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DIY "Corsi Rosenthal" air filter device.

UConn Keeping Air in Connecticut Classrooms Safe

$11.5 million in state support awarded to University of Connecticut to deploy effective and inexpensive build-it-yourself air filter technology to every public school classroom across the state.

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Meet the Researcher: Derek Aguiar, CoE

Aguiar, an associate professor of computer science, uses his computational expertise to help understand complex diseases – and develop presidential chatbots

President Gerald Ford being presented with a UConn mug by University leadership

UConn Firsts: First Visit from a US President

Gerald Ford visited campus on Sept. 23, 1986

The new HuskyGo electric bus—the first of its kind in its fleet—sits next to the bus stops in the W Lot

Electric, Hybrid Buses Coming to UConn as Next Generation of Clean Transit

The electric buses produce no tailpipe emissions and provide all the features that today’s students need for a comfortable and productive ride

Woman pointing at poster

Research Assesses Assets and Challenges for North Hartford Food Environment

Using the innovative Photovoice approach, community participants engage in citizen science by sharing their personal, lived experience to enhance research studies and bring awareness to health disparities

Artist's rendering of an angular, metallic probe floating against a backdrop of space.

A Long, Long Time Ago, in Galaxies Near and Far

UConn astrophysicist Cara Battersby is a leader on NASA-selected interstellar probe team

UConn Ranked Among Top U.S. Universities for Patent Issuances

UConn has been ranked 72nd of all U.S. universities for patent issuances by the National Academy of Inventors

Month of Discovery: Undergraduate Researcher Krithika Santhanam

Krithika Santhanam is using her individualized major at UConn to take advantage of research opportunities at the University

George Kuchel, MD, Director, UConn Center on Aging and UConn Pepper Center speaking at the first annual meeting of the UConn Aging and UConn Pepper Center held at the Mark Twain House and Museum

UConn’s Experts in Aging Honor Colleagues and Highlight Advances

'This is a time of remarkable innovation in geriatric medicine and gerontology'

Photo of plants overlayed by text reading "Cultural food guide: tackling food insecurity"

Tackling Food Insecurity: Cultural Food Guide

The UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health is tackling food insecurity with cultural food guides