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The University of Connecticut is home to more than 32,000 students, 1,500 faculty, 255,000 proud alumni, and a handsome husky named Jonathan. #UConnNation

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The world's getting hotter and hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record, and 2025 is on track to come in a close second. This trend is making working conditions more dangerous for laborers in fields where they are regularly exposed to high temperatures.
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Something dangerous is happening to the U.S. economy, and it’s not inflation or trade wars. Chaotic deregulation and the selective enforcement of laws have upended markets and investor confidence.
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Predicting future weather conditions over broad, or even narrow, swathes of Earth’s surface comes down to complex microphysical processes, and as College of Engineering Associate Professor Marina Astitha puts it, nature is chaotic.
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Some six decades ago, when Scott Wallace’s parents gifted him a Polaroid Swinger camera and leather-bound diary as a child, the seeds of journalism were planted.
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Evan Elmore ’27 (SFA) is working on a documentary project about Connecticut’s underground music scene, with support from an Office of Undergraduate Education IDEA Grant.
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The Rosetti brothers from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, dedicated their latest Guinness World Record to their mother. Check out the alums' story in the latest issue of the UConn Magazine.
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Happy Independence Day Huskies 💙 🇺🇸
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A new study from UConn Rudd Center finds that children as young as age 3 are exposed to unhealthy food brand promotions when viewing videos on mobile devices.
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UConn is deepening its commitment to a sustainable future through a student-focused innovation challenge designed to reduce carbon emissions and promote clean energy solutions.
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The new presidents of Connecticut College and the University of Hartford, Andrea Chapdelaine ’91 MA, ’93 Ph.D. and Lawrence Ward ’92 (BUS), talk about what it’s like in higher ed now, and what it was like to be students at UConn in the early 1990s.
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A group of researchers in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment provided critical support for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)’s latest Wildlife Action Plan.
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Ronald P. Rohner, director of the Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, and Sumbleen Ali ’21 Ph.D., seek to advance research on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory, and continue to expand its reach worldwide.
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The Adopt a Health District Program provides students with internship experiences that directly support Connecticut communities fighting the opioid epidemic.
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Reza Amin ’18 Ph.D., ’19 MS. is the CEO and Founder of Bastion Health, the first and largest virtual urology group in the country. Bastion Health creates virtual, confidential, progressive approach to medical screening to help save lives.
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By the end of the year, Erin Leigh Boughamer will have attended more than 50 weddings – 31 of them in 2025 and all of them since 2022.
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It's been two years since we introduced UConn Nation to our best boy in training: Jonathan XV! 💙 🐾
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), a learning program for older adults based at UConn Waterbury, celebrated Juneteenth on Friday, June 20 with a dynamic program dedicated to historical accuracy, freedom, and social justice.
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When electronic devices overheat, they can slow down, malfunction, or stop working altogether. This heat is mainly caused by energy lost as electrons move through a material—similar to friction in a moving machine.
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UConn Health researchers are studying how phagocytes feel, taste, digest and respond to eating and clearing away debris or foreign particles inside the body.
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That connection you feel with fellow fans at the game? It’s even more powerful than you think. Ready why in the latest UConn Magazine.
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