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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“Heart failure treatment in the U.S. often follows a one-size-fits-all approach, which can be incomplete or ineffective,” says Dr. Travis Hinson. His work is charting a new path: tailored therapies based on a patient's unique genetic makeup. today.uconn.edu/2025/08/miss...
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Mission to Personalize Heart Failure Care - UConn Today
Dr. Travis Hinson is reimagining heart failure care by developing tailored therapies based on a patient's unique genetic makeup.
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Tracking the movement of animals is an important aspect of conservation, but some species make it tricky. Animals like whales and mountain lions move all over the map -- but also up and down, diving into sea trenches and climbing mountains. 🐳 ⛰️ today.uconn.edu/2025/08/new-...
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New Tools Reveal the True Paths of Wildlife - UConn Today
A new model developed by UConn researchers now accounts for three-dimensional movement, allowing better tracking of animals that move up or down in space
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This year, @uconnramp.bsky.social helped propel three scientists into the next phase of their careers with NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, a coveted opportunity for doctoral student researchers. 🐝🐟🧬 today.uconn.edu/2025/08/a-ra...
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A RaMP Up to Scientific Success - UConn Today
A unique training opportunity propels students to NSF fellowships and beyond
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UConn Rudd Center @uconnrudd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Last week, Marlene Schwartz appeared on the "UConn 360" podcast to discuss the Rudd Center's work! We are so grateful to be part of the @uconnresearch.bsky.social community! Listen to the podcast episode here: uconn.edu/uconn360-pod...
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Episode 137: Rudd Center Studies Various Food Issues | University of Connecticut
UConn’s nationally-renowned Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health promotes solutions to food insecurity, poor diet quality, and weight bias through researc ...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Currently, the only FDA-approved medication for stroke must be given within 4.5 hours of onset -- 90% of patients are no longer eligible by the time they reach the hospital. But what if there were a drug that could extend this window? 💊 🧠 today.uconn.edu/2025/08/turn...
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‘Turning Back Time’: UConn Researchers Developing Treatment to Reverse Brain Damage from Stroke - UConn Today
UConn neuroscientist and chemist receive NIH R01 grant to support their collaboration
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Vijay Rathinam @vijayrathinam.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
today.uconn.edu/2025/08/swee... Thanks to @uconnresearch.bsky.social and @kimkrieger.bsky.social for covering our glycoRNA paper @vinnieviruses.bsky.social @raflynn5.bsky.social
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Sweet Disguise: Body Hides RNA With Sugar - UConn Today
Now that scientists understand the role of RNA glycosylation in deflecting immune system attention, they can check on whether that strategy is somehow going ...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Film student Evan Elmore is spending his summer documenting Connecticut's underground music scene, with support from UConn's IDEA Grant for undergraduate projects. 🎥 🎸 today.uconn.edu/2025/07/scen...
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Scene Summer: UConn Film Student Documenting Underground Music in Connecticut - UConn Today
'All the bands support each other, and all the crowds are respectful, and everyone just wants to have a good time'
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
When high-speed electronics overheat, they can slow down, malfunction, or stop working altogether. ⚙️UConn College of Engineering Professor Georges Pavlidis has engineered innovative new solutions to this critical issue. today.uconn.edu/2025/06/maki...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
How does a single-cell organism without a brain remember to prepare for the future? 🦠 Colin Kremer (@quant-ecology.bsky.social‬) and a team of other researchers think they've cracked the case. today.uconn.edu/2025/06/stoc...
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Stocking Up on Snacks: How Phytoplankton Prepare for the Future - UConn Today
'They don't have brains, so how does this past information influence their performance?'
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UConn CAHNR @uconncahnr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Two recent CAHNR publications dig into the impacts of compounding factors threatening New England trees when ecosystems face new pressures and often multiple challenges simultaneously. today.uconn.edu/2025/06/when... @uconnresearch.bsky.social
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When Stressors Converge, How Will Our Forests Fare? - UConn Today
Two recent publications dig into the impacts of compounding factors threatening New England trees
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🌈 This #PrideMonth, UConn was proud to host the 4th annual Queer Science Conference, which introduces Connecticut high schoolers to the wide rainbow of possible career paths in science. today.uconn.edu/2025/06/at-u...
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At UConn’s Queer Science Conference, New Futures Take Shape for Young Scientists - UConn Today
Fourth annual event offers high schoolers hands-on fun served up with a scoop of science
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
An international group of physicists, including two UConn faculty, has published a white paper representing a major step forward in developing our understanding of one of the smallest units of our world, and with it, the basic laws of physics. ⚛️ today.uconn.edu/2025/06/phys...
