UConn is on the move \u2013 and the media are taking notice.<\/p>\n
From the expertise of our faculty to the achievements of our students, UConn\u2019s reputation is growing locally, nationally, and globally. Take a look at this roundup of some recent media coverage.<\/p>\n
Which Witch is Which?<\/strong> Keeping Outdoorsmen Safe Through Health Research<\/strong> The Ocean Farming Trend That\u2019s ‘Cropping Up’ in America<\/strong> American Indian History Specialist Discusses First Native American Saint<\/strong> More Sleep Leads to Less Injuries in Athletes<\/strong> Looking for more UConn coverage? Keep reading UConn Today<\/a> and follow UConn on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> for daily news, photos, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read what UConn faculty have to say about witches, seaweed, a modern-day saint, and more in this roundup of some recent media coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":69277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[134],"class_list":["post-69261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 12:36:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69518,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69261\/revisions\/69518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/69277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69261"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=69261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=69261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWalter Woodward, assistant professor of history, talks magic in a recent Smithsonian <\/em><\/strong>article about a witch trial in Easthampton that took place 40 years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Read the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nHeat stroke and hyponatremia are the focus of two Outside Magazine<\/em><\/strong> articles featuring Douglas Casa, professor of kinesiology and chief operating officer of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut. Read more about surviving heat stroke<\/a> and hyponatremia<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nWould you eat seaweed? Charlie Yarish, UConn professor of ecology and evolutionary biology discusses this \u201cmiracle cash crop\u201d on NPR\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>blog The Salt.<\/em><\/strong> Read the blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nIn October, the Catholic Church canonized its first Native American Saint, Kateri Tekakwitha. TIME<\/em><\/strong> quotes UConn history professor <\/em>Nancy Shoemaker about Tekakwitha\u2019s life. Read the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nModernMedicine.com<\/em><\/strong> reported on a recent study led by assistant professor of orthopedics Matthew Milewski that found that teen athletes who slept at least eight hours a night were 68 percent less likely to be injured than athletes who regularly slept less. Read the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n