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Ted Rathjen, senior shellfish warden for Groton, steers the boat as Kaitlyn Campbell, post doctoral student in the Brandt Lab at UConn, and Anika Agrawal, doctoral student in the lab, prepare to collect oysters and mussels to test for PFAS in shellfish tissue in an earlier project led by Christopher Perkins, who was chosen for one of the CECs project research awards.
Connecticut Sea Grant Project to Focus on Possible Contaminants in Coastal Waterways

The UConn researcher-led effort is part of a multistate effort to analyze pollutants in urban coastal areas along the East Coast Read more.

A young entrepreneur works on her laptop, with papers and a tablet computer on the table beside her.

CCEI Research Team Publishes Report on Early-Stage Entrepreneur Needs

University accelerators, that provide coaching, mentoring, and funding, have long measured success by long-term business stability and revenue generation Read more.

Researchers have identified the most distant active supermassive black hole to date in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. The black hole, within galaxy CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang and weighs only 9 million solar masses.

‘Hidden Little Monsters:’ Researchers Find the Most Distant, Active Black Holes Yet

'I think of it as a "chicken-or-egg" problem of which comes first, the black hole or the galaxy' Read more.

Meat at the butcher shop

Using New Tech to Identify the Cause of an Old Phenomenon in Meat Tenderness

Researchers from UConn's Department of Animal Science used machine learning algorithms to explain how an enzyme responsible for meat tenderness is modified on the molecular level Read more.

UCONN MAGAZINE

Basketball Capital of the World

We might as well just change Storrs' name to this. As Jim Nantz writes here, "People don't say Duke and UConn in the same sentence often enough, but they need to now." Read more.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

DENT

Dr. Rajesh Lalla Recognized with International Distinguished Service Award

MED

UConn Expert Member of Global Commission Calling on World to Improve Sickle Cell Disease Care

UCONN IN THE NEWS

The New York Times

Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity

The Washington Post

What to Know About Prime and Other Caffeinated Energy Drinks

Science

Some Hummingbirds Are Flower Robbers. Here’s How to Spot Them.

CT Examiner

Advocates, Legal Experts Weigh In On Supreme Court’s LGBTQ+ Ruling

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