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A Comprehensive Picture of Health Benefits of Eggs

New research provides a broader perspective on the nutritional effects of egg consumption in young, healthy adults

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A Trumpet, Fire, and Physics

In the case of a recent viral video of a trumpeter playing into a tube that’s on fire, making the flames dance higher and lower in time to the music, we asked experts at UConn to explain just how the device – called a Rubens’ tube – worked

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Audience Expectations: Study Shows Patrons Expect to See White Ballerinas

A new study from UConn researchers is among the first to empirically document what many dance enthusiasts have known for some time: Audience members expect the ballerinas they see on stage to be white

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Inaugural Human Rights Summit Comes to The Dodd Center with Critical Focus on Global Assault on Democracy

UConn community and leaders, activists, academics, artists, policymakers, and students from across the country and around the world will come together in Storrs to place critical focus on human rights at the inaugural Human Rights Summit at The Dodd Center

After nearly 20 years of being out of commission, UConn’s East Road Observatory is back up and running

A Team Effort is Giving New Life to a Classic Observatory

'Getting the facility back up and running has been an amazing and rewarding experience. This will be a force for good in the department and at the University'

A fallen tree on a vehicle which brought down power lines on Comstock Hill Avenue in Norwalk, Connecticut during Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012.

How Ready is Your Town? UConn Researchers Help Coastal Towns Prepare for the Next Storm in a Changing Climate

'We want to make everybody in the community feel safe in a way that is affordable'

Emily Wicks, Gary Wolff, and Sandy Chafouleas pose with the $25,000 check following the Wolff New Venture Competition. Wicks and Chafouleas are the founders of Feel Your Best Self, which won the top award. Photo by Alex Syphers/Defining Studios

Wolff Entrepreneurship Competition Crowns Startup That Brings Emotional-Coping Skills to Elementary-Age Kids

The Wolff competition awarded almost $60,000 in funds for UConn-affiliated startups

Can Brain Training Computerized Games Help Evaporate Brain Fog from Long COVID?

UConn Center on Aging and the Department of Psychiatry researchers are working to answer this public health threat question by launching a clinical trial for older adults using at home, brain-training games on computer tablets as a Long COVID patient therapy

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UConn Health Researchers Find that Youthful Proteins Help Nerves Regrow

'We are deciphering the mechanism of axon regeneration piece by piece'

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UConn Places Highly In Various National Rankings

UConn is considered one of the top public research institutions in the country and the rankings it has consistently received in the last year only reinforce that point