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A muscular arm made of glass, flexing.

Strong as Glass

By building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, researchers have created a very strong material with very low density

Hearst Connecticut Media

Is Any Part of Connecticut’s Coast Considered Open Ocean?

The Science Teacher

Teaching Social Justice in the Science Classroom

Jithu Sajeevan, left, a UConn Stamford student and co-owner of DIG USA, plays a round of chess with one of his students during a chess tournament at the Our Lady of Fatima School in Wilton

UConn Stamford Student Finds His American Dream through Chess

Lessons learned on the chessboard turn into real-life success story for Jithu Sajeevan

UConn researcher Chandi Witharana is using remote sensing as 'a virtual passport' to monitor vast expanses of land in remote areas, including the Arctic tundra. (Chandi Witharana)

$5M Google.org Grant Uses AI to Track Permafrost Thaw

As part of an international team, UConn remote sensing expert Chandi Witharana helps expand Permafrost Discovery Gateway

McKnight's Long-Term Care News

Many Nursing Home Staff Fearful of Retaliation by Superiors: Study

NBC Connecticut

Boaters Warned About Large Debris Field in Long Island Sound

Meltwater pouring over ice at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet near 660 at midnight, Kangerlussuaq. Greenland.

Greenland Melted Recently, Shows High Risk of Sea Level Rise Today

Long-lost ice core reveals that much of Greenland was green 416,000 years ago                                                                                            

The class of fifth graders from Commodore MacDonough STEM Academy in Middletown, Connecticut who excitedly built with UConn experts a "Corsi-Rosenthal" air purifier device to be tested by EPA scientists. It is decorated with rainbows and their school’s owl mascot.

UConn Road Trip to EPA Launches DIY Air Filter High-Tech Biochamber Testing

A letter from a Middletown fifth-grader to a UConn researcher started it all: Now, EPA scientists will test the power of the low-cost DIY 'Corsi-Rosenthal' box air purifier against infectious aerosols, like the virus that causes COVID-19. The device being tested on July 26 was made and decorated by the 9-year-old and her classmates

Lew Perkins celebrates the 2003 women's basketball national championship with Diana Taurasi and Geno Auriemma at Gampel Pavilion.

In Memoriam: Former Director of Athletics Lew Perkins

Perkins directed the athletics department to unprecedented success both academically and athletically as the school won six NCAA Division I Championships during his time at UConn