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Physics Breakthrough to Evaluate Fundamental Theory of Nature - UConn Today
The Muon g-2 Theory Initiative has published a white paper on the theoretical calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, which will be compar ...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
You're probably familiar with the idea that your "biological age" can differ from your chronological age. ⏱️ 🧬 Now, researchers are taking the concept one step further, demonstrating how 86 key protein markers can predict disease and mortality risk. today.uconn.edu/2025/06/scie...
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Scientists Develop New Blood-Based Proteomic Score to Predict Healthspan and Disease Risk - UConn Today
UConn School of Medicine study published in PNAS introduces Healthspan Proteomic Score as a biomarker for healthy aging
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Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Just out in PNAS! Our new study finds that a pregame ritual created stronger emotional synchrony among football fans than the game itself. @uconnresearch.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Science #Rituals #Emotion #Football #CollectiveBehavior
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UConn CAHNR @uconncahnr.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As the only lab in the Northeast authorized by the USDA to test for bird flu, the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at UConn, is helping play a role in detecting diseases in companion animals, livestock and wildlife. www.courant.com/2025/06/02/c... @uconnextension.bsky.social
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Bird flu, rabies, swine fever. This CT lab does up to 15,000 tests a year and here’s why.
The Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory is helping play a role in detecting diseases in companion animals, livestock and wildlife.
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In her lab, Natale Sciolino researches the interactions between the brain and behavior, and fosters the next generation of UConn neuroscientists. 🧠 💡 today.uconn.edu/2025/06/meet...
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Meet the Researcher: Natale Sciolino, CLAS - UConn Today
Assistant professor of physiology and neurobiology Natale Sciolino is fostering the next generation of UConn neuroscientists
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UConn CAHNR @uconncahnr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
UConn researchers in CAHNR and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) have demonstrated that a novel protein-based nanoparticle can make mRNA vaccines more effective to tackle a troublesome pathogen in chickens. today.uconn.edu/2025/06/figh... @uconnresearch.bsky.social
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Fighting Poultry Disease with mRNA: UConn Researchers Pioneer Nanoparticle Approach - UConn Today
UConn researchers have demonstrated that a novel protein-based nanoparticle can make mRNA vaccines more effective to tackle a troublesome pathogen in chickens
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
There’s no magic pill for youth, but there might be a magic...poo. 🪄 today.uconn.edu/2025/06/youn...
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Young Dung Reinvigorates Old Mice - UConn Today
Researchers are working to identify the bacteria responsible for the anti-aging effects, and maybe develop a probiotic that can benefit humans
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University of Connecticut Humanities Institute @uconnhumanities.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today’s watch: Kanny Salike, a rising senior studying Linguistics/Philosophy and Anthropology and a 2024–25 Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellow, examines how racism and audism shaped the development of African American English and Black American Sign Language.
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Research Spotlight: Kanny P. Salike on Black American Sign Language and African American English
Kanny Salike, a junior studying Linguistics/Philosophy and Anthropology, examines how racism and audism shaped the development of African American English an...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
What can centuries-old deer bones teach us about conservation? 🦌 @elicweitzel.bsky.social analyzes these bones to study unsustainable practices of the past. His work could help us avoid making the same mistakes in the future. today.uconn.edu/2025/06/how-...
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How Economics Nearly Drove New England’s White-Tailed Deer to Extinction - UConn Today
“Once you start commodifying animals and commodifying nature, problems happen”
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UConn Rudd Center @uconnrudd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This year marks the Rudd Center's 10th anniversary at the University of Connecticut! “UConn’s commitment to multidisciplinary research has made it the perfect home for the Rudd Center" - @marlene-schwartz.bsky.social Learn more about our @uconnresearch.bsky.social journey:
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Rudd Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary at UConn - UConn Today
The Center investigates strategies to address food insecurity, poor nutrition, and weight bias through research and policy
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Curious about the "bear necessities" for life in Connecticut? 🐻 today.uconn.edu/2025/05/livi...
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Living with Bears in Connecticut: What You Need to Know - UConn Today
Bears are a growing presence in Connecticut, and while they’re an important part of our ecosystem, it's important to know how to safely share space
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In a recent @natrevelectreng.nature.com article, Prof. Junbo Zhao and colleagues unpack the growing connection between wildfires and power grid vulnerabilities in the face of changing climate. 🔥🚒 today.uconn.edu/2025/05/powe...
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Power and Environmental Engineering Faculty Explore Wildfire and Power Grid Nexus in a Changing Climate - UConn Today
Junbo Zhao led a study in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, which suggests a comprehensive approach to strengthen power grid resilience against the ris ...
