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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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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

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There May Be Three Times as Many Insect Species as Previously Thought

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought

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Tanning Bed Use is Down, But Gen Z Still Wants to Be Tan, So They’re Going Outside

Sherry Pagoto, a professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and Director of the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media, is using a different approach to curb tanning among Gen Z

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DEEP and UConn Researchers Working to Help Rare Butterfly Recover on Campus

Rare species don’t only exist in remote places. They’re sometimes surviving right here on campus

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Science in Seconds: Improving GLP-1

A UConn Health researcher explains how her lab is focusing on how GLP-1 medications affect the brain and how they can be improved for the future

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Advancing Drone and Robotics Research

UConn College of Engineering boasts state-of-the-art research capacity and top-tier talent

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‘Becoming Modern’ Exhibition at Ballard Institute Traces Puppetry’s 20th Century Evolution in U.S.

The show is an appropriate curatorial bow for John Bell, who is retiring as the museum’s director Sept. 1 and whose own work was deeply influenced by the artists on display

Flooding in coastal Connecticut as the climate changes is one of several concerns for local leaders addressed in fact sheets provided by Adapt CT (Getty Images).

Go Bags and Stay Bins: Using Research and Outreach to Help Older Adults Prepare for Emergencies on Connecticut’s Coastline

A multi-agency, cross-disciplinary effort to help Connecticut residents stay aware and safe

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New Program Trains CT Residents to Manage Invasive Plants

A new UConn Extension certificate program helps residents tackle the 100+ invasive species spreading throughout our state