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Current Alcohol Marketing Controls Don’t Protect Youth

UConn Health researcher Thomas Babor led a global review of youth exposure to alcohol advertising that concludes with a recommendation for statutory controls. Read more.

Sugar Pines (Pinus lambertiana) in Sequoia National Park, California. UConn researchers are part of a team that has sequenced the Sugar Pine's enormous genome, offering the potential for using genetic resistance to fight an invasive fungus that threatens to destroy the species. (Silversypher via Wikimedia Commons)

The Fungus-Fighting Secrets in the Sugar Pine’s Genome

Researchers have sequenced the enormous genome of the world's tallest pine, offering the potential for using genetic resistance to fight an invasive fungus that threatens to destroy the species. Read more.

Seok-Woo Lee, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, at his lab at the Gant Complex on Oct. 27, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

New Material Promises Benefits to Deep Space Travel

A UConn researcher has developed a new shape memory material that can help send unmanned probes to distant star systems. Read more.

Kepeng Wang, assistant professor of immunology, right, with Kasandra Rodriguez, a research associate at CaroGen Corp.'s technology incubation lab in Farmington on Dec. 12, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Health Researchers Work with Startup on Colon Cancer Vaccine

CaroGen’s proprietary technology platform will be applied to a specific target studied by two immunologists at UConn Health. Read more.

UConn campus in the snow. (Angelina Reyes/UConn Photo)

UConn in the Snow

White-tipped trees and ice-filled ponds glisten in the sun, while blankets of snow bring serenity and silence during this chilly winter break. Read more.

UConn in the News

USA Today

UConn women’s basketball team wins 90th game in row, ties 2010 streak

Associated Press

UConn women’s hoops honors teen killed by stray bullet

Engineering 360

Supercap Could Be Preferred Power Source for Pacemakers

CNBC

Need better morale in the workplace? Simulate a plane crash

Daily Mail

China claims to have a working version of NASA’s impossible engine orbiting the Earth

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