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Because of UConn Campaign Crosses $900M Mark in Biggest Fundraising Year in History

Donors increased funding for students’ emergency needs by 930% in latest fiscal year and provided 33,159 scholarships and fellowships to students since the campaign began Read more.

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Ask UConn Extension: What to Know About Cyclospora

Cases of the foodborne illness caused by the parasite have been in the news. UConn Extension experts share practical steps to reduce risk and stay healthy Read more.

Six moments of a melting snowflake, captured with a lensless chip on a nanometer-scale.

Christmas in July: UConn Engineers Capture Gigapixel 3D Video of Snowflakes

Instead of treating movement over time as a limitation, the system uses those changes to show more detail than a conventional camera could, opening up new possibilities for studying cells, and (even in the summer) snowflakes Read more.

An aerial view spring blossoms across campus

UConn Researchers Win Inaugural DOE Genesis Mission Award

Natural Resources and Environment associate professor Wei Ren leads a project seeking to reveal underground movement of water and chemicals Read more.

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Paramedic Services in Storrs Increase with New Program

Paramedics are a part of the Emergency Medical System whose qualifications allow them to provide advanced life support measures Read more.

UCONN MAGAZINE

Andi Duro’s Two Cents

A social network where your net worth is your handle? Andi Duro's twocents is changing the way people talk about wealth. Read more.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

CAHNR

Lessons from the Collinsville Pollinator Trail on Managing Invasive Plants

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Anna Tarakanova Recognized by ASME For Early Career Achievements

LAW

UConn Law Graduates Tackle New Bar Exam

MED

Radiology Pioneer Still Teaching at 90

MED

UConn Health Minute: Hypothyroid Study

MED

Sir Cato T. Laurencin of UConn Receives NAACP’s Dr. William Montague Cobb Award

MED

Dr. Peter Schulman Reflects on UConn Health and Cardiology’s Revolution

OVPR

The Power of UConn Collaborating for Parkinson’s Disease Patients

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UConn School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor Xiuling Lu Receives Director Promotion

UCONN IN THE NEWS

The Spruce

How to Keep Container Plants From Drying Out So Fast and Cut Back on Daily Watering

Hartford Courant

A UConn-Made Protein Supplement Is Being Studied. A Patient’s Wife Said It Made Him ‘a Different Person Now’

NBC Connecticut

UConn Survey Finds Childcare Unaffordable for Over Half of Connecticut Families

WTNH-TV

Coolest Thing Made in Connecticut Spotlight: Eljen Corporation

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