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Three visitors examine poster displays at the Bloomfield Mosaic exhibition wall.

UConn Humanities Project Helps Bloomfield Preserve Its Cultural Mosaic

A new exhibition celebrates community history and highlights how UConn humanities research, led by professor Fiona Vernal, is helping Connecticut towns preserve and share their stories

A mountain stream in the valley on a sunny day

Tracing Mountain Water to Its Hidden Sources

Field data and modeling provide insights into predicting what impacts vital mountain headwaters

Morty Ortega, in a brown hat and plaid shirt at the left of the frame, looks through a telescope with a craggy mountain peak behind him at Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile, in 1980

UConn Magazine: The Ortega Effect

From firefighters to photographers, hundreds of UConn alums credit one brilliant, patient, unassuming professor for helping them cut through their confusion and fear to steer a purposeful course through college, work, and life

Quantum tech at UConn

UConn Quantum Alliance Shatters Disciplinary Silos

The University has more than 80 faculty researchers across several schools and colleges who are involved in quantum-related projects

A scientist in a white lab coat working.

UConn Startup Revolutionizes Food Preservation… Through Kelp

Seed funding from a USDA Small Business Innovation Research Grant will help Atlantic Sea Solutions, Inc. (DBA Atlas) develop a prototype of its edible food coating – a groundbreaking technology that could create new opportunities for Connecticut sugar kelp farmers

In exam room together - Veteran Dr. Brett Sloan with his longtime patient and fellow Veteran Michael Puttin

UConn Honoring and Taking Care of Our Veterans

Gratitude for all the Huskies who've served their country on this Veterans Day

A woman in protective lab gear manufactures pink tablets.

Atorvastatin Recall May Affect Hundreds of Thousands of Patients – and Reflects FDA’s Troubles Inspecting Medicines Made Overseas

Recall is only the latest in a series of concerning manufacturing issues that have come to light since 2019

Jason G. Irizarry

Jason G. Irizarry Reappointed to Second Term as Dean of UConn’s Neag School of Education

Interim Provost Alpay praises Irizarry’s vision and leadership in guiding the School’s expanded community engagement and student success

Scientists looking at dry turfgrass

New Method Makes Transgene-Free Gene Editing Even More Promising

'Our new but simple method is far more effective and can now be applied to a much wider range of plant species than our original approach'

One room brick schoolhouse

Existing Preservation Laws Could Protect Rural Public Schools from Vouchers, Charters

Study suggests governments could create 'education preserves' around rural public school districts and issue regulations to govern charter schools and voucher programs within those borders, similar to the way hunting preserves have regulations to protect the natural resources within them