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No Time for Isolationism

London’s quiet again. The 16,000 police did their job, and the riots have been quashed. The city is no longer burning. The phone calls from anxious parents have stopped. Our 37 students will travel to London to study abroad for the semester in less than two weeks, and we’re sending hundreds more to other destinations […]

"One in Every Bunch" quilt by Ed Johnetta Miller. (Photo provided by Ed Johnetta Miller)

New Cancer Support Group at Health Center Features Quilting

A new cancer support group for women seeks to harness the therapeutic power of quilting.

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UConn and Connecticut’s Economic Future

The University is seeking an economic development leader.

Catchers Doug Elliot of the baseball team and Andrea Huelsenbeck of the softball team.

The View Behind the Catcher’s Mask

Two catchers describe life behind the home plate for the Huskies.

Anglea Grant and Lt. Col. Erik Goepner in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Teaching in Wartime

Two family members' careers took them to wartime Iraq and Afghanistan to teach.

In A Good Place

The Up & Atom café at the BioPhysics Building is a nice place to work while waiting for a meeting. (Michael Garcia/UConn Photo)

UConn Scientist Develops Sterile Variety of Invasive Plant

Scientific breakthrough could help restore the popular ornamental shrub Euonymus alatus, otherwise known as burning bush, to prominence in commercial marketplace Professor Yi Li’s Laboratory  in the University of Connecticut’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has developed a seedless variety of the popular ornamental shrub Euonymus alatus, also called  ‘burning bush,’ that retains the […]

Rajiv Chandawarkar, at his lab at the UConn Health Center.

Improving Surgical Residents’ Communication Skills

A UConn study finds that training may improve surgical residents’ patient communication skills.

Photos from the Homer Babbidge Library's conservation lab where books are repaired.

The Art of Preserving Books

Babbidge Library's preservation service repairs thousands of rare texts and damaged books each year.

Dockside

Project Oceanology’s research vessel Enviro-Lab III waits to get back out on the Sound. (Sheila Foran/UConn Photo)