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Chalkbeat

First Religious Charter School Approved in Oklahoma Despite State Ban

June 6, 2023 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Astrin Krane, a Glastonbury High School student and second-year attendee of the Queer Science Conference, holds a heart-shaped alginate she made during a science demonstration and presentation about hydrogel crosslinking and application in the Chemistry Building during the conference on June 4, 2023.

Queer Science Conference Connects LGBTQIA+ Youth with Role Models in Various STEM Fields

High school students from across the state gather for second iteration of Queer Science Conference

June 6, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance, and Sydney Herdle

Community Impact UConn Voices
Mosquito

UConn Researchers Identify Genetic Makeup of New Strains of West Nile

This study shows the variety of strains in circulation and what mosquitoes may be carrying as we head into summer

June 6, 2023 | Anna Zarra Aldrich, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources

Alumni Research & Discovery
Dr. Lauren Geaney examining patient's foot

UConn Health Leads Patient on Innovative Path to Restoring Pain-Free Mobility

UConn Health’s Dr. Lauren Geaney finds a solution for what was unsolvable, with a 3D-printed custom ankle replacement. Now her patient is walking again without pain.

June 6, 2023 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)

UConn Health
The Hartford Courant

A Connecticut Woman Is Walking On a 3D-Printed ankle. Here’s Why the Surgeon Took ‘a Little Bit of a Long Shot.’

June 5, 2023 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

WFST-TV (Tampa Bay)

Florida Rejected Federal Youth Health Survey, So It Came Up With Its Own

June 5, 2023 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Lawfare

Palestine 1948 and Its Lessons for Displacement Today

June 5, 2023 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications

Two puppet characters discuss a paper sack filled with bananas in front of a colorful painted kitchen background in this video still from Feel Your Best Self's "Be a Kind Helper."

Pioneering Puppet Project ‘Feel Your Best Self’ Coming to More Screens Near You

The celebrated program, which uses puppets to help kids and their caregivers explore emotion-coping strategies with a free toolkit, has extended a license to New York's THIRTEEN public broadcasting channel

June 5, 2023 | Mac Murray

Research & Discovery
Three sections of optic nerve that were injured by crushing (the white diamond on the far left of each nerve marks the crush point.) The lower two nerves each express genes (Dynlt1a or Lars2) newly identified by the Trakhtenberg lab as promoting nerve axon regeneration. The axons carry the bright green dye. The insets to the right show how much more axon regrowth is occurring in the nerves that express the regeneration genes, and how no regrowth happens in the normal control (top).

New Nerve Insights Could Someday Help Heal Certain Types of Blindness and Paralysis

New research answers some of the big questions of how our nervous systems develop

June 5, 2023 | Kim Krieger

Research & Discovery UConn Health
The Guardian

Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips Were Killed in the Amazon…A Year Later Their Indigenous Allies Risk Death to Carry on the Work

June 2, 2023 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications