: A Dazzling Educational Experience

Here's the stone-cold truth: a team effort by UConn and Mansfield educators has built a rock-solid foundation for holistic learning across the state

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Nursing Researchers Featured at International Sleep Conference

UConn Elisabeth DeLuca School of Nursing researchers presented new findings on maternal and family sleep health at SLEEP 2026, advancing the School’s growing leadership in sleep science and plans for a future sleep research laboratory.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: The Tagging of the Horseshoe Crab

Getting muddy to discover more about a species older than dinosaurs

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How School Leaders Learn

A new report sheds light on an understudied aspect of public school success

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Preventing Religious Charter Schools is Simple. Let Local School Boards Govern Them

Getting buy-in to do that could be difficult, but UConn’s Preston Green warns that private school students might not have the same constitutional protections as their public school counterparts - and that’s the crux of the issue

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New Global Early Warning System Forecasts Biodiversity Exposure to Extreme Heat

'With El Niño expected to occur this summer, we expect another year of extreme threats to biodiversity'

A group of women in a gym, practicing yoga. They are all wearing white prison shirts and black pants. They are stretching into a yoga pose.

UConn Magazine: The Yogi Inside

“A practice like this is meant for a place like this"

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Series of Historical Markers Celebrate America’s 250th Through a Connecticut Lens

And while UConn wasn’t around in 1776, its fingerprints are all over the project

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There May Be Three Times as Many Insect Species as Previously Thought

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought

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From Detection to Measurement: NIH Funds UConn Research to Expand CRISPR’s Diagnostic Potential

Liu has received a prestigious grant to develop a next-generation diagnostic platform capable of accurately measuring cancer-related biomarkers in blood samples