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Niam Yaraghi, assistant professor of Operations and Information Management, UConn School of Business. (Angelina Reyes/UConn Photo)

Op-ed: Regulating Free Speech on Social Media Is Dangerous

As the Senate Commerce Committee prepares to take testimony on consumer data privacy today, Niam Yaraghi of UConn discusses the subject of regulating social media. Read more.

Closeup of kid holding french fries packet. Children are eating fast food more often. In 2016, 91 percent of parents bought fast food for a child, up from 79 percent in 2010. (Getty Images)

More Kids are Eating Fast Food – and Not the Healthy Options

A new UConn study shows that children are eating fast food more often. In 2016, 91 percent of parents bought fast food for a child, up from 79 percent in 2010. Read more.

A killer whale. (Photo by Audun Rikardsen, Arctic Coast Photography)

PCB Pollution Threatens to Wipe Out Killer Whales

More than 40 years after steps were first taken to ban the use of PCBs, these pollutants remain a deadly threat to animals at the top of the food chain. Read more.

Dividing fibrosarcoma cells. Colored scanning electron micrograph of fibrosarcoma (fibroblastic sarcoma) cells in the late telophase stage of mitosis. The cells are covered in many filopodia. Fibrosarcoma is a malignant tumour derived from fibrous connective tissue of the bone and characterized by immature proliferating fibroblasts or undifferentiated anaplastic spindle cells. (Getty Images)

Stopping the Resistance of Cancer Cells to Treatment

UConn researchers have discovered molecules that could make cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy. Read more.

The Nathan Hale Inn & Conference Center. The University plans to sell the Nathan Hale Inn to a professional hotel company that will make much-needed improvements to the property. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo)

UConn, Graduate Hotels to Enter Deal For Sale of Nathan Hale Inn

The University plans to sell the Nathan Hale Inn to a professional hotel company that will make much-needed improvements to the property. Read more.

A group of students, faculty and staff take off for a ride in a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter from the Student Union Mall as part of Lockheed Martin Day on Sept. 27, 2018. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Helicopter Ride Gives Students a New View of Campus

A select group of students took a ride in a helicopter over Storrs as part of Lockheed Martin Day, Sept. 27. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

BUS Dean Mahoney ’09: A Passion for Entrepreneurship

CAHNR Study assesses nesting success of salt marsh bird

CLAS History Class Sets Sail at Avery Point

ENG Using Software to Blacklist Blackouts, One Community at a Time

PHR Phil Hritcko running for President of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)

SFA Innovative Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch to Perform Solo

UConn in the News

Science Codex

Link Between Breastfeeding and Infant Health is not Straightforward, says Study

Washington Post

The Straw Man in the New Round of the Reading Wars

Phys.org

Publicizing a Firm’s Security Levels May Strengthen Security Over Time, Study Finds

Washington Post

UConn’s Stephen Dyson: Showtime’s ‘The Circus’ is Fast Food

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