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UConn CAHNR @uconncahnr.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
With the advent of reliable wearable technologies, researchers in the UConn Department of Kinesiology captured data from runners outside the lab for better real-world results about injury risks. today.uconn.edu/2025/05/wear... @uconnresearch.bsky.social
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Wearable Technologies Power Study on Differences Between Treadmill, Outdoor Running on Injury Risk - UConn Today
With the advent of reliable wearable technologies, researchers captured data from runners outside the lab for better real-world results
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UConn CAHNR @uconncahnr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The study led by UConn Department of Allied Health Sciences researcher at UConn Waterbury, Anna-Michelle McSorley, PhD, MPH, found that people living in Puerto Rico had the most disparities when compared to those residing in the 50 states. today.uconn.edu/2025/05/stud...
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Study Demonstrates Health Disparities in U.S. Territories - UConn Today
The study found that people living in Puerto Rico had the most disparities when compared to those residing in the 50 states
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
University research changes the world for the better. UConn research has an extensive, proud history of federal and state partnerships that have helped shape Connecticut and the world beyond. 🌎 Learn more: uconn.edu/research/imp...
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Impact | University of Connecticut
Our Health, Our Economy, Our Nation, Our Future A History of American Strength, Exemplified by Connecticut In the decades since the end of the second World ... May 16, 2025
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
💊 A Dose of History: @uconnpharmacy.bsky.social is celebrating its 100th year with a look back at some notable alumni, from the first Black woman to graduate from the school to a scientific herbalist with a passion for stamp collecting. Read more: today.uconn.edu/2025/05/a-do...
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A Dose of History: Pioneers of UConn Pharmacy - UConn Today
At the center of UConn Pharmacy, celebrating its 100th year of excellence, innovation, and care, are the people. Acting as builders and changemakers – stude ...
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UConn InCHIP @uconninchip.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
UConn faculty: Need guidance on navigating the federal funding climate? Join InCHIP’s 5/30 Coffee Break to hear from PIs who have recently submitted NIH grants on the strategies they've used. Learn more about the event and how InCHIP is working to support UConn researchers: s.uconn.edu/7ammfqo9mp
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Friday, May 30, 2025 from 10AM to 11:30AM
Insights from leadership and a panel discussion on adapting grant submissions to the current federal research funding climate
RSVP: https://s.uconn.edu/inchip-coffee-break 
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Fiona Vernal, Associate Director of Africana Studies, is helping communities across Connecticut preserve and share their own stories. @uconnhistory.bsky.social today.uconn.edu/2025/05/usin...
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Using TheirStory to Help Tell Our Stories - UConn Today
UConn's Fiona Vernal is helping CT communities collect oral histories with the aid of a new online platform
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The most sophisticated musical instrument in the world is the human brain, according to a groundbreaking new paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 🎼🎸 today.uconn.edu/2025/05/this...
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This Is Your Brain On Music: Groundbreaking UConn-led Study Shows How the Brain Keeps the Beat - UConn Today
'Neural resonance theory' offers new way to understand how the brain transforms sound into music
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UConn CAHNR @uconncahnr.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
On Saturday, April 26, CAHNR held its annual Graduate Research Forum. Held each year during the spring semester, this event gives students an opportunity to present their research, sharpen their skills, and compete for prizes. today.uconn.edu/2025/05/cahn... @uconnresearch.bsky.social
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A new collaboration between researchers @uconnhumanities.bsky.social and the International University of Rabat is tackling issues of language and AI. today.uconn.edu/2025/04/what...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About AI - UConn Today
A new collaboration between researchers at UConn and the International University of Rabat (UIR) is tackling issues of language and AI
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Jill Wegrzyn @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@uconneeb.bsky.social is excited to welcome @soltislab.bsky.social to @uconnresearch.bsky.social for the Biodiversity Bonanza this Thurs! Free & open to the public - RSVP: csmnh.uconn.edu/biodiversity... - join us for this amazing seminar, reception & showcase of UConn's biodiversity collections! 🌱🐛
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Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our lab is featured in several parts of the latest National Geographic special issue on religion. Here, our grad student, Sevgi Demiroglu, talks about her fieldwork in Toraja, Indonesia @uconnresearch.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This one goes out to everyone who's ever needed to be left alone in a pitch-dark room. 🧠 today.uconn.edu/2025/04/rese...
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Research Discovers Migraine Sufferers’ Brains Respond Differently to Visual Stimulation - UConn Today
A new study uncovers answers about the brains of people who experience migraines and other types of headaches
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A new documentary showcases Prof. Nate Hohman's laser-powered journey to create new quantum materials -- using crystals. ⚛️ 🔮 Read all about it, and watch the full film: today.uconn.edu/2025/03/crys...
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Crystal Visions - UConn Today
A professor’s laser-powered journey to solving new quantum materials
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Created in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) recently celebrated its 10th year helping safeguard the state against the disastrous effects of climate change. today.uconn.edu/2025/03/refl...
