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Daily HeadlinesMarch 8, 2019

A hearing before the Appropriations Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly. (Ariel Dowski for UConn)

UConn Students Testify at the State Capitol

'From the minute I first stepped foot on this campus, I have not only been taken seriously as a student, but I’ve also been challenged to be the best version of myself, as a scholar and leader,' said Truman Scholar and Marshall Scholar Akshayaa Chittibabu '19. Read more.

Nearly a week after Hurricane Irene drenched New England with rainfall in late August 2011. The Connecticut River was spewing muddy sediment into Long Island Sound and wrecking the region’s farmland just before harvest. (NASA Earth Observatory image, using Landsat 5 data from the U.S. Geological Survey Global Visualization Viewer)

A Policy Proposal That Could Curb Remote Sensing Research

Zhe Zhu says a potential change in federal policy to begin charging again for Landsat satellite data would be hugely detrimental to scientific research. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CLAS UConn Researcher Wins NASA Grant to Study Gene Transfer in Archaea

UConn in the News

Phys.org

How Species Improve Their Success

New Scientist

How Belief in Punitive Gods May Have Helped Large Societies Cooperate

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