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‘We the People’ Holds a Mirror to the US at 250

Smith traveled around the country the last three years for his photographic essay “We the People: America in the 21st Century”

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UConn Students Help Reimagine New Haven’s Farmington Canal Heritage Trail

Students from UConn’s landscape architecture program collaborated with the Community Placemaking Engagement Network (CPEN) to develop designs for reinvigorating a 56-mile stretch of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail

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Deep Roots

Worthley is working in partnership with the nonprofit Connecticut Humanities and it’s America 250 Connecticut program to distribute the the 100-or-so baby white oak tree seedlings, many the direct descendants of the original Charter Oak, to community partners around the state later this year

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UConn Mechanical Engineering Professor Chang Liu Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

His research could improve the efficiency and reliability of technologies ranging from aircraft and transportation systems to electronics cooling and data centers

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Designating the State Rock: A Dazzling Educational Experience

Here's the stone-cold truth: a team effort by UConn and Mansfield educators has built a rock-solid foundation for holistic learning across the state

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Choose Your Own Adventure: The Tagging of the Horseshoe Crab

Getting muddy to discover more about a species older than dinosaurs

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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

Hispanic male teacher wearing spectacles and checking student notebooks after test while talking to them in classroom.

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'