UConn Today

Media coverage of the people and programs at UConn. As a vibrant, progressive leader among public research universities, UConn fosters a diverse and dynamic culture that meets the challenges of a changing global society.

October 2017

• October 20, 2017 - Phys.org
  Men at the top play by different rules, expert says
• October 19, 2017 - TIME magazine
  You Asked: Is It Bad to Exercise on an Empty Stomach?
• October 19, 2017 - Newsweek
  After Las Vegas Attack, Some Artists are Considering ‘Terrorism Insurance’
• October 19, 2017 - Associated Press
  ‘Murder insurance’ or protection in self-defense cases?
• October 19, 2017 - Slate
  Is repeating your toddler’s cute speech mistakes bad for her development?
• October 18, 2017 - The Atlantic
  Flowers Have Secret Blue Halos That Bumblebees Can See
• October 18, 2017 - Voice of America
  How The U.S. Came to Declassify 30,000 Pages of Indonesian Embassy Files
• October 18, 2017 - GQ magazine
  Diana Taurasi is 1 of the 50 Greatest Living Athletes
• October 17, 2017 - US News
  How Many Healthy Years Do You Have Left?
• October 17, 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle
  Our calculator will guess how many healthy years of life you have left
• October 17, 2017 - Washington Post
  Want to raise an empowered girl? Then let her be funny.
• October 17, 2017 - National Public Radio
  Warming New England Forests Bringing New Destruction To Pine Trees
• October 16, 2017 - Associated Press
  The shrinking middle class
• October 16, 2017 - Philanthropy News
  National MS Society Awards Nearly $14 Million in Research Grants
• October 16, 2017 - The Canadian Times Colonist
  Finding the best way to teach gifted children
• October 16, 2017 - Miami Herald
  Safe choices about drinking, driving
• October 16, 2017 - National Public Radio
  The Scramble: Voter Data; Iran; NFL
• October 16, 2017 - Boston Globe
  News flash: A governor begs for stronger media
• October 13, 2017 - International Business Times
  Mass Shootings Create Demand For ‘Active Shooter Insurance’
• October 12, 2017 - Fox News, NYC
  The mystery of breast cancer
• October 12, 2017 - Business Insider
  Cardiac arrest survival odds may rise with public CPR training
• October 12, 2017 - Business Insider
  The battle over gentrification is heating up around the US
• October 12, 2017 - Salon
  Gentrification? Some cities say “bring it”
• October 12, 2017 - US News
  Indonesian Man, Told to Leave US, Seeks Sanctuary
• October 11, 2017 - USA Today
  It pays to have women helming start-ups, new report suggests
• October 11, 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle
  Gentrification? Bring it
• October 11, 2017 - Associated Press
  Puerto Ricans leave for US mainland amid storm woes
• October 10, 2017 - Phys.org
  Fishing for new antibiotics
• October 10, 2017 - Business Insider
  New Wall Street candidates emerge to test Trump-era appeal
• October 10, 2017 - Telemundo
  MS Society Commits Nearly $14 Million to New Research
• October 10, 2017 - Bloomberg
  Puerto Rico’s $74 Billion Burden Left It Helpless When Maria Hit
• October 6, 2017 - Phys.org
  Fueling the Future: $5.7M Award to Advance Seaweed Energy Production
• October 6, 2017 - National Public Radio
  30 Percent Of Parasite Species May Be Extinct By The Year 2070
• October 6, 2017 - Associated Press
  Renewed calls for legal hunt to control Connecticut’s rising bear population
• October 6, 2017 - ESPN
  Then & Now: Maya Moore defines greatness
• October 6, 2017 - Broadway World
  UConn Avery Point Celebrates the Opening of Sailors, Sea Creatures, and Strings
• October 5, 2017 - Brookings Report
  What we know about Career and Technical Education in high school
• October 5, 2017 - CNBC
  One fast way to cut your insurance premiums by $322 each year
• October 5, 2017 - Psychology Today
  Wearing Cancer Survival Like a Badge of Honor
• October 5, 2017 - SB Nation
  Maya Moore literally can’t stop winning championships
• October 5, 2017 - Huffington Post
  Trump’s Tax Plan Is An Act Of Political Domination By The Rich
• October 4, 2017 - NPR
  3-D Technology Poised To Make Medicine More Personalized
• October 4, 2017 - Smithsonian magazine
  Philosophers ask questions about what makes humans, humans
• October 4, 2017 - Phys.org
  Using social media to take on climate change
• October 4, 2017 - Chronicle of Higher Education
  The Education of Ta-Nehisi Coates
• October 3, 2017 - The Atlantic
  The Dystopian Fear of Artificial Wombs
• October 3, 2017 - Inside Higher Ed
  New Academic Programs
• October 3, 2017 - Grower
  UConn study: Connecticut agriculture dominated by the green industry
• October 3, 2017 - SB Nation
  Who is George Springer?
• October 2, 2017 - Washington Post
  In Indonesia, the ‘fake news’ that fueled a Cold War massacre is still potent five decades later