Out of the Blue

Yidan Zhang, a Ph.D. student at UConn, displays some of the seaweed she’s pulled from the Long Island Sound off Stonington. A member of the Atlantic Sea Solution startup, she is refining the process of using seaweed extract as an edible coating that reduces food spoilage.

A Marriage of Land & Sea: UConn Agricultural Startup Seeks to Slow Food Spoilage 

'Creating a company is very, very daunting, but at the same time it keeps life interesting'