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'Life changing' is how the families of kids with serious, chronic illnesses describe their experiences with UConn athletic teams through a program known as Team IMPACT. (Jason Reider/UConn Athletic Marketing Photo)

Team IMPACT: A Winning Way to Heal

'Life changing' is how the families of kids with serious and chronic illnesses describe their experiences with UConn athletic teams through a program known as Team IMPACT. Read more.

Daviel Garcia ’22 (ACES) participates in a mindfulness class for students in the Student Support Services program at the Hartford Campus. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Counselor Brings Mindfulness to Hartford Students in New Course

Lynn Papacostas Ginolfi – who at one time was herself a first-generation, low-income student – created the Resilience through Mindfulness course to help students address stress. Read more.

A severed 3D-printed shoe pad repairing itself (Submitted Photo/An Xin and Kunhao Yu)

Where the Rubber Hits the Road, Breaks, and Repairs Itself

Researchers at UConn and USC put the rubber objects through strength tests that proved not only was regeneration possible, but regeneration at nearly 100 percent strength. Read more.

A three-year-old horseshoe crab in the lab at UConn's Institute for Systems Genomics. (Angelina Reyes/UConn Photo)

Horseshoe Crabs: How Did They Get an Exception?

How they've managed to stay the same is a great mystery. Now, researchers at UConn are assembling a detailed map of the horseshoe crab’s DNA, to learn why these 'living fossils' seem frozen in time. Read more.

Dr. Rajesh Lalla, professor of dental medicine; Diane Burgess, professor of pharmaceutical sciences; and Tingting Li, pharmaceutical graduate student. (Dr. Rajan Jog/UConn Photo)

New Therapy Targets Painful Side Effect of Cancer Treatment

Collaborators are close to replacing the 'sledge hammer' with a more precise and effective treatment option that doesn’t include risk of addiction or abuse. Read more.

Schools and Colleges

CAHNR Phosphorus Leaching? Not on UConn’s Turf

OVPR Bad to the Bone: Bacterial Lipids, Bone Loss, and Periodontal Disease

ED Leading While Black, the Experience of Black Female Principals

MED UConn Health Unveils Advanced Lung Cancer Diagnostic Tool

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Associated Press

UConn Students Develop Device to Help Keep Navy Sailors From Getting Injured

Associated Press

From ‘Wild Horses’ to ‘Wild Things,’ a Window into Maurice Sendak’s Creative Process

UPI

Lower Blood Pressure Boosts Brain Function in Elderly, Study Says