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Benton Museum Examines America at 250 with Wide-Ranging Exhibitions

The show prompts visitors to think about America as a place, an identity, and an idea

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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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New Materials: New Possibilities

From smartphones and computers to medical devices and clean energy technologies, the future depends on materials that are faster, smarter, and more efficient

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Two From UConn Named Fulbright U.S. Student Program Finalists

The program provides grants for individually designed study and research projects or for English teaching assistantships around the world

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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'

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Veterans and UConn Work for Access to Advanced Stroke Rehab

'As our country approaches its 250th birthday, it is fitting to give quality care to the vets who struggled and sacrificed'

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UConn Magazine: The Yogi Inside

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

Maternal-fetal medicine expert Dr. Andrea Shields is principal investigator for a clinical trial at UConn School of Medicine.

UConn Predicting Risk of Gestational Diabetes Early, Before it Strikes

Ten percent of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes by the third trimester.

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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