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2011 Summer Edition – UConn Magazine
Protecting the World of Ideas: The legal wrangling over who came up with the idea for Facebook is just one legal issue arising today in the burgeoning field of intellectual property law. The Anthropology of Feasting: Humans gathering together for a sumptuous feast can be traced to the Middle East, according to a UConn anthropologist […]
Health Center Receives Major Gift to Support Research at Institute for Regenerative Engineering
Internationally prominent philanthropists Raymond and Beverly Sackler have provided a major gift to create an innovative research center at the Institute for Regenerative Engineering at the University of Connecticut Health Center. The gift follows the recent passage of Governor Malloy’s Bioscience Connecticut Plan. The Sacklers’ gift will enhance collaboration among UConn Health Center’s leading physical […]
Health Center Physician Solves TV Anchor’s Dad’s Medical Mystery
A Florida man is pain-free and playing 18 holes of golf again, thanks in part to a UConn Health Center physician who never touched him or even met him. In January, Dr. Kanwar Singh of the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center was discussing a new minimally invasive treatment of peripheral arterial disease during an […]
Happy Birthday USA
While enjoying all the activities of a long holiday weekend, pause for a minute to wish the USA a happy 235th birthday on the 4th. (FJ Gaylor for UConn)
Fighter Pilot Supports Students with Military Experience
Col. Regan believes that prior military service gives students a leg up on their classmates.
Storrs Center: It’s True. It’s Here. It’s Happening.
The new Storrs Center is about to become a reality.
Time to Take a Break
Wilbur’s Café in the Wilbur Cross building is a convenient place to stop for a coffee break and to catch up on the news with the friendly folks who staff the café. (Paul Horton for UConn)
Investigating the Growth of Biofilms
Leonela Villegas and Jinzi Deng have combined their mutual interests.
Storrs Center – It’s Official
A ceremonial groundbreaking to celebrate the start of construction of Storrs Center, the long-awaited mixed use town center adjacent to UConn’s campus, will take place at 5p.m. today.
New England Musculoskeletal Institute Bone Repair Research Makes Cover
Researchers from the New England Musculoskeletal Institute have come up with a way to speed up and enhance bone repair, and their work is featured on the cover of the May 2011 journal Molecular Therapy. This new approach involves obtaining stem cells from bone marrow, genetically engineering them with a virus that carries a bone formation […]