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Reflecting on Progress: CIRCA’s Decade of Increasing Connecticut’s Climate Resilience - UConn Today
Helping to navigate the obstacles to building a more sustainable future
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering is marking its 50th anniversary with a class of inductees featuring a significant UConn presence. 🏅 today.uconn.edu/2025/03/case...
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CASE Class of 2025 Includes 12 UConn Faculty Members - UConn Today
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering Celebrates its 50th class with its induction ceremony to be held in Storrs
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Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How do people band together in the face of disaster? See our latest paper in Nature Scientific Reports, led by our graduate student Sevgi Demiroglu! shorturl.at/boQ3d @uconnresearch.bsky.social
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Meet Kayvona Brown, a McNair Scholar and community advocate with a passion for supporting survivors. 🌟 Sexual assault prevention and post-traumatic healing are her guiding stars, both in and out of the lab. today.uconn.edu/2025/03/meet...
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Meet the Undergraduate Researcher: Kayvona Brown, CLAS - UConn Today
A McNair Scholar and community advocate with a passion for supporting survivors
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
New England’s expanse of stone walls is not only picturesque: each wall contains a rich history of the region’s geological past and insights about the people who placed each stone. today.uconn.edu/2025/03/a-st...
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A Stepwise, Coordinated Plan for Stone Wall Conservation - UConn Today
Stone walls are storytellers of the past, but we need a methodical way to document and manage them so they can reveal their secrets
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“Having the ability to see a doctor or travel to the inner city to work is a human right. ... Engineering shapes every facet of human life, and with this level of influence comes a profound responsibility.” today.uconn.edu/2025/03/nsf-...
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NSF Project Evaluates Students’ Attitudes Toward Human Rights in Engineering  - UConn Today
Faculty from engineering, human rights, and education are integrating human rights into the engineering curricula to foster a more socially aware generation ...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
For solving some of college students' biggest challenges in just 20 hours -- congratulations to the winning student teams at Hack UConn 2025! 👏 today.uconn.edu/2025/03/hack...
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HackUConn Turns Students into Problem Solvers - UConn Today
The annual hackathon brought together the Werth Institute, internal and external sponsors, and UConn’s Technology Commercialization Services
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
With flooding and wildfires raging across the globe, the "Great Dying" was the worst mass extinction event in Earth's history.🌋 Understanding how plant life bounced back from this event can help us understand recovery from present-day climate change. 🌱 today.uconn.edu/2025/03/plan...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New research from Julie Burland, director of research for the UConn Institute of Sports Medicine, shows that biomarkers in the blood may be able to help predict the risk of injury for athletes. 🏀 today.uconn.edu/2025/03/biom...
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Biomarkers Predict In-Season Injuries for Women's Basketball Players - UConn Today
Among a sample of female basketball players, fluctuations in levels of biomarkers associated with cartilage production or degradation early in the season we ...
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Over 100 years ago, beavers were driven to extinction in Connecticut. Today, beavers are back -- but where, exactly? And how are they impacting ecosystems across the state? Evan Zocco investigates. 🦫 today.uconn.edu/2025/03/busy...
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Busy Beavers: Using Remote Sensing to Track Connecticut Wildlife - UConn Today
The Connecticut Beaver Site Mapping Project uses remote sensing technologies to map beaver colonies and provide valuable information to the public
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
With an undergraduate research fellowship from @uconnhumanities.bsky.social, Kanny Salike is tracing the co-evolution of African American English (AAE) and Black American Sign Language (BASL). today.uconn.edu/2025/03/huma...
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Humanities Project Looks at Black American Sign Language, African American English - UConn Today
'It’s important to unpack how systemic structures influence the way people live'
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Congratulations to computational astrophysicist Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, who was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship for his work modeling the evolution of galaxies! 🌌https://today.uconn.edu/2025/03/computational-astrophysicist-daniel-angles-alcazar-awarded-sloan-research-fellowship/
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🥊💢 VIRUSES - 1 BACTERIA - 0 Research from Prof. Dennis D'Amico has shown that bacteria-eating viruses can effectively kill harmful pathogens in milk and cheese, making food safer for everyone. today.uconn.edu/2025/02/viru...
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Virus vs. Bacteria: Phages Prove Effective at Killing Pathogens in Milk - UConn Today
Food microbiologist Dennis D’Amico demonstrated that bacteriophages can effectively reduce the amount of common foodborne pathogens in milk
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UConn Research @uconnresearch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Drs. Se-Jin Lee and Emily Germain-Lee of UConn Health are leading the charge to develop new drugs that could help prevent muscle loss among patients taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic. today.uconn.edu/2025/02/next...
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Next Generation of Weight Loss Drugs Being Researched at UConn - UConn Today
Nearly 30 years later Dr. Se-Jin Lee’s discovery of myostatin is not only leading to treatment for spinal muscular atrophy but also fueling the global obesi ...
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