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Boy eating school lunch. (Getty Image)

National School Lunch Program Aces Safety Test

Eating at school may be safer for your children than eating at home, UConn study says. Read more.

Airplane landing on the runway at Gatwick Airport, London, U.K. (Getty Images)

Airlines Alter Social Media Strategy After Crash

When a company faces a crisis, competitors use social media to both reduce the negative spillover effect and to improve their advantage, a UConn study says. Read more.

Dr. Marc Lalande, founding chairman of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences. (Lanny Nagler for UConn Health).

Giving Silenced Genes a Voice

UConn Health researchers generated cells that expressed the maternal copy of the Prader-Willi gene that, when silenced, causes the life-threatening disorder. Read more.

Veteran struggles upon return home. (Shutterstock)

Married Veterans More at Risk of Suicide than Single Soldiers

The transition back to a domestic home environment—and all of the pressures, roles, and responsibilities that come with it—may add to veterans' internal struggles. Read more.

Colonies of a multi-resistant coliform bacteria (Escherichia coli). (Getty Image)

Sourcing Contamination in Waterways

UConn Professor John Clausen is designing a system to identify upstream contamination sources so they can be addressed. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

DENT Lawmakers Get Hands-On Experience at UConn’s Medical and Dental Schools

SFA Ballard to Present 2018 UConn Winter Puppet Slam

PHR Mass Spectrometry Keeps UConn Connection Alive and Well

UConn in the News

Forbes

Alcohol Sales Dropped 15% In States With Medical Marijuana Laws

Scientific American

The Lost Art of Looking at Plants

Washington Post

A year after the Women’s March, people are still protesting en masse

Telemundo

UConn to Gather Data on Expedition Antarctic Blanc

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